Music Midtown

Today was the first day of Music Midtown, which is basically a three day music festival placed right in the heart of Atlanta’s Midtown area… Barry and I decided to go as there was 6 bands that we would like to see and it seemed worth paying $75 for the priveledge of standing in a car park in the rain for… So off we went, tonight’s menu was the double bill of Interpol and The White Stripes.

We arrived about 30 minutes before Interpol were scheduled to start, and surprisingly the main stage wasn’t as busy as we thought it might have been, so we shuffle our way down, grabbing a few beers along the way and wait… They only played for an hour, but I thought they were really good, I hadn’t heard much beforehand, but I did like what I heard, so I’ll be looking into obtaining a CD or two sometime soon.

Then came Jack and Meg White, it was their first show since the release of their newest CD “Get Behind Me Satan,” they were scheduled for 90 minutes and they gave for every second of it, old songs, new songs, cover songs and a whole lot more inbetween… Including Jack singing “Passive Manipulation,” which is sung by Meg on the CD and was also played by Meg earlier in the set, during one of his guitar tangents… But it’s funny what a distinctive sound the twosome have, and what noise they can make, seriously overpowering at times. Anyways, a great show and a full-on sonic assault, now it only leaves tomorrow (we’re skipping Sunday) starting with Bloc Party, then Keane, then The Killers and finally the moment I’ve been waiting for for so long… The Pixies!

Sweet line up, I think you’ll agree… Though I’ll be too busy dreaming about Kim Deal to notice much else going on…