Benicassim Festival 2004

The website has got all the 2003 bands' sets on line. So I don't call that nowt!

Well, nowt re 2004, natch.

When's it on? Looking forward to some new sets on-line...

i went last year for the first time and it was fucken awesome. the beach is like a 20 minute walk away from the main site, the bands start about 6pm and finish at 8am, it is H-O-T but hey, you can go in the sea and they have yummy COLD SHOWERS in the campsites and it's generally a brilliant fucking party.
go. everyone should go. yes.
doesn't matter who's playing, you're bound to stumble across some genius spanish/belgian/whatever band you've never heard of before and fall instantly in love with.

Bloody hell Emsk, well with a recommendation like that it just has to be good. Which airport is nearest ? Valencia ? Or is there a cheapo Easyjet-type option ?

Emsk really knows her festivals, Darren. Follow the nice lady.

yeah i second emsk. I went in 2001 and it was the most insane concert experience ever for me. I'm still blown away when I look back at the lineup. only bad thing was that low and mag fields didnt show up.

yep, valencia is closest airport. we paid a lot (well, about £160 return) but if we'd booked earlier i think it would've been about half that. from the airport there is a bus that goes to the train station, don't listen to the nasty people that tell you there isn't. unless you like taxis. (after last summer i am in love with spanish public transport. it's completely insane but somehow it works...) you can get a train from valencia that gets you to benicassim in an hour or something (not after about 5pm though, so get a flight that gets you in about midday/v early afternoon, to make allowances for delays) and it's REALLY cheap, 3 euros-ish. beware, there are three different campsites at the festival. we went in the one right next to the festival site and we definitely did the right thing - you have to get a bus from the other ones, and screw that... unless you want peace and quiet i guess. when we arrived on thursday night we went straight for the bar and asked the guy when it closed and he just sort of shrugged and said "...monday?" awesome party scenes. the moon is massive. you can leave stuff in your tent and it stays safe... they have all webbing over the campsites so it's shady... and friendly, friendly, friendly. i can't guarantee the shit-hot super furries experience but there'll be something equally mindblowing. in the daytime the streets of the town (the ones that run north-south, anyway) are full of sleeping indiekids in the shady half.

Thanks for that, Emsk ! Now all we have to do is wait for the info for version 2004 !

You can fly to Tarragona with Ryan Air or risk picking up a last minute charter at a discount. Not as near as Valencia, but not as far as Barcelona.

Went last year and had a blast, the line up rumours are as follow, don't know what to make of them but if they are right, this could be the best festival ever! Please anyone could send me the line up once you have the confirmation? Anyway, check this below.

Laurent

Festival Internacional de Benicassim
10ème édition, 6, 7 et 8 août 2004

avec Air, Wire, Lali Puna,...
Rumeurs: david bowie, the strokes, kraftwerk, love, spiritualized, morrissey, belle & Sebastian, pixies, mercury Rev, chemical Brothers tindersticks, my Bloody Valentine, ride, the Wedding Present, massive attack flaming lips, sonic youth, rem, tortoise, mojave 3, lambchob, charlatans, basement jaxx...

Not looking too bad at all, in fact reading through it bloody brilliant. It's on the 5th, 6th and 7th of August, website at: http://fiberfib.com/www/index_cartel.php?sec=1&bot=1&sub=1&lan=es

AIR
ARMAND VAN HELDEN
ASH
BELLE & SEBASTIAN
BRIAN WILSON
CLEM SNIDE
COOPER
CROSSOVER
EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN
ELECTRELANE
FC KAHUNA
FELIX DA HOUSECAT
FRANZ FERDINAND
GRUPO SALVAJE
HER SPACE HOLIDAY
KEVIN YOST
KINGS OF LEON
KRAFTWERK
LALI PUNA
LAMBCHOP
LE HAMMOND INFERNO
LOU REED
LOVE with ARTHUR LEE
LUCIANO
MARTINI BRÖS
NORTHERN LITE
ORGANIC AUDIO
PATRICK WOLF
PAUL WELLER
PET SHOP BOYS
PLEASURE
SCISSOR SISTERS
SNOW PATROL
SPIRITUALIZED
THE CHARLATANS
THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
THE DANDY WARHOLS
THE SHINS
THE SUNDAY DRIVERS
THOMAS MORR
TIGA
TINDERSTICKS
TOBIAS THOMAS
WIRE
YANN TIERSEN

OUTPUT LABEL NIGHT
TREVOR JACKSON
COLDER
BLACKSTROBE
DEAD COMBO

MEGO LABEL NIGHT
TUJIKO NORIKO
SLUTA LETA
PITA & TINA FRANK
COH

CITY CENTRE OFFICES LABEL NIGHT
STATIC
DICTAPHONE
XELA
SHLOM SUIRI
THADDI HERRMANN
MILES WHITAKER

B-PITCH LABEL NIGHT
PAUL KALKBRENNER
SMASH TV
SASCHA FUNKE
ELLEN ALLIEN
KIKI

And if they put them all up on the web (video / audio), triple cool.

many other bands have to be confirmed yet, but i think the line-up is good enough as to convince all of you to come over!
and if you manage to get backstage, there is a swimming pool and free bar during the 4 days ;-)

Damn, that lineup is incredible.

by the way, brian wilson comes with the orchestra to play 'Smile', and Love come with orchestra as well (as a matter of fact they share musicians), and they'll play 'forever changes'.
only for that it deserves the trip.
and then you'll get to know a lot of fantastic spanish bands and beautiful sun tanned boys and girls ;-)

Smile !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Forever Changes !!!!!!!!!!
Gotta shoot this thread back to the top again. I so wish I lived in Europe and/or wasn't poor.