It was on 11st May of the past year, a day after my birthday, at the Matucana100 Cultural Center, in Santiago.
Me and my cousin heard about this festival just a week before it, and at the moment we knew the lineup, we bought our tickets right away.
It was a festival so we saw a variety of other bands, but I'm only going to talk about two of them in this post: Daughters and A Place to Bury Strangers. The second one have a pretty cute name for sure.
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| Oliver Ackermann, APTBS. |
Daughters: I don't know how to describe them but a word could be "chaos". The vocallist Alexis Marshall is quite a bit crazy. They are from Providence, Rhode Island, United States and this was their first time in South America. I discovered them from an instagram post, that ending being the cover of their new album. The first time I heard them it was really disturbing, by the second time I was habit to hear it, and at the third time I was strangely attached to their sound.
APTBS: Described as "the loudest band in New York". They was the main reason to us to go to this festival, and I don't think I have to describe their sound because most of their music is just noise. Oliver Ackermann is the guitarist/vocallist and founder of the band, he owns a pedal effects company called "Death By Audio".
The festival were outdoors, late nite. There wasn't too many people but most of them looked really excited. All the people wore black cloths. It was a ''edgy/cool'' kind of atmosphere.
I enjoided it a lot because i was in front of the stage, with the band members and the speakers in front of my face. It was a really fun experience because most the people around were jumping and screaming the lyrics. Altough i wasn't euphoric, it felt like a burst of adrenaline.
When they were playing, throwing the microphones and their instruments was something normal. And at one moment the Daughters's vocalist climb up one of the pilars of the stage and the guards had to help him to climb down. Also, when he were on the ground, the technicians had to go get back the microphone, but it wasn't a problem because it seems that they had many microphones to replace them. He appeared with a new one every five minutes.
Finally when APTBS were finishing their show, the drummer threw his drumsticks to the crowd, and I managed to return home with one of them. It was quite splintered tho, but it's a cool souvenir.
PD: Just to you know I listen to a lot of others genres. I'm not crazy, I swear for my russian cat.
