Pitchfork Music Festival

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:30 pm

http://www.pitchforkmusicfestival.com/

i cannot wait for this.

is anyone else going?

WeaselSlayer · Post by **WeaselSlayer** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:11 pm

I probably am. Can we hang out?

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:14 pm

hell yes we can hang out. i've never met a songfighter in real life. i ordered my ticket last night, so i will be there for sure.

c.layne · Post by **c.layne** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:01 pm

i'll have to see about that. chicago is a bit of a haul, but it's all on 65, so i wouldn't get lost!

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:27 pm

Wee! So this is on Saturday. Anyone else gonna be there? Any other songfighters to run into?

Cärpetbürn · Post by **Cärpetbürn** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:21 pm

Whereas we have Electric Gardens. Yay!

we just want you all to know we hate you, you lucky lucky bastards

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:56 am

Short reflections upon the bands that I saw...

Day One
Man Man: Octothorpe's annoying little brother. Didn't know how to end a song.

Band of Horses: Mediocre. Every song is the same thing.

Mountain Goats: Highly entertaining. Highly awesome. John Darnielle has one of the best on stage personalities I've seen. He's pretty hilarious.

Destroyer: They pretty muched played the songs exactly as they sound on the album.

Art Brut: Unbearable.

Ted Leo: I know that he played a good set and the crowd loved him. I'm just not a Ted Leo fan, so my review here doesn't count.

Silver Jews: The highlight of the weekend. Even while forgetting a few of the lyrics and acting careless, the set still somehow kicked ass.

Day Two
Showed up late due to a late train and missed Danielson.
I also missed several bands due to sickness caused by taking too many medicines at once. Ugh.

Jens Lekman: He always plays great sets. I'd definitely recommend seeing him in a smaller environment.

Devendra Banhart: Meh. I thought he was kind of boring. He seemed to think that it's still 1969.

Mission of Burma: Old men that rock.

Yo la Tengo: Same thing.

Spoon: I'm not familiar with much of Spoon's music, so I didn't enjoy it as much as I could have. But for just playing standard rock n' roll songs they were pretty good, albeit, without on-stage personality.

I didn't get to see Os Mutantes since I had to leave early in order to walk to miles to catch a train.

Overall, it was a pretty good weekend. It was probably the cleanest, most organized festival I've been to. The Silver Jews alone made the tickets worth it.

catch · Post by **catch** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:23 pm

Oh my gosh. Familiarize yourself with Spoon.

WeaselSlayer · Post by **WeaselSlayer** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:28 pm

I don't like Spoon, but I love Art Brut. So we're in a fight. Also I wanted to see Matmos waaaaah.

catch · Post by **catch** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 4:30 pm

WeaselSlayer wrote:I don't like Spoon, but I love Art Brut. So we're in a fight. Also I wanted to see Matmos waaaaah.

<i>We're</i> in a fight? Cuz I <i>will</i> fight you.

As long as it's, like, over the internet.

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 5:27 pm

All Art Brut did was brag about how they're number one in Norway or something stupid like that.