Soundwave 2010

Flawless day, I ended up having so much fun and seeing some sick bands. A lot better organised than last year, but still hot as hell without any shade (The biggest cheer of the day being when the sun went behind a stray cloud for 30 seconds at about 3pm.) but you know, I thought this day was gonna be all about my inner early/mid-teenager but I ended up having an awesome day regardless. If anyone can help me out with any of these setlists would be appreciated.

First up and the criminally early time for one of the best bands ever was Sunny Day Real Estate. I never really consider it much but their set was truly ruined by being on so early in the day, they played perfectly and they were all pretty stoked to be playing but by half way through the day I had completely forgotten they'd even played, and they were the primary reason I had gone. But lucky I taped it because it's amazing.

Setlist
Song About an Angel
Seven
Theo B
48
Iscarabaid
J'Nuh
In Circles
Sometimes

Sunny Day Real Estate - Soundwave, Sydney, 21/02/2010 - 63mb - 43 minutes

Saw Isis next as nothing else much was on, they had me pretty enthralled for moments and completely bored for others, enjoyable overall though. I think they played 3 songs?

Isis - Soundwave, Sydney, 21/02/2010 - 51mb - 36 minutes

The Weakerthans, a surprise highlight for the day, it was between seeing them or Alexisonfire so I went with the band that probably will never come back. Really stood out from the rest of the lineup playing what was basically indie pop, and they were hella fun.

Setlist
Bigfoot
Tournament of Hearts
Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Foucault In Paris, 1961)
Benediction
Reconstruction Site
Aside
The Reasons
Left and Leaving
Plea from a Cat Named Virtute
(Manifest)

The Weakerthans - Soundwave, Sydney, 21/02/2010 - 50mb - 35 minutes

For some reason, I only had to walk two stages over, but that took me some 20 minutes because Glassjaw/gLASSJAW/GlassJAw were already half way through their first song when I got there. Daryl Palumbo's voice is damn amazing and they played a tight set, I didn't recognise that many songs though so I found myself a bit lost at points. You always hear stories about Daryl being a wanker and such but god damn, he was a douche on stage at this show. He also had all sorts of cuts all over his body. His voice was spot on though, a great set. Sound is a bit jumpy at the start as I'm still walking towards the stage.

Setlist
Tip Your Bartender
All Good Junkies Go to Heaven
Mu Empire
Ape Dos Mil
Gillette Cavalcade of Sports
Jesus Glue
Pink Roses
Two Tabs of Mescaline
Siberian Kiss

Glassjaw - Soundwave, Sydney, 21/02/2010 - 66mb - 46 minutes

Now I went to the mainstage to tape Placebo for a friend as nothing else was on and Paramore were still playing, so I thought it'd be funny to record That's What You Get and upload that, turns out it was only the third song of the set and I got to see all of it. tbh I've always thought Paramore write catchy singles but they were damn good live. I quite enjoyed it and Hayley Williams is like an energiser bunny.

Setlist
That's What You Get
Looking Up
Careful
Let the Flames
Pressure
Decode
Misery Business
Brick by Boring Brick

Paramore - Soundwave, Sydney, 21/02/2010 - 51mb - 36 minutes

Another reason I bought a ticket to this was The Get Up Kids. Best crowd of the day, everyone was so into it, and they were loving it. I had always heard stories of them being crappy live and what not but they went alright. I forgot to do a setlist for these guys, later.

Setlist
Holiday
I'm a Loner Dottie, A Rebel
Coming Clean
The One You Want
Woodson
Red Letter Day
Stay Gone
Close to Me (The Cure)
Action and Action
Don't Hate Me
Ten Minutes

The Get Up Kids - Soundwave, Sydney, 21/02/2010 - 56mb - 39 minutes

Due to the maintsage being an hour late, I ended up being able to see AFI as well. I'm walking into the D Barrier as Kill Caustic starts, I don't know what they played before then. But simple truth is, AFI have moved on and I haven't, this almost killed my inner-early-teenager. Though I did still enjoy hearing the Sing the Sorrow songs for a nostalgia trip, but the only time they went further back then that was for Love Is a Many Splendoured Thing. Oh well, they've got a shitload of fans now so it's working for them.

