As promised, a few more behind-the-scenes pictures of the Glastonbury site minus the punters, courtesy of James TAE. The crowds will be arriving from 9pm tonight, those lucky sods. Let”™s keep our fingers crossed for awesome weather and fabulous music! The infamous fence: The Park stage being built: The entire soundsystem for the BBC Introducing stage packed into flight cases: The Pyramid Stage!: If any of you lovely folks are going, let us know how you get on. You can either Tweet us with your experiences, or send us a write-up when you get back. LOVE. Spotisfaction Crew.

Post author By The Spotisfaction Team
Post date June 22, 2010

As promised, a few more behind-the-scenes pictures of the Glastonbury site minus the punters, courtesy of James TAE. The crowds will be arriving from 9pm tonight, those lucky sods. Let”™s keep our fingers crossed for awesome weather and fabulous music!

The infamous fence:

The Park stage being built:

The entire soundsystem for the BBC Introducing stage packed into flight cases:

The Pyramid Stage!:

If any of you lovely folks are going, let us know how you get on. You can either Tweet us with your experiences, or send us a write-up when you get back.

LOVE.
Spotisfaction Crew.

Tags Behind-the-scenes, Glastonbury, James TAE, News

It”™s time to announce our competition winner! It was a close-run thing, with a large selection of utterly awesome feel-good songs being sent our way. However, as with all these things, there can be only one winner (no matter how much we wish we had a decently sized prize fund). Our top three are as follows: 3rd Place: Tom Mitchell, with “Hair” by The Cowsills 2nd Place: Adam Ashby, with “When I Grow Up” by Fever Ray ”¦and our winner is: 1st Place: Rhys Howell, with “Mr Blue Sky” by ELO Congrats, Rhys – we”™ll be in touch with details of how to collect the ticket. Bring your best beer drinking face. Thanks to everyone who entered – we”™ve collated your entries in the following playlist – please listen and enjoy! 01 Compisfaction – Let”™s Make Happy We definitely hope to run more competitions like this, so if you have any ideas do get in touch. Spotisfaction Crew. PS. A massive honorable mention to Rob Morgan, who would have won with his entry: “Wouldn”™t It Be Nice” by The Beach Boys – however, he couldn”™t make it (and indeed was the person who kindly donated his ticket!). Cheers, bro.

Not sure what this VFTA malarkey is all about? See here. To listen along with Ben, BSS”™ “Feel Good Lost” is on Spotify. The year 2000; the start of the new millennium, but more importantly the birth of new ideas, perspectives and emotions. Around the same time as the world welcomed in this new decade, a fresh sound was growing from the suburban basements, and urban meadows of America and Canada. A sound that projected pure poetry and delicate lyrical narratives,Â set toÂ beautifully crafted instrumental dream states. Circa 2000, the pioneers of this ”˜post-rockesque”™ styling included bands such as Bright Eyes, The Shins and Death Cab For Cutie, all of which continue to evolve and develop this glorious sound 10 years on.Â ButÂ one group who appear to have nurtured the genre throughout the decade, andÂ are still exploring it to this day, are Broken Social Scene. Formed in Canada in 1999, Broken Social Scene originally existed as a mix of collaborators, musicians and friendsÂ who blended an array of musical projects and ideas together. After two years of fine tuning, founding members Brendan Canning and Kevin Drew wrote the band”™s debut album “Feel Good Lost”; a myriad of moods and tones that truly paints a picture of theÂ mass artist collective present andÂ the new millennium perspective. “Feel Good Lost” is apt as a debut as it consists mostly of instrumental stylings, and in many ways acts as introduction to the band”™s avant-garde direction. The moods contained in the album rise and fall and a series ofÂ emotions, and dreams are explored in intimate detail. ”˜Alive In 85”™ capturing a rather more jovial mood setting with muffled yet busy tempo, and gently wafting guitar melodies. Whereas, ”˜Stomach Song”™ represents aÂ more claustrophobic, enclosed atmosphere, with its murky orchestration and eerie collection of vocal clips looped over and over throughout. The collection of work here tends to float along sweetly, culminating in the heavy ”˜Last Place”™, that acts as the awakening from the troubled, yet peaceful dream of the album. As “Feel Good Lost” reaches it”™s optimistic closing track ”˜Cranley”™s Gonna Make It”™, one can”™t help but agree with the album”™s title; that it has felt good being lifted out of the harshness of real life, and left alone to wonder in this pure dream state. Admittedly, Broken Social Scene”™s debut isn”™t one of strength or power. But what it does hold is potential, promise and the odd sense of escapism that exists so beautifully in the music of all those visionary band”™s way back in 2000. The Year 2000: That start of the great escape! Ben Hawling