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Originally posted by Clovis So glad I didn't pay 60$ to sit through a bunch of boring music and a cheap 1.5 hour sasha set....

quoted for truth

note to self: do not sit on massive subwoofer with cellphone and ipod in backpack

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I thought love fest was amazing again this year.
This year I was smart and decided to fly and take Friday off from work since on Fridays I never get off on time no matter what. With out the stress I was over to Sarah's by 2:30 and off to the fly away a little after 3:30. Went the wrong way and had to take the side streets.

Get to the fly away and we where on the 4:30 bus.. cutting it a little close for a 6pm flight out of LAX. Sarah and I started to worry a little bit that we where not going to make it. But Sarah got a phone call from Julie saying the flight was delayed by 1/2 hour. Normally we hate delays but this time we where so thankful. There was so much Traffic on the 405 and on the street to the airport. We get there by 6pm! We could not use the automatic check in since we past the 45 minute mark. And the first lady was not helpful in telling us where to go. Finally we where able to check our bags in late and we did a mad dash to our gate. When it rains it pours so we had do a mad dash down a long hallway to get on the our gate. Got to the gate met Julie and Mat and got a quick bite to eat. On the plane we where those people You know the ones that talk and laugh.

Once at SFO we take the BART to the civic center stop. And look at a map to see what direction we where to go. Instead of cutting across the civic center we take a min tour of Van Ness. And walk a very large circle up hill with our heave bags. Get to the opal check in and get in to our room.. but it was the wrong room! When Christine reserved the room she asked for a Jr. Excutive non smoking suite. We got a standard smoking room! Was told that we where stuck for the night since there where no rooms available but could switch on Saturday.

So Sarah and I got ready met up with Greg and Leah and went to the love lee party. Catch a cab in SF is tough. We walked to the corner of the street and every cab had some one it. Leah caught a Lincoln Town car and we got a ride to the Mighty from "Tony the Taxi" for $15 But at least it was a ride.

For the last 2 years I have heard nothing but amazing stories about the Love Lee Party and I have never been to the Mighty. We get there and there where no issues getting in and the club was pretty empty. The Mighty it self was a cool little club with a true underground feel. Outside of the smoking patio there was a party bus. I thought that was really cool. I got in sat in the drivers seat and honked the horn. (got in trouble the second time for doing that though... opps) The sound system at might was not the best in the world. To me it sounded distorted and too loud.
I thought the Vibe there was great and everyone seem to be having a really great time. Musically I was board. Bill Patrick's set went no where for me at all. It was a real snooze fest. Lee Gets on. He plays a few good tracks but I was a little disappointed in his set too. Again the music really did not go anywhere for me.. It was missing something. At 3am I was done with the party and Greg, Leah and I went to go catch a cab. We saw people walking on top of the hill to snag them. We decided to do the same thing and had to jumped in the middle of the street to catch a cab go back to the hotel and get some sleep.

We woke up at 8am to start getting ready. Take advantage of Opals free breakfast since we knew that would be the only meal for most of the day and get our outfits ready and head down to the start of the parade. The walk down the streets in our outfits is part of the whole parade experince. We where getting stange looks and cat calls from all over the place. Past a sightseeing bus and we where part of the tour. Get down in second and market just in time. Sarah, Kris and Patrick and I signed our life's away and got wrist bands to ride the float again this year!!!!

With my signs and hearts ready. The parade starts around 12:30 and we head down market street. Seeing the parade from the float is such an amazing experince! Nothing threw out the year comes even close to that experince. I love being up there dancing and showing my support to the great promoters who put together this weekend. In the crowd you see such a melting pot of people! Old people, babies, City workers, collage kids, candy kids, naked people, people in costumes and people trying to figure out what is going on. The parade ends at the civic center and the Spundae/skills float parks in front of Bill Graham.

