Coachella 2009

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FRIDAY APRIL 17: Paul McCartney, Morrissey, Franz Ferdinand, Leonard Cohen, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Beirut, The Black Keys, Girl Talk, Silversun Pickups, The Ting Tings, The Crystal Method, Ghostland Observatory, Crystal Castles, The Airborne Toxic Event, We Are Scientists, N.A.S.A., Patton & Rahzel, M. Ward, The Presets, The Hold Steady, A Place to Bury Strangers, Felix da Housecat, Buraka Som Sistema, Ryan Bingham, Bajofondo, Peanut Butter Wolf, Noah & the Whale, White Lies, The Bug, Alberta Cross, Los Campesinos!, Craze & Klever, Molotov, Switch, Gui Boratto, Steve Aoki, The Aggrolites, People Under the Stairs, The Courteeners, Cage the Elephant, Dear and the Headlights.

SATURDAY, APRIL 18: The Killers, Amy Winehouse, Thievery Corporation, TV on the Radio, Band of Horses, Fleet Foxes, MSTRKRFT, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Atmosphere, Mastodon, TRAV$DJ-AM, Henry Rollins, Crookers, Turbonegro, Hercules and Love Affair, Superchunk, Glasvegas, Dr. Dog, Drive-By Truckers, Booker T & the DBT’s, Amanda Palmer, The Bloody Beetroots, Surkin, Para One (Live), Calexico, Liars, Bob Mould Band, Zane Lowe, Electric Touch, Blitzen Trapper, James Morrison, Drop the Lime, Glass Candy, Thenewno2, Gang Gang Dance, Billy Talent, Ida Maria, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Zizek, Cloud Cult, Tinariwen.

SUNDAY, APRIL 19: The Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Throbbing Gristle, Lupe Fiasco, Paul Weller, Peter Bjorn and John, X, Antony & the Johnsons, Roni Size, Public Enemy, Jenny Lewis, Groove Armada, Paolo Nutini, Christopher Lawrence, Lykke Li, The Kills, Okkervil River, M.A.N.D.Y., Clipse, Sebastien Tellier, Fucked Up, Perry Farrell, The Horrors, Late of the Pier, K’naan, Junior Boys, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Supermayer, No Age, Vivian Girls, Shepard Fairey, Themselves, Gaslight Anthem, The Knux, Mexican Institute of Sound, The Night Marchers, Marshall Barnes.

Wait, Roni Size that high on the bill? Did I miss something?

Zane Lowe pretty high on the bill for just a radio jock

nothing really o_0 imo. which is fine by me as i dont have the means to attend as it is

Public Enemy should be in much bigger, bolder type. I'd love to make it out to Cali for the Cure, MBV, Throbbing Gristle and Public Enemy all in one day -- what a lineup for Sunday! The other two days are underwhelming, though.

Who/what is Booker T and the DBTs? WHERE ARE THE MGS? Anyway, yeah, Sunday is pretty intense with the classic british dudes, Cure, MBV, Throbbing ... and X, too! There are stretches in this bill that would be pure hell for me, though -- esp. Oberst, Beirut, Black Keys, Girl Talk. Bleccch.

Booker T = Booker T
DBTs = Drive-By Truckers

that many ppl listen to thievery corp?

There are stretches in this bill that would be pure hell for me

yeah, like the part from, eh, 9 AM to 7 PM b/c holy fuck is it hot at Coachella. I went in 2004 I think and I think I'm still sunburned.

Hmmm ... is that a one-off thing or am I just out of the Booker T loop ...
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i believe it's a one-off tour

probably rather go to Stagecoach than this

what a lineup for Sunday! The other two days are underwhelming, though.

― ilxor, Friday, January 30, 2009 11:09 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i had thought this too!

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that many ppl listen to thievery corp?

They're headlining a Miami festival later this year! I think they will always have a heart in a certain subset of people for whom active culture stopped in 1999.

i had no idea

man i feel good for the hold steady dudes, two guys i know are tech and sound dudes for them and they are having so much fun, in australia right now.

http://www.stagecoachfestival.com/images/mainPoster.jpg

ok that poster is awesome

just two giant dudes waitin for the bus

kevin costner!

and the MODERN WEST!

but for realz, i think Stagecoach would prob. be more fun than coachella.

