Flow08, Day 1

Flow08 started off a whole lot better than last year. Everything worked smoothly despite the fact that there were twice as many people and twice as large an area as last year. In fact, the enlarged space felt better than the more constrained area of last year, maybe because we got to see more of the Suvilahti grounds.

Artists we saw:

• Jamie Lidell was a positive surprise. I found a video I saw earlier a bit meh, but his show was energetic and fun, moving from style to style effortlessly.
• Kings of Convenience and Múm were both nice enough and lots of people seemed to enjoy them a lot, but... eh, not really Friday night music? Múm did occasionally manage to get a bit of a rhythm going, but they were more in the artsy fartsy moody camp I'd rather listen on my headphones. Both would have been better on Saturday or Sunday afternoon.
• 22-Pistepirkko was excellent. It's not like they are a new band, but it was the first time I saw them live. They were loud, some of the songs got completely different treatments than on their albums, and the feeling was great.
• Christian Prommer's Drumlesson was fabulous. The guys got an incredible groove going from the start, jazzing straight into the hedonistic heart of dance music.

Some mostly lousy pics on Flickr. Maybe Marko will post some better ones.