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Isle of Wight Festival: Reviews

Monday, 22nd June, 2009 at 3:25 pm, Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight Festival, Media, Music, Review

Isle of Wight Festival: ReviewsThanks to friend and contributor to VB, Wendy Varley, for sending through these links to reviews of the Isle of Wight Festival. We’ve got interviews with John Giddings, Tim Burgess and the lovely Lucky Elephant guys to come later this week but in the meantime, check out these reviews. Ed

The Times’ David Hayles awards this year’s Festival four stars, describes Simple Minds as “plodding” and Neil Young’s set as “apocalyptic” (in a good way).

The Independent’s Nick Hasted also gives it four stars, says it’s the best since the Stones headlined two years ago, and describes the Isle of Wight as a “strange and lovely island”.

The Telegraph’s Lucy Jones says it was “lad-rock” dominated but that The Pixies and Neil Young shone through.

NME describes Neil Young’s set as “epic”.

Keep your eyes and ears peeled for VB interviews to come later in the week.

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9 Responses to “Isle of Wight Festival: Reviews”

  1. Click if you like this comment DDH     says:
    22, June 2009 at 4:36 pm

    They got it spot on! It was a great festival – Neil Young was awesome – as were The Pixies.

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  2. Click if you like this comment Wendy V     says:
    22, June 2009 at 6:10 pm

    The Telegraph link should be this one, sorry:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-festivals/5541423/Isle-of-Wight-Festival-at-Seaclose-Park-Newport.html

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  3. Click if you like this comment Sal     says:
    22, June 2009 at 8:59 pm

    Thanks Wendy – have updated now. Probably my fault.

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  4. +1 Click if you like this comment Earl Grey     says:
    23, June 2009 at 10:24 pm

    Have to say that while Simple Minds did not set the Festival alight they were far from ‘plodding’, plus they did play ‘I travel’.

    Thank fully missed Neil Young to see Killing Joke in the Big Top, Jaz Coleman still mad after all these years! Great choice from Tim Burgess.

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  5. Click if you like this comment seb     says:
    24, June 2009 at 10:01 am

    absolute radio have various IOW festival news items/videos/recordings on their web site

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  6. Click if you like this comment seb     says:
    24, July 2009 at 11:49 am

    documentary about Neil on bbc2 tonight at 22.35 hours

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