Scarborough Beached Festival 2005 Sunday By Michelle Dee (8/9) By Michelle Dee Photographs by Roland Standaert and Michelle Dee

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I felt it was particularly telling when Graham Rhodes; host, compere of Beached 2005 and creator of upforit.tv and numerous other music initiatives such as DIY Collective and Soundwave on Radio York spoke out against Yorkshire Arts Council for not supporting the festival. Once again this is an example of, local music snubbed by those with the ability and funds to finance it. Thus helping to perpetuate the deeply damaging idea that local music is not deserving of funding and is therefore not recognised and accepted as art.

This attitude is typical all over the country and in a time when Tony Blair is apparently backing independent record labels, Arts Councils are refusing to promote, finance or even recognise the huge musical talents within their own counties.

After this brief hiatus and the last of what must have been over fifty or more kit changes for the stage crew, it was on to the headliners and the final act of the music marathon, the Bluetones. The London band was rocketed to stardom when their single Slight Return shot to number one in 1995. They followed that up with more blisteringly good pop songs such as Bluetonic then Cut Some Rug and Marblehead Johnson the following year. Mark Morriss lead singer walks on stage so laidback he is almost horizontal, remarking on how lovely the moon looks.

This causes the crowd to take their eyes of the stage for a brief second to gaze at the jewelled bay, bathed in the beauty of the full yellow moon. The songs were all delivered in the self assured manner that he has been entertaining us with for the past ten years. Then strutting like a man possessed. Sliding across the stage on the balls of his shoes. Filled with the swagger of rock n roll nonchalance, eyes raised to the sky, leaning at a rakish angle on the mic stand, he pauses. He looks straight out at the Blue army: a moniker given to Bluetones fans probably by some journo years before, and launches into the acoustic slower song Flower on the fountainhead.

He appears younger tonight than he did last year at the Adelphi in Hull. Good musicians seem to age just as well as good music do. Amid the set, he briefly leaves the stage only to return carrying a glass and a bottle of Cognac he sets his booty down on the drum visor then spins around in the middle of the stage.

This appears to be a cue for a tight bass and drum combo and everything is bathed in spectacular pink light. Keep the home fires Burning follows ending with Mark doing a smart bow to his hundreds if not thousands of adoring fans. The Basement song he introduces as a song for anyone who has ever lived on their own a situation he finds most agreeable adding that no-one should be made to share a bathroom with another.

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