Sled Island Festival, Calgary AB - July 2nd & 3rd

[cara]

2 days in a row of Big Belvins? ...2 different sets perhaps?

+ Dinosaur Jr, Hot Water Music, Unnatural Helpers etc.

....anyone else?

[cara]

saw the Melvins last night and it was insane. Possibly the best time ive seen them! Will be seeing them again tonight and will post reviews in a couple days, but all I have to say for now is... AMAZON. Holy shit.

[pinkyslim]

saw the Melvins last night and it was insane. Possibly the best time ive seen them! Will be seeing them again tonight and will post reviews in a couple days, but all I have to say for now is... AMAZON. Holy shit.

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[MrLuck87]

saw the Melvins last night and it was insane. Possibly the best time ive seen them! Will be seeing them again tonight and will post reviews in a couple days, but all I have to say for now is... AMAZON. Holy shit.

It took them 4 years to finally play AMAZON with this line up but it was totally worth it wasn't it?

[Diasetttix]

AMAZON twice in two days. AMAZING.

Ran into Buzzo before the show and asked him about the box sets and he told me that they didn't bring any merch.

I was at the back of the bar talking to Lou Barlow when Melvins started up with Sacrifice and both of us were pretty surprised. I immediately ran down and squirmed to the front of the stage and proceeded to see the best show ever. I hadn't seen the Melvins in about ten years, which was the last time they were in Calgary for the 2x4 tour. I must say that I have never really gotten into Nude With Boots and was shocked when the songs they played off of it sounded so damned vital. I was not expecting Black Bock at all and seeing them play Roman Dog Bird at the end of the show before the drum0ff was perfect.

Then another set the next day.

best weekend ever.

[cara]

oh yeah, excellent weekend! The fest was an interesting few days of music - the first day i went to see Deerhoof by a friends request (which was GOD AWFUL but I wouldn't expect anything less) and Dutchess and the Duke who were awesome. On Friday I saw Dutchess and the Duke again and this band called Boys Who Say No who I walked out on a couple songs in, then Chuck Ragan and Greg Macpherson.

But onto more important things.... Friday evening I went to see THE MELVINS. On my way to the show I walked past J Mascis on the street and saw him getting stopped by a fan and rolling his eyes. I was wearing my Witch shirt which made the whole thing kind of awkward. We got to the venue early which was good since it was already starting to line up. The doors were about a half hour late opening and the line was already down the block. Once inside we grabbed a seat at a table close to the stage and watched the first opening band called "C'Mon" play (worst band name ever) who had a kind of fun 70s rock vibe and were enjoyable even though I'll probably never listen to them again. The next band was Priestess who I kind of expected to be fun but was really painful since they had a terrible attitude and sounded awful. I kind of lurked around for merch while they were playing but only saw some Cmon merch. (There wasn't any at the show the next day either which kind of sucked but was better for my wallet in the long run.) Big Business came on around 11:30 and ripped the place apart. This was my second time seeing them and they sounded way better this time - the stuff from Mind the Drift sounded great live. I didn't take any pictures but there are some cool ones on the sled island flikr page including this one - http://www.flickr.com/photos/sledislandphoto/4760736170/# that I am in somewhere (how mysterious!) During their set there were all these douchy guys in trucker hats and flannels spraying their beers everywhere and Jared had to stop a few times to tell them to stop it. The crowd was god awful. Apparantly by this point there were crowds outside trying to get in but the place had already reached it's limit. The Melvins were next and came out in costumes with epic music playing then ripped into a fantastic setlist including lots of stuff from the Bride Screamed Murder, Black Book and Amazon. I'm not going to ramble on for too much longer about this since the set and all that has been posted a thousand times and I've already gone on for a while but the whole experience was really great and the crowd had gotten significantly better by this point. I ripped a setlist from the stage once they were finished and it was completely different from what they had actually played which was strange and kind of a slap in the face since it included tracks like Let it All Be.

The next day I was still on a Melvins high but got to see them again in an outdoor setting. The sets were really similar but were a bit better the night before. The crowd was a lot calmer this day though which was kind of nice. They opened with Sacrifice both times though. Dinosaur Jr played afterwards and Buzz was lurking behind the amps for most of it and Lou Barlow jokingly did a rendition of Sacrifice. Oh and the program for the festival had a really terrible description of the Melvins which was basically the writer saying how he had only recently heard of them through the "more accessible band", Fantomas and how they aren't "that scary" and told the tired out story about Kurt Cobain auditioning for them. I don't want to be repetitive so I'll stop it there but here are a few pictures I took on the second day!

[black stallion]

great pics and review,do you remember what was the BB set list?

thanks

[ManWithNoName]

Great review and pics.

oh and fuck you for seeing the melvins, twice in two days and in Canada. 

[Uncle Fester]

hey, I like deerhoof!

you got to see them TWICE... wow. thanks for the pics.



p.s. shut up pinkyslim.

[cara]

great pics and review,do you remember what was the BB set list?

thanks

it's a little hazy now (sorry!) but it included Hands Up, Cats, Mice, Grounds For Divorce, Start Your Digging, Focus Pocus, The Drift and Just as the Day Was Dawning. Unsure on the rest but can possibly find something online.

[black stallion]

great pics and review,do you remember what was the BB set list?

thanks

it's a little hazy now (sorry!) but it included Hands Up, Cats, Mice, Grounds For Divorce, Start Your Digging, Focus Pocus, The Drift and Just as the Day Was Dawning. Unsure on the rest but can possibly find something online.

thanks cara!