Fucking awesome weekend. Saw some great bands and a few comedians, plus a couple of Ross Noble's 50 sets. Clear musical highlights for me were YACHT, Slow Club and Sigur Ros, which was one of the greatest things I've ever seen. It was too good when the marching band came on during Hufupukar.
Non musical highlights included Rich Hall in the comedy tent, Robin Ince's Book Club + Ross Noble on Thursday night (shame I couldn't see Ross' proper set but the tent was far far far too small) and Pappy's Fun Club who were shambolic as fuck but so funny.
Rich Hall..
... was great, best comedy act I saw on the weekend
He's really great ain't he.
I think I'm gonna get tickets for him in Norwich in December.
did you see otis lee crenshaw too?
(hall's alter ego)
he had audience leaving that set as in his own. as usual, they got accosted by by crenshaw/hall when they left. the first one who tried to escape, when asked what their name was simply replied "dan"
Hahaha
Genius.
Dan was at our campsite last night
He's like a Welsh version of Jesus.
Rich Hall was immense.
oh yeah!
I tried to teach myself contact juggling with his MASSIVE BALL.
he ended up at ours as well
nicest guy EVER. maybe.
I queued for tea behind Warren Ellis and Seasick Steve!
This may be a highlight of my life to date...
Really?
That's pretty fucking cool. Did they have some kind of beard off? Is it true Seasick Steve made racist comments during his set?
Didn't see his set so I don't know.
It was definitely the beardiest situation I've encountered though.
i saw him
he didnt. no racism there.
he was ace, one of my weekend highlights i think.
Where did you hear
that from?
Nigga Jim
Margus Brigstocke's Early Edition
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
I queued for a veggie burger
behind Marcus Brigstocke!
was fun
rich hall and frankie boyle were fantastic, as were elbow, sigur ros, murder by death, blondie, grammatics and exploits of elaine. plus one of the irrepresebles songs was the most beautiful piece of music ive ever heard.
didnt make the DiS meet, passed out around 5:30pm on Friday and when i awoke it was 12:15 and raining. wonion.
Sigur ros.
That was WOW.
The marching band coming on, the whole of hoppipolla, and the explosions of confetti during gobbledigook are things I will never forget. Truly stunning.
Pretty much everything musical on Sunday seemed pointless after that....except Blondie's fantastic performance (ignoring Debbie Harry's attempt at dancing)
Yes Yes Yes!
The marching band coming on in Hufupukar is the defining moment of that festival for me.
brass band
i thought they entered during the end of Se Lest?
Pretty sure it was Hufupukar.
Oh how hilarious!
It turns out that they are both the same song!
hahahaah
i was going to say i had no idea what hufapukar was!
I thought
the dancing was just alzheimers kicking in ^_^
Best festival/weekend of my life so far
x
I was watching the twilight sad (who ruled)
while leaning against the fence at the side of the main stage and then seasick steve wandered out of nowhere and sat down against the fence about 10 feet away from me. I would have said something to him but i've already met the guy before and he looked pretty tired. He still had quite a few people go and say hello to him though.
Rich Hall was the only comedy act I bothered to see because that tent is stupidly still far too small (what happened to them apparently making it bigger this year) and he was funny as hell. That whole audience love arc thing he had going on was great.
Sigur Ros, Okkervil River, Interpol, Broken Records, Slow Club - all pretty amazing
oh another thing
I kept overhearing people talking about how great Joanna Newsom was but she kept forgetting the words which I thought was kinda rubbish. I guess i'm prejudiced though since I don't get what makes Ys so great.
i slept through joanna newsom
woke up at half 1 and could've punched myself in the face for such negligence.
Moron
By far the best thing all weekend - new songs were amazing too
interpol set
anyone?
Off the top of my head
Pioneer
Slow Hands
PDA
NARC
C'Mere
No I In Threesome
The Lighthouse
Not Even Jail
Mammoth
Rest My Chemistry
Obstacle 1
Evil
Roland
---
NYC
Heinrich
Stella
So basically, by a long way the best thing to ever happen ever. The rain during Roland made it.
bah
they pretty much played everything except the encore at the T in the Park last week.
actually crying about missing NYC and Stella at a festival 20 minutes from my house but people fucked me over so I couldn;t go.
that was awesome...
i'm so tired now...
highlights:
ross sutherland (poet)
Arnab Chanda (comedian)
disco shed
the aliens
yacht
thomas tantrum
breeders
black lips
okkervil river
interpol
annoyances:
kids during volta. fucking idiots.
tellier's v.short set.
best thing ever:
jack getting yannis to do a shout out for me during foals. fucking awesome.
i thought black lips were amazing, even though my fucking useless phone wouldnt let me get my pictur
Okkervil river were also very good.
