Connect Festival at Inverary Castle 2007

[pANDAS Radio]

First festival where I've actually bothered to check out the unsigned bands stage, mainly because it was well placed. Only things that were wrong with the place was the distance to the car park and the small number of toilets at the camp site.

It was like Beautiful Days on a larger scale. The rain and mud didn't even seem to bother anyone because we were all having too much fun. The mud definitely added to the fun in the campsite, 100+ people all saying shhhh is definitely a funny thing to hear.

I can't beieve that they're selling cocaine at Burger Express

[Pink punk]

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Originally Posted by always_drunk

Only things that were wrong with the place was the distance yomp to the car park and the small number of toilets at the camp site.

[Bunnylingus]

Originally Posted by Pink punk

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And Mogwai.

[pANDAS Radio]

Mogwai were stunning. Their sound was infinitely better than Primal Scream's.

Mogwai were FLAC, the Scream were a 96kbps mp3.

In fact the sound was brilliant in general, best I've heard at a festival in a while.

I was told that Mogwai may be playing a gig by a waterfall in Ayrshire. Sounds superb but there is no news about it available anywhere that I've seen so far. We're gonna go to that.

[Bunnylingus]

Ill never understand why an hour of what sounds like the EXACT SAME song entertains folk, but hey, each to their own.

[pANDAS Radio]

Enough about LCD Soundsystem, what about Mogwai?

[i_am_blip]

that was fucking class!

highlights were the Ads, SFA, Mogwai, LCD, Bjork. and sambayabamba.
the teepees were rather slick indeed.

i heard from quite a few that the beasties were shite. and my mates left after a few tracks suspecting they were miming a lot.

the food was yum.

although £3.50 a pint constitutes rape in my books.

[Elspeth]

You love rape though

[pANDAS Radio]

The Beasties were neither miming or shite, for definite. Can't see their set list anywhere online but it was more or less identical to this one that i found.

Time for Living
Remote Control
Live at PJ's
Off the Grid
Root Down
Triple Trouble
Sure Shot
Shake Your Rump
Electric Worm
Sabrosa
Gratitude
Tough Guy
Super Disco Breakin'
Pass the Mic
Body Movin'
Brass Monkey
B for My Name
Shambala
Lighten Up
Egg Raid on Mojo
3 MCs and 1 DJ
No Sleep Til Brooklyn
Ch-Check It Out
So What'cha Want
MMM Interlude
Intergalactic
Heart Attack Man
Sabotage

I think for most people they were the band of the festival.

[LesMTS]

Originally Posted by always_drunk

I think for most people they were the band of the festival.

Aye. The whole package was there. The songs, the banter, the performance. They were fantastic.

[poprock]

Not just the best performance at Connect, but one of the best I’ve seen all year.

[pANDAS Radio]

I'd love a bootleg of their set. Hell, it was great enough for an official live album.

Originally Posted by i_am_blip

although £3.50 a pint constitutes rape in my books.

£3.50 is pretty standard for festivals. Isn't Kopparberg about that price in the Cathouse anyway? And Tuborg was nicer than the usual Carling or Tennents shite on offer at the bar.

[LesMTS]

Originally Posted by always_drunk

£3.50 is pretty standard for festivals. Isn't Kopparberg about that price in the Cathouse anyway? And Tuborg was nicer than the usual Carling or Tennents shite on offer at the bar.

I had sticky hands after all the Kopparberg I had on Friday. It's awfully sugary.
The food was actually fairly reasonably priced. Not at the burger stalls but at the proper food tents (which were fantastic, there should be more proper food tents at festivals).
I had a big bowl of moules mariniere (surely a festival first) with a large chunk of fresh crusty bread for £4 on the Saturday. On the Sunday I had the most amazing haggis, neeps and tatties I've had in a long time. Again, a decent serving with whisky poured all over it.

[Bunnylingus]

Anyone else see Echo and the Bunnymen?

I nearly gret.

Originally Posted by LesMTS

I had sticky hands after all the Kopparberg I had on Friday. It's awfully sugary.
The food was actually fairly reasonably priced. Not at the burger stalls but at the proper food tents (which were fantastic, there should be more proper food tents at festivals).
I had a big bowl of moules mariniere (surely a festival first) with a large chunk of fresh crusty bread for £4 on the Saturday. On the Sunday I had the most amazing haggis, neeps and tatties I've had in a long time. Again, a decent serving with whisky poured all over it.

haggis neeps and tatties were AMAZING.

The food was ace.

Aye, I wasnt too bothered at 3.50 for something thats actually drinkable, and isnt sodding miller.

[LesMTS]

Originally Posted by Bunnylingus

Anyone else see Echo and the Bunnymen?

I nearly gret.

No, but I heard from reliable witness that they were absolutely awful, that McCulloch had embarrassingly shit banter and the whole thing was more or less of a disaster.