Comments on: Ely Folk Festival 2006 - Review

By: Karl Bedingfield

Karl Bedingfield — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:35:25 +0000

Mike, I agree wholeheartedly with you ‘Zambula were simply fantastic from start to finish’. I was strongly of the opinion that they should have headlined either Friday or Saturday night.

By: Mike Holt

Mike Holt — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:22:24 +0000

I read with interest your review of the Festival and I have to say that I found Blackrat and Zambula a refreshing oasis to reach at the end of a rather ‘dry’ afternoon of Traditional music and singer/songwriters! I love both these genre’s and indeed I play Guitar myself, but I was ready for more upbeat music.
Blackrat played some lively tunes and gave us some thought provoking songs as well. Zambula were simply fantastic from start to finish.

The trouble with reviews is they tend to express a personal view of events rather than being an unbiased account of the music. It’s a pity that more people were not around on the Sunday to hear these two great Bands!

By: John Glover

John Glover — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:13:08 +0000

You’ve caught me out, Lizzie. I’ve been trying to shoe-horn my weak Samaritans gag in for ages. It just happened to be Black Rat that got the ‘blame’. I’d actually listened to ‘Bog Fire’ about 4 times on your web-site before going to the Festival, that’s why it sprang to mind as a reason for running to the non-existent tent. For the record, I strongly suspect that I went ot the Beer Tent after I’d heard a few of your songs. Anyway, who needs happy songs? I was watching Boo Hewerdine recently and he introduced a song with, ‘Here’s another song about death’.

By: Black Rat

Black Rat — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:31:01 +0000

Cheers for the review. Good to know we managed to depress you and sorry there was no Samaritans tent - interesting point though. Sold a good few CD’s so there are some manics out there If every band played covers we’d fall asleep!

Love to all-especially the old man at the front who insisted on videoing my assetts for the entire set (there’s always one).

Looking forward to next years tour showcasing our happy tracks.

Love Lizzie Black Rat xx

By: Karl Bedingfield

Karl Bedingfield — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:15:31 +0000

Hey Greg,
No problems with the link, glad you liked John’s review.

By: Gregg Cave

Gregg Cave — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:29:05 +0000

Hey thanks for the kind mention in your review. If you dont mind i’ll put a link to it on our site?

Tah again
Gregg.x

By: Justin Robertson

Justin Robertson — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:50:28 +0000

What a brilliant weekend we had.

Shame on Ely Standard for not running a review in last week’s paper. What was that all about?

Keep up the good work guys!