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[Cock Van Der Palm]

Originally posted by thingsfallapart:
   

Originally posted by jeffml:
 Didn't catch any of the second stage or DJ tent. [/b]

I guess you weren't there for the music then... [/QB]

Really...who would have you seen if you were there.  Oh wait you weren't there were you jackass?

[organizedconfusion]

I can't believe you were posting from your phone at the concert. All I was staring at was ass all day. I didn't even use my phone once there. I don't want people bothering me at a concert.
 
 Traffic was a pain in the ass. Parking sucked. I thought Jack White was better when I saw him open up for pavement. Chili Peppers were better at tibetan but John has gotten a lot better. Very impressed with the guitar. The killers drummer was effin up. Theivery Corp were good. I think they should have played more marley between sets. Good times though.

[sprklqueen]

Got there around 4pm so traffic was minimal. Parked in the neighborhood across the street so we were a block from the main entrance... nice!
 Main stage being as you walked in kept people up front so lines were long for food/drink. Vendors in the center & in back were a much better bet to get what you wanted & back to a stage.
 Sound at the main stage was sadly lacking if in the back & it was too crowded to get up front so I found it hard to really get into anyone there which was disappointing. A second pair of speakers behind where the sound board was maybe would have helped that. The stage in the back was fine... more open & less people so sound was good.
 The Freak Lounge was virtually empty when I went by there although the DJs playing were good. The DJ/dance tent had a decent amount of people in it but I wasn't feeling a vibe during Digweed's set at all.. just saw people wander in & out dance a bit then stumble on to the next thing. Saw a lot of stumbling there btw.. by 8pm people were laying all over the place which were hard to see with little lighting so walking around was a bit tricky at times. By 9pm EMTs were driving people out on cots so I guess they had a long day. Back to the DJ tent.. Carl Cox on the other hand tore it up! He was def the highlight of my time there. My only problem by that time was my head was so stuffed up from the grass/hay/manure that I could barely breathe so I couldn't stay in the tent (where the "aroma" was heaviest) itself which was kind of beat but I totally enjoyed what I heard of his set!
 I do have 2 suggestions though.. trash cans (I hate throwing trash on the ground even if people are being paid to pick up after me) and portapotties with toilet paper & sinks in them. Probably 2 of the most common complaints I've ever heard about any festival but I understand why.. I couldn't wait to just go wash my hands!
 I am glad I went, saw some great acts I probably wouldn't other wise & met some people that I probably wouldn't have anywhere else. Overall it was an interesting & fun experience.

[Tom Servo]

Fantastic day.  A successful event all around and I thank all involve for making it happen.  Glad the rain stayed away.  24 oz Red Hooks for $9 weren't a bad deal and I was happy not to be drinking Bud Light all day.
 
 I'd never been to Pimlico before.  It was a pretty good space for this sort of thing.  It was crowded, obviously, but not so packed that you couldn't move around or find a place to lay around.  Very tough to get near the mainstage after about 3pm though I think that's to be expected.
 
 Getting in and out wasn't bad.  We drove to the owings mills metro and took the shuttle bus from Rogers station to get there by 11:45.  Walking back to the metro afterward was a little dicey but we were happy to not deal with any traffic.  
 
 Here was my lineup:
 Kasabian
 New Pornographers
 Racontours
 James Holden
 Brazilian Girls
 Thievery Corp / Who
 Scissor Sisters (while napping in the grass)
 Flaming Lips
 
 The highlights were definitely Racontours and the Brazilian Girls.  Great sets.  My first time to see Jack White live and I thought he was great.  Good chemistry with Benson.  Brazilian Girls are just a jam.  Between them and Thievery, you didn't need to hit the DJ tent to get good dance music.  
 
 Kasabian was ok.  It's tough to kick things off when they don't have the sound turned up enough yet.  I like them better inside.
 
 Would have liked to see Wolfmother again, but I had never seen the New Pornos.  Pretty good.  Nothing to write home about really but good songs and nice vocals.  
 
 I only saw a few songs from the Who.  We walked up after they started and didn't have a good spot at all.  From that distance, it's hard to get into it.  Cool to see Baba O Riley though.  
 
