A
fter being hailed as the saviour Correcto deliver a fairly pedestrian set, And so onto Saturday, where NME Continuing this ease into the final day
of the UK festival scene last year, nothing too groundbreaking or exciting darlings Late of the Pier grace the are the Scottish institution Camera
Connect Festival made a welcome on offer here and it all just seems to lack Oyster Stage to replace Joan as Police Obscura, whose song ‘Lets Get Out Of
return in August to provide fans with one imagination and energy. The same cannot Woman. Mid afternoon, waist deep in This Country’ seems to strike a chord
last hurrah before the fleeting Scottish be said for Findo Gask, who crackle with mud probably isn’t the best time to enjoy with those unlucky enough to have been
summer was extinguished for good. the kind of energy that must come from their music, they would suit a late night camping out in the ran all weekend.
Nestled at the foot of the cloud-laced having a number of great songs at your club set much more Regardless their They showcase some new material,
hills surrounding Loch Fyne the entire disposal. Starting their set with a loop of performance is still strong. including a song called ‘Swans’, leaving
affair is so picturesque that it’s possible Mark Radcliffe saying “The really rather feet tapping in the mud long after they
to wander around content without seeing wonderful Findo Gask” before breaking Glasvegas are yet to release their debut have left the stage.
a single band. Both the press and festival into set of synth drenched pop, with every album and the hype surrounding the
goers alike reviewed Connect’s debut track so well crafted that the entire tent band has reached such high levels that After seeing M.I.A. on the same stage
last year as being the perfect festival for is dancing in no time at all. To draw this if their forthcoming album doesn’t solve last year, it’s hard to be too impressed
a variety of reasons, not least the line delight of a performance to a close, lead the economic crisis, shelter the homeless by Santogold. It’s not that she puts in
up which included Bjork, M.I.A., LCD singer Gerard Black thanks the crowd for and cure every disease known to man, a bad performance, far from it, she just
Soundsystem and The Jesus and Mary their enthusiasm before the band play then it will be deemed a failure. At T in the doesn’t seem to match up. Arriving late
Chain. However, the alternative line up of out their single Va-Va. Park the band found themselves playing on stage there is only time for about six
last year was shunned in favour of some to not only a packed tent, but hundreds or seven songs but by the time ‘Creator’
more mainstream acts this time around, of people outside it straining to hear what is performed she seems to have won
most likely to prevent the promoters from was going on inside. Here at Connect over almost everyone.
haemorrhaging money. they play to a large audience, but one
that it will take a bit more convincing This is Goldfrapp’s last date of a somewhat
than the teenyboppers of T. They seem extensive tour and the exhaustion seems
to please most in attendance, proving to be showing. They give it their best but
that there may be more than just hype the whole affair seems lacklustre and,
with this band. well, dull. Their set consists of mostly
tracks from their new album, which is
a shame because it’s boring beyond
comprehension. Their only saving grace
is that they have the good sense to play
a couple of tracks off of Black Cherry
before they leave the stage.
Sigur Ros appear soon afterwards
showing every artist in attendance how it
should be done. Their entire performance
is spellbinding and their music just fits
into the surroundings so well. Absolutely
_Connect
magical in every possible way, what a
way to wind down a festival.
By Chris Duncan_
The journey to the site on Friday morning
is enjoyable, mostly due to the bus tearing
through the fog and winding round Loch
08
Fyne, which lays mere metres from the The highly anticipated Joakim arrive in
Connect campsite. On arrival the hellish the Unknown Pleasures tent to provide a
trek to the campsite is cut a little bit shorter fairly exciting set of warp riddled electro
with the offer of lifts from rickshaws to pop. But as an experienced veteran
cart whatever junk you picked up from of the remix circuit it is the DJ set that
Millets before hastily hopping onto the follows their live performance that gets
bus. It’s business as usual at the campsite feet moving.
though, it’s been open a few hours and
the weather has already turned it into a Canada’s Crystal Castles descend upon
quagmire. The whole place resembles a the crowd with wall of white noise,
refugee camp with a bass line and in all bleeps, blips and Nintendo noises.
honestly I don’t think anyone would want Singer Alice Glass yelps and screams
it any differently. her lines like a younger Karen O as she
bounds around the stage climbing on
Arriving at the arena entrance promptly speakers and knocking over turntables. Bloc Party certainly have the fan base and
at two o’clock the ever-growing crowds The force of her vocals are fully backed the sound to headline, but do they have
are forced to wait a whole hour, without up by Ethan Kath, hunched over his the hits? In the pitch-black space below
explanation, before the gates are finally synth and mixer in a trance like state for the castle, light bursts forth from the stage
opened. This late opening means the entirety of the set. and the band appear to wild cheers. At
that the first act on the Oyster Stage, their highest points it is all too easy to see
Howling Bells, are left playing to a grand Rounding off the night are the intriguing how Bloc Party got to the point they are
total of six people, including stewards. Sparks. When a band cannot only create today, Like Eating Glass is as perfect a
The biggest travesty however, is that twenty-one albums, but also perform song to soundtrack the night as anyone
everyone has missed the chance to see each of them chronologically to sell out could ask for. But unfortunately they can’t
the first hour of the wonderful David crowds in London, you know that you’re keep that level up all night. There are
Barbarossa, who opened the Unknown in for a treat. After being wheeled onto some lower points, but when they hit that
Pleasures tent with his own brand of the stage on a hospital bed Russell Mael high note, they hit it hard.
party funk, underground disco classics sits bolt upright in shock before taking his
and b-sides that time forgot. Possessing place with the rest of the band. They have On the Sabbath, the wondrous Huntleys
over ten thousand records (and counting) always been a confusing band but that’s and Palmers Audio Club open the
it’s a damn sin that more people didn’t quite endearing and their performance, Unknown Pleasures tent with an eclectic
get to hear his set. The silver lining on whilst dragging in some places, is overall and well-mixed selection of tracks. The
this particularly grey cloud comes in a worthwhile and enjoyable one. To be perfect beginning to any day, especially
the form of him returning to operate the around this long and still be interesting one where most of us have been going
gramophone for twenty minutes before and pushing the musical envelope is a at it full pelt since Friday morn, if not
Correcto take to the stage. fairly enviable position to be in. Thursday evening.
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