Street Scene is an annual concert-festival extravaganza held in downtown San Diego. A short walk from the baseball stadium (PETCO Park), I was about to embark on a concert like I had never seen before. Sure, I saw Coldplay last year, but I have actually never experienced a festival concert with multiple stages, a beer garden, and so many people. Totally worth it? Yes, absolutely. Here are some highlights:
Band of Horses. I had never really listened to them, but we were so close, and I totally thank Amy for introducing me to their music.
The twinkle lights; no street lamps here.
After an amazing set from BOH, we ventured around the beer garden, grabbed some Blue Moon's (who would pick a MGD over Blue Moon for the same price?!?), and overheard that Connor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band was just starting. Again, St. Scene is an incredible venue that lets the concertgoers get super close to the bands, but there is enough free space to move, shake, rattle, and roll and more importantly, dance to the music. The entire night Amy and I busted some serious moves and made friends with strangers who wanted to rock out too (but were clearly not comfortable dancing by themselves; ergo, our crazy dancing gave them an outlet to rock out).
For my dear friend Kate, these pictures are just for you:
Connor Oberst, super super wonderful.
and special guest Jenny Lewis (from Rilo Kiley)
After making new dancing friends, we knew that we needed some serious dancing to cap off the night. We headed over to another stage where Chromeo was just about to finish their set. Really Good stuff, I highly recommend checking them out. Everyone loves a little electronic music now and then, right?
The real reason I was super pumped about Street Scene was that one of my favorite artists, GirlTalk was playing. I have always wanted to see him, not only because of his uncanny ability to mash up songs you would never consider to work together, but also because of his notorious stage antics (from dancing with the crowd to bringing people up on stage to insane visual effects). As expected, Amy and I danced our assess off, channeling our inner 80s workout instructors in the best way possible. We were near the stage, however no one else was really dancing up a storm like us (we actually talked to a couple people who informed us that GirlTalk isn't that big on the west coast; yeah, whatever, west coast you are missing out. check him out here.)
Mashing up something amazing, of course
Yeah Greg!
The craziest thing was that the entire time we were dancing (after we had found some free space), random people would join in with us and yell out, "You girls are crazy!" or "Look at them go! Yeahh". The weirdest thing though was that people were taking pictures of us dancing and then one girl even videotaped us!! That has never happened to either of us before so we start to flip out as GirlTalk finished. Our goal is to search the 'net for said elusive photos/video, hopefully it will be found!
A workout in itself, Street Scene was an unforgettable experience that I know for sure will the first of mine to come. Saturday for me was spent relaxing at the beach, so I will leave you with a couple nice shots from the day. Hope everyone's doing well back home. Peace out, cub scout.
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2 comments:
dude, the night we saw Girl Talk here in cville was the best DP of my liffeeeeeee!!!! danie and i were on stage right next to him the entire time and it was soo hot in satellite that we were all dancing (literally) in puddles of our own sweat. until someone randomly passed around a case of waters and then we were just pouring them all over ourselves and everyone...soooooo funnnnnnnn
i know right? except that if i tried to get up on stage then i would have gotten pummeled by those crazy LA girls...
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