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#16a: Virgin Festival - Day One (09-Sep-06) - Olympic Island
i love outdoor music festivals, even if sometimes i might not know half the bands, it's cool just to be outside. but today was actually kind of cold and it had rained in the morning, so it wasn't the nicest weather for an outdoor show.
we started the day off with seeing buck 65. i'm not familiar with his music, but ever since he DJ'ed at the junos, i've been impressed, so i wanted to check him out. it was a really entertaining show, his songs are really catchy. i don't think i'll get his CD, but he's definitely a musician who puts on a good live show.
next we wanted to check out the dears, but didn't really stay long enough to hear more than one song because we went to get food instead.
so we went to watch starsailor next. i have their first CD, and i remember really liking it when i bought it. they're one of those british bands that are very coldplay-ish, so it's a given that i'd like them. they also put on a good live show and it made me want to get their 2nd CD. love those brits.
we walked back to the virgin stage to wait for kid koala, but the muse were still playing, and we caught most of their set, which i'm glad we did because they were really good. this is a prime example of why festivals are good. i get to check out bands i don't know much about and see if i like them. now i like the muse and will probably buy their CD.
kid koala ended up losing his first set, and only had his second set after gnarls barkley. if the schedule was followed properly, i would have been able to see gnarls barkley and still have time to walk back to the futureshop stage to see alexisonfire. but no, that didn't happen, and i caught 2 songs of gnarls barkley and left. i'm okay with it since i really only wanted to see alexisonfire today, everyone else was just filler.
i watched aof perform alone because my friend didn't come with me (story to follow), and it was awesome. because they were doing this festival, they didn't have a separate date in toronto for their tour they're on right now. which is too bad b/c they only played for an hour. it was great though, i've never seen aof perform before (except seeing them at mtv), so i was looking forward to my first aof show. dallas didn't disappoint. he was amazing. george took off his shirt, even though it must have been only 10 degrees at that time. and wade is really funny, he definitely should talk more. he said there are two things he hates the most and they are white guys with dreads and beach balls at rock shows. they sang a mix of old and new songs, which i thought was surprising since they had only an hour anyways, so i thought they'd sing most of their new songs. i really wanted them to sing rough hands, from the new cd, but they didn't. it's my favourite song, mainly because it has lots of dallas in it. they said they're coming back to TO in december to do 4 shows, so i'm definitely looking forward to going. i just need to find someone who likes aof to come with me!
so the reason my friend didn't come see aof with me was because she was on stage dancing for the flaming lips!!!! while we were waiting for kid koala to start, these two scruffy looking guys come up to us and ask if we like the flaming lips. even though i've never heard one of their songs, and the only reason i even have heard of them is because i saw a story one time about justin timberlake performing a song with them, i told the guy yes. so we asked if we wanted to dance on stage in costumes during their set. i asked what time we'd have to be there, and he said 9:40, so i said no right away because i'd been looking forward to aof the whole day and i wasn't going to miss it. but my friend went. i know some people are going to call me crazy for passing up the once in a lifetime chance to do something like this, and the roadie guy who asked us said the same thing, but i don't regret it. i know i'll see aof some other time, but i also don't know any songs by the flaming lips, love aof to death, and don't necessarily want to make a fool of myself.
the promoters had to shut the flaming lips down early because the festival was running overtime, and they have a strict curfew b/c it's on olympic island and there are residences around there, so there are very strict noise laws. they ended up only playing 30 mins, which totally suck for anyone who was waiting for the flaming lips. i saw the lead singer up close though b/c i was waiting for my friend to come out from backstage, and security was trying to clear everyone out, so a security guard took me backstage to meet up with my friend. everyone got shirts that said "i ____ with the flaming lips. a) danced. b) had sex. c) took drugs." and option a was circled. that was kind of cool to get a free tshirt out of it, i admit, but i still don't regret skipping out on it for aof.
all in all, today was a good day. it totally made my day to see aof. the only crappy thing about all day festivals is that there are always multiple stages with set times overlapping. tomorrow will be difficult to coordinate since there are more bands and more of them overlap. i want to see... wolfmother, sam roberts, matt mays, the strokes zero 7, broken social scene, and the raconteurs. massive attack was suppose to be the closing band, but i heard they didn't get their visas or were turned away at the border or something, so BSS took their spot. i've already seen BSS, so massive attack would have been way cooler to check out.
