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The final day began early at the OneWorld Café for a packed brunch and show, then a bit of a break for the zine fair and afternoon showcases, and then another break before the all-night party wrapped things up. Looks like 25 bands on this day, flipping between 10 venues 17 times, but all that was over twice as much time as Friday, with breaks in between. Still, nothing to sneeze at. The jog from the McInnis Room to the Marquee after 8 minutes of K-OS was particularly crazy (thanks to Lucas for the drive there from the OneWorld, phew!).

Saturday, 21 October, 2006.

( Day 5 )

The end (for another year). Go back to the beginning. Fare-well to Bennie P, and here's Waye Mason blowing his own horn:

Friday, 20 October, 2006.

Friday was the marathon night for me, seeing 15 bands in 8 straight hours, 8 different venues, switching 14 times. Maybe you saw me running past you on the street:

(Started at the OneWorld, but that show was late getting under-way.)

Pavilion

OneWorld (non-affiliated Special Noise re-union show)

Marquee

Stage Nine

Gus'

Hell

Marquee

Hell

Marquee

Seahorse

Stage Nine

Attic

( Day 4 )

Thursday, 19 October, 2006.

( Day 3 )

Wednesday was the slowest day of the Festival. I added in a visit to Stayner's Wharf for RyLee Madison's CD release at the beginning of the evening.

Wednesday, 18 October, 2006.

( Day 2 )

So, HPX06.

Out of about 113 performances in the final schedule, I saw 73, plus a couple extras during the week which weren't associated with the Festival. Definitely my most ambitious effort, even surpassing my own pre-Festival plan to take in about 60 bands (which I thought was likely to kill me). Quite impressive to see two-thirds of everything during this type of festival where seeing everything is physically impossible (un-like, say, Sappy Fest, which allows one to take in everything). Remembering back to what I saw, there are clear regrets over those I had to miss, but nearly every band I did see I would see again. Only maybe one band was a disappointment, and two were blah as I knew to expect before-hand, so the great far out-weighed the crap.

Here's all five days in order; let's go day by day. Each band gets two shots each, so these won't take for ever to load.

Tuesday, 17 October, 2006.

( Day 1 )

There's 36 videos I took at various shows over there.

24h00:

( Jill Barber )

And that's all I saw.

23h15:

( Christopher Rees )

22h30:

Ginger's:

( Jenn Grant )

16h15:

Sam the Record Man:

( A Northern Chorus )

Throw in the Zine Fair, then a fabulous meal at Milamodo with Miss X and Mr. O spent discussing Plumtree, and we have a pretty full rainy Saturday afternoon before one last night out with no sleep.

15h30:

( the Maughams )

14h45:

( Hexes & Ohs )

Saturday, 15 October, 14h00:

Seahorse:

( Japanther [2] )

24h45:

Stage Nine:

( Japanther )

23h45:

( Dog Day )

23h35:

Khyber:

( Malcolm Bauld )

23h00:

( Gilbert Switzer )

22h15:

Stage Nine:

( (Special) Special Noise )

21h00:

( Ted Leo + Pharmacists [2] )

20h15:

( North of America [2] )

19h30:

( Femme Generation )