SF Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival

[Drunk Monk]

It’s all about pink cowboy hats today (a Chapell Roan thang for you olds who don’t know). 

Caught a bit of Cimafunk who were good for a Sunday morn. Big band funk. Saw some wicked breakdancing, not Olympic, but live in person. Now watching Ogi - a beautiful vocalist.

It’s still cold. Very cold.

[Drunk Monk]

Katie Pruit - started kinda Fleetwood Mac inspired but degraded to country

Paul Cauthen - also kinda country

Today is getting more and more country and I disapprove. 

Sun is trying to break out. It’s still cold.

[Drunk Monk]

Chappel Roan had the crowd. A sea of pink, all singing along and dancing. She should’ve headlined but OSL probably didn’t realize she’d blow up like she has when they were booking this.

Post Malone’s country set sucked.

[Drunk Monk]

Home

Head is ringing from way too much edm.

Gotta get some sleep before waking to the default world…

[Drunk Monk]

We ended with some IPRs: 
A woman rolling on Molly which Tara handled solo in main med. She was delighted to show her skills because she mostly coattails on me or at least it seems so (really she keeps me on track as I'm easily distracted nowadays). The IPR's friend was with her but he didn't feel confident dealing with her, and I don't blame him.
A trans woman (m2f) on shrooms - a performer at the Fake & Gay stage - she was a big gal. Two friends helped a lot.
Both patients came in at the very end so we had no alternative to roll. 

We did one final lap just prior:
Sturgill Simpson was ok, not remarkable. Roan totally stole his thunder (and I already said Post sucked)
Kaytrananda was booming EDM - a good closer to Twin Peaks
Seth Troxler was also EDM on the trippier side - good visuals - also a good closer for SOMA
Only got to hear a few notes of Slowdive when we were called for the IPRs. We were just starting to get into it but were called away.

Another fine OSL although brutally cold. It was so foggy that the condensation felt like rain. Tara and I had a lot of fun, ate well, and heard a lot of good music. We did just enough work to earn our keep. 

Note for next year - bring long johns.

[Drunk Monk]

A 76-year-old Grace Jones made the greatest stage entrance in Outside Lands history

Grace Jones entered atop a 40-foot gown and hula-hooped through an entire song, in a mesmerizing performance. | Source: Morgan Ellis/The Standard
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By Astrid KanePublished Aug. 11, 2024 • 11:59am

The hordes of girlies eager to claim their spot for their hero Sabrina Carpenter were already positioning themselves to pounce when the matriarchal deity Grace Jones made her entrance to “Nightclubbing” on the Lands End stage early Saturday evening — atop a flowing, 40-foot ball gown that looked vaguely like a 1980s Keith Haring painting.

Grace Jones began her set with this enormous, Keith Haring-print dress, and proceeded through a number of costume changes until she was wearing comparatively little. | Source: Morgan Ellis/The Standard

It was the most technically impressive and fabulous entrance in the history of Outside Lands. And it was only the beginning for the 76-year-old Jones, whose feline stage presence remained intact through one costume change after another. Case in point: She hula-hooped through the entirety of “Slave to the Rhythm” (as she is known to do).

Nothing and no one can outmatch high-femme yet androgynous Jamaican performer, who climbed atop a muscled stud for an extended detour through the audience while wearing a silver sequined bowler hat. Given to vanishing into the darkness between songs only to emerge wearing yet another massive headpiece Jones held the audience’s attention with the occasional pronouncement, like “I’m going to take you to church!”

As her set progressed, Jones wore less and less — swapping out headpieces between virtually every song. | Source: Morgan Ellis/The Standard

She wasn’t a headliner, fine, but she exudes big headliner energy in all that does. And when her slightly truncated set wrapped up a little before 8 p.m. — she started a little late, and in retrospect, who could blame her? — a more youthful cohort of festival-goers practically overran the Polo Field to get the best spot they could for Sabrina Carpenter, a diva of an entirely different sort. 

Ben Gibbard of The Postal Service has expressed his surprise that the band's sole album, 2003's "Give Up" is still such a cultural touchstone. | Source: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Standard

The Postal Service, as surprised as anyone to be riding the high of “Give Up” some two decades after it was recorded as a one-off side project led by Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard, didn’t have the luxury of running through the entire album as they’ve done elsewhere on this year’s 20th anniversary tour. 

There were nips and tucks — the extended handclaps at the end of “Clark Gable” were absent from this set, for instance — but the energy was there. A peak-2000s indie rock album about love and loss, “Give Up” is shot through with ambiguous references to nuclear war and some kind of airborne disaster, and if the whole thing is fundamentally Gibbard’s baby then Jenny Lewis is the visual focal point, ever self-assured 

While Sabrina Carpenter played way across the festival, nostalgia attracted people to The Postal Service's set, as excited to hear "Give Up" as for a chance to chill. | Source: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Standard

The Postal Service may be the only band with only a single album to its credit that can still give off the feeling of playing its greatest hits.

