The final day, awww sadness is enveloping me but not before I got through a wicked amount of bands. Sunday really was the only day at Beni which could compare itself to an English festival in terms of quality and quantity of line up.
The first act I caught where The Hives who I have to say I’ve never been to bothered about in the past. They were pure rock n roll. Howlin’ Pele Almqvist is just that – the man is on fire. Great banter with the crowd even getting them to sing songs they’ve never heard of before, classic. They walk the walk and now I believe they talk the talk. I was even caught by surprise as to how good the songs where. I think I must have neglected The Hives when I was going through my period of hating any bands that use ‘The’ in their name – The Trills, The Kills, The Strokes etc. Methinks I missed a trick on that one;)
Next up Kings of Leon who were sadly a little disappointing. I was expecting a rousing rock n roll set but it seems the King’s rock n roll vibes were lost when Caleb shaved his beard and hair off. They were handicapped by crap sound I know but they just had no engagement with the crowd. Teacher says must try harder next time boys.
BRMC – definitely my joint second fav act of the weekend (Unkle is the other). Their brand of sleazy rock n roll is right up my ally. They came on to a smoke filled stage with the BRMC logo bleeding from the back and made us forget about that fairly weak second album and reminded us just how exciting it was when they released their debut. “Rifles”, “Love Burns”, “Spread Your Love” and “Whatever Happened to my Rock n Roll” are all legendary tunes. My only moan - why didn’t they play “Red Eyes and Tears”???
You know what I’m not even gonna write about Muse as they were alright, nothing special and to be honest I can’t be arsed.
So that leaves me with Mr Lavelle to round things off. Have to admit was feeling slightly worse for wear at this point and for a good 5 minutes even believed Ian Brown was on stage – cheers for winding me up Davey;) The atmosphere created by these guys was ace. It was like being in Fabric and someone had blown off the roof. Moody, atmospheric, spine tingling exactly what I needed at 3am!
So all in all Beni wasn’t a bad little festival…get some bigger names, sort out the erratic line up / diff stage situ and please, please, please get rid of all the rocks I had to sleep on …painful.
Roll on 2008!
3 comments:
los hives!!!
were the best band of the festival.
"you must now do what i say, or i shall destroy you all with my rock n' roll"
fucking genius frontman.
kings of leon, who are my favourite band of now were a right let down. i've seen them a few times and they were poor.
i was absolutely fucked during muse. just remember everyone on shoulders and falling over.
benicassim sort out the taxi's!!!!!
i had to sleep under a tree and got eaten alive by ants.
Can't be arsed writting about Muse, oh dear Victoria, when me & sis saw them at Wembley with our free front row seats they absolutley rocked!
NME don't know UNKLE have done live show before. Do you think someone should tell them ?
http://www.nme.com/news/queens-of-the-stone-age/29352
maaaaaaaaaan! unkle suck cock! nothing they do will ever come close to thier first album. i don't know how many they've done since that and i don't care. what i do know is that they're shit (the other albums) and i haven't even heard them, don't need to. textbook student bollocks!
ps. i would have paid all that money and travelled all that way just to see the human league! they even did electric dreams!
pps. arctic monkeys are crap too. and they stole thier dress sense off of me! f**king northeners, they'll rob anything.
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