Gil and Fei-Fei are the first ones on the decks and played a great Tag team set! They got to play longer since Crystal Method did not show.. Robert Nickson was on next and killed it as well. There where people as far as the eye could see having a great time! After Robert was done it was time for a float break and walk around to the other floats. The D&B float by the Spundae float where going off. The coolest float I thought was the one where it looked like the Dj was flying the plane.
While walking around there was so much to look at that I looked lost. I ran into some of my friends though and met some new ones as well.

I am bummed that I missed Jody, GTR and Eddie H.'s set. I head that Eddie did a float dive into the crowd! But I had such an amazing experince walking around. Around 6:30 I hit my wall and smelling all the food made me so hungry. So Sarah and I decided to leave get some food and get a quick nap before the after hours. We heard that the after hour line was nuts. But we all ready had our tickets and got to go threw a really short fast line. Grabbed some gateraid met up with Friends and went into the main room where Robert Nickson was playing. I thought he played a great set. JOOF is up next and kills it as well. At this time the main room was packed. And people where walking and pretending that you where not there. It was like they where in there own little world and they where the only occupants. Thanks to Robert Sarah and I got to go back stage where we met selma JOOF's wife. She was very nice. What I heard from G&D it was awful! I was like WTF? Once Sasha got on we went back to the Vip area of the main room. I am not a huge fan of Sasha and most of the time I am board with his sets. This time however I was really impressed!!! He was actully playing Beats!!!

Before Sasha was done I went to the restroom and heard Ferry was on his way. When he came I went over to say hi and chat a little and it was back out to enjoy sasha.

Once Ferry was on it was time to Brave the crowd. It was hard for me to be in the back and not able to see him. I love loved Ferry's set! Every one went nuts when he played Heaven Scent, beautiful, Brain Box. The energy was amazing on the main floor. There was a girl who decided that it was cool to jump on stage and get in the Dj both with Ferry. WTF. She was about to get kicked out when she jumped down. I was wondering where the bouncers where at this time Before Ferry ended Sarah and I go back to the VIP area.

At 4 the event ends and we say good buy to everyone. For me the after party is icing on the cake to the love fest parade itself. My wall was hit hard so I did not go to the end up. At 11am I woke up and started getting my bags packed to check out. Sarah comes back from the end up with news that Lee was going to be playing from 12-8pm with Lee. We plan the day where we could go to the end up/folsem street fair/ spundae pool party. But since nothing goes according to plan. We stop at walgreen for some thing to drink. I had my Camera on my hand and when I move it the Camera fell and the batter fell out! under the self. I got the people working there to help me find it. They where tearing the area apart. I felt so bad. I left them my contact just in case. About a block down the lady runs out with my battery. YES.

We get to the end up a little after 1pm. The end up reminded me of The Space Terrace/ Avalon Terrace/ Canteen all wrapped out in one. It was an experince for sure. And it looked like some people where there right at 5am and would be there until 8pm. The music was pretty good. Better then Friday. And lee was being Lee. He is such a crack up!

At 4:15 it was time to check out the folsem street fair since I have never been. I have never seen that many naked men in my whole life. There was no large circle jerks but men just doing it on the street. There was an area where men where getting wiped and enjoying it.. and other strange bondage booths. There was a condo looking building where people where sitting outside yelling down at others. An officer came by to talk to them... I thought to myself.. oh wow everything goes down here BUT sitting on a roof! The fair was for sure an experience!

After that it was time to head back to the hotel and head to the airport. On the BART we sat in a smaller seats and then Sarah spots a seat where we could fit our bags better, and it happens to be a seat in front of a CRACKHEAD! He was talking to himself saying the most random things making everyone around him uneasy. Thank god someone said the next stop was the way to Oakland!

