LIVE REVIEW: Camp A Low Hum, Weekend One. Hot and Not.

rejoice kiddies! Camp A Low Hum! the big cheese! the independent music festival you actually wanted to go to! did you go? i went! i drank beers! i saw bands! i punctuate my sentences! i don't care enough to type out a full review like i did for welcome to nowhere, and i was definitely in a pleasure, not business (despite the fact i was playing there, which went very well, thank you for asking.) plus, i was only able to attend weekend one of two. so here's a hot and not list, like the ones in those awful women's magazines. what do you want from me? scram. enjoy this while i work on writing features you'd actually want to read.

 

HOT

360° stages

Macho Macho

showers at music festivals 

kitchens at music festivals 

cell reception at music festivals 

spending 15 minutes driving in circles around something referred to by the directions as The Square.

Peroni.

watching So So Modern and then seeing a photo of yourself in the crowd when the guitarist from So So Modern introduces himself at your university. 

chicken katsu burgers


NOT

Lagoons with seaweed

Lagoons with mud

midwestern emo 

metal water bottles in the pit

hurting yourself jumping off of bass drums

sunburn

modular synthesiser music.

AMBIENT modular synthesiser music.

having to pay 17$ for the aforementioned chicken katsu burger.

 

catch you on the flipside children. something better tomorrow or my name isn't face-ache.

 - O. 

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