PRF BBQ Chicago, 28 June - 1 July. 40 acts, two venues. Quenchers and Helium.
 

Pleased to be playing at this event. A lot of info to cut and paste, so I will just link the schedule and FacePageSpaceEvent sites, but I look forward to playing this. Always love going to Chicago to play.


http://www.prfbbq.com/prfbbq2012-tickets-2658


http://www.facebook.com/events/361002203919582/

w00t!

This was the hottest weekend ever. No AC in the van or the venue, and still worth it. Huge (sold out) crowd, big success as a benefit show, TAR were fucking great, we were received better than I could ever have hoped for and I got to shake hands with Albini. Not a bad way to spend a weekend in the least. Thanks to the people who worked so hard to put this on.

The whole thing was simulcast, but I haven't watched more than a few of the archived performances. Our set was more of a "rock/capsule" presentation of the band because the festival setting didn't really provide for long space excursions with electric sitar and five-part suites, but it was a fun "rock show" to play. The vocals in our set were way higher in the mix than I like (and for my part, not as on-key as I might like) and our keyboard player is mostly obscured by a speaker (stage was too small for all our stuff and he had to set up on the side), but I can link a few things below:

Thunderbolt Pagoda (set actually begins at about 2:00):

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/23681074

TAR (really great set):

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/23684127


Miscreant Seeds:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/23715020

The video and lighting are nothing to write home about, but as a candid snapshot these are at least as good as a polaroid.