Bourges Festival '07

I don't listen to the radio much these days and when Maximo Park and Bloc Party's first singles and albums came out I didn't hear either. Eventually tho' on a couple of tv shows I saw performances by 'em and rather liked what I heard, so got the albums and they grew on me.

My girlfriend and I contemplated going to a gig for one or the other of the two bands, but there weren't really any convenient locations and dates that still had tickets this year. We'd also been thinking about having a long weekend somewhere in europe. Then the idea struck of combining a weekend break in europe with a gig and, would you believe it, we found that both Maximo Park and Bloc Party were playing at the same event at the Bourges Festival in France this year!

Tickets were bought, transport options weighed up, a lovely hotel booked and then this past weekend off we went.

I'd heard that Maximo Park were excellent live and we weren't disappointed - a fantastic high energy performance of tracks from both their current and previous albums. Bloc Party didn't disappoint either . At the venue there was a good lively crowd (perhaps a bit too much crowd surfing going on!). We also enjoyed the performances by Mademoiselle K and Cold War Kids which was a nice bonus.

All in all a fantastic weekend - probably haven't got any photos from it that are worth posting on dA (certainly none from the gig - didn't have a chance to fettle my camera phone's settings before hand), but I shall see .