Creamfields.

Wow. I'm not off to a great start here, but I'll try to be better. I'm calling in sick of going out so I thought I would take this Saturday night to catch up.

So I need to back up about three weeks to one of the first really cool things I got to do down here. Since it is spring down here, it's music festival season again. Creamfields is an international electronic music festival that happens to have a franchise (or whatever) in Buenos Aires. It starts at 3 PM and goes until 7 AM. Yep. This city loves to party all night.


So one shady bus ride out into the shady nether regions of BA later and we're at the Autodromo. I don't think we got there until about 8 PM and we went straight to watch the Gorillaz Soundsystem (which is not quite the Gorillaz, but it was still pretty good).


Other people who we got to see (for those who care):
Simian Mobile Disco
Crystal Castles (more on this in a second)
Eric Morillo
New Young Pony Club (thought this was a show and it was just a DJ set
Modeselektor
Boys Noize
and UNKLE

And it only cost about $50.




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The story with Crystal Castles:::

It already wasn't looking too good when they were about 15 minutes late starting their set. Then finally Ethan the keyboard/programmer dude walks out onto stage and every body starts clapping and he just keeps walking all the way across the stage to talk to the sound guy. It looked like they were having issues with the synthesizers. Finally they get it worked out and Alice Glass (the singer) and the drummer comes out. They start playing and Alice's mic is not working at all. The finish the song and the sound guys come out and start messing with stuff. The band walks off stage and the break DJ comes back out and it looks like they might just be leaving. After about 5 more minutes the band comes back out. Alice's mic still isn't really working but she's still running around the stage. At one point she goes off the front of the stage onto a table that has a couple turntables on it and the sound guys run out there and start trying to pull her off of the expensive equipment. Then she just jumps out into the crowd and everybody goes crazy. But unfortunately it doesn't look like her mic cable is long enough and so the sound guys are trying to keep it from getting tangled and security is trying to pull her back out of the crowd. Then either a sound guy or a security guy pulls the pic away from her in the middle of the song and she flips out and shoves the guy. Then Ethan jumps off stage and starts fighting with the security guys that are trying to hold Alice and they end up dragging him off stage.

One and a half songs- game over.

Here's a vid:


At least it gave us a chance to go see Simian Mobile Disco.