The first real highlight of today was in the name of Sixteen Horsepower, a quartet from Denver who have the Holy Scripture as their obligatory reading material. David Eugene Edwards, the youngest descendant of an old preacher's family, coloured the songs with his banjo, bandoneon and slide-guitar. That's why the sound tilted a bit too much to the late Jeffrey Lee Pierce, but all-in-all it sounded quite unique. The band drew from folk, blues, country and cajun, and added lyrics which were impregnated with swollen imagery, interpreted in such a penetrating manner that as an observer you almost get the impression to be part of exorcism. "Every man is evil/Every man's a liar" Edwards preached as an introduction to the profound "Black Soul Choir" and just for a moment I thought he was about to jump in the audience with Holy Water and crucifixes. Eventually it didn't get that far. But in every respect Sixteen Horsepower didn't steal their name and they didn't seem to be a 'one trick pony'.