I am somehow alive after dancing for days in Detroit then drining to montreal. But so far Montreal has been fun for sure. My one knee has stopped working and my liver fell out but other than that I am at peak form. I have skipped all the expensive arty some would say crap, and have been to 3 of the parties.
Alex Under is the man he stole the show on Friday. Way better than both his records and previous live sets that I have heard. People went nuts. And Dimbiman did an excellent closing set that was consistant and provocative, without being too arty. The first piknik was moved indoors and was ok, more social than full on, heard a couple of interesting if somewhat too housey sets, but all would have been better in a park than in a wharehouse with yet another concrete floor. At the show tonight tragically no UR, but caught the Detroit grand pubahs, and it was surreal them chanting booty lyrics while arty visuals of a man washing his face were on the monitors. Sweet space, but just too weird, and kind of terrible sounding live pa with gratuitous guitar usage, I am not sure if that is crossing over or what. I am in recovery for tomorrow. I am generally enjoying the fest, I have met a dump truck full of people, and things are friendly and mellow here and the pastries are the busines s. No rain tomorrow please... tom
