| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| Ziggy |
Posted - 07/22/2006 : 02:32:37
Just a snippet from the NME
Pixies forced to halt Benicassim set
An exuberant crowd forces a delay
Pixies were forced to halt their set at the Bencassim Festival tonight (July 21) after a barrier broke in front of the stage.
The band were seven songs in but abruptly stopped during 'Monkey Gone To Heaven'. They resumed over half-an-hour later, with no further problems, to the delight of one of the biggest crowds the Escenario Verde has ever witnessed. |
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| Carl |
Posted - 08/09/2006 : 11:09:03
http://www.soundgenerator.com/news/showarticle.cfm?articleid=8051&CFID=16738066&CFTOKEN=63264892
22.7.06
Hot rock! Benicassim Festival '06
underway
40,000 descend on the
small Spanish town
Benicassim residents have battened down the hatches this weekend, as the FiberFib
juggernaut rolls into town for the Festival Inernacional de Benicàssim. Sound Generator is
reporting on site for our second year of coverage.
Celebrating it's sixteenth year, Benicassim Festival powered into action late Thursday night
for it's annual four day musical celebration - with Scissor Sisters delivering a typically loose
late night set to settle the crowd, many who had pitched up several days previously.
But it was yesterday night that really saw the event spring into action and, despite a major
technical hitch during the Pixies headlining set, it was a day memorable for the depth of its
dedication to garage rock.
Arriving on stage at around 10pm, The Pixies were in magnificent voice, smashing out an
early "Bone Machine", before laying down the foundations for salvo of hits. However five
songs into their set, the main stage was hit by a technical fault which saw the front barrier
collapse.
Frank Black and co returned after a 20-minute delay, and despite the lull - and obvious
crowd frustration - lifted their set to a super-high energy state. In particular "Debaser", "Here
Comes Your Man" and the alterna-mega anthem "Where is My Mind?" got even the most
rouge-coloured fans on their feet.
Echo and the Bunnymen, The Futureheads, Babyshambles and French guitar star
Dominique and draw sizable crowds, but The Strokes had the final say, playing a set
modified from their recent appearances - in particular "New York City Cops" and "Is This It?"
coming earlier in the set.
Away from the site itself, the party atmosphere continued as the Spanish youth
congregated along the beachfront for a 24-hour party. Just 60 miles south East is the Ibiza
isle, but tonight you wouldn't have known it.
By: News Desk
Strokes' guitarist Nick Valensi. Picture: Sound
Generator
http://www.ilikemusic.com/features/12th_Festival_Internacional_de_Benecassim_FIB-2892
12th Festival Internacional de Benecassim (FIB)
12th Festival Internacional de
Benecassim (FIB) 2006
Review by Chris Waugh
Remember the part at the beginning of
the Shawshank Redemption when Andy
Dufresne arrives at Shawshank Prison to
the jeers and taunts of the watching
prisoners? Yeah?
Well, our arrival at Camp Bonet wasn't
overly dissimilar. The place was packed,
and everyone completely blotto and
rowdy. One dust-covered, sunken-eyed, drunk guy even glanced over from
under hooded eyelids to mutter 'Ah, new fish' in our direction.
But we had more pressing concerns; namely putting up a tent. In an orange
grove. At one o'clock in the morning. In the pitch dark.
Minor gripes, such as no air-conditioned apartment and midnight venture
scouting aside, ilikemusic.com eventually finds itself swinging gently in a
hammock under the stars and swigging from bottle of San Miguel in
Benecassim, Spain, in eager anticipation of the 12th Festival Internacional de
Benecassim (FIB). Often touted as the best music festival outside of the UK or
'Glastonbury Abroad'.
Except to my memory Glasto' has never had beaches, campsites with
showers, a daily festival newspaper, bands only playing during the night time
and, well, no rain.
The absence of Glastonbury this year, however, is evident. Camp Bonet is full of Brits. And during
the daytime we are to be found sleeping under every available bit of shade within a 5km radius or
descending on the local waterpark with the same kind of gusto as John Prescott competing in a pie
eating contest to win a Jaguar, all in an effort to survive the blistering summer sun.
The heat has even driven some to taking an undetected mid-morning rest in the deckchairs of the
near-orgasm inducing coolness of the air-conditioned garden furniture department of the local
supermarket. Try borrowing a trolley to take your stuff to the beach and the security guard is having
none of it. However, spending an hour dozing in a sun-lounger, whilst local shoppers wander past is
apparently perfectly acceptable. There's a lot to be learnt from our European cousins.
