22-July-2013
Slieve Donard Resort & Spa 
Newcastle, Northern Ireland

via Kjell D.

Setlist (Thanks Mike S.)
Coney Island
Celtic Excavation
Into the Mystic
In the Garden
What Am I Living For
Playhouse
Sometimes We Cry
Going Down to Monte Carlo
Retreat and View
Haunts of Ancient Peace
Common One
Enlightenment
Thanks For The Information
Baby Please Don't Go/Rock Island Line/Boogie Chillin
Help Me
Gloria

21-July-2013
Slieve Donard Resort & Spa 
Newcastle, Northern Ireland

via Art S.

Setlist (Thanks Mike S.)
Coney Island
Higher Than The World
Stranded
Pay The Devil
What Am I Living For
Open The Door (To Your Heart)
Have I Told You Lately
Stormy Monday/Lonely Avenue
Sometimes We Cry
Playhouse
Going Down to Monte Carlo
Retreat and View
Fame
Too Many Myths
Take Your Hand Outta My Pocket
Whenever God Shines His Light
Help Me
Gloria

18-July-2013
Hebridean Celtic Festival 
Stornoway, Scotland

The Scotsman (source)

Review: Hebridean Celtic Festival, Isle of Lewis

LIKE MANY UK festivals, the Heb Celt was due a sunny one, and the 18th outing for the Western Isles’ flagship event got that with bells on.

For the afternoon acts, in fact, the experience looked somewhat disconcerting: the festival’s picturesquely tented, tree-lined, two-stage main arena is constructed more with lashing rain than baking heat in mind, capable of sheltering much of the weekend’s annual 15000-ish attendance - but with most folk recumbently soaking up sounds and rays outside, playing the vast main marquee in particular must have felt like addressing an almost literal black hole. It seemed fractionally to be getting to Manchester five-piece The Travelling Band, as they amped up volume and tempo towards the end of their teatime set, but a distinctly frustrated edge to their bellowed exhortation, “Time to wake up!”, was understandable, given their soulful, soaraway anthems and big catchy choruses’ adroitness - underpinned by classily diverse guitar work - at hitting the festival sweet spot.

The same was achieved for most of the faithful assembled at the feet of headliner Van Morrison, whose slickly efficient 90-minute set, anchored by an excellent 9-piece band, roamed across the rootsy, bluesy, soul/jazz-inflected territory on which his curmudgeonly legend is founded, wrapping up with a string of classic cuts - Moondance, Brown-Eyed Girl, Gloria - before The Man exited stage left at exactly 10pm. No encore, natch, but apparently this was him positively overflowing with bonhomie, according to the misanthropic standards in which he’s somehow indulged.

Capercaillie’s appearance the next night was both marvellously, movingly apt - at a hugely successful Gaelic-rooted festival, whose contemporary cultural context the band has been so pivotal in shaping - and absolutely thrilling, while Saturday bill-toppers The Red Hot Chilli Pipers comprehensively demonstrated the awesome force of precision-machined, unapologetically populist Celtic showbiz. The similarly various likes of Lau; dream-team US/UK pairing Darrell Scott and Danny Thompson; wittily unpredictable Dundee rising stars Anderson, McGinty, Webster, Ward & Fisher; sizzling latter-day stringband The Hot Seats, and brilliantly wayward local bard Iain Morrison featured elsewhere in a characteristically select yet wide-ranging Heb Celt programme, highlighting the curatorial skill that’s always been its fundamental strength, whatever the weather.
-SUE WILSON

17-July-2013
Larmer Tree Festival 
Salisbury, England

Setlist
Avalon Of The Heart
Got To Go Back
The Mystery
Days Like This
Baby Please Don't Go
Here Comes The Night
Moondance
What Am I Living For
Playhouse
Tupelo Honey
Open The Door (To Your Heart)
Sometimes We Cry
Brown Eyed Girl
In The Garden
Haunts Of Ancient Peace
Whenever God Shines His Light
Help Me
Gloria

07-July-2013
Cornbury Festival 
Oxfordshire, England

Setlist
Only A Dream
Precious Time
Baby Please Don't Go
Days Like This
Moondance
Jackie Wilson Said
Real Real Gone
Here Comes the Night
Have I Told You Lately
Help Me
My Pagan Heart
I Can't Stop Loving You
Crazy Love
Whenever God Shines His Light
Brown Eyed Girl
Gloria