Gwyl Macs Fest Roll Call [Archive] - Forever Delayed

Amanda

28-08-2006, 15:36

With all the inevitability of something somewhat obvious we're going - and even more shockingly we were thinking of getting there early :)

In answer to you question in the other thread a month or so ago he was looking like starting at 9 for a 40-45 minute set, I dunno if thats changed since though - it could be worth emailing to ask as they are very very helpful so would soon let you know if it has changed.

Takk

28-08-2006, 16:05

With all the inevitability of something somewhat obvious we're going - and even more shockingly we were thinking of getting there early :)

:D

In answer to you question in the other thread a month or so ago he was looking like starting at 9 for a 40-45 minute set, I dunno if thats changed since though - it could be worth emailing to ask as they are very very helpful so would soon let you know if it has changed.

Yeah, I think I will email them. On their myspace it says the times should be up soon.

Amanda

28-08-2006, 17:33

Yeah, I think I will email them. On their myspace it says the times should be up soon.

You've probably already seen this but they've updated their myspace and he's on at 22.55 if you haven't.

linguistics_die_easily

28-08-2006, 17:47

Im going *yay*
Hopefully getting there for 9am...if all goes well that is.
Ooh he's on quite late.

Takk

28-08-2006, 17:53

You've probably already seen this but they've updated their myspace and he's on at 22.55 if you haven't.

No, I hadn't, so cheers. That's quite late! Guess it means I can get there later on, wonder when they stop letting you park.

Nicola17

28-08-2006, 18:00

Yep, I'm going too :D I'm travelling up by train on the Friday, as I wouldn't get there till Saturday evening otherwise.

Terminal Young Thing

28-08-2006, 22:24

This one I am going to. Does anybody fancy giving two lost souls a lift back to Swansea the Saturday night?

go_buzz_baby

28-08-2006, 22:47

we are all camping on sat night and driving home sunday - camping is free with the ticket

Amanda

28-08-2006, 23:04

Otherwise theres a train back to Swansea about half two in the morning as I was looking at getting back at one point and you caught that then changed - I don't think its far from the festival to the station but I don't know how easy it will be to get there. Camping definitely seemed the easiest option though.

jessicatrash

28-08-2006, 23:57

I'm going. With Babycham. ;)

Lindz Delirium

29-08-2006, 10:00

me and Janeybint. 22.55?! Fucking hell.

maive

29-08-2006, 10:20

Im going, travelling down on the Friday night - the train at 2:30am is the boat train from Fishguard - I would check at your nearest station or Rail Enquiries about the exact time of this train as the timetable changes quite frequently and the National Rail website does not always have the most up to date information for this route!!

closemyeyes

30-08-2006, 13:37

You've probably already seen this but they've updated their myspace and he's on at 22.55 if you haven't.

:cool: Thanks for that info, Amanda - much later :surprise:

Oh, and this is probably the saddest question ever, but has anyone been to the Showground because I was wondering just how muddy it might be??

go_buzz_baby

30-08-2006, 14:00

closemyeyes

30-08-2006, 15:54

http://www.myspace.com/gwylmacsfest

has a picture of the cow shed that is the main stage (so its indoors) and im sure ive read somewhere most of the venues are liked by proper paths

im still trying to convince myself heals will be approprate

and my boss keeps recomendednd me place to go in carmarthan (hes from there)

Thanks for that! :cool:

I'm just hoping the rain that's been forecast doesn't appear. Even if some things are indoors, it's still annoying getting about when it's wet. The "proper paths" bit sounds good though!

4REAL

31-08-2006, 22:27

I couldnt go, so Im going to see Huski at Stay Beautiful instead!

maive

01-09-2006, 13:20

Just checked the weather for this weekend its absolutely going to hammer it down - muddy cowshed here we come!!!

Jennie Wren

01-09-2006, 13:28

Enjoy yourselves :P

clashboy

03-09-2006, 22:22

any news on how it went?

