The Cuckoo’s Fest

Thanks to Emma, George, Ben and everyone who put on such a lovely weekend at the Adelphi. You can have a listen to some of the wildness below ( and check out some of the other Festivals ELFM has covered this summer (Moorfest, Garforth Arts Festival …) – all at the Best of the Fest section of the ELFM website or just dip into something from the ELFM Musicathon back in April.

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First off – a bit of a health warning! We strive to for the best sound quality we can get – but sometimes things aren’t really in our control… So the sound quality on these recordings is (how can we put it) …variable … not much we could do about that guv! Many of the bands are featured elsewhere on the ELFM website – have a search or check out the ELFM Musicathon and Everybody Loves Fabulous Music pages or just look at the artists’ own myspace pages.

But what these recordings will definitely give you is an idea of what a fabulous weekend the Cuckoo Fest was. Here’s most of Day 2 …enjoy:

1. Serious Sam Barrett, (one-armed) Jordan Senior and Troy Faid
2. Gary Stewart, Ben Pike and Mojo 57
3. Lumber Puncture, SSSSS and Bootscraper
4. Rebel Yell and Nell Bryden

and a little taster from Day 1

1. Dub Delux and Hand Made Hands

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Thanks again to all at Cuckoo’s Fest 1 (and no 2 will be???)

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Moorfest ‘09

A mega Moorfest for the ELFM team and for the couple of thousand people priveleged enough to have attended. To anyone who didn’t make it (or for those of you who just want to re-live a bit of the two days) we have put all of our 7 hours of broadcasting from the Caravan of Love up online for you to listen again or download – just follow the links:

1. The Build-up show: Thoughts from Jack Simpson of Soundpeople and Dave Cook from Gaia as well as a chat with Mark taking time off from building his Shed! With previous live tracks from the ELFM Musicathon featuring Rosie Doonan, Milk White White Teeth, Mickey P Kerr amongst others… and of course the first of Ruby’s Festival Toilet Reports
2. Day 1 – 6pm show: Round up of the first afternoon of the Festival. Tracks from all the live stages and the first live performances in the kitchenette featuring Serious Sam Barrett and Milk White White Teeth
3. Day 2 – midday show: Catching up on all the remaining sets from opening night – and welcoming Gary Steward and Ellen with a few Escapades into the kitchenette
4. Day 2 – 6pm show (part 1): First half of the show featured live tracks from the stages with sessions in the kitchenette from Silverlode, Jon Gomm and Rob Galloway (and if you haven’t heard the Gomm-Galloway kitchenette kollaboration yet – check out the video podcast below…)
5. Day 2 – 6pm show (part 2): And in the second hour of Saturday’s 6pm show look out for more from the stages plus poetry, photography, graffitti and the first double bass in the kitchenette brought by the Maybelles
6. Final night extras: Just so that you don’t miss out on the great sets from the final evening – Ed stayed up late to put together our final show from the Moor Music Festival ‘09.

Once more from all of us at ELFM – all hail the Fest of the Moor ‘09.

Big thanks to all who came down and visited the Caravan of Love and especially those who graced us with a performance in the kitchenette of love. Thank you to those who took time out to speak with our roving reporters (even if we got your names wrong!) and to the various sound engineers on the different stages for helping us to get such stunning live coverage. Thanks to everyone who allowed us to record a track from their set (if we didn’t manage to find you to ask your permission – we really hope you don’t mind!) – we haven’t gone through and linked urls to each artist – we feel that google can do the work easily enough – but please leave a comment if you want to let people know of particular things you are up to…

Major respect and thanks as always to Lucy, John and all at Moorfest. Rest well!

And finally thank you to the sun for shining and for the posh toilets with the running water.

We’re off on a break ourselves but our music coverage will be back for The Cuckoo Fest at the Adelphi 28-30th August (once Mrs Tate has returned from her honeymoon and got her arse in gear!)

Enjoy…

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Moorfest 09: final night

Whilst most of us were either partying the night away in celebration of an absolute belter of a moorfest (or getting a bit of shut-eye after two long days in the sun), Ed sat himself down in the caravan of love one last time, edited down a few tracks from the stages at the last night of the Festival and did us proud with a little late-night Edcast!

Have a final taste of some Jon Gomm, Rosie Doonan, Just Handshakes (We’re British), Edwina Hayes; a chat with the Utah Saints; Gary Stewart; The Cubical; The Rosie Taylor Project; International Trust - with some erudite thoughts from Neil (as always!); a chat with the Wild Beasts; and Vessels.

Once more from all of us at ELFM – all hail the Fest of the Moor ‘09.

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Moorfest Day 2 – 6pm (part 2)

The caravan of love was busy in the first half of the show (particularly the kitchenete!) and things didn’t slow down much in the second half:

Music from Tsienna on the Soundpeople stage; The Lightstreams; Japanese Fighting Fish and Kid id.

In and amongst poets working after-hours in the Earl Hickey – check out Spine Writers & Letterbomb; a chat with Bodie from the BestJoinedUp team (see below) who swore on oath to re-paint the Caravan of Love; and we heard from the Irish Wonderboy himself – Gavin Freeborn – Moorfest’s official photographer and the man who made the ELFM reindeer eat the moon!

And to round off – just the small matter of the getting a double bass in the kitchenette. Jon Gomm thought it wasn’t possible but the Maybelles were there to prove him wrong and did they play us out – yee hah!

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Moorfest Day 2 – 6pm (part 1)

Blimey – the Festival is heading to a crescendo and so are we. Mega show tonight at 6pm – so good we’ve split it into two:

We started as we meant to go on with the Silverlode boys making good use of the kitchen cupboards …

then a live track from Fiction and the Fear in the Sound People Tent; and a few words from the lovely Mrs Tate on her honeymoorfest in The Earl Hickey Lounge and beyond.

Then … well this you’ve got to hear. First in the kitchenette the legend that is Jon Gomm played live. Straight after another Leeds’ legend…

You guessed – the one and only Rob Galloway played live. And then … wait for it … this must be a first… a Gomm Galloway duet in the kitchenette of love

You’ll find live tracks East Park Reggae Collective, Moorfest’s very own Lucy Barker; and Monsters killed by Lasers and all rounded off with a chat about the Angel Gardens Project (and that’s only the first half of the programme – for the second half follow the link)

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Moorfest day 2 – midday

Into day two of the Festival. Our lunchtime show started where we left off last night with a track from Milk White White Teeth’s set (having had them all in the caravan playing live yesterday). We also tracks from the Sketches, Hard Time Orchestra, Black Diamond Bay, Eureka Machines, King Creosote, Last Gang, Liz Green, Glissando and the Lunchtime Disco Club.

That and Ellen and the Escapades and Gary Stewart playing live in the Caravan of Love plus live knitting on air, a bit of theatre and of course the toilet report.

Enjoy – we’re off for a light lunch!

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Moorfest 09 – day 1

So the sun is shining and the festival has begun… and how! For a start-off on our first Festival show we had live tracks and interviews with Beggars Hollow; The Family Feelies or The Feelies Inc (whichever you fancy); Jake Flowers; Die Video Die; James Owen Fender; Jordan Senior; Laura J Martin and the Sketches.

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