Northside Festival 2015 Day Two Recap

50 Kent took over Friday at Northside....
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Northside Festival 2015 Day Two Recap

Northside Festival, expanded and invigorated with a healthy Innovation portion, returned to Williamsburg & Greenpoint, June 11th to 14th.

 

 

Brooklyn Live at the Inlet showcase @ 50 Kent

Majical Cloudz

Majical Cloudz

Click image for full gallery – Bashira Webb

The former Williamsburg Waterfront, now renamed 50 Kent (QRO venue review) – taking a naming cue from DOA DIY space 285 Kent – was the other major space at Northside 2015, though unlike McCarren Park the shows weren’t free and were later in the evening. The line-up could tend towards a little odd, clearly not part of an established tour, but no objections to seeing Neko Case, Rhye, and Majical Cloudz.

 

Rhye

Rhye

Click image for full gallery – Bashira Webb

Rhye was a particularly nice early draw at Northside, with singer Milosh casting a spell over the crowd.

 

Neko Case

Neko Case

Click image for full gallery – Bashira Webb

One of the many members of Canadian alt-collective The New Pornographers, Neko Case is as famous (if not more so) on her own right, thanks to records like 2013’s The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You (QRO review) and 2009’s Middle Cyclone (QRO review). Her alt-country is easy on the ears, but live the whole thing goes up a notch, as she’s an incredibly funny presence on stage (she did “win the internet” on @MidnightQRO Music on Late Night TV).

Case joked about getting back-up singer Kelly Hogan back from The Decemberists, claiming property over her and later saying that they would thrown down the Portland group in their game, Dungeons & Dragons (“My charts & graphs are off the charts & graphs…”). She self-effacingly not only joked about her screw-ups with lyrics and guitar capos, but also her pants, which she said made her feel like Grace Jones but gave her major camel toe…

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Other notes:

-The food trucks at 50 Kent were more like outtakes from Kitchen Nightmares: the pizza truck made you wait forever for too-expensive pizza and gave you the wrong order, while the taco truck ran out of tacos and couldn’t handle the shift in orders…

 

 

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