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The Coachella Punch: Tiesto, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rufus Wainwright and Cameron Diaz
Last night, Tiesto closed the day on the mainstage. This was the first
time in the history of the festival that a DJ gets this honor. I spent
time with Tiesto in his artist trailer right before his gig. Much more about
that later.
LCD Soundsystem (pictured above) played at the Sahara dance tent on Saturday night. It was odd to see the band play in front of hundreds of kids with glow
sticks. It just didn't fit.
I spotted many celebrities in the VIP area at Coachella including Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Adam Brody, CSI Las Vegas' Gary Dourdan and Tara Reid (who was stumbling and drunk).
Cameron Diaz had no luck when she was trying to find her way out of the VIP section. She walked right into the area where photogs were having dinner. Oops! A few of them tried to snap her picture, which she wasn't very happy about. Instead of continuing her pace, she stopped and tried to reason with them. You'd think she is used to it by now.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis sported a '70s porn stache. It looked good on him. I might have been totally mistaken but it sounded like The Peppers covered Donna Summer's "I Feel Love," which was slightly bizarre.
Rufus Wainwright looked dandy yesterday for his Coachella gig. It was lovely, but I wasn't feeling Wainwright's sophisticated sound in a festival environment. It doesn't do him justice.
Hot band to watch is !!! that is pronounced as chk-chk-chk. After raving about The Arcade Fire and Tokyo Police Club this is what the hipster kids are talking about. (And my new girl pal at EW agrees.)
I had very little sleep but I'm off to go see Mika and The Feeling open the last day of the event on the mainstage. Stay tuned.
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!!! isn't new :(
Posted by: at Apr 29, 2007 6:04:47 PM
I love me some Rufus Wainwright, but I think that nig festival gigs don't do his music any justice at all. Too many idiosyncracies that can get lost in the translation.
I have to go to Coachella one year. Such great musical line-ups!
Posted by: Chris at Apr 30, 2007 10:13:47 PM
Our Glow Stick party on Saturday was a lot of fun. We had a really great crowd, and some people got really creative with the glow sticks. The one through the prince Albert was really almost strange, but at least very creative. We saw glasses and bras made from glow sticks, and just about everything in between. Walking through the halls upstairs with the lights turned down low, the glow sticks gave a really cool effect. Our DJ Dave once again did a great job of keeping the dance floor full, although he had help. Andrea managed to get dancers to the floor when otherwise there might not have been any. When L did her pole dance, her back up dancers were great too. You ladies put together a great routine rather quickly, nicely done. The chicken dance, which has become a TMP Saturday night tradition, completely packed the dance floor. Then Dave got crazy with the dance music and you all went on most of the night. We had a few faces we haven't seen in a while come back for the party, it was
Posted by: Glow Stick at May 6, 2007 3:36:50 AM
Hi,
Glow sticks are typically a plastic cylinder, typically anywhere from 5 to 22 inches in length. The ones that are wearable as glow products are made of a more flexible plastic material and can be bent into many types of shapes and connected together to form various lengths.
Thanks
http://www.glow-sticks.org
Posted by: Glow Sticks at Apr 13, 2009 2:36:30 AM
