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HIGHS:
- Bumper cars at Sonar night - couldn't get enough of it.
Biggest high - realising bumper car token hadn't dropped in,
so getting a free go.
- Touching Guru's damp vest and nearly managing to steal
it from the bag of the person who caught it.
- Dancing in the sun and dancing outside! hurray!
- Saturday night - David Caretta (live), DJ Hell and DJ Tiga.
- Apparat @ Sónar Day - one of the few live acts who
really made an effort - lush, crunchy and banging with great
visuals.
- The 'Bulbes' installation being much more interesting than
it sounded - a grid of giant 1kw bulbs that generated different
sounds in random patterns.
- The lovely clean empty beach away from the city centre.
LOWS:
- Running for a bumper car only to find they were all taken
by people quicker than us. Having to do the walk of shame
back to the side.
- Almost catching Guru's vest but missing out by a whisker.
- 400 metre queue to enter sonar by day. Missing Billy Nasty.
- Even more time spent queueing for everything once inside.
- Too much corporate sponsorship, Sónar is becomming
way too commercial.
- Label showcases dominating the lineup - get back to booking
decent acts on their own merit!
- Multimedia installations and interative stuff being replaced
by an uninspiring art exhibition.
- Pissing rain on Saturday afternoon.
- Braving the rain for Four Tet's disappointing 'live' set
which ended the day festival on Saturday - lot's of poncing
about with distortion on a laptop, not much decent music.
- More lows than there should be!
By Deb, Adam, Alex R & Suzie
www.sonar.es
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