SuggestiON-AIR: Festival fever....
Team ATL is currently recovering from an incredible weekend in Killinchey, as Pigstock kickstarted the festival season with two days which soared above and beyond our (high) expectations. We've decided the only way we can get over the inevitable post-Pigstock blues is to look forward to what the rest of the summer has in store!
With that in mind, we'd like to hear which local act (and at which festival) you consider absolutely unmissable, and why. Whether it's Fight Like Apes at Electic Picnic or Not Squares at Willowstone - let us know via facebook, twitter or by texting 81771 when we go on air at 8pm tonight. Here's our picks....
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Rigsy - ATL presenter
Rams Pocket Radio @ Glasgowbury 2011
Yes I'm a massive fan (as any regular listener to the show will know!) but it's more the fact that, for some ludicrous reason or other, I keep missing them live and ain't seen them perform since last summer. Off the top of my head - a wedding, a flat tyre, tonsillitis and poor time keeping are among some of the things to blame. What makes it worse is having to listen to people hark on about how amazing they've become live (for example, ATL review William Johnson on Friday evening). So if not before, I will be putting this right at Glasgowbury '11 with Rams Pocket Radio my one absolute-cannot-be-missed act of the day/summer.
Team ATL is currently recovering from an incredible weekend in Killinchey, as Pigstock kickstarted the festival season with two days which soared above and beyond our (high) expectations. We've decided the only way we can get over the inevitable post-Pigstock blues is to look forward to what the rest of the summer has in store!
With that in mind, we'd like to hear which local act (and at which festival) you consider absolutely unmissable, and why. Whether it's Fight Like Apes at Electic Picnic or Not Squares at Willowstone - let us know via facebook, twitter or by texting 81771 when we go on air at 8pm tonight. Here's our picks....
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Rigsy - ATL presenter
Rams Pocket Radio @ Glasgowbury 2011
Yes I'm a massive fan (as any regular listener to the show will know!) but it's more the fact that, for some ludicrous reason or other, I keep missing them live and ain't seen them perform since last summer. Off the top of my head - a wedding, a flat tyre, tonsillitis and poor time keeping are among some of the things to blame. What makes it worse is having to listen to people hark on about how amazing they've become live (for example, ATL review William Johnson on Friday evening). So if not before, I will be putting this right at Glasgowbury '11 with Rams Pocket Radio my one absolute-cannot-be-missed act of the day/summer.
Paul - ATL producer
Boxcutter is an artist we can be incredibly proud of. Having been a genre-defying electronica producer of note for the past decade he is now well established as a provider of quality, off-kilter, melodic beats. Brought up on a diet of intergalactic jazz and IDM he has unleashed several essential albums and is lauded abroad but rarely given he credit he deserves at home. Glasgowbury has traditionally steered clear of dance music, but Barry Lynn's unique brand of post-rave soundtrack should tear the pegs off whatever tent he plays. I shall be attempting an elderly man shuffle at the back of this location, so please try not to mock. I was once like you.
Phily Taggart - ATL Content Assistant
I am going for a band playing at the Forfey festival in Fermanagh, partly because I hope to get down to the highly recommended festival this year and partly because the line up is superb. Master and Dog really pick and choose their gigs in Northern Ireland and it always seems that I manage to miss most of their set or just miss them completely. The lads are in hiding at the mo, hidden away in their secret recording cave polishing and shining new tracks for their second album and word on the street (my mate Dave) says that they are quality.




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