Well it's over - it's been over, for over a day now. Bluesfest has officially left Lebreton Flats for the year 2010 and will not return until next July. Now I don't know what to do - well at least until Friday when Priestess and Skeletonwitch arrive at Maverick's. Which will leave a short week for my trip down to Montreal on August 3rd for Summer Slaughter 2010. I guess it's safe to say this years post bluesfest blues will be, quite short.
Admittedly I missed a decent portion of this years fun fest, including being sick off my ass for what some would argue - even myself - to be the overall best day of the festival on Saturday July 10th, where I systematically missed Roger Hodgson (Supertramp), Metric, Passion Pit and the wacky and wild live performance of the Flaming Lips.
But I got my fill of the festival, getting to see old favorites, including Iron Maiden, Dream Theatre and Rush during week one. And following up week two with the Arcade Fire, one of my all-time favorites Matthew Good and to close out the festival on Sunday night, Weezer.
There was plenty of good talent on hand as usual, throughout the festival which is one of the reasons I usually try to get in as much as possible - it's always fun to soak in some new music, even though this Bluesfest was slightly marred by the ridiculous humidity.
On a final note, I will say that there were many great performances. Biased as I am to Matt Good, I still say he could have benefited from a headlining position and played a longer set, but his festival sets are a nice contrast to the tour set I saw from him at the NAC earlier this winter. Weezer definitely wins the prize though. Rivers Cuomo reinforced his status at being the Man last night by going crazy and climbing around the stage, dumping garbage into the crowd (and onto my friend Dave, I might add) and then easing into the end of their set by preluding Buddy Holly with, well this ridiculous cover of Kids by MGMT and Poker Face by Lady Gaga - blonde wig and all.
Rivers Cuomo provides the only legitimate reason in existence to openly listen to the song Poker Face, as seen below, enjoy:
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