Sasquatch Music Festival – Day 3, May 25th
Little Green Cars, Tune-yards, Cold War Kids, Kid Cudi, Queens of the Stone Age, Major Lazer
Last day blues, my day kicked off with Irish band Little Green Cars at the Big Foot Stage. “This record constantly jumps between two contrasting perspectives: the beauty of a reckless youth and the fear and confusion caused by our ever-pending adulthood,” describes lead singer Appleby of debut album Absolute Zero.
The performance of the twenty-something year-olds was solid despite some technical issues. Regrettably, they failed to play My Love Took Me Down to the River to Silence Me.
Tune-Yards, whom I've written about previously, made me rock out with my.. they made me rock out. Super intense energy, the musicality is almost hard to comprehend. There is no other sound like it and hearing their music live takes it to an even greater level.
You can clap along like a spaz and no one would blink an eye because you could be dancing along to any of the rhythmic patterns they create. If you get the chance to see them live in action, take it! Like a baby from candy.
Cold War Kids was next up on the main stage and showed that they're seasoned professionals, they tore around the stage, bashing about the keyboard like a.. white guy.. who bashes things (it's been a long weekend, the analogies are a struggle). They debuted three new tracks which were all pretty solid and ran through all the classics as you would expect.
Kid Cudi was the huge surprise for me, he created one of the biggest dance parties of the whole weekend, constructing an uplifting atmosphere by spitting positive lyrics in his r&b tones over some bass heavy beats, he closed out with a remix of his most well known track Pursuit of Happiness.
Just when you thought it couldn't get any better, Queens of the Stone Age arrived and Holy S-Balls was it awesome! The energy generated made you want to simultaneously punch someone in the face and hold them tenderly whilst smoking a cigarette. Josh Homme was in fine form, launching into No One Knows one song into the set and the atmosphere only accelerated from there.
Like Clockwork was a definite highlight with Hommes' voice soaring through the night air. They closed out their flawless set with A Song for the Dead.
Finally, it was left for Major Lazer to finish up on the Big Foot stage. His set was where feminism went to die. Scantily clad gals pranced around the stage as the humans in the crowd were prompted to remove their shirts and throw them up in the air.
Following this, was about 15 female infants invited up from the crowd to twerk about, only those with a "bubble butt" were invited to the front of the stage. It was touching sentiment. If you're really, really quiet, you can almost hear the sound of proud parents everywhere. Meanwhile, the crowd were jumping around in a pool of sweat, or the tears of humanity. I can't be sure. That said he puts on quite the show.
Alas, all good things must come to an end. Peace out. You've been Gorge-ous (yep, i went there).
