First band was Dirty Projectors, they also played yesterday but are filling in to do a second show, which worked out good for me. I liked their set a lot more than I was expecting. Even though their volume was quite acceptable I realised about half way through my right ear just hadn't stood up to yesterdays blasting. I had to hold my hand over my ear to block out some of the sound, as it felt like my ear drum was about to burst or start bleeding or something else undesirable. Made it to the end of the Projectors for an 8/10.
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| Dirty Projectors |
Next in the tent was Detroit Social Club. I thought they'd be ok but into the first song and their volume was just crazy load. There was no way I was sitting through that, so left to get a spot on the hill at the main stage before Kula Shaker starts. I liked Kula Shaker's first album "K" back in 1996 but then they kind of disappeared (they've actually done just three albums since then). The first half of the set was pretty boring, but then they knocked out Hey Dude, Mystical Machine Gun, Tattva (with some Star Wars theme in the middle) and Hush to finish. Brilliant way to end and takes them from a 2/10 to a 6/10.
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| Kula Shaker |
There wasn't much happening in the late afternoon, so we went back to the hotel for a few hours - I wasn't prepared to stand through one hour of Third Eye Blind just to hear Semi Charmed Life!
Back to the festival to see the end of John Fogerty (from CCR!) and just before we had to make the big hike to the white stage (in the dark) the first rain for the day arrived. I've discovered something that's worse than mud - when mud holes form and they fill with fresh rain, making big muddy rain puddles! So I stepped in a whole bunch of those as we headed to the white stage. For some reason EVERYONE at the festival was trying to do the same. The walk took at least 20 minutes down this muddy path, and it was raining. Good times.
We finally got to the packed, smaller white stage. Here's an idea for next year - put MGMT on the main stage and Roxy Music on the secondary stage. The rain wasn't letting up and I still had to wait for 30 minutes, the whole set of One Day As A Lion (new band with the lead singer from Rage) then 60 minutes of setup before MGMT were going to start. That was more standing that I could handle on a good day, so I bailed for the night. Kris and Lauren battled on, which makes me look pretty soft, but gave mixed reviews of MGMT and Lauren ended up sick 24 hours later, so I'd say it's a margin call.
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