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oh how i've missed you...
as well i just saw franz ferdinand live at coachella, and they were really bad. they kind of just bullshit their way through every song.
i agree the line-up is exciting, but trust me youre not missing the greatest show on earth. do NOT fly out to see it.
wait till the bands come around to smallers venues, and dont have to abide to the schedules of a festival which usually adds up to about 30-45 minutes a set until you get to the bigger acts.
Ugh, I hate when that happens. I think I've said this, but I've been to two OK Go concerts where the sound was horrible, and it just completely throws off the performance in your head. And I do agree, I'd much rather see The Strokes or Franz in a smaller venue- but I'd rather see just about any band in a smaller venue, given the chance.
Really? I've seen them live three times and I've loved each performance. They're a little kooky, especially Alex, especially late in the show, but I've thought they were just really great and full of energy. They don't play the most profound, earth-shattering shows, but they do what they're good at- rocking out and playing songs that make girls dance.
I hate when critics accuse them of being cocky onstage- they never come off as cocky to me. Cheeky, yes. But I think there's a difference between cheeky and cocky.
wait till the bands come around to smallers venues, and dont have to abide to the schedules of a festival which usually adds up to about 30-45 minutes a set until you get to the bigger acts.
I couldn't fly out to see it, even if I wanted to do so, as I don't have teh dollars.
But while I recognise that the venue is shitty and that festivals of this calibre rush you through schedules and aren't at the best venues and are overcrowded, etc., the fact that so many of my favourite bands- The Strokes, Franz, OK Go, among others- and other bands that I'd love to see in concert are all playing in the same place would (hopefully) outweigh the negative, I think. I mean, if this festival were being played out here at Giants' Stadium, which is HUGE (and I hate HUGE venues), I'd still go. Greatest show on Earth? No. But if I had the chance, I'd go.
I'm more or less just bemoaning the fact that Kulash and Kapranos are going to be at the same festival, twice in a week, and it's on the other side of the country.
haha i'll be in the grass too. but i'm really confused as to how this whole thing is set up. somebody told me that the two stages are next to each other, and the bands switch performances or something. is that true?
afterwards, we didnt get in line in time to get stuff signed by them but they came down where people were waiting outside & i had damian, dan, and andy sign my jeans and got pictures with dan and damian.
i was kind of upset at first that ok go was on so soon, but later i was glad because there was hardly anyone there so you could get in the front. later artists like panic and yellowcard were impossible to even get a glimpse of.
anyways, i have pictures...
haha that picture makes me laugh so hard.
and this is how far away we were from the main stage.
that's franz ferdinand, haha. i got to talk to them too, which was pretty cool. but yea, i had an awesome time.
Noooo. Now he doesn't look like a pirate anymore, this angers yet saddens me.
I refuse to call him ARR now. Awesome pirate initials be damned.
But, hahah he's wearing Karleigh's tie onstage in those pics, sweeeet.
I still wish I could have gone..*grumble*
Gorgeous pics though. It looked like such a great time! You're so lucky you got to see all 4 lads!
Tim and Dan look adorable. Yeah, Kikky, why did Rusty cut his hair?! The Kulash looks exceptionally stunning. Ok, not to sound like a dentist, but the Kulash teeth look especially sparkly.
See? I really am going thru withdrawl! Lol.
Thanks for posting these gorgeous pics, rooneyhappy!!! So tell us, what were the highpoints and lowpoints of the whole CA show?
Gorgeous pics though. It looked like such a great time! You're so lucky you got to see all 4 lads!
Tim and Dan look adorable. Yeah, Kikky, why did Rusty cut his hair?! The Kulash looks exceptionally stunning. Ok, not to sound like a dentist, but the Kulash teeth look especially sparkly.
See? I really am going thru withdrawl! Lol.
Thanks for posting these gorgeous pics, rooneyhappy!!! So tell us, what were the highpoints and lowpoints of the whole CA show?
oh it was so awesome. haha
okgo, the hush sound, wolfmother, the strokes, franz ferdinand, echo and the bunnymen... bah so many good bands.
i didn't like panic! at the disco. haha and it sucked that we had such crappy seats for the mainstage. but meeting franz ferdinand and okgo totally made it worth it. it was fun.
if thats not the cutest picture of damian ever, i dont know what is.
On an unrelated note...
**sigh**
And I think he's wearing Denise's tie in the not-onstage pics.
Also...can't decide if I like Damian's suit or not...
YOUMETFRANZANDOKGOINTHESAMEDAYOMGI'MSOJEALOUSWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! *cries*
I've met Alex....who is a total sweetheart.....but I'd die if I got to meet Alex AND Damian on the same day....
SEEEEERIOUSLY.
I would just like to meet them w/o the bunches of "OMGZYOUREHOT" girls around. THey ruin an experience greatly.
hah, i thought i was going to.
Anywho, the Wolfmother gig wasn't good either. I remember at Coachella they had this massive sound that hit you like a ton of bricks and at the festival it seemed just like average sound to me. As well, people in the back were pushing like mad-men and I was right in tthe front getting squished, im sure from the stage the crowd looked more like an ocean than an audience and it affected the band. They went from the endless energy I remembered from coachella, to Andrew the lead singer just standing in the same spot the whole set. People were pushing so much i couldn't even focus on the band. It was really really frustrating. Especially after the OK Go set.
From then it was pretty much how i expected it to be. The Strokes and Franz Ferdinand did their same 'sort of into it' sets and we were so far away from the stage I could hear myself eating french fries louder than i could hear the bands.
Funny enough the best band i saw all day was a local band called Two Seconds on the local band stage which is this tiny little nothing stage next to the beer stand. They had the best sound and were the most entertaining. Made me chuckle.
It was not a great show. But there's hope. The Download Festival is coming back to the Shoreline on Sept. 30th. Last year there were not a whole lot of great bands on the line-up but the Arcade Fire did an excellent set with better sound than i thought the shorleine was capapble of. So far I've found out that Wolfmother and Beck will be there this year, so maybe things will go better next time, but until then i detest the Shoreline Ampitheatre in all its suckitry.