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"Those of you reading outside of Los Angeles might need a primer on the cemetery. It's situated in the middle of Hollywood, shares a southern border with the Paramount Studios lot, is this incredibly peaceful and quiet place a five minute drive from downtown Hollywood. Among the American royalty enshrined on the grounds are Charlie Chaplin, Mel Blanc, Cecil B. DeMille, John Huston, Art Pepper, Yma Sumac, Johnny Ramone and Eva Tanguay. Amidst the tombstones are gorgeous mausoleums, quiet ponds, elegant statues and a building with a vast white wall the exact size of a movie screen. For much of the year the ownership opens its gates for film screenings.Darren Kim (our photographer) arrived at 4:15am Sunday morning (9/27). It was "foggy as hell". As you can see in the pictures, people were spread out on blankets and in sleeping bags on a large grass field like a giant slumber party. Before 5:00, Darren wandered over to visit Johnny Ramone. Amazingly, there at the grave was a black cat just hanging out (you can see in the pics). At 5:15 the monks came on like like a giant alarm that woke everyone in time for the sunrise show, though you couldn't actually see the sun ("it just got whiter").So starting at midnight the cemetery and Bon Iver's founder, singer and songwriter, Justin Vernon, programmed an all-night event that culminated in a two-hour performance by Bon Iver. The evening went as follows:
12 a.m.: Doors
12:30 a.m.: Bon Iver DJ Set I (see full set list below)
2 a.m.: The Feature Film: Bottle Rocket
3:30 a.m. Bon Iver DJ Set II (see full set list below)
4 a.m.: Documentary Film: Planet Earth (Jungles)
5:15 a.m.: Blessing of Audience and Stage by Buddhist Monks
5:45 a.m.: Bon Iver Performs
[LA Weekly]"
As the fog slowly cleared and daylight began to break, Bon Iver played an absolutely perfect set, hitting all of their songs. I have to believe even the dead people buried nearby appreciated the resonating beauty of his music, mostly from For Emma, Forever Ago, and some newer work. Justin made a disclaimer that unlike most bands, he would not be playing an encore. "We're a young band still. We don't have that many songs yet." And sure enough a few songs later, about an hour and fifteen minutes after the set began, he said, "This is the last song we know how to play. I'm a little embarrassed," before launching into a beautiful, eerie version of "Wolves," with everyone joining in on the chorus. [Indie Muse]Megafaun was in the house and also joined Bon Iver on stage.
More pictures, some videos, and the three Bon Iver setlists, below...
"I can only imagine that he made more fans of his music Sunday morning than had even bought tickets. Who's to say those buried in the crowd didn't appreciate the gesture? Maybe even Dee Dee and Johnny Ramone--who both call that place home--can get behind the songs in his catalog? Either way, the living ones left happy. It was a party they didn't want to end."How about we do this all again sometime?" Justin says, pausing. After some thought, he follows with: "No, how about we never do it again? How about that?" If he sealed his band's fate with those words, you know? That'll do." [Elvis Enthusiasts Unite]
Bon Iver DJ Set I
The Roches - "Quitting Time"
The Rosebuds - "Blue Bird"
New Buffalo - "Emotional Champ"
Rolling Stones - "No Use in Crying"
Don Williams - "Say It Again"
D'Angelo - "Feel Like Making Love"
Wax Stag - "Short Road"
Slim Harpo - "I'm a King Bee"
Mississippi Fred McDowell - "Shake 'Em Down"
Bonnie Raitt - "Nick of Time"
AA Bondy - "I Can See the Pines Are Dancing"
James Booker - "On the Sunny Side of the Street"
Tammy Wynette - "Apartment #9"
Aimee Mann - "How Am I Different"
The Bad Plus - "Flim"
Amateur Love - "Jailbreak"
Captain & Tennille - "Muskrat Love"
Bill Callahan - "Jim Cain"
Junietta Venegas - "Algo Esta Cambiando"
Mahalia Jackson - "Didn't It Rain?"
Dirty Projectors - "No Intention"
Nina Simone - "Seems Like I'm Never Tired Loving You"
Dr. John - "Me - You = Loneliness"
Yo La Tengo - "Black Flowers"
Bon Iver DJ Set II
Arthur Russell - "A Little Lost"
Sam Cooke - "Steal Away"
Ibrahim Ferrer - "Boliviana"
Staple Singers - "Uncloudy Day"
Innocence Mission - "I Haven't Seen This Day Before"
Vienna Boys Choir - "In Dulci Jubilo"
Lucinda Williams - "Minneapolis"
Paul Westerberg - "We May Well Be the Ones"
Sade - "By Your Side"
Judee Sill - "The Kiss"
Bon Iver set list
Lump Sum
Creature Fear
Brackett, WI
Flume
Skinny Love
Babys
Blood Bank
Beach Baby
Worried Mind [with Megafaun]
For Emma
Re: Stacks
The Wolves (Act I and II)
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Great photos by Darren! He's the Rockscope guy.
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 2:31 PM
FYI..........
10/1 - BON IVER @ Ballroom Marfa --- MARFA, TX
$2 dollars - not a type-o!!!!!!!
http://tickets.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?pl=76&lid=36624&eid=43001
SORRY, looks like it has sold out already. :(
Posted by TXn | September 28, 2009 2:41 PM
If you live near Marfa or want to take a chance, the page says $3 @ the Door.
OH, and it is in the Goode Crowley Theater, which apparently Ballroom Marfa owns?
Posted by TXn | September 28, 2009 2:46 PM
Who's Hooker?
