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sonicl 12.11.2006 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Iain
Also, sorry I didn't say more than hello to some of you fellow board members...

Same here. I ended up totally confused over who I'd met and who was who.

Iain 12.11.2006 11:56 AM

Anyway, I just got back home an hour ago having got up at 7:00am...I need a nap before seeing Sunburned and Six Organs this evening.

More pics and audio will be forthcoming in a week or so I reckon. A lot of the boardies that came from out of the country are hanging around a bit this week before going back...

I hope Pokkeherrie won't mind me mentioning that he got a pretty good recording of the Bardo Pond set...

greenlight 12.11.2006 12:08 PM

absolutelly fantastic. no words yet. i'll post later. i'm off to "bed" now.
here's setlist from friday show.




 

Palmer Eldritch 12.11.2006 12:38 PM

can anyone confirm... i think SY played 2 new tracks on Saturday. I might have been a little intoxicated...

jon boy 12.11.2006 12:39 PM

just got back and ready to collapse. it was reaaly good fun and nice to meet everyone i met. same time next year then?

static-harmony 12.11.2006 12:46 PM

Teenage Riot, You Fucken Bastards.

jon boy 12.11.2006 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by porkmarras
Did anyone get to see Nurse With Wound and Ashtray Navigations?


i think everyone saw nurse with wound and i saw ashtray and got the new cd which i can burn for you if your nice to me.

sonicl 12.11.2006 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by jon boy
just got back and ready to collapse. it was reaaly good fun and nice to meet everyone i met. same time next year then?

Do we have to wait that long? How about when SY tour Europe next year?

jon boy 12.11.2006 12:50 PM

favourites fopr me: nurse with wound, ashtray navigations, blood stereo, bark haze, flipper (caught the drumstick), wolf eyes, iggy, no neck, sunburned and pretty much everyone who played to be honest. great weekend.

glice i want your hat.

Danny Himself 12.11.2006 12:59 PM

Good to see the Shelleyman.

Glice 12.11.2006 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by jon boy
f
glice i want your hat.



You'll have to speak to my neice about that I'm afraid. She might let you, but she might also not let you and try and use your back as a trampoline, which really, really fucking hurts.

Iain 12.11.2006 01:24 PM

Queer fuckin' hat dude.

_slavo_ 12.11.2006 02:14 PM

whos that?
 
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can you like say who's who? I only can point out sonicl from this pic.

toxic johnny 12.11.2006 02:28 PM

Well just got back myself... still a little tired and euphoric... the whole thing was totally amazing... I have seen soo much fantastic stuff that my head is still spinning... it was incredibly surreal to meet and greet a few boardies... and it's a shame that I didn't get to meet everyone. I saw T+B around quite a lot but didn't get a chance to talk to him... I did however meet up with Whorefrost and his friend quite a lot and what great people they were too... also Nefeli, Jon boy, Pokeherrie, Sonicl, Iain, Moshe and Greenlight.

...my favourite performance of the entire weekend has to be NNCK... they blew my mind in a way that I haven't experienced before and then took me somewhere else... I swear that they put a spell on me... especially towards the end of the set. Absolutely incredible. The Dead C did the same thing and managed to neutralize my, by that stage on friday night, splitting headache and general hey this is the beginning of your hangover body phase. Also Bark haze... Peter Brotzmann... Double Leopards... Dead Machines... Lambsbread... Wolf Eyes... the Stooges... Blood Stereo... Mouthus... Skaters... the Markers... Leslie Keffer and 16 Bitch Pileup...

Phlegmscope 12.11.2006 02:33 PM

Somebody share more details on the Dead C performance, please. What kind of set did they play?

toxic johnny 12.11.2006 02:46 PM

...it was one long continuous piece that was beautifully loud and intricate with infinite peaks and troughs... improvised on the spot as far as I could discern ... although traces of previously released moments may have been introduced at various points. I felt very lucky to be witnessing the spectacle...as they have rarely made it to these shores and I savoured every moment... Thanks Thurston!

jon boy 12.11.2006 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by toxic johnny
...it was one long continuous piece that was beautifully loud and intricate with infinite peaks and troughs... improvised on the spot as far as I could discern ... although traces of previously released moments may have been introduced at various points. I felt very lucky to be witnessing the spectacle...as they have rarely made it to these shores and I savoured every moment... Thanks Thurston!


what he said.

toxic johnny 12.11.2006 02:54 PM

Hey Jon boy... sorry I didn't see you after Sunburned... but by this stage I was really shredded and was leaving very early the next morning so I headed off to bed... like a wuss.

jon boy 12.11.2006 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by toxic johnny
Hey Jon boy... sorry I didn't see you after Sunburned... but by this stage I was really shredded and was leaving very early the next morning so I headed off to bed... like a wuss.


its cool. i pretty much did the same thing too. sunburned were amazing dont you think?

Kyohan 12.11.2006 03:09 PM

I made it in to both ST shows too. They were both amazing, but I think Friday just shaded it (although it was on the short side).
Stuff I remember from Saturday that wasn't on the Friday list: World Looks Red, 100%, Kool Thing, Mote, Or, Rats...could be more, but those are the first to pop into my tired mind. I missed Candle - they were already playing Reena when I arrived on Saturday. I assume that was the 2nd song?
Bark Haze were incredible too; not to mention Dinosaur, NWW, Gang of Four, Awesome Color, etc, etc. What a weekend!

satirejohn 12.11.2006 03:12 PM

can't anybody remember the proper setlists? that would be cool

toxic johnny 12.11.2006 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by jon boy
its cool. i pretty much did the same thing too. sunburned were amazing dont you think?


