i feel for you

time out.

I can’t wait for the summer.

the dam

amsterdam = incredible.  I have to go back.

spiral

spiral

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wipeout at pleasurewood hills

wipeout

wipeout

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pleasurwood hills

bricks and sticks.

bricks and wood

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latitude 2008

this year was very different from last.

i think i probably watched more poetry than music. It wasnt that the lineup was bad, i just found myself and my friends in the poetry tents watching some incredible poets – notably luke wright [ who programmed the tent].

however despite seeing more poetry than music, the bands i did see were very very good, especially sigur ros who headlined the obelisk arena on saturday. Everything about their perfomance was beautiful. I think most people felt that they should have closed the festival on sunday night instead of Intepol.  It’s not that interpol were bad at all – Sigur Ros’ perfomance just made it feel like the end of the festival.

Other bands that I found very entertaining were Howling Bells, Slow Club, Foals, Blondie, Fanfarlo, Elbow, Noah and the Whale.

Despite the great artists, musicans etc, compared to last it felt that the increased size of the festival meant that the tents were not big enough for the amount of people watching. Last year you could sit in the Sunrise arena for quite a while until it built up – this year if you wanted to see the very first acts you had to get there early or just push yourself through the packed crowd.

But like last year the atmosphere was still lovely, friendly and definately relaxing. Guilty Pleasures closing set on Saturday night in the Comedy tent was incredible and one of my highlights – those guys must one of the best jobs in the world.

latitude has finally arrived

well for the next few days i will be away in a hopefully sunny southwold.

im all packed and am soooo excited. its my birthday on friday as well so things really couldn’t be better.

it is though supposed to rain a bit tomorrow and i really hope it doesn’t – i don’t want to put up my tent in the rain—-guess i should stop moaning – its going to be wicked no matter what.

im taking a camera so once im back i shall write some review and post pictures.

hope you all have a good week.

mp

to come

so much good stuff going to be happening this summer, and i can’t wait.

school officially ends in 3 days – im never going back.

in a few weeks im seeing black kids

then exams over

4 parties in the space of about a week

more parties

then latitude and my 18th [which i'll spend there] and death cab for cutie are playing on my birthday, plus the lineup is pretty damn good.

rest of the summer to chill out, and have fun and hopefully save some money and get a synth, start a band..

summer sun and pimms, music and friends

hopefully get hysterical camp back on track.

then i start doing art all the time at colchester in september.

bring it on.