Endorse it in Dorset Festival 2008 (with ADDED POLL!)

[Idaho]

I was going to remark that they could swap a couple of ska bands with something else.

Although saying that I thought Tragic Roundabout were the best thing I saw and they could accidentally be dropped into the comedy ska bucket by an unthinking hand.

 

[editor]

The less techno the better IMO: wrong festy, wrong crowd.

I agree!

 

[Flounder]

Not sure how much that will happen. I think (and Flounder may correct me) that it largely reflects the tastes of the promoters, that they keep to areas they know about. This may mean it lacks certain types of acts, but I like it because it gives the festy a real identity of its own. Most of the other festies this size tend to be very hippy oriented, whereas Endorse It majors on a lot of things you don't usually find in a field - rockabilly, punk and the like.

Luckily there's two of us doing the booking and four people in the " where this year" - so yes, it does reflect the organisers tastes, but not all the bands are liked by all the organisers. We are branching out a little here and there, picking up a few young things that may well be bigger news by the summer - at the end of the day its a different festival to many of the others who are booking more
" safe" bets and that's what helps to give it its unique atmosphere .

 

[JTG]

Not sure how much that will happen. I think (and Flounder may correct me) that it largely reflects the tastes of the promoters, that they keep to areas they know about. This may mean it lacks certain types of acts, but I like it because it gives the festy a real identity of its own. Most of the other festies this size tend to be very hippy oriented, whereas Endorse It majors on a lot of things you don't usually find in a field - rockabilly, punk and the like.

quite right too. I remember a dnb rig I'm very fond of used to say that if you didn't like the music then they weren't playing th wrong stuff, you were just at the wrong party. I'd like Endorse It to adopt the same attitude really - have the bands they like on and the rest sorts itself out.

 

[Flounder]

Got a few more to add..
Six Nation State, Flipron, The Big and by request ( by the band!!) Back to the Planet on one of their four summer shows ( or so I'm told). They will be with The Inner Terrestrials in that there tent, on that there night.

 

[Pieface]

Is Magic Skool Bus playing again? They charmed the pants off me - put them on later too....

 

[Balbi]

@ MSB love. I'm off to see them in a couple of weeks.

 

[Pieface]

They're so cool. I think one had a washboard tie. Or am I conflating bands?

 

[JTG]

Got a few more to add..
Six Nation State, Flipron, The Big and by request ( by the band!!) Back to the Planet on one of their four summer shows ( or so I'm told). They will be with The Inner Terrestrials in that there tent, on that there night.

Oh cool, missed BTTP last year 'cos I'd enjoyed Saturday so much I spent most of Sunday asleep in Mation's tent

 

[Sunray]

Is Magic Skool Bus playing again? They charmed the pants off me - put them on later too....

Went to see these guys with William and Tort in the Windmill.

Stupidly pissed and very shit.

 

[colacubes]

Is Magic Skool Bus playing again? They charmed the pants off me - put them on later too....

Was it some of them who ended up being Lee Perry's backing band? If so they were aces - they were all of about 22 and had a look of pure joy on their faces all the way through

I'm *so* excited about this Tickets will be purchased this weekend

 

[William of Walworth]

Went to see these guys with William and Tort in the Windmill.

Stupidly pissed and very shit.

That was Tragic Roundabout you pissed nana!!!

They were very pissed admittedly ....

as were we ...

 

[William of Walworth]

May I take a modest amount of credit for the Inner Terrestrials' decision to play a very rare event for them that isn't free-festie, squat based or directly hard core protest linked?

Twas I who lobbied for em ...

They are ska-punk extraordinaire .... ... and as sound as fuck.

You coming, aurora and Stig??

Them and the Planets ... they will between them blow the roof off of that fuckin Big Top ...

Oh maan, my dateclash dilemma between Endorse It and BrotherBirthdayFest has just increased at least 10 fold ....

 

[El Jefe]

blah

 

[William of Walworth]

Do let me know when I'm talking drunken bollocks please do ...

 

[moose]

What, every time?

 

[ouchmonkey]

What, every time?

an endless task. but somebody's got to do it.









maybe we could take shifts?

 

[El Jefe]

Well now the new coat of paint of the Forth bridge is going to last decades, we do need a Sisyphean (sp?) task to take its place..

 

[*Miss Daisy*]

What, every time?

!!

Sorry william

 

[William of Walworth]

What, every time?

Mis D : I know -- moose is a blunt Northerner


And she never drinks oh no ....

 

[maes]

oh is this sold out? when is it anyway?

 

[El Jefe]

Kids today are SO fucking lazy

 

[Pieface]

ooh! Mae - come! Come!!!

 

[maes]

looked up the dates & I can't bleh

 

[Pieface]

the highs and lows of a festival thread

 

[maes]

yes

 

[Flounder]

No MSB this year, by mutual consent.
Lee Perry's backing band were members of The Big, ( keyboard player from Flipron, who was playing with The Big) & Bison. They'd never met before, let alone played. It was all created in the two hours beforehand and I have the baldness to prove it.

 

[Idaho]

No MSB this year, by mutual consent.
Lee Perry's backing band were members of The Big, ( keyboard player from Flipron, who was playing with The Big) & Bison. They'd never met before, let alone played. It was all created in the two hours beforehand and I have the baldness to prove it.

Be interesting to here more about all of that from your side. Impressions from fellow punters I spoke to seemed divided. Half thought that it was a shame that Lee Perry didn't turn up with his band and generally embarrassed himself and put a load of musicians and organisers in the shit. And the other half were delighted to see a master at work create a fantastic set from (near) scratch.

(I was in the latter camp)

 

[ouchmonkey]

the other half were delighted to see a master at work create a fantastic set from (near) scratch.

I'd have to say this is stretching it a bit. I like him and I was prepared to give it a go but I gave up on it. It was a mess. The band looked half thrilled and half terrified and they couldn't end anything. I can't begin to imagine the annoyance of the organisers that day.

 

[Idaho]

So you were in the former camp then.

I thought it was unique. I hadn't ever seen something like that. An improvised reggae set orchestrated by someone who has been creating songs like that for over 40 years.