So after four days of forcing ourselves to wake up before noon and sleep off our hangovers at the
beach, the first night - or Fibstart - is upon us.
Thursday: FibStart
Whilst massive respect naturally goes out to former Television singer-songwriter Tom Verlaine, the
introspective gloom-rock culled from his long-awaited album 'Songs and other Things' isn't really
what a crowd of pissed-up punters expect from the musical start to their holiday.
However gloom turns to glam with the arrival of the Scissor Sisters. To be honest, it wouldn't really
have mattered who opened the festival…as long as they had songs to which we could go absolutely
mental. So in a way, the Scissor Sisters were the prefect choice and succeed completely. Jake
Shears and Anamatronic - clad in more gold lame than could possibly be found at one of Elton
John's birthday parties - proceed to romp and stomp and bump and grind and mock-fellate their
way through almost their entire debut album besides cracking off a few newies, notably the falsetto
fluff of their forthcoming dead-Gibb-brother-resurrecting single 'I don't feel like dancing'. Well, we
did. In some cases despite ourselves. There was the odd sheepish looking lad worrying they may
have discovered something new about themselves on the walk back to the campsite. You know who
you are…
Friday
The festival starts proper the following day at a packed Escenario Fiberfib, where a remarkably
sober Pete Docherty leads Babyshambles through an actually coherent set. A feat all the more
impressive considering usual guitarist Drew McConnell is on bail back home leaving our Pete to play
lead guitar himself. 'Pipedown' and 'Albion' are met with the usual union-jack waving adoration,
which is only topped when Pete's similarly troubled, spiritual forefather Shane McGowan ambles on,
new dentures gleaming, to perform 'Dirty Old Town'. Everyone goes ape and, for the first time in a
long time, Pete deservedly triumphs.
We then head to the main stage for an hour of frenetic, happy, pogoing to the effervescent and
brilliant Futureheads. Trying to find something to dislike about the Futureheads is as easy as trying
to find a legitimate reason for War with Iraq; it's impossible; so don't bother. They rattle through
their set before dividing the crowd in two to assist with singing the 'Oh, oh-ohs' for 'Hounds of Love'.
The ever enigmatic Echo and the Bunnymen also divide the crowd neatly into two; into those who
think they are utter genius and those who think they sound as dreary as they ever did.
So we decide to take a break and check out the amazing food stalls at FIB. Here there is paella
and kebabs that actually look healthy, taste great and don't give you the howling ab-dabs for the
next 48 hours, so we hang about near the back and stuff our faces while watching alt-rock gods the
Pixies.
The Main Stage (Escenario Verde) at FIB is fantastically laid out, with a big screen and PA provided
at the back of the field so neither the view nor sound quality is diminished. Not that this applies to
the Pixies since they are (a) utterly deafening and (b) the middle-age spread of certain band
members could quite possibly be seen from space.
Hanging around near the back is also the safest place to be during their set, which is suddenly -
and quite rightly - halted halfway through due to people getting crushed at the front and a barrier
collapsing.
Prior to the enforced break though, the band prove that the onset of middle age has done nothing
to quell the dark, f***ed up, scream-pop magnificence Pixies fans have come to expect; as they
explode out of the traps with and maintain the fury until the forced break during 'Monkey Gone to
Heaven'.
For those who have only admired the Pixies from afar, the second half proves to be a lot more
accessible with an airing of the likes of 'Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)', 'Where is my mind?',
'Debaser' and 'Gigantic'. By the way, no-one is hurt (and a secondary barrier is installed at the site
for the following day).
First night headliners the Strokes, who take to the stage at 1.20am, are walking a little bit of a
tightrope at the moment. After the previous weekend's disappointing performance at the Wireless
Festival they've been accused of looking like a band who don't give a shit anymore. Not that they
probably give a shit. However, despite their usual cool refusal to acknowledge the audience, they
shudder and twitch and roar through a greatest hits set which includes 'Reptillia', 'Last Night' and
their very own homage to the 1970's batman TV theme, 'Juicebox'. All of which induces riotous
moshing that extends almost to the back of the field.
An utter success then, despite Julian insisting he plod through the lo-fi dirge of 'Ask Me Anything' in
the place of a break before the encore and the once-dashing Nick Valensi's inexplicable ongoing
refusal to get his hair cut! Someone have a word please.
