Spent the bank holiday weekend amongst the 'haircut kids on the indie rock underground', at the Dot To Dot festival at various venues in Nottingham. I was mainly interested in seeing Spiritualized, so anything else half decent was a bonus. To be honest, there didn't seem to be a great deal on which actually was half decent - I wasn't bothered about Dirty Pretty Things or The Holloways, and Saul Williams was disappointing because of the unintelligibility of his lyrics. Great headdress though...
The Shortwave Set were OK, but since they arrived late they only had time for about 15 mins. Time came for the main event themselves, and I was hoping that the dodgy sound which marred the otherwise excellent Two Gallants would be sorted out for Spiritualized, but it wasn't great to be honest.
I enjoyed them, especially when they decided to crank it out with Come Together and Take Me To The Other Side. The set list was a strange choice too - heavily weighted with tracks from the unremarkable 'Amazing Grace' album, and criminally there was only one song from 'Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space'.
There were a few tunes from the new LP 'Songs in A&E', which is lining up to be my favourite album of the year so far, and certainly the best Spz album since 'Ladies and Gentlemen...'
