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This is honestly miles better imo. Really opens up on the madness. Dave Grohl jump scare in the first few minutes though 

Don't know if it's been mentioned already, but the 20-year updated version of Dig!, the documentary about the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols is well worth watching, even if you've seen the original.

It's just a much more complete telling, lots of extra footage and narration from Joel Gion from BJM. So it is longer, but justifiably so. I'd say it's the definitive version.

Great lineup. Can't feckin go though 

They've always drawn from post-rock etc. bands for their booking, so it's a small niche for sure but I do recognise a good few of them as being pretty well-respected and known within that world. Smote for example are pretty class, brooding stuff, did a collaboration with Ian Lynch/One Leg One Eye. Zatokrev down in the bottom corner of the poster are brilliant as well. 

That's a pretty class first announcement. Might have to go, finally.

I posted that Paul Spring album a while back. He released another recently and has been playing in Ireland for most of the last month (I probably should have given it a shout then, my fuck up  Unless anyone is in the vicinity of Tralee tomorrow or Kenmare Friday, then you're in luck). I went to see him play two nights in a row, partly to atone for missing the last tour, rewarded with two very different but no less brilliant shows, one with a full band, the other more stripped back. Cemented in my mind now as the real deal, a masterful, hypnotic guitarist and singer.

The last time he was over, some great younger musicians linked up with him and they recorded this latest album, Barnstorm. It's a pretty different beast to Kind of Heaven, landing somewhere in the territory of Villagers and Fleet Foxes. The Baroque influence is way more up front, interpolated into some pretty rich folk style, with a less open/loose rhythm across much of the tracks than on Kind of Heaven, and overall somewhat less wistful though managing to never descend into outright cheese (to my ears, anyway). The trad influence isn't totally gone however, on tracks like Guardian Angel, Shovel and I'll Not Bother You, you've got pipes and some very very recognisably trad melodies and structures, but with that hint of a more locked rhythm giving em a bit of spice. A very rich album with intriguing performances from everyone, worth the time listening.

They recorded a few videos of songs from the album, here's the opener that's been plaguing my brain since I heard it. I think some on here will probably dig it if you liked the last one, definitely another dimension.

ah now, we can't be subjecting folk music to the same kind of only tr00 kvlt metallers ov dess allowed schtick 

The actual folkies have that covered waaaaay more extreme than us, don't worry 

https://gitrashposting.bandcamp.com/album/gi-trashposting-and-dollar-pickle-present-dublin-in-the-rain-is-shit-craic-because-dublin-is-a-shit-city-with-shit-things-and-the-rain-only-makes-it-worse

The Eloy mention reminds me to add two French unmissables (well, one unmissable and one worth a shot):

Magma:

https://youtu.be/vWNj51kGU8g

Ange:

https://youtu.be/2OWPWJhGUtk

Ange fairly perfectly fit nukeabuse's description of prog above and all, with added vocals en français thrown in for good measure

God I love Magma

You tell 'em, Metaldude 

WELL

Delighted you're getting it together 

Very easy to get there from Ireland, the trains from Schiphol are very very regular and there's a good few routes that'll get you there. You can pay by tapping on at the gate with your debit card as well, don't even need to buy a ticket.

Camping is down past the train station, great location and likely the cheapest you'll manage in the town. I've never done the campsite but it seems very well set up and the craic looks good. If you don't want to sleep in a tent (the weather is mental usually, can be fairly cold at night) you've towns around close by, Breda and Eindhoven being sizeable ones accessible by rail, late enough trains, but the festival actually puts on late night buses out to Eindhoven every night and the prices are more sane than Tilburg. Know a good few people manage to get lucky with B&Bs and holiday rentals so you might swing something in the town if you keep an eye out.

There's a gang of us stay out in the safari park just south of Tilburg (Beekse Bergen) which is funny as fuck, you get a nice little holiday lodge in the park so you could be waking up next to lions, or seals, whatever is in the enclosure.

Get a feed into you in Xu Noodle Bar and you'll be right for the day. They've a lot of food stalls near the venues as well that are usually solid and quick as well. Buitenbeentje bar on the main strip for the late night pints if you're feeling so inclined, they serve till 3:30 am-ish (grand Guinness for 6 quid if you're craving a stout) and you'll meet plenty of the artists playing there (sat across from Steve Von Till a few nights).

There's two venues big enough that you can basically wander into whenever and be fine, but for the smaller ones you do have to commit to showing up a little early if you want to be guaranteed a spot for something you really want to see, they'll operate one-in one out when they're at capacity, so you could be waiting in a queue in that case. They always have a load of "secret" shows that they announce on the day, and they're usually good craic, some bands that were never announced beforehand, as well as extra sets from bands on the bill. Quite a few of these happen in the skatepark, and it's worth going to if there's anything you like happening there.

It has ruined every other festival for me, it's like someone plugged straight into my brain and pandered to what I'm looking for (Lankum into Khanate into Cult Leader into Blood Incantation was a pretty memorable run in that sense, but they've managed it every year I've been). I've a feeling it'll be similar craic for yourself.

Basically, I'll just refer back to a previous user who had the temerity to suggest that Jamiroquai had any redeeming qualities when the general consensus suggests otherwise. Let's just call a spade a spade here, it's garbage.

   

Two sets.  Jesus I might have to finally go to a festival

Come on ta fuck

While I'm on this subject;

Does anyone have the new (?) version "Holy Mountain" on vinyl that boasts "Full Dynamic Range"? It's on their Bandcamp for a surprisingly reasonable price inc. shipping so I am tempted to buy yet another copy of that record - and I assume that they get the cash, not Earache. 

Yes. It's excellent to my ears anyway, felt like I was hearing it to the first time again when I played it, and I actually remember checking the sleeve thinking it has to be a remaster (didn't notice the Full Dynamic Range thing when I was buying it).

(and the sound for Adam's vocals was diabolical) 

I'm kind of baffled by this because looking at Lost Lane's own spec on their site they've a seriously nice custom PA system and a properly treated room, should've been like shooting fish in a barrel to nail that down! Unless he just wasn't on form for it. By fuck was he on form in Cork.