Saturday, 18 Jul 2009
Last night the UW Union Terrace hosted a number of bands scheduled to play this weekend’s Pitchfork Music Festival. The line-up of Yeasayer, Ponytail, Cymbals Eat Guitars, The Antlers, and The Dutchess and the Duke was amazing and the price (free) was impossible to beat.
Ed Oliver was in attendance, bring back some stellar shots. By his report,
Ponytail got real crazy” though Yeasayer “took it up another notch” drop a comment and let us know what your highlights were.
July 18th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I’m sad I missed this, but I’d already gotten tix to The National – and despite a late start, and a mediocre opening band – The National ended up putting on the best set I’ve ever seen. So it wasn’t too much of a loss for me I guess.
July 18th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
yeasayer took a little less than 40 minutes to start playing… they started around 10:50 and could only play till 11:45 or so. 40 minutes?? That’s ridiculous.
July 18th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Ponytail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9B6PorEQwE
and yeasayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3lATackEcg
were both great.
Glad I was there.
last of the video is uploading now
July 18th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
ponytail is possibly one of the greatest live bands around. I think it pumped me up a little too much for the more laid back Yeasayer, who in my opinion could not upstage ponytail.
July 19th, 2009 at 8:19 am
I wasn’t all that into Ponytail personally. They were fun, and a good band but every now and then I like syllables and/or lyrics to come out of the frontperson. Granted, I hadn’t heard their stuff at all, but I got pretty bored pretty quick with the girl bouncing around and yelling like a Pokeman character the entire time…
I thought the show overall was good, but it seemed like Yeasayer was in quite a hurry to get done.
July 19th, 2009 at 10:05 am
LOL @ “bouncing around and yelling like a Pokeman character the entire time”
July 19th, 2009 at 10:26 am
shows have to end at midnight on the Terrace so that would explain why Yeasayer may have seemed to play a shorter set.
July 20th, 2009 at 1:41 am
10:50 –> 11:45 = 55 minutes….? played same set length and songs (different order) at pitchfork the next day so no need to feel gypped.
July 20th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
thats just racist truby. how was 2.o compared to 1.o
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Ponytail just got in the way, like when your long hair gets in the way and you conveniently tie it behind your head, unless you’re Steven Seagal of course. They should split up and call themselves the Pigtails.