I attended The People's Party last Sunday!!!!!!!!!!11one
And no, it's not remotely related to politics at all, but no one would blame you if you thought it was. It is an odd name for a music festival!
The highlight of the day was seeing Bombay Bicycle Club live!! Ahhh, Jack Steadman! <3
Also caught The Naked + Famous and Unknown Mortal Orchestra! And there were a couple of local bands and one from Hong Kong called Noughts and Exes, who were not bad at all!
Here's the full line-up:
Muon (SG)
Noughts & Exes (HK)Analog Girl (SG)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra (US/NZ)
In Each Hand A Cutlass (SG)
The Naked & Famous (NZ)
Bombay Bicycle Club (UK)
Noughts & Exes (HK)Analog Girl (SG)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra (US/NZ)
In Each Hand A Cutlass (SG)
The Naked & Famous (NZ)
Bombay Bicycle Club (UK)
Saw Unknown Mortal Orchestra, The Naked + Famous and Bombay Bicycle Club (jalkdjfkdsfl) live!!!!! It was amazing, and I got a pretty good view of Jack and Jamie. Quite disappointed with the placement of the drums though, because Suren was too far back. Oh and it was Jack's birthday and we sang Happy Birthday for him :') (http://trynamaikeitthroughthewall. ) Didn't get the chance to meet them afterwards though so no photos :(tumblr.com/post/ 15890034072
(SHIT WE WERE ACTUALLY WAITING AT THE AREA THEY (BBC) CAME OUT FROM AFTERWARDS! BUT WE LEFT QUITE EARLY. WE SHOULD'VE WAITED A LITTLE WHILE LONGER. GUTTED.)
-from my Facebook photo album's description.
So yes, was really disappointed because we ALMOST got to meet them up close but we missed it. We actually thought we were at the wrong exit, because this time we weren't exactly sure where the back exit was.
I was reaaaaally sad almost the entire day on Monday. Especially after I digged through the interwebz and found people who met the Bombay boys and took photos with them.
Words cannot express how much I regret not grasping onto what little hope/chance of meeting them when we were at the place we weren't sure was the back exit.
But I should be over it by a week... hopefully.
I guess one of the reasons why I'm so sad is because I love meeting band members that are really nice and I think Bombay Bicycle Club seem to be genuinely really nice people.
They're like people you can really chill and feel comfortable with. It doesn't matter that they're shy or awkward - I'm shy and awkward as fuck myself too.
The perfect band, in my opinion, has good music, and the next most important factor is their character and how they treat people. If the band's got really good music but has shitty attitude, are quite mean in general or are really arrogant, then I'd probably not feel as bad if I didn't get to meet them after a gig.
Enough rambling, here are a few photos from the gig. Too lazy to upload everything, heh. They're taken with Samantha's camera.
Thom of the Naked + Famous
JACK STEADMAN!
Ahhh!
The band from Hongkong, noughts and exes.
Halfway through performing, Jamie stopped the band and told us all that it was actually Jack's birthday today. They brought in a cake for him and they also had sparklers! HOW CUTE!We all sang Happy Birthday to him. Then he said "This is embarrassing." HAHAHAHA WE ALL KNOW THAT FEEL BRO.
Jamie MacColl! He fell on stage, aww :(
Funny thing: I actually missed the part where he fell (too engrossed looking at Jack, guilty as charged.), and when he was on his back I thought he did that on purpose as part of a cool guitar stunt. HAHAHAHA. You know how they lie on their back and do their guitar thing?
Last photo of Jack. :)