The campground itself was full of characters: kids with lassos, graffiti'd winnebagos, party busses, Justin Bieber flags, and weirdos with awesome Full Moon party buckets and an ol' pink flamingo flag. What a life! Welcome to Sasquatch.
My favourite shows? Ohooooo where do I start. My favourite day was Monday. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis were so incredible I couldn't contain myself. I literally cried at this show it was so good. I've never seen a performer with more passion (I have a GIANT crush on Macklemore not gonna lie). Below is a video from my camera (not HD and not totally on target all the time, but let's face it, Fed wanted to enjoy the show as much as the rest of us...thanks for taking it Fed!)
We caught a glimpse of Foster the People, which way too packed to even get in to the front. Rodrigo y Gabriela performed on the big stage so we took a breather and listened to them during a much needed rainstorm and we ended up dancing to some ridiculously awesome guitar riffs. We moved to the dance tent to see Skrillex who blew me away. I know his music fairly well, but I've never heard any artist drop a beat as hard as Skrillex. Can't help but move with it! To finish off the insane weekend, we made our way to the front of Major Lazer, who put on the most entertaining shows I've ever seen. We witnessed some Rated R dancing (seriously) between Switch and his dancer and even observed the ladder dagger first-hand (see below). Meanwhile Diplo's swinging off some equipment in the background. SO entertaining and GREAT music. I'm having a lot of trouble putting this into words how amazing it was. Ending the weekend with bumping into Skrillex and Major Lazer wasn't too bad. We high five'd them, no bid D.
The other days were incredible as well. Friday we went in later and only saw Death from Above 1979 and the Foo Fighters (they played a couple of songs with Bob Mould). I've never been to a set as long as the Foo Fighters...over 2 hours! Then we danced a little bit to DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid. So fun!
Saturday we kicked it off with a chill Dan Mangan show. We then headed to the main stage and saw Wolf Parade (apparently their last show) and Pink Martini. This was in between napping on the hill so that we could be in full force for the night! After watching the beginning of Iron and Wine, we booked it over for Matt and Kim, which was an amazing show! Kim jumped off the stage and ran into the crowd. What a gem that girl is! Then we caught a bit of Robyn and her awesome moonwalking moves and listened to her very poor English ("We gonna have a Sasquatch Pahty!"...so classic) and then made our way over for Sleigh Bells, which was INCREDIBLE. Alexis Krauss is one foxy lady and damn is she ever a rockstar! We ended the night with Bassnectar and his epic Glowpocalypse (where everyone is prepared with glow sticks and when he drops the beat everyone throws them in the air) and let me just say I'll never look at the movie "Dumbo" the same. He was AMAZING.
Here's a link to the "Pink Elephants" song and the reason why I mentioned "Dumbo". Absolutely insane (in a very good way).
Sunday we had a goal to go see Beach House, but the line-up at the gates was irregularly long with literally thousands of people waiting to get in that we thought some people were going to suffocate. After an hour of extreme discomfort of being in the middle of way too many people crushing to get into the festival grounds, we finally made it in time to see City and Colour. We were then able to fit in Cold War Kids, Flogging Molly, and Gayngs before the Flaming Lips came on. In typical Wayne Coyne fashion, he rolled out in a big plastic ball onto the crowd. After making his way back to the stage, instead of actually performing he started talking about extremely random things like how important our hands are. Great. Everyone then sang a very nice "Happy Birthday Sasquatch" song and he threw cake out into the crowd. We then decided it was time to leave since Wayne Coyne was still discussing the gift of the hand and headed over to the wonderful Yeasayer.
This show was AWESOME. Chris Keating's smoking hot voice and Yeasayer's different vibe got everyone moving and it was a great warm-up to MSTRKRFT, which after Yeasayer we moved to in the dance tent (we did catch a bit of Modest Mouse, but had to much energy from Yeasayer that we needed to dance more!). We managed to sneak up to the front where some serious mosh pitting was occurring and I had to duck here and there while bodies were surfing their way across the crowd. GREAT times!! I'd heard that MSTRKFT's show wasn't that great, but they definitely proved otherwise. After MSTRKRFT pumped us up some more we moved to the next show: Ratatat. I didn't realize that Ratatat consists of two guys, two drums, two guitars, and a DJ set. It was awesome to see some dubstep that integrated musical instruments with the table. Gosh these guys are so cool. They had extremely trippy images for those on the "heighteners" like budgies, people (it doesn't sound weird but it was), etc. Hilarious! Here's a Yeasayer video just for the heck of it!
It was a long, yet unbelievable five days. I'm so lucky to have finally gone this year and it took me back to my SE Asia traveling days. Thank you Sasquatch and to the INCREDIBLE people I met and experienced it with. Count down begins for next year!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment