ever been to a music festival other than a techno one where the first band take the stage @ 6.00pm & the last one leave the stage @ 7.30am? well, before "primavera sound", me neither.

primavera is a 2-day festival held in "poble espanyol", a beautiful village inside barcelona which is an "architectural summary of the spanish autonomies". always a nice change from the muddy fields.

due to the festival's bad organisation & our very own shitness, we missed 2 of my fav' bands, ARAB STRAP & GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR!
also... vincent! "-quieres un plato combinado?" well, you can stick it up your arse! that was just so funny.

ever thought about how many gin tonic you can drink in the space of 12 hours? and not any gin tonic. -spanish gin tonic. -mixer? what mixer? -er, thanks but no thanks.
truly, i've never drunk as much as during these 4 days.

so, the good points:
. spending some time with vincent.
. meeting vincent's flatmate felix & friend roberto. me too, from now on, i'm only gonna make friends who are bartenders. -muchas gracias por todo, chicos.
. vincent giving me a super cool albator badge upon arrival. you, my friend, rock!
. SONIC YOUTH! -no other band is cooler than this old bunch. and if i remember well, they played loads of stuff off dirty, daydream nation & the new fantastico one murray street
. MOGWAI. just after sonic youth! -how vicious is that?
. DJ'S ARE NOT ROCK STARS. now, this bunch made the place go wild. never had as much fun dancing on electroclash as when they played an extended mix of miss kittin's frank sinatra 2001.
. 2 MANY DJ'S.
. JOHN PARISH. -just beautiful.
. THE STREETS. -set was too long though.
. vincent buying his mogwai t-shirt. -what a girly you are!

the bad points:
. the rain. you go down south thinking: "right. open air music festival. barcelona. it just cannot rain." well, it did rain. non stop for 24 hours. -funny how it started raining real heavily at the beginning of mogwai's set. thanks, scot boys!
. missing godspeed. -have i said it already? surely not.
. nearly missing the flight back to paris. -phoebe: next time, i make the flights reservation.
. the state of my face & of my bowels back in paris & realising it was my birthday in 2 days time & that i would just have to get pissed again.