Arcadia ““ The surreal mix of fire, water and dance beats made for a perfect Friday night wrap.
BJ ““ In open view amongst the trance heads on Saturday night in the Sibin forest area. Good to see romance is alive, well and proudly rearing its head”¦periodically.
Closing Time ““ A most stupendously flawed decision to stop serving at 10pm, sort it out for next year or at the very least allow us to bring our own grog in.
Donal Dineen ““ The Electric Picnic of DJ’s.
Elbow ““ 2 majestic Irish gigs already this year, there’ll be a hat-trick before the year is out. ‘Newborn’ provided one of the genuinely spine tingling moments of the weekend.
Faust ““ Taking art (literally) to new levels, guitars as they were meant to be played.
Gomez ““ Remarkable crowd for their ‘Bring It On’ reprisal, couldn’t get in and so threw a 13 stone wobble in disgust.
Humour ““ Are Irish comedians funny or do they just shout a lot?
Insomnia ““ Faithless blaring out of the Body & Soul bowl sounded so apt on Saturday morning.
Jape ““ Richie Egan once again floats (!) his genius. He could be about to take over the world on the strength of Jape’s Friday evening show.
Kerrazy ““ What were those SEBP boys on?
Lavatory ““ What would have Andy Warhol made of the shit buckets in the campsite named after him. Peering down it almost looked like art.
Main Stage ““ Somehow it felt wrong, the least atmospheric of all the stages.
New Find Of The Weekend – Hercules and Love Affair.
Orange Faces ““ Aliens, superheroes and ghost like dancers on wavey poles.
Primal Scream ““ A decent smattering of Screamadelica, James and Feile t-shirts. Good to see the old guard haven’t retired yet.
Queues ““ We have it easy lads don’t we?
Rain ““ Or lackthereof. Hooray!
Sigur Rós ““ The angel’s in the detail, brass interludes from heaven.
Tinnitus ““ Hey, you were warned about the white noise apocalypse during My Bloody Valentine’s ‘You Made Me Realise’. 18 minutes of bliss, once you packed the ear spongers.
Underworld ““ The most euphoric audience response of the weekend came as the curtain feel on their show. Visually impressive and just as vital as a decade ago.
Vibe – The most laid back/friendly festival crowd imaginable, half the fun was watching the world go by on the soft dry grass.
Wash ““ You must be joking and shur that’s what baby wipes were made for.
Xpensive ““ EP’s not a cheap thrill by any manner. Burgers for €9, crepes for €6 (even though they kept the hugger boat afloat on several occasions), lager for €8.50 (wherein you can enjoy lugging the souvenir cup around).
You’re Only Massive ““ 3 gigs in the thisispopbaby tent, voices may have become lost towards the end but many hearts were won in the process.
Zzzz’s ““ Not many of them over the weekend. The EP crowd mightn’t be a particularly noisy lot but jaysus can they talk and talk and talk. KD
The Dying Seconds – Electric Sheep Disturb My Sleep
More Info: Official & Myspace
Year: 2008
Your summary made me laugh! Very well & succintly put dude.Really like that Toys album too. Plus its FREE…http://www.wemakeweapons.com/Sleep When You’re Dead’s is bleedin ace :)Mr Jelly
aaaahhh… but was it super duper fun..?comparison’s to feile?:)
Jellyman: You’re right, the Dying Seconds deserves to be big.Leigh: It was great fun and the best thing was I didn’t feel old (more middle aged!). Feile came at the right time for me so it was never going to be topped.
Yeah, that’s about right and Newborn was fantastic.
and no mention of That Petrol Emotion gig on the Saturday? You missed the best performance of the weekend! :)
I’m de-sensitized to their charms I’m afraid Brendan!