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Having taken a break to Barcelona to see this festival, it's quite a memorable experience. It's my first time to participate Primavera and everyday is full of sunshine, spanish food, Guadi, etc...... The festival is like a fun fair and everybody gathers from dusk around 6pm and sees concerts till dawn at 4am to 5am, and then goes back hotel to sleep and comes back again for such pattern for 3 days. I think I like the traditional way of music festivals that everybody stays in a same site for 3 days rather than like that.....just a bit lack of that relaxing festival atmosphere that everybody just hangs around in a site doing childish, stupid or funny behaviour, etc..... nevertheless, Primavera has got a strong line-up every year, so it still deserves to be there!! Something different kind of festival experience than UK festivals....Explosions in the sky, Mogwai, Pulp, Einsturzende Neubauten, Calibou are just too amazing.........
One regret of the festival is that the show time of many big bands are clashed and I missed many good stuffs that might be not able to see them again like Interpol, Suicide, Sufjan Stevens, Deerhunter, Low, Swans, Mercury Rev, Kode 9, Burial, etc... What a waste!!!!
Day 1
Of Montreal
Of Montreal - Live Clip 1
Of Montreal - Live Clip 2
Seefeel
Seefeel - Live Clip
Public Image Limited (PIL)
Grinderman
Caribou (still their amazing live drumming jam and clubbing fun!!)
Flaming Lips (too familiar set up and run down......)
Day 2
M Ward
James Blake (a bit over hyped...)
Wolf People
Aerial Pink
Belle and Sebastian (I think not at their best....)
Explosions In The Sky (their guitar jam just full of energy and excitment!!)
Pulp (I'm not their die hard fan but still likes the show a lot!!)
Battles (not as great as their past....)
Day 3
Yuck
Warpaint (a really surprising & convincing performance!)
Phosphorescent
Fleet Foxes
Album Leaf (my favourite band, but seems a drummer will make their music more organic...)
Einsturzende Neubauten (knowing them over 20 years & seeing them and their funny instruments at last....a really great show!!)
Gang Gang Dance (really a G-spot music fun!!)
PJ Harvey (quite a boring performance!)
Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500
Mogwai (great great masterful performance!!)
Animal Collective (a let down of big names.....)
Holy Ghost (quite a disco fun!)
Gaudi, with an alien brain and a psycho mind......
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