Warning: This post is preclusive to showboating.
Summer Sonic has always been good to me. Sure, it's robbed me of a lot of hard earned cash (over $US800 in tickets and probably around $US300 in water, beer, watermelon and yakisoba), but it gives so much in return.
Summer Sonic has brought me the likes of Daft Punk, Tool, DJ Shadow, Nine Inch Nails, Fall Out Boy, Deftones, Muse, Bloc Party, Phoenix, Interpol, Editors, MSTRKRFT, Klaxons, Weezer, Vitalic, LCD Soundsystem, Digitalism
, and Massive Attack. Its no wonder it may possibly be my favourite weekend of the year.
So with less than a week until SS08, I figured I might tell you a bit about some of the "lesser known" acts (not in the circles you tread, Jake) who I'm keen on checking out. They're really very good. Trust me.
Stay tuned.
3 comments:
Were Phoenix any good? I struggle to get into their mp3s, despite the strong links to the robot rockers
Did Massive Attack perform Risingson? Did it melt your heart? Was this back when Mushroom was still part of the group or are we talking the dark days of Daddy G and 3-D, or yet darker days of 3-D on his own?
This is what happens when you keep things from me, Tim
Phoenix were good - quite rocky at the time, but they'd just gone through that sound change that preceded their third album. I personally like the first two more for their respective sounds. Not that the rockiness wasn't good live.
Massive Attack did perform Risingson, and it was great. Futureproof was also fantastic, but they didn't have much in the way of stage presence. This was in 2006, so no Mushroom. Was he the one who had trouble with kiddy pron?
No - Mushroom had the problem with 3-D and the dark tone that emerged from Mezzanine, and 3-D was the one that caught up in the same kiddy porn sting that also nabbed Pete Townshend and that windbag that Matthew Kelly guy that hosts Stars In Their Eyes
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