Built To Spill (Live)

Rounding out the Friday lineup of PMF2009 was Built To Spill. As the the sun set over the park Built To Spill took to the Aluminum Stage and finished out the first night of PMF. It was a great show. Granted, I’m not a huge B2S fan, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I will say that it got cold. Who would have thought that mid July in CHicago would require a jacket for warmth? Again, the crowd was ready and pumped. It was a great set, great music, great everything. This was the start of something big here. This Pitchfork2009 was going to be huge.

After the set, I slogged my way home. I was staying with a friend. She actually came out to the park to pick up her keys and then told me that I shouldn’t take the same route home as it wasn’t safe. Yikes. So she tells me what train stop then walking directions to then catch another bus, and I try to engrave those instructions in my brain, but 5 hours later I couldn’t remember them completely. To top that off, my iPhone was running out of battery power and I hadn’t had time to charge it at the press tent. But I made it back in one piece. Got to editing and finished in the wee hours of the morning, just in time to sneak in a few hours of sleep. Ah, the life of a festival photographer. It’s not all glitz and glam (ha) but actually a lot of hard work.