And the award for most good natured crowd surfing goes to Mr Thomas Mars of
Phoenix. An over exuberant teenage boy next to me yelled out, "Oh my God, I got a piece of his hair!" I've never really got the concept of desperately trying to touch the artist engaged in surfing, but I guess it's the done thing and Thomas was
right next to me a couple of times so I gave him a pat on the back because he seems like such a nice chap. Phoenix were excellent - full energy, great mix of songs with a few unexpected ones thrown in, such as an acoustic version of Everything is Everything with everyone singing quietly along and Air's Playground Love. I was slightly concerned at how they were going to keep
Love Like a Sunset from veering into conceptual space out territory, but they did it - and brilliantly (
like this).
They looked so happy, and they made us happy and then we were all happy. It was sort of like that.
{My photos}
5 comments:
Ah I know a couple who were going last night too- will ask them about the surfing!
cool cool cool! great photos..you really captured the moment!!
(of course i imagine these photos in film...next time...right claire...;))
I love love love Phoenix. So happy that they were cool in person too.
greenapril - they were even wandering around the place when everyone was queuing up, they walked right past me. I've never seen a "famous" band do that before and I worked styling bands for 8 years! Love their attitude.
What rockstars! They've just taken a top 10 spot on my list of coolest bands ever.
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