Dan Deacon Ensemble played Red Hook Park (pics & video)

I don't know why I went to this.
Should have went to the Drake show...

is this photographer aware that there is a 'focus' function on his camera?

^ That's the filmy blur of hummus-on-the-lens that's creating that effect.

Hipsters will be always hipsters.....

This was a great show, and not packed at all, which is unusual for free summer shows, though, I guess that's what happens when you have a concert somewhere practically inaccessible to the subway. However, the cops were pretty aggressively targeting picnickers who had brought wine, doing a blanket-to-blanket search of most people there.

^Agreed. Heavy-handed policing seemed slightly unnecessary.

i wonder if the nypd does a blanket to blanket search when the philharmonic plays central park and it's swarming with upper east side families and their wine...

This show was WOW

^ they don't. im not sure if its ignored purposely but my friends and i drank 5-6 bottles openly.

Awesome show, good vibe, perfect weather. Lots of dancing. So much dust kicked up, I ended up with black boogers...Young crowd up front/in the "pit." This was my first time seeing DD, and the ensemble was awesome. Very cool to hear him with a live band.
And for those that say The show was all but inaccessible from the subway, I walked < 10 min from the Smith & 9th St. station. No big deal.

You chumps just weren't discreet. Totally your bad your for being amature hour about having booze in a public place

i'm not sure how people dance to this crap. probably just no rhythm.

damn, wish i'd gone to this, thought it would be a mob scene, but looked and sounded like a good but not packed crowd. i could have walked there. oh well.

White people will do anything for a "good time."

9:36 - they were kneeling down on people's blankets, taking their drinks from their hands and sniffing them. That's a lot more aggressive then usual.

And don't blame the victim, dick.

The cops are so lame. Hipsters drinking $5 bottles of Trader Joe's wine are not a threat.

It was my first time seeing Dan Deacon, and his ensemble, as well. I totally loved the show.

I can see how some people don't get his sound. I do, but I'm a sucker for weird percussion and squelchy synths. But, even if you didn't, the performance is stellar. They give it their all and get the crowd riled up in a positive way. You'd have to be a very active misanthrope (like many BV commenters) to not have come away from the show feeling energized. Free show! Summer!

Plus, it was one of those shows that started around sunset and continued as it got dark. Those shows always have a bit of magic to them.

such an amazing show

The cops were insanely aggressive especially this one clown of an officer. They were kneeling down, picking up peoples drinks and sniffing them. I couldn't tell if they were enforcing the "open alcohol" rule or if they were looking for underage drinkers as they were taking peoples ID's as well. Also saw a few poor souls actually get arrested for smoking weed. The same aggro cop was "hunting" the smokers i kid you not. Weaving his way through the crowd then sprinting at the offending concertgoers. Really really not cool and I would have thought the Summerstage folks would have asked them to tone it down as no one was acting a fool (see the seaport videos) and no one was getting hurt.

Mayor Assburg trying to make as much $$ as possible and this just ain't the way.

"practically inaccessible to the subway"
"And for those that say The show was all but inaccessible from the subway, I walked < 10 min from the Smith & 9th St. station. No big deal."

word, red hook park is one of the few things in red hook that's CLOSE TO THE SUBWAY. Like above commenter said, less than ten minute walk. try walking to sunny's. THAT'S far from the subway.

bored hummus

anyone know where I can find more pictures from this concert?

Around Red Hook, Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill the cops LOVE giving tickets for open container. I've seen (and been victim to) them giving tickets to people sitting on their own stoops and drinking out of cups or paper bags.

I'd say it was for a quota or something but it's just a pain in the ass for everyone involved. There's no fine, you just have to go to some bullshit group at the Red Hook courthouse filled with other people who got busted for the same thing, where they tell you that you'll get a ticket for drinking in public. Which you already know because that's why you're there.

So basically you just wasted your morning and had to take the time off from your job for no good reason, and the cops who wrote you the ticket presumably wasted a bunch of time with the paperwork involved in writing you the ticket. Great job.

Amazing show, perfect weather, good atmosphere over all. I hope there are more summerstage events here that are equally good.
As for the open container thing, being covert or not, you know that you're not 'supposed' to have booze in the park and (myself included) are always taking the risk of getting a ticket. Stop being such a crybaby about it. Cops can be dicks, but put on your big boy pants and deal with it.

the cops assigned to "guard" us seemed to have huge sticks up their asses for no discernible reason

the cops, especially the skin head fat faced sargent lived up to their 60's moniker, pigs... there's no excuse for hasseling and arresting kids and adults who were orderly and just watching the show... this is harassment, plain and simple... if they don't want people to have a good time, don't lure them to city parks with free shows and then arrest them...

Stop being hip and drinking cheap wine in a park the point of a Dan Deacon show is to dance

@12:08 i live in Carroll Gardens, the cops do NOT give tix to people sitting on their stoops drinking. Never happens. Thanks for trying to sound like you have a clue though...

Oh, that's weird because I've gotten one before. Maybe it was the FAKE COPS! SCAM OF THE CENTURY!

BTW, at the Red Hook court meeting thing you have to go to when you get an open container, they told us that if the cops can see you from the street, you're subject to a ticket. Even if you're in your gated front yard or something.

But since you know it all, you can act uppity and indignant when you eventually get a ticket this summer. I just hope I can pop out of the bushes and yell "HA HA!" when it happens.

i've had many glasses of wine on my front stoop, as well as beers, and this has never happened to me, or anyone else I know! sucks to be you i guess...

i saw richard dunn there

this was so beautiful
'white people will do anything to have a good time' wow, how many things i could say to that
racism much? its a double edged sword
anyway, the concert, you know, the important part, was fucking fantastic. such a beautiful park and the perfomance was ecstatic~dancing and being there was like tripping on LIFE

Why was a group that appeals to whites booked to play in a neighborhood that is 85% people of color? It smacks of racism.

great show.

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