Nicola17

03-09-2006, 22:28

I'm so tired I can barely think, but apart from the rain, it was brilliant. I took loads of photos, but I'm going to sort them out tomorrow before I fall asleep at the computer.

Hanna

04-09-2006, 08:38

Woke up way too early today (considering I got back home from Gwyl Macs at 1am last night) and sorted out my photos since I had nothing better to do and there weren't that many of them anyway..

http://enola.spinspinsugar.net/MSP/NWSS/wire3/02.jpg

The rest are here (http://enola.spinspinsugar.net)

linguistics_die_easily

04-09-2006, 10:16

They're lovely photos Hanna :D Mine are being taken in today to get developed but they won't be back till Thursday as im having them out on disc :( (Im impatient).

I had a great time despite the weather and Nicky looked amazing and was all lovely :heart:

I have to go to a job interview in a couple of hours and im not very sure if i'll be able to make much sense as im still getting over it all.

maive

04-09-2006, 10:29

Awesome pics there! Nicky was superb, first time ive seen him solo and was very impressed - wasnt particularly impressed with the organisation at Macs tho, allowing the bands earlier on in the day to over run appeared to bite back at the end of the day when they were making others cut back their sets. The Crimea had the lights turned out on them in the middle of their final song, Nicky came very close to having the lights turned off on him and was forced to cut a fair bit out of his set.

Quite a poor turnout if I were the organisers I would be extremely dissappointed I expect they made a loss on the event and I guess the weather deterred those who would have turned up on the day.

We arrived Saturday morning in the worst of the weather and pitched our tents, did our best to dry off then headed over to the cow shed - i take my hat off to those of you who spent the whole day at the barrier that is quite hardcore - I just loitered around the burger vans!

go_buzz_baby

04-09-2006, 10:41

it wasnt so bad on the barrier, we were inside so dry, but it wins the award for worlds most pointless queing ever as we were queing under a shelterd bit and hadent relised about 30 people had gone in and to the bar already
still it was all good fun, tea and cake and babycham the night befor i wouldnt have wanted to miss that though could have done without the 5am waking up to being rained on

lovely photos hanna i have to finish off my film tonight (poinless photos of my walls probbley) and send of the film so wont have them back for a week or so

the singer from the crymear jumped into the croud for the last song so they couldnt stop him i dont know why they didnt turn of the sound as its not like "ohh the lights have gone out we cant play anymore" i was enjoyinh them up untill they over ran possible thing of buying the album but now im just anoyed with them (yes i know im fickle)

Nicky only cut one song off the written set list but were also planning to do others aparently

wonderful wonderful man and his band is lovely too and generally im just really happy if somewhat tired

maive

04-09-2006, 11:08

Dancing Kirby

04-09-2006, 11:11

Nicky wins over two fans of The Automatic. Yay!

Nicky Wire was amazing actually, so much better than i was expecting

watched The crimea and Nicky Wire at the front, who were both a lot better than I thought they would be, especially Nicky Wire.

http://www.theautomatic.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?id=4

Takk

04-09-2006, 11:43

I bought The Crimea's album on the way home yesterday it is very good - all my clothes were soaked and smelly so I looked like a tramp wandering around Swansea yesterday lunchtime in a pair of dodgy shorts and flip flops! Also pre-ordered Nicky's album when I got home!

Yeah, I think I might buy the crimea's album, they were pretty good.

Nicky was good, very impressive, even with his voice. I have to say I couldn't stop myself from giggling during Goodbye Suicide, I'm not sure why, just his vocals. The end was pretty good really, although a bit annoying he had to cut stuff out of his set...

