BFD 2007
BFD 2007 was remarkably better than BFD 2006. The bands I wanted to see were all packed in together, and most importantly, the ones I wanted to see were by and large really good. Sum 41 and The Bravery were both disappointments. The Bravery had severe tech troubles, but I was a little sad to see Sum 41 is still trying to run with the "everybody stick your hands up and say fuck!" routine, pioneered by Blink-182 about 8 years ago. It was just really lame, but apparently a big hit with the 12 year olds.
Audrye Sessions and Silversun Pickups were the first stand-out sets of the day. I've never heard Audrye, but they were great. Silversun Pickups didn't let me down either -- awesome stage presence and they really rocked out. I also liked that the entire band was more or less smiling the entire time -- they wanted to be there and it showed. Both bands picked up a few extra points for having cute bassists. If this is a new trend in rock, I'm all for it.
Audrye Sessions

Silversun PickupsThen, the suck. For some reason, Social Distortion was there as well. I have no idea what makes these guys punk or modern rock, but they showed up to "entertain" us with their beer hall crap. They apparently liked the gig so much that they remained on stage about 15 minutes longer than their set allowed. This, or course, meant Bloc Party, the headliners, had to cut their set short. The lead singer even said "we'd like to stay longer. I guess you can blame Social Distortion for that." Oh, I do. They sucked pretty hard. To quote Bart Simpson, they were the suckiest bunch of sucks that every sucked.

(posted by grant at 6/11/2007)
