Festival Watch: Sounds of summerSing Ye from the Hillsides! Tan Hill Inn, Swaledale, Yorkshire British Sea Power have always been more adventurous with their gig itineraries than most bands - venues include the Czech embassy, a North Sea fort and the Natural History Museum - but Sing Ye From the Hillsides!, the Brighton-via-Cumbria quartet's first self-curated festival, is something else again. Tan Hill Inn, the highest hostelry in England, is a 17th-century pub plunked on a windswept wind·swept adj. Exposed to or swept by winds: windswept moors. windswept Adjective 1. Yorkshire moor. About 200 hardline BSP BSP Bromsulphalein, a dye used in the study of liver function. See also sulfobromophthalein clearance test. fans merrily create havoc while supping pints of Black Sheep alongside weary walkers tramping the Pennine Way, vintage motorbike enthusiasts and a pet sheep called Tammy. The line-up resembles that of a county agricultural show more than a music festival. The 'main stage' is a cobwebby barn with a stone floor. The attractions include birds of prey, welly wel·lie also wel·ly n. pl. wel·lies Chiefly British A Wellington boot. Often used in the plural. welly Noun 1. wanging, potato boules boules French ball game, similar to bowls and boccie. Players take turns throwing or rolling a steel ball as close as possible to a small target ball; an opponent's ball may be knocked away if necessary. The playing field is called a pitch. and husky racing. A handful of obscure dark-hearted bands such as iLIKETRAiNS pad out the entertainment but BSP are the main draw, headlining on all three nights. Friday's set, billed as 'gentle', ended in people climbing the rafters and closing tune 'Lately' stretching into a Sonic Youth-esque 10-minute wig-out. The thrill quotient went up a notch on Saturday, the songs largely drawn from third album Do You Like Rock Music?, which is shortlisted for this week's Mercury prize. Live, the record's grandiosity is transformed into a wild-eyed punk frenzy interspersed with moments of majesty on tracks such as 'Great Skua'. A rainy, sedate se·date v. To administer a sedative to; calm or relieve by means of a sedative drug. Sunday saw the band play their mesmeric mes·mer·ism n. 1. A strong or spellbinding appeal; fascination. 2. Hypnotic induction believed to involve animal magnetism. 3. Hypnotism. [After Franz Mesmer. soundtrack to 1934 Irish docudrama Man of Aran, transporting the audience to a stark netherworld. As campers packed their tents away, there was general agreement that it had been a weekend of pub-rock in excelsis. 
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