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God I am always so late on writing these damn posts. My apologies. Old news now for some, but I went to Sasquatch Music Festival!!!!!! Before I left for Washington on Memorial Day Weekend, I would read the lineup over and over again because I was in a continual state of disbelief that SO MANY AMAZING MUSICIANS WERE IN THE SAME PLACE AT ONCE!. I thought the sky would turn red, our ears would melt off and everyone at the Gorge Amphitheater would be sucked into the ground due to an overabundance of magical musical energy, looking like a mix between Indiana Jones when the Nazi’s reveal what is in the lost arc and Poltergeist, when the house implodes upon itself.
Raider of the Lost Arc
You get the picture. That didn’t happen though, maybe we were one band short. I’m sure if Broken Social Scene had shown up the whole northeast would have disappeared off the map completely. That’s how I would like to go out.
The Gorge Amphitheater
Enough of theoretical and impossible tangents, lets talk about music!!!!!! I am actually going to release a new post every few day for the next week or two, looking at each band more closely, but here is who I am gonna discuss (in the order I saw them):
- Passion Pit
- M. Ward
- DeVotchKa
- Animal Collective
- Decemberist
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Kings of Leon
- St. Vincent
- Murder City Devils
- M83
There were a ton of others I missed due to intoxication and much needed naptime like Bon Iver, Crystal Castles, Doves, of Montreal, Sun Kil Moon, Walkmen, The Wrens and The Dodos, but I am happy with my over all experience, which I will also share more about next post.
Panda and Jutley
Until then hang tight and check out a group called Agent Ribbons from Sacramento. They opened for Camera Obscura last night at the Fillmore (which I will also write about later.. ahhh so much to do)
X ) toodles!
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I am fulfilling my promise with posting the setlist from the DeVotchKa concert at the Fillmore January 30th, 2009.
Feel free to take this set list for any usage, especially those who attended the DeVotchKa show. Buy DeVotchKa songs at Amazon.com
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I never knew such an amazing performance was able to be beat! After seeing DeVotchKa for the first time I was kind of depressed, because I truly convinced myself that no show would ever compare…. but to my astonishment, the incredible Denver natives really out did themselves.
I was front and center, able to see their beautiful dancers’ every move, nearly feeling the air from Hagerman’s accordion on my face. Lead vocalist Nick Urata was all debonair in a dapper dark coat, sided by Jeanie Schroder’s blue-lit tuba. The whole time I was smiling. Anyone who saw me probably thought I had taken a mind-altering pill, but when you see DeVotchKa, there is no need for such sense enhancers.
DeVotchKa -The Fillmore
I got the set list and I’ll be happy to post a pic of it. Great night, GREAT NIGHT.
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Riding my bike around the boring town where I live, I had my iPizzle on the shuffle songs setting. All of a sudden this heart-squeezing violin caused the emotional ends of my face to warm. All of a sudden I felt like I was a little french girl in a quiet little town, toodling along the cobblestone roadways… smelling the crisp air… and then people start popping out of windows singing BON JOUR! bon jour! BON jour bon jour bon JOUR!!!!… just kidding… cheap Beauty and the Beast reference.. forgive me. But no really…. back to my bike story, DeVotchKa (who the song on my iPod was written and performed by) really places their listeners into another transcendental, poignant world. And let me tell you… I haven’t EVER seen a performance like theirs.
Seeing DeVotchKa (which means woman in Russian) at San Francisco’s notoriously awesome venue, The Fillmore, proved itself incomparable. I nearly peed myself. On stage, they had Russian dancer on tapestries, later throwing flowers to the crowd, the whole shabang. And it wasn’t as if they were making up for auditory shittiness by distracting the audience with an easy spectacle. The performance a first prepubescent orgasm, or sky diving, or eating cheese (I don’t know what your into…) But really… the combination of all things on the stage that fine April’s eve was Utopian. The beautiful dancing Russians, the carnations– the music– was ineffable. Lucky for me…. and maybe some of you… I get to experience them AGAIN… tomorrow night at the Fillmore again. I am trying not to anticipate, because I don’t really think anything can compare to my first.
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