1. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
3. The Good Life - Lovers Need Lawyers EP
4. Timesbold - Eye Eye
5. Castanets - Cathedral
6. Efterklang - Tripper
7. Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova - One Jug Of Wine, two vessels EP
8. Modest Mouse - Good News for people who love bad news
9. pinback - summer in abaddon
10.nick cave - lyre of orpheus/abbatoir blues
11.Elizabeth Anka Vajagic - Stand With The Stillness Of This Day
12.Shannon Wright - Over the Sun
13.xiu xiu - fabulous muscles
14.frog eyes - the folded palm
15.The Good Life - The Album of the Year
16.encre - flux
17.karate - pockets
18.Mum - summer make good
19.annie - anniemal
20.thermals - fucking a
21.lali puna - faking the books
22.feist - let it die
23.interpol - antics
24.sun kil moon - ghost of the great highway
25.the faint - wet from birth

After having an amazing dinner at ROTOWN, we headed over to the nighttown. I should be on the guestlist since thomas from saddle creek put me on there. Once there the girl at the counter couldnt find my name on there. Some other guy said i had to make arrangements with the faint, but at that moment she stumbles across an envelope with my name on it and a guestticket. In the main hall narcotango was playing, it was okay but the volume was very low and people were talking over it, so the music didnt have the effect it should have had. We then saw mara carlyle which had this norah jones vibe going on, her voice was stunning but missed a little character. Feist did have that character and with her sampling/looping machine she gave her songs a whole new approach. She recorded vocal and guitar parts live and played over them then. Homevideo completely blew me away, it didnt know what to expect of them. They had a joy division groove, mixed with some interpol and radiohead (during KID A). And there drummer had a great sense of rhythm. Next up were the Libertines, a lot was expecting of this band. Were they gonna live up to their expectations (especially since pete is out of the band (for now)). Well partly, some songs had energy and were great, others were just boring and mediocre. And yes, you miss pete on a lot of the songs. The faint started at 1.30am pretty late, but the crowd was ready for it. The started out with the Birth, and played a lot of songs of their last record 'wet from birth'. But also some from their earlier records and also the song 'Take me to the hospital'. This song has been released on the saddle creek 50 compilation album. But their set was rocking, visuals were great. But i would have liked to hear some more older songs. Hope to see them again later this year. And then the nighttrain, 2 hours in the train. Got in bed at 06.30am.

The Futureheads - The Futureheads
www.thefutureheads.com

Riding on the we-sound-like-the-gang-of-four wave created by Franz Ferdinand and Dogs Die in Hot cars is the band The Futureheads. They produce hook-laden, unconventional popsongs with very strong vocal harmonies. 'Danger of the Water' is a prefect example of their vocal harmony qualities. The songs don't rely on verse-chorus-verse structures which gives a lot of the songs very unexpected twists and turns. There is an enormous drive that rushes through the whole album, 14 songs in just a little more than 30 minutes. The centerpiece of the self-titled album is the song 'Carnival Kids' which incorporates all that the futureheads have to offer in less than 3 minutes. The sound of the album is very thick, with a lot of harmonies and guitars swirling around. A little more sonic diversity wouldnt hurt this band. But overal I recommend this album to all who like the franz ferdinand record(and are getting a little bored with it).

sonic youth was pretty good. I know it was a promotional gig for the new album, but more songs from their numerous other albums i wouldve like better. And some of the noise parts were a bit tedious, i like noise and the way it is created but still.

yesterday i saw a documentary on nova about bill o reilly -> talkshow host @ fox. He seems to be one of the biggest influential idiots ive ever seen (along with the whole republican party ofcourse). In his talkshow its not about the guests or letting them finish their sentences, its about his narrow-minded vision. That he is right-wing is his own choice, but not listening to other people whyy????

i love shannon wright's music and float on by modest mouse is such a great song!!