All Points West Festival 2009

Natalie and I got tickets for Friday’s lineup at the All Points West Festival in Liberty State Park; just a few blocks away from our house. We were really looking foreword to seeing The National, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and The Beasty Boys. Week before the festival, Adam Yauch of The Beasty Boys was diagnosed with cancer and their Friday’s headline spot was filled in with Jay-Z. Below is The National’s opening which i shot with my iPhone.

The festival featured 2 main stages and an art-deco contraptions in the middle composed of wooden crates encasing amplifiers, made to look like little huts. DJs in the middle spun house and drum n’ bass. The rain and the constant thunderstorms got so bad that eventauly Natalie and I had to leave. We were told that because of the bad weather on Friday, we can re-use our tickets for Sunday’s show which headlines Coldplay. First thing’s first – drying our mud-stained clothes from Friday.