Chromeo 8/9/08, Jersey City, NJ
Back at it today after 3 show-free days. We're at All Points West festival in Jersey City, which being right beside us in NYC is pretty convenient. Or is it...?
We started the day by going the opposite direction out to Long Beach to get the van back in order, packed up and ready to roll. That took almost 2 hours. Then we started the drive to the festival. If you've ever driven a van and trailer across NY, you know what we're in for and can skip the next few lines. If not, don't ever do it. We should have stayed in Jersey the night before.
The thing about NYC is that you can't take trailers on any of the convenient roads/parkways, only on expressways/interstates. So, instead of a simple one hour drive across Brooklyn and Manhattan, we had to go up to Queens first. Sounds simple enough. If you live in the city, you know we're screwed. That adds another hour to the trip to begin with. Then add traffic, which grows like weeds in your garden, a tunnel that doesn't allow trailers and a temperamental GPS unit, and we're cooked. Took 3 hours to get to a festival that was 25 miles away. It was awesome.
At least once we got there things were good. Huge stage, great crew, great gear. Even the catering was good, once they let us in... And Radiohead is playing tonight, so that alone was worth the drive. The downer was that we played first, so we had to hang out in a park in Jersey all day to see Radiohead. We made it through and it was worth it. Nevermind everything else during the day. Radiohead was mindblowing. The light show was ridiculous and it sounded incredible.
Unfortunately, we had to leave during the encore to beat the traffic out. We get to drive to Baltimore tonight. Lucky us.
We started the day by going the opposite direction out to Long Beach to get the van back in order, packed up and ready to roll. That took almost 2 hours. Then we started the drive to the festival. If you've ever driven a van and trailer across NY, you know what we're in for and can skip the next few lines. If not, don't ever do it. We should have stayed in Jersey the night before.
The thing about NYC is that you can't take trailers on any of the convenient roads/parkways, only on expressways/interstates. So, instead of a simple one hour drive across Brooklyn and Manhattan, we had to go up to Queens first. Sounds simple enough. If you live in the city, you know we're screwed. That adds another hour to the trip to begin with. Then add traffic, which grows like weeds in your garden, a tunnel that doesn't allow trailers and a temperamental GPS unit, and we're cooked. Took 3 hours to get to a festival that was 25 miles away. It was awesome.
At least once we got there things were good. Huge stage, great crew, great gear. Even the catering was good, once they let us in... And Radiohead is playing tonight, so that alone was worth the drive. The downer was that we played first, so we had to hang out in a park in Jersey all day to see Radiohead. We made it through and it was worth it. Nevermind everything else during the day. Radiohead was mindblowing. The light show was ridiculous and it sounded incredible.
Unfortunately, we had to leave during the encore to beat the traffic out. We get to drive to Baltimore tonight. Lucky us.
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