Avoid that Florence like sticky shit.

My feelings on Skrillex are well documented.
Tainted my favourite genre.

LivDiv wrote:

My feelings on Skrillex are well documented.
Tainted my favourite genre.

He's my cousin.

Huh. When is that? I may be in.

The trnsmt festival shows how much cache t in the park used to have. What a load of garbage.

Got my tickets for IDLES on the Saturday for the above event. Tempted to go to the daytime stuff too in Camp & Furnace, but dunno whether I can't justify spending another 40 quid. They should have done day long tickets really...

I just realised I never answered Blocks. I started off old school with one of those camping mats that appear to be only for show, and it wrecked my back so I bought an air mattress.

They had a Co-op at Download. Fairly reasonably priced. I took a picture.



It had its own DJ as well.

Diluted Dante wrote:

I just realised I never answered Blocks. I started off old school with one of those camping mats that appear to be only for show, and it wrecked my back so I bought an air mattress.

Sensible boy. The only problem I have with air mattresses is that I tend to 'bounce' off them quite hard after a day & night of drinking. Bloody essential piece of kit though. As is a foot pump.

We're downgrading from a 6 man tent to a 4 this year.  Sick of carrying what is the equivalent weight of a dead man's body across a field twice a year. Not that I've ever carried a dead man's body across a field. But if I had to guess what it felt like, it felt like a dead weight.

And camping chairs. They are a godsend.  Not in the arena obviously, that's just annoying.

Self inflatable sausage-bag chairs were all the rage at last years Bluedot too.

I couldn't cope without a camping chair.

I've always had a 2 man job to myself, which is fine to carry. Going to invest in one of those big walking backpacks to try and be able to carry everything in one run.

I'll just leave this here because I understand we have some Mogwai fans. Doubt they've shared a headline slot with any of that lot before though!

So went to Primavera and have to say despite the first day being an absolute organisational shambles, queueing up to an hour for a drink, that includes water/soft drinks in the scorching hot Barcelona weather and overcrowding to the point of danger, it was resolved on the 2nd day (to an extent) and didn't ruin the enjoyment. I've been to a bunch of festivals in the past and getting older B&B accomodation is the way forward.

Nick Cave, Fontaines DC, Shame, Pavement, Idles and pretty much any Spanish girl band with loud guitars were the highlight. Absolutely going again as long as the line-up persists in being relatively excellent.

I saw Tim Burgess knowing none of his solo stuff and depsite him being pretty great on twitter, all his songs sound like theme tunes to kids TV shows, it was terrible in an amusing way. Straight after that saw Einsturdenzende NeuBauten, which couldn't have been a more extreme shift. Only band I was looking forward to that disappointed were The National, I really like about three albums, but found the majority of their set list incredibly dull.

I think this maybe one o fmy greatest moments at a festival. Mark E Smith doing his Gorillaz song, going to the wrong mic, getting all the words wrong, and just stumbling around like a leper, however it improves on the original greatly:

Not sure about Grace Jones and that Max guy, but the rest seems legit. Pavement and Leftfield on the same bill? Gadzooks!

I'd love to see Tinarwien, Pavement, Roisin Murphy, Leftfield, Young Fathers... then the announcement trails off into stuff that will be there, rather than acts. Unless Jedi Lightsaber Training is a band. I wonder what Legz Akimbo is?

This might be my chance to catch Roisins eye, where she realises I'm just the chap for her and i leave my wife and children for a tempestuous 9 month love affair.