from - http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2007/recommended/
There's hundreds of artists playing Glastonbury and it's impossible to decide who will be best to see. To help you here's some recommendations.
Nemone recommends:
CSS - fronted by loved up Lovefoxx Foxyness. She rules the stage and when they're on form they're a bamboozling ball of energy.
The Klaxons - I urge you to get a close as you dare to the front. Being part of that throbbing mob in the Klaxons mosh has been a highlight so far in 2007 for me.
Beirut - not seen them yet I think these guys will be perfect in a field somewhere in Somerset - soaring beautiful music. I'm jealous already of any of you who catch these guys at Glastonbury - ethreal and melodically muddy - what else do you need.
The Chemical Brothers - light show second to none.
Tom Robinson recommends:
The Klaxons - For a band that'll blow your head off, look no further than the full-frontal sonic assault of The Klaxons, guaranteed to take you higher.
Tunng - For something more meditative, yet tempered with an underlying edge of menace, sample the finely honed harmonies of Tunng - as they tell their dark electro-acoustic tales of murder and revenge.
Seth Lakeman - The local hero is among the most rivetting, charismatic performers you'll see at the entire Festival - an astonishing combination of authentic folk roots and electrifying energy.
Shaun Keaveny recommends:
The Who - every Glastonbury needs a huge band with a back catalogue so pervasive everyone can sing along.
The Klaxons - it's a toss-up between them and fellow disco-ravers CSS but I reckon, 'medicated' or not, it's the Klaxons' year, a perfect band for the star-spangled at Glastonbury.
Chas 'n' Dave - unrivalled and unparallelled in the idiom of singalonga cockney, there is a vague rumour that Kele from Bloc Party may join them for half a set, either way, they are awesome.
Huw Stephens recommends:
Bright Eyes - The Man Conor Oberst has been releasing albums since he was 13, and continues to release some amazing music. His latest album, Cassadaga, came out this year, and I listen to it practically every day. The last time he played Glastonbury he messed things up a bit and I was disappointed with his attitude. This time it looks like he's going to be brilliant.
Los Campesinos! - They're a new band and make utterly brilliant pop tunes. I saw them play upstairs at a pub in Cardiff and it was ramshackle but ace. They've finished their exams now, have been practising and got it together. I can't wait to see them play Glastonbury, whether it's mud or sun
The Pipettes - At Glastonbury two years ago I saw the Pipettes play in one of the smaller fields, but not on a stage as they'd been booted off. They just played on the grass, to whoever was gathered around. They didn't have a deal, and were just loving it. Now they're doing well, are signed in the States, and it's brilliant to think they're on the main Stage at Glastonbury this year. A much needed shot of harmonius fun!
------> Bobby Friction recommends: <-------
Swami could be classed as the desi 'Bonde De Role'. This group have been the most progressive British-Asian Bhangra band of the past 5 years. They merge big Indian dhol dreams with serious electro beats and guitars, mixed with the rapping of S-Endz and Panjabi vocals of Sups. Swami headline our Friday night Roots Stage and will be performing from new album 'Equalize'.
Catch 22 - Reading-based producer Prash and Deadly Hunta and crew have been turning out consistent riddim niceness over the past year, with a much-propped recent session for Ras Kwame on 1Xtra and a performance at the Electric Proms tucked under their belt. 22's India meets Jamaica 'Urban Roti' sound will be live on our Roots stage on Friday night.
Asian Dub Foundation - are long due a revisit. The conscious collective who Bobby Gillespie once referred to as 'the most important band in Britain right now' have a revitalised line-up and recently marked a return to form on their 'Timefreeze' greatest hits collection. The warrior charge of 'Target Practice' will seriously mash up the dance at Glastonbury.
Nerm recommends:
Midival Punditz - Electronica from India is snowballing right now. Acts are springing up all over the place with accessible technology allowing ancient musical textures to be welded together with glitchy, futuristic sounds. Originally inspired by the UK Asian Underground, the Punditz swiftly moved past aping the UK and made a sound entirely their own. I see them as the next important step in Indian music and classical luminaries such as Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ustad Sultan Khan and Zakir Hussain are right behind them. Catch them on the AN Roots Stage and Jazz World stage on Friday.
