With days of endless sunshine and little rain in sight, summertime 2009 is becoming the ultimate farewell party to the noughties! How time has flown these last ten years!!
What better way to celebrate (and lets face it with the current recession everyone needs a bit of cheering up!) than a visit to a music festival. Next month sees the festival widely regarded as the ‘new Glastonbury’ take place. Green Man has been running for 6 years and has all the essence of the early Glastonbury’s. It’s wholly non corporate, non commercial and with a world class lineup of acts too it’s the perfect place to while away a few summer days. The Dancing Turtle produced undercover documentary on the West Papua independence movement ‘Forgotten Bird of Paradise’ will also be showing in the Cinema Tent!

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London indie group the Golden Silvers have had some year. Plucked from obscurity last year, they won Glastonbury Unsigned and a slot on the ‘Other Stage’ as well as playing a host of festivals. Recently signed up to XL Recordings, they are soon to release their debut album. Described by one newspaper as “fairy-tale indie-pop”, you have to see these guys to believe them. Catch them at their legendary monthly night, the Bronze Club, in London’s Hoxton. A golden future awaits.

It looks like normal service has resumed with Glastonbury Festival having sold out 4 months before it even takes place and with the line up yet to be revealed. I guess the organisers have learnt some valuable lessons from last year when there was a big fall out in the wake of the early announcement of hip-hop act Jay-Z as the main headline, resulting in the first Glastonbury in living memory failing to sell out.