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#16b: Virgin Festival - Day Two (10-Sep-06) - Olympic Island
today's lineup was packed. besides alexisonfire on day 1, day 2 was definitely better.
we had planned to get there to see matt mays, but only ended up catching half of his set because i had a broken bag incident on our way to the show (the strap snapped), so i had to stop at eaton centre to buy a new bag. matt mays only had a half hour set, so only seeing half of it meant i only got to see 15 mins. too short. he was still really good though. he's one of those musicians where i keep wanting to check out, but haven't yet.
then we didn't know some of the set times changed, so ended up catching only half of wolfmother. did get to see them perform 'woman' though. the lead singer has a crazy wicked afro for a white australian dude.
after wolfmother was sam roberts, who i was looking forward to seeing. i just bought his new cd, so wasn't too familiar with his music. he was really good, and i love his new single 'bridge to nowhere.' was never a fan of 'don't walk away eileen' and he didn't sing it. watched his whole set, and it was great.
next was the strokes. besides 'last night' i don't really know any of their songs. but their music is great and the show was equal in caliber. i stayed to watch their whole set, but my friend left early to go to the other stage to wait for zero 7, who she was looking forward to the whole weekend.
i was planning on catching part of zero 7 before going back to the main stage to see the raconteurs. but they were running late on schedule on the 2nd stage, so i didn't end up seeing any of zero 7. i saw the whole set for the raconteurs instead. besides 'steady as she goes,' i don't know any of their songs, but they were pretty good. jack white doesn't sing all of them, which i didn't know. jack white made a comment about it being hard to get into canada, i wonder if he had problems or if he were referring to massive attack.
so massive attack was suppose to close the festival, but broken scene was there last minute to fill their shoes. we caught 3 songs and left because we had already saw BSS at their own festival earlier in the summer and it was already getting late.
all in all, it was a good weekend. it was bloody cold when the sun went down (i brought my down vest on sunday). i bought a sam roberts tshirt and an alexisonfire tshirt. met some funny people in the line up for the ferry and got to see some great performances i otherwise would never see.
today's lineup was packed. besides alexisonfire on day 1, day 2 was definitely better.
we had planned to get there to see matt mays, but only ended up catching half of his set because i had a broken bag incident on our way to the show (the strap snapped), so i had to stop at eaton centre to buy a new bag. matt mays only had a half hour set, so only seeing half of it meant i only got to see 15 mins. too short. he was still really good though. he's one of those musicians where i keep wanting to check out, but haven't yet.
then we didn't know some of the set times changed, so ended up catching only half of wolfmother. did get to see them perform 'woman' though. the lead singer has a crazy wicked afro for a white australian dude.
after wolfmother was sam roberts, who i was looking forward to seeing. i just bought his new cd, so wasn't too familiar with his music. he was really good, and i love his new single 'bridge to nowhere.' was never a fan of 'don't walk away eileen' and he didn't sing it. watched his whole set, and it was great.
next was the strokes. besides 'last night' i don't really know any of their songs. but their music is great and the show was equal in caliber. i stayed to watch their whole set, but my friend left early to go to the other stage to wait for zero 7, who she was looking forward to the whole weekend.
i was planning on catching part of zero 7 before going back to the main stage to see the raconteurs. but they were running late on schedule on the 2nd stage, so i didn't end up seeing any of zero 7. i saw the whole set for the raconteurs instead. besides 'steady as she goes,' i don't know any of their songs, but they were pretty good. jack white doesn't sing all of them, which i didn't know. jack white made a comment about it being hard to get into canada, i wonder if he had problems or if he were referring to massive attack.
so massive attack was suppose to close the festival, but broken scene was there last minute to fill their shoes. we caught 3 songs and left because we had already saw BSS at their own festival earlier in the summer and it was already getting late.
all in all, it was a good weekend. it was bloody cold when the sun went down (i brought my down vest on sunday). i bought a sam roberts tshirt and an alexisonfire tshirt. met some funny people in the line up for the ferry and got to see some great performances i otherwise would never see.
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