Well, that was a hoot. It was one of the best festivals I have been to in recent times. I didn’t turn up until quite late on the Friday night, but I managed to catch the start of Sunn O)))’s set which was quite loud. I think my whole body was vibrating, which meant I had to go to the toilet. I checked out a bit of Scorn’s performance, but wasn’t too into it. I left after that as I was pretty tired from being in work all day and then getting the train down.
Saturday, well I kicked off that day with Chris Corsano and Mike Flower Duo who were totally amazing! Mad jazz drumming and psychedelic vibes. I really need to check out their stuff. Hopefully they’ll be playing in the UK soon and I can go and see them again. Next up were Remember Remember, who I have seen before and thought I would check them out seeing as they are from Glasgow and also because they are quite good. Which they were. Unfortunately I thought they should have played for longer. Thirty minutes is not enough. They didn’t do the Irn Bru track. After that I rused over to see Nisennenmondai who were brilliant. They reminded me a bit of Battles and the Boredoms. They certainly got into a tight groove. They kicked off with their track mirrorball which seemed to go on for about 15 minutes! Great. The drummer was amazing. I see their album is out today as well, so I’ll be buying a copy of that. Check out a track below.
Sunday was all about Goblin for me! I love Goblin and was psyched that they were playing. I went to the Q + A session they had. It was ok, but I felt the crowd questions were a bit rubbish and I regret not asking them my own question about them being sampled alot. Oh well, I am sure there will be a next time. I went to see Head of David after this and they were pretty good. I had been told to check them out, so I did. I wanted to catch some of Caribou, but seeing as Andy Votel was djing before Goblin, I thought I would stay for that and see what he played. I am glad he did as e played some heavy drum breaks. Then Goblin came on and played all the hits as well as some new numbers for an hour and a half. It was just amazing. Mad Puppet was brilliant. Tenebrae was another stand out track and then they played Profondo Rosso right at the end! Check them out if you can. The visuals for them were also really good as they had edited some of the footage from the relevant film for the song. I’d happily see them again.
Apologies for the lack of pictures. Slight malfunction with my camera so I don’t have any pictures from the Saturday. The film didn’t wind on properly. I’ll post up the good ones here when I get them developed.
