Reviews of Yazoo and Short Circuit

Reviews of Mute’s Short Circuit Festival has been coming in all week. I’ve collected a few of them, but send me links if you discover anyone else.

The Mute Short Circuit festival – a Side-Line Twitter impression
In this 2-part article series our chief editor Bernard Van Isacker describes his trip to the Mute 2 Days at the Short Circuit festival – which took place in London last week, May 13 and 14 – based on the tweets he sent out just before, during and right after the festival. (Side-Line magazine)

Electricity Is Love: Mute & Raster-Noton’s Short Circuit Triumph
This weekend Mute and Raster-Noton joined forces for Short Circuit at the London Roundhouse. Luke Turner was on hand to witness a very special Festival. (The Quietus)

Festival Frolics: Mute Rewiring Short Circuit 2011
Daniel Miller’s Mute Records has epitomised excellence and eccentricity for decades, and for artists yet to sign on the dotted line, it’s the line many would most want to sign. The Roundhouse, meanwhile, is questionably the London venue most artists would yearn to play, a Grade II listed hub of beastly beauty lumped on the Chalk Farm Road. (Dots & Dashes)

Mute celebrations full of surprises
This weekend-long celebration of indie label Mute was full of surprises – and not just in the costumes worn by many of its arty attendees. (This Is London)