Wed 27 May – Primavera Sound Barcelona 2015
Highlights:
+ Seeing Steve Shelley rush past us on his way to the ATP stage (to play with Thurston Moore's band). "OMG, that was Steve Shelley", I recall slurring, minutes later.
+ Patti Smith performing Horses in its entirety and finishing off with Rock n Roll Nigger, in one of the all-time great Primavera sets that people will always talk about – in the same way that they remember Neil Young, Lou Reed, Pulp, PJ Harvey, The Cure, Sonic Youth, Throbbing Gristle. The little Catalan girls turning around with saucer-eyes in reaction…