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Article: Bestival closes festival season with a feast of song and dance
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 14, 2009
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Last Night Bestival Isle of Wight ****
The summer's festival season was brought to a close last night as
Elbow headlined the main stage at Bestival. The Bury band played an
impressive set, with tracks from their 2008 Mercury Prize-winning
album, The Seldom Seen Kid, going down best with the crowd,
particularly the riff-heavy "Grounds For Divorce". They finished
with the uplifting, anthemic "One Day Like This" - which could have
been written for festivals - and left the stage amid a blizzard of
confetti.
Before them on the main stage were Fleet Foxes, whose beautifully
understated folk-rock songs worked wonderfully as darkness fell. It
may not have been a showy performance, but their lovely ...