Photos of Electrelane

Here are some more photos I took of Electrelane performing at Milhoes de Festa this Sunday (24/07/2011)

Electrelane

Electrelane

Electrelane

Electrelane

Milhoes de Festa

This Sunday I spent the day in a small town called Barcelos (Portugal) at an amazing little festival called Milhoes de Festa which ran from 23/07 – 25/07.

It was great. We arrived at around 1pm and went straight to the ‘swimming pool stage’ which had various bands and DJs performing throughout the afternoon and listened while we cooled off in the pool. It was a very hot day and I’m sorry to say that in true British style, I ended the day with slightly pink shoulders (despite applying factor 30!).

In the evening we went to the mainstage. We got there at around 7.30pm and watched We Trust – a relatively new Portuguese band – who have become famous with the track ‘Time (Better Not Stop).’ I like ‘Time’ but wasn’t that keen on their other music, which was really quite different in style from their best song. I do recommend that you check out the video to ‘Time (Better Not Stop)’ however, it’ pretty impressive.

After We Trust finished we had to wait quite a while for Electrelane to set up their equipment – which they explained afterwards was because their airline had lost some of their equipment and that they had had to borrow from the other bands.

Anyway…Electrelane were absolutely amazing. I was right in the front row, about 10 metres from the stage, and managed to take some brilliant photos. I loved every minute of their set, from their well-known stuff (‘Cut and Run’, ‘To The East’ etc.) to some of the songs I was not quite so familiar with. They didn’t communicate with the audience much, but came back for an encore to sing their wonderful Bruce Springsteen cover ‘I’m On Fire.’ Never having seen them live before, I was (for some reason) really surprised their musical talent. Seriously, these girls are bad-ass musicians, they totally own their instruments. I was also shocked at how many instruments Verity Susman played during the set. She had two pianos (that she sometimes played at the same time), her guitar, a saxaphone, and of course, sang lead vocals. Serious respect.

I’m very pleased I got my opportunity to see Electrelane play live, I hope they keep performing, and maybe they’ll even bring out some new music. Fingers crossed.

Here are some photos I took!

Electrelane performing at Milhoes de Festa