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The guys outside are dicks, who don't stick to the normal beer selling rules! Cans of Estrella for 1 euro or a sick pack for a fiver or get the fuck away from me! None of those awful cheep brands.

 

 

 

(obviously when leaving at 6am I'll buy anything.)

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The guys outside are dicks, who don't stick to the normal beer selling rules! Cans of Estrella for 1 euro or a sick pack for a fiver or get the fuck away from me! None of those awful cheep brands.

 

 

 

(obviously when leaving at 6am I'll buy anything.)

 

Especially when there's that wee shop just down from the tram shop undercutting them! I like how as the evening goes on, they offer more heavy stuff. I was walking to the tram stop and about six of them offered me "Beer, beer, cerveza, weed, crystal, coke?"

 

Those guys provided me with the second best thing that I saw at Primavera last year (if any of them were in Superchunk and just moonlighting as beer salesmen, they'd have made it to the top spot).

We bought some beers from the little shoppy and watched the dudes at work whilst sitting and drinking under that Auditori Forum building. A giant bag of weed dropped out of the back pocket of a girl who had been sitting with a big group near us and we wondered if she noticed. Neither her nor her friends did for five minutes and we laughed at the idea of grabbing it and going up to one of the beer-guys and just saying "Weed? Weed?"

One of the cerveza guys was doing his rounds and wandered in our direction to offer us something. His carrier bag was leaking. He clocked the bag of weed and the people who it obviously belonged to and did an amazing cartoon double-take. One of his pals yelled at him that his bag was leaking, which distracted him for a minute. Then he sat down next to me, in a hilarious attempt to be casual, as if this was the plan all along, and glanced at the people it obviously belonged to before surreptitiously grabbing it and pocketing it right in front of them. We laughed and he turned to us, I joked, "It's yours now!" and he said, "Cerveza?" 

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I think our number in this thread has dwindled slightly, but who did people at Primavera enjoy most?

 

For me, Twerps, Mikal Cronin, Fumaca Preta, Ex Hex, Patti Smith, Sleater Kinney, Mac Demarco and tUnE-yArDs were the best. There wasn't really one stand-out band in my opinion, unlike the last few years, which was a shame, but it was nice to take advantage of other festival stuff like seeing bands in Parc de la Ciutadella and going to the Sala Apolo to see Thee Oh Sees and Fucked Up. I'm usually not prepared enough to research any of this stuff so tend to miss it.

 

Great bunch of festival, all the best. 

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I think our number in this thread has dwindled slightly, but who did people at Primavera enjoy most?

 

For me, Twerps, Mikal Cronin, Fumaca Preta, Ex Hex, Patti Smith, Sleater Kinney, Mac Demarco and tUnE-yArDs were the best. There wasn't really one stand-out band in my opinion, unlike the last few years, which was a shame, but it was nice to take advantage of other festival stuff like seeing bands in Parc de la Ciutadella and going to the Sala Apolo to see Thee Oh Sees and Fucked Up. I'm usually not prepared enough to research any of this stuff so tend to miss it.

 

Great bunch of festival, all the best.

I'd agree with that re standout bands.

Highlights for me were Single Mothers and The Hotelier - both did sets in the park too.

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The Replacements were great - so much better than I expected.

New Pornographers, Giant Sand and Belle and Sebastian were lovely.

Tuneyards, Disappears and Twerps were the best bands I saw that I didn't know.

Was disappointed by The Julie Ruin (terrible banter, song choice that doesn't really suit her voice), Babes in Toyland (should have practiced a bit more) and Tyler the Creator (just pish).

Standouts for me were Run the Jewels, Shellac and Sleaford Mods. Sleaford Mods might be the future of something, still getting my head round how stupidly good and angry and simple and furious they were.

Honourable mention for Shabazz Palaces - really didn't get the record but very good live.

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I was glad to see the Hotelier in the park as I'd missed them at Forum. Ex Hex were also blisteringly good at the park too, such a nice atmosphere I was almost tempted to buy a homemade mojito from the beer-cerveza-beer guys. 

 

Sad to hear the Julie Ruin weren't great, although that makes me feel a bit better about missing all but the last song due to watching Patti Smith. 

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Had a fine time last weekend at End of the Road Festival.  Hard to say what the highlights were, although Ex Hex, Low, Sufjan, This is the Kit, The Drink, Jane Weaver, Alvvays, Jessica Pratt, Houndstooth, Hinds and Stephen Steinbrink were all pretty great.  Some good comedy too.  Nice weather, decent food, toilets that worked.  Excellent festival.

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I'm downplaying how good it is this year because I'm moving to Toronto in May so definitely won't be going. A better line-up than 2015 by miles, but they're still about 1-2 years behind Le Guess Who? I reckon. Everybody go to LGW. Top tips!: Selda and Islam Chipsy. Also, Downtown Boys, obvs.


Yep. Definitely feeling okay about not going... *eye twitch*
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On 21/01/2016 at 8:25 PM, kirsten said:

I'm downplaying how good it is this year because I'm moving to Toronto in May so definitely won't be going. A better line-up than 2015 by miles, but they're still about 1-2 years behind Le Guess Who? I reckon. Everybody go to LGW. Top tips!: Selda and Islam Chipsy. Also, Downtown Boys, obvs.


Yep. Definitely feeling okay about not going... *eye twitch*
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So yeah, looks like I'm going to Le Guess Who this year.  Nice line up:

http://leguesswho.nl/editions/2016/

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On 8/3/2016 at 7:49 AM, Mr Owl PhD said:

So yeah, looks like I'm going to Le Guess Who this year.  Nice line up:

http://leguesswho.nl/editions/2016/

Yas min!

LGW has been moved to early November this year, rather than later on in the month when it usually is, and as fate would have it, I'm back in Aberdeen for a wedding at the start of November, so am unexpectedly making it four years in a row! Yaaaaaas! Excited for Dinosaur Jr and the general greatness/weirdness that is the full Le Guess Who? line-up. I love that I only know about 10% of the bands playing. I absolutely trust the judgement of the organisers. It's a festival for discovering new loves.

In terms of festivals here in Poland, I am going to Time Festival in two days purely to see Run The Jewels. Tickets were $30 which seems to be a total steal considering that it's a day-long festival. Joey Bada$$ should be great, too. 

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Also, after over a decade of waiting, I am finally getting to see Guided By Voices live at another festival in September. I nearly bought tickets to their last scheduled UK appearance, but they pulled out before I got the money together. I hope Bob's liver holds out until September... The rest of the fesival's line-up is pretty shite, but I only bought a day ticket for GBV. Also, playing that day are my childhood sweethearts Barenaked Ladies, who I haven't had the stomach to go and see since Steven Page left the band and now I'll get to, out of morbid curiosity, and not feel like I wasted any money on it. 

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On 8/3/2016 at 0:49 PM, Mr Owl PhD said:

So yeah, looks like I'm going to Le Guess Who this year.  Nice line up:

http://leguesswho.nl/editions/2016/

So this was totally ace.  I think the Saturday evening was possibly the greatest musical night of my life.  Loads of great stuff that I missed as well, for one reason or another. 

Pretty much anyone who likes music should go to this festival.  It's really easy to do, very pleasant, not massively expensive and incredibly diverse.  Nice to see a few other folks from Aberdeen there too.

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