Much better last night. They put some extra water points in and the bar queues were manageable. It used to be that you were nervous smuggling drugs into a festival but last night i managed to get 3 water bottles past the security. Titchjuicy 1 The Man 0.
Utter craziness that they won't let you bring more than one small bottle.
Anyway- Weyes Blood was sublime. And she covered Air That I Breathe by The Hollies, which was one of my Dad's favourite songs- so it all got a bit emotional.
Fontaines DC- while I can take or leave them on record, credit where it's due- they owned the main stage. Had a massive crowd too for an evening set.
Highlight was Little Simz though. Not on main stage but on one of the bigger other stages. She blew the lid off the place. Crowd went nuts for her too. She has it all as a live performer- massive charisma, wore a huge smile the whole time and the crowd really fed off that (actually they fed off eachother), and just so much skill as an MC. One more decent album and she'll be headlining Glastonbury.
Left pretty early cos there was nothing late I was itching to see.
The vibe was just so much better though.
Tonight's menu looks something like...
Jenny Hval Mavis Staples Black Country New Road Nick Cave Gorillaz Tyler The Creator
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I’ve had tickets to see Mavis staples twice, and was unable to go on both occasions (once because my daughter was born the day before the show, the other due to COVID). Hope she’s as great as they say.
Cool garageish festival by the end of August, last minute they've had to swap King Gizzard and Dan Deacon for Dino Jr and Viagra Boys. Not bad but I was looking forward to the former ones quite more
As a warm up I've been listening to PUP, Chad Vangaalen, Metz, Battles and some Spanish bands I never cared about
Joyeria/Moreish idles @ sebright arms Kamasi Washington/Ezra Collective @ troxy Green Man Festival Nick Cave/Sleaford Mods @ Victoria Park Bright Eyes @ hammersmith apollo Dele Sosimi @ paper dress vintage Dummy @ studio 9294 Robocobra Quartet @ lexington Dead Letter @ 100 club Lemonheads @ roundhouse Billy Childish @ Rochester The Waeve @ Lafayette Lemonheads @ Norwich (MAYBE) Egyptian Blue @ Oslo The Cavemen @ The Shacklewell Regressive Left @ Lexington Pavement @ the roundhouse Art Brut @ Heaven Tim Ten Yen or Tom Vek, maybe both if the times work out Bodega @ Islington Assembly hall PVA @ Village Underground BCNR @ the ICA
Joyeria/Moreish idles @ sebright arms Kamasi Washington/Ezra Collective @ troxy Green Man Festival Nick Cave/Sleaford Mods @ Victoria Park Bright Eyes @ hammersmith apollo Dele Sosimi @ paper dress vintage Dummy @ studio 9294 Robocobra Quartet @ lexington Dead Letter @ 100 club Lemonheads @ roundhouse Billy Childish @ Rochester The Waeve @ Lafayette Lemonheads @ Norwich (MAYBE) - My god, well all know nothing good comes out of travelling upto Norwich. You might go bald or even worse start listening to Keane. Egyptian Blue @ Oslo The Cavemen @ The Shacklewell Regressive Left @ Lexington Pavement @ the roundhouse Art Brut @ Heaven Tim Ten Yen or Tom Vek, maybe both if the times work out Bodega @ Islington Assembly hall PVA @ Village Underground BCNR @ the ICA
Just got tickets to see the manics and suede on a co-headline bill in toronto in November. That's a nice convenient way to knock two big acts off my 'never seen them live' list. Not much else happening between now and the end of the year, alas.
September 17 - John Fogerty/Sarah Harmer September 27 - RINGO October 21 - Jim Bryson November 24 - Manics/Suede
had to bin off quite a lot of stuff in norwich i would have liked to have done in october due to a mates wedding and stag clashing and meaning i'm away a fair bit. have to be a responsible parent some of the time at least...
11th oct - lemonheads @ epic studios norwich 20th oct - stone foundation @ epic studios norwich 22nd oct - pavement and richard dawson @ camden roundhouse 1st nov - bodega @ epic studios norwich 12th nov - the reytons @ norwich waterfront 18th nov - hallan @ voodoo daddys norwich 9th dec - nuha ruby ra and maria uzor @ voodoo daddys norwich 17th jan - the cool greenhouse @ voodoo daddys norwich 28th jan - NOASIS @ norwich waterfront 2nd feb - the brian jonestown massacre @ epic studios norwich 4th march - suede @ norwich uea 18th april - the zombies @ epic studios norwich 26th april - aldous harding @ norwich waterfront 27th may - the wedding present @ norwich arts centre 7th june - arctic monkeys @ carrow road stadium norwich
I haven't got much in the diary. I need to remedy this.
Sept 27th- Dummmy, Luxembourg Oct 10th- The Stranglers, Luxembourg Nov 13th- The Libertines, Luxembourg Dec 11th- Nada Surf, Luxembourg Jan 13th- Belle & Sebastian, Luxembourg Jan 21st- The Delgados, TCOTU Feb 4th- Weyes Blood, Paris
I was trying to score some tickets for Arctic Monkeys / Fontaines DC in Boston next year and the price is fucking insane. A pile of cunts bought up the tickets and reselling them on ticketmaster.
I also hate how they have so many presale events now to get tickets. Just open the fucking queue to everyone at the same time and let them duke it out for tickets.
I was trying to score some tickets for Arctic Monkeys / Fontaines DC in Boston next year and the price is fucking insane. A pile of cunts bought up the tickets and reselling them on ticketmaster.
I also hate how they have so many presale events now to get tickets. Just open the fucking queue to everyone at the same time and let them duke it out for tickets.
FFS.
I was going to get tickets for montreal and decided against it for the same reason. Fuck that, I saw them open for oasis in 2006, it was all downhill from there.
I was supposed to see the manics and suede in toronto last week but had to go to a work conference in another city instead. But I'm getting a bit of a makeup, as ride and the charlatans are playing a joint show in montreal in february, where ride is doing 'nowhere' and the charlies are doing 'between 10th and 11th'...which seems an odd choice for a full-album show, but I imagine they'll do 'the only one I know' in the encore, so that'll be nice.