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dale watson is fantastic live

yup

POCO! Also, Reba just goes by Reba now? Did she always just go by Reba?

dale watson is fantastic live

Man, you don't even need the 'live' part, he's fantastic flat out. Turned my dad into a major fan of his.

btw Dear And The Highlights is a stupid name

dale watson is fantastic live

Man, you don't even need the 'live' part, he's fantastic flat out. Turned my dad into a major fan of his.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, January 30, 2009 4:52 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is his newer stuff worth following? i sorta lost track of him since the 90s

If you haven't heard his album he did in tribute to his partner after she died in a car accident, do so immediately:

http://www.amazon.com/Every-Song-I-Write-You/dp/B00005LN4B

(If you can listen to it and not be moved, you have a heart of stone and cannot be trusted about anything.)

James Intveld is not Dale Watson, but definitely good stuff

when's Coachilla, the 3-day mega-ambient festival?

The perfect mascot:

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Sunday looks great, wonder if i will travel 100 miles this year to see this?

X at Coachella, Knitters at Stagecoach. Nicely done.

Re Booker T.--He'll be pushing new product and doing some gigs:

from Rolling Stone Mag news:

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Booker T. Jones will release Potato Hole, his first solo album in 20 years, on April 21st. While the MGs won’t be on board for the disc, Booker T. will be joined by some prestigious guests, including Drive-By Truckers and fellow Rock Hall honoree Neil Young. The Truckers will serve as Booker’s backup band, while Young will contribute guitar to nine of the album’s 10 songs. The album is being hailed as a return to the raw funk of 1962 smash “Green Onions.” Potato Hole was produced by T. and Rob Schapf and recorded last fall in California and Georgia. The organist and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner will also hit the road in support of the LP, with a date at New Orleans’ Jazz Fest with the Drive-By Truckers already scheduled.

Could be interesting even if I don't associate the DbT's with "raw funk," Rolling Stone

hm! Had no idea Neil Young was so involved. That sounds ... interesting. While Neil is also not really associated with "raw funk," he can actually play some good Cropper-esque. guitar. Of course, Booker T probably has Cropper's phone number ...

TINARIWEN!

I want to go this year but am sooooo worried about a possible My Bloody Valentine x Throbbing Gristle x Antony and the Johnsons conflict. None of them are likely to play Miami in the near future. :(

From a discussion on an email list I'm on, just realizing that Salton Sea/Salton City is just 35-40 minutes south of Coachella, and Throbbing Gristle is playing... well, HMMMMMMMMMM

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Pulled the trigger on Sunday tickets. Just kinda had to...

i might have some sort of job for this thing, everything paid (crossing fingers).

i'll be at coachella on saturday and sunday! i just decided to go a few days ago; i'm coming down from SF. is anyone going who could possibly host me for the night on sat and/or sun? i was planning on camping at the campgrounds there, but i injured my shoulder pretty badly last week so that's probably a bad idea.

so, through work, i ended up meeting around 25 bands that are going to this thing. i wasn't picked to go through work and might go anyways by calling in sick but i doubt that i will. now i really, really want to go as the hour nears. why the fuck am i not at My Bloody Valentine tonight?

the guy i spoke with in the Cure is the lighting guy (posted about that in another thread), so everything he said and that i posted in the Cure thread i would take with a grain of salt...

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-coachella17-2009apr17,0,4447289.story

Coachella's Tollett declined to provide the number of tickets sold but said this year's installment is on track to be the "third best-selling Coachella so far."

