From an April post:
Festival time for WFMU once again and this time a little further than a
jaunt into the autumnal Catskills. Thanks to kind invitation and plane
tickets courtesy of Primavera Sound, WFMU is hopping the pond over to Barcelona, Spain for live broadcasts from the prestigious festival at the Parc del Fòrum on May 28th, 29th, and 30th!
We'll be packing our remote gear (and 3D glasses for Gaudi building
viewing) and parking it alongside the Mediterranean for three days of
multiple-stage broadcasts of some sure-to-be stellar FMU-friendly live
sets. The schedule exact set-time broadcasts for us have not been
finalized, but take a gander at some of the fest's heavy participants here.
We're unbelievably stoked to be invited as American radio ambassadors
for these shows; the lineup is dizzying, and again, totally perfect for
WFMU and its freeform-lovin' listenership. Super thanks to our pal
Jaime Casas for helping to get the ball rolling, and all the cool peops
at the fest we're looking forward to working with!
Updates!
WFMU is here, the weather is ridiculously incredible. We survived the post-Barcelona victory over Manchester United street carnage last night, and we're starting our broadcast from Spain today around 4:30 PM Eastern time, going until 7:00, then reconvening 8:00 PM through 11:00PM. During that time we''ll be shuttling between the ATP, Rayban, Estrella, Pitchfork, and Rockdelux stages (yeah, it's a big ass festival) and you're likely to hear the Magik Markers, Bats, Spectrum, Vaselines, the Jesus Lizard, Jay Reatard, and Wooden Shjips! Maybe more as permissions are still being finalized. Some of these may spill into our Day 2 broadcast if time doesn't allow. WFMU will be on its Facebook and Twitter pages too to try to give you a rundown of exact start times and what you can expect during the evenings.
Friday, the 29th: the festivities commence on air at 3:00 PM Eastern, going until 7 and then again from 8-11PM, where we'll try to squeeze in some full sets and excerpts from Crystal Stilts, Vivian Girls, Spiritualized, Sunn o))), Throwing Muses, Fucked Up, and possibly more.
Saturday, the 30th: Day three from 3:00 PM Eastern until midnight. Perhaps airing some of the sets we were unable to get to from Thursday or Friday? But playing on assorted stages that day are Jeremy Jay, Th' Faith Healers, Oneida, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Deerhunter. Once again, this is all subject to change, but to the best of our knowledge you'll be hearing these sets on these particular days, and we'll do our gosh darndest to keep you up to date online. As usual, we'll also be looking into archiving as much of this as we can ala our ATP and SXSW shows, and get some up on the Free Music Archive too (artist-approval-pending)! Tune in, send us good vibes to keep us fueled for our all-nighters in Barcelona!
Awesome to see WFMU revered and representin' worldwide. Have an absolute blast, y'all FMU DJs and listeners at the shows, and safe travels back to 43 Monty!
Posted by: Listener James from Westwood | May 28, 2009 at 01:48 PM
i want to hear that Magik Markerz set !!!
Posted by: less_cunning | May 28, 2009 at 06:45 PM
Hey Brian have a great time. And don't bogart the recordings!
Posted by: boil | May 28, 2009 at 11:57 PM
(from the first visitor of the wfmu stand :-) )
Highlight for me as of now: listening to spectrum playing spacemen 3´s "revolution" and "suicide" at a really crowded main stage with so many people into it. Little did I know when I bought my "playing with fire" cassette tape ages ago that I would witness this...
Magik Markers were great and Lightning Bolt were awesome, specially being on the edge of the pogo crowd in front of the stage...
Try not to miss the chance of getting to know some of the spanish bands playing. From yesterday: Veracruz (http://www.myspace.com/losveracruz), Joe Crepusculo (http://www.crepus.com/), La bien querida (http://www.myspace.com/labienquerida)
For today: Extraperlo (http://www.myspace.com/extraperlo), Los Punsetes (http://www.gramacionesgrabofonicas.com/lospunsetes.html), rosvita (http://www.myspace.com/rosvita), tokyo sex destruction (http://www.myspace.com/tokyosexdestruction), love of lesbian (http://www.myspace.com/loveoflesbian), limbo starr orchestra (http://www.myspace.com/limbostarr)
For tomorrow: Antonna(http://www.gramacionesgrabofonicas.com/anntona.html), hola a todo el mundo (http://www.myspace.com/holaatodoelmundo), flow (http://eureka-music.com/flow)
I´m probably missing a few.
See you around!
Posted by: David | May 29, 2009 at 06:11 AM
I can't wait for this (or as much of it as possible) to make it onto the Free Music Archive. Great job!
Posted by: Clax | May 30, 2009 at 12:26 AM
Some pics from the shows:
Thursday: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidssb/sets/72157619038023450/
Friday: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidssb/sets/72157618956955567/
Saturday: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidssb/sets/72157619041386912/
Posted by: David | May 31, 2009 at 09:17 AM
hope all the sets will be rebroadcast due to the electrical problems with the transmission. day one esp please..
Posted by: will rodgers | June 01, 2009 at 12:56 PM
when are there going to some sounds up, and where can I find them? I was there and it was another great year personal highlights being Spiritualized, th' Faith healers and Rosvita, so I'd love to get to hear some of what I saw and maybe some of what I missed.
Posted by: michael | June 03, 2009 at 09:28 AM