5/31/2023 0 Comments Iggy pop tour 2017![]() While Spiritualized sound-checked early Sunday morning ahead of their headline slot that evening, LA’s Death Valley Girls took a moment to speak with Billboard, answering the question: what is it about Desert Daze that’s so unique? “Well, what isn’t Desert Daze?” asked frontwoman Bonnie Bloomgarden, succinctly. Post Iggy, Chicago fivesome Twin Peaks charmed the socks off the Block Stage crowd, with several crowdsurfers staying the course for their grunge-y cover of The Rolling Stones‘ “Dead Flowers” and their own hits, including “Flavor.” ![]() ![]() By the time Australia’s King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard followed suit, the crowd were ready for a psychedelic freakout courtesy of this seven-piece’s concoctions, particularly frontman Stu Mackenzie’s universe-expanding guitar lines. A strong stench of marijuana hung in the air, of course. Across the site on the Moon Stage, stoner metal trio Sleep performed their seminal 1992 album Holy Mountain in full. It was Ty Segall, however, who turned things up another level for the first night over on the Moon Stage, playing out of his skin and growling through a brilliantly noisey reimagination of Devo’s ‘Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy’.Īs the sun began to close in on another brutally hot day, Sunflower Bean announced themselves as “jacked up” inside the Wright Tent for 45 minutes of highlights from their 2016 debut Human Ceremony and some as-yet-unreleased music too ahead of a much-anticipated follow-up record. Deap Vally too - a duo from Los Angeles, who are part of the Desert Daze family, with drummer Julie Edwards being married to Pirrone - whetted the appetite for a weekend’s worth of dirty guitar licks and heavy drumming. Those who got down to the site early enough on Friday were treated to a rare collaborative performance from Drinks a project between Welsh songwriter Cate Le Bon and White Fence’s Tim Presley. “It feels like I’ve never left,” he said on the Friday afternoon, which said it all in terms of the amount of life he’s poured into this annual celebration. Festival organizer, booking agent and musician (with his own psych band JJUUJJUU) Phil Pirrone could be spotted throughout the days and nights, running around watching the sets, keeping the operation moving, even playing a show of his own. His sentiments were shared among all the acts there this past weekend. Watch Exclusive Clip From Iggy Pop & Josh Homme's Rock Doc 'American Valhalla' The most refreshing part of Desert Daze festival in 2017 wasn’t just the brilliantly curated lineup, but the sense of liberation that came with feeling able to just lose yourself in a music festival among likeminded interlopers, without worrying about the risks you may have taken coming. As Iggy sang “all of this is yours and mine” on “The Passenger”, you saw that sense of community in the audience a pan-generational crowd of musicians, music lovers and visual artists united in this bastardized church where psych met grunge, rock met funk and inhibitions were banished. “Was that the best moment of my life?” asked frontwoman Julia Cumming, after the rock legend took on The Stooges‘ “Search And Destroy”. Somewhere in the middle, New York Brooklyn trio Sunflower Bean also stood with jaws in the sand. “Pick me up baby, I’m a passenger.” Out in the front of the crowd, teenage Starcrawler frontwoman Arrow de Wilde was seen on the shoulders of a friend, gaping in awe at one of her idols. Let me see everybody,” said the 70-year-old punk, ready to charge into one of his most famous joints.
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