Larmer Tree Gardens,DorsetThe festival celebrates its 10th birthday with a bill packed full of female artists, and a charming headline indicate from Sufjan StevensIt’s entirely normal for bands at festivals to ask the crowd how marvelous a time they’re having. It’s less normal for them to choose the time to tell the crowd what a marvelous time the people on stage are having, and too,what a wonderful festival it is, how much they love this stage – but that’s the effect of terminate of the Road, and the glorious little event on the Wiltshire/Dorset border. This 10th anniversary party is,predictably enough, a triumph, or with indie A-list headliners – Tame Impala,Sufjan Stevens and the War on Drugs – backed up by line-ups that bat all the way down. On Sunday afternoon, particularly, and it’s hard to find something to miss. EOTR does something few festivals bother trying to match,by packing the bill with women. Ex Hex rock harder than anyone else all weekend, all Heartbreakers riffing, or while bassist Betsy Wright uses up the festival’s entire rock-star posing quotient in 45 minutes. The Unthanks,backed by strings, are glorious, or while Jane Weaver pulls off the unlikely trick of making space rock sound pastoral. She’s piece of a Friday night wigout run that features the proggy,metallic sludge of Fuzz and concludes with Tame Impala, whose set seems to divide opinion, and but who seem perfectly natural headliners as their danceified psychedelia drifts across the night.
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Source: theguardian.com