Siren Festival 2009 In Photos
Natasha Ryan
The Voice's annual indie rock fest gave audiophiles the second good reason to visit Coney Island last week, bringing out everyone from Spank Rock to Future Of The Left to Built To Spill on a sunny Saturday afternoon. We sent Natasha Ryan to eat all the hot dogs and take all the pictures, sadly missing the only NYC appearances from Japandroids and Micachu & The Shapes for at least a few months. Monotonix delivered a typically hairy and photogenic set, and Spank Rock delivered a (these days) typically brief one, reportedly doing like three songs before crashing over the stage barrier and laying still for 20 minutes as Ninjasonik and Amanda Blank picked up the slack. I wasn't there, but I did start reading tweets about a supposed guerrilla Spank Rock show at 12AM on the Williamsburg Bridge. So I walked there, and sure enough Naeem was hanging from metal rapping into megaphones and boomboxes while about 200 people drank, smoked, and danced in highly illegal fashion. Spank did four songs, I guess equaling his Siren output, before the thing just became a DJ party. No arrests (by the time I left at 1:30AM, at least). Some terribly shady pics of that madness here, here, and here, and some much better photos of the day at Siren in this photo gallery.
Posted at 1:21 PM by amrit in Concert, Photo
Tags: Amanda Blank | Built To Spill | Frightened Rabbit | Future Of The Left | Grand Duchy | Japandroids | Micachu And The Shapes | Monotonix | Siren Festival | Spank Rock | The Raveonettes | Tiny Masters Of Today
You guys really need a slideshow system that doesn't require the reload of my browser.
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Ain't that the truth! One of my personal pet peeves.
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i will second that!
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Totally agree with you!
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Built to Spills Maxwell's show photos, http://thenjunderground.com/blog/2009/7/20/built-to-spill-maxwells-71909.html
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photos 2 and 5 repeat, other than that looks great
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this is some pretty terrible 'reporting'
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no photos of Thee Oh Sees?
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sick photos! monotonix just as sweaty and hairy as ever!
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Ummm. Most of these picture make me feel pretty ok with not going.
By the way, who is this Amanda Blank and why is it acceptable for me to see her crotch?!
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That's too bad, because you missed some really good sets. But at least you got to comment on a blog to boast your elitism?
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Look..where the hell are the cute boys in indie rock???? What is up with all these gross dudes? If the girls looked that bad all you hipsters would be freaking. Where are all teh Stephen Malkmus and Johnny Temples of the world???
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Look..where the hell are the cute boys in indie rock???? What is up with all these gross dudes? If the girls looked that bad all you hipsters would be freaking. Where are all teh Stephen Malkmus and Johnny Temples of the world???
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Sarah, i would like to introduce you to Kelson Mathias of FOTL. Swoon... Is it just me or is he a sexy muppet?
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