Was anyone besides me blown away by Woods? I really thought it was spectacular. Watching the one dude on the floor make spectral noises through what looked like a WW2 gas-mask was pretty fucking awesome. The people I was with found it to be a bit too jammy, but I was wasted and loving it.

9/13/2010 1:26:36 AM

I ran to berkeley after Dungen for like 10 minutes of Kylesa for some reason. Then I ran back to Pour House and Woods were playing but I was tired from running and sat on the stairs.

Oh somewhere in there I checked out Washed Out for literally about 14 seconds and decided "NO" and left.

9/13/2010 1:35:30 AM

i'm sure i would've loved Woods but we didn't make it over there. i'll catch them next time they're around

9/13/2010 2:38:03 AM

Quote :

"gunzz was right next to them as well"

yeah man that was amazing. had to be one of my favorites / if not my favorite moment of the entire festival. Really great way to close it out.

due to work i had to miss a lot of the Thursday night shows. I'm sad i missed i missed Future Islands / Javelin / war on drugs / best coast. i was soooooooooooo disappointed with the Rosebuds set

worst shows: No Age, Panda Bear
most disappointing show: Rosebuds

the show that brought the LOLs: Raekwon (insert gun shots and explosions here) and Public Enemy

my favorite shows were: Megafaun, Love Language, Ponderosa, BSS, Parts of PE
Really enjoyed Bright Young Things, The Golden Boys, Harlem (second show)

loved seeing everyone out there / great way to start a festival. i will be going VIP next year.

[Edited on September 13, 2010 at 8:59 AM. Reason : sdf]

9/13/2010 8:45:25 AM

best weekend of the last 3 years for me

I'll be going VIP next year if not playing again.

saw 21 bands and was completely zombied by the end of each night yet still managed to wake up each morning for MORE!!!

what a success.

favorite bands: collections of colonies of bees (saw twice), bear in heaven, sharon van etten, dex romweber completely owned slims,
meh: atlas sound

and i definitely enjoyed locrian and ben frost. motor skills were neat. Gray young tore the house up.

The sound guy at the pour house sucked ass. I wanted to apologize to all the bands because he was so terrible.

[Edited on September 13, 2010 at 11:45 AM. Reason : .]

9/13/2010 11:40:19 AM

i'm doing my writeups now

i still think the best set of the weekend for me was the early harlem set

same amount of energy spread across fewer songs

the one guy completely soaked through his t-shirt in under 30 minutes

9/13/2010 1:24:03 PM

Quote :

" The sound guy at the pour house sucked ass. I wanted to apologize to all the bands because he was so terrible."

Jac Cain?

the dude is regarded by many to be one of the best sound guys in Raleigh.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2009/09/20/31057/soundmans-blues.html

and linked from (with a picture)
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/beat/jac-cain-the-sound-of-music

9/13/2010 1:50:30 PM

jac's a good guy, but he can be gruff

especially when he's working basically non-stop for three days and has to be at the goddamn bar at 9:30 AM after akron/family played past 2:30 the night before

perhaps mr. guess caught him at the wrong moment

9/13/2010 1:54:48 PM

he was so into Megafaun during the Friday day party there

I'm sure it was nice for him to see an incredibly talented band for a change

9/13/2010 2:01:54 PM

The whole weekend was pretty fucking amazing. If I can be sappy for a second, even besides the music, it was great to see just about everyone I know in Raleigh downtown and in such a jovial mood and everything. It was a great, exciting vibe all weekend everywhere I went. Kudos to Grayson and the Indy and everyone for making this happen, already looking forward to next year.

Saw Gray Young, Deakin, Cults, Best Coast, Sleepy Sun, Akron/Family, The Rosebuds, BSS, Panda Bear, Spider Bags, Sharon van Etten (2 sets), Schooner, The War on Drugs, the tail-end of Atlas Sound, The Love Language, No Age, Public Enemy, Nomo, Bear in Heaven, Washed Out, Tortoise (also, The Pixies last night in Asheville, who were really tight after all these years). Enjoyed everything I saw to some degree, with the exception of Cults and No Age, who I thought were fucking awful and played louder than I thought was even possible, to the point where you couldn't hear the actual music the way you should because it was just too fucking loud. Did not like their set whatsoever. Public Enemy was a lot of fun, though. Also, to be honest, I was a little disappointed by Bear in Heaven, but that might be because I had such high hopes. Favorite sets of the weekend were The War on Drugs, Sharon van Etten, and Broken Social Scene. van Etten is fucking amazing as are The War on Drugs live.

