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Excellent list, although I would add Cage the Elephant. Cage knows how to put on a show, by golly!
Blitzen Trapper were awesome, and so was Charles Bradley. So glad I wandered around to check out both of their sets not knowing much about them.
I'm skipping Roo this year (I imagine this is what dying feels like), but glad I made it to this one. We are "metro area" locals and it was nice to wake up in a real bed for a change. I think we'll be back next year, especially if they book MMJ. Anyone else think it would be sweet (and maybe possible) to have MMJ headline a three-night stand at Shaky Knees one of these years?
1. The National 2. Man Man 3. Charles Bradley 4. Violent Femmes (despite that event staffer's best attempts to ruin it) 5a. The Replacements 5b. The lone Bellow
Post by zenofmalarkey on May 14, 2014 15:34:50 GMT -5
My top five: 1. Charles Bradley 2. Man Man 3. Bright Light Social Hour 4. Houndmouth 5. Jackie Greene (New Speedway Boogie was fun)
All in all, a great weekend, and I will buy tickets when they go on sale next year ($99 would be a steal. Even $150 is a great deal.). The entire lineup was solid (not a big Modest Mouse or Cage fan, but both shows were OK). I know some people complained about the sound, but I never had any issues and if I did, I'd move and find a spot with better sound. Some of my highlights: -- Easy to get pretty close to the stages -- Never a line at the beer tents or restrooms -- Parking was easy (tip for everyone: don't tell them you're there for Shaky Knees and you only pay $14 for the day instead of $20) -- I stand the whole time anyway, so the pavement didn't really bother me. Especially when it rained. If it was muddy that would've changed things dramatically. -- Being an Atlanta resident, it was my first time doing a hometown festival, which was nice in a lot of ways. -- The small area made it likely you'd run into friends/new acquaintances. Made it easy to meet up with people, too. -- Never really got searched on entry. Didn't have a backpack or bag, though. Still, I always put a couple beers in my back pockets and just walked right in. As long as you didn't have a bag, I didn't see any kind of search, which was nice. -- The shows were all pretty punctual. I loved how some of the shows started IMMEDIATELY as the other ended. -- Didn't do any late-night shows, but I was there every day from start to close, so I was pretty beat by the end. -- Next year I'll take a poncho. First day got caught in the downpour and got drenched. Luckily I had a change of clothes in the car, went and changed and found a poncho on the street and was back inside pretty quickly.
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Nice job! You captured the weekend well. I totally agree with you on Blood Red Shoes. Had never heard of them and thought they were great. Kinda funny that the first band I saw all weekend ended up being one of my favorite discoveries.
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Nice job! You captured the weekend well. I totally agree with you on Blood Red Shoes. Had never heard of them and thought they were great. Kinda funny that the first band I saw all weekend ended up being one of my favorite discoveries.
Thanks. I think they caught a lot of people off guard. I had listened to some stuff on youtube before the weekend, but it didn't fully prepare me for it.
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Very, very, very nice. The ending made me cry. Again.
I was actually totally thinking about what you said during the weekend about how the people you are with really are what makes music festivals special, so you can claim part credit for it.
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A Jackie Green convert? Awesome. He's always great (though I think I prefer when he's playing Grateful Dead songs with Phil and others). Always a good set when I see him. Great article.
Other guesses: Death Cab, Metric, Franz Ferdinand, Damon Albarn, The Antlers (please I missed 2013), American Football
Other possible headliners: The Cure, Coldplay, Depeche Mode
This is a cool festival, but the headliners last year were The National, Modest Mouse, and Alabama Shakes. I think you might need to aim a little lower.
Other guesses: Death Cab, Metric, Franz Ferdinand, Damon Albarn, The Antlers (please I missed 2013), American Football
Other possible headliners: The Cure, Coldplay, Depeche Mode
This is a cool festival, but the headliners last year were The National, Modest Mouse, and Alabama Shakes. I think you might need to aim a little lower.
Yeah but it's their third year and they made a huge step in their second year. Also Beck was supposedly booked last year so Beck to Jack White really isn't a huge jump. They both headlined a few festivals together last year.
Post by trantsgiving on Nov 11, 2014 22:35:04 GMT -5
Also, extras I forgot to throw in:
Kaiser Chiefs, Grouplove, FKA Twigs, Interpol, Ben Howard, Phil Selway, Matt and Kim, Wilco, Daughter, DFA 1979, Flying Lotus, Smashing Pumpkins, MMJ, St. Vincent, Japandroids, The Kooks, Sun Kil Moon-War on Drugs Deathmatch, HAIM, Tame Impala, Tycho, Chvrches, Alt-J, Dead Weather, The Decemberists, Little Dragon.
These really aren't predictions but I'm just getting names out. If you see any reason some of these shouldn't be on here, please correct me. A lot of these have come (or are coming) to Atlanta this year and I know which ones they are but that just makes them less likely. I'm not really into folk so I can't guess any folk bands (which is like 35% of their line up) so if anyone could help, that'd be grrrreeeeat.
Definitely seems like a great fest. 
