Well, if you have a global perspective on these things, I guess the summer festival season kicked off this weekend with California's
Coachella Festival thrilling its 30,000 strong crowd, with performances by the Nine Inch Nails, Kasabian, The Bravery and **British Sea
Power** all reportedly going down a storm.
On the fringes of it all Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess celebrated the US release of his solo album by gigging with Starsailor at the LA Viper Room. According to the NME Robbie Williams,
Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody and Queens Of The Stone
Age guitarist Troy Van Leeuwan were among the audience to watch the show. Starsailor are in LA recording their third album, and reportedly jumped at the chance to support Burgess at his intimate gig.