Acid Loafers
-
Posts
687 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Blogs
Gallery
Store
Posts posted by Acid Loafers
-
-
Shangri La
in Chat
3 minutes ago, moogster said:If you check the venue details on the website it says they are opening it up 🙂
SISTXRHOOD | Glastonbury Festival (glastonburyfestivals.co.uk)
Welcome!
Interesting, wonder if there was any pressure to open a stage up to everyone to (slightly) ease up crowds in places?
Just wonder if Emily had any power to say, close it down or open it up?
-
A glimpse into what'll be popping off before Justice
-
Any chance they'd do Arcadia? Better crowd control, but would depend maybe how the new(?) stage handles Visuals.
-
Poutine, Bayou, Duck Truck would leave me happy.
The crumpet place was a great 11pm snack on the way to SEC.
Raclette would be nice but after no show last year, not holding out too much.
Mexican Seoul is also good, usually not too busy as it's in that odd middle ground area by BBC Introducing.
-
I reckon these guys could get a decent slot at Silver Hayes
-
1
-
-
22 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:
I watched the top one for about 5mins and the audience were absolutely static with phones in air ? does it get more lively ?
This is lively! They'll never forget this night!
-
Last year seemed like the highest chance of getting Aphex, he was doing the festivals tour with a new EP.
I do think that he had put his name down but backed out in the end.
Hard to imagine him coming out the woodworks just for Glasto.
-
16 hours ago, Madyaker said:
I've ignored that a few times and still gotten in, don't remember seeing it last year either. I think their efforts to spread to late night crowd around has worked, Silver Hayes is really busy now until it closes at 3 am or whatever and by then a lot of the site is in bed anyway.
Anyone been to a recent Peggy Gou set? I've no idea what she's like these days.
Expect to see more phones than dancing & chants of the like of "Peggy! Peggy! Peggy F*cking Gou!"
-
39 minutes ago, gfa said:
As i said before - they got a slap on the wrist for wet leg so might see sense. not will - but might
and yes we did say the same about wet leg
Didn't see that, good to know, cheers!
Then yeah, hoping they factor his popularity & put up some Confident clashes.
Would hate to miss ConMan, but caught them twice before, so would gladly take the clash on the chin over a packed like sardines Barry
-
4 hours ago, cgall said:
Might be a stupid question but do they completely close off entry to the SEC at some point in the night , once it gets stupidly busy. Would i need to get there before a certain time in order to guarantee i can get in?
Can only remember one year ages ago it was fully shut, with all the led traffic signs saying "SEC at max capacity, go elsewhere". Didn't notice it last year. Could have been a Thursday from what I remember.
They do sometimes stagger entries, both at the bit where you do the funnelling/the high 5 & also the bit where you cross the train tracks from Rum Shack into ShangriLa. Making you wait a few minutes before letting you through in waves.
To me it felt busier last year & didn't even feel like it ever died down anywhere, even at 4am from wherever I was.
-
5 hours ago, gfa said:
Who knows, maybe they will see sense and it will get moved
Didn't we say the same thing about Wet Leg?
-
20 hours ago, nikkic said:
Has anyone seen his live set up, as opposed to DJ set?
If so, what’s it like?
Live, looks like it's him on the pads with a drummer?
Solo DJ
Also just remembered that he did a killer b2b with Salute which I'm now hoping could be repeated somewhere on the farm. Thursday Levels would be 💫
-
1
-
-
Love the thought of a bunch of the Fred Again crowd getting up for Four Tet's Morning Side hoping Fred might secretly show up 😂
-
Give me this at Genosys or Levels at 2am & NOT on the Thursday & I'm happy
Would also be very keen to see OnceTwice (fka Parallels) somewhere, but assume if they get booked would be a daytime slot that could clash with a band, as they're still relatively new/upcoming
-
Barry's the biggest one I can see. Will it be worse than Wet Leg?
Avril will be fine imo, Rag & Bone man had more hype imo. Biggest I've ever seen that field.
Didn't consider Justice at first, but agree it will be busy, can't imagine it being dangerous though. But might be underestimating how many people are into them & don't have an alternative thing to watch.
-
Doubt I'll make it to Jamie XX, most likely to stick with the gf for Dua. Never heard much of his sets that's out of this world.
Barry should be a good one, but gonna need to head early, rammo incoming.
Romy vs Two Door is tough, seen them both now. & I'll probably checking in on Avril already for a laugh.
100% there for Justice, missed this slot last time. Saw them at Brixton & was superb.
Now we wait for the E&D posters, to add further headache to these clashes.
-
1
-
-
On 2/26/2024 at 7:59 PM, Madyaker said:
I found some grainy pics of genosys on my PC, this is from 2017 I think.
Grainy 2019 footage from my archives, HAAI dropping Nathan Micay - The Party We Could Have
Still stands as some of the most stunning 3D mapping I've been able to see.
-
3
-
1
-
-
On 2/25/2024 at 9:35 PM, Supernintendo Chalmers said:
Not my picture and not much point other than just to say, it's gonna be so good having this behemoth back again this year
Do we reckon it's a 1 to 1 rebuild (since some was taken by mold from what I read)?
or Genosys 2.0, taking inspo from the original with new ideas sprinkled in?
