gone at Body and Soul yesterday, my best outdoor festival up to now. I've put the car in an immense parking and recorded the position on the phone to find it at the end. Just after the input gate there was the tents of people camping there, so many ! And the castle as background. Lot of interesting installations, one of which (the Glowhole) I would like to replicate. Beautiful persons wearing costumes.
Many stages, on the main one there was John Grant and then Gary Numan. They both given a great show but when Goldfrapp started Alison showed us how much priceless is the added value of a top quality singer as she is.
The setlist was (can't remind the order): Utopia Drew Clay Yellow halo You never know Lovely head Thea Alvar Little bird Number one Ride a white horse Train Strict machine
Met Una before the start, she called me from her position in the front row (like me !).
An unknown girl asked my name before the start, I've answered Geeunkurlo ahaha
The evenin was freezing cold, Alison told us during the concert too brrr ! She was looking for somebody in my direction, I waved to her of course (think she is tired to see my face ahaha, sorry)
No internet during the festival arghhhh !!! The phone always invents new malfunctions, this time was "no data line", tried to reboot, to close the connection and open it again but nothing worked ...
Next one is Glastonbury but I can't go because I haven't found a ticket noooo
just got home from Sexto Unplugged, it was an amazing show
I arrived there in the afternoon and i was able to hear and see the soundcheck, it was magical because you could hear it from every part of the town, the local people were enthusiastic about that!
The show started a bit late, i admit i was very impatient to see them!
they had the dressing room right next to the stage, up to our heads, we could see inside, for that reason we saw them obscuring the windows ;)
Alison was in a good mood, she tried to speak italian and that was much appreciated, very sweet!
The setlist started with tales of us track like jo, annabel, stranger, clay, alvar, drew and went on with yellow halo, little bird, number one, RWH, lovely head, utopia,train, strict machine.
at the end of the setlist Alison let us stand up and we litterally danced our asses off!
The local band who accompained them was made of young musician, they were very good and professional.
Concerning the band, they were wonderful as usual, Angie at one point suggested Alison an italian word, but we couldn't understand which one :)
Great performace, great night, a pity that is was the only italian date!
been in Sesto, Trencin, Lublin and at the Medea premiere, few considerations:
Sesto al Reghena very small town overwhelmed by the event, with the band and the staff everywhere, almost impossible to not meet they or hear the concert ! Alison, the music, the full Moon, the abbey, the nuns, what to ask more ? Really beautiful evening, think I've slept one hour at night so much upside down I was.
Trencin Superpowered audio equipments and Alison pushing every note more than Callas, what-a-performance ! Seen some fantastic dancers in the audience and a woman teaching to her little girl, dance should be a deep tradition there. Extremely good prices, got an extraordinary room (an apartment, there was the kitchen too) almost costing like a breakfast.
Lublin Extraordinary audience ! Seen Thymme Jones following the performance. A castle as background, with somebody following from there. Really long travel until Lublin because the roads are veeery slow ! I had the hotel 200 Km away, near an airport, and did the check in at 3 AM
Medea Very good music and well related to the scenes. How the actors can remind their parts ? Nice setup with a little forest built as a real one should appear from the interior of an house.
Deutsche autobahn Exceptional !! They brought me home at a speed unknown before. During the travel I had time to think how things can be done. A road for example: you can throw some tar somewhere and fill it with speed limits and pretend to have done your work. Or, instead, you can build a flat and large and straight way where you can go safe at 200 mph. It's more difficult, and you must work much more but you have really done something useful. The people following the second way are my preferred, I always wanted to be one of those. Like in the music world: you can clone your success and repeat yourself forever, or you can try to do all new and different, like Goldfrapp