latter day bohemian

Bonnaroovian

June 18th, 2008

We’re back from nearly a week away at Bonnaroo – well, four days at the festival, and two days in transit with hilarious dudes and our trusty Richard Simmons. Over the course of the festival, I slept on the ground, ate awesome samosas, and saw a whole lot of fabulous music:

• Superdrag
• MGMT
• Vampire Weekend
• Grupo Fantasma
• Jose Gonzalez
• Tegan & Sara
• !!!
• MIA
• The Wood Brothers
• Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
• Gogol Bordello
• Cat Power
• Iron & Wine
• Ladytron
• Aimee Mann
• Broken Social Scene (with Amy Millan)
• Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Some highlights:

• MIA’s last show ever was flat-out insane, especially immediately following !!!. I danced my ass off and was sweat on by a variety of people.
• Managed to catch the only MGMT song that I really love.
• Soul-fun with Sharon Jones in the hot-hot sun.
• Somehow almost every band that I saw had at least 5 people on stage. Broken Social Scene was no exception.
• Aimee Mann playing “Save Me” and “How Am I Different”. Mark said that was the only time all weekend that he got goosebumps.
• Iron & Wine was magical. I cried like a baby. So did Shane, a little.

I’ll be posting more photos over the next few days, but in the interim I’ve also created a post-Roo muxtape to capture the highlights. I’m so glad that we went.

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