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Posted by limin_li on Aug-11-2008 04:14:

Virgin Mobile Festival August 9th, 10th review + pics

Awesome!!! I will give a full review and pictures sometimes tomorrow night. Before I go to sleep tonight, I just want to say hi to couple people including rizo, sfranky, dcgirly, StarSoprano426, hitokiri and polly, jojo, bedrock_science, big_mike, and everyone else that I missed. I just had the best week ever. Feel free to post your own review.

Limin


Posted by StarSoprano426 on Aug-11-2008 05:31:

What happens at Hotel Limin... stays at Hotel Limin.


But I just need to say the host has a big suitcase.


Posted by gmoney44 on Aug-11-2008 06:43:

quote:
Originally posted by StarSoprano426
What happens at Hotel Limin... stays at Hotel Limin.


But I just need to say the host has a big suitcase.


un-needed and unwanted information ha..jesus


Posted by StarSoprano426 on Aug-11-2008 11:45:

quote:
Originally posted by gmoney44
un-needed and unwanted information ha..jesus


Hahaha. After we got home from the festival last night all my cohorts in crime, aka the group of tas staying in Limin's basement, super duper triple dog dared me to write that. Unfortunately there actually was no orgy, just a lot of edm and classic video game playing.

The festival was amazing, loads of fun! I have a million pictures from the 2 days, which everyone knows me, I'll get around to uploading in like a week


Posted by euphoria on Aug-11-2008 13:22:

Limin...this is false advertising The thread title says "+ pics" but I have yet to see any


Posted by cl005k on Aug-11-2008 13:40:

Sunday was a lot of fun!! Good seeing a bunch of TAs out! Deadmau5 was aite...Richie was good, Moby was really good, and Armin was pretty good too. Props to all of those from out of town who came to the festival.


Posted by Drew1127 on Aug-11-2008 14:09:

quote:
Originally posted by euphoria
Limin...this is false advertising The thread title says "+ pics" but I have yet to see any


I agree with Z....



PIX or STFU


Posted by limin_li on Aug-11-2008 17:11:

Okay Okay here are the pics!!!















pics+review will be up tonight. :-P


Posted by rizo on Aug-11-2008 19:21:

doing a half day at work today but i have a quick review on the west coast forum

quote:
Originally posted by rizo
    day 1
  • steve lawler had such a sick set and the crowd was so grimmy lol omg good times! favorite set so far
  • soulwax was second favorite. really surprising and great live set, even got myself a drum stick from the drummer reminds me of digitalism
  • underworld was good but i think setting up after a dj set affected their show, sound was muffle and i didnt have to use my ear plugs for the first time! their performance wasnt as good as the warfield but they did play more tracks this time around
  • ferry played a lot of classics but i wasnt up front and chilled around the tent to take a break esp after lawler madness
  • bloc party was neat but really not my thing i guess and i wanted to get back to the dance tent in tipme for Lawler
  • gogol bordello was really interesting and fun to watch/listen. thanks rafal
  • glaude and dan were meh, same tracks as usual but at least they have an energetic attitude and into their set
  • the offspring, fuck em theyre from san jose no need to watch em
  • foo fighters, missed them cause we were all at underworld
went to club Ibiza for Glow with a few NY/DC TAs and caught Breakfast (he opened and closed -- both were really good and it was a joy seeing him mix. really energetic guy too), some DJ i forgot the name of and a special surprise short guest set by Corsten! Club itself is nice, reminds me of a larger 1015 with a Ruby Skye crowd. DJ booth is nice but its so high up its retarded. stayed until the end and then had breakfast with Breakfast at Dennys

so all this w/o almost 48 hours of sleep and only 2 shots of patron (they were free) and im not hurting yet... just having so much fun with NY/DC TAs and the festival itself


quote:
Originally posted by rizo
after having a sleep deprived cracked out night/morning (luckily i got to shower!!!) day 2 was all about Richie Hawtin (so much for that shower as i got sweaty and dirty right away again), Stone Temple Pilots and Nine Inch Nails!!! Oh fuck NIN was so bad ass incl the visuals/production! Wish I wasn't so tired to fully enjoy it. Deadmau5 did play differently from the previous 2 times ive seen him, a lot of miminal stuff maybe because he was before Hawtin? Moby started off banging but I left as I didn't plan on missing STP. Later found out he just played top 40 stuff after his first 2-3 tracks Same goes with Armin... at least according to Frank


Posted by DCgirly on Aug-11-2008 21:07:

My mnml review:

DJ Dan & Donald Glaude - meh....i prefer Glaude on his own. was really rock sounding and weird. they played those shitty ass songs, Fuck More, and What the Fuck. FAIL

Soulwax - WIN

Steve Lawler - Was the best set of the entire weekend by a mile. WIN

I missed the rest of day 1

Deadmau5 - FAIL

Hawtin - Stared out realllyy boring... things started to get good after about 30 min or so... - WIN

I skipped Moby to see Stone Temple Pilots who were amazing - WIN

NIN - Stayed to hear Closer... was awesome. WIN

Armin - meh. he played really hard, even threw in some hard techno. i was bored. Left early to beat the traffic. FAIL


Posted by limin_li on Aug-11-2008 22:51:

Alright no more tease.

