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Post by Billadelphia on Jul 24, 2015 9:31:03 GMT -5
I highly recommend checking out The Suffers. They play pretty early on Saturday (11AM Fort), but if you can make it there they will be one of the best shows you see all weekend. Really nice blend of up-beat latin funk, and soulful R&B. I've had the chance to see them twice this year, and they were excellent on both occasions.
I highly recommend checking out The Suffers. They play pretty early on Saturday (11AM Fort), but if you can make it there they will be one of the best shows you see all weekend. Really nice blend of up-beat latin funk, and soulful R&B. I've had the chance to see them twice this year, and they were excellent on both occasions.
I'll second this. Can't wait to see them at Landmark.
Seen some pretty good stuff today. Bahamas - didn't know much anything about them before, but they were decent. Leon Bridges was a highlight. Calexico was pretty good too.
Bahamas were great, a really nice way to start off the weekend.
Angel Olsen was cool. I wish she played some of her more rocking songs (does she normally have a band?) but her set was still great. She played a new song that was really good and a great Springsteen cover
The Lone Bellow fucking killed it. Definitely the best festival set I've seen them deliver, and the guests were the icing on the cake (although Leon Bridges was pretty under utilized).
Only caught the first two songs of Strand of Oaks but I loved it. Wish I'd stayed for more, but I also think he'd be a bit better in a dark sweaty club.
Toughest choice of the day was whether to do Tallest Man or I&W and Ben, but I went with Tallest Man, partially so I could just stay at the main stage for the rest of the night. Tallest Man was great though. He did his best to keep the rain away and he's a great performer. I'd never had the chance to see him before, and the best part of his show was definitely the solo section so I'd love to see him sans band sometime. Heard good things about Iron & Wine and Ben, who else saw them and what were your thoughts?
That fucking MMJ/Roger Waters set. The realization of what I was a part of really hit me when Roger started playing the chords to Mother. The rain made it all the more special. I had a big dumb smile on my face for a good portion of the whole thing. Lucius doing backing vocals? Amy Helm (why didn't Newport book her?) doing "Wide River to Cross"? Sara Watkins' beautiful violin work on "Wish You Were Here"? I also like watching the people who are up in the side stage stands. Ben Bridwell was there just watching MMJ in awe. I would pay good money for a Roger and MMJ tour but I don't see it happening.
Today was one of those days that was just an example of what Newport can be at its finest.
Tomorrow's a pretty light on artists I'm really excited for, which is fine because I have some time to explore in the morning. I'll definitely be at all of Courtney Barnett and The Decemberists. Really not sure what I'll be doing other than that
Also had a blast today. First time in Newport and only here for Friday.
There was literally not one band that I saw that I didn't get into. Here are my rankings:
1.) Roger/MMJ/Friends- Truly amazing set. The crowd was so into Mother and Wish You Were Here and singing along. The Forever Young closer was perfect. One of the top 2/3 shows I have ever seen.
2.) Joe Pug- Started digging him coming in to the fest and he just seemed like a normal guy who put a lot of himself into his songs. I enjoyed it.
3.) The Lone Bellow- Was sad to miss them at Hangout this year but heard mixed (and mostly poor) reviews of their show. They brought it today. Tons of energy, great set list, three songs with guests. I was on the rail and loved every minute of it.
4.) MMJ- It's Jim James. The set was good. But it was what, 45 minutes or so since they started late and then Roger was rushed out when it started to rain? I saw them two nights ago and it's hard to top a full set from these guys with the way they transition but it was still a great MMJ set.
5.) Elephant Revival- Pleasantly surprised by these guys. Really liked them even if the lead singer chick over uses her vibrato (which I guess is her thing, she had a great straight voice).
6.) Tallest Man on Earth- Watched the first half from the pier and the second half from way left of stage. But I enjoyed what I caught.
7.) Haunt the House- Great way to kick off the day with a local band with some solid songs.
I was very impressed. Fort Adams is beautiful, the fest is small and clean, there is a good community type vibe among the concert goers, and it's easy to maneuver from stage to stage. I will definitely be looking to do all three days next year.
moten - It looks like we had the same lineup today just swap Bahamas for Joe Pug. (with some eavesdropping onto other acts)
I really don't know how to rank what I saw today. It changes each time i look at it from a different perspective.
Most surprised by: Elephant Revival... They were fantastic, I hadn't checked into them much at all before the festival and I loved their entire show.
"Best" would probably have to go to The Lone Bellow... I've managed to miss seeing them for a couple of years despite numerous recommendations to see them by music friends... Usually when friends hype up a band that much to me I'm underwhelmed when I finally see them but not today. They were nonstop and completely embraced teh spirit of the festival.
