Repeats for IW Festival

So its repeat time for Friday night at the Isle of Wight Festival, The Prodigy headlining on Friday, plus Basement Jaxx, haven’t they been on before, or am I getting mixed up with the Bestival? Never did like dance music much anyway ( though did enjoy seeing the Jaxx a few years back at Robin Hill). What happened to innovation?

Listening to Bob Dylan’s ‘Slow train coming’, hardly innovative, but quality and I could dance to it, after a fashion

Actually, the best repeat at the IW Festival was Iggy Pop, so not all repeats are to be condemned!

Ron Asheton RIP

As a reader of this blog, you will be aware that I am a fan of Iggy and The Stooges. I was sad to read yesterday of the death of guitarist Ron Asheton at the tender age of 60. Having grown up in the 60s and 70s, it’s hard to come to terms with the gradual list of musical casualties and it makes me aware of my own mortality. The band’s show at the Isle of Wight Festival in 2008 was a highlight for me. I can still remember getting ‘Raw Power’ on LP in the mid 70s and loving it, but concerned lest my parents come into my bedroom whilst ‘Penetration’ was playing! Oh, happy days! I’ve played this album again this morning and it still sounds just as good as it did then; now, where’s my guitar?

WOMAD here we come!

Well done Little Cat’s Dad, he’s secured us tickets to go to WOMAD this year, a first for either of us.  We’re both interested in world music and up for new musical experiences, so I’m looking forward to a great time.  Now I no longer feel guilty about leaving Mrs Wighteye on her own, for she has the delights of Paul Weller at Osborne House while we are away.  we had our first kiss to Paul Weller (or was it Bryan Adams?) laying in the long grass on the riverbank opposite the Isle of Wight Festival in 2003.  Happy days!

Free Jazz

Great to catch some free Jazz today at an Isle of Wight Jazz Festival fringe event;  Third Man were the trio in question and a write up can be found on the Wighteye blog at http://wighteye.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/isle-of-wight-jazz-festival-fringe/

Third Man are an island band and deserve a wider hearing, they are currently gigging at a variety of island venues.

Listening to Eagle Eye Cherry’s  ’Desireless’ in the car, though plagued by youngest son to play ‘Before these crowded streets’ by the Dave Matthews Band whenever he is present; he plays along on my harmonica!