Mp3: Now we’re gonna take a trip out to the universe
August 15, 2009 – 7:47 pmI’ve just been re-reading Black Postcards
We played the same stage as Melissa Etheridge, but missed her show. We also missed Lenny Kravitz and Midnight Oil and all kinds of other stupid shit. Rock festivals are celebrations of rock music, and everyone is happy and nice to one another, but the truth is that you hate most of the bands. Well, you hate their music, and isn’t that the same thing?
Galaxie 500 *
So just to prove how pointless and hateful festivals are here’s an excellent recording of Galaxie 500’s performance at the 1990 Roskilde Festival. Bah! Glad I wasn’t there.
Download Galaxie 500 at The Roskilde Festival – 1990 (68MB via Mediafire)
* OK – the picture was taken at The Bizarre Festival in Lorelei, Germany the week before Roskilde, but it’s the closest I can manage. Dean mentions this festival in the book as well and how despite the beautiful setting The Ramones chose to stay in their trailer and eat pizza rather than be outside enjoying “the mountain, the cliff, the sunshine, the barbecue [... because] punk is a celebration of ugly, how can punk rockers enjoy the beautiful Rhine Valley?”
If you haven’t already you really ought to buy a copy of Black Postcards
3 Responses to “Mp3: Now we’re gonna take a trip out to the universe”
As much as I love Galaxie 500, if they hadn’t broken up there would never have been a Luna, so I will take the break up.
Your site is great, by the way.
By Brian on Aug 18, 2009
Yeah, I read that too, and thought, That’s the most stupid thing I’ve ever read from a person I respect and admire (and like!). In a way he says so himself – apparently being a musician who doesn’t leave backstage area at festivals, where he played (like Ramones… ). I’ve been at Roskilde about 20 times between 1972 and 2001 – and every year I read the list of bands I would really like to… and bands that I could easily avoid. Roskilde is like living in a different world, five days in a city of r’n'r.
Btw., Midnight Oil was magic!
/henrik
By henrik on Aug 18, 2009
My thinking is that festivals are for folk who like the social side of music. I’m not a social person so would MUCH prefer to be in a darkened room where I could pretend I was alone. I’ve been to a number of festivals over the years and I may even have enjoyed some of them but probably not because of the music!
While researching this post I was looking through flickr for Roskilde pictures and I can confidently say that I have no desire to ever go (same goes for Glastonbury whenever I see pictures or video of that). And watching Woodstock on TV at the weekend… shudder!
By Andy on Aug 18, 2009