We get to the airport in enough time.. go down the run way and the captain gets on the intercom and pretty much tells us that there where 3 other flights going to LAX at the same time and we had to wait.. 45 minutes later we where in the air. We arrived into LAX a little before 10. the time I was hoping to be on the road to to Club Vegas to see Ferry again. But we still had to catch the fly way bus. That took forever too. Sarah and I where in Burbank a little bit before Midnight. There was no way I was going to make it to Ferry

I had such an AMAZING time/ weekend up in San Francisco! I can not wait to go next year!!!!
A big thank you to Sarah, Kris, Partick, Greg, Leah and the all the rest for making it possible. (Christine you where missed)
I also want to give a shout out to Spundae/skills for yet another great year!!!

I am working on my pictures now. I will post them soon!

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Thursday
Drove down. Nothing much really, 14 hours of driving sucks. Got to my hotel and figured that because it was $85/night and I booked it a month in advance that it would be a piece of shit. It was in dirty area of town, about two blocks west of the Glide Memorial Church. The outside looked dumpy, letters were missing from the sign, and when the guy handed me the key to my room it turned out to be an actual key. I felt uneasy about the whole situation, but I opened my room and it was the nicest hotel room I'd ever stayed in. A minimal-ish design to it, complete with flatscreen HD TV. I guess the reason for the cheap price was the neighborhood.

Friday
Walked around town a bit and met up with a friend who's living there while attending the Academy of Art. We saw Resident Evil 3 (crappy, as was expected) and went to Virgin to pick up some CDs. I snagged Telefon Tel Aviv's "Fahrenheit Fair Enough" and Boards of Canada's "Music Has the Right to Children." Telefon's album is massive win. Headed over to Chipotle for dinner with my friend, then made the long walk to the venue for the Chems.

Got in early enough to catch the opening DJ. Dear God was she terrible. The majority of her set I swear she had the gains and EQs cranked as high as each knob could go because all I could hear from the speakers was the sound of her peaking. Absolutely terrible. Ladytron was okay, I'm just not a fan in general.

The Chems put on a sick show, but it wasn't as good as the show they had for Push the Button back in '05. Absolutely sick visuals, though. I was excited when they started to play The Sunshine Underground, but they really rushed into the build (which totally makes the track) and lost all the energy it could've had. Was great meeting Bas there.

Saturday
Parade/Festival
Woke up early, figured I'd show up to the meet. Nobody really showed up so I headed to the start of the parade. Followed the Kontrol float all the way to the festival grounds, where I headed over to the Listed float and met up with Bas, Clovis, Tigo and the whole group. Was great meeting you guys. The Listed float absolutely DESTROYED all day despite power failures, and the last hour was simply nuts. The DJ that played last ended appropriately on Louis Armstrong's version of What a Wonderful World.

Afterparty
HOLY SHIT! You have got to be kidding me! My jaw hit the floor last night. No, it's not because some DJ blew me out of the water, it's because the doors OPENED ON TIME and we actually got in just five minutes after that. I was shocked, absolutely shocked.

As for the rest of it? Sucked ass, but worse than I expected. I'll get into a rant in a second here, but I'll give a gist of the night first. I met Tigo in line, hung out with him for a bit before Psiweaver said he was at the front. I hopped in line with him and got in. We sat around as Deep Voices/Dyloot played music that was suitable only for a 2AM or 3AM set, but it was only 9PM. We checked out Three in the side room, who was okay. The rest of the group wanted to see J00F so we headed back to the main room. Meh, nothing special. Three came on, but we were getting food and we didn't catch him. We sat in the bleachers and hung out, and I honest to God fell asleep during Gabriel and Dresdens set. Sasha came on at the flow of energy in the building was so messed up (just wait 'til my rant) and we were all tired so we left. I passed out and passed out good. So sore the next morning.

Afterparty Rant
I said to Psiweaver as soon as we got in that there had to be a catch to us actually making it in on time. Lo and behold, there was!

That was seriously the most Godawful, disgusting timeslot setup I have ever seen.

