Primavera Sound 2010

[branvan]

had a great time as well, my highlights were low in the auditorium and the fxxk buttons. lowlight: missing the books because of change of time and the trains in france who did not run on wednesday. we had to take the bus, a 18 hours trip... now recovering till next one in 3 weeks... :-)

[PastCaring]

Well, how good was that?

The best bits for us were The Fall's unexpectedly blinding set on Thursday (wasn't sure what to expect here) and all of Saturday (which had a great atmosphere - probably because there was so much dancing going on! )

The lows were the huge queues we experienced for wristband collection and drinks collection on the first night (although maybe stupid us for going at 7pm! ); the lack of loos; and the uncomfortable crush to see The Pixies (which wasn't helped by the stupid wazzuck in front of us, who insisted on filming almost the entire thing with a camera raised above his head, stopping those of us behind him from seeing the stage properly for a lot of this time :angry: ).

But, overall, we had a great time, and the great atmosphere on Saturday more than made up for the problems we had at The Pixies

According to La Vanguardia, more than 100,000 people attended the festival, although they're still counting - and was totally unexpected - which might explain the situation at The Pixies and also with the loos and the queues.

We'll def be back to this festival!

[jonnyx]

Things I learnt this weekend:

The Spanish transport system is very unreliable.

San Miguel is not the best beer company to use for a music festival

Spanish girls don’t like getting their boobs out on festival screens

Being able to cook isn’t a requirement for working in a Barcelona restaurant.

The Barcelona FC stadium tour is shit.

Tim Harrington is a god.

Primavera Sound 2010 was beyond amazing.

Things I’ll never understand:

That entry card.

Edited June 1, 2010 by jonnyx

[branvan]

may they can find out at what time people were entering?

[PastCaring]

may they can find out at what time people were entering?

[Infinite Jest]

Things I learnt this weekend:

The Spanish transport system is very unreliable.

San Miguel is not the best beer company to use for a music festival

Being able to cook isn’t a requirement for working in a Barcelona restaurant.

The Barcelona FC stadium tour is shit.

Primavera Sound 2010 was beyond amazing.

Things I’ll never understand:

That entry card.

[Infinite Jest]

My first time, and we will definitely be back

Highs:

The Pixies

Orbital

The Clean

Being right up front for the New Pornographers

Mission of Burma

Surfer Blood

Wilco as always

Pet Shop Boys audio-visual extravaganza

The sound quality

Being able to get a beer quickly

The crowd: nearly everyone seemed friendly and relaxed, good mix of people from all over

The random woman who gave me a beer during Orbital

Recommendations in this thread about transport and wristbands and the auditorium. Helped a lot when I was trying to work out what was going on. Thanks to everyone who posted

Lows:

Crowds during Pixies, and generally - the site could have used more stewards, I think

Queues for food

4 euros per beer

The Slits

Queue for wristbands - even at noon it took us a good 30 minutes, but we were pleased when we came back at 7 and saw even longer queues.

The idiots slam-dancing during Wire and deliberately barging into other people, even though everyone was giving them plenty of room.

[fireztorm]

PS10 was amazing! it's my 2nd year in Primavera and it was so much more than PS09. The only lows I find are:

1. Panda Bear. that show didn't live up to our expectations, and it's a shame because I could be somewhere in the first 2-4 lines in the Pixies show if I didn't go to Panda Bear, instead of being somewhere in line 20ish~.

2. Moderat. They are not to blame, but something happened to the sound in Vice stage after their first song and it ruined their show.

3. "There is wait so long.. (so long, so long).". Huge queues at the Wichita Showcase, Apolo club, 26.6, and also huge queues to the auditorium shows.

4. Too many people? especially in Friday.

Other than that, it was really awesome.

Some of our highlights include: Matt & Kim, Tortoise, Japandroids, Titus Andronicus, Pixies of course, Spoon, Orbital, The Bloody Beetroots; and many, many more.

See ya next year!