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10KLF Update - Music and rain are quite the combination

Posted at 9:56 AM on July 24, 2009 by Lindsay Kimball
Filed under: Live Events

Last night was a barrage of music from start to finish. I'd just finished checking in with Mary Lucia and conducting an interview and Theft of the Dial with Glenn Kotche, the drummer in Wilco (which we'll be airing some time next week probably), so I didn't make it into the concert bowl as The Honeydogs took the stage at 6 p.m.. Here's one of the wonderful things about 10KLF - while I wasn't actually in the venue, I could hear their whole set quite easily from anywhere. Whether I was working or grabbing dinner, I was still able to rock out to the Honeydogs from wherever I was.

Mason Jennings began his set around 7:30 p.m. His set moved from politics to the politics of love. At one point he asked the audience if they wanted to hear some love songs. "Yes. Please." was immediate response. He played songs from most of his albums including some of my faves - "Lemon Grove Avenue" and "Be Here Now."

Clouds were coming in and had an ominous look to them as Wilco stepped on stage. I had my fingers crossed that they'd be in sparkled jumpsuits like they've got pictured on their new album, but they were rocking normal attire. They were also rocking their hits - "I Will Try to Break Your Heart," "Jesus Etc," "Impossible Germany" as well as a bunch of jams from their new album, "Wilco (The Album)." As their set was coming to an end, there was lightning in the west as Jeff Tweedy made the announcement that Wilco will be coming back in the fall. They'll be at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul on October 2nd. And here's another heads up - sign up for Cross Currents, The Current's weekly e-newsletter for the link and password for the Wilco ticket pre-sale. The link will be in Wednesday's Cross Currents for the pre-sale taking place next Friday.

After the Wilco set finished, the throngs of people shifted to the other three stages in the bowl. Many of them made their way to the Field Stage, like me, for Atmosphere's set. The lightning was becoming more frequent, and we weren't too far into the set before the rain started falling. I took shelter underneath the emergency exit just east of the stage. The big fat drops of rain didn't deter the music. When the rain let up shortly thereafter, people came out of their rain shelters and headed back to the stage. But that wasn't the end of the rain. An intense down pour with lightning and thunder cut the set short, and we raced back to our campsite to get out of the rain.

There are a bunch of photos from last night and more 10KLF coverage here.

...and tune in today at 4 p.m. where I'll be doing another check-in with Mary Lucia. You can listen to yesterday's check-in right here:

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