Pic: GaBLe
I would like to raise two glases this morning of TransmusicalesDay 4. The first is to my new favourite band GaBLe who blew my mind last night and the second is to my new partner in crime Julie, who I met last night and spent the rest of the evening watching muisc and causing mayhem with. So there is not that much time left to get into detail about last nights music. Late yesterday afternoon I headed up to the Cite Club to watch Bright Black Morning Light and Cass McCombs who were a two of the five bands on the festival line-up that I had heard off before arriving. Bright Black Morning Light were really cool with their acid-fried groove and their anti-war statements, however it was French band GaBle who played next that were the real prize, the best band I have seen at the festival for sure. I will not attempt to describe their sound because that is almost impossible but these are some bands I thought off while watching them.
Akron/Family, Beta Band, Bran Van 3000, The Fall, Ween; Frank Zappa and Pop will Eat Itself - so there make of that what you will!
After the show Jean-Louis the festival director took me backstage to meet the band, who were really cool and seemed embarressed about all the praise people were heaping on them. They did graciously give me a copy of their CD, which I listened to this morning or should I say afternooon in bed. Cass Mc Combs played last but after having my head blown to smithereens I was not able to focus and left.
Pic: Terry Lynn
Soon I was on the bus to the evenings main event, three huge halls in an expo centre dedicated to some of the worlds finest new music. I stumbled around from hall to hall drinking beer and thinking how this was the first time I had attended a music festival alone and how important it is too have a partner in crime for these type of events. Luckily at thqt point Julie popped up, a young photographer from Rennes who was just a little bit nuts like all the best people are. We were soon charging around the expo centre getting down to Dancehall, Electro, House and Rock n Roll. The highlight was Dancehall star Terry Lynn who had the crowd shaking their asses and puffing on their spliffs. Fever Ray was also cool but her dark 80s tinged electro was a bit of a downer after Lynns bombastic show. The Field were cool, what I saw of them and DJ Morpheus or Sammy as I had known him for the last few days played some wicked shit. When I crawled into bed at 6am this morning I knew that I had been at a party and tonight we do it all over again. Plus the BLK JKS are playing. This will probably be the last blog post then cause tomorrow I am on a plane home, so so long from Transmusicales 2009 and thanks for all the fish!