Here is my official review. But before I go on, I just want to say you guys are the best TA ever. This show could've been ever boring without you guys there.

The Review

Jay , Polly and I woke up @ approx 10:30 AM Saturday morning, all beat up but excited. After we ate lunch, we were really pumped for the show.



Except me in this picture. Hehhe

Well, we arrive at the gates wondering where to pick up the tickets. Took us about 20 minutes or so, not too bad.

We came to the Dance Tent around 1pm. This unknown DJ was playing a decent electro set. Pretty impressive.

As I was getting use to the place, I met up with bunch of locals including Zoltar "The Brother From Another Planet" and then DCgirly and her sister.





DJ Dan and Donald Glaud came on to the stage, rock the place. Apparently, not only Donald is a DJ, he is a male cheerleader too hehe.



DJ Dan and Donald played Novy Vs Eniac-Pumpin, Fatboy Slim-*69 and lots of Daft Punk remixes including Around The World. Great set all around.

And den guess who showed up?



Yeah the SFTA's w00t!!

Then I went off to see The offsprings for something different. I got to say, I am not big offspring fan. I was hopping to hear "Why don't you get a job", so I didn't stay up for that.



I went back to the tent as usual, and there he was



Even more interesting person came in to the tent.



Yeah, that was a guy with a tooth brush. No kidding.





Jay was getting some...


Soulwax came on to the stage. What it appears to be a rock band with vocalist and a drummer, but they played EDM which was cool



I wanted to know if SFTA wanted to meet the local DCTA. Rizo was like sure.



Steve Lawler did play a decent minimal set from my opinion. But we were all waiting for Ferry to come on.



Ferry started pretty strong with some electro sounds and then went to the his classic routes with Binary Finary-1999 (Gouryella Remix) and he finished with PUNK!!! Freaking awesome. Never mind the body surfing and the mushpit a dance tent. It was a great show. I was pretty warn out, and then bam!!




StarSoprano!!!!


We had to grab a couple of drinks I had a cup of Mojito and she had a vodka/cranberry juice drink. Good times, I was getting pretty buzzed after the budlight.



Underworld was pretty cool, but we were figuring out where to go from there on. One of my friend wanted to just chill at his apartment, but the majority TA wanted to go see Breakfast @ Ibiza.

Apparently, I give out bad direction lol.

Franky, Gilbert, Erica, and I headed down first, only to find the cover charge was 25 bux!!!! Rip off!! Here are some photos from Ibiza
and the after after party.

















Yeah, Gilbert and Franky didn't sleep for the that 48 hours.



Franky still got it going on LoL!!


That's it for day one!!! Up next, Day 2. Stay Tuned.


Posted by yankeeBaby on Aug-11-2008 22:53:

quote:
Originally posted by DCgirly
My mnml review:

DJ Dan & Donald Glaude - meh....i prefer Glaude on his own. was really rock sounding and weird. they played those shitty ass songs, Fuck More, and What the Fuck. FAIL

Soulwax - WIN

Steve Lawler - Was the best set of the entire weekend by a mile. WIN

I missed the rest of day 1

Deadmau5 - FAIL

Hawtin - Stared out realllyy boring... things started to get good after about 30 min or so... - WIN

I skipped Moby to see Stone Temple Pilots who were amazing - WIN

NIN - Stayed to hear Closer... was awesome. WIN

Armin - meh. he played really hard, even threw in some hard techno. i was bored. Left early to beat the traffic. FAIL



lol I love this review.


Posted by glittergirl on Aug-12-2008 00:27:

Re: Virgin Mobile Festival August 9th, 10th review + pics

quote:
Originally posted by limin_li
Awesome!!! I will give a full review and pictures sometimes tomorrow night. Before I go to sleep tonight, I just want to say hi to couple people including rizo, sfranky, dcgirly, StarSoprano426, hitokiri and polly, jojo, bedrock_science, big_mike, and everyone else that I missed. I just had the best week ever. Feel free to post your own review.

Limin


it was still no excuse for you not to come out to glow.


Posted by phoenixBEBE on Aug-12-2008 00:45:

Re: Re: Virgin Mobile Festival August 9th, 10th review + pics

quote:
Originally posted by glittergirl
it was still no excuse for you not to come out to glow.


AMYYYYYY

da GLOWgirl is BAAACK

babe come to the Pier next Sat with the rest of the DC krew plssss i havent seen u in FOREVER!!!!


Posted by limin_li on Aug-12-2008 00:48:

Re: Re: Virgin Mobile Festival August 9th, 10th review + pics

quote:
Originally posted by glittergirl
it was still no excuse for you not to come out to glow.



Amy, I was there @ Ibiza... Did you forgot ?


Posted by glittergirl on Aug-12-2008 01:03:

Re: Re: Re: Virgin Mobile Festival August 9th, 10th review + pics

quote:
Originally posted by limin_li
Amy, I was there @ Ibiza... Did you forgot ?

see, this is EXACTLY why i'm not drinking anymore

lyssa.... i promise to get to ny soon!! xo


Posted by limin_li on Aug-12-2008 01:21:

Day 2 Review "Where the fuck is the Double Tree Hotel"???

