Voilà!: Hailing a Cab to a Festival

You've got to get around. We all do. Ever since the dawn of time, we've been forced to deal with our necessity for travel. Whether for demand or for leisure, some of our greatest exploits - from the first invention of the wheel, to steam powered automobiles, larger locomotives, gasoline powered cars, planes, et cetera - are defined by our desire to get from one place to the other.

Musicians travel, oh yes, they certainly do. Here, there, everywhere; whether it's touring around their home country, traveling abroad, or just romping about around their town, music is constantly in motion as our favourite artists gadabout. And where music is, vehicles of transportation follow. And where musical modes of transportation are concerned, the best of them all would undoubtedly be the hailed cabs taking the team of the Black Cab Sessions all around England.

Oh, those cooky blokes from the London are getting well know for their mobile live performances of all wondrous sorts of musical troubadours, performing grandiose, unique, catch-it-now-or-you've-missed-it live performances in the back seat of the good ol' fashioned English cabbie-car. But Black Cab Sessions has lately been all about expansion. Besides a huge shift in website design, the Black Cab Sessions has extended the reach (and no doubt the price of their fares that they rack up) beyond the limitations of London.

The Black Cab Sessions has been debuting several special festival-styled Sessions, as they guide their cabs to some of the great English festivals, still featuring some of the most eclectic and wonderful musicians you could ever hope to hear performing live in a car. They started a year ago by attending the Green Man Festival. But this year, Black Cab Sessions is going mental by following the music to the Secret Garden Party, Field Day Festival, and The Big Chill. At every event, they met some great musicians, who all offered very wicked performances, as only you could expect. Besides some unique bands I haven't caught wind of, including Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Official Secrets Act, and Wildbirds and Peacedrums (who somehow fit an entire drum kit into the cab...), there are many acts that fall straight into Voilà!'s listening range, including Au Revoir Simone, Calexico, Final Fantasy, Bombay Bicycle Club, and Noah and the Whale.

Unfortunately, because of that aforementioned recent update on the part of Black Cab Sessions, I'm no longer able to feature their videos on Violà!. But, that shouldn't stop you from checking out any of those wonderful musicians' performances for the Black Cab Sessions festival recordings! As consolation, I'll provide links below to every festival performance on the Black Cab Session, so you can visit them all at your own pace. I'll also post Fanfarlo's old performance, because it's just so cool, and Voilà! ♥'s Fanfarlo (as if that weren't made extremely obvious). Let excitement ensue, readers!