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The festival is on L4 on the metro and is easily accesible from most parts of the city.  Born, Barcelonetta, or Poublenou are all nice areas which are on the L4 line.  What is your price range?

[pumpkinprincess1]

i cant believe this time next week i will be in barca gettin ready for this!
am going to be in town the night of the champions league final so hope to catch that in a good bar! get in the party mood (if they win of course!).
i have no idea of plans on what to watch yet. i know a few definites, but not many, think i am going to wander about and see what takes my fancy!
woohoo.

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Everyone enjoy themselves?  I felt it was a bit more sedate than other years which may be me getting old and taking it easy or the new drink ticket system (boo!).  The new vice stage was really nice I have to say.  The lack of alternative to Neil Young was a bit cheaky but made Oneida all the better.  Plants and Animals, The Mae Shi and Dan Deacon were some of my more favourite acts probably beacause they werent shoegaze. :-D

[frankburns]

Great festival!

Favourite concerts: Vaselines, Throwing Muses, Spiritualized, Neil Young, Yo La Tengo
Nicest surprises: Ezra Furman, The New Year
Weirdest moment: The "dancer" who joined Kimya Dawson on stage
Loudest moment: The last 10 minutes of My Bloody Valentine
Most useless items: Beer-ticket-machines

Hopefully, I'll be back there in 2010...

[Kombucha]

frankburns, on Jun 2 2009, 04:02 PM, said:

Great festival!

Favourite concerts: Vaselines, Throwing Muses, Spiritualized, Neil Young, Yo La Tengo
Nicest surprises: Ezra Furman, The New Year
Weirdest moment: The "dancer" who joined Kimya Dawson on stage
Loudest moment: The last 10 minutes of My Bloody Valentine
Most useless items: Beer-ticket-machines

Hopefully, I'll be back there in 2010...

Yeah, I didn't really approve of the fact that I had to predetermine every drink that I would want at the start of each day. It was fine if I was just settled on beer but did get incredibly annoying. I usually bought my tickets at the end of the day.

Ezra Furman & The Harpoons were exceptional. I also loved plants & animals and Dan Deacon.

Did anyone see either Magik Markers or Wavves? Both an absolute f**king drugged-up shambles.

Edited by Kombucha, 02 June 2009 - 06:12 PM.

[miswa]

ShootSpeed, on Dec 20 2008, 01:40 PM, said:

The Primavera Sound 2009 will take place in Barcelona from 28th to 30th of may. The organisation already revealed a few names:

My Bloody Valentine
Spiritualized
Alela Diane
Kitty, Daisy and Lewis
The Soft Pack
Damien Jurado
Michael Nyman
Throwing Muses
Extra Life
The Vaselines
Gang Gang Dance

More names to be announced during january, knowing that a big part of the names will be said at the end of february.
Getting tickets early enable to have better prices (I got mine for 93€ now and around may it costs usually ~130€).

NO camping at the festival but you can easily get an accomodation in Barcelona, the festival takes place in the city and there is a subway line and several bus lines to go to the place.

This festival is cool, a great mix of rock-pop-folk-electro bands, where you can get to see the next hype (MGMT or Vampire Weekend were there in 2008 for example) and see the great old bands (Devo, Sonic Youth, The Stooges for the last years) and last but not least, lots of impressive bands you don't see that much in other festivals.

My cousin, who's a sucker for these fests was in this fest a couple of weeks back.  He says it was one of the best fests he has ever gone to.

[pumpkinprincess1]

Kombucha, on Jun 2 2009, 06:10 PM, said:

Yeah, I didn't really approve of the fact that I had to predetermine every drink that I would want at the start of each day. It was fine if I was just settled on beer but did get incredibly annoying. I usually bought my tickets at the end of the day.

Ezra Furman & The Harpoons were exceptional. I also loved plants & animals and Dan Deacon.

Did anyone see either Magik Markers or Wavves? Both an absolute f**king drugged-up shambles.

i loved the dance off during Dan Deacon, and the confusion on peoples faces as it was happening!
this fest was way bigger than i had imagined. but was good fun. being there after their champions league win helped as it was a crackin atmosphere!
the drink machines were a pain, if the tickets lasted the whole fest that would be fine, like pukkelpop, you buy your tickets and they can be used any day, this way i had to work out what i thought i could handle then buy more after! always waited to the end of the night to get a jaeger ticket though, i was so rough one day i didnt make it out of bed until 5pm! it was cloudy that day though, phew!