9/13/2010 3:33:45 PM

Quote :

"Was anyone besides me blown away by Woods?"

i thought they were great. that was my last show of the weekend and i was surprised how few people there. i guess everyone was next door at washed out or at megafaun.

Quote :

"i still think the best set of the weekend for me was the early harlem set"

that was my second favorite after the love language.

[Edited on September 13, 2010 at 5:40 PM. Reason : megafaun]

9/13/2010 5:35:39 PM

that Love Language set was perfect --- great choice of songs to play, and they sounded unbelievable.

9/13/2010 5:58:59 PM

^it was a great set. my favorite part was the opening lyric of "blue angel" (i feel a little drop of rain), and it really was just barely starting to sprinkle. that was perfect.

9/13/2010 7:14:27 PM

^ the same exact thing happened to me and that was so apropos.

9/13/2010 10:08:18 PM

Quote :

"What was in the swag bag? "

condoms
lube
amp gum
newcastle towel
newcastle dogtags
newcastle keychain with bottle opener
some special coupons and offers ($5 off at Ale House, $2 off at The Meat House, 20% off at Larry's Beans, a BOGO offer from the NC Symphony)
a hat
coffee
a foamy squeezeable R-line bus
an iphone case (funny, since I have a Blackberry)
some CDs
stickers
Burt's Bees lip blam
buttons
a lens cloth

being a VIP was awesome, I loved the lounge and the free beer

Sharon Van Etten was probably my favorite (though that is likely at least partially because I watched it next to Megafaun and Bowerbirds right next to me in the stairwell), followed by Public Enemy and Best Coast.

9/13/2010 11:06:15 PM

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/17386/203185

9/14/2010 9:05:39 AM

^

Quote :

"creating a Mardi Gras-like atmosphere"

Fuck. Yes.

9/14/2010 9:43:26 AM

lonnie walker was great at deep south saturday night

9/14/2010 11:06:35 AM

i wanted to see Lonnie Walker but they play all the time and i have seen them a lot over the past few months. im sure they put on a lively show. i wish they would have played closer to the main areas and not over by the depot

9/14/2010 11:33:25 AM

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/hopscotch-year-one-in-photos/Content?oid=1665095

so

fucking

great

9/14/2010 12:49:24 PM

bear in heaven may have been the highlight of the weekend for me

9/14/2010 3:02:07 PM

Ronny took some badass pictures

9/14/2010 3:03:08 PM

http://tinyurl.com/3xzzh3j

of all the pictures I've seen, that one is my favorite

9/14/2010 3:10:40 PM

Quote :

"a foamy squeezeable R-line bus "

NOT in mine. and i'm kind of jealous haha. i think it might have been in our first 2. but we lost those. and finally got a 3rd one. which did not get lost. but it didn't have NEARLY as much good stuff in it. sadness.

9/14/2010 3:43:05 PM

Quote :

"some special coupons and offers ($5 off at Ale House)"

one of my roommates stole mine and I am not too happy about it

9/14/2010 3:46:11 PM

Quote :

"i wish they would have played closer to the main areas and not over by the depot"

shit's not that far away

i hardly considered distance between venues when plotting my course because everything was within 5-6 blocks walk max

9/14/2010 5:02:22 PM

I've been to Bonnaroo four times, Ultra, Langerado, The Fest, and Hopscotch.

Hopscotch was the best run out of the five by a lot. (ultra was the worst).



One of my favorite tiny moments was during Harlem's night set, during Gay Human Bones.

At the post-first-chorus pause some guy beside me and i made eye contact and i said 'or so they tell me.' and then he said 'or so they tell me.' and then harlem said 'or so they tell me.'

den we made out, no homo doe


[Edited on September 14, 2010 at 5:50 PM. Reason : .]

[Edited on September 14, 2010 at 5:59 PM. Reason : by four i mean five]

9/14/2010 5:44:49 PM

A few shots from Hopscotch and such.

Max Indian











Lucero



Broken Social Scene



Spider Bags



Harlem



Crew Grrl Order (or whatever the hell these women were)



Public Enemy









Nomo





Bear in Heaven







Megafaun

9/15/2010 2:25:59 PM

nice. i should have followed you.

