![]() ![]() ![]() Soon after he finishes his number, Garbus is swiftly replaced by JT Turret, who starts singing about being from Long Island, naturally. Later, I would find out that he was Gov Ball’s stage manager, Garbus, who is retiring after more than ten years with the organization so, after a last-minute cancellation from pop-punk band Ultra Q, the festival lets him fill in. On the GoPuff stage, I see what appears to be a security guard belting Weezer’s “Say It Ain’t So” to a dozen or so fans excitedly singing along. While it’s only a short run between the two smaller stages, walking to the main stage requires about six or seven minutes of dodging teenagers and long lines at food vendors. The three stages are set up like a horseshoe, with the Gov Ball NYC main stage and the tiny Seltzer Session venue on one side, while the smaller GoPuff and Bacardi stages are on the other. I free myself from backstage purgatory only to find myself next to the GoPuff stage. Jon Garbus and JT Turret‚ Friday, 12:10 p.m. Credential in hand, I accidentally trap myself backstage trying to get into the festival and only end up hearing one song - which sounded like a Stranger Things needle drop, if Stranger Things took place in Brooklyn - from behind an 18-wheeler. But also, sorta right.Ī long line at the press-credential pickup threatened to jeopardize my timeline, calling for desperate measures: As the first act, ’80s-inspired pop-rock band Plastic Picnic, started their set, I cut to the front of the media line by pretending to recycle my water bottle. You might think that approaching Gov Ball in this manner would affect my ability to appreciate each of those performances. Over the course of 72 hours, that amounted to 64 performances on three separate stages, all of it held together by waves of teenage sweat and an incalculable amount of Liquid Death spon-con. To head off those anxieties, I opted for an alternate tack: I set out to see every band at Gov Ball, even if only briefly. A lesser attendee might struggle with the many decisions that have to be made about which acts to see and when, paralyzed by thoughts of what they might be missing. Attending a festival of this sort can be overwhelming, with dozens of acts available to check out over the course of three days. is going to go off for hiatus and you’ll get just re-runs anyway, until October.The Governors Ball, otherwise known as the music festival where tristate-area teens flood the 7 train to smoke weed for the first time, took place this past weekend at Citi Field with a lineup that included J. It’s mid-April- at some point very soon, S.N.L. Patience, they’ll be back on here and there. The whole thing ran like 90 seconds, and was just hysterical. She brings it back to life after a few rounds of shocks. It was a spoof on the entire look of the show, but instead of a human, they had a stuffed animal who had “coded” and was rushed in on a teeny tiny backboard, being bagged the whole time. My hands down favorite one featured Julianna Marguilies, who had just left “E.R.” at that point. Typically the spoofs that involve the week’s guest host are shot the day before air, and there is a frantic rush of post-production to get them from location to air. Some are prepped with literally a day’s notice, others are written and prepped weeks in advance. They shoot them in waves, and perhaps over the last few weeks, they haven’t aired any. He’s directed them since the first year, and written many of the classic commercial spoofs. They’re ( almost ) always directed by the same man- James Signorelli. The one for genuine horse hoof glue was pretty hilarious too. I’ve shot quite a few over the years, but the ones that stand out are the one with David Spade and the Two Fops where they visit an S&M Sex Club like it’s a normal tourist trap in NYC, and the one for Viagra. ![]()
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