Melt! festival 09 (Page 2 of 2)

@ teknob, yes - I needed a break while Aphex Twin was playing, because I was on my feets since morning and I felt a bit like an old daddy in the end. so I took place near a crane with a good view. sorry. the rain sucked. and the sound was bombastic! A shame I forgot my earplugs in the tent, so I was not so happy with the tissue, better than nothing. But it was another reason why I left earlier from the crowd.

saturday (my free day) I met some berliners and I joined some of the indie / electro bands as well. First concert was Wedding Present - I never saw them playing live, and I thought it was nice. Filthy Dukes were surprisingly not bad. Mediengruppe, Bloc Party, Aninmal Collective were really not my thing, but it was okay just to have some fun with my dudes, but maybe it was just because of my friends` weed.    I liked DJ Hell at the Big Wheel.
sunday was not much to do, so I checked out some of the bands too, mostly a few songs only. Shir Khan, Glasvegas, Polarkreis 18  -  and UK heroes Oasis.
I was so happy that there was some space in the car for me to take me back home in the same night. otherwise I planned to go home monday afternoon / evening. But festival life is heavy, even if I had some more comfort (warm water, real toilets, shower, nice catering) in the backstage area. I am still in recorvering modus, hehe.
was nice to meet you guys. I am sure we will meet somewhere soon again.

wow, they are still performing? i used to love those guys in the 80's.
their 'ukrainian folk sessions' recorded for john peel was amazing. well at least it was back then. must try and dig it out and see how it stands against time.

they also did a cool lp called 'seamonsters', produced by steve albini.
was a major departure from the frenetic pace of 'bizarro' which had all those crazy velvets style guitar workouts at the end of each track

glad you enjoyed them capitan

Im a bit surprised about Tiga too, I liked the set...shame that they already stopped at 2am on sunday night...so we went to the sleepless floor and joined some drug addicts dancing to minimal beats...brrr
but then we saw like 30 random people doing a garbage-can-drum-session or something...they took like 20 garbage cans in front of the entrance and then did an hour of improvised drum beats....really really weird but somehow it rocked, hehe

It's good you've enjoyed the festival.

Line-up looks always the same. The favorite artists from Spex, Groove and Intro.

really? I thought there was lots of english. really young english

english and dutch and spanish

nah, it sold out