-
On 2/12/2024 at 12:56 PM, bennyhana22 said:
Alright, here we go.
I arrived in London at about 2pm on Saturday, meeting one of my best Glastonbury mates who had travelled down from Rossendale in Lancashire. We set off into the city and went to 5 or 6 small art galleries (he's an artist, and so responsible for my cultural education) which were pretty fab. After something to eat (Franco Manca sourdough pizza right next to St Paul's), we walked up to the Barbican Hall. The concert was Alessandro Cortini (keyboards and electronics wizard from Nine Inch Nails, for anyone unfamiliar), supported by Joseph Kamaru (aka KMRU), the Nairobi-born, Berlin-based current Golden Child of ambient and drone.
Firstly, the sound in the Barbican Hall is off the scale good - almost as/as good as the Symphony Hall in Birmingham, which is breathtaking. The seats are comfortable and the banking of all levels means that there are only good views of the stage. They dim the lights to almost nothing and so KMRU played his set in near darkness most of the time (perfect for this kind of enveloping, immersive music), the only light into the entire auditorium coming from the big screen projections, which were ever changing., swirling black and gold abstract patterns, controlled by another guy stood next to him, on a designated laptop. It was really nice to know that the visuals were being manipulated and chosen in real time to complement the tracks. I have to confess that KMRU is one of my 2-3 most favourite artists over the last few years. As I've bored you with so, so many times, my firm belief is that in any/all musical genre, 95% of what is produced is average at best and downright rubbish at worst. Our mission is to seek out the 5%. For me, pretty much everything KMRU touches musically turns to gold. His quality ratio is unbelievably high. So, it'll be no surprise to hear that I was as excited to see him as I was il signor Cortini. Joseph's 40 minute set was just phenomenal. It flew by, with the standout track being the title track of his recent record Dissolution Grip, a track he'd promised me he would play when I tweeted him a week or two ago 😆. I was enraptured. He got a fantastic response at the end and seemed very touched by the appreciation. For anyone who fancies giving him a go, I'd recommend starting with Dissolution Grip, then progressing to Peel, an album of droning ambient loops that is, IMO, his finest moment to date. What a start.
Alessandro came on after a very civilised 20 minute interval and he too played a continuous 40 minute set, again with very nice screen visuals. His set was superb as well, tho this biased fan just gave the win to KMRU by a whisker. Such a great gig and a brilliant start to the musical aspect of our 24h in London. We had a little mooch around the Barbican building (really interesting, architecturally and historically...though I lived in London on and off for ten years, I really didn't know much about it - consequence of being sarf of the river, maybe...) and then headed off. My pal got a message from a friend (on who is really rather keen...) and so we decided to head up to Camden to meet her and her friend in the Old Eagle pub. We had a drink and a chat and then it really was time to be dancing.
And so to FOLD. Firstly, it is a bit of a bastard to get to, depending on where you starting! If you're starting close to a tube that gets you onto the Jubilee or DLR, all good. If you're not...
This dancer was getting itchy feet by this point, and with TfL journey planner offering us FOUR buses as the best route from Camden, I thought bugger that and ordered an Uber. 40 minutes later and we were walking up from Canning Town station towards the club. First impression? That's a bloody long line at 1.15am! Got chatting to a couple of inordinately tall Finns in the queue, which passed the time nicely (the height thing was to become a theme - I don't think I've ever been in a 'taller' club! It was the Land of the Giants!). We got through security with no bother and headed up the steps and in.
What to say? Is that the best club I've ever been to? It very well might be. It's probably between that and The White Hotel in Salford. IT. WAS. f**kING. INCREDIBLE.
Phone cameras - how bloody refreshing to have camera stickers mandated (and at fabric). May this become the rule, rather than the exception in UK venues... Staff - really friendly and chatty, not at all intrusive, just lovely. Lockers - good, quick way of sorting your stuff, and nice to be able to popo and get something during the night if you want it, compared to traditional cloakrooms). Bars - quick enough, not ridiculously priced (comparatively). System (Main room - I only drifted through the Steam Room once just to have a wee look) - FLAWLESS. Perfect volume, perfectly balanced, clean and crisp. The ceiling-hanging speakers dotted throughout the main room give real body and depth and the percussion coming out of them was like listening to a high-end hi-fi system. Incredible. Layout of the main room is excellent - door at the back to come in, through way on the right to go outside etc. So never any traffic coming into/through the crowd on their way elsewhere, which is a real beef of. one in some venues. Lights - just perfect. Not fancy, but really well configured and controlled, creating really good atmosphere. Crowd - without question as nice as anywhere I've been. There was one guy who was slightly annoying early on as I think he was mashed, but he wasn't aggy. Everyone else was polite, friendly, keen to make friends on the floor, respectful and courteous of each others' space. Just LOVELY. We caught the last hour of Call Super's set, which was nice enough. But then...Courtesy. OMG. One of the best sets I've heard in a long time, and that true genius of creating a narrative to suck you in, even if some of the selections are not in your typical wheelhouse. She played 'everything' - jackin' house, some piano house (!), old school rave bangers with vocals that everyone but I knew 😂, trance, techno and at least one electro track. Flawless. Incredible mixing and transitions, and her track running order was sublime. I would love to see her again (Farm, anyone...?). We left there about 15 minutes before the end, as we wanted to get to fabric and it was a bit of a trek. But, thank you, Courtesy - you are one talented DJ.