Glasvegas were very disappointing and seemed totally tuneless.
Beggars were brilliant and they are probably the sexiest band ever.
Glad
I didn't waste my time seeing Glasvegas, they're just so uninspiring
who got to see
the irrepresibles? 'In This Shirt' was the highlight of my festival, and maybe any festival ever. walking past at random to see them playing on the lake, i nearly teared up. the recorded version doesnt really do it justice, but still:
http://www.myspace.com/theirrepressibles
Yes
They were great, really beautiful.
Saw them
twice, no less :] How right you are!
saw them in the woods
and by the lake. great both times.
SUPER HIGHLIGHTS
Sigur Ros
Rich Hall / Otis Crenshaw
Blondie
Errors
Howling Bells
Elbow
Disco Shed
Joanna Newsom
Lykke Li
Tim & Sam
Pretty awesome all round. Met some lovely people and had a grand time.
was it just me...
or did TMV not play a single track from their first LP? WTF?
you fucking idiot
so what? Where's the law that says they should? They're on the verge of their 5th album, not surprising they don't play earlier stuff. People who make comments like this fuck me off so much.
Actually though, they do usually play drunkship of lanterns at the end but the set was about an hour less than they usually have. (and it was fucking amazing)
so what?
It's one of my favourite albums of all time. I saw them play it back-to-back at the Electric Ballroom, one of the four times I saw them in a year.
I was demanding that they played anything, I just thought it was strange, for a headlining band not to play a SINGLE song from their first record. Especially as it's regarded their greatest achievent.
Apology accepted you fucking cunt.
what apology?
people who make complaints like you just did are morons, full stop. Its one of my favourites ever too, but they have made alot of music since then.
Well,
The Mars Volta are shit and you're both wrong. Now both of you can be happy :]
hear hear
sigur ros
shat all over tmv
sigur ros
make me yawn for days
Why am I a moron for pointing out..
..something I was a little dissapointed by. I really enjoyed the set. If you read my other post, it was in my highlights of my festival.
I was just pointing out a FACT about the set. In actualy fact, I didn't even pass judgement, or complain.
Get off your high horse you fool. You must be such a prick if you react like that to a simple statement about a bands set.
that was so much fun
Sigur Ros were definitely my highlight. I'd never heard them before, they were on after Elbow so I thought I'd just hang around and listen for a few songs but my friend and I were transfixed. Can anyone tell me what the first song was? Loved it. The whole thing was just magical, and the confetti at the end, the marching band...awesome.
Blondie were awesome, nice to see Okkervil River and Elbow, and I thought Nada Surf were great - maybe not the most exciting, original musical highlight but I thought it was just good, unpretentious, enjoyable music played by some pretty nice guys. And they played Inside Of Love, which was pretty ace.
Franz Ferdinand were pretty meh, the friend I was with is a huge fan so we went, but I found them really pretty unexciting. I heard lots of people after saying they weren't impressed either.
I found quite a lot of the smaller bands kind of disappointing. I know there were some great ones, but there just seemed to be such a multitude of cut-copy indie twee cutesy boy-girl duos and the like...didn't do a lot for me.
Non-musical: LUKE WRIGHT. Every morning in the poetry tent. I was absolutely blown away. He was...incredible, really, such amazing poetry and performance. Usually I hate hearing people read their own poetry aloud, but he was something else. Anyone else catch him?
Tim Minchin was the comedy highlight, the ginger song was fantastic. Bill Bailey was a bit shite though.
Great weekend generally :D
oh also: new york fund
seemed pretty cool.
AND AND
"Transatlanticism" at the end of Death Cab's set. Ben Gibbard seemed plagued with sound problems which (fair enough) seemed to piss him off quite a bit, but by the end...what a gorgeous way to close.
first song=
svefn g englar, from the album agaetis byrjun.
Nada Surfs setlist was INCREDIBLE. i thought it would be all new stuff
did no one watch Grinderman?
fucking awesome
great weekend
oh man yeah
I was only there so I could get near the front for Sigur Ros (mission: SUCCESSFUL!) but they totally ruled. Nick Cave is ace, i'm going to have to check out their album.
