Performing at the low quality Primavera Sound 2007-

Primavera Sound 2007

Day 2. Friday 1st June. Place: Forum, Barcelona. There are many bands, and in the end, as though due to the strong incoming sea wind, reduced sounds... Maybe Spanish news have already taken care of that report, so I am not going any much further... I am focusing on the organization thing...

I think I saw it coming when I looked at the arrangement and schedules... It might be chaotic, and then, it was both chaotic and low quality. So much for the human crowds, coming and going; in addition, we had to put up with simultaneous performances as well as lack of space for some big bands... while others had all the unneccessary space they possibly needed and wanted. Any way, Modest Mouse almost playing at the same time as Girls agaisnt Boys…. The first one in a small stage, and the other one in a bigger one that could have easily adjusted both... And then Planetas as the leader band in a place that made Jota's voice even more inaudible...

Then, we were punished more by the mike in Band of horses's superb performance, paused by such vibrating inconveniences. Our hair could stand with all those electricity-charged chastisements. Little by little, the festival descended to low degrees, which were not so in past years. By 4 am, the singer from Built to spill could not stand it any more and stopped their enthusiasm. I guess they also noticed how unfair the whole arrangement had been.

The Portuguese X-wife could at least do justice to our eagerness for innovative and talented sounds. We did enjoy their humble generosity there. Girls agaisnt Boys produced a positive experience too; I only wish I could have enjoyed them more without having to move fast. And Portastatic were also a nice surprise. About the leader bands, no comment, although The Fall did not fail to interest me, at least as an anthropological study.

I only hope that this festival is not becoming too commericalized, or maybe it is already too late (many shops popping up like mushroom...). That wasn't the (only) reason for the festival before.