I didn't go to the AF show at Alderney Landing for one reason - I didn't want to ruin the experience of seeing them open for U2 on the claw stage. I should have went to Alderney Landing. Seeing AF with 80,000 people is not as fun as you would think. Mostly because I was insanely far away, forced to watch them on the big screens to see anything worthwhile, but also because everyone around me had no idea who they were. As I belted out - KEEP THE CAR RUNNING or even LIES, LIES, people looked at me in disbelief. Who were these people you ask? Well they were older (they likely prefer mature or aged) die hard U2 fans. But AF was still awesome, still entertained me and overall were just really, really cool. I just wished I had of been closer. And the drummer chick's gold sequins dress was kick ass.
U2? They friggin rocked. They played and played. Great song after great song - even doing a version of Cohen's Hallelujah (this did in fact give me chills but I absolutely love that song). But the best part of the night for me was when Bono started talking about how much he missed and loved his wife (as the Edge and Clayton strummed chords to Bowie's Space Oddity). Fade to the big screen (have I mentioned how cool this claw stage was?) where astronaut Mark Kelly appears - FROM SPACE. He has cue cards about imagination and freedom and what a beautiful day it will be when we all have some version of being free and then he tells the crowd how much he loves his wife - but she knows. Then he sings (more like says) the chorus to a Beautiful Day and then the band rocks out to it. Brilliant. Seriously. Brilliant.
So although I was absolutely covered in mud (it was so thick and sticky that is actually pulled the sole off my sneaker on a visit to the porta potty) I loved every minute of the 6 hours spent on Magnetic Hill.
And in other news, I went to the New Glasgow Jubilee and was transported back in time to 1985. Platinum Blonde was kick ass ridiculous. Good in the sense that I enjoyed every minute of CRYING...CRYING OVER YOU. ALL I EVER WANTED TO DO...but ridiculous in the sense that this man still believed it was 1985 and therefore appropriate to move his hips in that fashion and take off his shirt. So all in all - quite an entertaining and enjoyable weekend.
Miss you all.
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Having seen the setlist and read some reviews, I am pretty bummed I didn't go up. The Joshua Tree stuff would have been amazing to see live.
As for the non-AF fans, I wonder if they were these people: http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com/
I wonder if Lockhart knew about Platinum Blonde.
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