NOS PRIMAVERA SOUND

Parque Da Cidade, Porto, June 9–11

OU Barlow is a past master of the festival wobbler (remember Reading ’94?). Here, are having to play with borrowed gear after their luggage got stuck in Florence, which doesn’t seem to faze J Mascis; he just straps on whatever guitar he’s handed, detunes the strings and starts ri.ng. But Barlow’s evident agitation makes for a thrillingly frazzled and confrontational set, ending with the bassist seizing the mic and adding a few new lines to their version of Last Rights’ defiant hardcore anthem “Chunks”. “We’re older than you!” he yells at