maybe i just caught the wrong things, as can happen at a multi-stage event, but many of the people i talked to were of similar opinion.

highlights, in no particular order were public enemy, boris, explosions in the sky, animal collective, 808 state.

standout sets for me were mission of burma, and the set of the weekend from shellac.

Burma had be moshing like a mad loon, have been dying to see them since being introduced to them in the music centre back in 2004, and their set was a good mix of old and new stuf. The sound let them down a bit (most of the acts on the vice stage suffered from poor sound, i felt, compared to the very high standards set at the other stages rockdelux and atp particulary), but that couldnt get in the way of the raw power of their songs.

I was only really familair with the 1000 Hurts album, of which they played a fair bit, but all i could say was wow. Tight, perfect sounding, scathing and funny, they certainly know how to put on a great fucking show.

what really let me down this year was the lack of any great dj sets. dj Hell and Oliver Huntemann really banged it out last year, and there was usually something half decent on towards the end of the night, but this year was a total disapointment. Tiefschwarz never really got going, probably due to them coming on late and their set being cut short, with the volume really turned down, supermayer had the feel of an afternoon build up set rather than a night closer, berlin battery couldnt resist playing really cheesy cock-spanking electro for most of their set, and ellen allien’s set was pretty fucking dark and probably not the right thing for the main electronic stage of the festival at that stage of the night.

apart from a couple of other dodgy sets, primavera sound is still a great festival. no camping gives it a really different vibe, you just feel like you’re heading out to a gig or a night club, only the club you’re going to has 5 stages and loads of cool acts playing, and goes on til nearly 6 am, and you dont even have to queue for a taxi to get home, just hop on the metro and ten minutes later you’re back in the city centre. a very relaxed security presence and a good vibe in general…and no getting baked out of your tent ant 9am the following morning, just sleep off the previous nights excess and make your own way back out to the site at your leisure, you could probably even make it down to the beach for a while to work on the tan if you wanted to.

i’d probably go back again, but after two years in a row next years line up would have to be pretty special to tempt me back so soon….and thats something i wouldn’t rule out.

shellac
les savy fav
explosions in the sky
holy fuck
fuck buttons
animal collective
the notwist

are immediate standouts stage invasion for holy fuck was great fun.

atlas sound set was a lot better than deerhunter set.

at least bradford cox apoligised for playing so many new songs

roll on primavera 09

€1 jager cost me so much of my memory of thursday. it’s like vampire weekend never played. just about made it to bon iver – sorry but it was the greatest thing about the weekend – i was completly speechless and it took times new viking to jolt me back to life (did you notice the drummer get ridden like a horse onstage at LSF later on?)

what a festival. the finale of holy fuck’s lovely allen with stage invasions and all round madness; devo; PE; so many great memories. where else would you get to see animal collective play on a main stage?

well that and DJ assualt throwing Alan Braxe into the speakers for going 10 minutes over his set.

Yeah, the Deerhunter set was not very good. I think they played about two songs from Cryptograms which were at very end of the set. I think you were well gone by then.

They seemed to play a lot of new material which on first listening was not as dark or as mysterious as their previous work.

The rain was incredible, so heavy. We were over at Kavinsky and took us about 40 minutes to get to the metro stop. My ticket would not go in the machine it was so wet.

Dunno how much you know about LSF to answer this, but did they play much of their older stuff?