Bandish Projekt- hailing from India, via Dubai, Bandish Projekt are a duo that reveal a new breed of DJ. Combining vocals, live tablas, live darbuka and current DJ/performance technology, they weave an intricate soundscape, pierced by tough, crafted, electronic beats. When performing live they are exhilarating, exciting and push those all familiar musical boundaries until the twisted extremes become the norm. It's their first performance at Glastonbury.
BBC Collective recommend:
The Rumblestrips - An exuberant, sax-powered punk racket... just thing to kickstart your hungover afternoon into the beginning of another marvellous Glastonbury evening.
Bjork - An entertaining lunatic who's only too pleased to make a spectacle of herself? Bjork is the perfect Glasto act. Go and watch Ms Gudmunsdottir have it large and avant-garde.
The Maccabees - Glastonbury is traditionally the proving ground for up and coming acts. Remember Colplay's "next year we'll be bigger than Bon Jovi!" boast in 2000? Will this year be the making or breaking of this lot's charmingly hectic guitar pop? Collective has our fingers crossed.
BBC Slink recommends:
The Horrors - For their scarily catchy tunes and also 'cos our hair will prob look like theirs by then.
Hot Chip - Because we know we can just see ourselves right now jumping around the them, in the blazing sunshine obv, and then going to get some hot chips from one of the stalls! (D'y see what we did there?)
Cold War Kids - Who aren't kids, but who are still going to rock our smelly socks off.
Jez Nelson recommends:
Bjork - I'm a huge fan and have seen her numerous times. Some people have been a bit disappointed by the new album but I can already tell it'll be amazing live!
Soweto Kinch - Soweto is a real star and always really good fun live. I reckon Glastonbury will love him. There's generally a rule - good saxophonists can't rap - he breaks it.
Toumani Diabate and The Symmetric Orchestra - If the sun shines this will be a must-attend gig. A Malian master who's mesmerising to watch and hear live.
Amy Winehouse - if she turns up the Jazz World stage will be rammed. I think we'll be about to go on air so i might not be able to make it - but if I could I would.
Nemone recommends:
CSS - fronted by loved up Lovefoxx Foxyness. She rules the stage and when they're on form they're a bamboozling ball of energy.
The Klaxons - I urge you to get a close as you dare to the front. Being part of that throbbing mob in the Klaxons mosh has been a highlight so far in 2007 for me.
Beirut - not seen them yet I think these guys will be perfect in a field somewhere in Somerset - soaring beautiful music. I'm jealous already of any of you who catch these guys at Glastonbury - ethreal and melodically muddy - what else do you need.
The Chemical Brothers - light show second to none.
Tom Robinson recommends:
The Klaxons - For a band that'll blow your head off, look no further than the full-frontal sonic assault of The Klaxons, guaranteed to take you higher.
Tunng - For something more meditative, yet tempered with an underlying edge of menace, sample the finely honed harmonies of Tunng - as they tell their dark electro-acoustic tales of murder and revenge.
Seth Lakeman - The local hero is among the most rivetting, charismatic performers you'll see at the entire Festival - an astonishing combination of authentic folk roots and electrifying energy.
Shaun Keaveny recommends:
The Who - every Glastonbury needs a huge band with a back catalogue so pervasive everyone can sing along.
The Klaxons - it's a toss-up between them and fellow disco-ravers CSS but I reckon, 'medicated' or not, it's the Klaxons' year, a perfect band for the star-spangled at Glastonbury.
Chas 'n' Dave - unrivalled and unparallelled in the idiom of singalonga cockney, there is a vague rumour that Kele from Bloc Party may join them for half a set, either way, they are awesome.
Huw Stephens recommends:
Bright Eyes - The Man Conor Oberst has been releasing albums since he was 13, and continues to release some amazing music. His latest album, Cassadaga, came out this year, and I listen to it practically every day. The last time he played Glastonbury he messed things up a bit and I was disappointed with his attitude. This time it looks like he's going to be brilliant.
