Coachella Wrap: Day Three
- story THE FADER
That is a picture of Coachella exploding! No just kidding it’s just a lot of fireworks. you know the deal by now, check out our rundown after the jump. Here’s something that we didn’t write about that happened: we got spit on by some girl, it was an accident but gross! Anyway, read about music after the jump.
By the morning of the final day of Coachella we couldn’t remember what day we saw what and wandered from stage to stage in a spray-on sunscreen addled haze. After talking to a dude in the parking lot about how to get out of the parking lot, how it would probably be difficult to smoke weed in a tent, and how if we were wrong about how to get out of the parking lot it would be our asses, we made it in just in time to catch My Morning Jacket. MMJ are basically the best live band ever at this point and we’re pretty sure that an essential part of their live show this time around were Jim James’ boots.
Were they ski boots painted with cheetah stripes? Ski boots with leg warmers over them? Who Knows! We couldn’t even tell what the deal was or why he was wearing them, but we didn’t really question it because the extra long guitar solos were distracting us. Also, they brought M. Ward out. Have we mentioned that we’re really happy the guitar solo has returned to rock music? It’s great.
The two main events of the night were Roger Waters performing Dark Side of the Moon on the mainstage and the three-for-one punch of Simian Mobile Disco, Chromeo and Justice in the dance tent. We hung with Waters’ million hour set for a minute because we’ve been talking about it forever. It was pretty amazing, but the dance tent was a continuous source of fascination for us so we found ourselves back ther. The whole weekend young kids were in there to rave, even if the act performing wasn’t exactly raveable (cough cough Animal Collective). Simian Mobile Disco came on and looked like huge balls of hair bobbing against giant light columns, people raved hard. Strangely, this continued into Chromeo’s set. Since Prince played the night before, it made any band—especially one that sounds sort of like Prince seem not quite as awesome. Either way, we hold a soft spot in our hearts for Chromeo because they are so likeable up on stage. Surprisingly, kids still raved throughout their set.
By the time Justice came on, the dance tent was way too packed. Dudes next to us were dancing nonstop while on E even when no music was playing and we couldn’t move at all. Kids were screaming for Justice one minute after Chromeo were done. It sounds obvious, but people are excited about music and that is awesome. The photo above is from Justice’s performance at Coachella last year because we weren’t able to get photos. It looked the same this year though and also that photo is the best Justice related photo ever. The best thing about Justice has always been their ability to maintain a song’s peak for as long as they want, keeping people amped until they decide they want to move onto another song. Because of this, most songs ended up being like ten minutes long. Why don’t Justice release a live album? After Justice were done, we found our way out of the tent, carefully stepping over the dudes that were still “recovering” from Roger Waters’ set. It’s funny, at the end of every festival we are totally exhausted and swear off them forever, but then we end up right back at one not long after. In some ways, the best thing about these things is finishing.
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