Oi Va Voi [09/07/07]
The musical gig odyssey continues with Oi Va Voi who are very hard to describe. Um, well they are pretty Jewish (lot of their stuff is based on the Klezmer style), quite of lot Eastern-European influences all bound up by electonica with a bit of hip-hop thrown in for good measure.
Me and Rammo saw them at Werchter 2007 and they livened up the rainy graveyard shift in the afternoon. Also, they have a stunning and firey violinist (who I find out is called Anna Phoebe), so I thought there was no harm in blowing a few quid to see them..
To be honest they were very good. Pretty weird and eclectic, and after an hour and a bit I was about Oi Va Voi’d out, but their sound is so distinctive it kind of works.
Stand out tracks: Yuri, Further Deeper.
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Euro-festival madness..
Let’s rock, baby!
So Rammo and I ventured to Belgium for 4 nights of Euro-festival at Rock Werchter….and a great time was had by all.
Being the old men we are we only had 2 nights camping and spent the last 2 in a hotel in Leuven.
Top 10 band’s I saw in reverse order of awesomness:
10. Damian Rice
Much better than I was expecting. I thought it would be your all whiny stuff but he’s obviously got a bit of a harder edge in his live shows.
9. Beastie Boys
The Beasties would have scored a lot higher were it not the fact that i was more concerned with staying alive than listening to the set. The pyramid tent turned into a serious mosh-pit and i only managed to last about half and hour before retreating from the fray.
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Unlimited limit?
I’m due a handset upgrade and am also having a look at if there’s a better tariff for me as well, so was interested to see O2 announce unlimited web package Bolt-Ons.
However the truth is that unlimited actually comes with very clear limits; namely 200mb per month.
Surely this is false advertising of the most bald kind?
Also with mobile devices likely to be the sweet spot in terms of web-based services for the coming few years it seems to be so niggardly in data terms is missing a real competative advantage?
This entry was written by , posted on July 1, 2007 at 11:26 pm, filed under Tech. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
