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Post by badchoices on Jun 11, 2013 14:09:08 GMT -8
Tame Impala was incredible. I just wish I could have seen the whole set. For the first 6-8 songs I was at Sigur Ros down on the floor. We had to make a bathroom stop and on the way heard the psychedelic goodness coming from the Yeti stage. My wife and I looked at each other and nodded. That was it for Sigur Ros for us that night. Tame Impala took over. Fucking killer. My sister and her husband saw Tame Impala the following night at The Crystal Ballroom and were raving about it, too.
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Post by Jefferin Jeffotash on Jun 11, 2013 14:14:48 GMT -8
Tame Impala was incredible. I just wish I could have seen the whole set. For the first 6-8 songs I was at Sigur Ros down on the floor. We had to make a bathroom stop and on the way heard the psychedelic goodness coming from the Yeti stage. My wife and I looked at each other and nodded. That was it for Sigur Ros for us that night. Tame Impala took over. Fucking killer. My sister and her husband saw Tame Impala the following night at The Crystal Ballroom and were raving about it, too. That's almost exactly how it happened for my girlfriend and I, we were up on the hill enjoying the show and then during a song change we heard the band start playing and we looked at each other, nodded, packed up our blanket and hoofed it over and got a really great vantage point back far enough but high enough that our shortness was overcame and enjoyed the hell out of the show. It worked out better that they went on late because we got to see 20 or so minutes of TEED's set which would have never happened had Tame Impala played at their scheduled time.
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Post by badchoices on Jun 11, 2013 14:33:42 GMT -8
Tame Impala was incredible. I just wish I could have seen the whole set. For the first 6-8 songs I was at Sigur Ros down on the floor. We had to make a bathroom stop and on the way heard the psychedelic goodness coming from the Yeti stage. My wife and I looked at each other and nodded. That was it for Sigur Ros for us that night. Tame Impala took over. Fucking killer. My sister and her husband saw Tame Impala the following night at The Crystal Ballroom and were raving about it, too. That's almost exactly how it happened for my girlfriend and I, we were up on the hill enjoying the show and then during a song change we heard the band start playing and we looked at each other, nodded, packed up our blanket and hoofed it over and got a really great vantage point back far enough but high enough that our shortness was overcame and enjoyed the hell out of the show. It worked out better that they went on late because we got to see 20 or so minutes of TEED's set which would have never happened had Tame Impala played at their scheduled time. Yeah, I was pretty mad that their scheduled time didn’t work out but at least we didn’t have to take the chance of listening to them on the bigfoot stage. I would have been more upset with a poor sound quality show than the rescheduled later set on the yeti. *Nods
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Post by Jefferin Jeffotash on Jun 11, 2013 14:46:59 GMT -8
The whole rescheduling thing was handled well for those who had the sense to check Facebook or Twitter, not so much for those of us at the festival...However I forgot my phone charger all four days so by the last day when Imagine Dragons got pushed back there was no way for us to know, which lead to us sitting on the hill while drinking beers and eating elephant ears in ponchos as we got soaked and no one around us knew what was going on at all other than that I had overheard earlier that Azelia Banks had no-showed. So after about a half-hour of sitting there with nothing happening we trudged over to the dance tent to watch Odesza which was nice and dry except for the fringes of the tent which we made the mistake of walking through, soaking our already wet feet to the point where we were all laughing at how stupid we were...
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Post by StormyPinkness on Jun 23, 2013 17:34:28 GMT -8
Favorite Acts of 2013 Presented in Award Form
Sexiest/Most Loud and Brown - akron/family
Most Mindblowing To The Point Where I Could Not Even Talk For Hours - Sigur Ros
Most Fun Old English Dude With Worst Mumfords Crowd - Elvis Costello
Best Instrumentalists/Most Dapper - Primus
Most Penises and Bank Robbers - Death Grips
Best Use of Thor in a Band - Menomena
Dorkiest Performer/Coolest Light Toy - Postal Service
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Post by weenie on Jun 23, 2013 18:03:51 GMT -8
Haha, Ben Gibbard is such a dork.
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Post by Professor Pancakes on Jun 24, 2013 14:54:32 GMT -8
The Postal Service should also get the award for Cutest Shoes. I'm not usually into that kind of thing, but I was absolutely mesmerized by Jenny's shoes. She was just head to toe cuteness overload.
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Post by badchoices on Jul 1, 2013 15:29:14 GMT -8
I was just thinking about how crazy Matthew Dear was. I read that he opened in front of 40,000+ in Kiev recently (touring with Depeche Mode). When we walked into that dance tent it was completely empty. It filled in a bit by the end of it but you could walk right up to the front of the stage during the first couple of songs. I loved how he wasn’t urked (erked?) by the crowd size but rather gave a shout out to the positive dancing energy he was feeling from the crowd. His songs all sounded raw and different (not in a negative way) than his recorded material. Also, stoked he played “Monkey”! Excellent set.
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Post by Drew on Jul 2, 2013 8:59:02 GMT -8
U and E are excellent vowels, some of my favorites, but the one you were looking for was I. Irked.
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Post by rimjobflashmob on Jul 2, 2013 9:22:47 GMT -8
U and E are excellent vowels, some of my favorites, but the one you were looking for was I. Irked. They're in my top 5.
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Post by badchoices on Jul 2, 2013 14:31:02 GMT -8
U and E are excellent vowels, some of my favorites, but the one you were looking for was I. Irked. They're in my top 5. These two posts made me smile at a point in the day where I was stressed the fuck out. Haha. Thanks guys.
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Post by Fig on Jul 2, 2013 17:45:28 GMT -8
I was just thinking about how crazy Matthew Dear was. I read that he opened in front of 40,000+ in Kiev recently (touring with Depeche Mode). When we walked into that dance tent it was completely empty. It filled in a bit by the end of it but you could walk right up to the front of the stage during the first couple of songs. I loved how he wasn’t urked (erked?) by the crowd size but rather gave a shout out to the positive dancing energy he was feeling from the crowd. His songs all sounded raw and different (not in a negative way) than his recorded material. Also, stoked he played “Monkey”! Excellent set. I immediately was pissed off at how few people were at his set but as soon as they began playing, I started dancing and stopped giving a fuck. That was definitely one of my favorite shows of the weekend and Matthew Dear has displaced long time champion Edward Norton as famous person I would most willingly go gay for. So there's that.
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Post by Fig on Jul 2, 2013 17:47:31 GMT -8
Which may explain why I sort of remember grinding up against Nick at during the show. Sorry Nick!
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Post by rimjobflashmob on Jul 2, 2013 18:13:21 GMT -8
Which may explain why I sort of remember grinding up against Nick at during the show. Sorry Nick! You can grind up on me any time. Like at James Murphy. I'd go gay in a heartbeat for that dude.
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Post by emptyfox on Jul 2, 2013 18:27:15 GMT -8
Nuh-uh I saw him first!
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Post by Drew on Jul 2, 2013 19:54:15 GMT -8
I was at Vampire Weekend, and glad I was. Matthew Dear will have to wait.
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Post by rüstü on Jul 3, 2013 7:23:25 GMT -8
Matthew Dear had so much style on stage, I think everyone in the audience fell a little bit in love. Everything about that show was great, except for the minuscule crowd size right at the beginning. It filled up just about as much as I thought it would've considering VW played simultaneously, and Macklemore was directly after and people headed there really early.
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