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Digitalia

Digital Abstracts

By Steve Wilde

SW4 And Beyond
August 30, 2009

It has to be said that there was a bit of a user interface issue going on whilst trying to tweet from SW4 yesterday but the keyobard had its part to play as well. Trying to type on the teeny keyboard, the Touchpal keyboard was no improvement by the way, in a darkened tent full of people or a 10 deep beer queue at the bar is going to lead to a few mistypes. Unfortunately the back button is right above the send button... Hence the gibber! No, honestly, that's what it was.

Richie Hawtin was good but I'm not sure if he was using Ableton or not as I couldn't really detect anything out of the ordinary about his set... And he didn't tweet the tunes he was playing as they happened so I suspect he wasn't a computer at all.

We missed Steve Lawler completely queueing for beer. 50 minutes in a queue is absolutely ridiculous. We bought 4 drinks each in the end and then sat out in the sun with the fantastically mad folk we met outside the Shake It tent. Festivals bring out some intersting folk but yesterday seemed to have more that usual.

We staggered back into the tent for a bit of Dubfire and it was after that it all became a bit blurred. Did we see Layo & Bushwacka? I'm not sure! I didn't notice two blokes at any given time and I'm sure Dubfire re-appeared at some point. After discovering that the North bar was considerably less rammed than the West and it was near enough to the Main Stage to guarantee a bit of entertainment while we queued I suspect we heard some of main acts but I couldn't say who though.

Somehow we managed to get a cab home and pack Kev off back to Brighton. Great weather, lovely crowd, really badly organised beer tents. If they can do it OK in Hyde park then surely it can be done any where else. They claim there isn't the room for a snaking queue [a la theme parks] but the amount of space that 10+ deep people take up at the bar really can't take up much less space. Sort it out or let people bring their own drink in. That is obviously all that the security on the gates were there to stop.

Anyhoo... We've spent the day in the Rosendale fending off the after effects with lunch, wine and the Sunday papers. I'm now trying to muster up the energy to pack a bag for the morning.

I'm hoping that I can get the Zemanta "Bubble" feature working as well. I'll be dual posting this to both Blogger and Posterous with a view to moving my "blogging needs" to Posterous in future. Either feeding into this site or hosting it on theirs.

Categories: Music, London

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