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Old 06-21-2011, 12:55 PM
richardacre
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Re: 2011-06-18 Sonar Barcelona
Here's my set list, typed into the notepad app my phone at odd moments, somewhere between this and GoatSucker we might have it right

Cowgirl / Rez
Pearls girl
Everybody Jack
ALAF
Push (Sanchez)
Between Stars
Two Months Off
Scribble
Spikee
Dark train
(er, spoonman, something interluded in there) EDIT, mystery solved: Surfboy
King of Snake
Born slippy

Pretty much everyone from Sonar By Night was there, the other 3 stages must have been deserted. I actually thought it was a bit meh until somewhere around Two Months Off. Assumed they were a bit disoriented from all the cross country flying around from the night before, I quite like it when they get things wrong (this is my 5th time BTW) but it was a bit much (but hey, they're getting on a bit! ). Also, I was really looking forward to Push Upstairs imparticular, so was not impressed when it was the remix, but you have to give it to them for the way they're always reinventing things.

On a positive side (moaning over) once they got into the swing of it they nailed it : Spikee through King of Snake was BANGIN! They dropped the Born Slippy piano quite early in the mix, and really milked it, dropped it about three times towards the end, which everyone appreciated. For some reason i thought they were going over into the 2002ish mix (as per the Maida Vale 2003 set) but maybe they changed their mind, LOL. Here's a photo from Born Slippy https://picasaweb.google.com/hardacr...55101364624658

Afterwards I was standing by the fence around the AV island, basically waiting for the rush to leave to be over and the head gaffer (old geezer, WTF is his name!?) came out grinning and then was chatting to some bloke who asked him how long he'd been working Underworld, his reply was along the lines of "30 years, since they were a rock band!"


Other highlights, Friday night: MIA fucked up the place, brilliant. Steve Aoki owes me a pair of glasses as mine got elbowed off in the crazyness and trampled, I have photo evidence of their shattered remains http://twitpic.com/5d49km (there was also a woman crowd-sailing in a dinghy at one point during that set, mental). Aphex Twin was just fucking amazing, there are a good few vids on youtube, lazers, kinect driven video and wicked banging evil shit that kept my legs moving despite being up for 24 hours until the wee hours, wow https://picasaweb.google.com/hardacr...54988762599730. Saturday night also included me watching the drugged up masses driving around crashing into each other on the Dogems, really funny. Ended with me being hypnotised by Paul Kalkbrenner, made myself some space at the back, closed my eyes and just danced like a loon the whole set, f-ing marvelous end to the festivities.

Was back at work monday morning, tired but happy!

Last edited by richardacre; 06-22-2011 at 12:23 AM.