CiB’s frequent flyers may know that 2007′s Supersonic collective memory was a thing of rare beauty, pulling together all sorts of mentions of the festival from across the interwires. This is an attempt at replicating that for Supersonic 2008.
[Update, 29 July 2008] I’ve noticed very little new stuff recently so I’m going to stop actively searching and have unsubscribed from my automated updates. However, if you produce/come across any writings/photos/videos/whatever about this year’s festival then please mention them in the comments and I’ll update this post.
On with the good stuff then…
Capsule/Supersonic themselves
Here’s the Supersonic website itself. If you had a good time at the festival you can say thanks to the Capsule ladies, Lisa & Jenny, on this Capsule blog post. Here’s the festival catalogue, digitised.
Previews
- Birmingham Mail
- Metro (and again)
- Drowned In Sound
- Cows Are Just Food (general plus pt 1 – Oxbow, pt 2 – Noxagt, pt 3 – DJ Scotch Egg, pt 4 – Cath & Phil Tyler)
- Strange Attractor
- Girl Aloud
- Fact Magazine
- 4Talent
- BBC
- Birmingham Post blog and interview with Capsule
- Vice and Vice Festival Previews (reproduced on Name Me Someone Thats Not A Parasite)
- The Quietus with podcast interview
- Itchy Birmingham
- The Guardian Guide
- Safe Concerts
- Prime Objective
Blogs
- Chris Unitt (here and a roundup)
- The Hearing Aid (Friday, Saturday and Sunday)
- Digbeth Slacker
- Ben Neal (Friday)
- Pete Ashton – Twitter roundup and further blog post
- Birmingham: It’s Not Shit
- Catnip
- Peapods
- Catherine Bray
- Prime Objective
- Digbeth Is Good
- French (here and here)
- Cows Are Just Food (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
- Safety in Numbers
- Tatsu001
- thegrotto.tk
- Man Walks Into A Bar
- 7 Inch Cinema
- Surely
- cc media
- Damon Allen Davison
- I shook the royal throne
- The Mark Out
- nos Açores não há açores – dia 1, dia 2, dia 3
- marmite_clock Live Journal
- Chris Hathway (with photos)
- one man dan’s dump
- Birmingham Live
- Outcrowd Collective
- Russ L
Other websites/mags
- Drowned in Sound (plus a passing mention of Supersonic ruining the single reviewer’s appreciation of pop music)
- Guardian
- Culturedeluxe
- 4Talent with interviews with Rolo Tomassi and Fuck Buttons
- Bearded Magazine
- Itchy Birmingham
- Southern Records
- Kerrang (magazine scan)
- Heathen Harvest
- ninehertz
- Rock Sound (magazine scan) pt 1 and pt 2
- Terrorizer (magazine scan)
- The Wire (magazine scan)
- Rock-A-Rolla (magazine scan) pt 1, pt 2 and pt 3
- Zero Tolerance (magazine scan)
Fora
Social networks
- Last.fm Supersonic event
- Twitter – ‘supersonic’ search on Summize
- Supersonic 08 Facebook event
- Supersonic MySpace
Photos
- Supersonic Flickr group
- abrinsky
- Midge Diabolik
- Terekhova
- compact col
- bibamatt
- malcolm8
- Peapod
- kukulaka
- Catnip
- shrinkwrapped
- sloejoe
- Bunny Bissoux
- lamentables
- Techno Self Harm
- marxs_beard
- JohnJohn2004
- pennymcconnell
- Damon Allen Davison
- shot2bits
- foxtrotyankee
- Sumlin
- possible_area
- Pete Ashton
Video
- Montage of the weekend by blaahhrrgg
- Harvey Milk – Crush Them All, The Anvil Will Fall (excerpt), A Maelstrom Of Bad Decisions
- Kikuri (and again)
- Justice Yeldham
- Thrones
- Gravetemple. Plus more from YouTuber righteousharmony here and here and from jungliemonkey in pt 1, pt 2, pt 3 and pt 4
- Fucked Up
- Noxagt
- Oxbow
- Fuck Buttons
- Asva (pt 1, pt 2)
- Parts & Labor – Fractured Skies
- Battles – Tras, Tonto
- Red Sparowes
- DJ Scotch Egg – start of set and more
- Maruosa and a little more
- Transitional
- Earth – pt1, pt2, pt3, pt4 and pt5
- Harmonia
- Orthodox
- The Heads
If you’re interested about the process of pulling together all this info as quickly/easily as possible then I’ll be writing about it at chrisunitt.co.uk shortly. By shortly I probably mean ‘in a month or two’.
