While the rest of us are stuck in rainy London with little more to do than rue England’s dismal performance against Algeria, FACT’s Tom Lea is out in Barcelona covering the Sónar festival.

There’ll be a full review next week, but you can keep up to date in real time with Sónar goings-on by following us on Twitter. Tom has been tweeting tidbits and observations from Barcelona since FACT and Hyperdub’s off-Sónar party on Thursday, and will continue to do so for the second night of the festival proper. Posts to date are copied below.

#   instead dropping do u mind and bringing on jamie george for a live pa. thought that was brave but it worked #sonar about 3 hours ago

#   also considering it’s such a techno crowd at sonar by night, reassuring that roska didn’t try to play it safe and ultra-housey #sonar about 3 hours ago

#   pursuit grooves before her also a lot of fun, ended with a super stretched out edit of lumidee’s ‘never leave you’ #sonar about 3 hours ago

#   alex nut djed for her & also warmed up playing grime in the beating heat which was very welcome. #sonar about 3 hours ago

#   didn’t mention fatima on friday, she was great – tons of swag, top outfit. did the tracks from her ep and freestyled over wu tang. #sonar about 3 hours ago

#   plus I always secretly hope joy orb will play the dials edit of hyph mngo, so was chuffed eclair fifi did #sonar about 18 hours ago

#   mid-set tweets, whatever. luckyme stage was great – place exploded when the blessings played ‘miss me’ by drake. fckthehaters. #sonar about 18 hours ago

#   lunice & machinedrum at the luckyme stage far too meaty for mid-tweet sets. lunice is a star #sonar about 20 hours ago

#   jesus fuck buttons are dragging on #sonar about 22 hours ago

#   matey from fuck buttons’ on stage dancing is shite compared to lunice #sonar about 22 hours ago

#   like a million people shocking out to stop dat. definitely not trance #sonar about 23 hours ago

#   girl on the bus: “let’s take a vote, is dizzee rascal trance?” #sonar about 23 hours ago

#   between lunice & jack we got soulja boy, david banner, prince, dizzee, aphex & nous somme mmm. sorted. #sonar 1:52 PM Jun 19th

#   lunice and jackmaster both killed rbma stage today. to be fair the latter had home advantage as half of glasgow was there #sonar 1:51 PM Jun 19th

#   heard from half-reputable source today (braiden) that hawtin was on the sonar dodgems last night & got smacked by elijah&skilliam #sonar 1:49 PM Jun 19th

#    dixon playing hot chip is a bit weird. #sonar     about 11 hours ago  via Echofon

# visual side of richie’s live show was basically loads of numbers on a big screen, but it was cool. dixon now on. #sonar about 11 hours ago via Echofon

# encore of plastikman was something else – incredibly intense percussion, unbelievably loud. best part of the set by far. #sonar about 11 hours ago via Echofon

# sonar 2011 to have @djshandy’s absolute cheeser of a new profile pic projected in the main room please #sonar about 13 hours ago via Echofon in reply to djshandy

# joy o ends on hyph mngo, flylo opens with his ‘i feel like dying’ remix. easily one of the best things he’s done. #sonar about 13 hours ago via Echofon

# mc asbo is a national treasure. get him on mic for plastikman. #sonar about 13 hours ago via Echofon

# @dankimmins Braiden, clearly. about 20 hours ago via Echofon in reply to dankimmins

# every festival would be made 10 times better by banning men. @lexpretend knows. #sonar about 20 hours ago via Echofon

# power cuts out on Braiden midway thru jam city’s arpjam. cue standard well-practised ‘not my fault’ dj pose. man’s a pro #sonar about 20 hours ago via Echofon

# Braiden has the rbma tent in his pocket. scratcha’s irl remix biggest reaction so far #sonar about 21 hours ago via Echofon

# @eclairfifi is definitely my new favourite ex-cheesemonger. not sure who the old one was. #sonar about 23 hours ago via Echofon

# if that´s anything like her mutek set was then those couple of twitter criticisms were way off. think i´m still rushing from decoy. #sonar about 23 hours ago via web

# i´ll be surprised if anyone at sonar tonight is as good as ikonika last night. don´t think the dancefloor will recover til next year #sonar about 23 hours ago via web