Glastonbury Festival - Acoustic Stage

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Another June and a vintage Glastonbury Festival line up. Luckily enough we've managed to put together an amazing bill up at the Acoustic Stage to ensure our regulars are entertained for the weekend and, hopefully, to attract a few new visitors to our particular haven.

With all the recent attention on Irish music and Irish dancing we thought it might be a nice idea to include a Ceilidh band this year if only to show where it all comes from. The Kilfenora Ceilidh Band are quite simply the best and their Friday teatime set shouldn't be missed.

Mind you best idea might be just to decamp in the Acoustic Stage for the entire Friday! The day starts with the Isle of Wight's Paul Armfield with his band, the Four Good Reasons, plus a great bunch of songs. Paul is followed by the blues influenced Lisa Mills from the States then all the way from Canada, the beautiful sounding Taima, who in turn will be followed by an act we predict is going to become one of the big hits of the weekend.

Jerry Fish and The Mudbug Club are a cross between Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band and Tom Waits. It's a crowd pleasing Irish-Soul-Music-Review. In fact Mr Fish proved to be such a crowd pleaser on recent shows we're happy to announce that we've managed to include a Mudbug Club session on the Saturday and Sunday as well.

And as Jimmy Cricket says: "And there's more!" Lots more in fact.

Following Jerry Fish on Friday we have the incredible Justin Adams & The Wayward Sheiks. Anyone who has witnessed guitarist Justin with Acoustic Stage favourite Robert Plant will know exactly how big a treat they are in for. Then there's the Ceilidh Band and then Love featuring Arthur Lee, who certainly needs no introductions even though I'm sure our regular MC and stage manager Christopher Runciman will spare a few choice words of enlightenment.

Tindersticks headline the Aoustic Stage on Friday and I'd advise you arrive early to save your one and a half square foot of grass - to sit on of course!

We believe that Saturday this year at Glastonbury is going to be one of the highlights of the festival's long and distinguished history, what with Paul McCartney's appearance. Not only is he a worthy legend, but he also produces the goods live on stage. To celebrate all things Beatle we've booked the very cheeky Rutles who'll be appearing on the Acoustic Stage prior to Macca's Main Stage appearance.

On Saturday we've also got The Hot Club of Cowtown a great new live act from America, The Long Ryders who have reformed for a short tour - bet they'll still be in the Acoustic Stage's legendary laid-back backstage bar. Also appearing on Saturday are Josh Rouse, who we're promised will be performing songs from his recent critically acclaimed album, 1972, and Bodixa, who were the worthy winners of the Acoustic Stage round of the Glastonbury Festival Unsigned Bands Competition. Saturday's headliner is one of the best live acts in the world, The Hothouse Flowers.

Sunday we're blessed by an appearance from award winning Cara Dillonwith a new band hot from a recent sell out tour of the UK and Ireland. That heterogeneous, homophonic, humungous hedonist of the musical stage, Mr Simple Kid himself (and the best ye hah country band this side of Texas line), brings that mellifluous maelstrom of manifold musical talent to a tent near you. John Cooper Clarke will have a few words for us, and then a few more words as well. One of this year's major coups is Simon and Oscar from Ocean Colour Scene who are doing something special and acoustic for us. The other Sunday headliner is the return of Acoustic Stage favourite Suzanne Vega who just gets better and better every time we see her.

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