Roadburn

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The gloom and doom has translated to the weather for Saturday, being a bit grey and showery. Good for the garden, they say, hence our starting the day entering the church to the sound of dawn/mid-afternoon chorus of spring time birdsong, and the eccentric entity that is Botanist (above). A one-man black metal project grown into a band for live, the cowled monks of this unnatural order mix hammered dulcimers, multi-string bass, some squeeze box organ type thing to create explosive harsh viciousness sharply contrasted to delicate ambience of outdoor sounds. Fascinating.More

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After our lengthy expeditioning and no let up with the bands of the previous day it took a few false starts to actually summon the energy and will power to return for more on the Friday. But it was another sunny day and therefore I could fool myself that I was having some civilised cultural holiday as I wandered back to get the cobwebs, the spiders, and probably a few layers of skin blasted away by the feral black metal onslaught of Iceland’s Svartidaudi (above).More

Ah Roadburn, my old friend. I might have only been to your party twice previously but now I’m here for your 20^th, made to feel welcome and to have my excitement fulfilled under tsunami waves of all manner of reverberating amped-up heavy vibes from all over the world. The last couple of years I had perceived the line-up getting a bit too psychedelic/proggy for my tastes (what, like I’m straight edge or something…) but this year, with no Hellfest on the cards and a wanderlust still to be satisfied, it seemed some of the cream of the underground extremities had been cherry picked to appeal to me here, and I am not known for my resistance to temptation!

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