Firefly Music Festival in Dover, DE

[FrankieG]

Hoping the weather will turn out to be good...

< 90 def F with no rain PLEASE!

[FrankieG]

Last day of work before the festival starts tomorrow!

[eeriepadave]

Passion Pit cancels

Hopefully they get Gaslight Anthem or Sleigh Bells to replace them.

Gaslight would be awesome!
I saw Sleigh Bells open for RHCP and I wasn't impressed...

It's yeasayer i'm happy with that choice

[eeriepadave]

Day 1 included seeing Blind Pilot, Matt Costa, John Legend and Jack White. Wanted to see Sillversun Pickups but passed to get a better view of Jack! Setlist included Dead Leaves and The Dirty Ground, Missing Pieces, Hotel Yorba, Love Interruption , Top Yourself, Freedom at 21, Weep Themselves To Sleep, Catch Hell Blues, We're Going To Be Friends, Steady As She Goes, I Cut Like A Buffalo, Ball & Biscuit, Carolina Drama, Blue Blood Blues, Seven Nation Army and a few others. Wanted to hear Sixteen Saltines and I'm Shakin', but he didn't play them

Ball & Biscuit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32YaY1WEbBU

Missing Pieces http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoJ2zBMlrm4

I Cut Like A Buffalo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPTKVsQ4rXE

Hotel Yorba http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5eNjmJQC_o

Top Yourself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxfBAovPHIA

We're Going To Be Friends http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZtx3n0gXM8

Carolina Drama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2EapoNcznQ

[he.who.forgets]

nice vids!!! Ball & Biscuit is one of my favs too.

[eeriepadave]

Saw Felice Brothers, Policia(there were good), Cults (also good), Grouplove (didn't care for them), Young The Giant (they were ok), CAKE was good, Yeasayer was great as were the Killers. Killers played a few new songs on their upcoming album, as well as the "hits".

new Killers song Here On Out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pniuol33gR8

edit: also got Yeasayer set list

[FrankieG]

This was an awesome weekend!

Dave, I wonder if I talked to you, but didn't know it was you... Were you 2nd row McCready side for The Wallflowers? I was wearing the 10-of-clubs hat.

I saw:
The Wallflowers, Ok Go, Silversun Pickups, Jack White.
Young The Giant, Cake, Modest Mouse, The Killers.
AWOLNATION, Cold War Kids, Death Cab for Cutie, The Flaming Lips.

Enjoyed every single act except The Flaming Lips.
Best was definitely Silversun Pickups. I didn't know their songs but i rocked out the most to them despite not knowing them.
Jack White... Holy crap. He is a rockstar. He shreds almost as well as McCready!
Modest Mouse was the one i was looking forward to the most, but they didn't play my favorite song
I knew alot more Killers songs than I thought I did! I also loved their light show, which I thought most other acts were missing.
AWOLNATION was great, despite not know alot of their music.
Death Cab, another favorite of the weekend, jammed so hard. I want a recording of that one.
Flaming Lips... very hyped.. but it was more of an 'act' than a concert. ballons? Confetti? Dome-thing on a guitar? C'mon...
Sadly, I had to leave before the Black Keyes came on because i had a long drive to be at work this morning... But It was an awesome wekend!

I really enjoyed The Arcade. I spent probably 2 hours in there on Saturday staying cool and just playing pinball/galaga
My only complaints (that werent really that bad) was the need for more free water stations, and how long the walk was to the festival.
Camping was fun, had some nice Pearl Jam fans next to us! (Which I could belive that I could be that lucky )
And I met a Pearl jam fan in the middle of Modest Mouse's set!
I was surprised how many PJ fans there was!

I will be doing this every year as long as it's in Dover from now on

[eeriepadave]

This was an awesome weekend!

Dave, I wonder if I talked to you, but didn't know it was you... Were you 2nd row McCready side for The Wallflowers? I was wearing the 10-of-clubs hat.

I saw:
The Wallflowers, Ok Go, Silversun Pickups, Jack White.
Young The Giant, Cake, Modest Mouse, The Killers.
AWOLNATION, Cold War Kids, Death Cab for Cutie, The Flaming Lips.

Enjoyed every single act except The Flaming Lips.
Best was definitely Silversun Pickups. I didn't know their songs but i rocked out the most to them despite not knowing them.
Jack White... Holy crap. He is a rockstar. He shreds almost as well as McCready!
Modest Mouse was the one i was looking forward to the most, but they didn't play my favorite song
I knew alot more Killers songs than I thought I did! I also loved their light show, which I thought most other acts were missing.
AWOLNATION was great, despite not know alot of their music.
Death Cab, another favorite of the weekend, jammed so hard. I want a recording of that one.
Flaming Lips... very hyped.. but it was more of an 'act' than a concert. ballons? Confetti? Dome-thing on a guitar? C'mon...
Sadly, I had to leave before the Black Keyes came on because i had a long drive to be at work this morning... But It was an awesome wekend!

I really enjoyed The Arcade. I spent probably 2 hours in there on Saturday staying cool and just playing pinball/galaga
My only complaints (that werent really that bad) was the need for more free water stations, and how long the walk was to the festival.
Camping was fun, had some nice Pearl Jam fans next to us! (Which I could belive that I could be that lucky )
And I met a Pearl jam fan in the middle of Modest Mouse's set!
I was surprised how many PJ fans there was!

