With performances from The Strokes and Jay-Z, the Isle of Wight festival ... provided a resolutely unpretentious start to a summer of musical events ... Rating: * * * * ...
Now that Leonard Cohen is acknowledged as a musical treasure, it's fascinating to revisit this performance from a time when his star was in its early ascendancy ...
(Warp) ... While music festivals have flourished in recent years, another venerable tradition, the music festival film, has all but died out. The best of those movies - DA Pennebaker's Monterey Pop, the Maysles brothers' Gimme Shelter and Murray Lerner's Message to Love (about the 1970 Isle of Wight festival) - not only served as documents of the times but did much to propagate the myth of the music festival as the locus of a ritualistic experience that united artist and audience. Into this
Bestival, the last major gig of the summer, drew to a close yesterday, as over 43,000 music lovers enjoyed a third day of music. During the day, the crowd had a chance to relax before the final night of music, with the main stage playing host to a special performance from the English National Ballet. Dancing to a medley of dance tunes, including Michael Jackson and Faithless, their combination of street dance and ballet certainly impressed ...