Los Campesinos! - They're a new band and make utterly brilliant pop tunes. I saw them play upstairs at a pub in Cardiff and it was ramshackle but ace. They've finished their exams now, have been practising and got it together. I can't wait to see them play Glastonbury, whether it's mud or sun
The Pipettes - At Glastonbury two years ago I saw the Pipettes play in one of the smaller fields, but not on a stage as they'd been booted off. They just played on the grass, to whoever was gathered around. They didn't have a deal, and were just loving it. Now they're doing well, are signed in the States, and it's brilliant to think they're on the main Stage at Glastonbury this year. A much needed shot of harmonius fun!
------> Bobby Friction recommends: <-------
Swami could be classed as the desi 'Bonde De Role'. This group have been the most progressive British-Asian Bhangra band of the past 5 years. They merge big Indian dhol dreams with serious electro beats and guitars, mixed with the rapping of S-Endz and Panjabi vocals of Sups. Swami headline our Friday night Roots Stage and will be performing from new album 'Equalize'.
Catch 22 - Reading-based producer Prash and Deadly Hunta and crew have been turning out consistent riddim niceness over the past year, with a much-propped recent session for Ras Kwame on 1Xtra and a performance at the Electric Proms tucked under their belt. 22's India meets Jamaica 'Urban Roti' sound will be live on our Roots stage on Friday night.
Asian Dub Foundation - are long due a revisit. The conscious collective who Bobby Gillespie once referred to as 'the most important band in Britain right now' have a revitalised line-up and recently marked a return to form on their 'Timefreeze' greatest hits collection. The warrior charge of 'Target Practice' will seriously mash up the dance at Glastonbury.
Nerm recommends:
Midival Punditz - Electronica from India is snowballing right now. Acts are springing up all over the place with accessible technology allowing ancient musical textures to be welded together with glitchy, futuristic sounds. Originally inspired by the UK Asian Underground, the Punditz swiftly moved past aping the UK and made a sound entirely their own. I see them as the next important step in Indian music and classical luminaries such as Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ustad Sultan Khan and Zakir Hussain are right behind them. Catch them on the AN Roots Stage and Jazz World stage on Friday.
Bandish Projekt- hailing from India, via Dubai, Bandish Projekt are a duo that reveal a new breed of DJ. Combining vocals, live tablas, live darbuka and current DJ/performance technology, they weave an intricate soundscape, pierced by tough, crafted, electronic beats. When performing live they are exhilarating, exciting and push those all familiar musical boundaries until the twisted extremes become the norm. It's their first performance at Glastonbury.
BBC Collective recommend:
The Rumblestrips - An exuberant, sax-powered punk racket... just thing to kickstart your hungover afternoon into the beginning of another marvellous Glastonbury evening.
Bjork - An entertaining lunatic who's only too pleased to make a spectacle of herself? Bjork is the perfect Glasto act. Go and watch Ms Gudmunsdottir have it large and avant-garde.
The Maccabees - Glastonbury is traditionally the proving ground for up and coming acts. Remember Colplay's "next year we'll be bigger than Bon Jovi!" boast in 2000? Will this year be the making or breaking of this lot's charmingly hectic guitar pop? Collective has our fingers crossed.
BBC Slink recommends:
The Horrors - For their scarily catchy tunes and also 'cos our hair will prob look like theirs by then.
Hot Chip - Because we know we can just see ourselves right now jumping around the them, in the blazing sunshine obv, and then going to get some hot chips from one of the stalls! (D'y see what we did there?)
Cold War Kids - Who aren't kids, but who are still going to rock our smelly socks off.
Jez Nelson recommends:
Bjork - I'm a huge fan and have seen her numerous times. Some people have been a bit disappointed by the new album but I can already tell it'll be amazing live!
Soweto Kinch - Soweto is a real star and always really good fun live. I reckon Glastonbury will love him. There's generally a rule - good saxophonists can't rap - he breaks it.
Toumani Diabate and The Symmetric Orchestra - If the sun shines this will be a must-attend gig. A Malian master who's mesmerising to watch and hear live.
Amy Winehouse - if she turns up the Jazz World stage will be rammed. I think we'll be about to go on air so i might not be able to make it - but if I could I would.
