Dispatch Form Comerica Cityfest - Day One - July 4th 2007

Well it the Nation 231st birthday for our great country

and this year date for the fourth of July was held on a Midweek and if is held on a mid-week and that mean Comerica Cityfest, the single of half yay to the year have begun at the New Center area in front of the Fisher Building on west grand and Second.

now on every city fest i go to probable the most important rules of thumb for those die hard music fans is not to go early until 3 or 4 P.M. when the good music start well to tell you the turht there was not a good band ready until past 5:30 PM when the first band went on the main stage Femi Kuti and The Positive Force was on.

So i kill my prep time by watching Rocky III [you know the one with Mr.T as "Clubber Lang" and the 1st on-screen role for a then unknown Hulk Hogan] i left the home shed at about 10 minutes to 4 P.M. and on my way i stop over at a friend house for a little gathering of the grill which took almost three hours i was going to leave at 6 but saw some extra friends and stay andoir Hour until i left 10 minutes before 7 P.M.

And it was a toughed go with so much food i eat, about a 1/4 in to the trip i throw up not full blast but almost.[Sorry you have to read this]

so i arrived at city fest at 7:45 P.M. almost two hours behind Schueld, and with no way to go in went to the the pure Detroit Stage at the second Ave. Wind Tunnel which is happy name,[because there there is a Strong gust of wind coming from the north in between the Fisher Building and New Center One on Second Ave.] and caught Demon Days: An official Planet E Selection with Carl Craig who programme the whole stage with his Planet E record mate, the vibe was very good and also very loud but what do you expect.

The First big mystery of City fest was a sing on the Left of the Pure Detroit Stage under the "Real Detroit Weeekly" Banners there was a sing direct to former WDET-FM Late Night host Liz Copeland and it come from all of Detroit and it Simple say the following:

Dear Liz,

We Miss You

Love
Detroit

a pretty good Warm up to what will be a special Day on Saturday when she play the same stage at three and after Cityfest at the Northern Light Lounge.

i spend a 20 minutes until i walk around to see the laid out of where is where at city fest including a stop over at the park stage to see what the vibe was like and it was a very good turn out at the crowd at the park stage to check out the band playing at the stage at the time "Scream Ray" which i think was good.

But i walk over to the the Main Stage to see a Big Crowd to See the band all the indie kids want to see the Austin, TX Spoon they played a hour long set of old song and New Songs from there New Album off "Ga ga ga ga ga" Which is out next Tuesday they played New songs like "Don't Make Me a Target," "Rhthm and Soul," and "Black Like Me." as well as old songs like "I Turn My Camera On" and "Sister Jack".

I thought the gig was very well done and very well received from the big crowd hanging around the parking lot and there was a very good respond of the small crowd hanging at the Front of the stage to get the Autograph from Britt Daniel and one other member of the band who sadly i did not I.D., so after that i when back to see the tale end of Carl Craig set on the pure Detroit Stage and after that i went to the Northern Light Lounge just about a block From Here and when to the Official after party, which tonight was program by the web editor of fivethreedialtone.com and i got to say it was pack with the bar area pretty much Crowed all night long mostly to catch "The Moldoons" who was very good and the one man Video game band "c arjack..." who i catch half there set because i have to go home to warp up Night one.

Over All i think day one was O.K., Other than Spoon and Planet E it was OK but i wish there other bands that i know would played but you also got to remember it was the 4th of July.

So that the End of Day one, Day Two is more local tomorrow with Shotgun Wedding, Thunderbirds Are Now![Friend of the Blog Sight],Hellen, The Fondas, Serenity Court, The Hentchmen and your the gigs of all gigs at Cityfest The king of the over hype song parodied “Weird Al” Yankovic, i bet you "Tapped in the Drive-Thur will be a crowd pleasers.