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Rejoice! The season of wellies, sunstroke and pear cider in a field is here! All the news and reviews from rock's premier summer shindigs, brought to you by Uncut's intrepid team.

Latitude: Broken Records, DM Stith, The XX, The Airborne Toxic Event

2009-07-18 21:10:34

There's less of the pushchairs and families at this year’s Latitude, but the site seems busier than ever - enough people to give Broken Records a pretty large crowd on the main Obelisk Arena stage.

Tom Pinnock

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UNCUT GLASTONBURY AWARDS 2009

2009-06-29 09:06:13

THE WORST BEST KEPT SECRET

The KLAXONS’ surprise appearance on the Park Stage (Saturday). Superhero fancy dress and all.

SONG OF THE SUMMER

Florence & The Machine, ‘Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up’. The perfect Pagan anthem for the sunkissed Children Of Avalon (John Peel Stage, Saturday).

BEST GLASTO DEBUT

‘Saucy Jack’, SPINAL TAP’s theme to their legendary musical about Jack the Ripper received its world premier on the Main Stage (Saturday), eclipsing even the wee fellers jigging about to ‘Stonehenge’ and guest turns by Jarvis Cocker (bass on ‘Big Bottom’) and Jamie Cullum (keys on the jam).

Farah Ishaq

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COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL

2009-04-21 07:30:30

29 Great moments from the 10th Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, Empire Polo Club, Indio, California, April 17-19, 2009.

1. Fleet Foxes drawing a huge, mellow crowd, sweltering under woolly beanies on the Outdoor Stage, Saturday, playing ‘White Winter Hymnal’. Temperature: 98 degrees.
2. Karen O, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Coachella Stage Sunday, dressed as a disco ball, doing The Cramps’ ‘Human Fly’.

Farah Ishaq

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CORNBURY FESTIVAL

2008-07-07 08:24:47

PAUL Simon and Crowded House were the billed main headliners but if the phalanx of photographers snaking its way across the field during The Bangles’ Saturday set is anything to go by, the biggest star at this, the fifth Cornbury Festival, is an inconspicuously turned out gent and a lady we take to be his wife who are making their way, as casually as possible, down into the throng around the stage.

Farah Ishaq

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Kaiser Chiefs At The BBC Electric Proms: Orchestral Overdrive?

2007-10-26 23:33:19

Kaiser Chiefs are a strange beast. Starting off as a welcome return to the light-hearted melodicism and sheer pop power of Britpop and the likes of XTC, over-familiarity and their careerist second album have left them slightly unpalatable. At the risk of sounding condescending, sure, ‘the people’ have got into them – the same tabloid-reading masses they rail against on ‘The Angry Mob’ – but the discerning music lover (ahem) has perhaps been left a little cold by their eagerness to please.

Farah Ishaq

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