Best of 2007

This is Gemma Dempsey host of the Global Gig Guide – now I don’t know about you but I am pretty exhausted after a year of global gigging, so I’m taking a break til’ the New Year.

Global@KCRW.com - I’ll give the address out again at the end of this Global Gig Guide, so keep a pen handy.

Glastonbury was a very muddy affair this year, but it didn’t dampen the spirits of the festival- goers or performers.

Some of the top performances for Glasto 2007 were:

The Who

Artic Monkeys

Lilly Allen

And Fat Freddys Drop

Pukkelpop and who was the best in show – was it

Basement Jaxx

Arcade Fire

Kings of Leon

Or M.I.A

Roskilde what did you enjoy the most – was it

Bjork

Red Hot Chilli Peppers

John Legend

Or did you go to the Roskilde Cinema to watch the Julian Temple’s documentary ‘Joe Strummer:The Future is Unwritten’?

Italia Love Wave Music festival in Florence this year. I checked out one of the days while on my summer hols, and can personally recommend the following performances –

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Tunng

A Toys Orchestra

Tinariwen

And Kaiser Chiefs.

Coachella.

Once again the heat belted down on the great and the good of the music world which included:

Ozomatli

Happy Mondays

Brazilian Girls

The Good the Bad and The Queen

And Hot Chip

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