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Post by thedude on Mar 21, 2011 5:26:13 GMT -8
I fucking love Modest Mouse, and I'm going to get absolutely wrecked on a variety of substances and enjoy the shit out of them.
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Post by thedude on Mar 9, 2011 15:34:57 GMT -8
Relax, there's still 78 days to go. I'm sure there will be a few more additions.
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Post by thedude on Mar 9, 2011 15:21:09 GMT -8
Bob Mould has been added to the main stage on Friday.
Let's start a Hüsker Dü reunion tour petition.
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Post by thedude on Feb 26, 2011 10:55:51 GMT -8
Showers at a music festival are absolutely pointless. So what if you're nice and fresh in the morning, two minutes smooshed inside the crowd in front of one of the stages and you're going to have a dozen people's sweat and odor rubbed off on you.
Unless you plan to make no actual physical contact with other people. Enjoy being a social pariah.
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Post by thedude on Feb 20, 2011 17:49:32 GMT -8
I'm going to see The Naptional tonight in Brussels w/ Sharon Van Etten opening and I'll probably check out this free Gold Panda gig in Leuven on Thursday. Those'll probably be my last shows until Sasquatch. I saw The Walkmen in Brighton a couple of weeks ago, if I didn't mention that. Yeah boyeeeeee. So damn lucky. Report on Van Etten and Gold Panda, I'm interested in seeing both of them at Squatch. I ended up missing Sharon Van Etten. I was at the venue a few hours earlier, but I had my large backpack with me and had to wait for a friend to show up with his car so I could toss it in before heading into the show. He got stuck in traffic on his way to Brussels, so I proceeded to get shitfaced in a pub on some spectacular Belgian beer while I waited. By the time he got there, The National were already into their second song. They were pretty good, by the way, but not as good as the gig they played back in London in November that I saw them at. After seeing them three times in the last year (Sasquatch was the other one), I think it'll be a while before I buy a ticket to another of their shows. At least until they have a new album. Gold Panda was excellent. He was doing a gig as part of this cultural festival. The gig was free, but you were supposed to register for tickets beforehand. I thought my friend had did that for us, but he forgot. So his girlfriend told one of the ticket distributors that I had come all the way from Canada to see him, and I put on a sad face, and the ticket person felt bad and managed to scrounge up some tickets for a group of us. It was in this neat arts complex that had multiple sections and in the upstairs part there was some sort of art exhibition with free booze and lots of pretentious people that I was really out of place at wearing jeans and a flannel shirt. Since I didn't have any weed or MDMA, I drank about ten glasses of wine or so before the gig and then danced my face off. Good times. Gold Panda is pretty chill, if you're into more relaxed/mellow electronic like Toro Y Moi and Washed Out, you'd probably dig him. There were a few hundred people at the gig, and most were off their faces.
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Post by thedude on Feb 20, 2011 16:43:47 GMT -8
I saw them play a show in London last September, and Brock was an absolute madman on stage. He was drenched in sweat by the time the show was finished. I don't have any frame of reference to compare it, because it was my first time seeing them, but it quite did it for me. Albeit, the setlist was a bit Good News heavy, it still had a good chunk of early stuff. www.setlist.fm/setlist/modest-mouse/2010/troxy-london-england-53d5eba9.htmlCowboy Dan and Baby Blue Sedan were definite highlights, and though it's not normally one of my favourite songs, Spitting Venom was great live. I can't wait to see them again at Sasquatch. I'll definitely be up as close as I can.
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Post by thedude on Feb 20, 2011 8:49:52 GMT -8
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Post by thedude on Feb 14, 2011 23:26:24 GMT -8
I'm going to see The Naptional tonight in Brussels w/ Sharon Van Etten opening and I'll probably check out this free Gold Panda gig in Leuven on Thursday. Those'll probably be my last shows until Sasquatch.
I saw The Walkmen in Brighton a couple of weeks ago, if I didn't mention that. Yeah boyeeeeee.
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Post by thedude on Feb 14, 2011 10:13:01 GMT -8
It's one thing to be disinterested in your fans. Hell, if I was a famous musician, I'd probably be the same way if I had people come up all the time to slobber all over my dick and tell me how great I was.
It's a completely different thing to be massively shitty pricks to the people you work with and that work for you.
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Post by thedude on Feb 14, 2011 9:51:04 GMT -8
Shit man, I'm in England and I had no idea until your post.
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Post by thedude on Feb 14, 2011 9:38:01 GMT -8
So does Ed the Sock. He said they were shitty people way back when Funeral had just come out, so I don't think its just a fame has gone to their heads kinda thing.
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Post by thedude on Feb 14, 2011 8:42:30 GMT -8
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Post by thedude on Feb 14, 2011 8:40:20 GMT -8
The closest I have been to a Flaming Lips gig in my life is 355km when I was at university. Generally its been much more than that.
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Post by thedude on Feb 14, 2011 7:03:22 GMT -8
I didn't realize we had to specify.
Drugs: Everything
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Post by thedude on Feb 13, 2011 14:12:29 GMT -8
thedude, looks like we have pretty similar taste. Cool, let's be friends.
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Post by thedude on Feb 13, 2011 11:44:48 GMT -8
Bold = haven't seen before
1. Modest Mouse (I'm a superfan) 2. Death From Above 1979 3. Flaming Lips 4. Wolf Parade 5. Yeasayer 6. Local Natives 7. Deerhunter 8. Wilco 9. Beach House 10. Washed Out
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Post by thedude on Feb 11, 2011 19:02:26 GMT -8
I'm desperately hoping Lightning Bolt gets added. Of all the bands that are at Coachella, I'm most bummed out about them not also being at Sasquatch (also Animal Collective).
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Post by thedude on Feb 11, 2011 11:22:49 GMT -8
Or you could just go watch one of the other three acts that will be playing at the time. Why waste the energy watching an act you have no interest in? I have interest in yelling WRONG KID DIED at Conor Oberst. Honestly it's going to be one of the highlights of my weekend and I wouldn't miss it for the world. I think I'm going to skip Iron and Wine now, because this will probably be funnier than any of the comedy acts.
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Post by thedude on Feb 10, 2011 17:53:56 GMT -8
Toro Y Moi is great. You should go.
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Post by thedude on Feb 9, 2011 17:37:55 GMT -8
For those who don't know Gold Panda... Sounds good man. He's playing a free show in Belgium next week. I was planning to check it out because I'll happen to be there.
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