The highlight of the day would certainly ahve to be Roger. I had never had the opportunity to see him before so there were moments of flashing ack to all of the years I had listened to that voice and the songs that helped mold and change some of my views on the world. He was great and getting so many people involved was an awesome touch. I agree that closing with Forever Young was absolutely splendid. That got me way too energized and excited for it to be the ending bell of the first day.
Bahamas - I've listened to them for a while but never felt very strongly about them... I very much enjoyed the show... Way more than I expected.
Haunt the House - Each day I seem to have one special experience at the Harbor tent... Glad it worked out that it was the first show of the day this time around... Great start to a fun weekend...
Tallest Man was fantastic, very much enjoyed it, but much to my surprise his set got overshadowed by so many of the other experiences I had today. Would see them again in a heartbeat.
New Breed Brass Band - Good, just not my thing... After the first song or two all of the songs sounded like they had the same structure and I lost interest
MMJ was real good, probably better than I'm giving credit for; I was just too impatient to have Roger come and join them.
I saw the first few songs of Hiss and really want to see more of them, I just really needed to see The Lone Bellow finally.
First time at NFF and I'll certainly be back in the future. My day was Haunt the House > New Breed > Leon Bridges > Lone Bellow > Tallest Man> MMJ/Waters. Great day of music and since everyone touched on MMJ/Waters the other highlight of the day for me was Leon Bridges. He put on a great show and sounds just as good live as on his cd. I also completely lucked out and avoided all traffic for having parked on site. I was home an hour and a half away by 9:15
Also not sure if anyone else caught this but was that David Duchovny on the on stage viewing deck during Roger Waters?
That fucking MMJ/Roger Waters set. The realization of what I was a part of really hit me when Roger started playing the chords to Mother. The rain made it all the more special. I had a big dumb smile on my face for a good portion of the whole thing. Lucius doing backing vocals? Amy Helm (why didn't Newport book her?) doing "Wide River to Cross"? Sara Watkins' beautiful violin work on "Wish You Were Here"?
To quote from above this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
IN the quad - QC will be in or as close as possible to the corner on the snow fence, right of the beer tent. Tall blue sun shade structure. IN the Fort, home base is to the right either on the farthest or farthest back with 5 ft blue shade structure. we will probably be near the wooden Fort adams sign.
Langhorne and Brandi were absolutely mind blowing today! It was all round an absolutely gorgeous day today.
The only act I saw that I couldn't get into was Courtney Barnett. I don't know if I can put a finger on why, but I stayed for her first few songs and just couldn't get into it at all.
The Suffers (part): I got there in time to catch the second half, sounded really good. Will have to look into them some more.
Traveller: For that being only their 4th show, they did pretty good.
Bela Fleck/Abigail Washburn (part): Not my cup of tea, ended up on Beer Island
Jason Isbell: Been waiting a while to see him live. He sounded like on the albums, which was good. Nothing special, but still good.
James Taylor: I'm not the biggest fan of his work, but for the 35 minutes he was out there - he made it count. This was something special, and stuck around to watch the whole mini-set.
Sturgill Simpson (part): Burned the bitch to the ground.
Brandi Carlile: Wasn't familiar with her heading into this set. Aside from the few times her voice cracked, I was very much impressed. Might have been my favorite set of the day.
I know this will be a controversial post, but the only bad thing I've seen all weekend - is the 10 minutes I caught of Sufjan Stevens. The four minutes straight of him repeating "We're all gonna die" set to a low key piano tune certainly left a terrible impression.
I know this will be a controversial post, but the only bad thing I've seen all weekend - is the 10 minutes I caught of Sufjan Stevens. The four minutes straight of him repeating "We're all gonna die" set to a low key piano tune certainly left a terrible impression.
I assume he did this at the end of Fourth of July... Are you a big fan of Sufjan's studio work and/or have you seen him before and liked it? I absolutely love him and I'm just assuming you didn't know his music very well going into the show or at least don't know the new album very well because, if you did, you would've expected an extremely down tempo, emotional (mostly sad) show because the new album is about the rather heart wrenching topic of his mother's death and he's reflecting on his old memories with her and working through dealing with losing her.
To be clear, I'm not saying you're wrong for not being into it, because I'd probably be bummed/put off if I went to an artist I didn't know well and got such a sad show when I wasn't in the mood for it as well. Just trying to figure out why it put you off so much.
I know that when I'm dealing with a death in the family, it really helps me to say "We're all gonna die" a lot to whoever will listen to me
Ok emoney, you and I both know that's not what I was saying. I meant that throughout the course of the album he is working through the death. Besides the fact that he doesn't perform to help himself deal with the death, people pay him large sums of money to listen him say. "We're all gonna die."
