Treasure Island Music Festival Live Blog – Day 1
October 17, 2009
Written by The Bay Bridged
8:36:23 AM: (CC) Today we have several staff covering the festival for you – Meghan Logue (ML), Jake Butler (JB), and editors Christian, Ben, and Nicole
8:37:33 AM: (CC) We will also have photos, videos, and more being updated to the site as it happens at the festival – so stay tuned!
10:59:54 AM: ML: so stoked for day one!! Looking forward to girl talk and MSTRKRFT among others!
11:04:03 AM: (JB) listening to some Living Legends getting amped for Murs. Rumor is we might see some guest spots from Grouch, Eli, and the gang
12:24:52 PM: (BVH) Limousines starting the day. “Very Busy People” getting the growing crowd moving.
12:26:41 PM: (CC) Added bonus this year: video screen is back on the main stage.
1:00:04 PM: (CC). Cupcake cars definitely driving through the crowd.
Crowd for Crown City Rockers
1:29:28 PM: (BVH) “Safe drugs, safe sex. Drink lots of water.” Sound advice from Murs. Songs from 3:16 still sound great.
1:51:21 PM: (NB) Dan Deacon is venerating the Bay, donning a Steve Young jersey!! What a stud
1:58:07 PM: (JS) gold sequins and disco balls: whut?! Such a young crowd today, I see now why it sold out.
2:38:17 PM: (CC) Ferris Wheel Confessions have begun.
2:43:13 PM: (ML) Got here just in time for federico aubele! That guitar sounds gorgeous!
2:48:16 PM: (ML) can’t tell if the main stage announcer is affecting a pirate accent or just british but I LIKE IT!
2:48:54 PM: (NB) ferris wheel confessions have started! Come sign up for a free ride and confess your festival secrets to us on video ;)
2:52:03 PM: (JB) the crowd is deep for passion pit! Looks like everyone is looking forward to their set as much as I am
2:53:04 PM: Large crowd for Passion Pit, kicking off with “Make Light” off Manners.
Passion Pit @ TIMF 2009:
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2:55:59 PM: (ML) is there some harvard school of being in an awesome indie pop band that passion pit went to? I want to study there.
3:04:58 PM: (ML) crowd is so amped for PP’s little secrets. Sold out crowd bouncing up and down!
3:10:12 PM: (ML) Treasure Island is where the wild things are! http://pic.gd/404470
3:21:00 PM: (BVH) Robots and dirty carnival games… Video coming soon.
Carney Games at TIMF 2009:
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3:37:21 PM: One dude already crowdsurfing before Dan Deacon’s set. Deacon begins by showing the crowd a dance from the future. Then mayhem ensues.
3:38:39 PM: He also has at least 10 people on stage which he dubbed “The Dan Deacon Ensemble”.
3:37:21 PM: One dude already crowdsurfing before Dan Deacon’s set. Deacon begins by showing the crowd a dance from the future. Then mayhem ensues.
3:38:39 PM: He also has at least 10 people on stage which he dubbed “The Dan Deacon Ensemble”.
3:53:49 PM: (ML) Dan Deacon sponsored dance-off at tunnel stage!
3:57:46 PM: (ML) Dan Deacon is about 80x cooler live.
3:59:41 PM: (JB) The Big Nazo Gwar/Alien/Mutated Diver crew complement Deacon’s quirky sense of fun perfectly. And it’s a dance off at the tunnel stage!
Dan Deacon Set @ Tunnel Stage
4:03:26 PM: (ML) Crazy crowd dance at Dan Deacon. http://pic.gd/5d1c11
4:14:54 PM: (JB) need a break from the music? Check out the Gnogurzauchsoff’s free midway back by the art. Brought to you by SF’s own Scene 2
Aliens in the Midway:
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4:31:40 PM: (JS) Backstage streaking. Man in control top panty hose. Totally awesome.
The Streets @ The Bridge Stage
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4:35:21 PM: (BVH) Mike Skinner and band start strong with “turn the page” and “fit but you know it”.
The Streets @ TIMF
4:40:02 PM: (BVH) MS on the “two sides of the SF coin:” “you look very fashionable, but you also look like you’d look good with your clothes off.”
4:53:14 PM: Get your fortune told at the circus! http://pic.gd/c48fba
5:23:05 PM: (ML) diggin the ‘hotel california’ sample by dj krush.
5:23:10 PM: (JB) Mike and the Streets killed it with their Blinded by the Lights remix, making everyone get low
6:08:50 PM: (ML) Who could arge with lyrics like “we just want to have a good time/tonight!”? Not me!
