My impressions from Saturday.
Overall if not BU and LR it wouldn't be worthy going there.
About the poster - it's excellent when it's without purpose and there's no info written there. what time the gig starts? who knows. where is it? who knows. or everyone on globe knows what's KATEL? well, perhaps it serves as some sort of piece of art or something like that. ok.
About the venue - nice, big venue with couple of stages. I've heard that the organizer was doing all sorts of artsy stuff for years so if he is able to rent such a nice place - excellent.
About the crowd - when i came there, right away i started to look for "corner for bloggers", starbuck's cafe, circles of people discussing postmodernism and making remarks with their typewriters and of course non-alcoholic cocktails. hm. there were no such place or at least i couldn't find such. but the 80% of the crowd was somehow unintentionally looking for these, I suppose. So it's been nice to meet several Finnish guys and some Lithuanians in there. otherwise it would be truly weird.
About the gig - I suppose first two acts were Kaspars Groshevs and Savidivas. Something boring. So I spent these walking here and there and drinking beers
LR - Very good. Very dynamic, loud and harsh. From time to time I even become jealous of his nicely put layers of sounds that go so well with each other. Very good. People going out one by one because of the loud sound, I guess.
Free Improvisation from Finland. - WOOOOOWWWWW.... Ville told me that it'll be perhaps interesting to see these. I lasted for 5-7 minutes and though it was so cold outside, it was better to shiver with bottle of beer outside than listen to that. ok. so the guy making rhythm on a bucket, two girls shouting to the microphone.. witchery i suppose. some dude and a girl doing whatever by the microphone. and two guys making drones, I suppose, at the back of the stage with guitar and bass. enough is enough.
BU - Not surprisingly the best that evening. Atmospheric, loud and perhaps not that brutal, but more twisted performance. Mr.BU making noises at the back of the stage and Mrs. Silent Abuse tearing apart her skin, spilling fake (or not) blood on her white dress etc. etc. It's been rather difficult to concentrate only on sounds because of the performance, but the overall experience was excellent. and i've noticed that there was some sort of visualization only when looking through filmed material.
Lust for Youth - Not for me, not for that evening, though this was one of the acts that I was curious to see, but felt rather tired and chose to get back to hostel.
so it's one of these fests where one should go only when there are truly known names playing for everything else that you'll wonder what could that be and go to check will be guys asking what's the purpose of life, dudes with traffic signs eating something and making it a performance and so on and so on.
