the davenports: day 2 – MGMT, muse, z-trip

Thankfully, we’d finally adjusted to West Coast time and recovered from our trip to Palm Springs so we were able to get up and enjoy the day before heading out. We started with fabulous breakfast at the hands of Vic and Ruben – though we did have to teach Ruben to make “al dente” bacon since he likes really crispy bacon.

Afterward everyone spent some time enjoying the pool.

Will and Ruben and Jocelyn in the pool. Vic and Ruben started goofing around off the side of the spa. Ravi is responsible for the photography as I missed most of the action.

We headed out a bit later than the previous day and ended up defying the parking lot watchers and moved the behemoth from its original spot for better positioning to leave.

Here’s the whole gang (minus the long-haired dude on the left and Ruben cuz he’s taking the picture) walking in.

We started the day with the whole group at Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. This was another band that we hadn’t really considered but they were awesome. Definitely one of my new favorites. Very hippie and seemingly predictably baked. I commented that we were lucky that Edward Sharpe had pants on.

This was the the awesome part though:

That girl on the left plays Catherine on Greek! Singing back up, playing the keyboard and the accordion with the Magnetic Zeros is a steady gig for her apparently.

We didn’t have a whole lot that we were set on seeing on the second day so we took a few recommendations from others so next up was The XX.

But the exciting thing to happen during the show was that there was pyrotechnics on the Coachella Main Stage. For a few minutes, it really looked like the Main Stage was on fire. My first thought was “Oh, this will be bad. Most of these people are high.” Then the smoke stopped and it was obvious that it was an effect by Coheed and Cambria. Since the entire crowd was staring over at the “fire,” the lead singer for The XX felt compelled to comment on it.

There wasn’t anything on the schedule we were super interested in for quite a while so we more thoroughly wandered the grounds stopping by Dirty Projectors for a bit.

Afterward we decided to check out the Ferris wheel. I’ve actually never been on a Ferris wheel and it was so much fun.
View of the origami crane on the grounds. (more on the art later)

Next up MGMT. We were excited to see them and they were good but they played a lot of things from their new album which had just come out the Tuesday before Coachella.

We’d decided while on the Ferris wheel that we would watch Muse from the “comfort” of the beer garden – Ruben and Jocelyn wanted root beer floats that we’d spotted while on the wheel.

Because we were in the beer garden, we could hear well but couldn’t see much. We were kind of sad to have missed the laser show. Here’s one of Ravi’s pictures.

We didn’t wait out the whole show and headed over to Sahara to catch some Z-Trip. I don’t think I’ve ever really seen a DJ spin and it was by far the best part of the day. He was just this kind of doofy balding white dude but it was sooooooo much fun!