So, my first experience of the Primavera Sound festival was, on the whole, pretty awesome. Primavera is one of Spain’s largest music festivals, and takes place annually in late May/June at the Parc del Fòrum In Barcelona (Primavera is Spanish for Spring, by the way – so in England this would have been the ‘Spring Sound Festival’. God, our language sucks sometimes). It’s got a lot going for it – alively and exotic host city, seafront location, a great line-up, the chance to watch Pulp perform “Common People” at two-thirty in the morning to a hugely-psyched crowd in 18 degrees heat with a Balearic breeze at your back… Continue reading Primavera→
Tron is one of the most visually distinctive films of all time – nothing has looked quite like it before or since. Whilst the pixelated virtual computer world it depicts is inner rather than outer space, it manages to look more alien than almost any other extraterrestrial landscape we’ve seen in science fiction cinema. The aesthetic is extrapolated from the film’s premise, a concept that was also fairly novel for film in 1982. The plot is in itself mostly generic, but holds up reasonably well, and serves its purpose as a delivery mechanism for awe-inspiring visuals and concepts perfectly adequately.
