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00:53 *Team Brick* A man shouts foreign (or made-up) words & thumps a drum, with live loops, bass burps and shimmery feedback. We giggle. Art, eh? #
03:26 *Aphex Twin* Drums rattle & skitter, bass pulses, bleeps & the odd sample sit on top. Good dancey fun, but more conventional than I expected #
03:29 ... until the last 10 minutes, when he brutally machineguns the audience with massive bass judders, strobes, 200000 bpm drums, and shrieking #

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13:53 Fun: Staying up late drinking and rambling before Aphex Twin. Unfun: Queueing for an hour only to find we should have started a bit earlier. #
19:12 *Damo Suzuki* A man shouts over a motley collection of improvising instrumentalists. Invigorating, then you realise it's not really changing #
19:37 *Boris* Old-school fast shouty metal, then suddenly a rather good jazz number, puzzlingly incorporating a long cock-rock guitar solo. Huh? #
22:06 *Madlib Medicine Show* J-Rock's kick-ass turntablism, underwhelming rap from the Supreme Team, then fun live drums and samples. A mixed bag. #
22:06 *Sunn O)))* Bass drone & monk chants from an empty, cloudy stage. The best bits were the camp emergency messages, and they were accidental. #
23:18 *Malakai* Charming indie rock with eclectic bits of blues, electronica and Beach Boys; played with verve and skill. Great, bouncey fun. #

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01:45 *Portishead again* Live footage on the screens, but black & white and distorted, like ghosts appearing on a CCTV feed of an empty stage. #
01:53 *Fuck Buttons* 2 manic guys with laptops, a drum and other bits'n'bobs. Big, fuzzy, warm, throbbing and dirty; like fucking Cookie Monster. #
14:29 *Oneida* It's no mean feat to fill this venue with throbbing drums & chugging. They don't do much else, but it's visceral stuff, literally. #
14:46 Buzzed on cava cocktails, shambling to & fro across a psychedelic LED-studded carpet through standing waves of guitar feedback and drum echo #
16:08 *Autolux* Pleasing vocals, textured guitar backing, decent drumming; adding up to perfectly adequate indie. After 20 mins, I'd had enough. #
16:34 *Malcolm Middleton* Self-indulgently mopey indie, redeemed by self-awareness & humour. "Being shit is great." Bit folky, bit electronic, ace #
18:03 *GZA* Raw, fist-pumping black hip-hop for fey, chin-stroking white indie-kids. "How y'all doing, Minehead?" "We be keepin' shit incongruous" #
20:38 *Julian Cope* Rambling old acid-burned rock'n'roll from the affabley apocalyptic old hippie. Endearing if, ultimately, not very interesting. #
22:04 Coversation turns phallocentric:
"I don't really like scrotums so I left it off."
"I'd rather have a dinosaur for a cock than a lobster." #

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09:39 Festival fashion dither: standard indie-kid uniform of jeans and t-shirts, or pinstripe suit? It's hard having no need to dress practically. #
16:39 Driven through dusk towards the seaside, listening to quirky electronica, dreaming, and staring at the sky. The weekend begins early & well. #
16:50 *Shared experience* I write my Twitter in silence. 30 secs later my fellow passengers twitch as they receive it. Sometimes Twitter is silly. #
20:26 *The Horrors* Speed goth by stroppy, spindly, somewhat pompous teenagers. Murky guitars, growly vocals, splurgy organ. Quite sweet really. #
23:24 *Portishead* Lush, precise, measured, textured, haunting, with that astonishing voice dominating it all. 1st gig for 10 years, good as ever. #

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