We came home from Breakfast, the food, not the DJ, around 6:30AM.

Rizo, Erica, Franky, Jay, Polly, and I were all sitting down on the floor by 2pm playing Street Fighter II ST. Well mostly Jay and I. I still pwn him, no questions ask :-P




We got to the race course around 2:50pm, only to find out that deadmau5 was playing "Reward is cheese" Mr. Joel Zimmerman did play a mashup of workidz-washmachine with some other accepella. It was pretty cool.



Of course Joel has to put his helmet (summer edition) on for the show.





Meanwhile, I step out of tent again to catch up with a friend of mine from UMBC. She was doing some sort of neat things with gravity.



Richie Hawtin was okay. Remember I am not a big fan of minimal.



I gotta say Moby did an awesome set, track selection wise. DJing side, he was meh, because I kept on hearing little trainwecks in every transitions. Moby 3rd track was Basement Jaxx-Where is your head at, and he accidentally press the cue button on the CDJ. WOW, DJ Armando, the guy from XM BPM channel was like Moby did make it back by playing R.I.O-De Janeiro (SH Project Remix) and lots of electro stuff. I was quite please with his set. He didn't waste any time at all, the music just kept on building and building.











The most crappy part according to my co-worker is that, NIN, Kanye West, and Armin van Buuren were all playing at the same time.

He and I went out for little bit for food. We went to see NIN, they played "Closer" which made me really happy!!

We went to the south stage for Kanye West, but the boy isn't coming on, and "I said fuck it, I am going to see Armin"







Balding!!



Overall, Armin's set was okay. I walked in when he started to play "Going Wrong" (Sean Tyas Remix) Armin encore was U2-Beautiful Day (Mat Zo Remix) beautiful finish.

Overall review. This is one festival that is going down in the history as long as I live! This is one of the best birthday present ever!!! Big thanks to Swamper for hooking it up.




FIN. :-)

PS here are some pictures that didn't make it to the top.


Cute girl!













DJ Armando from XM BPM Channel.



For a complete set of pictures, I have it everything up at my website as well as facebook and of course day 2


Posted by phoenixBEBE on Aug-12-2008 01:28:

Re: Re: Re: Re: Virgin Mobile Festival August 9th, 10th review + pics

quote:
Originally posted by glittergirl
see, this is EXACTLY why i'm not drinking anymore

lyssa.... i promise to get to ny soon!! xo


ROFL damns Amy u sure know how to PARTAYYY!

SIKKKKK

altho Drew n I are DEFINITELY overdue in visiting DC/VA. last time we were there was in April =/ seems like a hella long time ago now that YOU'RE back in the region its another GREAT reason to return ^^

xoxo


Posted by euphoria on Aug-12-2008 02:26:

nice pics


Posted by stan229 on Aug-12-2008 02:43:

http://picasaweb.google.com/stan229...nMobileFestival


Posted by limin_li on Aug-12-2008 02:48:



Edo sushi?


Posted by stan229 on Aug-12-2008 02:49:

yup!

gave me a stomach ache man, wasn't feeling it so much compared to the places i usually frequent in NY

but free refills FTW!


Posted by limin_li on Aug-12-2008 02:50:

Cool, I use to work there as a waiter, while I was in college. Great food, my friend is chef there, bunch of those roll eg the harbor maki was his creation.


Thanks Z


Posted by verndogs on Aug-12-2008 02:56:

Re: Re: Virgin Mobile Festival August 9th, 10th review + pics

quote:
Originally posted by glittergirl
it was still no excuse for you not to come out to glow.


she lives!


Posted by rizo on Aug-12-2008 06:28:

good stuff limil but that pic of frank and i doesn't show the true color of the pink blanket lol

anyway favorite moments was the vibe during lawler and NiN performance esp when they played Hurt

pics w/ my old Casio pocket camera which i forgot to bring my extra battery and memory card -- didnt get a press pass : http://rizo.ws/080809-10


quote:
Originally posted by DCgirly
My mnml review:

DJ Dan & Donald Glaude - meh....i prefer Glaude on his own. was really rock sounding and weird. they played those shitty ass songs, Fuck More, and What the Fuck. FAIL

Soulwax - WIN

Steve Lawler - Was the best set of the entire weekend by a mile. WIN

I missed the rest of day 1

Deadmau5 - FAIL

Hawtin - Stared out realllyy boring... things started to get good after about 30 min or so... - WIN

I skipped Moby to see Stone Temple Pilots who were amazing - WIN

NIN - Stayed to hear Closer... was awesome. WIN

Armin - meh. he played really hard, even threw in some hard techno. i was bored. Left early to beat the traffic. FAIL
+1 I didnt bother catching Armin as Ive seen him so many times that I'm tired of him to be honest. it was great meeting you too!

this was the most i caught of armin, taking a picture of the dance tent from the virgin mobile guest lounge overlooking the NIN stage


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