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!

So, uhm, how have you been, and eh, what's new?

 pic: Steven

You know how it is when you haven't seen someone for a while, and then you finally see them again and it's kinda awkward? You're not really sure what to say at first, and even if you get past the awkwardness there's so much catching up to do you don't even know where to begin?

Well, we feel a bit like that right now.


Things have been rather quiet (rather an understatement) on the unarmed letters front lately. Reason for this is a rather extensive trip across Europe by both myself and Eliza. Said journey has taken us from Greece through Bulgaria to Romania, Hungary, Poland (where we attended the charming OFF Festival 2009), Czech Republic and Germany (with a night in Slovakia thrown in somewhere in between for good measure). We ended up in Belgium two weeks ago, for the Pukkelpop 2009 festival, while last week was spent in Amsterdam riding bikes and collecting vintage postcards and second-hand books.
 
So yeah, where to begin? Should I post about the two festivals first, or the trip? Should I mention all the new stuff we've been listening to upon our return? Maybe mention how much I love the new Bibio album, the sheer genius that is Atlas Sound's Walkabout (w/ Noah Lennox)?
 

How about I just say hi to everyone and welcome you back, thanks for passing by and all that for now, and then we'll just see where we get in the coming days?


It's good to be back! We missed you.

 

Electrelane - To the East

Television Personalities - A Long Time Gone

Tegan & Sara - Back in your Head

Camera Obscura - Let's get out of this country