hopefully day 2 is as good as day 1.
i love outdoor music festivals, even if sometimes i might not know half the bands, it's cool just to be outside. but today was actually kind of cold and it had rained in the morning, so it wasn't the nicest weather for an outdoor show.
we started the day off with seeing buck 65. i'm not familiar with his music, but ever since he DJ'ed at the junos, i've been impressed, so i wanted to check him out. it was a really entertaining show, his songs are really catchy. i don't think i'll get his CD, but he's definitely a musician who puts on a good live show.
next we wanted to check out the dears, but didn't really stay long enough to hear more than one song because we went to get food instead.
so we went to watch starsailor next. i have their first CD, and i remember really liking it when i bought it. they're one of those british bands that are very coldplay-ish, so it's a given that i'd like them. they also put on a good live show and it made me want to get their 2nd CD. love those brits.
we walked back to the virgin stage to wait for kid koala, but the muse were still playing, and we caught most of their set, which i'm glad we did because they were really good. this is a prime example of why festivals are good. i get to check out bands i don't know much about and see if i like them. now i like the muse and will probably buy their CD.
kid koala ended up losing his first set, and only had his second set after gnarls barkley. if the schedule was followed properly, i would have been able to see gnarls barkley and still have time to walk back to the futureshop stage to see alexisonfire. but no, that didn't happen, and i caught 2 songs of gnarls barkley and left. i'm okay with it since i really only wanted to see alexisonfire today, everyone else was just filler.
i watched aof perform alone because my friend didn't come with me (story to follow), and it was awesome. because they were doing this festival, they didn't have a separate date in toronto for their tour they're on right now. which is too bad b/c they only played for an hour. it was great though, i've never seen aof perform before (except seeing them at mtv), so i was looking forward to my first aof show. dallas didn't disappoint. he was amazing. george took off his shirt, even though it must have been only 10 degrees at that time. and wade is really funny, he definitely should talk more. he said there are two things he hates the most and they are white guys with dreads and beach balls at rock shows. they sang a mix of old and new songs, which i thought was surprising since they had only an hour anyways, so i thought they'd sing most of their new songs. i really wanted them to sing rough hands, from the new cd, but they didn't. it's my favourite song, mainly because it has lots of dallas in it. they said they're coming back to TO in december to do 4 shows, so i'm definitely looking forward to going. i just need to find someone who likes aof to come with me!
so the reason my friend didn't come see aof with me was because she was on stage dancing for the flaming lips!!!! while we were waiting for kid koala to start, these two scruffy looking guys come up to us and ask if we like the flaming lips. even though i've never heard one of their songs, and the only reason i even have heard of them is because i saw a story one time about justin timberlake performing a song with them, i told the guy yes. so we asked if we wanted to dance on stage in costumes during their set. i asked what time we'd have to be there, and he said 9:40, so i said no right away because i'd been looking forward to aof the whole day and i wasn't going to miss it. but my friend went. i know some people are going to call me crazy for passing up the once in a lifetime chance to do something like this, and the roadie guy who asked us said the same thing, but i don't regret it. i know i'll see aof some other time, but i also don't know any songs by the flaming lips, love aof to death, and don't necessarily want to make a fool of myself.
the promoters had to shut the flaming lips down early because the festival was running overtime, and they have a strict curfew b/c it's on olympic island and there are residences around there, so there are very strict noise laws. they ended up only playing 30 mins, which totally suck for anyone who was waiting for the flaming lips. i saw the lead singer up close though b/c i was waiting for my friend to come out from backstage, and security was trying to clear everyone out, so a security guard took me backstage to meet up with my friend. everyone got shirts that said "i ____ with the flaming lips. a) danced. b) had sex. c) took drugs." and option a was circled. that was kind of cool to get a free tshirt out of it, i admit, but i still don't regret skipping out on it for aof.
all in all, today was a good day. it totally made my day to see aof. the only crappy thing about all day festivals is that there are always multiple stages with set times overlapping. tomorrow will be difficult to coordinate since there are more bands and more of them overlap. i want to see... wolfmother, sam roberts, matt mays, the strokes zero 7, broken social scene, and the raconteurs. massive attack was suppose to be the closing band, but i heard they didn't get their visas or were turned away at the border or something, so BSS took their spot. i've already seen BSS, so massive attack would have been way cooler to check out.
hopefully day 2 is as good as day 1.
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