Outside Lands, Sunday

I woke up on sunday to a foggy cold morning and I was expecting Golden Gate Park to mellow out. Boy was I wrong. By our first show at noon it was already busy and by the time we saw Cage the Elephant at 12:45 the mass of people extended far and out behind us. Cage was pretty cool, we didn't know much about them but we enjoyed it, plus it's always fun to see some crowd surfing.

Truth be told, I think Sunday had the best ensemble line-up, we had shows planned almost back-to-back. After Cage the Elephant we had our first break and decided to warm up in the wine tent. We had another half-dozen BBQ oysters from Hog Island and tasted a few different kinds of red wine. The tasting tent does not equal a tasting room, the vendors did not really want to chat about their wine, and overall it was not very friendly in there. The wine was amazing compared to the festival's awful "house red" but not exactly cost-efficient.

We moved back to the Twin Peaks stage for Atmosphere and met up with some friends. This was really fun, most of what we see is rock and a little hip hop was a nice change. There's something to be said for beats in the park on a foggy day, the crowd was bumpin, completely unaffected by the cold weather. Next we caught a glimpse of Matt and Kim, they were cute but I'm not sure they are used to managing such a large crowd, they just looked so tiny on that stage! After Matt and Kim we wanted to check out The Dead Weather, Jack White's new band, of which he is the drummer. Basically the band consists of most members of The Raconteurs plus a lead female singer. We heard one song and decided we would prefer to see Modest Mouse on the main stage. I was interested in watching Jack White but I was a little put off by seeing him behind the drums and at this point we just wanted to have fun, Modest Mouse was a sure thing.

Finally we got another break and decided to have lunch. Today we chose Pacific Catch, we had the Ahi Tuna Poke and Sweet Potato Fries for $15. They gave you plenty of Ahi and it tasted really good, the sweet potatoes were also perfect and had a sweet and sour dipping sauce.

At this point we were ready to set up camp for Band of Horses, one of our favorite newer bands. They had a 2008 Beck-like crowd show up at the Sutro stage and we were glad to have arrived early. They played a solid set, most of our favorites and it was a great end to the weekend. They were also allowed to come back for an encore since they didn't have anyone else playing after them on that stage. I'm surprised at their turnout considering they were competing with Ween and MIA.

As we slowly moved out of Lindley Meadow, herded like sheep into the Polo Field, we heard Tenacious D get started and we decided to call it a night. We saw so much, heard awesome music, ate delicious food, it was a great weekend and we were ready to go home and lay on the couch.