Remember if you spot something Supersonic 08-related on the internet (or just want to say what you thought of the festival) then please use the comments below to let me know.
I love this bit. it’s almost as fun as the festival itself.
Anwyay, here is another preview post courtesy of Ellen Of Croy(don).
Just one notable omission: the new capsule site:
http://www.capsule.org.uk
and blog:
http://www.capsule.org.uk/blog/
Big long blog by French who fancied up the place quite nicely!
http://www.funeralfrench.blogspot.com/
My photos can be found here:
http://damonallendavison.com/index.php?option=com_gallery2&Itemid=26&g2_itemId=5062
I’m not quite done with all of them, yet!
goodness, now people are actually going to read what i’ve thought also, any birmingham slagging off is superficial; it’s nice really and i come from scunthorpe so i can’t really say anything…
supersonic was incredible. same time next year i reckonsss
I wrote a review on my blog, it may not be up to the same standard as some of those listed here, but hey, I had fun. Will be back next year I’m sure.
http://www.themarkout.blogspot.com/
A truely overwhelming response to the festival and shows just how many people ACTUALLY travel to Supersonic from around the country and further a field and what a positive impact it has on them.
I’ve found another photographer
http://shot2bits.net/
and also know there are still more reviews to come over the next couple of weeks.
A bit late but Bearded’s review: http://beardedmagazine.co.uk/wp/?p=282
Yo,
Here’s the review I wrote for Itchy Birmingham, the plebs at head office have cut it to shreds and injected a fair bit of cheese but there you go.
http://www.itchybirmingham.co.uk/article.cfm?id=5796&cityid=2§ion=177
Thankyou pleashe x
My videos from this year’s Supersonic are on You Tube – http://www.youtube.com/jungliemonkey
There’s a few of Gravetemple, one of The Heads and one of Orthodox.
My photos of the weekend (mainly Harvey Milk, Oxbow and Earth):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sumlin/sets/72157606341376475/
Another review from the crew at Southern Records in London whom had a stall in the ‘market place’
http://www.southern.net/southern/news/?id=470
There was also a review in NME and Kerrang magazine yesterday
Kerrang Supersonic review scan here:
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd236/black_sun_1000/SupersonicKerrangJuly262008.jpg
Thoughts and a couple of photos…
http://www.chrishathway.co.uk/index.php/2008/07/24/late-supersonic-write-up/
Another review
http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=20080728201719862
and I’ve just been sent another from nine hertz:
http://www.ninehertz.co.uk/viewitem/2060
Rock Sound Supersonic Review
Much obliged to you Mr F – don’t know why those links didn’t show up in your comment but they’re in the main post now.
Capsule are looking for feedback from those who attended Supersonic. Go here:
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/61810/supersonic-08-online-survey-live
Survey took about 5 mins, but you can volunteer to give more in depth feedback at the end.
Hi Chris
Terrorizer Supersonic review here:
Hi Chris
Supersonic in the Wire:
[IMG]http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd236/black_sun_1000/TheWireSupersonicreviewOct2008.jpg[/IMG]
Cheers Mr F, good stuff.
Chris
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Hello Chris
Zero Tolerance review of Supersonic attached
Regards