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Igbeth – these are a few of our favourite things

Promise we’ll shut up about Gigbeth soon, but this post is all about the positive – inspired by Misty’s’ Sound of Music-esque number, here are some of our favourtie things about the festival: The man with the unwarranted acieed smiley mask behind Deluka. Beestung Lips – are they even better without a singer? Bass-players where all the dancing is with the bottom. The effort that went into Project X. Especially the Boosh-y touches. Being just drunk enough to pose with the Custard Factory’s penguin bins. Free glowsticks – at least Jules thought they were free, so if she pinched them – sorry. Worrying how Fiori were going to drive their white Vauxhaul Astra estate home in their cowboy boots – I’m sure the driver must of changed into some carpet slippers. Waving to the people watching Thursday’s gig from the windows of South Birmingham College. The sheer good vibes.

Igbeth – raise nd ome onstructive iticism

We, and almost everyone else we saw or spoke to, really enjoyed themselves, and by all accounts the conference worked really well. Thursday was brilliant, although it probably didn’t happen in the way it was intended, we enjoyed seeing bands that we wouldn’t normally have bothered with, we stopped out late three nights in a row. We really hope there’s a Gigbeth 2008, and humbly offer some constructive criticism in order to make that an even better experience – this from the experience of normal paying punters… Some of the venues are just too far apart, the Sunflower Lounge, and the Nightingale being a case in point. We made an effort to go to the Sunflower first on Friday, but I doubt many people went the other way at any point. Some of the events (Heducation, Project X, Capsule even!) seemed just tacked on to make the festival larger and more ‘diverse’. They aren’t there for the festival crowd, worked separately and had totally different atmospheres. One event didn’t promote the others – when the last acts at the Sanctuary finished absurdly early why was there no announcement about what other bands you could just walk a few hundred...

Here’s what we saw and did at Gigbeth on Saturday. Here’s just a review of the gigs, we’ll collect a more overall review for tomorrow probably. Starting to struggle after two solid days, and wanting to see some of the late stuff, we skipped a planned visit to the world of Mr Derry (4pm, what bands play at 4pm?)- and headed straight to catch Shady Bard at the Sanctuary at 8pm. We got there, paid £3.60(!) for a can of Red Stripe, to find Misty’s Big Adventure on stage – who weren’t meant to be on until 8.50. They weren’t really their exuberant selves, possibly knackered with all the work around the new album, but had drawn by far the biggest crowd we’d yet seen. They revealed hitherto unnoticed (at least to me) shades of Belle and Sebastian, and “The Wising Up song” is sounding extremely like “I Have Confidence in Confidence” from The Sound of Music. Grandmaster Gareth would make a fine Maria next time you are making a reality TV show. They are summed up thus: With the gig finishing early we decided to catch a touch of Aimee Strange who were in the Dragon Bar, they...

Here’s a quick review of what we saw and did on Thursday at Gigbeth - just the shows really, as we haven’t chance to make the conference aspect (David Nikel has a post about that). I’ll try to leave out any conclusions about the event as a whole too, at least until we’ve been to all three days. On a personal note it was both nice to bump into Pete, and Christopher for the first times (as well Nick too) – if that speaker had come down there might be no blogging on Brum today. The bands had spent “a weird day with people we didn’t know” hanging out together jamming yesterday – I’ve never really heard of that at a festival before – it was a shame that the sound guys hadn’t had a similar bonding session, because technical difficulties didn’t really cover what was going on. Nizlopi played without amplification for at least part of their set – while Achanak set up behind them, the tabla player making frantic signals to the gazebo’d sound desk. At Live Aid, Harvey Goldsmith came up with the idea of a rotating stage to make quick turn arounds possible – at...

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