Will's Band of the Week

Dear Will and the gang, greetings from North York-shire, Ingurland.
I saw St Vincent and David Byrne at End of the Road festival in Devon last year. David Byrne would play a well know Talking Heads oldie and everyone would love it, then St Vincent would play one of hers and everything would go quite and people would politely applaud. This went on for the whole set. Bit odd really.
I also wanted to report a fine performance by Steve Malkmus at The Brudenell Social Club in Leeds last month. Most of the set was from the last two albums and don't think he played anything off his first solo album. Good support from Joanna Gruesome too.
Good year for music in the UK - 97
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space
Radiohead - OK Computer
Super Furry Animals - Radiator
Mogwai - Young Team
Teenage Fanclub - Songs from a Northern Town
Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Roni Size - New Forms
Portishead - Portishead
Eels - Beautiful Freak
Pavement - Brighten the Corners
Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Primal Scream - Vanishing Point
The Verve - Urban Hymns

Pop chart 'highlights'
Aqua - Barbie Girl
Teletubbies Say Eh Oh
Chumbawumba - Tubthumping