And so we retire to Camp Bonet as the sun rises to reflect on what a stunning opening night it's
been.
Saturday
After a day spent sleeping at the beach, basking in the sunshine and messing about in the sea
we're ready for action again; even if the hangover and the sunburn is still a little tender.
Canadians the Organ begin proceedings on Saturday evening with their suitably gentle, Smiths-ian,
mope-pop dirge which at times, whilst quite beautiful, doesn't serve to quite satiate the audiences
party vibe.
Next up, by far the biggest surprise of the week. After explaining to a local for half an hour just why
Morrissey is such a breath of sarcastically miserable fresh air amidst all this blazing heat and
sunshine, Mozz proceeds to appear in a bright yellow shirt, drape himself in a Spanish flag, wear it
like a skirt, flop it over his head, tweak his own nipples repeatedly, grab his nadgers, and generally
camp it up and bait the locals.
Oh. My. God. The man is…no, surely not…he is you know…he's…happy!!!
Whilst the crowd simultaneously go bonkers and try to come to terms with what has happened to
our favourite grouch, Mozzer flounces through almost the entirety of 'Ringleader of the Tormentors'
and chucks in four Smiths songs for good measure, including 'Panic…' and most notably 'How Soon
Is Now?'. We didn't get the majesty of 'There is a light that never goes out', but with hindsight, why
would we; the bloke is happy! Who woulda thunk it.
Similarly, whilst birthday-boy Rufus Wainwright continues to receive increasingly ecstatic acclaim for
his tunesmithery, its Radio Soulwax presents 2 many DJs + Justice that really gets our juices
flowing, pulses racing, limbs a-moving and faces gurning.
The next few hours see a succession of big, no-nonsense, euphoric dance choons with a hint of
indie disco thrown in, which, whilst getting soaked with the water spray from above, makes for one
great big sweaty rave carve-up. It feels like a foam party without the foam. And we dance whilst
wearing sunglasses. Indoors. And it is dark outside. Surely a good sign.
However, as difficult as it is to tear ourselves away from such sodden celebrations, we depart to
check out the Kooks who race through their entire set at breakneck pace. Curiously if you've only
ever heard the Kooks winsome poppy singles, it's worth checking them out live…if only to find they
are a completely different band entirely, i.e. they rock. Although Luke Haines is beginning to sound
more and more like Sting all the time.
Franz Ferdinand appear to completely slay the audience and prove to be one of the obvious hits of
the weekend; although quite how or why is still completely baffling. Answers on a postcard please.
Morning Runner get the post-headlining 3am slot and make a fairly decent stab in the dark at
winning over a tiring crowd who are just about ready to finish themselves off in the dance tent
before heading back to their hammocks (if you were sensible enough to bring one).
Sunday
The routine of beginning each evening by piling into the Escenario Fiberfib - the closest stage on
entering the site - continues as we cram in to watch the fantastic Editors begin Sunday by shaking
the lazy 'Boy Division' tag and cheap Interpol comparisons simply by virtue of being bloody brilliant.
This despite Tom Smith's guitar failing to work for the first two attempts at the opening song. Even
'Blood' sounded brilliant from the portaloo (I couldn't hold it any longer…and you're best getting it
over and done with at the start of the evening whilst the toilets are still clean).
We feel proud to be congratulated by Tom on providing the 'best clapping' he has 'ever seen' and
at his genuine and effusive thanks to the mass adulation they receive at the end of the gig.
Yann Tiersen (i.e. bloke who wrote the movie soundtrack to 'Amelie') both astounds and annoys in
equal measure, such is often the way with multi-instrumentalists. He's obviously a phenomenal
talent and when he sticks to playing actual songs he's beguiling. But there's only so much 'rock-
violining' one can stomach in a one hour set. Let Vanessa Mae's career be an example to you.
Later, We Are Scientists play a typically storming set and, as per usual, take the piss a lot. Art Brut,
on the other hand, just take the piss a lot. Oh, but how we love 'em for it.
The always, always, always entertaining Eddie Argos explains how they have 75 minutes to fill with a
single album that is 35 minutes long. So they play one song twice, one We Are Scientists track (for
which Keith from W.A.S. joins them onstage to sing, because, as Eddie says, "he can sing better
than me") and read out the entire festival line up during another ("…We Are Scientists, Top of the
Pops! Yann Tiersen, Top of the Pops! The Strokes, Tops of the Pops!...").
