I Just Read About That…

[ATTENDED: September 27, 2025] All Things Go [Day 2]

After yesterday’s fun we headed back to our hotel and crashed.  Saturday’s show began at 11.  We had no intention of getting there that early–but there wasn’t a lot else to do in the area but hang out in the hotel.

I didn’t care about Zinadelphia (who I feel really missed an golden opportunity to call themselves Zinfindelphia) and I didn’t care about Carol Ades.  Hey, Nothing is a folkie duo, but they didn’t intrigue me enough to get there early for.

The weather was dicey with potential rain so we decided that we would just hang out under the comfort of the Pavilion and sneak out for food from time to time.

We hung out pretty close to the stage (about twenty rows up) but off to the side quite a bit.  So we had a decent but not great view–I wouldn’t want to pay for those seats for sure.

We wound up seeing most of the bands on the Pavilion Stage and watched the Chrysalis Stage bands on video.

I would have watched Bartees Strange, but I’ve seen him a few times, so really the first person I was intrigued by was G Flip.  So we rolled in to the Pavilion Stage and caught the end of Hazlett.

I enjoyed the little of Hazlett that we saw and then we caught about 20 minutes of Bartees on the video screen.

The funny thing about G Flip is that i hadn’t heard of them until about three weeks ago when their name tuned up on some post or another saying that they were now dating someone I’d never heard of.  The way the headline was written made it unclear if G Flip was a person or what.  I really had to parse it and then I found out that G Flip is a drummer and singer and was playing this festival.  Their show did not disappoint.

There was more overlap than usual, so we didn’t see any of Orion Sun and soon enough Paris Paloma came on.  I really enjoyed her look and performance.

We saw a minute or two of Wild Rivers who were not wild at all.  And then Gigi Perez came out.  We’d seen her not too long ago open for Girl in Red so we knew her show pretty well.

I really like the band name Hippo Campus, but I don’t care for their music so I didn’t pay much attention to their video feed.

Sometimes I am instantly turned off by a band because of their name.  Something about The Backseat Lovers makes me cringe, so I wasn’t really that interested in them.  They didn’t sound like I assumed  they would.  They were more mellow and not as raw.  I didn’t dislike them but I didn’t find anything memorable about them.

Faye Webster was up next on the screen and we were really somewhat in her.  We considered heading over to the other stage for her but we were so pleased with out location at that point that we decided to stay put and enjoy Faye on the screen instead.

We had seen Clairo live a while back and I have to say I was pretty bored by her set.  And I was kind of bored this time too.  I don’t exactly get why young people like her so much since she presents this really old fashioned vibe–although havig said that she has three songs that I really really like  So, I guess I’m even more puzzled by her. Her stage was pretty fun though and I enjoyed that they started the set by all sitting around drinking cocktails or something.  My daughter and I saw Faye Webster come in through the side entrance during Clairo’s set and hang out in the pit.  My daughter really wanted to go down and say hi or get a picture but by the time she got up the courage, Faye had left.  Boo.

And then came time for Lucy Dacus.  My daughter decided that she wanted to be right up on the barricade for Lucy so we ran down there as soon as it emptied out after Clairo.  But then nobody filled in the pit at all.  We couldn’t believe how empty the pit was for her whole set. But its not like people weren’t into her. The lawn was absolutely packed and pretty much all of the seats were taken. I guess nobody felt like standing by that time.

Wallows was on the screen next.  I didn’t pay them too much attention because we couldn’t really see the screens from where we were.  So I let the music wash over me and got out my book to read.  I wound up talking to a security guard about the book–Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir–because he was reading it too!  Crazy.

My daughter had seen Lucy not too long ago and the set was quite similar, but it was really fun being so close to her.  It was also fun to see how much the show had changed since April.

When her set ended and I was about to slog back up to the exit, a nice worker there invited me to head out through the side entrance.  She helped me avoid al of the stairs.  And it dropped me off right by the car.  Pretty sweet.  Tonight took a pretty long time to get out because there were so many people walking around, but even waiting around for twenty minutes, we still managed to get back to the hotel pretty quickly and to crash after the long day.

The one thing we were a little bummed about this time was that two years ago there were a lot more booths and vendors doing free activities.  And sure, we liked getting the swag, but it was fun having things to do during the down time.  They did have the special causes area which is always inspirational and hopeful, especially these days. But even there there’s not much to do, per se.  So you don’t hang out too long.

MISSED:
Zinadelphia–a synthy disco vibe that I ‘m not into.
Carol Ades–she won The Voice, which instantly makes me dislike her.  But she has a good voice and some catchy melodies.  Still, I’m not interested in seeing her
Hey, Nothing–is a folkie duo.  I like their songs but I wasn’t willing to get to the festival early to see them.
Orion Sun–plays a kind of quiet neo-soul.  Not quite my thing, but I like the indie components.  She was on the video screen for about ten minutes before they switched her off for the next artist at the Pavilion.
Wild Rivers–A folk band from Canada. They are fine and I like the singer’s voice.  We saw about ten minutes between Paris and Gigi.
Hippo Campus–Such a great name for a band.  I love that a) it’s hippocampus and b) trying to imagine a school for hippos.  So much potential for wildness. But man, their sound is so standard–I feel like they’re trying to be weird (auto tuned vocals) but I just can’t get into it.  We only saw a couple of songs before The Backseat Lovers came on.

WALKED IN DURING:
Hazlett–He is an indie folk singer from Australia.  We walked in and heard maybe a song and a half.  He’s got a Bon Iver vibe, but I didn’t get much more from our brief viewing.