Photo by Julia Trabulsi.
Now this feels more like a festival. We’re greeted at Forecastle for Day 2 by many of the things you’d usually expect: lines, high heat, and giant masses of sweaty humanity.
Our coverage today got off to a late start, written off to a World Cup detour and an incident at a local BP where, ironically enough, we noticed while refilling our tank that the gas hose was leaking. Those guys are on a roll.
DEVO at Forecastle 2010. Photo by Julia Trabulsi.
Having gotten our fill of gas and global pop culture, we arrived at Forecastle in time to catch the better half of Cake’s set on West Stage (read: Main Stage) and were lucky enough to catch those old guys from DEVO rock out on stage without breaking a hip – or at least, to listen in as we lazed about in the festival grounds-bound jungle gym.
Foxy Shazam at Forecastle 2010. Photo by Julia Trabulsi.
We managed to get our inner-children off the jungle gym in order to see Foxy Shazam on the East stage, and boy are we glad we did! More than just a rock and roll show, Foxy Shazam’s set was more like a performance art piece commandeered by Freddie Mercury-esque front man Eric Sean Nally. Not only was there lively choreography, but by the last song Nally was chanting, “There comes a time in a man’s life when he needs to change,” informing the crowd that for him, that time was now.
Photo by Julia Trabulsi.
Photo by Julia Trabulsi.
Nally proceeded to climb the stage scaffolding and hang upside down before dropping 30-feet down to the stage. ”There comes a time in a man’s life,” Nally repeated, “when he needs to jump in the river.” Guess where he ended up next…
Eric Sean Nally of Foxy Shazam in the Ohio River. Photo by Julia Trabulsi.
Cloud Cult was up next, an experimental indie rock band from Minneapolis who played alongside an artist creating a live painting to their music, which was to be auctioned off at the show’s end. Check it out!
Live painting during Cloud Cult. Photo by Julia Trabulsi.
Now, this day was going pretty well, but really, nothing could compare to the final set of the night: The Smashing Pumpkins.
Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins at Forecastle 2010. Photo by Julia Trabulsi.
Via Julie:
Sure, sure—there is only one original member left. I still enjoyed every second of it. The light show? Extraordinary. The music? Prodigious. Billy Corgan? Superhuman. What’s more to say?? I just watched my childhood god rock out about five feet away from my face while playing “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” (to which I learned to head-bang at age 7. Fun fact!) In sum: The only thing that could top seeing Smashing Pumpkins live is if Kurt Cobain came back from the dead, reunited with Nirvana, and played a private show in my living room. Since that’s never going to happen, my life is pretty much complete after tonight.
Well said.
Is it just me or does Billy look kinda like the older of the creepy brothers in Always Sunny?
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Check out Foxy Shazam’s stripped down set at Vintage Vinyl tomorrow afternoon, 7/13 at 3:30pm.