Day two at Bonnaroo was all about backstage.  I didn’t want to leave it too much.  It’s not everyday you get this sort of access so I wanted to chill back there, see what the deal was, and see who came around. We got to the festival around noon and then head over to the press area.  There was a press conference scheduled for 1pm.  Just before it Robert Kennedy, Jr. came up and introduced himself to me.  It was sorta like, whoa.


I went in to watch the press panel as Margaret was on it along side Brent Denner, Robyn Hitchcock, Robert Kennedy Jr, Jimmy Buffet, and Jimmy Buffet’s Caribbean singer guy.  It was pretty interesting. Brent made a comment about wanting to make babies at Bonnaroo and Robyn came back with this (after the fold):


We walked around, did our thing, and then went to the “Artist Only” area where there’s free food and drinks.  If you ever wanted to know what was on an “Artist Only” buffet then here’s your chance.


Then, we got escorted through the crowd to the SPIN Magazine music tent.


We went through the day doing our thing and eventually saw some bands.  We went over to see Of Montreal and there were really great.  At the end of their show, they destroyed all of their equipment and threw it out into the audience.  Talk about an easy clean up.


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We just hung out and walked around after this.  I met a few people and got them to sign postcards…  Drew Barrymore, her boyfriend Justin (who is the “Mac guy” in the Mac vs. PC ads), Justin from Bon Iver, Colin from The Decemberists, a few more comedians, and etc, etc.  I did stop by to see Bruce Springsteen but only stayed there a minute.  

I headed over to Nine Inch Nails and they were excellent.  They were being SUPER strict with pass access (apparently the NIN people had their own brand of VIP passes) so there really wasn’t anywhere to watch things.  I ended up climbing onto a scaffolding and watching a bit from there.  I was told to get down.  Then I got back up.  Then I got kicked out.


No worries though.  I went over to MGMT and became a part of the clusterfuck that it was.  They were good… not great, which was surprising.  I then left and went over to the Silent Disco.

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The Silent Disco is a tent where there’s a hardcore DJ but everyone wears headphones.  So you walk in and you can’t actually hear anything… anything besides people clapping and singing along to a song, somewhere.  It was so incredible!  Check these out:


Here is some dude totally breaking it down.  He is FEELIN’ it.


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I totally want to do this at 1113 one day.  I gotta make it happen.

After that, I caught the shuttle back and went to bed.  I was beat.  (And too tired to write a summary so here you get it Sunday morning!)