Jet
Drive My Car
Only Mama Knows
Flaming Pie
Got to Get You Into My Life
Let Me Roll It (with a coda of Purple Haze)
Honey Hush
Highway
The Long and Winding Road
My Love
Blackbird
Here Today
Dance Tonight
Calico Skies
Mrs. Vanderbilt
Eleanor Rugby
Sing the Changes
Band on the Run
Back in the U.S.S.R.
Something
I’ve Got a Feeling
Paperback Writer
A Day in the Life > Give Peace a Chance
Let It Be
Live and Let Die
Hey Jude

First encore:
Birthday
Can’t Buy Me Love
Lady Madonna

Second encore:
Yesterday
Helter Skelter
Get Back
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) > The End

Public Enemy are ON now with the Cure to follow!

http://music.att.net/

the Cure:

Underneath the Stars
Prayers for Rain
A Strange Day

alt.end
The End of the World
Love Song
To Wish Impossible Things
Pictures of You

Lullaby
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
The Perfect Boy
Wrong Number
Push

In Between Days
Just Like Heaven
Primary
Shake Dog Shake
The Hungry Ghost

Disintegration
One Hundred Years
It's Over

encore:

If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
The Kiss
At Night
M
Play For Today
A Forest

it actually goes, according to Chain Of Flowers web site:

1st encore: If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, The Kiss
2nd encore: At Night, M, Play For Today, A Forest
3rd encore: Three Imaginary Boys, Fire In Cairo, (power is cut), Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, (all power cut, Cure forced to end early).

the Cure were biting tonight, not a lot of pop songs.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090421/en_nm/us_music_coachella

Coachella organizers pull plug on the Cure

Reuters
By Darryl Morden Darryl Morden – 2 hrs 55 mins ago

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Coachella magic was at work during most of Sunday's closing date of the three-day festival in the southern California desert, from the hot-rockin' Gaslight Anthem out of New Jersey to the headliner, celebrated Britrock mood icons the Cure, playing until the plug was pulled just shy of 1 a.m.

The Cure's performance was slow-building with low-key songs. Then came the first round of crowd-pleasers including "Love Song," "Pictures of You" and "Just Like Heaven" as the crowd was taken away on dream-guitar fatalistic romance for more than 2 1/2 hours.

By the third encore, singer-guitarist Robert Smith informed the remaining audience that he was told he could do only one song but played three anyway. The final number, "Boys Don't Cry," turned into a sing-along as the video screen went dark and the sound system began to power down. It was the perfect finish to another wide-ranging year of offerings at the annual arts and music festival.

The Cure followed the highly anticipated My Bloody Valentine, which was bloody loud to the point of clearing nearly three-quarters of the field during a closing, seemingly endless white-noise drone. The band's earlier reined-in songs with actual melodies buried beneath the feedback architecture, still at painfully high volume if you were too close -- and that meant thousands of feet away.

Much more engaging were the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, whose Karen O is one of the most appealing rock frontwomen to surface since Chrissie Hynde. From thumpy struts to surging, hooky tunes, she charmed the crowd with self-effacing antics, warmth and plenty of smiles.

Like social networking sites, Coachella offers a make-your-own-festival approach, so no two people might have the same experience. Highlights from one of many possible versions included a late-afternoon set of pop delights from sublime Swedes Peter Bjorn and John on the Coachella Stage and the country-tinged electric folk of Okkervil River. In contrast, bad sound and cliches meant rapper Lupe Fiasco lived up to his last name.

Those willing to brave the event's hottest day, with temperatures in the low 100s, were rewarded with the Gaslight Anthem on the Outdoor Stage. The quartet is not really punk or alternative or whatever but instead is an honest-to-goodness rock 'n' roll band with heart-and-life-on-sleeve songs. The same field stage at night hosted Brit music veteran Paul Weller and the return of Public Enemy, which wasn't sure if it was delivering commentary or comedy -- a little of both, really.

X marked the spot for punk and postpunk of various eras in the Mojave Tent, anchored by the legendary Los Angeles outfit playing as though it was a club gig for friends. The tent also hosted appearances by the Brian Jonestown Massacre, the artsy Kills and another vet from the punk wars, London's reunited Throbbing Gristle.

Those seeking a detour from the Cure's extensive time onstage could've headed to the other side of the field to the Sahara Tent for varied dance experiences including Groove Armada playing DJs and the audiovisual performance art of Etienne De Crecy.

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