Who I saw at End of the Road 2007

End of the Road is an amazing festival, where artists and punters are all one, and everyone loves music. It's all about the music.

Strange Idols
Not nice

Seventeen Evergreen
Very up and down mellow slightly twee indie, some out of tune

Jesse Sykes
Had Slash imitator on guitar which made it awful

Scout Niblet
Nice then rocked out and went wrong

**All Smiles
Sounded very nice and mellow, guitarist from Grandaddy

***Viking Moses
Main man had excellent voice but the rest of the band were uncoordinated and there were some terrible female vocals, and too much humming

Marie Frank
Quite nice and mellow soft female vocals and did nice Velvet Underground cover

**Midlake
Excellent except for the unfamiliar tracks!

Yo La Tengo
Good experimental variable music, with a small amount of lovely twee mellow songs and some clever feedback, intense guitar experimentation, then just went too much into masturbatory rock.

**Loney Dear
Very lovely heartfelt gentle songs

****I’m from Barcelona
An amazing balloon and confetti party, with some lilo surfing.

King Creosote
Nice enough…

**The Bees
Rather jolly

Super Furry Animals
Good old stuff but now rock out too much and lack innovation. New songs seem like bad rocky version of old songs.

My Brightest Diamond
Too glam rock

Darren Hayman
Excellent and better than Hefner – his bluegrass set (Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee) was also amazing

Danielson
Like a discordant bad version of Bearsuit, not good

Tape the Radio
Nasty rock

***Slow Club
Fun and quirky great female vocals

**9 Bach
Welsh traditional folk – lovely voice and banter

Young Republic
Okay as background music

**Indigo Moss
The singer is the spitting image of an old friend in years gone by – youngsters playing good folk

**Port O’Brien
Anti-folk without as much silliness, but friendly and lovely.

**Dawn Landes
Gorgeous voice

***Jeffry Lewis
Crass covers with a couple of fun tunes at the end. Political and great.

**Herman Dune
Jolly Fun

***Misty's Big Adventure
Brilliant set full of classic Misty's, but no “all things bright and beautiful”…

**Malcolm Middleton
Scottish folk pop with some good amusing lyrics.

Hyacinth House
Big Swedish folk band – nice enough but too rocky with nothing that sets them above.

**Peggy Sue and the Pirates
Best set yet. Deliciously fun with a happy sit down audience applauding enthusiastically.

***Charlie Parr
Beautifully understated excellent guitar folk.