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Post by unlikelyjapan on Jul 21, 2018 8:24:25 GMT -6
I'll take it!
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Post by alady on Jul 21, 2018 8:29:36 GMT -6
Ok! I can email it, msg me
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Post by unlikelyjapan on Jul 21, 2018 8:31:53 GMT -6
You're the best!
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Post by munkivelli on Jul 21, 2018 9:00:56 GMT -6
My legs hurt today...reminder to myself that I need to sit down a little at these things.
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Post by dij22 on Jul 21, 2018 9:38:46 GMT -6
Open Mike Eagle was fun but the sound kinda sucked. Serengeti doing "Dennehy" was fantastic though.
Julien Baker was fine but I had to tell different groups of knuckleheads to be quiet. She should try to get a full band on her next tour to flesh out her sound though because it's just not that engaging in a festival setting.
Big Thief was absolutely wonderful. The crowd up front was super into it and the new songs sounded excellent. Buck is such a terrific guitarist and the difference with him performing is enormous, even though I loved their trio show too. Best set of the day.
Courtney Barnett ripped. Huge fun crowd and awesome setlist. Lots of kids dancing with their parents which was super adorable. I know she's played Chicago twenty times in the last year but hopefully she comes back in the fall on that tour with Waxahatchee.
Tame Impala was alright I guess. I was never a big fan of them but I never disliked any of their albums either. Pretty cool stage production even though they should probably jam more and make more interesting music if they are going to take every page out of the jam band/psychedelic live playbook. I think my gf summed up the fanbase in the crowd perfectly by saying "these are basically people who love the Beatles but were never depressed enough in college to get into Animal Collective".
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2018 9:50:47 GMT -6
Courtney Barnett’s sound is always thin to me live. The same here and even the additional guitarist compared to las time didn’t help. She’s also just so sloppy live that at times it detracts from the songs.
Tame Impala was great. Much better than their UIC show where they basically phoned it in. Could have used more songs from their first two albums and EP and much less from Currents though. Love/Paranoia was just a huge clunker live, the backing visuals were overly psychedelic to the point of being parody and the song just seemed lifeless.
Big Thief was good but wasn’t the setlist I’d have preferred.
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Post by teekoh on Jul 21, 2018 9:54:07 GMT -6
Anybody have a plug for a Sunday ticket? Stubhub is still crazy expensive.
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Post by rango420 on Jul 21, 2018 9:59:02 GMT -6
OME and Julia Byrne were great. Saba was very good, everything else was various levels of fine. The lille bit of mount kimbie i saw before falling asleep was fun.
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Post by tacosaregood on Jul 21, 2018 10:03:31 GMT -6
Courtney was my favorite set of the day. The Curls & Melkbelly were both really fun. Julien Baker was (to no fault of her own) super disappointing. The sound bleed from Saba was the worst I've experienced at Pitchfork. Crowd was terrible as well. So many talkers during Big Thief too. Was up pretty close on the left side of the blue stage. Blue stage and Tame Impala needed to be louder.
Still looking for a Saturday ticket if anyone is selling.
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Post by dij22 on Jul 21, 2018 10:08:24 GMT -6
There are a lot of people selling in the FB group if you guys haven't looked there yet
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Post by andrewvb on Jul 21, 2018 10:12:28 GMT -6
quiet sets never work at pitchfork, even on the blue stage, which is why it was all the more surprising that julie byrne was fantastic. thought the harp was a nice touch and very much enjoyed the set.
saw good stuff all day, mount kimbie was a blast. annoying that i had to leave open mike eagle early for tierra whack but both sets were really good.
festival was pretty packed as well.
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Post by tacosaregood on Jul 21, 2018 10:16:55 GMT -6
Tierra Whack's DJ made me think I was in a Tim & Eric skit.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Jul 21, 2018 11:26:54 GMT -6
Any new songs from Tame Impala? Just curious to see if they're still trotting out the same show in 2018 that I saw in like May 2015.
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Post by Pale Hose on Jul 21, 2018 11:30:33 GMT -6
No new music. New light/laser show, same confetti.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2018 11:33:08 GMT -6
Watching it via youtube it looked like the crowd was pretty thin compared to previous years but everyone there watched the Barnett set. Crowd looked massive.
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Post by postfontaine on Jul 21, 2018 11:35:36 GMT -6
It was pretty crowded. Honestly, I think yesterday was legitimately sold out (or very close). Today and tomorrow could very well be a different story though
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Post by ferro_man on Jul 21, 2018 11:35:40 GMT -6
True, but it also lives at pitchfork and i's currently set up |
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Post by Pale Hose on Jul 21, 2018 11:38:02 GMT -6
Yeah everything I went to after OME was packed. Saba had the biggest 5pm crowd I've ever seen on a Friday.
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Post by rango420 on Jul 21, 2018 11:45:17 GMT -6
by far the most crowd dense day of pitchfork I've ever been to.
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Post by Kamera on Jul 21, 2018 12:13:52 GMT -6
by far the most crowd dense day of pitchfork I've ever been to. Nah. The year Chance The Rapper headlined was the most crowded. Yesterday, it didn't get packed til the evening as with most festivals. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2018 12:19:24 GMT -6
I’ve gone every year since 2008 and that was nothing yesterday. It got decently full for Tame Impala but for Courtney Barnett you could’ve walked up to the barrier near the right side/middle.
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Post by dij22 on Jul 21, 2018 12:34:32 GMT -6
The crowd for LCD was bigger than Tame Impala's but there were way more people there during the day this year than last year.
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Post by Pale Hose on Jul 21, 2018 12:37:14 GMT -6
I’ve gone every year since 2008 and that was nothing yesterday. It got decently full for Tame Impala but for Courtney Barnett you could’ve walked up to the barrier near the right side/middle. 2016 was nothing, yesterday was full. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2018 12:39:32 GMT -6
The most sparse day I’ve ever been to was Saturday in 2017
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Post by Tweet on Jul 21, 2018 12:41:56 GMT -6
I’ve been told there were a lot of people there. I was there but don’t remember anything after open mike Eagle
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Post by Tweet on Jul 21, 2018 12:45:06 GMT -6
The way they moved the green stage this year makes it feel a lot smaller which is kind of a bummer
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Post by nanatod on Jul 21, 2018 12:50:54 GMT -6
It was pretty crowded. Honestly, I think yesterday was legitimately sold out (or very close). Today and tomorrow could very well be a different story though it was good to meet you for a couple of seconds during julien baker with munkivelli. |
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Post by nanatod on Jul 21, 2018 12:53:05 GMT -6
mount kimbie was a blast. did you know who the female singer / keyboardist in their band was? was it mica levi / micachu from micachu and the shapes? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2018 13:19:48 GMT -6
Security check was ridiculous. They just took each credit card out of my wallet and looked in each slot. Then turned it upside down and shook it.
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Post by teekoh on Jul 21, 2018 13:56:42 GMT -6
Bunch of the ticket sellers on Facebook are scams btw.
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