I think I'll brave seeing him solo acoustically, you have to admit he was good because of his band live, they really made the songs.

closemyeyes

04-09-2006, 12:05

......the singer from the crymear jumped into the croud for the last song so they couldnt stop him i dont know why they didnt turn of the sound as its not like "ohh the lights have gone out we cant play anymore" i was enjoyinh them up untill they over ran possible thing of buying the album but now im just anoyed with them (yes i know im fickle)

Nicky only cut one song off the written set list but were also planning to do others aparently

I wondered why they didn't turn the sound off too. I hate the Crimea - what an arrogant, rude, selfish thing to do. They were signalled to to stop and they just carried on - that song lasted 10 minutes. And then they had the fucking cheek to sing another too. Pathetic, IMO....

wonderful wonderful man and his band is lovely too and generally im just really happy if somewhat tired

Yes, Nicky was so sweet afterwards. :heart: We had a fantastic time - although my brain aches from tiredness. :D

Nicky's voice sounded great (even though the sound system there wasn't particularly good). He looked gorgeous - I'm definitely a fan of that white suit now!

Thank you for that beautiful pic and link, Hanna.

Piia

04-09-2006, 14:05

closemyeyes

04-09-2006, 14:25

My photos are now up on my website (http://www.kolumbus.fi/piia.ikonen). Here are a few tasters:

http://www.kolumbus.fi/piia.ikonen/nicky3/02.jpg

http://www.kolumbus.fi/piia.ikonen/nicky3/12.jpg

http://www.kolumbus.fi/piia.ikonen/nicky3/15.jpg

And thank you too, Piia! :cool:

It's great to see such beautiful photos. Both of you have taken much better pics than I ever could have. *appreciative*

relic

04-09-2006, 16:06

Oh god, he's gorgeous isn't he? I am so jealous I could spit.

linguistics_die_easily

04-09-2006, 17:04

My photos are now up on my website (http://www.kolumbus.fi/piia.ikonen). Here are a few tasters:

http://www.kolumbus.fi/piia.ikonen/nicky3/02.jpg

http://www.kolumbus.fi/piia.ikonen/nicky3/12.jpg

http://www.kolumbus.fi/piia.ikonen/nicky3/15.jpg

They're lovely :)

Yes i quite liked Crimea until they decided to carry on and run over their time! Im very thankful it was in the cowshed as all day barrier-ness would have been quite bad in the rain.

Lindz Delirium

04-09-2006, 21:21

Half of my Gwyl Macs photos are here at Delirium (http://delirium-on-helium.co.uk/gwylmacs.html)and I'll try to put up the other half tomorrow along with the gig audio and a couple of video clips.

relic

04-09-2006, 21:49

I gotta say Lindz, I'm particularly intrigued by the last one. :p

deafmute

05-09-2006, 03:03

Thank you for pics, everybody. :)

Takk

05-09-2006, 09:17

They're lovely :)

Yes i quite liked Crimea until they decided to carry on and run over their time! Im very thankful it was in the cowshed as all day barrier-ness would have been quite bad in the rain.

True, although I assume they wanted to finish their set as much as Nicky did, so presumably we can't blame them really - although did they just take too long?

Takk

05-09-2006, 09:18

I gotta say Lindz, I'm particularly intrigued by the last one. :p

Well, if you like that you'd have loved him sticking his microphone into the crowd ;)...

_Bloo_

05-09-2006, 13:19

Mmmm Nicky. I'm still made up that I got to hear him play Ocean Rain. And very thankful that it was inside a cattle shed and out of the rain.

jessicatrash

05-09-2006, 15:08

Well, that was all rather good. I love the Crimea, so them and Nicky one after the other was awesome. :D

Even if we did end up leaving and getting the train back to Cardiff in the middle of the night because our tent was so waterlogged... damn weather!

_Bloo_

05-09-2006, 19:14

I'd have probably liked the Crimea more if they'd not over run and made Nicky drop a couple of songs and if the sound quality of the cattle shed hadn't made everything sound like it was being pumped through a giant shoe. However, the lead singer entering the crowd made it easier to get from the bar to the second row for Wire - bwuhahaha

barry1985

05-09-2006, 19:46

Nobody

05-09-2006, 19:56

can anyone tell us what the setlist was?

relic

05-09-2006, 20:08

can anyone tell us what the setlist was?

