gawd damn.
best festival ever?
it was like fantasy day-camp for musically obsessed adult sufferers of hyperactive attention deficit disorder.
what bnyced said, except for the tiesto part - i thought he blew chunks. at that moment, i was busy tearing it up with the rapture in the dance tent. other highlights of mine: nightwatchman (incredible, brought out perry farrell), hot chip, arcade fire. faithless was indeed good, but hands-down best dance set was soulwax. hawtin was interesting, kooks solid and i thorougly enjoyed starting off my festie with two hours of comedians of comedy (has the "kill dane cook" flipchart made it on to the blogs yet?). disappointments: tiesto, kaiser chiefs, rhcp (i was hoping they'd do something special, but from the bits that i overheard they pretty much played the same set i've now heard three times in the past year). this is all off the top of my burned-out head, i'm sure i'll look at the schedule again and remember a ton of great acts that i should call out.
parking lot/transpo was totally not a problem - we were back in our hotel 30 minutes after we go in the car every night. trick was not to park where eeryone else did, and not take the same route home as every else did. we had the hands-down best hotel: pool and hot tub open all night, so there was a nice chill after-party scene every night under the stars.
i agree about rage: not the best i've ever heard them, but damn there is no other act that can do that to several tens of thousands of people. "be careful what you wish for" story: i wanted to be relatively close, and ended up being
too close. when the band hit the stage, i was swept up and forward about 6 feet and THEN things got nuts. spent the first song fighting for survival, spent the second song fighting my way back about 80 feet to safety. i wonder how many people got hurt in there. i wasn't even in the very front section, i was behind the first line of barricades. pure madness. i can't see how anyone can enjoy a performance in that kind of a full-scale riot. once i was as far back as the soundboard, it was safe to stop and actually take in the show. and what a show it was. zach called for bush and his croonies to be tried, hung and shot "like the war criminals that they are".
Originally posted by brennser:
so any reports? or are folks still wrecked from the weekend?
are you kidding me? it'll take a week to recoup. too much sun + too much heat + too much dancing = too much.
