Karina and I had this plan, the plan was to sit outside Malkin Bowl for LCD Soundsystem for a free dance party (you can hear and see without having to pay for tickets). On the way over a torrential downpour hit!
We were troopers and continued to make our way down to Stanley Park for the show. I packed a shower curtain and umbrella so we were prepared.
Friends of friends had extra tickets and were selling at way below cost, “but we don’t have any cash”…. “oh we can pay you later?” “okay sweet, we will come to the show then”.
At the will call window we were handed All Access Back Stage passes (what the??). I guess the tickets they had were ‘magic’, woop, thank you!
LCD SoundSystem!
Yes the show was awesome, a big dance party as expected. The crowd was all shiny happy people looking for a good time not a fight (Vancouver crowds are THE BEST!). Once we got backstage I was a bit shy to get a photo with the band for some reason. But I did make sure to take pics of Jess (who we managed to score another pass for) and Karina with James.
Karina took tons of photos back stage, I was a bit in awe of all the cool graffiti to know where to start snapping so I am glad she documented (she’ll post on her blog soon, will advise). There were also some rad media people and the most awesome extrovert ever, was his name Jasper? Anyway he told us where he works so we will be stalking him out a bit. He came to this concert instead of his own graduation = dedication. We were told to eat cereal and drink beer, so we did. We were told to take some of the goodies home, so we did.
So NOT what I was expecting to happen last night.
The Set I think was the same as Portland 2 nights ago.
Us v Them
Drunk Girls
Get Innocuous!
Yr City’s A Sucker
Pow Pow
Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
All I Want
All My Friends
I Can Change
Tribulations
Movement
Yeah
Encore:
Someone Great
Losing My Edge
New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down / Empire State Of Mind
I was worried by all these big guys we might be the centre of a crazy mosh scene but they ended up being a chill group and we had a lot of fun dancing there and a great view, particularly of the lead singer and Anand. Yeasayer put on an amazing live show, great vocals with an even better sound than on the records. Thank goodness I got my tickets early since slowly but surely they sold out. The highlight of the night had to be I Remember with the tall guys singing along at the top of their lungs and the dudes beside us holding up tea light candles. A bunch of people joined in all around us with lighters and I have to say, part of me was worried the wax was going to fly. The guy right in front of me I nicknamed ‘the stoic guy’, in his bad ass leather and rocker headband he stood with his arms crossed clutching his beer not moving a muscle. By the last song prior to the encore he was grooving his head and it made my night! An hour in and he just couldn’t stand still anymore, I’ve still been thinking about him all day.
