THE FILLMORE, SAN FRANCISCO
MONDAY, JULY 21, 2008
our shows if you don’t
want to get your shoes
Coachella Festival,
stepped on or catch
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Karen O, who celebrated
some of the foggy think-
her band’s sunset slot at
ing he’s noticed after the
Coachella by impersonating
gigs. “[Audiences] leave
a pile of gold doubloons.
and go, ‘yo, where have
“Maybe she was going for
I been for the last hour
Sheba, Queen of the Desert?
and a half? I can’t be-
Or maybe Queen of Mars? It
was, for the most part, okay to
lieve it’s over already!’ ”
move around in. The trick was
to not trip on one of the longer
pieces and be sent flying.”
Photograph by Zach Cordner
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