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Plus they do this really weird thing of having all the sets on the various stages start at the same time. This means you choose your gig, stand there and wait for it to start, watch and hopefully enjoy. Then half a dozen stages all finish at the same time and 50,000 people all troop off en masse to their next chosen stage and stand around waiting for the next set to start. You can obviously dip in and out but the simultaneous nature the timings makes for a weirdly regimented feel. And the fact that it's all staged in a beautiful but brutal concrete future-scape almost entirely at night makes groovy hanging out festival vibes hard to come by.
Still, as I said we did see some fricken great sets. Dinosaur Jr, Neko Case, Thee Oh Sees, Deerhunter, Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Tinariwen, Tame Impala...
Great music but an unusual vibe and really hard work to keep the energy up on beer alone.