The remainder of the evening was spent avoiding Depeche Mode and Placebo and watching
Madness from the safety of the big screen and wondering why there's no guy flying about over the
stage playing the saxophone like there is in all their videos.
We also danced on beer crates to Coldcut and shouted along to the ever-lairy, ever-enjoyable
Rakes who claim the title of 'Most Pissed Band of the Weekend' (forgivable considering they weren't
on until gone 3am). As the last band of the festival to play the Main Stage, Alan Donohoe claimed
they were headlining, before rattling through a mental '22 Grand Job' and dancing in a big white
shirt like he was doing high-speed semaphore.
And that, as they say was that. Except it wasn't.
Monday
The final night was the Fiesta en la Playa ('beach party' to you) complete with bizarre performance
art, fireworks and featuring eclectic DJ sets by those arch-liggers and professional good-time-girls
the Queens of Noize and the ice-cool Miss Kitten.
We swam, we danced, one of us fashioned a rainbow-coloured skirt from the remains of a beach
umbrella and proceeded to scale the huge climbing frame next to the stage, we stood on the head
of a girl sleeping on the sand (sorry about that) until eventually plane-load after plane-load of us
returned to dear old Blighty the next day looking tanned, tired and withdrawn, but smiling
contentedly to ourselves in our sleep.
So, if you can't get a ticket for Glastonbury next year; don't worry…head for the sun.
And if you've never been to Bene' before; we'll see you there next year, New Fish.
Thanks to:
Rosie PowerNap Boyd
Big Gay Al
Martin(a) Hutchinson
Tricky Vicci Jarman
Young Leah Temprell
Andy Little Spoon
Nick Big Spoon
Curly Rach
Published: Sunday 10th September, 2006
http://www.soundgenerator.com/news/showarticle.cfm?articleid=8380&CFID=18859707&CFTOKEN=39069762#
28.9.06
Benicassim 2007 set
And there'll be a new
ticket offer
The Pixies' Frank Black at Benicassim 2006.
Picture: Sound Generator
Organisers for Spanish rock festival Benicassim have confirmed details of the 2007,
following on from this year's successful sell-out.
With indie acts including The Pixies and Franz Ferdinand headlining, the beachside event went from boutique event
to joining the biggest and most established events on the calendar
- with this year's crowd of 35,000 including a large percentage of revellers from Northern
Europe.
The 2007 festival has been confirmed today for four days in mid-July, starting on the 19th
and closing on the 22nd. 3-day and 4-day passes will go on sale in December, with
organisers promising to reward loyal fans in some capacity.
And to recap on this year's event...
> Benicassim Festival 2006: In Pictures
Pixies' Frank Black was in fine voice
And bassist Kim Deal
The Pixies, headlining Friday night
By: News Desk
http://www.pedigreemusic.com/node/573
Tickets for the 2007 Benicassim festival in Castellon, Spain will go on sale tomorrow (December
15), even though no acts have been announced yet. Last year we saw The Strokes, Pixies and
Morrissey make appearances.
http://www.festivalwise.com/news.asp?id=27935
Last year’s festival saw performances from Pixies, Scissor Sisters, Morrissey,
Franz Ferdinand, The Strokes and Babyshambles.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6361743.stm
Franz Ferdinand, Depeche Mode and The Pixies were the
headline acts in 2006, with The Strokes, Morrissey and
Madness further down the bill. |
| Cult_Of_Frank |
Posted - 08/01/2006 : 13:51:23
Wow, nice description of the show. Reminded me of how I felt when I saw them here - for just a second I could feel it again. Thanks for popping in.
 "No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself." |
| Carl |
Posted - 08/01/2006 : 13:45:58
Hi spoonman, glad you enjoyed the show.
Join the Cult Of Pob! And don't forget to listen to the Pobcast! |
| spoonman |
Posted - 08/01/2006 : 12:32:26
hello... i'm not a regular poster in fact this is probably my first but i read the forum regularly...
anyway, i just thought i'd let you guys know what benicassim was like...
