Supersonic 2008 – Collective Memory
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.
Supersonic line up Supersonic looking for volunteers Capsule’s 10th birthday Best laid plans
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
S/sonic in Rock-A-Rolla. Spam yr inbox just fine!
Hello Chris
Zero Tolerance review of Supersonic attached
Regards