I have been collecting my thoughts this past week and will be working on a full overview of my Mondegreen experience on the main blog. Took a decent amount of photos too, not quite as many as I would have liked, but I will also include those in my writeup.
Mondegreen Tweezer is also on YouTube now. This part of the show — and the whole second set this night, was just an incredible vibe. I loved every minute of it.
@embram wow that is an excellent little tidbit, thank you! I will update the piece to reflect this information with credit to you. Also, thank you for joining the community to share this information!
I made a bunch of updates to the main blog the past couple of days.
Totally redesigned the homepage and created a custom “Location” taxonomy to organize content by country, state, city, etc. This will allow me to scale Extra Chill to any capacity that I am able.
I also created a way to filter posts by location on the homepage, and location archive pages. This places classic artists among artists from local scenes, adding value to all of the music that is written about on Extra Chill.
Additionally, I stole the idea from Stereogum to have a reading progress indicator at the top of every blog post. So that as you scroll down the page, it shows you how much you have left to read. Just a simple little piece of javascript that adds a ton of value to the site. Hopefully it leads to people staying on the site for longer.
Now that I’ve finished that, it’s time to get back into writing articles. I have a few good ones in the pipeline.
Here is the soundcheck from Wednesday night, which I unfortunately slept through after setting up camp. Thanks to Joel for sending this stuff to me.
Another video from the secret set
And finally, The Bunny Radio Spotify playlist. Bunny Radio crushed it all throughout Mondegreen, capping off the festival with “1999” by Prince and a wonderful array of songs before that on Sunday.
I’m planning to write up a more professional review of Mondegreen in the next week or so, which will include more fleshed out thoughts and things about the event. But for now, I’m reflecting, working, and getting back on track after a crazy week.
One last thing… Oblivion > Down With Disease from Saturday night’s show. After this came Tweezer and the whole thing was amazing. I’m really glad I got to witness that and be part of the experience.
I want to also mention that they added several water fillup stations after that first night of shenanigans. By Friday morning there were three more places to fill up your water bottle in the festival area. Some flooding as a result, but overall this reduced the lines at all the water stations significantly and showed how much this band actually cares about their fans.
Yesterday’s show was moved forward to 1pm due to incoming rain and thunderstorms. Phish ended up playing an extended one set show. I guess they just got screwed by the weather. It was brutally hot outside but the music they did play was great.
I was still riding the wave from the previous night’s dance party and boogied all afternoon long. We got to meet up with some Charleston fam during the set as well which was also great.
After the show we hung around the venue a bit and took it all in one last time. This was a great experience and I love Phish even more now. Saturday night’s show was the most fun I’ve had dancing at a concert in my life.
The campgrounds started to clear out pretty quick after the show ended. It’s now Monday morning and we’re about to clean up and leave. Others will do the same shortly, and we enter back into the reality of our daily lives.
What an epic weekend!
SET 1: Party Time, Axilla -> Maze, Steam, Martian Monster, AC/DC Bag, Sigma Oasis -> Rift, Stash, Ya Mar, Timber (Jerry the Mule), Bathtub Gin > Izabella > Simple > Golden Age
amazing night last night. Show was a giant dance party. The rumors about Phish doing 3 sets last night were false, but still, the show was just awesome.
friday’s show was trippy and out to space, last night was a fun and silly dance party. The campground party and vibe was much less spun and much more happy.
This festival makes me want to drop everything and go follow Phish on tour.
“meatstick” was so much fun in the first set. And “down with disease” & “tweezer” and really the whole second set just incredible. I’ve never danced so much in my life.
today’s show was been moved to 1pm due to the threat of rain. That’s a bummer but I truly have faith that Phish is going to deliver yet another incredible showing this afternoon. In the rain…
I think last night’s show will be one to pull up when you’re looking for a party. I will definitely listen to that one again. Amazing time.
maybe my favorite Phish show that i’ve seen to date? Band is so good, i’ve seen so many good shows, it’s hard to decide which was the best. Long live Phish.
so incredibly glad i came to this festival
SET 1: Mike’s Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Theme From the Bottom > Blaze On, Gotta Jibboo, 46 Days, Evolve, Meatstick > David Bowie
SET 2: Also Sprach Zarathustra > Oblivion, Down with Disease > Tweezer > Scents and Subtle Sounds > Boogie On Reggae Woman, Carini
ENCORE: Backwards Down the Number Line, You Enjoy Myself, Tweezer Reprise
What i’m hearing, not sure if true, is that Phish planned to do that special ambient set tonight but swapped it to last night due to the threat of rain tonight.
Since they already did a three set show last night, I am expecting to see a three set show tonight as well. Let’s see if they end up doing that.
Maybe three sets tonight and something unique tomorrow evening to close out the festival.
Here’s to hoping the rain clears up and the party can continue for two more nights as planned!
Shared some photos i took yesterday while wandering around the venue. I’m planning to take some more, when it stops raining. It’s hard to take photos at night especially because everyone is super spun. I wouldn’t want to harsh anyone’s mellow by pointing a camera in their face lol
