UK TRIP - Post 4 (3rd Pile - Hyland Park, V-Fest)
Mon Aug 25, 2003 8:10 pm
Hey...if there's anyone left on the forum, I finally have images from day
one of the V-Fest. I have to tell you why I'm tardy...why so late....why
such negligence...such a mean dufus, and am guilty of such juvinile
behavior...why I should be ripped:
Well, because. Because, I had all this other crap I had to do, right? (you
don't want to know what it was) So, I took my Apple up to the Vineyard
on Sunday to catch up on a little work during 2nd service, and accidently
left it in an office that later got locked. So it took us all afternoon to track
down a key... after failing, me and a friend did the only thing left to do:
pop the acoustic panels, jump over the sheet rock and steel my
computer.
Then.... once at home, we had all these visitors (like always...revolving
door), but they're not really visitors, they're friends...so my family - they
forced me to go buy groceries, make hamburgers, cook them, eat them
and then yammer until about 10:30pm - at which time I fell asleep, but
woke up at 12:30am and worked till 4:30am on these very images...and
then I went back to sleep but woke up at 7:30am to take Jessie to school
and then I started this huge yard work project that lasted all day until
now.
WHY did I do yard work? Because LA Times is sending a photographer to
our house on Wednesday to do this shoot for the story they're doing...
(on that band that lives here) Phone interviews ("phoners"....but I hate
that word) happened today and...well screw this; now back to the V
FEST.
Posting begins now..it takes a while...on the fly. bd
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Smiles in the isolated splendor of the dressing room. So far, I don't think
the band has ever dressed in one of these. I might be wrong.
Chauntelle smiles chirpingly as the birds flutter from her messy hair.
And a fiest, it was...for behold.
They're on this ipod kick. Sure, they're great, and they all want me to be
jealous...but my Titanim pretty much rocks the same; basically it's got
itunes - and I can burn cd's. And I have gigs of storage. Think of it as a
large silver ipod. See? I'm cool too.
But it's an ipod fetish with these eisleyoids. borderline cult!...it's like
they're losing their identity and trading it for the ipod. I got it....Eipod.
yes. That would be...mic those drums dude-i-bro'.
Matt is a sweet guy. All of those Colplay crew guys are so nice, it's
sickening. And Eisley is sickening.
These are almost like real live comic strips. I didn't make it up. (but Matt
is very sohisticated - not like my bad dialect) I guess Coldplay really has
their guitar stands labeled... but this is all Johnny's gear becuz
Matt is only his guitar tech.
Like I said in my journal, Eisey got the coveted position - opener,
which is undesirable...unless you're a new band in a foreign land on a
stage that swallows you up and you really need a sound check.
Which was totally happened because Eisley got the hook up from
sympathizer - Derek (Coldplay's production manager), shown here.
Jon, stoic...warms his axe in the English sun... if the sun don't come you
get a tan from standing in the English rain.
I think the picture says it all. These shoegazers finally united, joined
arms, and stormed the stage, ravaging Eisley and scattering their spoils
over the campus. It was a sickening sight. Turn your head. It's too gross
to even imagine.
Stacy on big screen. Funny....they had no clue they were on these big
screens. It made them a little nervous after they found out and the show
was over. "Are you telling us that our big faces were on those giant
things for everyone to see? ahhhh!!!!"
My shots from the actual stage don't get much better that this, but they
do get very much worse... which is why I filmed the big screens.
Browse through these. I have no comments.
Filming them film again...
vvshhs bbbbttt. bllggbvvvt....glitchuk. glitchuk. where's the popcorn.
You'd better not say they look like Hansen. I always avoid this threesome
line-up. Something about it is just not right...or is it? Am I weird?
I love that Gretch. Champagne sparkle. sweet. George Harrison used
a model similar to this or exactly like this remake during much of his
career with a band from Liverpool. The vintage tones one gets are
so nice.
woah. I looked at the screen and for the first time saw there were more
than a few thousand people on the lawn. sheesh.
Sherri shots.
A great photo of Jon.
There is is again...three in a row.
peeps.
sis. sis. sis.
Weston pounding in full on boy wonder style.
Does anyone recognize themselves?
Jon at the V-Fest.
Chauntelle at the V-Fest.
Jon-Jon at the V-Fest.
We figured out that there were as many people at the festival that live in
our entire Town. 80,000. Of course, they weren't all watching eisley.
Would you have gone to see the baby band opener with no press, no
buzz, no nothing? Of course not. But something went wrong and many of
you did. ("them" to US)
More grandstanding. more grandisement. a true grandioso.
disengrandisement.
I said I'd post some images from walking around Hyland park, but I don't think I have any. Getting confused over the two identical shows. And the image of Stephen that was here....he too was at Weston so I pulled it. Thanks for tuning in. boydout.
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