AcidChildren, you think Creamfields lineup is weak ? 8O



Anyone going to a french festival this year ?

i'll be going to: Rock Ness at Loch Ness with Fatboy Slim

Global Gathering

Summercaaaaaaaaaaase in Barca :P



Ps : Back to the speedcore , my bro plays it. Sometimes it's so fast that it's only noise. Intresting.

goning to see roger waters dark side of the moon and the who 2 day festival in hyde park soon and got ticks for reading too so looking forward to them.

I'm gonna do Global Gathering, Get Loaded in the Park and if cash permits me then Benicassim! Whoo!



I'm waiting for the somerset house gigs to be announced - they're normally pretty tasty!



I was thinking of doing Summercase but I have been to Barcelona 4 times in the space of nine months - I wanna spend my hard earned cash somewhere else for a change! Plus I think Chems are the only peeps who interest me...



I might go IBEEEFAAAAAH! I fancy a lazy beach & drinking holiday this summer... x

My summer festival sched will be limited to the Winnipeg Folk Festival which is a four day hippie-filled festival of drink, drug, and debauchery. It's one of the top festivals in North America and is less than a 30 minute drive from my house.



Good lineup, too, incl. Neko Case, Vic Chestnutt, Solomon Burke, Steve Earle, GlobeSonic Soundsystem, Greg MacPherson (this guy is amazing), Hawksley Workman, Richard Thompson, Bruce Cockburn, Refugee All Stars, and 300 other artists performing on 7 stages to over 50,000 people.



This will be my first time at the festival, but it'll basically be 4 crazy days and nights with far too much booze and no clothes.



(Next year, I'm strongly considering the Exit Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia, funding permitting. I've already got a couple recruits.)

I'll go to the Eurockeennes of Belfort :



DAFT PUNK

THE STROKES

DIONYSOS & SYNFONIETTA

DEFTONES

ANAIS

ARCTIC MONKEYS

DAMIAN MARLEY

GOSSIP

SEUN KUTI & FELA'S EGYPT 80

TWO GALLANTS

VENUS & ORCHESTRE

ATMOSPHERE

GOJIRA

Nonstop

POLYSICS

PONI HOAX

MALAJUBE

DJ AI

BROTHER ALI

BENJIE

HELLBATS

JACK AND THE BEARDED...



DEPECHE MODE

COLDCUT

MORRISSEY

ENHANCER

INFADELS

KATERINE

CAMILLE & PASCALS

THE SUNDAY DRIVERS & ORCHESTRE

HUSHPUPPIES

SPANK ROCK

APSCI

LA CAUTION

SPLEEN

I LOVE UFO

TEITUR & ORCHESTRE

NATHAN FAKE

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

FAT FREDDYS DROP

SEB MARTEL & INVITES

LAST MINUTES

FREE'S B



MUSE

ARCHIVE

BLACKALICIOUS

SIGUR ROS

MOGWAI

DOMINIQUE A

ART BRUT

CULT OF LUNA

ISLANDS

LES GEORGES LENINGRAD

WE ARE WOLVES

GHISLAIN POIRIER

OMNIKROM

DUCHESS SAYS

ABERFELDY

GIANT DRAG

BO WEAVIL

LAS ONDAS MARTELES

DAHLIA

MY BABY WANTS...

ALOAN

LE CRAPO DES MARAIS





And maybe at Rock en Seine (Paris) :



Morrisey

Richard Ashcroft

The Raconteurs

Patrice

DJ Shadow

Dirty Pretty things

Nada Surf

Calexico

Clap your hands say yeah !

TV On the Radio

Wolfmother

Fancy

Dead pop club

French Paradoxe



Radiohead

Beck

The Dead 60's

Phoenix

Skin

Broken social scenes

The Rakes

Grand Corps Malade

Taking back sunday

Tokyo ska paradise orchestra

Editors

The Organ

Rhesus

Neimo

Daddy Longlegs

the festival that I was gonna go to, was Lollapalooza here in chicago. However the lineup sucks the big one. I plan to save my money up early so i wont have an excuse to miss next years Coachella.



o yeah, and I might attend a small house festival that chicago is starting.....dont really know many of the DJ's but might give it a try.