Posted by Keep petting that kitty! | September 28, 2009 2:50 PM
$3 at the door = ripoff!
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 3:01 PM
what the hell does this have to do with brooklyn or veganism. im outta here
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 3:03 PM
Who beneath the small tombstone?
- cannot make out the name...
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 3:12 PM
Bon Iver's beard looks fake
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 3:15 PM
This looked like an excellent idea. LA, however, still sucks.
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 3:31 PM
3:31 FTW
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 3:34 PM
Bon Iver's hair looks fake
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 3:34 PM
LA weather sucks
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 3:41 PM
LA blows
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 3:43 PM
what I wouldn't have given to have been there...
Posted by Laura | September 28, 2009 3:56 PM
La rawks ny's balls off. Enjoy winter fuckos
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 4:08 PM
I live in NYC and you know what? LA rocks. It's the part of the world that has only two seasons and skips the two shitty one.
San Francisco kills both NYC and LA!
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 4:12 PM
I actually quite enjoy the NY winters. We at least have some variety.
This show looks like it was surreal, however.
Posted by Matt | September 28, 2009 4:12 PM
R.I.P. HOOKER.
Posted by Liz | September 28, 2009 4:13 PM
i lived in LA for 10 years and NY for 5. the difference is that LA is such a transient city, you get a wide variety of people to hate. usually they get replaced quickly by other people to hate.
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 4:17 PM
It seems like a wonderful production - something we need here. Wish I was there.
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 4:17 PM
god this would've been awesome
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 4:49 PM
great stuff but if he got there at 4:15 he missed most of the party
Posted by Kay Randolph | September 28, 2009 4:51 PM
That looks absolutely fucking amazing.
Wow.
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 4:54 PM
Great photographs. I love LA.
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 4:58 PM
looks boring as shit. you people are lame.
how much shit do these people need to bring to a fucking show. somebody had a roll of paper towels. what, are you doing the dishes bitch?
lame-os.
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 5:09 PM
5:09-
Should've just gone with ceMEHtary.
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 5:16 PM
There's something about not having several distinct seasons in a big city that turns the residents brains into mush.
San Francisco, incidentally, is a decent place, but it gets old pretty quickly. Two weeks there and it gets a bit boring.
Portland, however, seems to be second only to Brooklyn for per-capita indie rock awesomeness and seems to have a generally engaged and largely non-superficial scene.
And Chicago just gets TOO fucking cold in the damnable months of winter, though otherwise seems decent.
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 5:23 PM
You know that LA sucks the dick of NYC when people will hang out all night in a damp cemetery watching shit films just for the chance to see some 3rd-rate Will Oldham wanna-be play an hour long set of his beard rock at 5 in the morning. Gimme a fuckin' break.
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 5:54 PM
Spoken like a true, holier-than-thou NYC douche. No doubt a Will'sburg trust funder, clearly the echelon of cultural might.
I guess Berlin has that weird post-Soviet architecture everywhere, and London with all the funny (aka stupid) accents, and Barcelona with their angsty moody politics, and Sydney is so damn hot and incessantly beachy, and Tokyo being...just...so...Japanese.
Your anti-everywhere-but-NYC rant is trite and pathetic. Grow up douche bag. Great cities are great cities because they're like nowhere else, be that weather or people or industry or anything else. SF, NYC, Chi, etc...take them for what they are rather than waxing 5th grade philosophical.
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 5:55 PM
well anyway...
would anyone really want to lay down in a cemetary?
jeez, at least should have made it a goth fest..
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 6:22 PM
WERE ZAPTEROS KIDS THERE? http://gawker.com/5368039/spains-goth-first-daughters-embarrass-embarrassed-by-dad
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 7:19 PM
the first thing i thought when i saw this was, how the fuck did he get a sound permit in the cemetery at daybreak? then i realized he doesn't have to deal with the nypd, and it all makes sense.
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 7:26 PM
why can no one spell cemetery correctly? must be a NYC bitter thing...
the show was UNBELIEVABLE. you wouldn't be able to pull something off this sweet in NY if you wanted to- to many people would be assholes like most of the comments here.
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 9:01 PM
do those palm trees really need to be THAT tall?
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 9:19 PM
Twitter
pic9: i totally just pet johnny ramone doood wtf!?
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 9:51 PM
uhhh...why is it that everyone in brooklyn tries to act like their from rural america, playing folk music and all. can someone explain what that is all about?
Posted by uhhh | September 28, 2009 10:46 PM
show some respect, assholes
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 11:17 PM
a lot of peeps in bk are from rural america
Posted by Anonymous | September 28, 2009 11:46 PM
Typo in the playlist it is "Julieta" not "Junietta" - great song to have by here on that playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNR3pRQ-HzU
Posted by Sergio | September 29, 2009 3:29 AM
Typo in the playlist it is "Julieta" not "Junietta" - great song to have on the dj set: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNR3pRQ-HzU
Posted by Sergio | September 29, 2009 3:30 AM
Bon Iver is from Wisconsin.
Posted by Anonymous | September 29, 2009 10:33 AM
wheres the beer garden?
Posted by Anonymous | September 29, 2009 6:39 PM
Thanks for the mention and link on your site. It was truly a phenomenal night/morning ... I have my doubts I'll ever experience something quite like that again.
Posted by Dainon | October 2, 2009 1:50 PM
The article is very professionally written. I enjoy reading every day
Posted by lv | October 17, 2009 11:26 AM
отличная аренда автомобилей только тут.
Posted by EMELJANOVArtemij | September 20, 2010 8:38 AM