 I had to make a tradeoff with the Flaming Lips.  They were great, but I had just seen perhaps the exact set a month ago at the Osheaga Festival in Montreal and had never seen RHCP.  At that point though, I knew there was no way I was getting near the stage and I didn't want to fight the crowd on the way in or out.  
 
 So, good times.

[bkrome]

I got to Vfest towards the end of the Wolfmother set and walked around, checking out everything the festival had to offer.  I thought it was a really nice set up, lots of different options for food.  
 
 The Raconteurs were great, it was my first time seeing Jack White as well, and he definitly lived up to my expectations.
 
 I checked out the DJ tent for about 20 minutes with James Holden and was quite entertained, he was pretty good.
 
 Gnarls Barkley was a disappointment. I expected a lot more energy, but they just seemed to fall flat. Terrible flow, Cee-lo talked way to much.
 
 The Killers exceeded my expectations, great stage presence and a nice set list.  
 
 At the end of there performance, my friends and I decided to start moving our way up front, which meant we would not be able to see the Flaming Lips, but I think it was well worth it.
 
 The Who were incredible. We were maybe 10 rows back to the right and the crowd was way in to it.  They went from hit to hit seemlessly, with little chatter in between.  They definitly still have it.
 
 To be able to see a full set from The Who and then from the RHCP alone was worth the price of admission for me.  RHCP did not dissapoint, amazing show, very entertaining.  They did play a little to much of the new cd and it would have been nice to see a few more of there hits, but it was not that big of a deal to me. Tiny Dancer for the encore was a nice.
 
 Great event overall and I would love for it to return to Pimlico again next year!

[PigIron]

Thought is was a good show.  Still think prices (for everything) were too high.  Nine dollar beers??  I moved between both stages throughout the day but mostly stuck to the smaller stage.  Scissor Sisters and Flaming Lips were great to end the night and both really had crowd going.  Saw about 1/2 of Who (they overlapped with Scissor Sisters, unfortunately) and was really impressed.  New Pornographers were very good - I'd never seen them before.  Missed Driveby Truckers and RJD2 becaused they were on so early.  I really wanted to see them.
 I was really surprised that they only sold 2/3 of tickets because there were alot of people.   Getting  close to the bigger stage was a pain.  I can't imagine how it would have been with 20,000 more people.
 If they have it again next year I hope they keep the lineup respectable and (please) lower the price of a cup of beer.

[JGatz]

I had a good time.  The weirdest part of my day was looking up to see Richard Branson and Seth walk by with a big group of people following.
 
 Not a bad show for their first go in the US.  I expect bigger and better things next year.

[lukiedookie89]

Upset that I had to miss it, but I did have fun at the Black Cat last night.  
 Did Neko play with NP?  
 Also, setlists would be great, especially for RHCP.  I'd be interested to see what they chose to play.

[sonickteam2]

no neko.
 
   but the NP's were good as always, but being so early and they looked pretty tired, i've seen them better. Carl is just one not funny dude! but he tries!
   Clap your hands was ok, boy are they ugly. still cant figure out which band they sound just like.  
 
   from then we hung in the middle area, checking out 2manyDJs, though not many mashups like i thought i'd hear and caught (by accident) Gnarls and they were just as boring as they were at Lollapalooza.  
 
   we got close to the killers and i really did like them, but sooooo many johnny-come-latelys barging, tripping and spilling beverages on us the entire time made us want to head out of there.
 
   saw the who from way too far since we were with so many people we didnt figure we'd get too close, so they didnt impress me.  it was my only regret...for like 20 minutes, til the scissor sisters came on.  awesome, i love them and me and my friends were dancing like crazy.
 
   the flaming lips....well, i dont know.  i've seen them before and liked them.  and these guys in front of us were smoking some weed, offered me some and i took it. havent done that in like 6 years and man....the lips got waaaay cooler, lol.
 
