[Ghoulish Delight]

Putting aside hotel stupidity, Day 1 was a blast!

Quick highlights -

Los Campasinos - Good thing they had an afternoon set, wouldn't want them to be up past their bedtime! Those children play great music!

Ghostland Observatory - This is the 3rd time we've seen them. Apparently they've gotten kinda big since we last saw them. HUGE crowd showed up the Sahara tent. And they delivered. It was GREAT to see that they were able to scale the energy of the show up to this venue (although more accurately, their energy never properly scaled down to the smaller venues anyway).

Some dude named Paul - He may not have had the bells and whistles that Roger Waters had last year, but he's Sir Paul McCartney. And I just got to see Paul McCartney live on stage. He sounds amazing, he was having fun, he was peronable and honest. CP points out that his show reads like a string of eulogies, between songs about his mother, Linda, John, and George. Thank god he's someone who knows how to channel all of that into something beautiful.

He did a 2 hour set...and then 3 encores. We saw the first encore, and were leaving as he came back for the 2nd. We decided to continue heading out, lingered at the merchandise tent where we were able to hear the whole rest of the show. My favorite moment came as the 2nd encore began. We were in the very back corner of the venue, about to walk out the gate, and he came back on and started playing Yesterday. As far from the stage as we were, the sound wasn't loud. And as he started to sing, everyone around us began to sing, softly, along with him. Gave me the chills.

I'm ashamed to admit that we did NOT dance along with Lucent Dossier, and Dan seemed unhappy about that. I feel awful and VOW to do the Shimmy Shake today.

A few teaster pics.