Whoo hoo! Finally I make the time to sit down and update this thing about the other thing in which the foundry of this thing is based! (What a mess of nonsense that is!)
But seriously...I started this blog with the aspirations of going to Primavera Sound and spending time in Barcelona and blogging the whole thing... Though as per usual, things never go as planned. It's hard to blog without the appropriate tools... For now, all I have is afterhours at the office in which I work to spend hours alone wasting company electrictiy and company bandwidth.
Not entirely different from how I would be blogging normally here... just a few key differences:
- Instead of wasting electricity that I get for free because I work here, I would be stealing someone else's wireless and/or electricity, 440 watts of unadulterated theft.
-here: no porn, no torrents
:( :(
Though I have another grand dilusion of writing a Gonzo blog one day... IE spending great amounts of time with a microphone duck-taped to my head while wearing yellow tinted glasses, a dealer's cap, golf shoes and smoking a cigarette through a plastic filter and somehow using everything recorded to self publish into a steaming pile of blog.
Though unfortunately I'm not a part of the Acid generation, am in fact NOT a Doctor of Journalism nor do I have a desire to end up with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Thoes are the obsticles
Tally ho, on to primavera sound:
day 1 - Thurday
Who I saw:
The Microphones
To be honest was a little boring live... though absolutely excellent otherwise. Fantastic lyrics, calm strange sounds. For fans of Neutral Milk Hotel, The Mountain Goats or Devendra Banhart
Edan with guest: Dagha
Fucking Superstars man. Listen to this. Pure lyrical god; beautiful beautiful dorky rhymes about computers, star trek, great music and tits. boy do I love tits. Sampled from King Crimson to The Beatles.
LISTEN
Explosions in the Sky
my oh my oh my... There is nothing that can be said that describes an explosions in the sky show. In the state I was in combined with the tender tendrils of sound coming from this four piece.
EPIC journey would be one phrase, though cannot capture it. I was reduced to nothing, on the ground praying to ever see something as beautiful as what I was hearing. I couldn't even open my eyes, much less stand.Seeing this band is an essential must for anyone who calls themselves a human being. nuff said
Eric's Trip
was cool. nothing to write home about though. nice guys, nice music.
Midnight Juggernauts
almost as good as explosions...though not nearly as celestial or epic. Much more electronic, which takes alot away from the exclusivly human generated beautiful sound that explosions generates. Dancy. astral sounding. More vocal as well, but more of a voice as an instrument vocals rather than saying anything of any real value. Worth the time though.
Vampire Weekend
You need to pull your head out of your ass if you don't know this band. phenomenal. Rather poppy, and will be wildly successful if none of them die of drug overdose. Walking down the stairs into the deathtrap of a stage they played in, fighting tooth and nail the sea of people at 3 o'clock in the morning, still riding the waves of Explosions on my delicious pleasureboat, listening 'mansard roof' is one of the clearest and most beautiful memories (clearest mainly) I have of the entire festival (outside of the swirling pool of the festival in its entirity I have only a few).
Day 2 - Friday
Who I saw:
The Felice Brothers
phenomenal, especially you concider yourself kin to the southern way and/or love great americana folk music.
Subterranean Kids
Hardcore spanish-language punk. From their energy and stagepresence I thought they were crack incarnate. A+
Polvo
Another rock enstrumental ensemble. Another close religious call. goes to prove God Speaks through Rock Music.
Man Man
How to describe Man Man... Gyspy circus Viking-opra surf rock doo wop. that's the closest I'll come. Man Man is close to one of my favorite bands on the planet. I saw them twice at PS. FUCK YEAH. On top of that, I took a shot with Honus Honus. and I can't stop Listening to their new album Rabit Habits. FIND FIND FIND. If you don't believe me: listen to Top Drawer and The Ballad of Butterbean on their myspace (linked).
Dr. Octogon
okay, I'm black on the inside... but these guys are white on theirs. so it works out in the end, us being converses.
Why?
also great: just listen.
El Guincho
El Guinch is a new discovery of mine. Spanish DJ that also plays a drum (yes single drum) and sounds very much like Panda Bear from Animal Collective. Fantasitic, and makes me dance like snoopy.
Holy Fuck
Europe has turned me onto electronic, what can I say... Though I'm still a folk-hearted country boy.. I've been told that ladies love a man that can dance. And Holy Fuck is just one of thoes bands that can make me do just that.
Ellen Allen
Pure unadulterated German Eurotrash. don't tell anyone you did, but take a listen... I was there, so I had to go see what All the fuss was about... that's the only reason I swear.
Friday after the festival came to a close (7am) I was reduced to a rambling,drunken, bleary eyed loon that wanted nothing but water... and in order to find this water I made my way to the sea. Upon arrival I found a whole group of people in search of the same, though we were between a rock and a hard place. For a warm Morning, the water of the Mediterranean was excruciatingly cold, and was salt water and therefor anathema to thirst. So, as people in the condition we all were in usually do...we intermingled. I ended up walking a distance of about three miles down the beach with an english DJ that runs Rebel Radio and his girlfriend. We had stopped at a bar clearly inhabited by raging drunks. (who else is at the bar at 8 o'clock in the morning drinking wine by the jug?) breakfast for us included a bottle of red wine and 1/3 each of a red candy heart. and then, madness ensues. We all wound up in the Parc de Cuitidella, which houses the spanish version of the Arc de Triomf. These trying times are a vauge blur of pedantic electronica, wrestling with a dog, chasing cars, chasing DJs, and sleeping for hours in the park.
Day 3 - Saturday
Who I saw:
Times New Viking
see EITS and Polvo
Silver Jews
Originally a side project started by Steven Malkmus, great band.
Deerhunter
Shellac
Les Savy Fav
Animal Collective
The only band here that could rival the sheer power of Explosions in the sky. The Lights, The music... holy shit were these guys good. The second 'Fireworks' started, I was in my happy place... well to be honest I was already in a happy place. But THAT was the entire moment I had been waiting for. That very instant justified all of the money, the killing, the drug trafficking (jokes, jokes, Jokes all around...save the money).
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
Stephen malkmus is a genius. a fucking genius.
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3 comments:
Parker. Explain to me why you did not go see Portishead. I am so jealous that you were even in the same country as that band. Sigh.
i'm glad you felt that way about eits. it was a like a lucid dream. most of the time i just closed my eyes and moved along with the music.
that's the only concert i've ever been to where i was actually sad it was over. i can't wait to see them again.
i just recently got into deerhunter, interesting stuff, i'm not sure if it would translate live, especially in a large venue. i've been hearing a lot of stuff about vampire weekend, times new viking, and holy fuck, but i've yet to check them out.
outside of stephen malkmus, why?, animal collective and silver jews, i've never heard/heard of any of those acts o_O i'll have to check them out.
3 days of mayhem, eh? sounds like a hell of a time.
how goes the job, bangin' out 'dem XMLZZZZZZ?
check check check...'I put links to all the myspaces in the blooggzzz
and portishead.. I did catch some.. was BOOORRRIIINNNNGGGGG
Don't care for portishead anymore after that.
sooorryy Ang.
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