DAY THREE:
Day three was our camp's day of relaxation. Sure we missed The Heavy ("Cause for Alarm" live at Sasquatch) and Fresh Espresso ("Lazerbeams" live at Sasquatch) but it is very rare for music fiends to have any downtime before the performances start since there is so much to see and such little time to see it in. Instead we took the day off to relax and drink all the alcohol that needed to be finished before we headed back across the border. Luckily for our premiere camping spots we were right across from the festival grounds and listened to Seattle Rock Orchestra's Arcade Fire cover set during our drinking games.
So we headed to the festival for around 4:30pm sufficiently intoxicated and wandered around for about an hour possibly heading to the main stage to check out Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward's She & Him ("Magic Trick" live at Sasquatch).. but possibly not.
What I do know for sure is that we saw the first half of the Mountain Goats ("No Children" live at Sasquatch) set who put on a very relatable show to the drab afternoon.. which was a good thing!
Next up we headed to the barely visited Yeti Stage to catch L.A.'s ferocious No Age ("Depletion" live at Sasquatch) who added some loud bangs to Sasquatch's usual soft and mellow vibe. Vancouver's two-piece Japandroids ("Crazy/Forever" and "Sovereignty" live at Sasquatch) had opened up for the American two-piece and the mix of the two groups definitely got everyone amped up for what was to come on the final day of Sasquatch Fest.
The vibe we got from No Age absolutely helped the vibe we were getting from the $12 King Cans on the festival grounds this Monday afternoon.. and this vibe led us to watch a couple of Band of Horses songs, where we remained for about 5 minutes before boredom set in and the realization that Hudson Mohawke ("Fuse" live at Sasquatch) were about to tear shit apart in the Rumpus Room.
Hudson Mohawke were one of the few bands.. actually the only band.. that I was looking forward to without knowing anything about. I had heard from some music buds that I had to check them out.. and check them out we did. Despite the bad set time and a half-empty Rumpus Room.. the Scottish DJ/producer layed his glitchy/electronic music on thiiiiick and absolutely blew every other electronic artist out of the water in terms of sheer quality tunes at this years Sasquatch:
The show ended and we headed over to the main stage to get as close as possible for Ween.. which meant we needed to get as close as possible for MGMT ("Kids" live at Sasquatch). There isn't much to say about MGMT since everyone knew what we were getting in to, albeit they have some absolutely catchy tunes, I am not a fan of the new album and unfortunately their stage presence, which technically should do everything in its power to make the band seem more fun (ala of Montreal), was dull and colourless. People did explode when "Kids came on though, which was worth the watch. Thankfully all the fans cleared out, much like LCD/Pavement the day before, and I was able to get to the second row for the mysterious entity, to everyone who have and haven't experienced them live, known as WEEN! ("Buckingham Green" live at Sasquatch)
Now I can say that I am a bit of a fan of Ween.. but clearly after the set had finished I had a lot to learn about the band and their pretty massive catalogue. I'm sure that no one, except those that have seen Ween before, were expecting the rough and epic performance that we were given to cap the end of the festival. They were loud, brash, and utterly happy to be closing out the weekend's activities, which one cannot exactly say about Pavement the day before. They say that it is always good to go out with a bang and Ween performed the hell out of that bang with such dominant confidence that it absolutely made them the only band at Sasquatch that could have successfully wraped the whole weekend together in one nice loud and fun package.
Here is greenTYPEWRITERS Top 5 performances from Sasquatch 2010:
1.) Pavement
2.) Ween
3.) Why?
4.) Vampire Weekend
5.) Hudson Mowhawke
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