Frank makes his first appearance at Supersonic 2010 photo Bunny Bissoux
A massive thank you to all the artists, our incredible team and of course our audience for making this years Supersonic Festival a truly remarkable event. It is always such a pleasure to welcome back old friends and make new ones. Thank you & we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
We will start posting up our Supersonic Collective memory over the next few days, so feel free to send your comments, blog post links and photos to us.
Supersonic photos should be added to our Flickr group (if you could tag them with band name & supersonic 2010)
SUPERSONIC QUESTIONNAIRE
We know that people who come to SUPERSONIC are a knowledgeable and opinionated lot so we’d like to ask for your assistance to develop and improve the next festival by answering a few questions about you and your experience. This should take no more than 6 minutes of your time, and your feedback is greatly appreciated.
Your answers here will aid us in keeping costs down and in making sure new and interesting artists will keep coming to the festival – so your input really does matter in making SUPERSONIC work.
Some nice press quotes:
“Supersonic Festival is one of the most celebrated dates on the UK festival calendar.” Clash Magazine
“Birmingham’s “foremost purveyors of what is interesting, exciting and invigorating about music in the twenty-first century” strike gold again at this year’s Supersonic festival” Bearded Magazine
“Always brave, always new and always excitedly different.” Virgin.com
“Not for the casual music imbiber, this is the perfect, in fact the only place to be if you want to be challenged, inspired, and even occasionally shocked as well as amused and entertained. Cerebral and visceral – this could just be the ideal music festival experience.” TLOBF
“Supersonic Festival, bringing forward a mouth-watering banquet with a taste for pure and unadulterated sound, verging on the eccentric, the unexpected and the just plain bizarre” Sound Sphere Magazine
Reviews:
Bearded Magazine
Fact Magazine
Gonzo Circus (Netherlands) Fri/Sat/ Sun
Music OMH
The Word
The Music Fix
Sssend – For electronic music
The Quietus
KindaMuzik.net (Netherlands)
Drowned In Sound
Sonic Abuse
Fused Magazine
Virgin.com
The Line Of Best Fit
Spheremag
Clash Magazine
ATTN:Magazine
SoundSphere Magazine
Brum Live
Blog Reviews:
Platform by rosiemackie
Platform by Ross Cotton
First Fold at Supersonic
Quaint Living
Get A Grip
Prick Your Finger
Birmingham Jazz
Khyam Allami
Asheq – Fri/Sat/Sun
mapsadaisical
Bunny Bissoux – (includes photo of Frank the pup)
3by3
Glass Candle Grenades
noimspartacus
King Midas Sound
Mr.Underwood – talks about his kids gig, noise box workshop and also as part of Lash Frenzy
Punch-noise posterous + Edge Trinkets
Bottle in My Stomach
MTV Blog
The Rock Club
Demon Pigeon
E-festivals – Fri/Sat/Sun + photos
Proskynesis (Poland)
Brighlight
Thrash Hits
Amplificasom (Portuguese)
Alanas artwork
Fierce Festival
El Peso De La Vida (Spanish)
The Garbage Dump (Spanish) Fri/Sat/Sun
Toby Mearing – review of Stinky Wizzleteat
Chris Hathway
Russ L – Sonic Boom
Radio:
Rhubarb Radio – play back includes Tweak Bird, Pierre Bastien, Factory Floor, Hallogallo and Jailbreak + The Quietus show
Photos:
Pete Ashton – Nisennenmondai
Supersonic Festival Flickr group
Videos:
Here’s a selection of videos from YouTube. If you have a video of your own, or any others that you would like to share, post a link in the comments section at the bottom of the page. In no particular order::
Peter Broderick
oVo
Devilman
Cloaks
King Midas Sound
Nisennenmondai
Gum Takes Tooth
Godflesh
