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I and some friends are heading up to Chicago for the show this Friday and wanted to tell others about it. If people aren’t familiar with the band just yet, my favorite description of them is “quasi-religious uplift.” They’re also kinda like Flaming Lips with a whole lotta people.

Thanks for looking for us. Here’s what happened:

First, being the rubes that we are, we park in a free garage for a shopping center about 7 blocks short of the concert hall. Two in the group discuss moving the car because the place may be closed when we return, but the others feel it wont’ be a big deal. So when we get out of the concert, I wanted to hang around and look. However, the two concerned people in our group want to just take off for the car. I lost on this one, but may have won in the end.

When we reach the garage, there’s a large metal door closed over the entrance and exit. Since we were still so uplifted from a positive concert, we think “Huh?” rather than “What are we going to do?!” So we walk around the building check all the doors to find them thoroughly locked and talk to a parking attendent next door who tells us that it will open in the morning. Still in a state of intense positivity, we decide to just go get food. It was on our way toward food that we found a van coming out from the half open exit of the garage. So we run inside and the door closes behind us. I’m not sure why, but we kept running all the way to the car. The gate came up automatically when we drove out and we were in even better spirits than before. It was definitely a sticky situation that was even better for having happened than not at all.

As for the concert, it was probably the most enthusiastic thing I think I may have ever seen. I loved every minute of it and I’m very sad that they won’t be close enough for me to take other friends to.

Was anyone in your group carrying a red sign?

It’s too bad they’re not coming this way. How far would you travel to see these guys knowing what you know now?

They’ll be in New York in June.

Boston too.

Is Boston closer to where you are? Are you thinking of seeing them? It’s the sun that makes me shine!!! Godspell is cool again! And harps! And exclamation points!!! Almost two hours of exclamatory points!!! Euphoria is the new Heroin.

not only will they be in new york in june, it appears they’ll be in an amazing festival.

http://www.fielddayfest.com

can’t say i’ve heard of everyone, but the ones i know make me curious about the others:

JUNE 7

Radiohead
Beck
Underworld
Spiritualized
Thievery corporation
Beth Orton
Dashboard confessional
Interpol
R?yksopp
Liz phair
Tortoise
Thursday
The raveonettes
Ben lee
My morning jacket
Gemma hayes
22-20s

JUNE 8

Beastie boys
Sigur r?s
The roots
Blur
The streets
Elliott smith
n.e.r.d.
peanut butter wolf
blackalicious
le tigre
the music
the polyphonic spree***this makes my post relevant to this thread
luna
the sea and cake
particle
ours
trachtenburg family slideshow players

That’s right. That’s what I was referring to. JoelSpace and I are thinking about going. It would kill lots of great concerts with one relatively cheap stone.

the beasties, the roots, beck, interpol, blackalicious, underworld!!!!!!!!!!!!! How about we have a pre-^campingisnotoptional there this year?

We will have been living in NYC for a few days by June 7, making travel much less of an issue. I’ll definitely be there if anyone else is going! This is just the best lineup one could hope for.

I just looked at the lineup again. I must go.