 Every review I came across is a good one. They played some new songs including: Misunderstanding, Captain of a Sinking Ship and Cold World. iowfestival.com Electric Soft Parade� a polite bunch of lads from Brighton, and they seemed completely overawed in our presence! Happy to be playing � they were gratefully received.  efestivals.co.uk I�d heard none of their stuff before and for some reason I was expecting a synth driven band, but lo, a four piece rock band descended. With well crafted rock tunes towards the heavier end of the scale and full of hooks and catchy verse.The singer tells us he�s not been to the IOW .... pretty irrelevant, but at least they are trying to bridge to the audience. The Brighton based boys play Misunderstanding their new tune, I know this because he told us, and it�s a pop fuelled number with nice harmonies and the crowd get more into this swinging beat. The set gets a bit more rock and they continue with their nice tunes. Captain of a Sinking Ship is briefly noted as having a bit of a tune about it as I head for the queues. They take time to thank British Sea Power for the champagne, and they�re polite with us too. It�s nice and pleasant for a 5pm chill out slot too but I doubt I�ll remember any of it by the time I�m back on the ferry home. Can't wear to hear all these new songs that have been mentioned... bbc southampton Thankfully, they brought some tunes with them as brothers Tom and Alex White played a selection of tracks from their first two albums. Their bassy songs had a touch of Northern swagger to them and their mix of delicate harmonies and heavy guitars began to bring back the interest of the crowd. They also showcased some new material including Cold World, an upbeat, sunny track with some jaunty piano that could take over where ELO's Mr Blue Sky left off.  independent.co.uk Saturday's was a long programme and it straggled from time to time. Some acts were not up to confronting the enormous crowd that had gathered. Indeed, British Sea Power, which delivered a poor if frantic set, were upstaged when they were followed by a screening of Jimi Hendrix playing "Voodoo Child" at the 1970 festival. The Electric Soft Parade retrieved the situation and brought back the smiles that Steve Harley had evoked earlier with "Come Up And See Me".mirror.co.uk FESTIVAL GOSSIP: Virgin Radio broadcasted live from the festival throughout the weekend and pulled in many of the stars to their VIP tent for exclusive chats. Ronnie Wood's daughter Leah joined Jet, Snowpatrol, Delays, Electric Soft Parade and British Sea Power in the tent for some gourmet food washed down with pints of Carling and summer cocktails (unfortunately Tom had disappeared when they came to interview them) icWales Die-hard festival fans were treated to storming sets from the Manics and Electric Soft Parade last night. 
I transcribed the short interview on Channel 4's IOW coverage where ESP introduced MSP (my other favourite band) It went like this:Alex: I do love The Holy Bible, it's just a classic record basically. Simple as that. It's amazing. Tom: And Nicky Wire named himself after Wire, which is a great thing to do. Alex: We started off covering a lot of their songs and we loved Everything Must Go when it came out and all that sort of thing so it's kinda like that era for us. |