Blue Sabbath Black Fiji
Lash Frenzy vs. KK Null
Gnod
Cave
Dethscalator
Jailbreak
Pierre Bastien
Bong
Voice Of The Seven Thunders
Hallogallo
Melt Banana
Nic Bullen
Drum Corps
James Blackshaw
Swans
Ruins
Zeni Geva
Barn Owl
Eagle Twin
Fukpig
Gnaw
Master Musicians Of Bukkake
Lichens
Mothlite
Mugstar
Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides
Steve Tromans & Dan Nicholls
Other:
Last Fm – Supersonic group
My videos of Godflesh’s set can be viewed here http://www.youtube.com/user/andywallisUK
Think these little GIFs turned out okay:
http://twitpic.com/30gsgu – Health and Efficiency
http://twitpic.com/30jq4k – Factory Floor
Also I was attempting to graph people’s happiness based on Tweets with the #ssonic hashtag (it works by comparing words against a huge database of emotion values):
http://upthear.se/ssonic
Big dip on Saturday night I’d attribute to people talking about Naplam Death (‘death’ being a poorly scoring word) – the dip in happiness when people awoke on Sunday I’d blame more on the beer…
Supersonic Festival 2010 – The One-Sentence Review
by Pete Green on Wednesday, 27 October 2010 at 21:06
What:
The brilliant Supersonic Festival 2010 – featuring crazy beats, killer riffs, children’s toys, toffee apple cake and two men wearing Simon Cowell masks.
Who:
Pete – Hobbit-sized riff-guzzler.
Spud – Sarcastic, coffee-addicted designated driver.
Necro Matt and Necro Al.
Matthew Hopkins Witchfinder General + Mrs Liz Witchfinder General.
Sleeping Sheepman Lee.
Some guy I met on a train.
About 2,000 others.
Where:
The ugly, freezing, grotty confines of Birmingham’s Custard Factory.
When:
22-24 Ocotber, 2010.
Quote Of The Weekend:
Pete: “How the hell does he get gigs?! He should be on a kids’ TV show!”
Spud: “He should be in prison.”
Worst Heckle Of The Weekend:
Some oxygen-starved nimwit during Napalm Death: “You’re better than Extreme Noise Terror!”
Bands Seen:
FRIDAY
Necro Deathmort: Break the entering festival-dwellers in nicely with a titanic slab of techno-psych-doom; like Fatboy Slim stuck on a desert island with Sunn O))).
Fukpig: Intimidating, throbbing and brutal grindcore, inter-spliced with intricate Eastern-influenced guitar leads and funny banter; think the Mitchell Brothers out on the lagers with Cannibal Corpse.
Drumcorps: Awkward and poorly executed one-man breakbeat industrial crunk act; tried to be both Venetian Snares and White Zombie, ended up looking like Wednesday 13 lost in a children’s nursery full of instruments.
Napalm Death: The masters of grindcore do what they do best and floor an audience of eager black-hoodied metallers with a classic attack of blastbeats, buzzsaw riffage and Barney Greenway’s aggressive hippy rants about “PEACE!”.
Dead Fader: Only caught a glimpse, but was something techno and Mac-book-related.
SATURDAY:
Eagle Twin: Astonishingly dirty, heavy stoner-blues from the fast-rising and Southern Lord-endorsed baritone- guitar/drums duo; the sound of Sleep having pizza and a sleepover at Uncle Billy Gibbons’ house.
Gnaw: This is as terrifyingly extreme as it gets with the punishing, harrowing chords and screams of these noise-doomers; featuring ex-members of Thorr’s Hammer, Khanate and Burning Witch and sick, twisted visuals.
Cloaks: Explosive dubstep DJ playing the best in hardcore funk.
Stinky Wizzleteat: Two-piece sludge-doom band find an idiot on the drizzly streets of Birmingham and make him their vocalist with hilarious mosh-tastic results; think Lou and Andy from Little Britain fronting Iron Monkey.
OvO: Italian drum/bass duo with THE BIGGEST DRUMMER IN THE WORLD and an unusual vocal sound; death-metal in the circus-tent of doom.
