Libertines at Coachella Festival

[Asmith]

Well I went to the Coachella festival yesterday. It was pretty cool, the Hives were fantastic and hilarious. The blue man group was insane, and Groove Armada can suck it. The Libertines were supposed to play at 11pm. So me and my bro being huge fans head on over there to get a good spot up close. So we crowd in there, only to realize the tent is running about an hour and 15 minutes behind schedule, and the libs will play after "groove armada". So we squeeze through the brainless dancing people to get out of there, and go get sit down somewhere (my back was killing me ;p)
So an hour later at like 12:30 we head back and get in the front again. Watch the people set it all up. Then pete comes out and sprayed us all with champagne. Then they played "horrow show", with the microphone not loud enough, but it was great nonetheless. They go into "up the bracket" and about half way through..the mic cuts out, and pete picks it up and throws it to the ground...and storms backstage. The crowd was kinda confused..and then a lady comes out and say's "it's past curfew, so you guys have to leave".
so we're like what the junk? So my bro leads me and my friend backstage so we can at least see if we can see the band. So we go back there, talk to pete who apoligizes for not being able to play. Then we see carl and we all shook his hand, and he said "sorry bout that guys, they cut the power on us"
So it was kinda disappointing, but rewarding as well. I just hope they come back to california sometime soon, with a better organizer than coachella. but needless to say it was awesome.

[ryn]

they actually played sunday afternoon in the mojave tent at coachella, and totally blew the place away. i think their set was a bit shortened since they were supposed to headline the mojave tent saturday night, but they still played a fair bit. here is the setlist:

1. The Delaney
2. Up The Bracket
3. Vertigo
4. What A Waster
5. Mayday
6. Don't Look Back Into The Sun (sounds great)
7. Death On The Stairs
8. Boys In The Band
9. Time For Heroes
10. The Good Old Days
11. The Boy Looked At Johnny
12. I Get Along
13. Skag & Bone Man

for skag & bone man they had people in the crowd come on stage and dance and sing along. great gig, didn't let anyone down. are they normally that silent when it comes to talking to the audience? not much interaction. definitely one of the best sets at coachella though, they were one of the reasons why i went. anybody else see them?

ry@n~!


"Music after all is the background score to our lives, not merely surviving in our memory banks long after so many of our other seemingly stronger memories have faltered, but serving to remind us of who we were at a given moment of our lives, where we were, what we dreamed of, what we feared, and, of course, who we loved."
David Halberstam

[Jim82]

sounded like typical libertine activity then

nice quote as well