Johnny Rice Is Pissed Off, Jenny Lewis Takes It In Her Stride At Cultures Collide -by Alyson Camus

And Johnny seemed pissed off, really pissed off, you could tell by the expression on his boyish face and by the way he was strumming his guitar.
Jenny and Johnny were supposed to play at 8 pm at the Culture Collide
festival, and there were so many technical problems they started their set at least 40 minutes later, with more technical problems during it. I was lurking backstage seeing the two of them talking to the technicians, as many people were trying to fix the problem, but it was apparently an electrical nightmare. And one of Johnny’s acoustic guitars became silent when he took it at one point, so he became even more furious launching a ‘Fuck it’ while grabbing another electric guitar and showing some impatient moves to the crew. He had good reasons to be pissed off as they were headlining the main stage of the festival, the rest of the night happening indoors, inside the church. And nothing seemed to work.

Jenny said to him ‘Come on Johnny, let’s do this shit’, as she seemed to take the whole thing less seriously, and even with one of them fuming, they were still an extremely cute couple, judging by the storm of pictures taken when they came on stage.

Jenny, all red hair in a red dress, was throwing adorable sights to her boyfriend from time to time between the songs, and was using all her charm to make everyone forget about the long wait, making sexy moves with her guitar, saying how she loved Silver Lake, although we were technically in Echo Park.

But when they played, they played like true pros, many of their songs from their album, ‘I’m having fun now’, songs like ‘New-Yorker Cartoon’, ‘Just like Zeus’, ‘Committed’ among others, alternating on lead vocals, harmonizing at two voices, ‘Big Waves’ being probably the one who definitively made me think the most to a Rilo Kiley song.

They ended up with a rocking and extremely bluesy rendition, of ‘The next messiah’ from Jenny Lewis’ ‘Acid tongue’, so bluesy it was almost mean at times, Johnny must have been still pissed off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgvekDd58gg

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