Friday, August 04, 2006

14 - 19 June 06

Went to Sonar, a dance/electronica fiestaval in Barcelona, with Little Jon, Laura, Em, Lizby, Mary and Nige (and a few other people...), and had a fantabulous time. Barca, as always is an amazing city (I am lucky enough to have been there a few times); beautiful architecture, great weather, slightly lukewarm beach, personas guapas, streets that smell of wee - the list goes on. By day, we mostly missed the festival activities and lay on the beach, or wasted out time in other excellent ways. But by night we went to see what the music had to offer... Goldfrapp (the highlight for sure), Rahzel, DJ Shadow (very, very disappointing - shame on you DJ Shadow), DJ Krush, One Self. Altho Goldfrapp were the highlight, I had to enjoy them by myself after Jon's buddy system broke down drastically soon after implementation. He got high and just, kind of, wandered off (forgetting most of the night in the process), leaving me with his new found friend of questionable Irish origin.

After the hectic lights of Barcelona I went to chill out for (almost) a week in...