King Midas Sound: Enormous beats, enormous funk, enormous energy.
Tweak Bird: The stoner rock n’ roll brothers get the crowd going with catchy, chugging riffs and pounding drums, combined with live saxophone, flute and clarinet; heavy hipster harmonics.
Godflesh: A hush descends as the smoke billows for the long-awaited return of the headliners and they do not disappoint – skyscraper metallic riffs accompany a sonic wall of electronic drums programmed specially to jar every bone on sight; drum n’ bass for Satan.
Melt Banana: Spazztastic two-piece Japanese noisecore act, who play like possessed demons for 30minutes before morphing into a four-piece J-rock band; like Boris watching The Exorcist with the Cheeky Girls.
SUNDAY:
BONG: The doom-drone Geordies get a great reception to their swirling, hypnotic, medieval trance-anthems.
Pierre Bastien & Male Instrumenty: A Frenchman making music with what can only be described as a large Meccano set, a trumpet with a boules ball attached and a glass of water, followed up by five burly men playing an assortment of Polish children’s toys; madder than a sectioned hare, but fascinating!
Peter Broderick: The former Efterklang main-man unveils his astonishingly beautiful solo voice, accompanied by skilful mastering of the acoustic guitar, violin, keyboard, loop-tracks and, errrrm, a saw.
Ruins Alone: A magnificent Yoshida Tatsuya ploughs through a mesmerising 25 minutes of solo drumming, inturn using said tub-thumping to trigger the rest of his old band’s technical hardcore sounds.
Mothlite: “Supersonic 2010 needs some pop!” declares Daniel O’Sullivan in-between launching into another soulful bass and synth-heavy anthem, reminiscent of Shiny Toy Guns or a diet Nine Inch Nails.
James Blackshaw: Slightly self-indulgent solo twelve-string guitarist provides a chill-out zone in The Old Library.
Khyam Allami and Master Musicians of Bukkake: Take an ice-age to set up eight tonnes of equipment before plodding through some keyboard and lute-dominant Eastern folk music; a tad dull and disappointing.
Factory Floor: Rather drunken and monotonous disco stomp from the East Londoners had me wondering what all the hype was about; essentially samey drum n’ bass with soft female vocals.
Chrome Hoof: A vintage performance from the silver-cloaked nine-piece steals the festival with Cathedral’s Leo Smee’s bass leading a funk-roc k extravaganza featuring mammoth riffs, saxophones, and more soul than James Brown’s shoes!
Hallogallo: Neu!/Kraftwerk legend Michael Rother leads the semi-headliners’ charge of upbeat Krautrock and electronica, delighting a packed outside-tent crowd with their memorable classics.
Dethscalator: Awfully drunk and sloppy metallers bring the Old Library stage down with a flop; terrible.
SWANS: I must admit, it isn’t my thing or my era, but the grand-dads of alternative hardcore seemed far more mellow than their reputation for sonic destruction suggested; they still brought smiles and tears of joy to their adoring followers though, so I must be wrong!
We’ve now added the following Rhubarb Radio recordings for listen again:
Steve Tromans and Dan Nicholls Live
Dosh Live, and interview with Stuart from Mogwai
OvO Live
http://www.rhubarbradio.com/programmes/supersonic-festival-2010/
http://kingmidassound.blogspot.com/
Respect Jenny/Lisa…We had an amazing weekend
k-bug
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From Portugal: http://amplificasom.blogspot.com/2010/10/uns-dias-em-bham.html
2xblog 🙂
1st includes samosas.
http://roadofentities2.blogspot.com/2010/10/heavenand-samosas.html
http://roadofentities2.blogspot.com/2010/10/supersonic.html
The Swans:
Poor quality visuals, but good sound quality.
My vid’ NOT The Swans.