Firstly, Deep Voices/Dyloot were playing at 9PM what should be played at 2 or 3 AM. Way too hard for an opening act. I didn't catch Nicksons set so I can't really speak on that part. J00F threw down, sure, but WAY too early in the night. What the fuck were you thinking by putting Three, who plays significantly softer than J00F on for just a FIFTEEN MINUTE set after him? If I were three I would've stuck on a fifteen minute track and just left. Then you had Gabriel and Dresden up the tempo and energy in the room only to have Sasha, who plays sets softer than G&D come on after them and build a set for Ferry.

Sitting in the main room listening to all of it felt like a clusterfuck of energy. I was appalled. If anything, it should've been Three -> Sasha -> G&D -> Deep Voices/Dyloot -> Nickson -> J00F -> Ferry. Yes, you'll tell me like you have in the past that there is only so much you can do with the lineup because of the way certain artists have their contracts set, etc. but you should predict that in advance and plan for it.

Disgusting. Not to sound like an asshole or anything here, but after three years of this I'm happy that I'll be 21 next year and will have other options available to me for an afterparty. Never again.

Oh, and I understand that it's a venue deal and not your fault, but what the hell was up with putting water in the cups and not giving out bottles? They cited safety reasons? What the hell? Yeah, okay, making it easier to slip something into someones water is sure a hell of a lot safer.

Sunday
Woke up, couldn't walk. Stayed in my hotel room all day.

Monday
Here I am, after the 14 hour ride back. The trip concluded what was seriously the best month ever. I traveled to Vancouver to see Digweed, Denver to see Underworld, saw BB King play, and partied at what I thought was the best LPSF to date with some awesome TAs. Excellent weekend all around.

I'll have photos and videos up tomorrow. Right now, I feel like I'm about to faceplant into my keyboard.

Last edited by idoru on Oct-02-2007 at 06:40

Such an amazing weekend! PVD started it off right for me with such an energetic set...will have to break my review down into parts since only so much time, but these are my pics from 1015:





hmmm...something interesting there on his laptop

The rest are HERE

ok, off to bed now to knock out this cold I must have got from someone on the plane...more later tho...zzzzzzzzz

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hey everybody

great seeing you guys out at lovelee. sorry we didn't get a chance to chill a little more, but we were pretty out of it the rest of the weekend. i'm sure there will be another trip at some point haha. hope everybody had a great weekend...

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Originally posted by lex400sc note to self: do not sit on massive subwoofer with cellphone and ipod in backpack

wat happen lex?

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Originally posted by djjoshuaallen Im thinking me and my friends were not the only one who got dealt these things, that could explain the crazy faces all over. Also, the place just lacked the high energy that a party of that magnatude should have. The place never really erupted as i though it would and have seen it in the past. The place just looked abnormally cracked out, and it was a bit disturbing at times.

everyone WAS cracked out... i dont think a single person in there was sober or had not partied at some point during the day... hence: AFTERPARTY

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Originally posted by Mecca82 wat happen lex?

i went to use my ipod yesterday and find that the whole thing has been wiped clean. same with the memory card in my phone. i figure it's from sitting on the subs at local love, spundae or endup

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Yeah Lovefest this year was awesome although I didn't really get to experience the day party too much, I was still hung over from the night before. Similar to last year's production with a bit more laser. The afterparty I think had worse lighting than last year but the music made up for it. Definitely J00F owned me again. Did anyone know the first track that Sasha played? I know I heard it before. Anyways, I mainly stayed with my friends I came with, but I did run into Sweet Kandi Girl and In2Muzik. It was good seeing you two. I didn't stick around for the 1015 After, after party; as I had my own. Anyways it was an awesome weekend and i'm still recovering.

OMG the guy is STILL THERE!






Psiweaver with his girlfriend + friend, FuzzyChicken being an ass and not facing me, and Clovis


REPOST!




I never post this many photos and yea, that's probably a lot, but I had fun so screw you guys. The rest are up here.

btw... i knew i made it to the LoveFest weekend when i saw Michelle and Sarah (SweetCandy and Gypsy) driving a bus at the LoveLee party!!!

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