Your top 5 performances from 2011

[meaganpeach]

Mumford and Sons
Strokes
Flogging Molly
Nas & Damian Marley
Bright Eyes

[daft$tar]

i got arrested in sahara on friday - so no chems or robyn

but i loved:

Leftfield
Presets
Duck Sauce

[eimie]

Scissor Sisters
New Pants - ha, am I the first to list them? for those of you who slept in, you missed out
Duran Duran
PJ Harvey
Robyn/CSS/Presets

[PDXdev]

Ratatat
Arcade Fire
Trentmoller
Cut Copy
Sasha

Honorable mention:
Shpongle - Pretty much tied with Sasha for the 5th spot. Such a good set.

Kanye - Most epic set. The perfect way to finish off the weekend.

The Strokes - I saw the second half or last 2/3rds of their set. It sounded excellent and was a great time.

Animal Collective - I know a lot are hating but they were fucking awesome. I love what they did.

[concertgoer]

i got arrested in sahara on friday - so no chems or robyn

but i loved:

Leftfield
Presets
Duck Sauce

For reals?

[daft$tar]

For reals?

FOR REALS

it was fucking horrible - jail sucks - a tan gay LA boy like me in jail isn't cute

at least it was only day 1

x

[Somewhat Damaged]

What'd you get arrested for?

[Ogdelta9]

1.Caifanes
2.The Strokes
3. Paul Van Dyk
4. Kings Of Leon
5 Tie between Axwell and steve angello


KANYE BLEW!! CHEESE ASS INTRO AND GAY THEREAFTER>

[venturas90sgirl]

1. SUEDE
2. ELBOW
3. Arcade Fire
4. Death from Above 1979
5. The Chemical Brothers

I hope someone from GV is reading this thread and will just go ahead and decide to invite Trentemoller back to close out a tent next year.

Well said girl. And I promise to catch them if that happens. Missing Tremtmoller due to the Sunday Conflict from Hell hurt just a little.

[Lemonpie]

animal collective
chemical brothers
sasha
arcade fire
foals

[cjamesgo8421]

The Chemical Brothers
Arcade Fire
The Strokes
Trentemøller
Crystal Castles
The Presets
Bloody Beetroots

[sonnyboy11]

1. SUEDE
2. ELBOW
3. Arcade Fire
4. Death from Above 1979
5. The Chemical Brothers

We need to meet! For real. Anyone that saw both Suede and Elbow knows what we're talking about! And you even put em in caps. I'm swoonin (and having Coachella withdrawals already )

[lyysander]

In no particular order:

1. Arcade Fire
2. YACHT
3. CSS
4. Gogol Bordello
5. The Joy Formidable

A lot of smaller bands did a really great job getting intimate with the crowd. YACHT was probably my favorite performance of the entire festival.

[thenoiboi]

What'd you get arrested for?

and when did you get out?

[IdiotequeThom]

1. Trentemoller
2. Leftfield
3. Chemical Brothers
4. Ratatat
5. Cut Copy

HM's: High Contrast, Sasha, Green Velvet, Sven Vath, Animal Collective

[Mikey Lion]

No particular order

Chemical Brothers
Sven Vath
Lee Burridge in the Do Lab (this was hands down the best party at Coachella all weekend)
Leftfield
Presets

[algunz]

Absolutely o order:

Aquabats
Yelle
Cut Copy
Phantogram
Trentmoller

[okkida]

Suede
Joy Formidable
Sleigh Bells
Beardyman
Phantogram

[wewantmuse]

In no order:

Sleigh Bells
Arcade Fire
Kanye West
Health
Cage the Elephant

Honorable Mentions: Chemical Brothers, Two Door Cinema Club, Foster the People, YACHT, The Kills, Empire of the Sun, OFWGKTA

[bmack86]

So, without it being a real performance Spiritualized may have had my most memorable slot of the weekend. Anyone else go into Untitled and have their mind completely melted?

[venturas90sgirl]

We need to meet! For real. Anyone that saw both Suede and Elbow knows what we're talking about! And you even put em in caps. I'm swoonin (and having Coachella withdrawals already )

Lol not having those two in all caps wouldn't have done them justice. Saturday night at Coachella will go down as one of my favorites ever.

[citizenerased]

So, without it being a real performance Spiritualized may have had my most memorable slot of the weekend. Anyone else go into Untitled and have their mind completely melted?

The line was always too long. No one I talked to experienced it, what was it like?

[Shooters08]

The Strokes
Mumford and Sons
One Day as a Lion
Two Door Cinema Club
Kanye

Duck Sauce, Gogol Bordello, & Cage get honorable mentions

[bmack86]

The line was always too long. No one I talked to experienced it, what was it like?

It was an aleatoric chamber with a piece of the song Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space continually looping, with five lights beaming into the center of the space. If you stepped into a light square, you would hear an isolated part of the track, and each light square had a different isolated piece. There was no description of it whatsoever so it was completely about discovery, and finding all the different sound combinations was out of this world.

Full disclosure: Spiritualized is one of my all time favorite acts, so the room was especially moving.

[hightide]

Boys Noize
Twelves
Arcade Fire
Lil B
Chase and Status

[Vic Viper]

high contrast
presets
chemical brothers
leftfield
lucent dossier

[rag and bone]

trentemoller
chemical brothers
cut copy
off!
sasha

[sdsuman]

Ratatat
Cut Copy
Arcade Fire
Two Door Cinema Club
DFA 1979

[nathanfairchild]

One Day As A Lion
Arcade Fire
Death From Above 1979
Yelle
The Strokes

[send me ctrpllrs]

OFF! also deserves an honorable mention, because they were fucking awesome.