9/15/2010 2:30:21 PM

that ain't spider bags

9/15/2010 2:37:33 PM

I really didn't like Nomo

at all

9/15/2010 3:13:07 PM

^

9/15/2010 3:20:49 PM

Sorry, yeah, that's the Golden Boys, right?

9/15/2010 3:27:06 PM

yayer

9/15/2010 3:52:34 PM

thats a groovy pic of NOMO

9/15/2010 4:03:58 PM

heh...that's me holding the phone right by the guitar neck providing the light. I'm sure he appreciated it.

Much better than the pic I got with the phone!(below)



[Edited on September 15, 2010 at 4:17 PM. Reason : .]

9/15/2010 4:09:42 PM

I see someone very special in that Megafaun pic

[Edited on September 15, 2010 at 4:44 PM. Reason : hahahahaha]

9/15/2010 4:15:43 PM

what you don't see is me hitting myself in the head with a tambourine

9/15/2010 5:15:40 PM

Quote :

"heh...that's me holding the phone right by the guitar neck providing the light. I'm sure he appreciated it."

the girl next to you thinks you're a retard though

i see the back of my gf's head

so bummed i had to miss this

9/15/2010 5:21:12 PM

^ that be who I was talking bout

(didn't mean special as in retarded though)

9/15/2010 5:22:36 PM

I liked NOMO, but I like pretty much anything afrobeat-ish

Bear in Heaven did absolutely nothing for me though

9/15/2010 5:25:51 PM

all I could think of during Nomo was "DMB cover band"

which I know is way too harsh, but still, just didn't do it for me

[Edited on September 15, 2010 at 5:37 PM. Reason : too mean]

9/15/2010 5:28:12 PM

they were good if you're into that sort of thing

not my style at all though

peaced out early to get a spot for dungen, who RULED SO HARD

9/15/2010 5:41:34 PM

I really dug the NOMO set. One of my favorite sets of Saturday night. Thought they sounded really good, crowd seemed to be having a good time. Definitely liked it more than Bear in Heaven, but that might've been because I had really high hopes for BIH.

Also, goodlife...not to be a dick but in no way whatsoever did they sound anything like DMB. Can't give you that one.

[Edited on September 15, 2010 at 5:48 PM. Reason : .]

9/15/2010 5:45:11 PM

I was also shittanked and still on a high from shaking flava flav's hand a couple of hours before, so my judgement was probably way off



[Edited on September 15, 2010 at 6:04 PM. Reason : TIME TO GET TO THE LAPTOP, JESUS ITOUCH]

9/15/2010 5:48:40 PM

fair enough, i too was really drunk and on a high from getting to shake flava flav's hand so my judgment may have been off...in the other direction.

what did you think of public enemy's set, then? i thought it was a blast. nothing really mind-blowing sound wise, but just a lot of fun and thought they had a lot of energy still.

[Edited on September 15, 2010 at 5:51 PM. Reason : .]

9/15/2010 5:50:04 PM

also he's clearly shittanked now

9/15/2010 5:50:23 PM

^^^^definitely agreed on both counts. NOMO kicked ass (i had never heard them before) and they definitely don't compare whatsoever to DMB.

i spent a large portion of saturday night at lincoln and thought balmorhea, NOMO, and bear in heaven all put on a good show.

[Edited on September 15, 2010 at 5:51 PM. Reason : ^^^^]

9/15/2010 5:51:08 PM

Also, speaking of Public Enemy, what the fuck was up with that Crew Girl Order shit or whatever the fuck their name was? I haven't been to a lot of big-name hip-hop shows, admittedly, but why would they have a "warm-up" act? Isn't that what The Love Language and No Age were? Thought that was weird and crowd around me was getting a little rowdy around me during their set, not in a good way, but in a "what the fuck, bring on Public Enemy" kind of way.

9/15/2010 5:56:42 PM

Quote :

"what did you think of public enemy's set, then? i thought it was a blast. nothing really mind-blowing sound wise, but just a lot of fun and thought they had a lot of energy still."

we watched from the vip area since it was raining and all. it was pretty good, definitely really cool to hear them live. we had just gotten back from crushing a ton of mexican beer at a friend of mines office so I was probably at the peak of my drunkenness

9/15/2010 6:07:18 PM