{"id":20306,"date":"2014-11-04T16:52:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T15:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/?p=20306"},"modified":"2014-11-05T20:30:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T19:30:36","slug":"report-pitchfork-music-festival-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/report-pitchfork-music-festival-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"[REPORT] Pitchfork Music Festival – Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

All photo credits go to Sophie Jarry<\/strong>, our dedicated photographer on duty during the event. Sophie is a renowned french portraits\/live photographer in the music scene around Europe.<\/p>\n

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After a good night sleep at the casa, We were back on track for the second day of this mammoth indoor festival that is Pitchfork Music Festival. A sister edition of the American one. Spearheaded by Julian Catala, and his team at Super! the event is a mecca for indie music, the who\u2019s who of electronic music and a few celebrity artists. From virtually unknown acts such as Perfect Pussy, to globally acclaimed Belle & Sebastian via St. Vincent, Chvrches and Future Islands. The bill for the Friday 31st of October was impressive. It was Halloween too. So the crowd went crazy. Remember it is holiday season here in Paris \/ France, so they came out in great numbers. The tickets sold out for Friday and Saturday very early. With three-day passes being the almighty golden ticket were nowhere to be found 2 month prior to the event even kicked off.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll focus on the crowd today. With some fully decked out in make-shift Halloween costumes or those who went the full nine yards with their kit. We had the pleasure of meeting a few of them. Masks, morbidly ugly surgeons (or students from the medical school, couldn\u2019t really make out what they were doing\u2026) and other scary creatures roamed the venue and festival grounds. Often in huge flocks, sometimes alone, looking for their friends.<\/p>\n[imagebox maintitle=\u201dThe Crowd\u201d subtitle=\u201d\u201d image=\u201dhttps:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/JonHopkins2014-10-30-22.20.43-crowd-before-his-show-Mogwai-in-the-distance-bw\u00a9-sophie-jarry.jpg\u201d color=\u201dwhite\u201d space=\u201d160\u2033 link=\u201dno link\u201d]\n

The thing is though. We were all pretty much friends at Pitchfork Festival this year. Here for the same eclectic music fix and to experience moments of bliss. And we sure did get plenty of those over the 3 day shenanigans. The whole atmosphere was electric, with thick\u00a0artificial fog being made and the lighting scenography always as brilliantly\u00a0taken care of by Triomf<\/strong> :<\/p>\n

Triomf<\/strong> is a Dutch production design company that started fifteen years ago touring the country with their party-concepts. They never stopped organising new club events and festival acts \u2013 like popup bowling venue Club Lebowski \u2013 but in the meantime they developed as art directors and designers for festivals like Into The Great Wide Open, Le Guess Who?, Best Kept Secret and Eurosonic. And don\u2019t forget their own independent electronic festival \u201cStekker in het Park\u201d and the already infamous Studio Stekker Project.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was something for all the human senses. From the food being cooked just outside the concert hall, the dimmed lights, the dark venue itself, bowling alleys, the Converse bar, the playground with giant swings, retro-gaming arcade and more\u2026 All that set up in the most amazing large venue Paris has to offer. it was bound to be a success.<\/p>\n[separator type=\u201dthick\u201d]\n[title maintitle=\u201dPerfect Pussy\u201d subtitle=\u201dset rating : 5\/10\u2033]\n

Ok, now onto reviewing the performances. And we start off a little bewildered by this Perfect Pussy<\/strong> set. Like Mogwai yesterday, too loud, trying too hard, especially for that time of day and as an opening band for the second day not the wisest choice. We felt terrible for both the band and the audience, their eardrums. It\u2019s punk\u00a0music, but it sounded like death, noisey and not much interaction with the festival goers, here in small numbers I must say. Formed in 2012 in\u00a0Syracuse, New York. The band consists of vocalist Meredith Graves, guitarist Ray McAndrew, drummer Garrett Koloski, bass guitarist Greg Ambler and keyboardist Shaun Sutkus. The band is known for its \u201cfrenetic brand of punk and raucous live shows\u201d\u00a0<\/span>and has been described as \u201cthe most important punk band to come out of Syracuse since Earth Crisis. We did not feel them at all. Or maybe slotted later in the night would of been better.<\/p>\n