As you read this I will probably still be speeding northwards through the torrential rain on the M1 heading for Sherwood Forest and the inaugural No Direction Home music festival. Having spent the last two years happily enjoying the fantastic End of the Road festival, my plans were scuppered for a hat-trick by a sneaky move in dates making it clash with our first overseas family holiday in years to the beaches of Spain.
Thankfully, the same folk are behind this one so despite the rotten weather forecast, hopes are high for another fantastic event and judging by the line-up, we should be in for a treat. Friday night will be headlined by The Low Anthem, Saturday by Andrew Bird and Sunday by Richard Hawley. In between times we will have the pleasure of sets from Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny, Other Lives, Moon Duo, Lanterns On The Lake, The Wave Pictures, Wet Nuns, Father John Misty, Mikal Cronin and Spectrals. Best of all though will be discovering those artists and bands that we’ve not come across before and who turn out to be jaw-droppingly good.
Here is a free mix just to give you a taste of what we’ll be enjoying over the weekend, or if you fancy snapping up one of the last few tickets you can get one here.
Look out for a full review next week.
Download Father John Misty – Nancy From Now On mp3 (from Fear Fun)
Download Mikal Cronin – Apathy mp3 (from Mikal Cronin)
Download Mikal Cronin – Get Along mp3 (from Mikal Cronin)
Download Other Lives – For 12 mp3 (from Tamer Animals)
Download Spectrals – Chip A Tooth (Spoil A Smile) mp3 (from A Spectrals Extended Play EP)
Download Moon Duo – Mazes mp3 (from Mazes)
Download The Low Anthem – Charlie Darwin mp3 (from O My God, Charlie Darwin)
Download The Low Anthem – This God Damn House mp3 (from What The Crow Brings)
Download David Thomas Broughton – Nature mp3 (from Outbreeding)
Download David Thomas Broughton – Walking Over You mp3 (from The Complete Guide To Insufficiency)
Download Lanterns On The Lake – You’re Almost There mp3 (from Gracious Tide, Take Me Home)
Download Slow Club – Beginners mp3 (from Paradise)
Download Django Django – Love’s Dart mp3 (from Storm / Love’s Dart 7″)
Download The Cornshed Sisters – Nowhere Man mp3 (from Mojo Presents – Yellow Submarine Resurfaces)
Download Peter Wolf Crier – Crutch & Cane mp3 (from Inter-Be)
Download Zulu Winter – Lets Move Back To Front mp3 (from Language)
Download Woodpigeon – I Live A Lot of Places mp3 (from Treasury Library Canada)
Download Wet Nuns – Heavens Below mp3 (from Heavens Below 7″)
Download Tiny Ruins – The Death Of A Russian mp3 (from Some Were Meant For Sea)
Download The Wave Pictures -Stay Here And Take Care Of The Chickens mp3 (from Long Black Cars)
Download Veronica Falls – Bad Feeling mp3 (from Veronica Falls)
Download Austra – Lose it mp3 (from Feel It Break)
Download Joe Gideon & The Shark – True Nature mp3 (from Harum Scarum)
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