Duck and cover! Barcelona's best (and only) three-day electronic music and art festival is only a couple of months away. Prepare the way for your brain to be confounded by digital art in all its mediums in one long, but all too brief, June weekend. Forget sleep let's dance. It's that time of year again when the wonderful people of Sonar prepare to open their digi-hearts to all people lucky enough to be within spitting or hurling distance of Barcelona – unless you want to use that outmoded form of transport the "aeroplane". Hopefully, Radio 1 won't bombard the three day electronic festival with incessant plugging – the fiasco of last year's coaches to the night time venue is still fresh in many minds – and allow Spain's hippest city to seethe with a simmering electro-pulse without the hassle of exaggerated human traffic jams. Overpopulation is an unfortunate inevitability of overpopularity when an underground event ejaculates into the mainstream, particularly with the recent influx of electroclash rock on the digital airwaves. Luckily Radio Boy's squiggly beeps are too much for most to deep throat so Sonar will probably never reach overload and still maintain its status as fun and cultured. With acid house officially declared dead after the recent cancellation of the Tribal Gathering May Day Warehouse Party, it's time to get your electronic dancing kicks another way whilst also being embraced into the warm moist bosom of El Barco (as it's known to its mates). Barcelona is arguably the best thing about Sonar, allowing serotonin dilapidated clubbers to take a break from all that darn culture and dancin' and instead drink in the sun on the beach or drink in the drink in one of the city's many tourist-trapping squares. After an eventful year promoting Jeff Mills' recent European tour and continuing to herald the rise of digital artists such as Innothna(check out the interview at Sonar Online), Sonar looks braced for the large hordes to descend one more on its hometown for the eleventh year.
Sonar takes place this year from Thursday 17th to Saturday 19th June (although technically it doesn't finish until the wee hours of 20th June). To join the sweating hordes and check out more info on DJs, venues and all the usual check out the Sonar website. Tickets are already on sale and are available on-line , by phone: 902 888 902 (calling from Spain) and +34 93 342 62 31 (from outside Spain, beginning March 22nd, opening hours from 10am to 2pm) or at any of the Tick Tack Ticket Sales centres in Spain. Tickets are 93 Euros for the full three days and nights and tickets can be purchased per day or night.