   Yoshimi and Yeah Yeah Yeah song were my highlights.  great way to end the night, though, the stage was sorta small for them....but i would rather have them on a small stage at night than at 4pm on the big one.
 
   overall it was a blast...saw LOTS of friends, hung out with many people and saw a handful of great bands...and spent $300 for me and my fiancee altogether!! not bad for a day of rocking out!
   
   for next year....more bathrooms, more sound for the main stage , more ATMS and those handwashing stations outside of the portapots are a godsend, though i did have some sanitizer with me.
 
  oh yeah, and make it two days next year.
 
   oh, and scrap the DJS, put a 3rd stage of bands in that tent!!!!
 
 
  but mainly, thanks to seth and all for bringing this event here!

[parttimepunk]

V-fest:  not bad if you don't mind huge crowds and standing for hours in a field full of garbage, but all day festivals are always a test of endurance and tolerance.  Pimlico not a good venue for music -- too flat -- sound going everywhere.  New Pornographers played a good, if efficient, set.  Pleasant suprises, for me, were Clap Your Hands and Thievery as I had never seen either.  But the highlights were definitely Townshend's windmill (even though he was a tiny ant from where I was standing) and Wayne Coyne's plastic bubble!

[kosmo vinyl]

I was also a bit disconcerted about not being able to wash my hands and it would have been nice if there had been another drinking fountain setup by the second stage.
 
 Personally if the show had been sold out, I would have been miserable.  It would have been a nightmare   for traffic and getting back and forth between both stages.  
 
 My ideal festival would have been to lop off the top three acts and redistribute the rest between two medium sized stages.  Get 20 to 25K of my closest friends together to hang out, enjoy, bounce around to great hour long sets from the likes of Brazilian Girls, Thievery Corp, New Pronos, etc...  Having to deal with that mass of humanity tripping over each to cram in front or cranking their necks to see the stage just isn't my idea of a good time.

[Vas Deferens]

To the ones who saw Brazilian Girls, what was Sabina wearing?  

[Tom Servo]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
 
 
 My ideal festival would have been to lop off the top three acts and redistribute the rest between two medium sized stages.  Get 20 to 25K of my closest friends together to hang out, enjoy, bounce around to great hour long sets from the likes of Brazilian Girls, Thievery Corp, New Pronos, etc...  Having to deal with that mass of humanity tripping over each to cram in front or cranking their necks to see the stage just isn't my idea of a good time.

You would have liked the Osheaga festival in Montreal last month.  That was the most user friendly big show I'd ever been to.  Big space and probably only 20k or so in attendance.  Instead of one main stage, they had two side by side so that one act could directly follow another with no overlap or downtime.  It wasn't so crowded that you couldn't get decent position for every band, but you could also get great position on either stage if you wanted to scope out a spot early.  
 
 There was also a third stage a short walk away sequestered in the trees, so you always had a few choices.

[Summerteeth]

Did no one see DBT?  I realize this wasn't really their kind of crowd, but I figured at least a couple of the diehards would have paid $97.50 to see them.

[calecp01]

my 2 cents:
 
 Wolfmother - only heard a little bit of their record and wasn't too impressed going in, but good energy, and I'm glad I caught a little of it.
 
 2 Many DJ's - best live DJ's I've ever seen, holy crap, but it also helped that it was at the beginning of the day and I wasn't tired yet... no, they really were that good.
 
 Raconteurs - boring.
 
 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - still one of my fav records, saw them the first time at Black Cat and was entertained but felt they needed to work on their live act, they haven't.
 
 Gnarls Barkley - stage/crowd seemed to big for them, would have probably worked better in a smaller indoor venue or at least at night, but enjoyed it for the most part.
 
 Killers - even more boring, I'm not really into them to begin with, and their show didn't change anything
 
 The Who - better than I expected, but still old
 
 VHS or BETA DJ's - no crowd, nobody dancing, but these guys are great DJ's, although I'm a little biased since I'm buds with them, put on a rockin set afterwards at R&R Hotel
 
 Scissor Sisters - was looking forward to this as I hadn't seen them before, lot's of fun even though by this time I was tired, smelly, and wanting to go home, new songs sounded great
 
 Flaming Lips - always great live, this was no exception, great way to end the night, they got all the freaks from the freakshow tent up on stage + the usual psychedelic shenanigans from Wayne & Co
 
 Overall: not really worth it, too much effort to drive up there, park, deal with the crowd.  Half the time it just feels like you're watching a live DVD.  I guess I'm just spoiled by small intimate venue shows.