BBC Radio 6 Music Festival with Bonobo, Songhoy Blues, Thundercat at Barrowlands, 25/3/17

At the bandstand on the top floor, a lot of people are sitting on the ground so I join them. The Barrowlands is smaller than I remember it; the stage is decorated beautifully – this seems a professional operation. We are waiting for Thundercat to take the stage – due to personal commitments I wasn’t

Electric Fields 2016, Day Two, 27/7/16

Day two starts on a fragile note as midday proves a touch too early to drag myself down for Bella and the Bella, so my day starts lulled next to the sound desk at the Main Stage sipping orange juice from the carton in the sunshine, with the somewhat depleted Palms boys, who still seem