6:34:05 PM: (ML) Waiting in line for ferris wheel confessions!
7:05:54 PM: (BVH) The sun is now down, and LTJ Bukem has the drum and bass fans bugging out.
7:09:43 PM: (ML) just bared my musical soul to TBBs very own Nicole. LTJ Bukem on the tunnel stage now and it is packed!
7:15:41 PM: (ML) in my three years of attending TI, I have never seen so many people here!
7:37:01 PM: (ML) there is a pirate rave in front of the ferris wheel.
7:48:04 PM: (ML) pirate rave still going strong into MSTRKRFTs set. Which sounds awesome.
7:49:21 PM: (JB) MSTRKRFT has a crowd proabably 2x Justice’s last year and everyone is pumping their fists in the air. F’n beautiful
7:52:24 PM: (ML) and by that I mean that mstrkrft sounds awesome, not the pirate rave. That’s more of a visual delight.
7:53:20 PM: (BVH) MSTRKRFT WTF! So this is how you make nerds dance: unrelenting beats and analog bleeps.
8:04:42 PM: (ML) tunnel stage is already so crowded for girl talk. Eep!
8:06:22 PM: (ML) so crowded that I just felt somebody elses phone vibrate.
8:16:23 PM: (JB) Paying tribute to last year’s headliner, MSTRKRFT is spinning their version of D.A.N.C.E.
8:32:26 PM: (ML) about to get my face melted with girl talks pop mashups!
8:34:54 PM: (ML) ppl singing along to MSTRKRFTs queen sample all the way at the other stage.
8:48:45 PM: Good drugs update: It’s almost 9 and there are still hundreds of dudes with no shirts on. Go on with it, bro.8:51:15 PM: (BVH) Until now, I didn’t realize they had invented a toilet paper firearm.
9:00:49 PM: (BVH) War Pigs and Ludacris: two great tastes that go great together, thanks to Girl Talk.
9:26:40 PM: Girl Talk ends with fireworks. MGMT begin playing their entire album for the set.
9:33:16 PM: (ML) fireworks behind biggie meets elton definitely melted my face.
MGMT @ The Bridge Stage:
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9:45:59 PM: (ML) MGMT shredding the hell out of ‘kids’
I think you guys realllly missed your mark on the blog here. You skipped over DJ Krush and LTJ Bukem and those two guys CREATED the stuff that mstrkrft and girl talk rip off. Show a little respect people! Plus did you see how Krush actually did his set ‘live.’ Girl Talk was basically a dude jumping up and down LITERALLY pressing mute and unmute on his laptop. He uses Audiomulch, check it out.
Joe- Girl Talk absolutely killed it. he’s 10x more entertaining then watching the MSTRKFT duo headbang for 45 minutes, not looking at the crowd. Where’s the showmanship? Plus with GT you get to watch drunk girls dance around on stage thinking they are the ish. Nuff said.
I love this blog. I’ve been going to treasure island for the last 3 years since I was 14 and it’s absolutely beautiful. You guys capture the greatness in your blog and I love it, especially the videos. It’s fun, funny and captures the spirit well. more more more!
Girl Talk was the show of the night…. scratch that, the weekend. Greg Gillis kills it up there. You try mixing up 100 different bits of 100 different songs together to make one then rock a crowd like he did. LTJ was good for the first five minutes and then you realize that he is playing the same hardcore british base and having his hype man say “you want one more” only to have him hit you with the same beat and bullshit lyrics. After Girl Talk I could not even get hyped up for MGMT (a band I like) because nothing could match the energy seen in the crowd onstage, or felt in the crowd that Girl Talk produced. Either way a good weekend. Money well spent.
I went to the Treasure Island Music festival on the first day. My friend and I got there at the beginning of the day and went straight to the front of the bridge stage. We stayed there all day just so we could be in front during MGMT. We saw The Limousines, Murs, Passion Pit, The Streets, Brazilian Girls, MSTRKRFT, and MGMT.
We actually went there not knowing any of the bands, except MGMT, but now we listen to all of the bands we saw. The whole day was so much fun. Murs sang to me, and my friend got pulled up on stage to dance with The Brazilian Girls.
I wish we had gone on the feris wheel but we spent our money on $15 Treasure Island Canteens that we ended up loosing by the end of the night. Saturday, September 17, 2009 was the BEST DAY OF MY LIFE. I am definitely going to go again next year (:
What a happy day!