It was a good weekend - Portishead played their first gig for 10 years, the old stuff sounded immaculate, and the new material sounds good, especially the closing krautrocky, repetitive number.
Saw Malcolm Middleton for the fourth time this year, he was terrific, his new stuff also sounds very good.
My main disappointment of the weekend was Julian Cope, I was really looking forward to seeing him, but his set was dreary metal by numbers, just boring.
A Hawk and a Hacksaw were fantastic - at one point they formed a procession through the audience with drum, trumpet, huge football rattle type device...since I had seen them in Nottm the week before, I nipped upstairs to see GZA who was on at the same time. I didn't stay long, the sound was rubbish and it was basically a large man in a track suit shouting unintelligibly (apart from the odd 'Motherfucka!') over background beats.
Aphex Twin played on Saturday and Sunday, starting at 1.30am, which is something of a challenge for old dogs like me, but we made it in time to see the man himself standing in front of a bank of machinery, churning out increasingly frantic techno...
Other bands we saw over the weekend - Seasick Steve, who was just as great as he was at Green Man, Black Mountain, John Cooper Clarke, The Heads (who deafened me) and OM, and doubtless others which I will recall later, a great weekend.
photos by Jim.
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