Yeah I really enjoyed them... and laughed quite a lot at the antics onstage... but I couldn't get NNCK out of my mind.

jon boy 12.11.2006 03:14 PM

no they really shook me up. two amazing bands back to back was almost too much to handle.

i have plenty of pics and i know they were taped performances so i will post pics and sound later.

o o o 12.11.2006 03:21 PM

on friday, the highlight for me was the dead c. it was perhaps the band i was the most looking forward to (because i had never seen them before, and i have the feeling i would not get so many other chances to see them), and i absolutely loved their set even though i was shattered towards the end (fatigue was always a problem for me during this week-end, i often felt like an old man who needed to take a seat regularly or he would have to be carried to the hospital...). yes, it was a relentless seemingly improvised piece with traces of songs at times (for example their song which is called "bad politics" i believe)... everything flowed so good, to me it seemed perfect. and i'm glad to see i'm not the only one who loved it, because the people i talked to about it did not seem so enthusiastic about it.

i was also disappointed by nurse with wound, but i was watching them from a long distance and it's true that in those venuee if you are not in front of the stage but near the bars or the blinking casino machines, it's difficult to get into the music (the whole atmosphere of the Butlins site seemed so weird for such a festival)... anyway the second track NWW played, the one from "awkward pause", i really like it on record, but i didn't like their rendition of it... maybe it's just because the bouzouki was missing (or was it there? i could not hear it...)... another downside of the NWW was that i missed ashtray navigations, whom i wanted to see...
other than that, iggy & the stooges were a lot of fun, and it was good to see sonic youth again...

on saturday i loved the sequence mats gustaffson & eye > corsano/flaherty/yeh > brötzmann/bennink...
especially corsano/flaherty/yeh even though i missed the end of it (probably only five minutes) because i left to try see gang of four... but the queue was so long (probably because dinosaur jr played afterwards) they told us to not even bother and go to some other stage (bah, i guess they are chances that gang of four would have been disappointing but i really regret not seeing them... especially because of the queues)... so saturday was pretty much only stage 2 for me, which also involved mv/ee + bummer road which i really liked, especially when corsano joined (if i remember correctly)... the end of comets on fire with corsano and yeh was amazing too. in fact everytime corsano joined a band, it was wonderful. first time i saw him, and was impressed. nice to see him jump on his seat like he does.


toxic johnny 12.11.2006 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by jon boy
no they really shook me up. two amazing bands back to back was almost too much to handle.

i have plenty of pics and i know they were taped performances so i will post pics and sound later.


Excellent I can't wait...

it's strange being back home now... I wish that I could do it all again and see the rest of the bands that I wanted to see but didn't get a chance to... talk about an embarrassment of riches...

o o o 12.11.2006 03:21 PM

on sunday, i really liked my cat is an alien... missed white out + nels cline who were playing at the same time, and were supposedly excellent according to the people i talked to (were they?)... i felt a bit like a zombie on that day, but as i was going to see six organs of admittance, a girl walking in the other direction, pointed at me from a 5 meters distance, came to me, kiss me and then went away without that we exchanged words... this was effective to wake me up and get ready for the final concerts... oh i loved nnck + sunburned of the man as a ending of the festival, both of them... i think that the shotm gig was actually a bit uneven but when it was great, it certainly was great, especially at the end, and i did not want this concert to stop... i had actually some sort of short-term depression starting a few minutes after shotm finished, that is when i realised that the parties were over. hmm, today i'm better.

truly excellent week-end. i also nearly enjoyed everything i got to see... even bands i'm not really into or of whom i am not a big fan but was interested to watch... it's a shame i was actually sick during the whole of it, but luckily alcohol and of course the wonderful music helped me forget about it for the most part.

sonicl 12.11.2006 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by toxic johnny
...it was one long continuous piece that was beautifully loud and intricate with infinite peaks and troughs... improvised on the spot as far as I could discern ... although traces of previously released moments may have been introduced at various points. I felt very lucky to be witnessing the spectacle...as they have rarely made it to these shores and I savoured every moment... Thanks Thurston!

Yes, I felt pretty privileged to have witnessed that performance. It was something very special.

toxic johnny 12.11.2006 03:25 PM

They're playing London this week with Charalambides (who I missed at ATP) so I think I'll have to go unless it's sold out.

sonicl 12.11.2006 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by satirejohn
can't anybody remember the proper setlists? that would be cool

A pic of the Friday setlist has already been posted. I think Moshe has Saturday's, but it'll probably be a day or two before he can post it as he's probably still on the way home at the moment.

sonicl 12.11.2006 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by toxic johnny
They're playing London this week with Charalambides (who I missed at ATP) so I think I'll have to go unless it's sold out.

We Got Tickets still have a few - and what a great price too! But I don't have energy to go into London tomorrow.

http://www.wegottickets.co.uk/event/13152

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mushmanski57@hotmail.com 12.11.2006 04:02 PM

Wow, those are awesome reviews! Sounds like a great time!

By the way, I read on the Dinosaur Jr. message board that Lee came out and sang on Little Fury Things! Did anyone see this/record it??!?!?!?!:D

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Bastian 12.11.2006 04:03 PM

I'm just back in Berlin.. too tired to write much, so I simply sum it up with: greastest weekend ever. :)


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