Day 1 is in the books and, before i start preparations for the hot, sweaty metro trip back to parc jean drapeau for Day 2, here are some thoughts and observations from Day 1. ill turn this insto something coherent once i have the whole narrative from the three days of the festival.
- dont want to start off on a negative note but a really poor layout to the festival made me miss several good bands in the opening hours of the fest - managed to catch the last couple songs Of Mice & Men did and they were actually not bad, much more rockin than their radio folkiness
- tough choice between Franz Ferdinand and Gary Clark Jr - i had a feeling the melancholy indie rockers would fail to hold my interest so i decided to groove to the young blues guitarists awesome southern twang. Good choice.
- somwhere between 60-80 thousandss people trying to watch florence & the machine in a space designed for half that. by the time i was packed in like a sardine in a crushed tin box, i still couldnt see anything, not even the big screens
- florence telling the crowd "we need human sacrifices! i want to see as many people on shoulders as possible."
- in the ongoing effort to further my dub-ducation, i went to check out some Zeds Dead and was pleasantly surprised by the high degree of dance-ability
- MGMT was the highlight of the night - they've come a long way since i first saw them years ago at Bonnaroo - much more low key (for them) set, with a more pink-floyd-ey, jamming psychedelic vibe, espcially in the artwork - than their old electro dance party sound. id say, whereas MGMT used to be a rebellious end of the year high school house party, they've graduated to something like a 3rd year college house party.
- MGMT's cover of the Stones' Angie was excellent - a good choice for then and well executed
- my (highly illegible) notes say: MGMT = radiohead + vampire weekend + pink floyd artwork (it was the album More im thinking of, very Andy Warhol-esque).
- people screaming for Kids, which they did not play
- That guy Justice is one of the most self-congratulating djs ive ever seen. I mean, who puts a giant light up cross onstage behind them? he spent half his show in front of his soundboard, in silence, with his arm gathering applause. come on.
- saying, "there are some people doing the robot around me" is not a good way to give directions during a DJ show
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