Setlist
Kill Caustic
Crash Love Song
Love is a Many Splendoured Thing
Crash Love Song
Dancing Through Sunday
The Missing Frame
Death of Seasons
Silver and Cold
Crash Love Song
Love Like Winter
Miss Murder

AFI - Soundwave, Sydney, 21/02/2010 - 58mb - 39 minutes

Jane's Addiction had their moments. I think people are taking them a bit too seriously, take it for what they are, a bunch of ex-junkie rockstars being ex-junkie rockstars, and it's a bit of fun. Perry pretended to have a three way with some dancers, he rolled around on the floor proclaiming himself a role model and never once looked at or acknowledged the presence of Eric Avery, but you know, this set was rock and roll. I've seen reunions where certain members aren't "into it" but Eric Avery looked downright pissed off to be playing.

Setlist
Up the Beach
Mountain Song
Had a Dad
Three Days
Whores
Been Caught Stealing
Then She Did...
Ocean Size
Ted, Just Admit It...
Stop!
Jane Says

Jane's Addiction - Soundwave, Sydney, 21/02/2010 - 95mb - 1 hour 7 minutes

I was extremely pleased when Jimmy Eat World were added at the last minute, and something seemed right about this set, something was clicking between them because what I saw is not what I ever hear about in reviews of Jimmy Eat World shows. It was fucking amazing. The set list was pretty damn great sing-a-long funtimes and the crowd were really enthusiastic. One of the best sets I've seen.

Setlist
Sweetness
A Praise Chorus
Let it Happen
Always Be
Lucky Denver Mint
23
Get it Faster
No Sensitivity
Work
The Authority Song
Futures
Big Casino
Blister
Hear You Me
Bleed American
Pain
The Middle

Jimmy Eat World - Soundwave, Sydney, 21/02/2010 - 98mb - 1 hour 9 minutes

And then I went home. Don't email me about Faith No More.

Sasquatch! Festival Day Two

Somehow I manage to sleep right through until 10am. Wake up, eat my awesome breakfast of 3 apples, 4 museli bars and a burrito, we build shade city and generally sit around cooking in the heat and being drunk. We go see the Walkmen who were about 10 times younger than I expected but awesome followed by Calexico who I must not get or something. St. Vincent is next, it’s hot, she’s hot, everyone’s happy.

Pretty sweet way to start the day. Regretted not recording her solo show at the Spiegeltent earlier in the year. Set gets hilariously messed up during Marry Me.

Also SWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON.

Setlist
Your Lips are Red
The Strangers
Now, Now
Actor out of Work
Marry Me
Black Rainbow
Just the Same, But Brand New
Marrow

St. Vincent - Sasquatch!, Quincy, 24/05/2009 - 66.2mb - 44 minutes

Aziz Ansari, now I haven’t seen that much stand up but he is STUPIDLY hilarious. I never wanted him to leave. Sat next to Dave Sitek while I watched him.

Had to run from there to see the Murder City Devils play the best show I have ever seen hands down. Spencer Moody is off his tits drunk, stumbling around and basically hurting everyone who gets in the way of his microphone stand, he spends 5 mins in between each song screaming his tits off about how he hates jocks, loves faggots, girls shouldn’t let men disrespect them and how we don’t know shit about Iggy and the Stooges, and then when they play a song it’s tight as. He continually makes out with the guitarist, jumps into the pit and makes out with whatever guy he can, chases the photographers in the pit around with his cock out and then runs back stage, takes this guys shirt off and starts sucking on his nipple. Turns out this guy is the dude from M83 when the camera finally gets a shot of him.

Cuts in during the first songs.

