Seattle singer-songwriter Grant Olsen (formerly of Arthur and Yu)’s Gold Leaves opened proceedings on the Yeti stage on Monday, and probably deserved a better slot. Being the opening act on the fourth day of a festival can’t be easy, but the soaring five-piece put on a good show for the few who’d made it out of their tents.
With Olsen’s Ian McCulloch-esque vocal sitting nicely over the band’s foreboding folk rock, Gold Leaves were quite happy to resort to a four-guitar approach, and the certainly offered a more interesting alternative for the small crowd who’d resisted the moribund Southern rock pastiche being offered by The Sheepdogs on the main stage.