Friday – Arrive at hotel for about 8.30, ask for directions and set off with map in hand. Keep walking through slightly run-down area I now know to be Digbeth. Hope that food available at venue. Pretty hungry. Find Custard Factory. Find queue. Join queue. Queue moves quickly. Crowd very good-natured. Into venue, wristband on. Enter Old Library. Loud, poundy noise. Necro Deathmort. Excellent. Pure Ubu available! Brilliant. Buy £6 worth of samosas for the two of us. Devour. Wander about. Find no food court. Where is 2nd stage? Get interviewed. But t-shirt. Wear t-shirt. need to keep warm. Catch other acts. Fukpig -fantastic. Napalm Death – terrific. Get taxi back. Cold, tired and ecstatic.
Saturday – wander round Bullring. Sniff haughtily in HMV at commercial offerings. Looking forward to marketplace. Light lunch. Afternoon nap. Walk to venue. Catch Eagle Twin, Gnaw, KK Null. Buy 2nd t-shirt. And CD. Put in mini-rucksack. Am prepared. Beer. Catch People Like Us. Godflesh. All I’d hoped for. Luminescent. Wangle place at front of stage for Melt Banana. Mental. Better than mental. Devise hopeless plan to leave wife and marry cute bassist in MB. Walk back to hotel. Brilliant day.
Sunday. Breakfast in Cafe Rouge. Chat to 3 fellow festival-goers. Lovely people. Park up near venue. See Swans soundcheck. Catch GPO film then Boredoms movie. More shopping. Shake Alan Dubin’s hand. Nice chap. Buy tea and cake. Catch more acts. Loved Black Sun. Nissenenemondai great. Jailbreak were flailing energy. Not impressed by FF or MMB, sadly. Michael Rother stunning. Very polite gentleman. Watched interview. Immer Weider tune of weekend for me. Almost wept. Swans. Loud. Too long? Had to head home up M6. Thank you for great weekend all at Supersonic. Thank you.
Friday – Arrive at hotel for about 8.30, ask for directions and set off with map in hand. Keep walking through slightly run-down area I now know to be Digbeth. Hope that food available at venue. Pretty hungry. Find Custard Factory. Find queue. Join queue. Queue moves quickly. Crowd very good-natured. Into venue, wristband on. Enter Old Library. Loud, poundy noise. Necro Deathmort. Excellent. Pure Ubu available! Brilliant. Buy £6 worth of samosas for the two of us. Devour. Wander about. Find no food court. Where is 2nd stage? Get interviewed. But t-shirt. Wear t-shirt. need to keep warm. Catch other acts. Fukpig -fantastic. Napalm Death – terrific. Get taxi back. Cold, tired and ecstatic.
Saturday – wander round Bullring. Sniff haughtily in HMV at commercial offerings. Looking forward to marketplace. Light lunch. Afternoon nap. Walk to venue. Catch Eagle Twin, Gnaw, KK Null. Buy 2nd t-shirt. And CD. Put in mini-rucksack. Am prepared. Beer. Catch People Like Us. Godflesh. All I’d hoped for. Luminescent. Wangle place at front of stage for Melt Banana. Mental. Better than mental. Devise hopeless plan to leave wife and marry cute bassist in MB. Walk back to hotel. Brilliant day.
Sunday. Breakfast in Cafe Rouge. Chat to 3 fellow festival-goers. Lovely people. Park up near venue. See Swans soundcheck. Catch GPO film then Boredoms movie. More shopping. Shake Alan Dubin’s hand. Nice chap. Buy tea and cake. Catch more acts. Loved Black Sun. Nissenenemondai great. Jailbreak were flailing energy. Not impressed by FF or MMB, sadly. Michael Rother stunning. Very polite gentleman. Watched interview. Immer Weider tune of weekend for me. Almost wept. Swans. Loud. Too long? Had to head home up M6. Thank you for great weekend all at Supersonic. Thank you.
See Below!
See Below!
here’s my review of the saturday, wish i could have been there for the rest, many thanks anyway
http://altbrit.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=reviews&action=display&thread=2469
Necro Deathmort – Beginning of Supersonic/End of the World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drwmsYwyyUk
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