By the last day, I’m usually starting to get in the groove at Cornerstone Festival, but this year I was still restless and sleepless at night and still suffering from my lingering illness and still dozing during shows. Something was definitely not right with me. Nonetheless, I only had one day left so I needed to get the most out of Cornerstone while there was still some festival left.
We arrived early to the Main Stage to see The Glorious Unseen, a unique and reverent worship band, but I was still sluggish from lack of sleep and the unshaded heat of the main stage made me sleepy. The weather, which had been just about perfect the entire week, had heated up just a little bit, but was still very much tolerable. Unless you are sick and sitting out in the open sun. I don’t really remember much about this show, unfortunately.
We stepped over to the Label Stage to see Tonight Tonight but again, I don’t remember much about the show because I still in a sleepy stupor. Going back to Main Stage, I perk up a little bit for House of Heroes who sound surprisingly good. They have a little bit of a Muse influence and they have a good rocking sound so I’m back paying attention. All The Day Holiday played next on the Main Stage and much like the Deas Vail show yesterday I was a little apprehensive about their show playing in the middle of the day on the Main Stage instead of with a lively crowd under a tent. All The Day Holiday didn’t do as well as Deas Vail, in my opinion, partially because they left off many of the songs that I like by them. A mild disappointment though I still do really like this band.
There wasn’t much going on in the afternoon and I still wasn’t feeling great, so I mostly stayed in the web trailer and caught up with blogging and photos and then enjoyed a leisurely dinner with everyone. This year we didn’t get an opportunity to all have dinner together at the Behm’s campsite which is a shame, that’s one of my favorite moments of Cornerstone, but the schedule didn’t allow for it this year. After a little bit of rest, I was ready to close out my Cornerstone at the Gallery Stage.
O’Brother started the night out and they were ok, but a little to abstract for my taste. I may have to give them another chance sometime. The next band Future of Forestry was one of the bands I had been looking forward to seeing all week. I was a little apprehensive because, like Paper Route, I had been talking them up all week and was afraid my friends would not be impressed, but like Paper Route they delivered the goods at the show. The band had only three members, but there were probably fifteen instruments on the stage as they moved between all of them. The show was incredible and I was glad to see this band that rarely ventures out of the West Coast. I may have some video of this show that I will upload later.
The last show of the night, much like last year, was Seabird This year, they had a new CD worth of material to play and it was well received by the crowd. The lead singer even brought his cute little four year-old daughter onto the stage (which made me really, really miss my two little sprites.) to say hello to everyone. The show was a nice way to close out the festival weekend.
Quiet Science was playing another show on the Jesus Village stage, but at this point, I was pretty much used up. We all went back to the web trailer to say our goodbyes to all the hardworking people on the coverage team at Cornerstone and chatted for a while before eventually heading out. The last night was kind of a coda to the whole festival, wrapping things up from the climax of the previous evening.
As for me, I slept almost the entire way home the next day and upon returning home discovered that I had a sinus infection. I don’t know how you get a sinus infection while you are still on antibiotics for a strep throat, but I managed to do it. No wonder I felt so bad during the week. Oh well, physical ailments aside, Cornerstone Festival 2010 was a great amount of fun and in my next post I’ll sum up the week and note some of the highlights.