Glastonbury named best festival...But where's Hop Farm?

Hop Farm Festival

Looking at the list of winners at the UK Festival Awards there is one festival that seems to be ignored.

I spent hours sweating over the phone and Internet to get tickets to Glastonbury and failed miserably. So I wondered where to go for my festival fix. After some online searching I found The Hop Farm Festival.

BBC have Cancelled Shooting Stars

We Shouldn't Let it Lie

Just heard it on Twitter from @therealbobmortimer that the BBC has just cancelled one of the strangest and best game shows on television. I can't belive it! They have commissioned a remake of jim'll fix it with Shane Richie and still put on Lee Nelson's blah blah blah. Watch some of the best Shooting Stars moments below and complain the the BBC here. Vic and Bob I'm here for you!

True or False:
Eddie Izzard?

Amy Winehouse and other Rock and Roll Ghosts

GhostWatch with Pete Doherty?
I Look at Other Rock Spirits

The ex-Libertine and soon to be film star Pete Doherty is claiming that his friend Amy Winehouse, who died earlier this year, is trying to contact him from the spirit world. A friend of the singer said "He is utterly convinced that he has seen her ghost. A lot of people will think his visions are probably drug-induced but he claims he is clean." He is so scared he has fled Camden for Paris.


But this isn’t the first ghostly encounter with a rock and roll star, there is a surprisingly high amount of apparitions, spirit and poltergeists that hang around with these guys and girls.

Chicago Soul Electric Blues Funk & Soul Reviewed

The other side of Chess Records.

Is it worth buying another Compilation?

I went drinking in the Northern Quarter on friday night and three pints in I was staring at Piccadilly Records from Dry Bar, I decided to go in and just have a luck round.

One record popped out that was too hard to resist, a compilation album of Chicago Soul, it was in the late sixties and Chess records when they decided to bring their blues artists like Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf  ‘up to date’ by putting them with more psych/soul bands. 

GDTKC Podcast 3: Vintage Trouble

For our Third podcast were celebrating the return of Vintage Trouble coming back for a tour in the Uk were going to feature a interview with them on the Show. I talk to them about being choosen to be on Later with Jools Holland, what music turns them on, recording their first album in a bomb shelter, what instruments they play and whats it like being signed by legendary manager Doc Mcghee  (Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, KISS, Guns N' Roses. Plus the latest news and reviews.

If your a band that wants to feature on the show, or if you just want to send us some info, argue or just rant and rave. Send us an email at givedaddytheknifecindy@hotmail.com

The podcast that can be downloaded from GDTKC.PODOMATIC.COM or Search for Give Daddy The Knife Cindy on ITUNES! Or if your lazy you can just listen to it below!

To View Vintage Trouble's Tour Schedual and Documentary Trailer Click Here

Jimmy Reed Anthology Review

Jimmy Reed Anthology Boxset

I don't think Vee-Jay records is going to have to do a hard sell to flog the Jimmy Reed Anthology, I mean you get 54 tracks for £4.99. It's worth the price alone to have 'Big boss man,' 'Bright lights, Big city'  and 'Baby what do you want me to do' in your collection.

Mick Jones wants Justice for Hillsborough

Don't Buy The Sun Concert Goes on Tour!

Mick Jones to play Clash hits.

The Hillsborough disaster was way before my time, but after reading about the way The Sun wrote about the evert I can see why Mick Jones is part of a tour for the Hillsborough Justice Campaign.  Mick Jones is set to play some clash songs on the tour, so it's definatly for clash fans. The ticket prices are a very reasonable £17.50 and the money goes to the Hillsborough charity.

Mick will also be joined by Host John Robb, Pete Wylie, The Farm and special guests every show.

Black Sabbath are Back!

I've never thought of black Sabbath as metal, they were more than that. A great rock and roll band with a message that got watered down with Ozzy's Tv image and Sabbaths countless later albums. Just forget about the bats, the cocaine, the solo carriers and Dio for a minute and listen.

The Rum Diary Film Review

Today The Rum Diary is released in Uk cinemas, a long awaited return to the screen for both director Bruce Robinson and a novel by Hunter S Thompson.  Free to those that can afford it, very expensive to those that can't; I paid my eight quid to get into the early screening. Sat down in the freezing cold cinema with a bastard behind the eyes. 

My New Favourite Band

I love The Ramones and I love Two Wounded Birds. They are playing manchester on the 24th at Troff in Manchester. Sadly i'm recording with my own band that day so I can't go and watch them. But I suggest that you spend some time digging their sounds.