Glasgowbury ‘09
July 29th, 2009
Now in its sixth year, Glasgowbury has grown to become Northern Ireland’s greatest outdoor music festival. Through the sun and occasional shower, the bands played and the people slowly got drunk. The overall atmosphere, however, was one of positivity and joy and very few assholes to be found.
The lineup was superb, with the best of what is happening in Northern Ireland spread throughout four stages, separated by ice cream, crêpes, candy floss, mud and alcohol.
Thankfully when it did rain, it didn’t last long, and stopped nothing. The day was well organised and sound from the stages was great. Even without such a high profile headline act as previous years (Duke Special 2007, Ash 2008), the numbers weren’t effected – in fact all available tickets were sold out before the day began.
Tossed between surprise and a complete of not-surprise that And So I Watch You From Afar have gained so much traction and a large fan base in the last year – even so much since playing one of their first gigs in Auntie Annies in July 2006 to a crowd of 20 or so.
Certainly not a typical festival headline act; instrumental, progressive rock, metal, alternative, experimental, punk(?), math-rock, ambient, apocalyptic and various words prefixed with ‘post’.
This band are quite frankly the shit and deserved this and each future headline; they’ve worked hard, and it shows, they let out a whole bag of explosive energy and a fantastic light-show to to with it.
Anyway here are a few photographs from the day, and many more to come:
And So I Watch You From Afar
Black Bear Saloon
MojoFury
Skruff
General Fiasco
LaFaro
And So I Watch You From Afar
