Siren Music Festival 2009

by Ryan Flatley July 23rd 2009 | 15 Comments

Last year, Broken Social Scene absolutely slayed Coney Island’s Astroland during the eighth edition of the Siren Music Festival.  The annual, no cash required, festival generally garners one or two marquee names along with many up-and-comers (to put 'up-and-comers' in perspective, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio, and The Shins have previously played 3:00PM and 4:00PM sets).  In years past M.I.A., Death Cab For Cutie, Cursive, and Modest Mouse have shared one of the two stages present at Sire Music Festival.  This year, Siren featured Spank Rock and Built To Spill as the chosen headliners while Japandroids and Frightened Rabbit were two of the twelve supporting acts in what is continually proving to be a worthy, local festival.  Due to unforeseen circumstances, I was unable to attend this year, but thankfully for our colaboration last year with Edwina Hay, we were able to catch most of the days action with the exception of Monotonix and A Place To Bury Strangers.  So here you have it, a summative glance at Siren Music Festival 2009, filled with Steve Urkel glasses and enough flannel shirts to supply the world's lumberjacks.

Tiny Masters of Today

The Blue Van

Micachu & The Shapes

 

 

Bear Hands

 

Japandroids

 

 The Oh Sees

 

Frightened Rabbit

Future of the Left

 

Grand Duchy

The Raveonettes

 Built To Spill

 

 

Spank Rock

 

 

 

 All photographs courtesy of Edwina Hay [link]

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StreetlightRock 07.24.09

Spank Rock fuck yea. Was that Amanda Blank performing with him?

Youwithoutme 07.24.09

Future of the Left, Frightened Rabbit, Japandroids awe awesome.

IsItLuck? 07.24.09

yeah streetlight, that's her

scyther 07.25.09

If I had a hundreth of a penny for each hipster at this festival...

Electric City 07.25.09

which one of the two chicks is micachu? japandroids, fantastic.

Youwithoutme 07.25.09

the one on the top

JEHIEL 07.25.09

Spank rock killed it!!!!

iarescientists 07.27.09

nice write-up ryan!

thebhoy 07.27.09

Built to Spill and Japandroids ftw.

Electric City 07.27.09

[quote]the one on the top[/quote] ohhh that's disappointing

SeaAnemone 07.27.09

I missed Built to Spill... but I saw Japandroids + FR

Cocaine 07.27.09

Micachu is Tyler Fisher if he dyed his hair.

shindip 07.29.09

The raveonettes drummer looks pretty hardcore.

natey5280 08.03.09

u can never have too much flannel

fromtheinside 08.26.09

this looks like it would have been fun while intoxicated.