My ladyfriend is five foot two and couldn't see over the crowd at Sunday's Pitchfork. I had to narrate much of the concert to her, tell her what was going on onstage.
If you've ever seen a Flaming Lips show, you know that's a difficult task."There's a lady on the screen ... light is coming from her vagina ... now the band is coming out of the vagina ... he has a streamer gun ... now he's in the human-sized hamster ball ... there are go-go dancers ... they're dressed as cats or something ... now he's riding a man in a bear suit."
I mean, it wasn't exactly like that. Upon further inspection, the bear suit was more of a gorilla suit and I completely missed the crowd of men dressed as geckos directly across from the go-go dancing cat girls.
But either way, God damn I love Wayne Coyne.
Unfortunately, I forgot to charge my camera before heading off to the all-day concert. Here is the last picture I took before the battery died.
That white blur to the upper left of the red hat, that's Wayne Coyne waiting to go onstage.
So, my camera died moments before an amazing show was to begin. After lasting all day through shots of hipster guitars and that one bit of garbage I thought looked like a question mark, my camera gave up the ghost moments before the hamster ball, vagina light, streamer gun pagentry of a Flaming Lips show.
At least I have Frightened Rabbit. They were good.
And Blitzen Trapper.
Complete with some random dude's head.
I didn't get pictures of all the bands I saw. Japandroids in particular was a great show. Started a little weird and off-putting, but they really won me over.
All in all, wonderful and tiring. I think I saw more hitter boxes than actual cigarettes. But the food was good, the day was lovely, the people were polite, I got loads of free promotional stuff and, God damn it, I saw Wayne freakin' Coyne.
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Explanation: This is marked The Concert Project V, even though it's the fourth article in the series. I saw Micachu and the Shapes and Anni Rossi at Schuba's last Monday. I just haven't written that one up yet.
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