FORTH IN JULY
With 15 minutes of credit left at the high street kensington easy internet cafe, I am, probably for the betterment of all, going to nudged into brevity again this week. I've seen and done a lot in the last 3 days, with REM--Live 8 in London with perhaps an audience via radio and tv of billions; st. gallen festival in switzerland (where I got to put in some in person time with the posies manager for europe, marc bernegger, who comes from the eastern mountains of helvetia, plus sonic youth as well), to 30,000 in the audience...and last night's heavily rocking Werchter festival in Belgium, with an unbelieveable throng of 70,000 in front of us! Holy cow. My eyeballs are full. All the crowds at the aforementioned were superbly responsive and well behaved. I was treading around in the golden circle at Live 8, which was, essentially, punters with connections, and didn't have so much as my toe stepped on. Watched Sgt. Bono's Lordly MacClub Band, which was pretty great actually, lots of nice gravel from Paul Ramone; watch Youssou N'Dour take a back seat to Dido, sort of--well, she was good enough to invite him I'll give her that, but no offense to the woman...Y N'D has pretty unbeatable pipes...Elton and Coldplay were competent...some jesus poses coming from Chris M. but, at this point...he's prob. IM'd with Him. All in all for the hour I was there, it was all too much but as an event it gets the thumbs up. Will it make a difference? Not on its own. People have to do more than that...right now, the Big Guys are saying, so...yeah, I'd go to a Pink Floyd reunion, for any cause, even the promotion of baby seal meat farms. So, what? If it gets people marching in Edinburgh...then, that's a start.
6 minutes left!
Posies album showing promise...great 4 star review in sunday london times...decent reviews in NME, Q, mojo was a little colder but not bad.
Doing lots of press for the future...enjoy your week...Posies tour starts 2 weeks from today!!
Love
KS
London