Setlist
I Want a Lot Now (So Come On)
Dancing Shoes
Somebody Else's Baby
Idle Hands
Bear Away
Dear Hearts
Midnight Service at the Mutter Museum
Get Off the Floor
It's In My Heart
Murder City Riot
Rum to Whiskey
I Drink the Wine
18 Wheels
Broken Glass

The Murder City Devils - Sasquatch!, Quincy, 24/05/2009 - 65.2mb - 45 minutes

Zach Galifianakis is in the Comedy Tent and not doing too well because someone is heckling him pretty bad and he’s not dealing with it very good. He does a song with Annie Clark though. I seee the Dodos, pretty much exactly the same as the last two times I saw them. I eat dinner, watch 3 songs of TV on the Radio and then go to watch M83. I don’t know what people where on about when they played the Metro because they were SO GOOD. Did not see it coming at all.

Amazing, starts off slow but turns into a pure party. Crowd was reaallly into it as well. Sound is a bit flat, this stage had terrible sound the entire weekend. Just imagine M83 on album, and then make it 10 times as epic.

Setlist
Graveyard Girl
Teen Angst
We Own the Sky
Kim and Jessie
Sitting
Skin of the Night
Don’t Save Us from the Flames
Run Into Flowers
A Guitar and a Heart
Coleurs

M83 - Sasquatch!, Quincy, 24/05/2009 - 80.7mb - 55 minutes

I run to the main stage, watch 5 songs of Nine Inch Nails and they do a Gary Numan cover. I fucking shit you not. A Gary Numan cover, I am so far away from the stage that by the time the sound travels to me the visual is like 3 seconds out of sync. It’s awesome. I go back and get a good spot for of Montreal. Dear Australia, you got jipped. Well over 40 extras, better suits, better choreography, and Kevin Barnes’ voice was like, 10x what it was in Australia, he’s doing all these crazy screams and everything is working out perfectly. They did a Prince cover but I didnt’ pay attention because someone standing two people over from me had a seizure so that was a bit more important.

Pretty big decision between this and Nine Inch Nails. But I think I made the right one because this blew me away. Only played 2 songs they hadn’t played at the Manning Bar but Kevin was so spot on for the entire show. of Montreal has only ever trashed their gear at the end of a set twice and I’ve been there both times, cliche but damn it’s exciting. Only started this time because Kevin thought Brian had smashed his when all he had done was dropped it. Also includes a Prince cover.

Setlist
Nonpareil of Favor
Bunny Ain’t No Kind of Rider
Sink the Seine
Cato as a Pun
Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse
Teenage Unicorn Fisting
For Our Elegant Caste
Touched Something’s Hollow
An Eluardian Instance
Id Engager
The Party’s Crashing Us
Computer Blue
October is Eternal
A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger
She’s a Rejector

of Montreal - Sasquatch!, Quincy, 24/05/2009 - 86.6mb - 58 minutes

Jane’s Addiction play and give the exactly as expected rock and roll show. Perry Ferrell still jumps around like a mad man. All of TV on the Radio are standing near by and ALL getting way into it and being over excited about seeing Jane’s Addiction, was awesome. Also Jane Says live is perfect.

I expected a rock and roll show, a fucking weird Perry and a shirtless Dave and that’s exactly what I got. Eric Avery knew this was all about him and was lapping it up. Sound is excellent as you’d expect from a headliner, the show suddenly takes 10 steps up when they bust out Jane Says. If you’ve got the 90 or so dollars, see them at the Hordern.

Also some one tell Perry Farrell that George/Quincy isn’t Seattle. This is tagged as "Sasquarch" so you may want to fix that.

Setlist
Three Days
Whores
Ain’t No Right
Pigs in Zen
Then She Did…
Mountain Song
Had a Dad
Been Caught Stealing
Ted, Just Admit it…
Ocean Size
Summertime Rolls
Encore
Stop!
Jane Says

Jane's Addiction - Sasquatch!, Quincy, 24/05/2009 - 120.9mb - 1 hour 24 minutes

We get back to the Campsite and by the time we get there its memorial day, so it’s this huge party, lots of fireworks, lots of awesome. Also everyone had this habit of someone, anywhere in the campsite would start cheering and it would slowly grow until the entire campsite was cheering, repeat every 30 minutes.