The Weekend We Had Our Faces Banged

So I’m a bit late in posting anything about the incredibly sweaty, but great Bang Face Weekender. In short it was great, it was nice to be at a festival, but also to have a bed to lie in and a bath to bathe in, thus un-banging my face a little bit.

Highlights for me were Shitmat (I’ve seen him previously, but never really enjoyed a set by him as much as I did this time), DJ Scotch Egg - mental as usual, even at 6am! Mala’s set was great too, and µ-ziq was fantastic - little moments of genius, also the weather deserves a mention, especially because we were right beside the seaside.

Lowlights: Venetian Snares was atrocious, I think he was quite drunk when he played or something, he started off his set with some obscure tracks, but after losing the (somewhat young) crowd a bit, starting banging out the classics which picked the crowd up a bit, but then he started (trying) to mix, but was appallingly off beat every time he did. When he started playing one of my favourite Vsnares tracks - the Doormouse Megamix I recall turning to my friend in the crowd and saying ‘if he fucks this one up theres no hope for him’ and mere seconds later he did. Bah. Aaron Spectre was a bit of a let down too, it seemed odd that everyone was using decks, especially for mr Spectre, as he usually has his mp3 collection plus MIDI controllers at the ready. He was still pretty good, but not a patch on the other times I’ve seen him. MAJOR LOWLIGHT: Missing Bogdan! AAAAGGHH! Us stupid fucks standing downstairs waiting for him to come on while he was playing upsatirs. D’oh! Major downer.

Anyways here’s the rest of the weekend in video form:

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