{"id":188,"date":"2008-06-11T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2008-06-11T12:00:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T20:00:26","slug":"bfd-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/2008\/06\/11\/bfd-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Live 105's BFD 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"
Every year in early June since 1993, Live 105 (a ClearChannel<\/a> radio station in San Francisco, 105.3 FM) puts out a huge concert called, appropriately, Big Fucking Day (or Big Fucking Deal, depending on who you talk to). It’s held at the Shoreline Amphitheatre<\/a> in Mountain View, CA – which happens to be spitting distance<\/a> from Google<\/a>‘s main campus. Generally the tickets are $30-50; there’s at least 20-30 bands\/DJs\/groups on the bill, always a great mix and match<\/a>; you can select from multiple stages, so if you don’t like who’s playing you don’t have to listen to it. The concessions, like any venue, are retardedly expensive – but that’s the price of needing to eat and drink. It’s always been during the week, but the last 3 years have been on Saturday, which is nice for those of us with real jobs (by “us”, I don’t include myself). This year, the tickets were only $10 – a good way to pull in more people in a time when we need an economic stimulus.<\/p>\n

I’ve been to five or six BFD’s in the past ten years – I always have a good time, I always run into a veritable horde of people I know (way out of context), and the cheap ticket price totally makes up for when some of the bands suck sphincter. Last Saturday (June 7th) I went to this year’s BFD (the 15th).<\/p>\n

  • Cypress Hill<\/a> headlined, preceded by Pennywise<\/a>, Flogging Molly<\/a>, Alkaline Trio<\/a>, Everlast<\/a>, the Kooks<\/a>, Anti-Flag<\/a>, MGMT<\/a>, Atreyu<\/a>, Flobots<\/a>, the Whigs<\/a>, Airborne Toxic Event<\/a>, and Middle Class Rut<\/a> (on the main stage).<\/li>\n
  • The local stage had the Federalists<\/a>, Apside<\/a>, Love Like Fire<\/a>, the Hundred Days<\/a>, Here Here<\/a>, the Action Design<\/a>, Magic Bullets<\/a>, and the Phenomenauts<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • The Subsonic Tent, primarily reserved for techno\/trance acts, had Moby<\/a> headlining, preceded by Mstrkrft<\/a>, Santogold<\/a>, DJ AM<\/a>, Steve Aoki<\/a>, Lyrics Born<\/a>, Mike Relm<\/a><\/del>, PlayRadioPlay<\/a>, DJ Omar<\/a>, Richard Oh<\/a>, Hottub<\/a>, and DJ Miles<\/a>.<\/li>\n

    I showed up at about 1:30PM, in time to catch the Flobots<\/a>. I’d only heard their single “Handlebars” on the radio, and it’s a pretty good song – very Cake<\/a>-ish – but I wasn’t blown away. However, after hearing their live performance of Handlebars, Mayday!!, Combat, and Rise – they’re pretty amazing. It looked basically like a rock band, a violinist (a cute one), and emcees – and I personally am always swept up in quality popular music when it incorporates a talented violinist (think Yellowcard<\/a>, Fort Minor<\/a>, etc). Atreyu was good but angry. I’d heard MGMT’s single, Time to Pretend – quite decent, and their live show made me like their sound more.<\/p>\n

    After climbing the Army’s climbing wall barefoot (a fun and blatant recruiting gimmick), I headed into the Subsonic Tent to check out Mike Relm – sadly he didn’t show, but Lyrics Born came out early and had a great set. He’s been at BFD before, and always gets me and the crowd moving. I thought he was an odd choice for Subsonic, but it fit, and I wasn’t complaining.<\/p>\n

    The local bands I’d never heard of, although while buying yet another $11 beer<\/strong>, one caught my ear: the Action Design<\/a> – it had a very Paramore<\/a>ish sound and I liked it alot.<\/p>\n

    Everlast played some quality old singles (I didn’t really pay attention to the new stuff) and Alkaline Trio I skipped in favor of the Subsonic Tent. I did catch Flogging Molly and Pennywise, but I napped on a strip of grass for awhile so I missed alot of it.<\/p>\n

    Cypress Hill was very high energy, and of course there was tons of herb floating through the air (and definitely on stage). At one point they inflated a giant skeleton king. Why, I am not sure. However I did not care. Afterwards we were tired, and headed out rather than stay late for Moby.<\/p>\n

    All in all, it was a great concert day – my only complaint, and a MAJOR one, was the lack of the lawn stage. This year, unlike prior years I can recall, they closed off the main Shoreline stage and had the main stage in the parking lot, Warped Tour<\/a> style. This was incredibly weak – chilling on the grass, with a great view because of the slope, for a cheaper ticket price – is always a highlight of a Shoreline concert.\n<\/div>\n

    the Main Festival Stage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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