Also, if you translated your sadness (and all the other emotions involved in coping with death) into a song with you saying "We're all gonna die" that was half as beautiful as the song Fourth of July, I'd also pay to see you perform it (just like I do with sufjan)
The only issue I had with Sufjan set (which overall I loved) was that I wasn't big on his electronic slant he added to a few of the songs. And it's not that I don't think that stuff should be in a Newport set, I'm just not a big fan of that electronic style in general.
Brandi Carlile: Wasn't familiar with her heading into this set. Aside from the few times her voice cracked, I was very much impressed. Might have been my favorite set of the day.
She's more or less known for that happening when she gets into it. Personally, I think it fits her whole approach very well.
I know that when I'm dealing with a death in the family, it really helps me to say "We're all gonna die" a lot to whoever will listen to me
Ok emoney, you and I both know that's not what I was saying. I meant that throughout the course of the album he is working through the death. Besides the fact that he doesn't perform to help himself deal with the death, people pay him large sums of money to listen him say. "We're all gonna die."
Also, if you translated your sadness (and all the other emotions involved in coping with death) into a song with you saying "We're all gonna die" that was half as beautiful as the song Fourth of July, I'd also pay to see you perform it (just like I do with sufjan)
First act I saw was Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear, they were pretty good, and I really like his voice. I only stuck around for the first four songs, but they were a great fit for the festival.
Langhorne Slim blew me the fuck away. I'd only listened to a couple songs of his before hand, but he owned that set like nobody's business. The fact that there's no NYC date on his tour makes me sad because I'd really love to see him again. That was probably my favorite set of the day.
Stuck around the Quad to see my girl Courtney Barnett, who I thought did a great job, and it helped that I was around some people who knew her stuff and were singing along with me. I've seen her play better shows (her Sinclair show in May and her Bonnaroo set were both fantastic), but having just seen Langhorne, she didn't wow me this time as much as I was hoping for.
James Taylor, who I don't know that well, was still pretty good. His voice was in great shape, and just the fact that he was there was cool in and of itself.
I haven't taken the time to really dig into Sufjan Stevens' work outside of Carrie & Lowell, but I really enjoyed his set. If he hadn't had to start so late I probably would have liked it even more. But I'll definitely do some listening of his older albums. The orchestration of all the instruments was some of the most beautiful stuff I've heard this weekend.
I was glad to see The Decemberists play past 7:30, after having to start late. And that crop of guests was pretty great (I'm now guessing that Gillian and Dave will do something at 65 tonight). I was hoping they'd play "Lake Song" and all of "The Crane Wife" which seem like great fits for Newport, but other than that I thought they played a really strong set. I'm hoping to see them in NYC in the fall with Lucius, so hopefully I can get my songs then.
Bummed I missed Brandi Carlile and Jason Isbell, but such is life.
I'm really excited for today. Lots of conflicts but I'll be able to work through them. Nathaniel Rateliff should be a fun show and Blake Mills will impress everyone who's smart enough to go see him. And then the possibilities for 65 Revisited are enough to make any sane person/Dylan fan giddy.
Post by the3penguins on Jul 26, 2015 7:43:28 GMT -5
Anyone else do any of the For Petes Sake thing? Wasn't expecting to, but went in and ended up staying for a couple hours. Cool intimate sets by Colin Meloy, Jones Fam Singers, Hozier (doing all Irish folk songs), and someone from Uncle Earl. Lucius too, but I missed them. Def highlight of the weekend.
Also I assume everyone's heard the Neil Young rumor floating around for tonight. Not sure if that's based on anything new. Also, apparently Bono and Pete Townshend are both in town.
Was anyone able to make it to the State of The Union show on Friday? This being our first year we were unaware of the mess trying to take a shuttle to the parking lots. I was just curious on what I missed out on.
Stuck around the Quad to see my girl Courtney Barnett, who I thought did a great job, and it helped that I was around some people who knew her stuff and were singing along with me. I've seen her play better shows (her Sinclair show in May and her Bonnaroo set were both fantastic), but having just seen Langhorne, she didn't wow me this time as much as I was hoping for.
That's probably why I didn't get too into it... Langhorne was definitely a very hard act to follow yesterday. I'll have to keep an eye out for another show of hers in the future.
So I actually got to go backstage yesterday and it was amazing. One of the surprises that awaited me back there was this signpost of remembered artists.
So I actually got to go backstage yesterday and it was amazing. One of the surprises that awaited me back there was this signpost of remembered artists.
Ain't this some bullsheeeiittt! Where was my invite to see cool signposts, huh?
I totally tried to get backstage in '12(?) with my Quack Club laminate and the security guards weren't having it. Gave me a buncha hokum about "artists only" and "not authorised" and "sir, the judge said you must remain at least 100 yards from Jim James at all times". You snip off one lock of hair to sniff and caress while a guy is asleep, and suddenly you're on every festival's watchlist.
