It's taken a while to gather my thoughts after day 2 of Forwards festival.
Scalping stepped up to the main stage after Viagra Boys had visa problems and were an excellent dance/metal crossover act. Amyl and the Sniffers were loud but left me feeling like their set was at least 10 minutes too long despite only playing for 40 minutes!
Primal Scream did the same thing they've done since the 90s.
I trekked across site to catch a bit of Leftfield who were cracking, but I had to leave them to it for the main event back at the West stage.
Aphex Twin.
Where to begin? Definitely not for everyone! At times it felt like I was being psychologically reprogrammed, it was incredibly trippy and literally mind blowing. The man is a one off - capable of beautiful haunting music one moment, proper screwface inducing bass grooves in another, and then becomes a military grade audio visual assault weapon. He played until they cut him off, we could have happily stayed with it for hours more. I danced, cried and shouted with joy but mostly just laughed hysterically at the sheer audacity of it all.