1. the walkmen, 2. Bon Iver @ Outside Lands, 08/24/2008, 3. IMG_2189, 4. Radiohead @ Outside Lands, 08/22/2008, 5. Fin and I at Regina Spektor, 6. regina spektor, 7. Devandra Banhart @ Outside Lands, 08/23/2008, 8. Radiohead – Pyramid Song (Outside Lands 2008), 9. the crowd at Wilco, 10. Wilco at Outside Lands – 8, 11. Stars @ Outside Lands, 08/24/2008, 12. San Francisco Outside Lands: M. Ward // 10, 13. Yellow balloon in the Wilco Sunset
This weekend, we took our very first overnight train trip – a full 24 hour ride to San Francisco for the Inaugural Outside Lands music festival, which was a 3-day event. We manage to score the last teeny room in a hotel on the Haight, and each morning we’d grab breakfast & coffee and walk through Golden Gate park to the 6 -stage festival.
For me, the biggest highlight of the weekend was seeing Radiohead – who headlined Friday night. It was a difficult decision to choose them over Beck (schedule overlap), but Thom & Co. did not disappoint. They began playing at twilight, and the stage was illuminated with long shards of purple glass and video screens. After patiently surviving sound snafus (it was the first concert ever played in the park: the speakers cut out for nearly half a song!) they really got the show going. My favorite surprise of their set was hearing ” Talk Show Host” live (from the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack) which I absolutely looooove.
On Saturday I met up with one of my best girlfriends, who lives in SF now. After witnessing the crowd-crushing madness of navigating the festival the day before, we chose to camp out early to have a good view of Devendra Banhart, M. Ward and Regina Spektor. Then we were off to enjoy a glowing sunset with the live sountrack of Wilco.
Sunday, we took a more relaxed pace with brunch at Cha Cha Cha before making the trek into the festival. My first pick was to see Stars, who put on a surprisingly energy-fulled set. It also made for excellent people-watching of the bleary-eyed concert goers staggering onto the festival grounds. Then we checked out Sharon Jones: this crowd was WAY more bumpin than the mellow crowd at the zoo earlier this month. Followed by Bon Iver and Jack Johnson.
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