I've just posted a review of the bits of the "Tartan Heart" festival I got to see and hear over at my normal blog, but here's the extract of it dealing with what I saw of Nick...
We arrived slightly later than we had intended on the Friday, so by the time we had unloaded our gear into the tent (pre-pitched by Martin - what a star!), then found a copy of the 'Garden Times' (the mini-newspaper detailing running orders and events), we only managed to catch the end of Nick Harper's set. He played a monsterous version of his 'Love is Music' mutating epic, which grows more arms and legs and nods and winks every time I hear it played live. His singing was as strong as I've heard it, and guitar playing superb as ever - I just wished I could have heard more! The only downside was that the sound in the tent was pretty poor - almost as if the sound team underestimated the power that could come from one man with acoustic guitar - it seemed to be overdriving something in the system.
That's yer lot.
Thanks Mick!
When he was down our way after Belladrum, he said he'd really enjoyed his set there, for only a half hour long set it sounds like it went down a storm