I will be doing this every year as long as it's in Dover from now on

wasn't me no. Missed The Wallflowers. Also missed Silversun Pickups to get a good view of Jack White. Yeah water stations were kinda sparse and the walk to and from the festival were kinda long. Downside locked my keys in my car the first day also getting out of the parking lot last night took forever which i was kinda expecting. Friday & Saturday I got out no problem and git home in about one hour and 15 minutes. Only saw Cold War Kids, Death Cab and Black Keys last night. Missed Flaming Lips on purpose to get a good spot for the Keys. Had fun waiting 2 hours in between sets, lol. Lot of talking balloon and beach ball hitting. Few pics:
Cold War Kids



Death Cab For Cutie



Black Keys

[FrankieG]

wasn't me no. Missed The Wallflowers. Also missed Silversun Pickups to get a good view of Jack White. Yeah water stations were kinda sparse and the walk to and from the festival were kinda long. Downside locked my keys in my car the first day also getting out of the parking lot last night took forever which i was kinda expecting. Friday & Saturday I got out no problem and git home in about one hour and 15 minutes. Only saw Cold War Kids, Death Cab and Black Keys last night. Missed Flaming Lips on purpose to get a good spot for the Keys. Had fun waiting 2 hours in between sets, lol. Lot of talking balloon and beach ball hitting. Few pics:

I was on the rail for the Wallflowers and someone commented on my PJ hat and how Jack Irons was the current drummer for Wallflowers, so that was cool.

I think Silversun was the best set i saw all weekend. I was pretty close, but i really liked thir set. Sucks that all of the times were so close and that you had to miss part of one set to catch all of the others, but I see the benefits for that.

I was checking for my keys everywhere because I was afraid I was going to lock them or drop them..
Missing Flaming Lips was a good choice. I saw the first 5 songs, was not impressed at all, then left.

I wish i was able to see Black Keys, but there was no way I would have made it to work at 8 am, if I watched them til 11, had to walk to my car, then drive an hour 20 to get to my apartment...

I thought the singer from Cold War Kids sounded alot like Jack White

Nice Pics!

[eeriepadave]

wasn't me no. Missed The Wallflowers. Also missed Silversun Pickups to get a good view of Jack White. Yeah water stations were kinda sparse and the walk to and from the festival were kinda long. Downside locked my keys in my car the first day also getting out of the parking lot last night took forever which i was kinda expecting. Friday & Saturday I got out no problem and git home in about one hour and 15 minutes. Only saw Cold War Kids, Death Cab and Black Keys last night. Missed Flaming Lips on purpose to get a good spot for the Keys. Had fun waiting 2 hours in between sets, lol. Lot of talking balloon and beach ball hitting. Few pics:

I was on the rail for the Wallflowers and someone commented on my PJ hat and how Jack Irons was the current drummer for Wallflowers, so that was cool.

I think Silversun was the best set i saw all weekend. I was pretty close, but i really liked thir set. Sucks that all of the times were so close and that you had to miss part of one set to catch all of the others, but I see the benefits for that.

I was checking for my keys everywhere because I was afraid I was going to lock them or drop them..
Missing Flaming Lips was a good choice. I saw the first 5 songs, was not impressed at all, then left.

I wish i was able to see Black Keys, but there was no way I would have made it to work at 8 am, if I watched them til 11, had to walk to my car, then drive an hour 20 to get to my apartment...

I thought the singer from Cold War Kids sounded alot like Jack White

Nice Pics!

You still should have stayed for the Keys. I got home around 12:30on friday and Sat. night, Sunday was more like 1:30ish though I had off today and I still woke up around 7 Of course took a nap in the afternoon though. I didn't see anyone wearing any PJ stuff this weekend, lot of other bands but no PJ

[eeriepadave]

Well I guess it was a success cause Firefly is returning next year

And they are having a limited quantity of presale tickets for 2013 on sale through FireflyFestival.com on July 25th at Noon EST.

Maybe Pearl Jam will finally play Delaware?

[FrankieG]

You still should have stayed for the Keys. I got home around 12:30on friday and Sat. night, Sunday was more like 1:30ish though I had off today and I still woke up around 7 Of course took a nap in the afternoon though. I didn't see anyone wearing any PJ stuff this weekend, lot of other bands but no PJ

Yeah, i should have stayed... but on well I couldn't take another day off and I would have been a wreck...

I talked to 2 PJ fans and saw 2 from a distance wearing the Black PJ shirt witht he skull guy.

Well I guess it was a success cause Firefly is returning next year

And they are having a limited quantity of presale tickets for 2013 on sale through FireflyFestival.com on July 25th at Noon EST.

Maybe Pearl Jam will finally play Delaware?

AHH shit, this is is an hour. I should totally buy these... but I thoink I need to wait for them to anounce dates next year.

I will definitely be there next year, but i don't want to buy anything now.

[eeriepadave]

line-up announced in 2 weeks.

They have been giving some hints in the meantime. So far it kinda looks like Imagine Dragons, Passion Pit, The National, fun.

[eeriepadave]

Also hearing Kings Of Leon and maybe Pearl Jam

[Dr. Delight]

Pearl jam is a possibility apparently.