in a word awesome... and pixies were by far the best band over the whole weekend... i've seen them a load of times - twice at brixton and at the v festival on the reunion... and pretty much every time they played in london, including the t&c club show... so having seen them so often i wasn't particularly bothered about seeing them this time... sacrilige...! i figured they couldn't get any better... how wrong i was... i missed the beginning and arrived to a disgruntled crowd not really knowing what was going on... people saying they weren't coming back on... but after a long wait they did... i can't remember the exact order of songs they played but in this half of the set at least there was no trompe or bossanova... but we did get the holiday song into nimrods son... starting in the normal breakneck speed... playing the second half of it the slow way... and what a joy to hear the whole crowd screaming 'she was the son of incestuous union'... and then an absolutely incredible vamos... was it so good because fb was singing to a spanish audience who understood EVERY word...? and joey did his usual amazing guitar solo but no drumstick action... he used a beer bottle instead to create the most wonderful noise... and it kind of fitted in with the nature of the festival... then debaser i think then tame and finally gigantic... my voice was hoarse and i was sore from jumping around like i was 20 years younger... but i was blown away by my favourite ever band, and it was so special because they were that good... once again confirming to me that pixies are such a great band and never to forget that...!
and the rest of the festival was amazing too...!
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| Carl |
Posted - 07/22/2006 : 18:12:49
http://www.nme.com/news/pixies/23689
Pixies forced to halt Benicàssim
set
An exuberant crowd forces a delay
Pixies were forced to halt their set at the
BenicàssimFestival tonight (July 21)
after a barrier broke in front of the stage.
The band were seven songs in when their
performance was abruptly stopped during 'Monkey
Gone To Heaven'. It took festival organisers a
further half-an-hour before the problem was
eventually fixed and the show could go on, much to
the delight of one of the biggest crowds the
Escenario Verde has ever witnessed.
Frontman Charles 'Black' Francis later told
NME.COM that a barrier had been the problem, and
they could not continue their set until the safety of
the crowd was guaranteed.
Frank Black (The Pixies) live at Benicassim 2006
Picture: Phil Wallis
http://www.gigwise.com/news.asp?contentid=20087
The Pixies Forced Off
Benicassim Stage
Over fears for crowd safety....
by Chris Taylor on 7/21/2006
The Pixies had to leave the stage at the Bencassim Festival last
night after crowd pressure collapsed a barrier.
The reformed rockers abruptly left the stage quarter of an hour into their
set – with bassist Kim Deal telling the heaving crowd, “We gotta go,” -
over fears for the safety of the fans.
Confused punters - including your intrepid Gigwise correspondent Alex
Donohue - were left fearing the band had quit because they'd got the
hump.
However, organisers at the popular Spanish festival managed to repair
the barrier and The Pixies returned to the complete their set after a
half-an-hour delay.
http://www.soundgenerator.com/news/showarticle.cfm?articleid=8052&CFID=16087504&CFTOKEN=44426903
22.7.06
Pixies triumph over Benicassim stage
malfunction!
The band forced off
stage after a barrier
collapses
Pixies' Frank Black onstage. Picture: Sound
Generator
The pixies headline set at the Benicassim festival was pulled after 20 minutes last night
after the mainstage barrier collapsed, Sound Generator can report.
The seminal Boston group, who reformed in 2004, took to the main stage around 10pm, but
after just five songs, were forced to leave the stage after a major fault in the main stage
barrier developed - threatening the safety of the crowd.
However, the four-piece were able to return 20 minutes later after strengthening sections
were added - and played a high tempo, high-energy salvo to please the 35,000 fans.
In a statement released to press late last night, the organisers revealed that the front
protection barrier had begun to give way, mainly due to a crowd surge.
"It is important to mention that no one has been injured and the concert has restarted only
20 minutes after the interruption," the organisers added.
By: News Desk
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5209228.stm
Last Updated: Monday, 24 July 2006, 09:02 GMT 10:02 UK
Cool nights at Spain's hot festival
By Ian Youngs
BBC News, Benicassim, eastern Spain
Spain's Benicassim festival,
which played host to the
Pixies, Scissor Sisters and
Depeche Mode at the
weekend, is one of Europe's
hottest festivals - in more
ways than one.
At the train station, two
figures are curled up in a
doorway.
Further into town, three more
lie spent in the entrance of a
closed clothes shop.
In front of the sports centre
and the church, and anywhere
else offering shade, small
groups shelter from the sun,
desperate for somewhere to recover from the exertions of the
night before and prepare for those ahead.
The sun is one of the main reasons for coming to Benicassim -
but in mid-afternoon, to hide from it is the only option.
At this weekend's Festival Internacional de Benicassim, that
meant the music did not begin until 1630, with the first act on
the main stage at 2100.
The entertainment continued well into the next morning, with
music going until 0800.
