Ratatat to Play the Yard, or Harvard’s Hipster Invasion and Why It Will Fail
Wisps of cigarette smoke froze in midair at the Advocate building early this morning, when the Crimson announced that Ratatat and Sara Bareilles would headline this year's Yardfest. Just months ago the Undergraduate Council and campus "Fun Czar" obliterated whatever hip currency they had gained in inviting Girl Talk to perform in the Yard by, oh yes, chasing Mr. Gillis off stage just minutes into the show.
If the day makes it past the inevitable attack from local hipsters using fixed gear bikes to erect Belgian gates, here's how the Cantabs could screw up another promising line-up:
- The Lampoon upstages with a three-peat of awesome musicians driving awesome vehicles. See James Brown in a Monster Truck or OK Go on go-carts.
- The Campus Events Board gives Petros, Harvard's Greek-American sensation, an opening act slot. Word around town is he has fans. Word around here is he has predatory tendencies.
- Quite realistically, kids with eyes shrunken from the Batcave conditions in Widener Library will hear electronic music for the first time and black out, retreating to the familiar music of years past: Third Eye Blind and Ben Folds.
More after the jump. Really it's all looking pretty dismal, though. Except for the music acts. They're kind of great choices (for Yardfest 2006)!
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