@dteowner
i'm slightly disappointed that you would label faithless as trip-hop. less than 10% of their songs you could call trip-hop. even morcheeba, who hates being labeled trip-hop, has far more trip hop songs than them. no, faithless is a meld of genres but if you are going to call them anything it would be dance music. but what sets them apart from nearly all dance music is not the quality, but maxi jazz (god-the grand oral diseminator). he is one of the 3 permanent members of the group, the other two focusing their amazing talents on the music. dido was also a member of the band on the first 2 albums and still came back to sing a few songs on the next two. also each album has lots of other guest vocalists/musicians on them who do stunning jobs. faithless, like radiohead another one of englands most respected bands, has also become highly political in their music since their 3rd albums.
@Danicek
we have some quite distinct ones, and others quite unimpressive. most of southern california is desert in fact. i'm sure there will be people at coachella from everyones home country here at rpgwatch. its grown quite popular, this year they've added a third day even. i'm sure there are other larger festivals around the world, but coachella gets alot of great bands together, new and old. also a lot of bands have done 'reunion' shows at coachella. its a shame that cocteau twins ended up not playing at the 2005 show...i probably would have gone otherwise.