Again, transport was not easy! We got the Jubilee line to Southwark and then, again conscious that any moment traveling is a moment's dancing wasted, we got a quick Uber to Farringdon. Getting into fabric was fine, though it does feel weird having your photo taken with your ID check twice in one night. That's some personal data capturing...
The lovely security lady asked me "have you got anything with her that you shouldn't have?", to which I replied "what, at my age?!" and it was cheeky grins all round. Dumped stuff in the cloakroom and headed down to Room 1 for about 7am. First impression? The whole place is enormous. So easy to get disorientated until you've walked around it a few times. Main Room was RAMMO. Craig Richard and Villalobos had two hours left of their monster set (after which Ricardo was doing another 3h on his own!).
Room - big, slightly cavernous for me, but yeah, a nice environment. I like the bleachers at the back. Like in the Temple, that gives a good feeling of all being in there together. Sound - pretty spectacular, so I was not disappointed. I would say though, as excellent as it is, I don't rate it any higher than FOLD. Crowd - hmmmm. There may be lots of factors influencing this, but it was only 'OK'. Some perfectly nice people there, and no-one being a d*ck, but just not especially friendly. I wonder how much that is influenced by: end of a long night...many people would have been well over the peak of their refreshments by then and were maybe topping up trying to chase something that ain't gonna be available for a couple of weeks at least...? Type of set - it is something of a niche experience, and I wonder if there were lots of people there delighted to be at fabric (dare I say it, some so that they can tell people that they were at fabric 😬...sorry if that's w*nky), but not really into the 'challenge' of seven hours of Villalobos? I really enjoyed the two hours there, though it really was so rammed the whole time, that it made dancing 'properly' a bit difficult at times. But to get fist-bumped at just before 9am by some young guy saying "nice dance moves, mate" (no, he wasn't taking the piss, before you ask...) gave this old raver a nice little buzz at the end of what was an extraordinary day and night.
I shuffled my arse up to Euston to get the 10 o'clock train, with nothing but visions and sounds of a phenomenal time swirling round a somewhat addled brain. Magnificent.
Obviously I've rambled on in time-honoured tradition, so thanks for reading if you've stayed the distance!
I could really have done the whole thing with one sentence:
FOLD is one of the best clubs you'll ever go to.
Ben
xLovely read Benny.
Quite ashamed I still haven't made the trek to FOLD. It's just so awkwardly located for me that it's that off-putting for my lazy bones. Next poster I see that I'm keen on, I'm there.
-
1
-
-
+1 Bicep IICON. They've already done Arcadia, imagine they're having fun going around the different stages.
Overmono had their own visuals, Bicep should be able to too.
-
Comparing to Coachella is never a good idea, but I would kill for a Despacio tent on the farm. Still never been to one.
-
1
-
1
-
-
Insta saying IS SOME ONE maybe
-
Back on the AFX rumour mill are we? Anyone remember the details of last year's rumours? IIRC he was booked but backed out? Really thought he'd do it last time, especially since he was active doing shows. Find it a bit harder to see him play the farm this year, unless he's does another summer of festival shows or does his own tour.
Arcadia & Genosys I beg, update your stages. We've been waiting since Covid. I know & understand you've had your issues, but now's the time. I know some of you like that bus, but Levels beats it now imo. If they make another post "The Bus is Back" I might lose it.
Not sure what the landscape will look like come Summer 24, but feels like Chase & Status have had quite the uptick this year. Dunno why but they're on my mind for the West Holts E&D night.
-
34 minutes ago, LeFreak said:
Great detailed answer, cheers! Feel like I've a fair idea of how the festival operates during the day but very curious about the night as I guess they are the bits you see less of on social media. Arcadia, Silver Hayes and the SE Corner seem to be the three main late night areas - have you a preference or a least favourite?
Nº1 has to be SE Corner, Silver Hayes is good, but it's kind of far & not open as late, so if you go there, it's gonna be quite a trek at 3am if you wanna keep going. If 3am is your curtain close, then SH could be a shout. Or you don't mind another 30 min walk after your entire day. (plus your walk back)
Arcadia is good to go to before SEC too imo, not as far. Arcadia is just one stage, so just gonna be one thing there, depending if that's what you want.
Though I did find SEC much busier this year, even at 4am felt like crowds were not dying down much.
& There are still other areas with E&D music though, Stonebridge bar, Greenpeace tree. Too much to choose from!
-
1
-
Shangri La
in Chat
Posted
Last year were the acts who played the secret stage at Platform 23 on the lineups or not?
I somehow missed that secret stage completely, despite going there 3 times.