Thu 13 Aug – 26. Haldern Pop Festival
the bands I saw were the following:
Day One
* Baddies (surprisingly good on stage)
* Broken Records (awesome)
* Wildbirds & Peacedrums (awesome voices and percussion)
* Palm Springs (shite)
* Wintersleep (awesome)
Day Two
* Asaf Avidan and the Mojos (meh bit full of themselves)
* Port O’Brien (awesome)
* The Temper Trap (awesome)
* Final Fantasy (45 mins of violins got on my nerves)
* Noah and the Whale (surprisingly awesome)
* Anna Ternheim (took me a while to realize why there were suddenly so may girls around me o0)
* Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (awesome party, think Flaming Lips)
* Colin Munroe (meh)
* Loney, Deer (double meh)
* Athlete (TRIPLE meh)
Day Three
* William Fitzsimmons (really awesome)
* Grizzly Bear (meh)
* Bon Iver (more awesomesauce)
* Hjaltalín (fun Icelandic band)
* The Thermals (average punkpop)
* Mumford & Sons (awesome -this guy is Laura Marling’s partner if that tells you anything)
* Little Boots (she’s tiny and I want to take her home with me)
* BLK JKS (super awesome post-reggae with an amazing drummer)
* Health (AMAZING)
and you can read the full reviews for Haldern 2009 (in Dutch) on the
fileunder.nl site under "artikelen". Enjoy!