Klaxons, Of Montreal and Girl Talk Draw Hoards at Pitchfork Music Festival
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The VIP/PRESS pass gets you close to the music, usually the pit for the first seven minutes of a band’s set. This weekend with some finagling the power of the VIP got us on stage for one of the best sets at the second annual Pitchfork Music Festival. Held on the west side of Chicago in a neighborhood you could get shot in ten years ago, the three-day Pitchfork Music Festival was almost forced to shut down by the Chicago Fire Department Saturday night during Girl Talk’s set. 
Girl Talk: a highlight of the fest.The crowd tightened during prior sets from Oxford Collapse and "future-shock" rocker Dan Deacon who set up and played from the first row. We got to dance on stage with Girl Talk along with members of indie psych artists Grizzly Bear, who played the fest’s Aluminum Stage earlier. Gillis spun “Whoop There It Is†and Missy Elliot’s “Work It.†It got sweaty and I was forced to write the setlist on my hand. 
So into it!Yoko Ono wore a mini-skirt despite the fact that women over the age of seventy should not wear mini-skirts. She sang “War Is Over If You Want It†from her and John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas†classic, but instead of the chipper version Ono made the tagline aggressive and unrecognizable by shouting it. Earlier that day Mastodon was the talk of the festival, with everyone anticipating their set on the Connector Stage. The band all sported Serj Tankian wannabe beards, but nonetheless added to the eclecticism of the festival. Mastodon brought the heavy metal, while hip-hop (Clipse, De La Soul) and electronica were heavily present (Fujiya and Miyagi, The Field).Of Montreal was hard to compete with on Sunday. A circus show practically accompanied the band’s set which included the tunes “Suffer for Fashion,†“She’s A Rejector†and “Party Crashing Now.†Frontman Kevin Barnes stripped to a G-string and the band covered “You Really Got Me" for their encore. Blow up statues and a creature on stilts also graced the stage during the band’s performance. Earlier sets from Jamie Lidell, Menomena were impressive, but another dance party broke out on the Balance stage for the Klaxons night set. Scheduled to go on stage at 8:30 the UK dance-punk outfit took the stage after 9PM. Fans who stuck around still got to check out the closing headliners De La Soul, who played a long set that brought people back to the late 80’s/early 90’s. The band’s producer Prince Paul came on stage for a “brand new song.†17,000 people showed up on Saturday and then again Sunday night, while Friday night's capacity crowd was at 13,000.The Top Five Sets of the 2007 Pitchfork Music Festival:1. Sonic Youth2. Girk Talk3. Of Montreal4. Dan Deacon5. Battles
Girl Talk: a highlight of the fest.The crowd tightened during prior sets from Oxford Collapse and "future-shock" rocker Dan Deacon who set up and played from the first row. We got to dance on stage with Girl Talk along with members of indie psych artists Grizzly Bear, who played the fest’s Aluminum Stage earlier. Gillis spun “Whoop There It Is†and Missy Elliot’s “Work It.†It got sweaty and I was forced to write the setlist on my hand. So into it!Yoko Ono wore a mini-skirt despite the fact that women over the age of seventy should not wear mini-skirts. She sang “War Is Over If You Want It†from her and John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas†classic, but instead of the chipper version Ono made the tagline aggressive and unrecognizable by shouting it. Earlier that day Mastodon was the talk of the festival, with everyone anticipating their set on the Connector Stage. The band all sported Serj Tankian wannabe beards, but nonetheless added to the eclecticism of the festival. Mastodon brought the heavy metal, while hip-hop (Clipse, De La Soul) and electronica were heavily present (Fujiya and Miyagi, The Field).Of Montreal was hard to compete with on Sunday. A circus show practically accompanied the band’s set which included the tunes “Suffer for Fashion,†“She’s A Rejector†and “Party Crashing Now.†Frontman Kevin Barnes stripped to a G-string and the band covered “You Really Got Me" for their encore. Blow up statues and a creature on stilts also graced the stage during the band’s performance. Earlier sets from Jamie Lidell, Menomena were impressive, but another dance party broke out on the Balance stage for the Klaxons night set. Scheduled to go on stage at 8:30 the UK dance-punk outfit took the stage after 9PM. Fans who stuck around still got to check out the closing headliners De La Soul, who played a long set that brought people back to the late 80’s/early 90’s. The band’s producer Prince Paul came on stage for a “brand new song.†17,000 people showed up on Saturday and then again Sunday night, while Friday night's capacity crowd was at 13,000.The Top Five Sets of the 2007 Pitchfork Music Festival:1. Sonic Youth2. Girk Talk3. Of Montreal4. Dan Deacon5. Battles
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