Alyoshka

Tomorrow I'll be at Witnness fest. I hear that the White Stripes have had to cancel, so which of these bands would you prioritize seeing?

Witnness main:
21:30 - David Gray
20:00 - The Flaming Lips
18:15 - The Frames
16:45 - Super Furry Animals
15:30 - The Cardigans
14:20 - The Walls
13:00 - Jerry Fish & The Mudbug Club
12:00 - Ashley Hamilton

Witnness rising:
22:45 - David Kitt
21:30 - Tricky
20:15 - The Datsuns
19:00 - Flint
17:45 - Ladytron
16:30 - Calexico
15:30 - The Jimmy Cake
14:30 - The Basement
13:30 - The Futureheads
12:40 - Colm Quearney & Hallucinations

Witnness upstage:
22:20 - Manic Street Preachers
20:50 - Polyphonic Spree
19:20 - Beth Orton
18:15 - Saw Doctors
17:15 - The Music
16:20 - Paddy Casey
15:25 - Snow Patrol
14:30 - Bell X1
13:40 - In Me
12:50 - Woodstar
12:00 - Zongamin

Witnness dance:
22:30 - Dave Clarke
21:00 - Laurent Garnier
20:00 - Justin Robertson
19:00 - Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man
18:00 - Phil Hartnoll (Orbital)
17:00 - Mark Wilkinson
16:00 - The Madchester Experience
15:00 - Headzinc
14:00 - The Pale
13:00 - White Trash Girls
12:00 - Arveene

Witnness on stage:
22:45 - Redneck Manifesto
21:30 - The Mars Volta
20:15 - 80's Matchbox B-Line Disaster
19:15 - Kings of Leon
18:15 - I am Kloot
17:15 - Har Mar Superstar
16:15 - The Warlocks
15:20 - The Stands
14:25 - Autamata
13:30 - Cane 141
12:40 - Simple Kid

El Talon Del Monstruo

just The Mars Volta would be fine

evenflow

Flaming Lips, Mars Volta, Beth Orton

Gdrlv

Looks like a pretty good festival. Bands I'd be going out of my way to see...

The Flaming Lips
Super Furry Animals
Tricky
Calexico
Polyphonic Spree
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man
The Mars Volta
Kings of Leon
The Warlocks

Alyoshka

So, I didn't get back to the forum before I left, but this is essentially the list I went to...

The Flaming Lips took the stage for White Stripes, so all the characters were in Red shirts and he had a red cape. It started with him singing White Stripe songs...probably one of the best covers I've ever heard. He used a bull horn to really get a good effect. They blew up about 40 big balloon type things and would thrown them out to the audience. They danced on the stage and really got a lot of good participation from the audience.

Ladytron was another set that really stole the heart from the audience. It was the sort of thing were the interest was low but pretty soon 70000 people were trying to get into the tent where they were playing. They were quite incredible.

I left after the Polyphonic Spree who really proved to Ireland that they are much more than just a gimic band. They were able to top the amount of fun I had at the Flaming Lips show.

The Warlocks were wonderful. I typically stayed in the tents for two or three songs before going to another tent. The main stage stuff I'd usually stay the entire set. Warlocks were in a tent but I ended up staying through their entire set.

A few other notes. I did see Har Mar Superstar who is about 15x better than Jack Black could ever dream, yet about the same sort of gig. As I was walking out of the festival I heard David Gray crooning. He sounded like trash. Cardigans were actually pretty good. Snowpatrol was cool. The Frames were horrible (I thought). Irish fans are much more polite, overall, at these shows than I've experienced at Festivals in America.