Wishful Wishlist

Music thingies I’d really want to be doing if I were spending the summer in the UK, and am masochistically listing:

• Tricky + Saul Williams at Meltdown
• David Gilmour + Sparklehorse at Meltdown
• Sonic Youth + Glenn Branca Trio + Jim O’Rourke (this one most of all)
• Weezer, for old time’s sake
• Radiohead + Beck
• Essential looks mindblowing
• Bonobo, Funki Porcini, Jonathan More and Amon Tobin at Cargo’s Xen night
• Possibly Fleadh (for Neil Young, the Waterboys, and Aimee Mann)

To top it all off, Philip Glass is doing three different concerts for the Singapore Arts Festival. But! Given that I’ve cleverly devoted that entire week to being a responsible adult presence (stop laughing) at a student camp for creative writing, and I don’t think it would be particularly in keeping with that to creep off to watch the concerts, I guess I won’t be going to those either.

Oh the aaaarghness of it all…