Just made it back into town from PopFest…what a great time!  It was great meeting a regiment of new friends and getting face time in with familiar faces.  I managed to get most of the week on tape (71 acts!), and only missed a few on the last day due to equipment issues.

For fear of inundating everyone with too much at once, I’m hoping to post something akin to “Popfest Set-of-the-Day” as I get things tracked out.  This should allow everyone time to reflect on each performance/act.

Most requested has been the reunion of high-school band Fat Planet, lead by Robert Schneider and Bill Doss.  I missed most of the set (down at Flicker setting up for the next act), and can’t provide much input on the experience.  Rich has some good coverage of it over at C&T.  He’s also posted a great set of photos.

Anyway, on to the music!
(A zipfile of the entire performance is available here.)

Fat Planet
8.15.2008
Athens Popfest
Little Kings Shuffle Club, Athens, GA

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300′s > Lunatec V3 (opti-mod) > Nomad JB3 >
Firewire > CoolEdit Pro > CDWave > Flac16

Setlist:
1. (intro/banter)
2. Skyway
3. Jumping Fences
4. (Warm Milk and Chocolate story)
5. Warm Milk and Chocolate
6. Mercury Mother
7. Opera House
8. A Sunshine Fix
9. California Demise
10. The Gypsum Oilfield Fire
11. NYC-25 (aborted)
12. Monsters
13. The Rainbow

Lineup:
Robert Schneider (Apples in Stereo, Marbles, Ulysses, Thee American Revolution)
Bill Doss (Olivia Tremor Control, Sunshine Fix, Apples in Stereo)
Will Cullen Hart (Olivia Tremor Control, Circulatory System)
Peter Ehrchick (Pipes You See Pipes You Don’t, Olivia Tremor Control)
Charlie Johnston (63 Crayons, Circulatory System)