Summer so far, and exciting festival news.

Electrelane

I’m staying in Portugal for the Summer, and I’m very excited to be going to two Portuguese music festivals, Paredes de Coura and Milhoes de Festa.

Paredes de Coura only costs €75 for 4 days plus camping and has an amazing lineup! I’m most looking forward to seeing Warpaint. I absolutely love this band at the moment and I was meant to see them in Birmingham in May but I had an exam the next day at 9am..but now I get to see them in sunny Portugal, yay! Also excited about Crystal Castles (I’ve wanted to see them for a long time), Death From Above 1979, Two Door Cinema Club, Metronomy, Deerhunter and Esben and the Witch. There’s also quite a lot of bands that I haven’t heard of, or have heard of, but never got round to listening to, so it will be nice to hear some new music and maybe discover new favourite bands. The other festival is called Milhoes de Festa (literally, Millions of Party) and I’m only really going to see Electrelane headline on the last day because I’ve actually never heard of any of the other artists except the Vivian Girls, who are playing the previous day. It’s only €20 and it seems like a nice little festival (and it has a swimming pool!) so why not? I’m very happy I get to see two of my favourite bands this year, but especially Electrelane because they had stopped playing and I thought I would never get to see them play ever! And I’ll take lots of photos no doubt, and post them on here and my Flickr account.