Monday, 13 June 2011

Bonnaroo Awesomeness

Hello readers,

Yesterday, the Strokes played at Bonnaroo music festival. It was mind blowing.
Thank the lord for live streaming.
This was better than Coachella folks. Yes, that's correct. Better than COACHELLA!
IT WAS SO GREAT!!!! They sounded sooooo good!
They were headliners, so their performance was nice and long.
It was just that they were all in such a GOOD mood! Julian was hilarious, and all of them had so much energy!
They began with Is This It, a great choice in my opinion. And ended with Take It Or Leave It, classic. A few seconds in, Julian said "I got distracted" and on account of Nikolai's later on tweets ("Beautiful sunset, beautiful breasts and beautiful crowd!! Thank you Bonnaroo. You were awesome!" and then his "Just to clarify: the sunset, the crowd and the braless girls on their friends' shoulders... It's not sleazy. They were just livin' free!") I'm assuming he got distracted by a topless girl. The set was awemazing! Of course there were songs I wish they had played *COUGH MACHU PICHU COUGH* but the fact that every song they did play sounded a zillion times better than normal (NOT saying its normally bad but you know what I mean...) was just as good :) 
  Julian was also super stoked that he saw Beirut. In some interview (I can't remeber which one but it's on youtube) when asked his favorite band at the moment, Julian answered Beirut, so I can see why he'd be happy to see them.  
The jacket was so close to coming off!!! But no, Julian withholds his camel title. None of the other bandmates even began the show with a jacket! Someday, I know that jacket shall come off. Maybe it was the super expensive jacket he mentioned in his Shortlist interview... I feel like yes.
I've downloaded the performance in it's 16 parts from youtube (shoutout to GamewithaJ, you've made a lot of Strokes fans happy) and edited them together to create the entire show! However my computer is being extremely annoying and not allowing me to upload it ::(( It shall be up soon though with pictures too :)

Here's the setlist from yesterday:
  1. Is This It
  2. Reptilia
  3. Under Cover of Darkness
  4. Hard To Explain
  5. Someday
  6. Taken for a Fool
  7. You Only Live Once
  8. You're So Right
  9. What Ever Happened?
  10. Gratisfaction
  11. New York City Cops
  12. Life Is Simple in the Moonlight
  13. Juicebox
  14. Last Nite
  15. Under Control
  16. Take It Or Leave It 
 

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