6 for a ticket and £3 for students. Absolutely incredible, places the value of entertainiment into question when you can see three great acts and the best gig I've ever seen in my life. Hall two (a cross between a womb, that ship off Blake's 7 and Twin Peaks red room) was sold out for the show with a non-smoking crowd ranging from hipster record shop clerks, men with Gnome beards and Eight year old girls.

Six Organs of Admittance opened with a nervy set of elongated 'Fahey doing raga' style desert songs which managed to spiral beyond the song's melody touching base every once in a while only to spin off again. Managing to squeeze in a Rowland S. Howard cover didn't do him any harm either.

I wasn't as initially keen on next act Blues folk duo White Magic as much as I'd instantly loved Six Organs' Ben Chasny's playing, but their double gong and wine bottle percussion won me over. Their oddly dark narratives got a little lost with the reverb during the piano part of their set, but they played well despite a few technical issues. Mira Billotte's vocals brought Beth Orton to mind, that’s if Beth had never met Weatherall or gone all London on us.

Headliner Joanna Newsom's show was probably the single most amazing thing I have ever seen. Lyrically Bjork is the only sensible comparison and even then they're a million miles apart musically. But what they have is a heartbreaking attention to detail in their songs which catch you in the throat and leave you welling up in a roomful of people. I was standing next to Ben Chasny for the set and I meant to tell him how I'd enjoyed his performance but we were both utterly rapt. It seemed at times like there must be another hand playing that massive Harp at times, as she managed to not only slide across chords, pick notes and use it percussivley but she sang out in that otherworldly schoolgirl inner-self voice. Astounding really, I can't even begin to get it across to you and I'm still too blown away to even think about theorising about it.

Plus the Necks and Spiritualized are playing soon. Oh, and London Sinfonetta playing Cage and Warp songs alongside Plaid. Its no longer grim up North.