music festival (summary)

1) someone please tell the one-hit-wonder brandi carlile that playing on the stage the cover of radiohead's song creep isn't really a good idea. i swear, she was singing and playing it, and it just seemed as if a bunch of kittens were being ruthlessly murdered on the stage. besides... she played for one hour, and most people could only identify four songs: her hit story (which was good), and three covers. boring, boring.

2) i think mando diao was quite interesting, but spent the hour they were playing in a queue to get an hamburguer.

3) walkmen = overrated. from what i could see.

4) duffy was hot on stage. and that's all about her gig.

5) the killers. well. they didn't kill me (lousy joke), meaning, they didn't have the effect on me that other bands had in past festivals. thinking about vampire weekend, the white stripes and, of course, muse. but they were good, too damn good. they had balls to start the gig with their most known song (at least the most recent one, whatever, i'm not a dancer and i seriously doubt i am human), which is always risky. and they won, they did a truly remarkable gig. especially when they surprised me by playing shadowplay, one of my favourite joy division's songs (hope brandi carlile watched that, so she can learn how to make a good cover). i didn't left the festival as a fan of them, but i'm sure to listen carefully to them one of these days.