My photos are now up on my website.

Piia has a photo of the setlist on her website. Go to Nicky solo stuff, and then to Gwyl Macs sub folder. The setlist, I think, is the last picture.

Nobody

05-09-2006, 20:26

thanks!

he played some of Blur's Beetlebum and motown junk?

go_buzz_baby

05-09-2006, 20:40

but they had to cut nicky wires last

Amanda

05-09-2006, 20:42

yup, but the setlist isn't quite right as he had to drop (nicky wire's) last, which he described as his favourite song and there was no condemened to rock'n'roll. Also from despair got used as the intro to ocean rain rather than sehnsucht, or at least i'm pretty sure it did.

Nicola17

05-09-2006, 22:10

Most of them are a bit crap and I always end up with about 20 identical photos, but I've uploaded my photos here: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v664/Nicola123/Wire%20Carmarthen/

4REAL

06-09-2006, 00:07

Nickys hair is getting nice and long. Just how I like it :D

Lindz Delirium

06-09-2006, 08:45

more photos including some backstage ones now at Delirium (http://www.delirium-on-helium.co.uk/gwylmacs.html), there are a couple of pics not working but I will have to sort those out tonight.

_Bloo_

06-09-2006, 11:32

i remember you. that was swift moving, nicely timed!

It would've been a lot more slick and less of a tumble if we'd not been at the beer ^_^

linguistics_die_easily

06-09-2006, 11:46

more photos including some backstage ones now at Delirium (http://www.delirium-on-helium.co.uk/gwylmacs.html), there are a couple of pics not working but I will have to sort those out tonight.

:lol: The last photo before the backstage ones is so scarily funny!
Great photos Lindz :D

And Nicola yours are lovely too :)

Nicola17

06-09-2006, 20:23

There's a review here: http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0900entertainment/0050artsnews/tm_objectid=17685833&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=review--gwyl-macs-festival-name_page.html:

Anticipation was high for Nicky Wire. Manics fans wearing eyeliner and leopard skin had waited for their favourite bassist since the venue opened, some travelling from as far away as Finland.

When he took the stage in a white suit and matching hat he looked the consummate rock star, although it soon became clear why he was never lead singer in the Manics.

Still, he kept his fans happy and ready for the main attraction

Hanna

06-09-2006, 20:35

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YMk6xZ8sB8 57 seconds of Daydremer Eyes. Not that good though, sorry. :D I wasn't exactly looking at my camera when I shot it and the quality isn't that amazing either.

Takk

07-09-2006, 12:43

i remember you. that was swift moving, nicely timed!

I take it you were the guy with Barry on your back? ;).

Lindz Delirium

07-09-2006, 14:44

a couple of little video clips that I shot at Gwyl macs...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDpltGjX1do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z49k1jQqi5k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N-UbhnKBNo

barry1985

07-09-2006, 20:02

I take it you were the guy with Barry on your back? ;).

yep that was me. not very hard to spot. least people i had never seen in my life new my name! and ye the tshirt was designed by lindz delirium. you were at hay as well if i remember rightly?

barry1985

07-09-2006, 20:05

sorry am thinking about the wrong person! anyway did you enjoy the gig?

linguistics_die_easily

07-09-2006, 23:14

Got my photo's back today and they're here:
http://s102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/Solo_Wire/Gwyl%20Macs%20Festival/
if anyone wants to look.

deafmute

08-09-2006, 01:42

Got my photo's back today and they're here:
http://s102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/Solo_Wire/Gwyl%20Macs%20Festival/
if anyone wants to look.

Thank you, Aimi! :D
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/Solo_Wire/Gwyl%20Macs%20Festival/Gwyl21.jpg
:up: love this one!!! awww... :heart:

relic

08-09-2006, 08:33

a couple of little video clips that I shot at Gwyl macs...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDpltGjX1do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z49k1jQqi5k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N-UbhnKBNo

Thanks for sharing Lindz. :D