Shady siesta
So by the time the most spirited souls made it to bed, the sun
was already starting to bake their tents again - making a
shady siesta a top priority.
Most fans abandoned the canvas during the day, leaving the
sweltering campsites empty and quiet except for the few with
shelters - and the constantly chattering insects.
Cold outdoor showers in the campsites helped keep the heat
at bay - and highlighted some cultural differences between
nationalities.
Spanish men had no qualms
about baring all in the unisex
al fresco washrooms - but
most British blokes preferred
to retain their trunks.
On the beach, meanwhile,
Spanish women could be
identified by their apparent
disdain for upper body
clothing.
With the music not starting
until the evening, the beach was the daytime destination for
most festival-goers.
The long stretch of scorching sand may have been a bit of a
trek from the campsites - but few festivals can offer a
diversion as inviting as the Mediterranean.
Cold showers
With so much spare time to spend under a parasol or in the
sea, the weekend felt as much like a beach holiday as a music
festival.
And those cold showers came in handy when trying to get rid
of the Benicassim body lotion - equal parts sweat, sea water,
sun cream and sand.
The town itself would be
unremarkable if it were not for
its beach and its new-found
fame as host to some of the
world's biggest bands.
The festival takes over
Benicassim for five days. But
because the town effectively
becomes part of the festival, it
can become engulfed by its
temporary inhabitants.
Every cashpoint had a
constant queue, the pavement
cafes were often packed and
restaurants struggled to keep
up with demand. Many only
offered a slimmed-down
festival menu to make the job
easier.
But when the sun faded, the fans started to make their way
to the festival arena.
Compact festival
The compact site is no bigger than strictly necessary to fit in
the fans and four stages.
That made it very easy to get around, but there was not
much else to do if the music did not turn you on.
One popular pastime was standing in front of four large
electric fans that had tubes blowing water into the air, while
the tent housing the second stage - which turned into the
dance tent after 2100 - cooled the crowd with a fine water
spray from the roof.
The smaller stages attracted
acts like Babyshambles, Rufus
Wainwright, the Editors and
The Ordinary Boys - as well as
bands from Spain and
elsewhere.
On the main Green Stage, all
the stars were from the UK or
US, with the Pixies, Scissor
Sisters, Depeche Mode and
Franz Ferdinand all getting particularly frenzied receptions.
The Pixies' set on Friday even had to be stopped for half an
hour when one of the barriers in front of the stage started to
buckle.
Maybe the local crowd was so enthusiastic because such
global stars only come to town once a year. And perhaps the
international contingent appreciated it more because they had
made the extra effort to be there.
Or maybe they were just raring to go after a day on the
beach and a siesta in the shade.
Benicassim's beach was a major
draw until the music began
In pictures: Benicassim
Brits decamp to Glasto del Sol
Did you go to Benicassim?
The campsites were equipped with
rows of outdoor unisex showers
Water-spraying electric fans kept
people cool
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1828000,00.html
The weekend proper presents a busy bill. Morrissey plays too
much new stuff and witters on about Whistler's mother, Depeche
Mode throw melodramatic stadium rock shapes, the Pixies
wheel out their impressive canon and Babyshambles not only
turn up but play a fine set in the afternoon sun.
http://efestivals.co.uk/festivals/fib/2006/reviews-day2.shtml
day two
XII Festival Internacional de Benicassim review
Thu 27th Jul 06
The same was true of The Pixies, up next on the same stage, who
abandoned their performance for some 20 minutes to give the crowd time
to calm down after guitarist Kim Deal realised many at the front of the
crowd were in serious danger. The British "must-push-to-the-very-front"
mentality did not sit well with either the more laid back Spanish crowd or
the weather and I imagine many tired and sun-frazzled Brits learnt their
lesson during this set. We couldn't find out exactly what happened here,
but we did see some paramedics around the front of the stage shortly
after the Pixies stopped. While it's a shame that this situation occurred in
the first place, I can only congratulate the FIB team for their handling of
the situation, as they explained in various languages over the tannoy that
people must stop pushing to the front or the Pixies would not be able to
continue. Finally The Pixies returned and finished a set that included hits
like 'Gouge Away', 'Monkey Gone To Heaven', 'Here Comes Your Man' and
'Where Is My Mind'. I know for many this was their set of the festival and
quite rightly so. I have never been a massive Pixies fan in the past, but I
felt privileged to be part of this particular gig. |
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