Grinderman
weren't on before Sigur Ros. They weren't even on the same day; Elbow played directly before Sigur Ros!
ok interpol then
that mission to get to the front was also succesful
I was bored out of my mind waiting through Elbow. The lead singer reminds me of a darts player
Ricky Gervais
with a Mancunian accent. Not a fan of them on record but enjoyed them nuchly here.
Also surprised not to see any love here for Gravenhurst, Murder By Death, Glasvegas and Those Dancing Days, who all played quite immense sets, as did the Twilight Sad on the main stage yesterday.
muchly
Was looking forward to Gravenhurst
but was disappointed that he wasn't with a band.
thats probably because
murder by death and glasvegas sucked
We thought he was a bit Johnny Vegas
Lucky
man :]
I swear I was just surrounded by children and middle aged people insistant on talking about their jobs "back in real life"... SIGUR made me cry though... the marching band seems to be everyone's favourite Latitude moment :]
damn you!
did nada surf play stuff off let go? paper boats? that may have reduced me to tears if id been there
re sigur ros
setlist found on their messageboard:
Svefn-g-englar
Glosoli
Se Lest
Vid Spilum Endalaust
Hoppipolla
Med Blodnasir
Festival
Saeglopur
Inní mér syngur vitleysingur
Hafsol
Gobbledigook
----
Popplagio
AMAZING basically.
joanna newsom, elbow and johnny foreigner all fantastic too.
yeah
luke wright's amazing. Did you see him do that Camping Dad poem? Cracks me up every time.
hah, yeah
that was brilliant. All of his stuff was just absolutely ace.
just got back
So much fun, easily one of the best UK festival.
Highlights for me were:
Interpol
Blondie
Johnny Flynn
White Lies
Amongst other highlights, one of them for me was seeing
Paul Hawkins walking up the main stage field, whilst chatting to Alex in ciderland (dis namedropping), and then catching Pauls set at the Lake Stage.
heh!
Wish Stewart Lee hadn't been running late so I could've seen more. Singing from within the audience is always a nice touch I think!
Hai,
It was damn funny wasn't it!
Had a great time.
What time did you get back then?
well
some total fuck packet strolled over my tent at about 5 in the morning which knackered it up real good. I left site shortly after and got home about 9 I guess. I love driving when I'm sleep deprived.
But I had such a good time. Excellent festival.
There were a few dickheads there.
We spent 2 hours queueing up for the coach next to four of them. Seriously the most annoying bunch of subhuman scum I have ever layed eyes on.
Sorry you had trouble dude!
Twas a great festival though.
Certainly were
Since when did Interpol attract a "lads" folowing? They did at Latitude. Same with Franz Ferdinand, although maybe that's to be expected...
What a great festival that was!
Highlights for me (though i didnt see many bands) were Sigur Ros, Elbow, Deatch Cab, Interpol and the cider house and the woods. Low points were The Breeders who were just fucking awful!
Really great festival atmosphere I thought. No one shouting "bollocks" and everyone ws just amazingly friendly, which is the way it should be.
I heard a bit of bollocks chanting
Not good enough. I was going to find whoever was doing it and ram a tent peg down their throats but I couldn't be bothered getting up.
Really?
Perhaps they were shouting it just to be ironic. In a way of trying to point out how different it is from Reading Festival or something.
Nah, perhaps not. Ah well, it was certainly not as prevelant than at other places and in comparison to other festivals it was very good value for money with great attention to detail.
Breeders? Awful?
Sure you were watching the right band?
It was just dirge!
Really really dull stuff, to my ears anyway.
I'm not a massive Breeders fan, but I did
enjoy the set.
Same here
I thought they were quite playful and fun.
Yeah, I enjoyed it. I was surprised, I thought they would annoy me
but I found myself singing along to a couple of numers from the last splash. Even Cannonball!
It was a pleasure seeing all of you guys too!
We only found out we were playing on Thursday and didn't really get a chance to tell anyone before everyone had already gone to the festival so it was a relief to see some friendly faces in the audience!
I really enjoyed your set
I was at the front in a monkey hat, sunglasses and a green hood. I got some footage on my camera too.
I think I remember you.
Am glad you enjoyed it!
alex in ciderland
was probably the most fmaous person I saw
*infamous
Thanks though!