Just wanted to dash off a quick post on last weekend’s Supersonic, which I can truthfully claim is one of the most well organised, neatly programmed festivals it’s been my pleasure to attend. Plan B were representing in force and you’ll see a full review in the September issue (seems so long away). For now, though, here’s a few YouTubey things I shot to give you an impression of what went down. Hail Yow!

That’s David Yow fronting his new band, Qui. Bizarrely, Qui’s set was punctuated at various points by David Yow begging for the return of his passport. Apparently he’d got fucked up earlier in the day and given it away. It took him a day at the American embassy with the Southern Records people to get a new one. Crazy guy.

The mighty Om! Feel that bass.

Atilla and Anderson of Sunn0))) in full grimm flight.

And last but not least, that’s Andrew Dymond aka Duracell who tore it up in the main room after Mogwai’s set with a stack of videogames themes recreated using drums, modular synth and laptop. “Are you magic?” shouted someone, who I think had had rather a lot to drink. You could see what he meant, though.

Posted on Tuesday, July 17th, 2007by Louis Pattison