DAMAGE REPORT: All Points West, July 31 to Aug. 2, Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ

The Web site for the award-winning alternative weekly, the Philadelphia City Paper.

0 comments

DAMAGE REPORT: All Points West, July 31 to Aug. 2, Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ

POSTED: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 11:38 PM

Filed Under: Music | Show concert photos

Photo | John Vettese

Who wants to brave the pouring rain?

In solidarity, my crew and I just simultaneously tore off our All Points West media wristbands.

Coldplay? Don't need to see them so much. Echo and the Bunnymen? The nostalgia for the unremembered '80s woulda been nice, but nah. Kitty, Daisy and Lewis? At Kung Fu Necktie next week. Mogwai? Gaslight Anthem? The Black Keys? La Roux? They'll tour again and play Philly, I'm certain.

Your intrepid summer festival reporter, alas, is feeling less than intrepid. What can I say? I'm no Jesse Delaney. To recap this weekend's sustained damages:

-One (1) Canon Digital SLR, spitting all manner of error messages and no longer shooting photos

-One (1) cell phone, fried and unusable

-Three (3) pair of footwear, ruined

-Two (2) ankles, severly twisted in mud-bogs, throbbing

To self-critique, the breakage of gear is my own damn fault for being an idiot and trying to document Vampire Weekend's Friday afternoon set in a damn monsoon. And the weather conditions are par for the summer festival course ' I shouldn't be a complain-y sissy about some mud-caking and trip-and-falling.

On the other hand, we spent two days in the muck for the stronger acts on the All Points West lineup. And this morning's slow, brunch-filled beginning allowed us time to get word that the gates to Liberty State Park were staying locked. Second downpour of the weekend. We stayed in to wait the storm out, watching the trending topics on Twitter tell of antsy crowds in holding pens; doors opening, then closing, then opening, then closing; a pervasive horse-shit smell.

Yes, hash-tag journalism. Kinda sad, I know. But whatever ' last night we watched jaw-dropped as My Bloody Valentine wailed on "You Made Me Realise" for 9 minutes and 40 seconds. Friday we saw Jay-Z do "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" in its entirety. FTW, we can miss a weak and swampy concluding day.

More photos and incomplete festival reportage when I'm home from North Jerz.

Posted by john vettese" @ 11:38 PM Permalink | Post a comment

0 comments

Comments (0)

PHILLY LOVE NOTES: An ode to Spruce Street
Q&A with SHARI SOLANIS: "The goal isn't pornography"
ICE CUBE: In Memoriam: Joe Tartaglia
What we're trying to do this weekend
SEXY TIME Q&A: I've never had an orgasm during sex with a man — and I'm 30!
Coming soon to Philly: Two cockamamie movie promotion schemes
CONCERT REVIEW & PHOTOS: James Blake @ TLA 5/11
Q&A with Tony Goldwyn: "Life is gray, and relationships are, too"
CONCERT REVIEW: Primus (3D & quadraphonic sound) @ The Tower 10/17
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: The Archbishop meets the Geator, the Mayor goes suit shopping, Le Bec Fin fin.

About this blog

Featuring everything from event roundups to concert reviews and sex talk, City Paper's Critical Mass is a space for off-the-wall coverage of Philly's A&E scene.

Follow Critical Mass editors Patrick Rapa and Emily Guendelsberger on Twitter:

@mission2denmark | @emilygee

Search this blog:

Topics:

Blog archives:

May
April
March

February
January

Past Archives: