My ears are still bleeding…but in a good way!
The White Stripes are awesome! Screaming guitar riffs are still ringing through my ears. What a show!
We arrived at Bluesfest in the afternoon, prepared for the pouring rain that they were announcing. The 80% certainty that we were going to have thunderstorms never materialized and I was left feeling silly having brought a backpack full of rain gear/supplies. Instead we got superb weather for an outdoor concert…not too hot not too cold.
The first band we saw, fightfightfight, was great except for one small problem….the singer couldn’t sing. The music was fun, the band was exciting…but the lead singer was off key. We laughed when she stopped to change her guitar because “you wouldn’t want me to play this song with an out of tune guitar, right?”….too bad she couldn’t switch in an in-tune voice.
Next was Ukrainia….who were great. They play traditional Ukrainian music hyped up with electric guitars. The crowd really got into it and there was some fun dancing going on! The stage show was good too. The singer was hilarious…or at least the drummer's Ukrainian to English translation what the singer was saying was hilarious.
We had five stages to choose from but we stayed the whole afternoon watching shows at the River stage. It was a smaller stage that had more of the indie bands. Ukrainia was followed by Shout Out Out Out Out. They are a Techno band with two full drumkits. The music was lots of fun to bop your body and bob your head to. I must be getting old though because we actually left the crowd to escape the haze of marijuana and get some fresh air. On the way in we were checked for glass bottles…but apparently dope is okay because there was plenty a joint being smoked!
With two hours before The White Stripes hit the stage, we set ourselves up at the main stage to get a good spot. In the hours that followed, we were joined by about 35,000 of our closest friends! From the second they hit the stage to the encore 2 hours later Jack White was a ball of energy! They dressed entirely in red, the stage was dressed in red…and their music was on fire! Jack and his “big sister” Meg* didn’t stop to speak between songs…it was just song after song of powerful drums and wailing guitar riffs. It was awesome. It is amazing the amount sound that can come from two performers. The crowd joined in while Meg sang “In the cold, cold night” in the encore…the only time she spoke all performance...and she did awesome. She has a great voice and the fact that she is mysteriously silent most of the time makes her all the more alluring. Overall rating for the show…AWESOME!
*She’s actually his ex-wife…but they have a weird thing that they pretend to be siblings.
We arrived at Bluesfest in the afternoon, prepared for the pouring rain that they were announcing. The 80% certainty that we were going to have thunderstorms never materialized and I was left feeling silly having brought a backpack full of rain gear/supplies. Instead we got superb weather for an outdoor concert…not too hot not too cold.
The first band we saw, fightfightfight, was great except for one small problem….the singer couldn’t sing. The music was fun, the band was exciting…but the lead singer was off key. We laughed when she stopped to change her guitar because “you wouldn’t want me to play this song with an out of tune guitar, right?”….too bad she couldn’t switch in an in-tune voice.
Next was Ukrainia….who were great. They play traditional Ukrainian music hyped up with electric guitars. The crowd really got into it and there was some fun dancing going on! The stage show was good too. The singer was hilarious…or at least the drummer's Ukrainian to English translation what the singer was saying was hilarious.
We had five stages to choose from but we stayed the whole afternoon watching shows at the River stage. It was a smaller stage that had more of the indie bands. Ukrainia was followed by Shout Out Out Out Out. They are a Techno band with two full drumkits. The music was lots of fun to bop your body and bob your head to. I must be getting old though because we actually left the crowd to escape the haze of marijuana and get some fresh air. On the way in we were checked for glass bottles…but apparently dope is okay because there was plenty a joint being smoked!
With two hours before The White Stripes hit the stage, we set ourselves up at the main stage to get a good spot. In the hours that followed, we were joined by about 35,000 of our closest friends! From the second they hit the stage to the encore 2 hours later Jack White was a ball of energy! They dressed entirely in red, the stage was dressed in red…and their music was on fire! Jack and his “big sister” Meg* didn’t stop to speak between songs…it was just song after song of powerful drums and wailing guitar riffs. It was awesome. It is amazing the amount sound that can come from two performers. The crowd joined in while Meg sang “In the cold, cold night” in the encore…the only time she spoke all performance...and she did awesome. She has a great voice and the fact that she is mysteriously silent most of the time makes her all the more alluring. Overall rating for the show…AWESOME!
*She’s actually his ex-wife…but they have a weird thing that they pretend to be siblings.
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