Drag queen Nicki Jizz dances with other performers as part of Reparations, an all-Black drag show at the Dolores' stage. | Source: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Standard

Dolores’ is the LGTBQ-programmed stage that’s only in its second year, and it inherited the occasionally manic energy of the almost-forgotten food-and-music GastroMagic stage that Outside Lands used to have. 

Although the all-Black drag show Reparations remains as popular at the festival as it is at its home at Oasis, the highlight of the afternoon was Princess. During the afternoon, just when it felt like the sun might never come out, it suddenly did — on a go-go boys and dancers in blow-up unicorn costumes, all jamming out to ABBA. 

Of course, dancers accept tips. | Source: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Standard
Just when it seemed as though the fog would never burn off, the sun burst out — and it stayed out. | Source: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Standard
Sabrina Carpenter performs her headlining set. | Source: Morgan Ellis/The Standard
Superfan Brianna Cardona wears a decidedly biblical Sabrina Carpenter shirt while waiting for her set to start. | Source: Morgan Ellis/The Standard

Didn't mention that Carpenter got too close to her pyro, shrieked and ran away at the end

[Drunk Monk]

Chappel Roan had the crowd. A sea of pink, all singing along and dancing. She should’ve headlined but OSL probably didn’t realize she’d blow up like she has when they were booking this.

Heard this on the radio and had to smile. When she lit into this tune, the entire field was doing the dance, singing along, a great pink wave moving as one to the rhythm. It was contagious joy seldom seen in all its queer sf glory on such a massive scale. One of the highest points of the weekend.

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K Flay = still fun, still got it despite going mono

She started out sounding a tad flat but then it shifted into that odd baby voice she sings with and worked. She was incredibly dynamic, bouncing from low squats to kicks over her head. Only her, mostly singing/rapping but sometimes playing guitar, a guitarist and a drummer. Quite a sound for such a lean band. Being a local gal, getting her start here, she gave lots of props to OSL. 

She played my current fav song of hers, my anthem for this summer. 

[Drunk Monk]

Just cut my wristband. The funny thing is that OSL wristbands are chipped and they can chart traffic that way. But we never scanned in or out. The way they had us enter and exit avoided the scanners completely. We'll be recorded as 'no shows' but then all of RM will be such. 

It was an awkward recalibration of the venue that make it permeable just past RM. We saw a few fence jumpers, who were prepared with heavy gloves that they tossed as soon as they cleared the cyclone (catching them is NOT our job). 

Roan & Carpenter are still echoing in my ears.

[Drunk Monk]

Chappel Roan had the crowd. A sea of pink, all singing along and dancing. She should’ve headlined but OSL probably didn’t realize she’d blow up like she has when they were booking this.

[Drunk Monk]

[Greg]

Sword dancers!

[Drunk Monk]

Massive concert announced for SF's Golden Gate Park
By Timothy Karoff,Culture ReporterDec 4, 2024
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FILE: Zach Bryan performs during the Quittin Time tour at Nissan Stadium on June 29, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn.
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If Outside Lands is the San Francisco equivalent of Coachella, the city just got its Stagecoach. On Wednesday, Outside Lands promoter Another Planet Entertainment announced a seven-hour concert in Golden Gate Park, featuring Zach Bryan and Kings of Leon. The concert is scheduled to run 3-10 p.m. on Aug. 15, one week after Outside Lands. More acts are expected to be announced soon.
It’s the second installment of the Golden Gate Park Concerts series, an Outside Lands offshoot scheduled for the weekend after the festival. At last year’s inaugural concert, System of a Down and Deftones drew 50,000 fans to Golden Gate Park’s Polo Fields for a sold-out show.
Zach Bryan, who is slated to headline Stagecoach — which is billed as California’s Country Music Festival — in April, won a Grammy for his duet “I Remember Everything” with Kacey Musgraves in 2024. The country singer got his start by uploading his music to YouTube, eventually going viral for his earnest, acoustic guitar-driven tracks and scoring the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100. This week, he made the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
Kings of Leon, a literal band of brothers, enjoyed widespread commercial success in the aughts for the pop rock singles “Sex on Fire” and “Use Somebody.”
Tickets go on sale Friday at GoldenGateParkConcerts.com. General admission tickets start at $199.70.

Might as well squeeze another in before they strike the main stage...

[King Bob]

Spellcheck strikes again

[Drunk Monk]

And now for every D00Mers fav game - how many performers do you recognize? 



Again, this line-up doesn't do a lot for me. But I said that last year, and it turned out to be a really good one.

[Greg]

I really like Hozier's latest work.