I've been putting off writing something on this blog for ages. Mostly because I need to procrastinate from doing SOMETHING now I have no real work to do for the summer. Things move on and workloads change but procrastination REMAINS. Who knew you could put off doing something you WANT TO DO? Perhaps I actually LIKE procrastinating. In which case I could procrastinate from procrastinating. Anyway, it's late and I'm going mental so I will stop talking in this stream of conciousness, lower sixth manner.
On Saturday I went to Field Day. By now you'll have all heard about the rain. It was big news. I was dressed inappropriately for the weather but at least I had an umbrella which both shielded me from the rain and stopped all the twats who attended the festival from seeing any bands.
The first band we saw were Noah And The Whale. I remember thinking two things about them: 1) I could have written their songs (i.e. they are amateur in a bad way); and 2) The colour scheme they had chosen for their clothes was awful. After that we waited around for what felt like sixty seven years and weaved in and out of various tents, dodging awful things like the Filthy Dukes playing and Matty from White Heat DJing.
Eventually Jeff Lewis came on. Jeff is a huge obsession and crush of mine but I could not enjoy the show one bit. I think mostly because I had decided I was going to have a terrible day and nothing, at that point, could change that. When he ruined the end of The Last Time I Did Acid... by talking crap for about 14 minutes I nearly cried. If I'd have cried no one would have noticed because everyone was having such larks in the rain and talking so loudly to their friends who were wearing bin liners.
We dashed to see the Mae Shi. The Mae Shi are one of my favourite bands ever. The tent was warm and dry. In front of us were two girls who danced like they were at a nightclub in the West End and stopped to take photos of themselves every 4 and a half minutes. The Mae Shi lacked pace and the sound was typical festival tinny. The girls kept taking photos of themselves. I waited til after Run To Your Grave and then left the tent, on my own, cursing all the people around me.
By now you'll have all heard about the queues for the toilet. The toilet queue made realise I think I am too important to queue for toilets. The last time I did a wee in a portaloo was Reading in 2002, ever since then I've had the luxury of being a VIP and VIP loos. YEH, I KNOW, I AM A TWAT. In order to reverse these ridiculous thoughts I instead focussed my attention upon how shit the COMMERCIALISM of the festival was. YEAH, MAN. I thought of the coolest people I knew and none of them were at Field Day. This made me realise that I should never go to something like this again. Stick to the DIY circuit unless yr getting freebies.
Not even Les Savy Fav pulled me up. Not even Tim in his pants!
BUT COME ON, THIS STORY HAS A HAPPY ENDING! LET'S FAST FORWARD TO THAT...
The Notwist were incredible. I like how they have real indie songs with interesting bits in them; I like how they have real interesting songs with indie bits in them; I like how one of them used Wii controllers to make sounds. They made me happy and for that I owe them eternal gratitude.
For the finale we went to see Foals on the main stage and they were absolutely awesome. I am impressed that they work so well on that scale. If you'd have asked me before if I liked Foals I'd have probably said, "Yeah, they're ok." I would probably have also said, "I liked the Edmund Fitzgeralds better" because I love ironically being a snob. But now if you ask me I will say, "FOALS ARE ABSOLUTELY AWESOME." Just like I did earlier in this paragraph.
I knew most of their songs from that time I wandered Prenzlauer Berg all day listening to their album, so it was fun to hear them live. I danced like I was in a nightclub in the West End and stopped to take pictures of myself HAVING SO MUCH FUN every 4 and a half minutes. TFBA.
I've been so super lazy about updating this thing. I've been to some great shows as well. LIFE has taken priority over THE INTERNET. I am serious.
