Miscellanous trips ....

Had a busy few days with a couple of various trip in the last few days....

• 2 consecutive friday trips to Kilkee.
• 1 weekend rip to Dublin

Shopping in Dublin

MayFly a shop in Temple Bar worth checking out : http://www.mayfly.ie/

Pub .. target acquired

No Worry

Objective Pub ....

Blue Sky over Dublin

• And, on Wednesday I went to Cork for an expo via Limerick Junction.

Cork

Expo on new media ( television )

Sunset over UCC

Toby Kaar in Bourkes

Class gig last thursday ( 14 September 2012 )  in Bourkes, with a Toby Kaar in great form...

Mirror view

Toby Kaar ...

You can listen to his sound there : http://breakingtunes.com/tobykaar
and on soundcloud : http://soundcloud.com/tobykaar

Bodyboarding in Lahinch

Once more this september we are greeted by  a gorgeous weather, so yesterday afternoon, it was head down to the Beach ( Lahinch for a change ) to see if i could improve my body-boarding skills ( I did not ) and do more picture coverage with the GoPro camera.
Not the biggest waves, but it was all fun under a gorgeous sun :D.

Ready to go

Gorgeous sun over the surf

Happy days on the water 

Happy days on the water

The semi-pro

Pre-wipeout

The pro

Time to leave ...

Back to the land

Busy day in Lahinch

UPDATE: unedited raw footage

Raw footage bodyboard from Christophe G on Vimeo.

Electric Picnic 2012 - Day 3

On the final day, I spent a lot more time in the Body & soul area, enjoying the sun, starting with a concert from Eleventy-four - which I had previously seen in Bourkes. An amazing choir entertained us in the afternoon, before I catch up with some Tipperary friends.

Marking the end of 3 beautiful days 

Eleventy-four on Body & Soul main stage

Elbow

Main Stage .. pack on sunday

Bat for lashes

the killers

The Killers

Artists Seen:

• The Killers
• Bat for lashes
• Elbow
• Dublin Gospel Choir
• The Bambit
• Eleventy four

Electric Picnic 2012 - Day 2

On the second day I had my eye on the cure who did not disappoint me.
The day started very well with a full string orchestra playing the full "Dark Side of the moon" in a stunning fashion, before wrapping up with some tune from Stevie Wonder.

God is an astronaut

SBKRT

The Cure

Bringing your kid to a classic

The Cure

Artists Seen:

• Trinity Orchestra
• God is an Astronaut
• Tieranniesaur
• Wild Beast
• SBKRT
• The Cure
• Bell X1

Electric Picnic 2012 - Misc

So in the end it was the best thing ever. The weather was brilliant. The bands were fantastic. I saw the Cure for the first time, along with Sigur Ros. I bumped randomly into friends once in a while of the weekend, only to loose sight of them on the crowd hours later.

Did we mention the weather was brilliant? And the people and the artist, the food....

Sorry if you weren’t there !

Violonist

The Salty Dog .... stranded

Recycling in Body & Soul

Play some tunes

Tree fruits in Body and Soul

Under the sun in body and soul

Relaxing in Body and soul

Body And Soul

The Main Stage

The logo

Electric Picnic 2012 - Day 1

So in 2012, I finally set foot in the Electric Picnic ( http://electricpicnic.ie/ ) , the yearly Irish music festival held in Stradbally Hall.
After setting camp in the morning - I arrived quite early, avoiding all the traffic, people had promised me - i went for a quick around the place, even found the salty dog.
The first band was on the main stage: Alabam Shakes ... good, but as I enter a tent I got stunned by the performance of a fuming "Willis Earl Beal".
The first day finished with the XX tremendous and an unexpected volcanic and eruptive performance from Sigur Ros to close the night.

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Willis Earl Beal

Willis Earl Beal

Roots Manuva

The XX

Sigur Ros

Artists Seen

• Alabama Shakes
• Willis Earl Beal
• Roots Manuva
• Grizzly Bear
• Grandaddy
• The Jezabels
• ???
• The XX
• Sigur Ros
• Ed Sheeran ( only the end with a tremendous version of "Chasing Car"