Sinister: Esture haciendo crecer fresas

Mon May 26 21:16:48 BST 2003

Hello sinister, 

Its been a while since I did any REPORTING BACK but
as I have been to see our fellow beloveds twice in
less than a week, I suppose I should pull my
ever-increasing weight. 

Isa thinks enough has been said about Glasgae so I
shall skip that and head off to the sunnier and drier
climate of Barcelona. Or so I believed. 

I went about things a slightly odd way, getting the
train to Paris, meeting up with Elena the frog,
getting the Train to paris and then being picked by
Frederic and driving to Barcelona in what was, for my
pale English skin, blistering heat.  The reason was a
question of money, and I convinced myself that it was
a good way to see France. Of course you can see a
country from its motorways. 

We arrived, met up with the wonderful company of
Maria, Jordi, Nal and Aitor dropped our bags off and
went out to....queue. It was somewhat reminiscent of
the bowlie extravanganza only there was no impromptu
entertainment from any of Belle & Sebastian. Instead
our entertainment came in the form of a couple from
Tolouse who were out of their tetes on something or
other. Oh, and I have to admit that the fact the queue
was packed with very pretty girls was an added bonus,
though it goes without saying that none compared to
our own Maria and Elena. 
It was clearly going to be an eventful weekend, we
realised this when the entry system involved having a
magnetic card which was then associated with your
finger prints and to enter the venue you had to first
register your finger prints with your card (hence the
queue) and then whenever you entered both were
checked. 
I think I am now known as Paul Freaky Fingers Field
as this took around....100 scans of my fingers on the
Friday night and resulted in my missing the go
betweens and half of yo la tengo. So I suppose I have
half of it. 

To cut to the chase, B&S were fantastic. The only
slight dissapointment was that the playlist was very
similar to the prior week in Glasgow - but as Nal
pointed out, the band probably thought nobody was
stupid enough to go to both. The only difference that
sprang to my mind was the inclusion of get me away
from here in spain. I was glad to stay. Stuart was
once again resplendent in silver scuds and wearing a
tight tshirt showing off his pecs and biceps. I almost
wanted to fall into his arms myself. 
The night ended with an encore and another cover
version to add to the list - a joint effort between
Belle and sebastian and teenage fanclub of Big Stars
September gurls 

Then...after being awake for almost 24 hours it was
time to sleep. For all of 6 hours before it started
again with the realisation that I had left my camera
at the gig after they had taken it off me saying I
wasnt allowed it in the venue. We went off to see
Pipas give a typically nigh on shambolic yet still
charming performance before doing a bit of the old
tourist route which I shant bore you with as this
isnt a rough guide. 

Then saturday night came and so did the rain. How
often does it rain in Barcelona? I dont live there,
Ive never been there before, but I am sure its not
bloody often. We went to see loads of bands but I
shant list them as youll all get horribly jealous
and want to stab me. Or maybe fuck me with knives. It
amounts to the same thing I am sure. I will say Sonic
Youth rocked with a captical RRR in places but will
tedious and dull in other places, I loved wire but I
stood alone in that opinion. I thought Fred was with
me until we left the tent and he smiled and took his
earplugs out. I have never been a fan of the white
stripes but they were admitttedly rather good and RRR
ocked too though they did tread dangerously close to
led zepellin style warbling at times. 

Oh, and the camera. Yup, it had been stolen. Yo la
tengo? ¿quién lo tiene? 

And now, even though its 9pm, its time for bed.
Hopefully until Broadcast on Friday...

Adios Amigos, 
Paul

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