Coachella 2006 pt. 1

Thursday:
Jim and Pat land around 10pm. We booze and bable until about 1am. Awesome.

Friday:
We rule, less than three hours to get to Coachella as opposed to the previous 5-6 hours trips. Set up our tent, set up some girl's tent, play cards, have a beer, eat diiner, go to pre-party with loads of free booze and a cool t-shirt (see us having fun below). Awesome people-watching. Say hey to J. Devil Hughes.


Saturday:
(not in real order)
Head Automatica - Sounded interesting at first until the suck settled in.
The Section Quartet - They cover alternative songs as a string quartet, it sounds exactly like it reads, awesome.
Nine Black Alps - Was really looking forward to these guys and arrived at the perfect time. Lots of fun, nothing groundbreaking, but entertaining.
Wolfmother - Holy mother of awesome. Can't wait to hear these guys in another album or two.
New Amsterdams - Not bad, not my thing.
Matt Costa - I think I saw him, I think I was entertained.
Eagles of Death Metal - It's J.Devil, what more do you need?
Walkmen - Sounded good, but really didn't grab me. I wan't inspired by the one album I knew, and I wasn't inspired by their performance.
Devendra Banhart - Interesting enough, possibly better on CD.
Animal Collective - A truly bizarre performance, different from the album, in a good interesting way.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - I don't get the hype either on CD or in person.
Ladytron - Sounds like the album, very cold live.
TV on the Radio - I don't know if it was just what I caught, but this seemed very much like a 'fuck around and do different shit' sort of set, I'm sure a number of the tunes are also new which helped the confusion, but I enjoyed it anyway because.
My Morning Jacket - Pretty fun, not mind blowing, but could check them out at some point.
Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley - Only listened from a distance, but I was pretty impressed, not huge into reggae, but it was good.
Siqur Ros - Wish I caught more of this set, but it was really impressive and convinced me that I need to see them again.
Franz Ferdinand - Watched a bit, and listened to a bit more as I wandered away. They sound exactly like you expect them to live; I'm not huge on them but I get why people are.
Depeche Mode - After seeing the Cure two years ago (and them sucking horribly) I'm never sure what to expect out of 80's groups that are still around. These guys were awesome, I caught just over and hour of their set, and if it was anyone but Daft Punk I would've stayed the whole time.
Daft Punk - This is the second year in a row that Coachella has had an electronic artist that I figured would be 'pretty damn fun' blow me the fuck away (last year was Prodigy). The fact that Daft Punk did this with two robots hanging out in a pyramid, and no one else on stage speaks volumes about their sound. Truly holy-fuck worthy.

Sunday comes eventually