Primavera Part I
After around six and a half months of suggestion from Marika that I write on the blog it happens today.
Last night and early this morning we had the first day of the three day long Primavera Sound festival, it seemed to be a warm-up day as only half of the stages were running and the attendance was a lot lower than we had expected. Even so the lineup was amazing and the venue is indeed something to behold. The night started off with a performance by the Drones, I haven't seen such a drunk man sing and play guitar in a long time but the pretty much blew me away. Marika and I had both seen them play once before in Melbourne and hadn't cared for them too much, well perhaps it was a little 'Aussie Pride' due to being away for so long but this time they rocked us.
After the Drones played a somewhat self indulgent 30 min set-ender it was time for Motorhead. they were pretty funny. They sounded as huge as you would imagine, with all the cliched metal moves and crowd jeers. Highlight was when they played R.A.M.O.N.E.S. as I was rushing back from the toilet.
Next up was Why? who might have been the most impressive of the whole night. They are a three piece band these days with one hell of a multi-percussionist (left hand side of the photo) who was a stage show in himself. The crowd loved it and sung along as best they could.
After a few pieces of pizza and and some coffe 2:15am rolled around, along with it came Yo La Tengo. Well the crowd went absolutley nuts, most of them knowing the words to all the tunes they played. We were right up the front for the first few tunes but it got pretty intensly crowded and extremely smoky. Marika and I are still recovering from some flu that went around our tour bus a week ago so the cigarette smoke was pretty nasty. We enjoyed the rest of the set from a little further back but we still had a pretty good view.
All in all a very enjoyable evening, made it back to the hostel by 4:15am.
Now we are off to do it all again tonight. The Flaming Lips, Dinosaur Junior and Sleater Kinney should all be good times.
Will report back again soon.
Hope all are well and looking forward to being home soon.
Last night and early this morning we had the first day of the three day long Primavera Sound festival, it seemed to be a warm-up day as only half of the stages were running and the attendance was a lot lower than we had expected. Even so the lineup was amazing and the venue is indeed something to behold. The night started off with a performance by the Drones, I haven't seen such a drunk man sing and play guitar in a long time but the pretty much blew me away. Marika and I had both seen them play once before in Melbourne and hadn't cared for them too much, well perhaps it was a little 'Aussie Pride' due to being away for so long but this time they rocked us.
After the Drones played a somewhat self indulgent 30 min set-ender it was time for Motorhead. they were pretty funny. They sounded as huge as you would imagine, with all the cliched metal moves and crowd jeers. Highlight was when they played R.A.M.O.N.E.S. as I was rushing back from the toilet.
Next up was Why? who might have been the most impressive of the whole night. They are a three piece band these days with one hell of a multi-percussionist (left hand side of the photo) who was a stage show in himself. The crowd loved it and sung along as best they could.
After a few pieces of pizza and and some coffe 2:15am rolled around, along with it came Yo La Tengo. Well the crowd went absolutley nuts, most of them knowing the words to all the tunes they played. We were right up the front for the first few tunes but it got pretty intensly crowded and extremely smoky. Marika and I are still recovering from some flu that went around our tour bus a week ago so the cigarette smoke was pretty nasty. We enjoyed the rest of the set from a little further back but we still had a pretty good view.
All in all a very enjoyable evening, made it back to the hostel by 4:15am.
Now we are off to do it all again tonight. The Flaming Lips, Dinosaur Junior and Sleater Kinney should all be good times.
Will report back again soon.
Hope all are well and looking forward to being home soon.
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