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| FLAMING LIPS, SNOOP, WHITE STRIPES, 311 ROCK SAN DIEGO STREET SCENE August 28, 2005 - |
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____________________________________________________________ FLAMING LIPS ON STREET SCENE WHITE STRIPES SAN DIEGO 311 SAN DIEGO STREET SCENE
With a growing number of festivals rising up in America, San Diego Street Scene, which has been around since 1984 continues to bring together a mix of some of the top names in music. This years event which was held July 29th and 30th at Qualcomm Park in San Diego and drew over 100,000, brought together The Killers, Pixies, Social Distortion, Snoop Dogg, 311, Black Eyed Peas, Garbage, The Used, Flaming Lips, Method Man, Unwritten Law, Flogging Molly, Dashboard Confessional, Death Cab for Cutie, Kasabian, Hot Hot Heat, Rise Against, Louis XIV, The International Noise Conspiracy, Autolux, Von Bondies and Hard Fi, to name a few. This was also the first year the festival was moved from downtown San Diego to Qualcomm Park, thus eleveating alot of the crowding and congestion problems from previous years. With four stages and close to thirty bands, San Diego Street Scene continues to be a blue print for running a successful festival. We caught up with The Flaming Lips front main Wayne Coyne to discuss playing festivals and how it's really the crowd that does all the work, not the bands. "Yeah, well we believe in them. They do all the work. The audience if they sit there and scream and are enthusiastic and enjoy each others company and laugh and sing along with us, it's going to be great. But it's not because of us, it'll be because of them joining in on this thing. And a night like tonight, you get 50,000 people out there and that energy, if they want to give it out it'll work and if they don't, well we'll still play and do the best we can but it's really them that does all the work. I got no worries, a night like tonight it's nice out. It's kind of the perfect summer rock and roll night." Two of the most talked about sets at this years Street Scene were The White Stripes and 311, who both are in the midst of headlining summer tours of their own. Our cameras were on hand for energetic sets as both bands brought their tours to San Diego Street Scene. (Pictured Snoop Dogg photo courtesy Brian Yates)
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