Girlelectric Escribi�:

I'm waiting for the somerset house gigs to be announced - they're normally pretty tasty!

Yeah but they dont look that tasty this year! Grolsh are not promoteing it and there is a different agencie, hence the fact there is no dance acts this year! However maybe some more will be announced. Both gigs I have been to at this venue have been fantastic.



ben_j I mean in comparison to other festivals and years of creamfields. Global or hifi have strong line ups this year.



Rock Ness looks really good.

planetdust Escribi�:

goning to see roger waters dark side of the moon and the who 2 day festival in hyde park soon and got ticks for reading too so looking forward to them.

whoa!! I could give an arm and a leg to see Waters again.

I remember the gig in blore 3 yrs back, it wasn't a gig, it was like they call a fuckin experience. a dream. i could just die if i get to see him again. lucky u planetdust!

hi fi south here we go!

Yeah Somerset house is not looking good at all! Apparently Fat Freddys Drop are one of the dancier acts and are gonna be next years big thing but I haven't heard too much about them so I think I'll leave it...



Might check out the Lips @ wireless tho

Have a wicked time Acieeeeedchild!

Cheers girlelectric, im getting quite excited on the eve of the festival season beginning!

Yeah i will be in Europe in the festival season so thats kinda nice :D

Girlelectric Escribi�:

Apparently Fat Freddys Drop are one of the dancier acts and are gonna be next years big thing but I haven't heard too much about them so I think I'll leave it...

I have heard alot of them and can tell you that if they are meant to be next year's dancy big thing, then next year will be very dull, boring, and not very dance at all.

Ive herd alot about hot chip aswell, there meant to be the next big thing aswell.

ACIDCHILDREN Escribi�:

Ive herd alot about hot chip aswell, there meant to be the next big thing aswell.

Yeah i have a promo of their album The Warning really nice IMO.

Highlights and Lowlights from HiFi last night.



Highlights..........



Nic Fanculli: as allways on top form, I love his style.



Dave Robertson(live): all his tunes seem to be made so well for the dance floor, this guy has a real awareness of how to create great jackin baselines, hes got a new acid house track that he played that can be found on beatport.



Chris Vaux and Simon Blann: the punchfunk boys, these have a real party vibe whenever they play, allways ends with a cheeky anthem, last night it was smack my bitch up.



Armin Van Buren: never expected myself in the godskitchen tent, but this guy impressed me, was nice to relax and here him play.



Mylo: not bad considering he only learnt to dj recentally, enjoyed hereing kraftwerk the model and dooms nights.



Eric Prydes: some great sweedish house, mixed really well like his mixmag cd, when he started only about 30 people in the tent, then by the end of his set about 3000.



James Zabeila: this guy is my new fave dj, hes set was lots of tech house and some breaks thrown in, he appeared to be useing ableton/cdj/efx in a dj/live hybreed set, lots of wicked delay effects and cutting up the beats, didnt know any of the tracks except the chemical beats remix that he appeared to play off a cdj.



Plump djs: didnt see much of them but herd the everybody needs a 303 remix and some pouding acid breaks.



Fergie: played what i would describe as industrial techno. a good performer.



Lowlights......



Dave Clarke: really quite boring and hard techno, no wonder the tent was dead.



Pete Tong: seemed to have technical difficulties in his set with the mixer, think he may of been useing live5 but not sure, the only good bits of his set where hereing erotic discourse and a few old skool sampled chucked in.



Getting back to my car: some cunt had decided to set up there tent in the carpark next to my car door, they manged to scratch the driver door which will cost a bit of sort out. Therefore in my anger i opened there tent and pissed on there sleeping bags, shitting in the tent was tempting but I didnt need to go, not easy with secruity walking past either.



Overall a postive experience.

Nice review, Acid, always good to hear about the festies!



Sounds like you took in some good sets. I'm envious. :)



And a major congrats for getting your piss on in the tent. Well done. X-D