A political pig
Posted by Vanessa
April 30, 2008
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I’ve been a fairly quiet corner this last week, and with good reason – I’ve been very busy indeed and had my lovely friend Fraser visiting. We also went to Coachella music festival, in Indio (and the desert). I especially loved The Teenagers, and Tegan and Sara. By Sunday we were all completely exhausted (wine + sunshine + patchy sleep = migraine), but stayed for a bit of Roger Waters’ set – during which he launched this floating pig above the crowd painted with anti-the-current-Government slogans. I know I should probably have been focusing on the message and not the medium, but I wonder how he got the pig to sail over the whole crowd? It seemed like it had been on strings which were then cut, but how could it be so cleverly operated without them?
Anyway, did any of you see any good bands this weekend?
5 comments Categories: adventure, music
April 30th, 2008 at 8:47 am
Glad you loved Tegan and Sara! I think they are amazing – I saw them twice on their last UK tour! :)
Maybe the pig was just on very long strings? Hehe, I don’t know :) You can see the strings in the picture though. Still, very cool.
April 30th, 2008 at 9:59 am
I saw M83 on Monday, that was pretty good.
The Teenagers, hmm, I think the girl who did my husband’s last job after him is now in the Teenagers.
April 30th, 2008 at 10:48 am
I saw Teagan and Sara last month, after repeatedly missing them for the past few years. ‘Twas good.
I don’t see many bands – I’m one of those odd people who aren’t overly fussed about music.
April 30th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Aha! I have discovered the mystery of the floating pig: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7374994.stm
You should have gone looking for it, there was a $10k reward.
April 30th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Joelle – I was just about to comment on that. Glad they found the thing :o)