I’ve reached the end of my festival experience, in that I’m actually now back in Sheffield. I’ve updated, belatedly I admit (the last 4 days of the festival I was without the internet, or the time to do any kind of worthwhile updating), to the point at which I still had time to do any blogging or pausing.
However, what I consequently worked I had no time to blog, and with the festival having come to its end and with it my experience of it, I don’t really feel it would be honest to retrospectively blog from this far down the line (three days). Also, the two shows were some of the biggest of the festival, and resultantly there are plenty of accounts of them out there, which most of you will have read no doubt.
They were of course Bjork’s new project Biophilia, and Amadou & Mariam’s long-awaited “sensuary experience”, Eclipse.
Both were completely fantastic and wholly stimulating, staggering, impressive and highly unique experiences for me, and I can’t be bothered to try and do either of them justice in the written word, as well as the above reasons for not writing them up. I mean, everyone’s read about Bjork (I know this from me trying to disseminate my experience of the show to others and being told “Right yeah I read that. Yep.”), and I reviewed Amadou and Mariam on BBC Manchester Radio, which a lot of you have listened to I know (for those that haven’t, here’s the link, it’s still got a couple of days: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00hvxbt - I’m on around 11 minutes in).
And so I leave you with this Culture Show overview of the festival, featuring interviews with Marina Abramovich, Damn Albarn, Victoria Wood and more. It’s great, really informative.
I also saw the free stuff in the Whittworth Gallery, along with blagging a seat for Shakespeare’s As You Like It, which was hilarious and a really good version. Anyway, like I said, I just can’t be bothered to write about any of this shit any more.
Never wanted to anyway.
