MGMT Pool Party

On Sunday I had the pleasure of doing some great things at McCarren Pool in Brooklyn. As you may already know McCarren Pool, sponsored by JellyNYC, holds free pool parties each Sunday featuring a lineup of killer bands and local DJs. This last Sunday was the Ting Tings, some other dumb shit, and MGMT.

After parking around the corner, Bradley and I wandered over to the entrance where we saw a line on the far side wrap around the block. But on the near side we encountered the short line. We wandered over to the end of the shorty and looked around all confused like. Some of the volunteers came over and saw their shorty line had grown quite a bit, so they decided to cut if off and send anyone else trying to hop into the shorty off to the long line. So we basically got in the shorty just as it was closed and were ushered into the venue in no more than 15 minutes, I'm sure there were kids who waited 3 hours in line and never got in since the venue reached capacity before MGMT went on. Once we were in God started to piss on Brooklyn.

I took part in all kinds of pleasant activities while it rained, lady gazing, slip n' sliding, dodge-ball, 4-square, and beer. The warm up DJ played some blog-house classics like Justice, The Gossip, M.I.A, and Diplo. Thunder and rain poured in all through the Ting Tings set but eventually cleared up before MGMT.

I had heard of the Ting Tings before but never bothered to check out their music. Thus I was pleasantly surprised when they put on a nice bass heavy, dance-rock show. I dug the sound and got down pretty nice. But MGMT was stellar, possibly better than their Bonnaroo performance.