Treasure Island Day 1: LCD Soundsystem, Deadmau5, !!! Have Crowd Dancing To Keep Warm
Categories: Over the Weekend
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| Joseph Schell |
| !!!'s Nic Offer dove into the crowd no fewer than three times. |
October 16th, 2010
Better than: A 1974 episode of Soul Train taped inside a meat freezer.
We were breakfasting with friends in Potrero Hill when our hostess pronounced The Problem with this fourth installment of the Treasure Island Music Festival: "The trouble with it is they divide it into electronica day and annoying indie rock day." Admittedly, fighting in the streets has yet to break out among the two cultural enclaves, with dance-dance freakazoids and indie poseurs mixing with perfect amity at places like Coachella. But TI is much cozier than some polo field down in Indio half the size of Liechtenstein.
This was our first time at the festival and, once through the long fuckaround at the gate, the rumpus being stomped up on the Bridge stage by this year's internet meme Die Antwoord was a strong audience magnet. Sounding from that distance like an amplified domestic dispute between a chipmunk and a Rottweiler, this impression was sustained up close by rappers Ninja and Yo-Landi jabbering threats of shitrain malediction like they'd just invented anger.
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| Joseph Schell |
| Die Antwoord fired up the crowd with machine-gun rhymes and swinging genitalia. |
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| Joseph Schell |
| Crowdsurfing was prevalent -- and mostly successful. |
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| Joseph Schell |
| Four Tet's Kieran Hebden tried to warm up the crowd with shifting, organic beats |
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| Joseph Schell |
| Deadmau5' black cube turned into a trippy LCD screen |
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| Joseph Schell |
| LCD Soundsystem blasted out jabbering art-dance tunes tight and hard |
Random notebook dump: "What is up with the little yellow 'Thank You' stickers on every fourteenth person?"
Overheard in the crowd:
"This festival has turned into a G-rated Burning Man!"
"Who knew music appreciation could be so strenuous?"
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| Joseph Schell |
| The sun came out in the middle of the afternoon, but then the wind came up, and things turned chilly. |
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