Atlanta's Echo Project brings eco-friendly rock
Festival featured The Killers, The Flaming Lips
Elliot Knight
Contributing Writer
Issue date: 10/17/07 Section: News
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"If you could make everybody poor, just so that you could be rich, would you do it? With all your power, what would you do?" Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips posed that question to fans at the Echo Project in Fairburn, Ga. this weekend.
The first-annual festival was held Oct. 12 through 14 on a scenic farm spotted with lakes, rolling hills and pine forests. The festival successfully blended diverse music, cultures and people together under an umbrella of environmental and social responsibility.
Bands from genres as varied as eccentric rock, crunk trip-hop and symphonic pop played on four stages during the weekend to a crowd of around 10,000 fans from around the country.
Festival promoters made a conscious effort at every level of detail to have the least negative impact on the environment. Employing solar stages, plastic cups made from corn instead of petroleum and large-scale recycling was just the tip of the eco-friendly iceberg at the festival. The Echo System was a tented area with programming and information about art, community-building and sustainability, which constantly had fans walking through to learn more about the environmental challenges we are facing.
The temperature in the evenings dropped into the 40s, and after a chilly Thursday evening, fans rose for an action-packed day of music and superb weather.
The Polyphonic Spree played a delightful afternoon set to an intimate crowd. A large red sheet of fabric waved in the sunlight in front of the Lunar stage, and as the rock orchestra began their set, a heart was slowly cut out of the fabric before the fabric dropped to reveal the 20 members of the band. The band members donned matching black jumpsuits for half of the set, before leaving the stage to put on their signature white robes. The optimistic sound of the Polyphonic Spree's music is created by a mixture of instruments and vocals, including a chorus of nine lovely ladies, a harp, electric clarinet and marching band cymbals and was certainly a great way to usher in the weekends' festivities.
The first-annual festival was held Oct. 12 through 14 on a scenic farm spotted with lakes, rolling hills and pine forests. The festival successfully blended diverse music, cultures and people together under an umbrella of environmental and social responsibility.
Bands from genres as varied as eccentric rock, crunk trip-hop and symphonic pop played on four stages during the weekend to a crowd of around 10,000 fans from around the country.
Festival promoters made a conscious effort at every level of detail to have the least negative impact on the environment. Employing solar stages, plastic cups made from corn instead of petroleum and large-scale recycling was just the tip of the eco-friendly iceberg at the festival. The Echo System was a tented area with programming and information about art, community-building and sustainability, which constantly had fans walking through to learn more about the environmental challenges we are facing.
The temperature in the evenings dropped into the 40s, and after a chilly Thursday evening, fans rose for an action-packed day of music and superb weather.
The Polyphonic Spree played a delightful afternoon set to an intimate crowd. A large red sheet of fabric waved in the sunlight in front of the Lunar stage, and as the rock orchestra began their set, a heart was slowly cut out of the fabric before the fabric dropped to reveal the 20 members of the band. The band members donned matching black jumpsuits for half of the set, before leaving the stage to put on their signature white robes. The optimistic sound of the Polyphonic Spree's music is created by a mixture of instruments and vocals, including a chorus of nine lovely ladies, a harp, electric clarinet and marching band cymbals and was certainly a great way to usher in the weekends' festivities.
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Travis Peterman
posted 10/17/07 @ 5:18 PM CST
i'm sorry, but the flaming lips disappointed me more than any band i've ever seen live. They are by far musically and vocally one of the worst bands i've seen in recent memory. (Continued…)
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