One of the heritage acts at this year’s festival, the Violent Femmes pulled a huge crowd reaching far back to the stage thousands of feet across from them. A solid portion of the crowd was comprised of people who looked a little too wasted to be outside in 95∞ heat, but they went nuts for the show anyways. Since I was on a tight schedule to make it across the park for Death Cab I only stayed to hear them play ‘Country Death Song’ and ‘Blister In The Sun.’ It was one of the most unnerving moments of my life being in a crowd of thousands of people singing along to a song about a man losing his mind, shoving his young daughter into a bottomless pit, and then hanging himself. Whoa. When they sang ‘Blister’ people kept singing, but the tone changed and it was more about drunken bliss than insane murder/suicide.
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