More on Primavera Sound

Hello there,

Just some more (late) reports on the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona. My highlights were They Might Be Giants (I'm the Catalan guy who said they're bonkers...). Great fun and excellent sense of humour, and they made the effort to say a few phrases in Catalan. And, as always, I also enjoyed Echo & the Bunnymen, who played in the Auditorium, all seated, and invited the audience to stand up and dance (which we happily did). Ian McCulloch, predictably, made a few comments about Liverpool's Champions League title and hummed something like "Rafa, Rafa, Rafael Benitez" between songs. As cool as usual, Ian is still in good form and the band reviewed some of the Bunnymen's career, mainly from their early albums (although they ignored my requests for 'Over the Wall', but nevermind, maybe next time!). They opened with 'Going Up', the first track from their first album and played a few Bunnymen classics like 'Rescue', 'Never Stop', 'All My Colours', 'The Cutter', 'Ocean Rain', etc.
Another band I liked was Dogs Die in Hot Cars, although I could only see four or five songs of their act. I hadn't heard them before and they sounded good, to me anyway.
If I had a disappointment that was perhaps Sonic Youth. I enjoyed the first half of their concert, with songs like 'Dirty Boots' and 'Catholic Block', but at the end they started stretching the songs into 15-minute long themes and, sorry, I became bored.
In conclusion, a great festival and a great weekend, when, also, Hospitalet finished top of the Spanish Division Three. Which, in case someone had forgotten, means that Hospitalet has won more than Real Madrid this year...