Comments on: I Was There: Pygmalion Music Festival, Thursday (Part 2)

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Archive: Pygmalion Music Festival 2008 « — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:01:09 +0000

[...] Thursday (Part Two):Butterfly Assassins, Dark Meat and Dan Deacon [...]

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:46:41 +0000

yea that is my bud aren. inherent in the dan deacon show is a lot of unfortunate seizing (dancing) that ensues, so i’m glad they were swiftly punished by stage divers/crowd surfers.

stage divers unite.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:32:20 +0000

Wham City is usually Deacon’s closer, I believe he cut about the last ten minutes of it. Also , there’s a video of the show-ending crowd surfer over at Smile Politely, and it doesn’t look like he hurt anyone either.

By: Seth Fein

Seth Fein — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:22:49 +0000

NO ONE was hurt. That’s a fact.

By: Marty

Marty — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:00:33 +0000

The stage collapse wasn’t really all that bad, but it happened pretty early (like the first or second song). I lucked out afterwords by just staying back stage after they kicked everyone off, so I got some primo pics and avoided the flailing bodies. I think this sums it up best:
http://picasaweb.google.com/nitramzero/Pygmalion2008thurs#5247633400670347442

Also, I’m pretty sure Deacon had some more material left, but he cut the show when the crowd surfing became unmanageable. People were getting tossed onto the stage and getting mad hurt. The final straw was when someone landed on the trombone player from Dark Meat ‘s head.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:48:41 +0000

also, if you were outside, you missed the grand finale of the dark meat show when they jammed with the guitarist from monotonix

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:42:25 +0000

Monotonix:
-simulated sex with various female audience members
-played two songs while standing on the drink rail
-dumped a full garbage can on the drummer
-mock strangled the drummer
-began with their stuff set up on the floor in front of the small stage, and moved forward about 10 feet every few songs
-when they got up to near the sound booth, they had everyone sit down (apparently dan deacon was spotted in the crowd at this point)
-ended up out the doors and into the beer garden. the faces on the people sitting outside smoking were absolutely priceless when those three mostly naked, hairy, screaming jewish guys ran out with nothing but a snare drum