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DeVotchKa played (a short set @) Coachella 2008 - pics
photos by Ryan Muir
A rising Denver band, DeVotchKa, walked off the stage before the end of its performance Saturday at the Coachella music festival in Southern California, one of the nation's largest independent music festivals. The four-member band was playing in 110-degree desert heat when Jeanie Schroder, who plays the standup bass and sousaphone, dropped her metal instrument and walked off the stage.Devotchka's next NYC show is May 20th at Terminal 5 (an indoor venue). Tickets are still on sale. More tour dates here. More pictures below..."She was holding a hot piece of metal in the afternoon sun and said, 'I can't do it, I'm dizzy and I'm done,' " said Rob Thomas, band manager. She did not receive medical attention. Other band members followed her. [Denver Post]
Posted on April 28, 2008 4:03 PM
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Thomas continued, "it was a hot one. like seven inches from the midday sun."
Posted by Anonymous | April 28, 2008 4:11 PM
suck it up
Posted by Anonymous | April 28, 2008 4:17 PM
Rob Thomas? My Lord, how the mighty have fallen....
Posted by Mid Fingg | April 28, 2008 4:21 PM
Suck it up indeed. This is what you train for.
Posted by anonymous2 | April 28, 2008 4:21 PM
I'm going to kick their ass.
Posted by Jay Reatard | April 28, 2008 4:30 PM
You don't see people complaining about playing their Strats OR Teles. Geez.
Posted by Anonymous | April 28, 2008 4:55 PM
while the audience was watching this take place on stage, i stole all their bags and their money.
Posted by Anonymous | April 28, 2008 5:07 PM
there you go all you freakin snarky ass BV posters. have you ever tried to play to tuba in 110 degree heat in front of 50,000 people? didnt think so.
i just hope somebody called the wambulance in time.
Posted by Anonymous | April 28, 2008 5:14 PM
i'd hit it.
Posted by Anonymous | April 28, 2008 5:18 PM
i have seen some incredibly portly individuals dominate halftime tuba sets at NCAA football games played in late august.
this chick needs to lay off the groupie sex / hot pockets.
Posted by Anonymous | April 28, 2008 5:27 PM
Bunch of fuckin whiners....seriously, maybe if the band members were smart enough to just wear t-shirt/shorts like man man...it wouldn't been as bad....but instead they're trying to look stylish when they suck balls!!!
i hope they lost fans during coachella....
Posted by Jonny Greenwood is the man | April 28, 2008 5:40 PM
"i have seen some incredibly portly individuals dominate halftime tuba sets at NCAA football games played in late august."
EXACTLY. Suck it up.
Posted by zik | April 28, 2008 6:01 PM
none of you must be from denver otherwise you would know how shitty a newspaper the Denver Post is. she wasn't playing the tuba at the time, it was her bass which she put down gently on their second to last song. pretty dramatic, huh?
Posted by Anonymous | April 28, 2008 6:03 PM
MAN UP!
Posted by Anonymous | April 28, 2008 6:21 PM
MAN MAN UP!
Posted by Anonymous | April 28, 2008 6:30 PM
^^^Nice one!
Posted by Anonymous | April 28, 2008 7:00 PM
i've played this festival, and then need to put something over the stage. it's crazy to try to play in that kind of heat in direct sunlight.
Posted by Anonymous | April 28, 2008 7:37 PM
you know... i maybe COMPLETELY off the mark here... but maybe it's the black suits and dresses?
Posted by Anonymous | April 28, 2008 9:05 PM
What a bunch of jackasses you all are. How can you not have any sympathy for a multi-instrumentalist group playing the heaviest of pieces in the middle of the day under the desert sun? You weaklings wouldn't last 5 seconds. Devotchka are a great band and I believe they just finished a European tour right before heading to Indio. That alone is exhausting, but factor in the heat and what she was playing, and the even the most acclimated among us would wilt. I can't wait to see them when they play NYC and show them the support they deserve. Fucking Man Man can jump around in the heat in their underwear all they want and won't earn an iota of respect from me because their version of The Muppets sing Tom Waits is unlistenable.
Posted by TitoP | April 29, 2008 10:59 AM
I would buy the Muppets doing Tom Waits the day it came out!
Posted by Anonymous | April 29, 2008 12:48 PM
I was front row center for them at this concert, it was such a disappointment that they cut their set short. ):
Posted by Rebecca | May 25, 2008 2:29 AM