Just over two hours ago, I returned from Belgium where I was at
one of those (watch out, sucky flash
content with far too long animations) large
European summer rock festivals, together with about 80.000 others. It was a blast.
I’ve most enjoyed the Chemical Brothers’ concert, which was late on Thursday
night, they actually played until after half past three. Their show was quite
“electronic” and very, very “phat”, with lots of references to bands such as
Kraftwerk(“We are the robots, dum-tutu-dumdum!”). It was also
good to see them not doing too much of their breakbeat numbers in the style of
their early works, but coming up with refreshing new sounds, and using the
stage and its rather nice visual equipment to its full extent. I loved their
“Don’t look back” which probably makes for an awesome soundtrack for
Wade’s “don’t
look back” series of pictures. I don’t know how licensing sound for something
like this looks like, though.
Other remarkable
bands I’ve seen and really enjoyed were Soulwax, Moby, Duffy, R.E.M., Kaiser Chiefs
(who probably won the prize for most drunk act). Radiohead did disappoint me a
little, but I guess that’s mostly due to their latest works being more “sofa music”
than something to dance at a festival. So after four days of camping, cherry beer,
music and pretty much void of shower, I’m back home, cleaned, took care of various
pets including my own body and cleaned the house a bit. Now catching up on emails
(which I probably won’t manage to finish today, so hang on a bit if I owe you a
message). I’m also updating my local installation from trunk/ right now to see
what you busy bees have been up to.