garden music recently?

I'd get Nirvana to play just to annoy my neighbours who play god damn awful music all the time.

For a more chilled out set I would get Simon and garfunkel

and for a bit of chirpy dancing, maybe the Levellers early fun stuff.

Chalky

Terrible Love Songs Blog

I think I'd start with a songsmith troubadour but can't decide between Billy Bragg or James Martin. Will assume sunny day and go for Mr Martin.

Next on would be the dancing part - would love to have the Bhundi Boys really going for it.

Would end into darkness with Sigur Ros doing their thing.

First up while lunch is served

Acoustic set by Sandy Denny with guests Nick Drake and John Martyn.

2 pm
The Liverpool Scene and the Bonzos circa 1971

4 pm
Muddy Waters, Little Walter with Willie Dixon

6.00 pm
Fela Kuti

8.00pm
Tom Waits

10.00pm
Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash

Midnight
The Beatles perform the White Album (optional toilet break for Revolution # 9, me i'm crossing my legs and staying put at the front)

2am
Miles Davis, Gil Evans chillout to "Sketches Of Spain"

afterwards joined by Tony Williams, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock
and John Mclaughlin for a jam entitled "Bingham's Wig out"

5.30am Sun coming up as
Blue Nile performing "Walk Across the Rooftops" and "Hats"

7.00am Last drinks served, final smoke before bed as Nina Simone
dances unaccompanied with one of my spreading yews.

7.30 OK EVERYBODY OUT I'M OFF TO BED!!

Come again, see y'all next year!!

Sorry Doug B. You said three bands. Oh Well Enjoy the show!!

I'll forgive you if you'll send mr waits around for a midnight set on my lawn,oh and for god's sake keep an eye out for any fistycuffs involving mr.martyn.

Bingham's is sooo corporate these days, isn't it? They have indoor toilets and everything. And that Mastercard sponsorship deal, I mean, reaaallly. Meanwhile, grab your cheeseburgers, file left for the portable lavvy and raise your hands for (mind the neighbours) Rory Gallagher's acoustic set, followed by Neil Finn and friends (Johnny Marr, Tim Finn, Richard Thompson and Me) and, to finish, Warren Zevon and his all star band - Jim Keltner, Danny Thompson, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Kirsty MacColl, Lowell George and Mike Mills on (keyboards and BVs). Welcome your comperes, John Peel, Robyn Hitchcock and Jude Rogers. John Hiatt will take your orders at the big Mark Ellen Burger Van.

..not to play mind you, but to clean it up.
Do the shiftless drug addled lazy get some good.

First on, The Rockingbirds
Second on, Chilli willi and the Red Hot Peppers
Third on, The Flying Burrito Brothers (Last of the Red Hots line-up: yes, yes, I know that means no Gram, but it would, believe me, be much more reliable that way. With Gram he would drink too much and OD in the toilets. They'd still do all the right songs, trust me!)

Got a couple depending on the music style -

Rock

I'd kick off with -

Pink Floyd - why should they headline, miserable sods wont play together! :)

System of a Down - just so I can see the locals faces in the fading sunlight

Rage Against the Machine - I fell asleep when I saw then in the 90's. My youthfull arrogance thought they where rubbish, how wrong was I!

Mellow

Over the Rhine - the Word CD got me into these

Isobel Campbell and Mark Langan

Martha Wainwright (can I cheat and have her brother with her).

Soul/Blues

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - a cracking, current Soul singer. Well worth checking out

B B King - saw him on his last tour and he blew me away and it was his last UK tour. So this would be a chance to see him again

Aretha Franklin - the queen of soul herself, but none of that 80's rubbish she did!

I would start the evening with the duelling pianos of...
Keith Jarrett and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...

...and finish it with The Beatles playing the entire medley from Abbey Road

Anything in the middle would be filler