A Look Back: Primavera Club 2009

It was a tiring week (we're staying 30 minutes outside Barcelona and the daily back and forth was something of a challenge) but well worth it. We ate Pakistani food, visited our beloved Wok to Walk, saw a lot of the city and uhm, obviously a bunch of great bands!

 

 -Best venue: Sala Apolo (located in a beautiful 1940s dance-hall)

-Best performance: Beach House (Steven), Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard (Eliza) - I'm sure the fact that they played Bugs & Flowers specially for her had something to do with that ;-)

-Cheapest beer: Monasterio (€3.50)

-Best (and funniest) inter-song talking: So Cow

-Most fun: Devendra Banhart and the Grogs (though Eliza thought: "So yesterday we saw Devendra Banhart. It was packed, he was cool, did some cute silly dancing, the crowd loved him. But, this being the first time I'd seen him, I couldn't help but feel a bit disappointed. I've always felt his biggest strength lies in his quieter, mellower songs, the ones that bring out his voice. Todo los dolores. At the hop. This beard is for Siobhan. The Beatles. Mama Wolf. He played none of these songs. Highlights: Baby, Angelika")

-Best standing-in-one-place-dancing-and-looking cute-as-hell: Neon Indian's keyboard player

-Longest queue: Woods at Jamboree 

-Best surprise: Furguson

 

Best covers* we heard at Primavera Club: 

Neil Young - Out on the Weekend (Deer Tick)
John Prine - Sam Stone (Deer Tick)
Television Personalities - This Angry Silence (So Cow)
Nirvana - Sifting (Jeffrey Lewis)

 

(*These are all the original versions)

The Pastels - Sala Apolo

Furguson - Sidecar

Jeffrey Lewis merch table - Sala Apolo

Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard - Sala Apolo

Post Woods - Jamboree

 

So Cow - La [2] De Apolo

Neon Indian - Sala Apolo

(waiting for) Neon Indian - Sala Apolo

 See you all in May!

And we're off! Primavera Club 2009!

art by Jose Manuel Hortelano

  

Yes indeed, Primavera Club 2009 is upon us, kicking off with The Pastels, The Black Heart Procession and HEALTH tonight. It'll also be my very first concert in Barcelona (and Eliza's second), so we're pretty excited.

 

The festival will continue until Sunday night, and we hope to see these bands and more over the next five nights, before collapsing from sheer exhaustion on Sunday night, smelling of fast food, good music and cheap sponsored beer. Whee hee!

  

The Pastels - Nothing to be done

HEALTH - Nice Girls

10 reasons to look forward to: Primavera Club 2009

With Primavera Club (aka Primavera Sound's little winter brother) less than a month away,  I for one am getting mightily excited. I'm flying to Barcelona in a little under two weeks, (Eliza will follow a little later) and we'll be spending the holiday season there (at my mom's house), only returning home in early January.
 
I've collected ten tracks that I'd like to see played over the five days of the festival..

 

1. So Cow

So Cow - To Do List

 

  2. Me and the Bees

 

Me and the Bees - Aaahhh!

3. Scout Niblett

 

Scout Niblett - Drummer Boy

 

4. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

 

 

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Ballad of the Sin Eater

 

5. Cass Mccombs

 Cass McComb - You saved my life
 

 6. Woods

 Woods - To Clean

 7. Deer Tick

 

 Deer Tick - Art isn't Real (City of Sin)

8. Neon Indian

 

 Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer

9. Port O'Brien

 Port O'Brien - Close the Lid

10. Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard

  Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard - Bugs and Flowers

 

 Full lineup:

Devendra Banhart, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, David Holmes, Beach House, The Black Heart Procession, Marissa Nadler, School of Seven Bells, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, A Place to Bury Strangers, Deer Tick, HEALTH, The Pastels, Port O'Brien, Scout Niblett, Little Joy, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Woods, Sr. Chinarro, The Ladybug Transistor, Cass McCombs, Neon Indian, Wave Machines, Standstill, Tara Jane O'Neil, Pājaro Sunrise, Tarantula, Retribution Gospel Choir, Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard, Zs, Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds, So Cow, Molina & Johnson, Kurt Vile & the Violators, Cohete, ZA, DJ Pone, La Jr, Graham, Mujeres, Chiquita y chatarra, Atención Tsunami, Dj CoCo, Caballo Tripode, me and the bees, Fred i Son, Furguson, Tony Decker, DJ Need and Smoking Bambino

 

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