"A Line Of Coke and a Hotdog": The Story Of Los Campesinos! at Coachella 2009

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/5098185]
When we were in the US of A I spent a lot of time shoving a camera in people’s faces. Now being the world’s most annoying person is beginning to pay off, as I have actually edited together footage of our experiences at the surreal and absurd festival that is Coachella. I hope it makes you laugh, cry and implode sporadically.

The gig and signing footage was executed by our merchandise girl Kelly, the tomfoolery and stupidity was executed by ourselves.

Thank you

Ellen x

Comments (0)

GazzJune 10th, 2009 at 9:40 pm

Wow! I’m so jealous of everyone that got to go to Coachella… Come play in the UK again pretty please…

edenJune 10th, 2009 at 9:49 pm

MOAR

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DavidJune 10th, 2009 at 9:53 pm

Amazing!

lorenJune 10th, 2009 at 9:58 pm

Haha. I did in fact laugh, cry and implode sporadically. Great video :)

McBainJune 10th, 2009 at 10:26 pm

I cannot think of a single reason that you are not the greatest band in the world.

SteJune 10th, 2009 at 10:41 pm

Amazing.

philJune 10th, 2009 at 10:45 pm

a good time was had by all the brits at coachella!

DrewJune 10th, 2009 at 11:26 pm

I wish I had a friend like Gareth
“Loads of rich kids all pretty fit, but probably hugely depressed”
HAHAHA

DianaJune 11th, 2009 at 12:54 am

Looks like you went into an episode of The OC, except that you got free stuff!

EricJune 11th, 2009 at 1:01 am

Drew – the “all a bit pedo-y” was the best part.

As if I couldn’t love y’all more. Thanks for this. Clearly you had fun making it.

Is there a story behind the title of the movie, other than that it represents the (stereo?)typical diet of the “Less Than Zero” types?

YazJune 11th, 2009 at 1:53 am

This definitely made me implode sporadically. Amazing. xo

KaleyJune 11th, 2009 at 3:06 am

As a proud Canadian, I can’t thank Neil enough for hitting one of the members of Billy Talent with that water balloon.

AleJune 11th, 2009 at 3:07 am

:) !!!!

DavidJune 11th, 2009 at 4:25 am

That was AMAZING!!! Thanks so much, it was great to watch.
PLEASE COME TO NEW ZEALAND!

BradleyJune 11th, 2009 at 6:13 am

I like that the image on the video before you click play is Neil’s shorty shorts. What a dreamboat!

gerlinJune 11th, 2009 at 8:40 am

Genius! This video made me really happy.

DianaJune 11th, 2009 at 9:00 am

Awesome. Beyond awesome. Beawesome!

I got a sense of how you may be constantly fearing for Neil’s pretty face.

JoeJune 11th, 2009 at 10:30 am

That looked fucking brilliant.
Your show at Coachella looked amazing, not enough bands climb into the audience these days. As for the egg throwing, I just had to laugh.

DavidJune 11th, 2009 at 11:55 am

I liked Gareth’s song at the start, especially the Jenny Lewis mention. :L

ILJune 11th, 2009 at 5:55 pm

what’s the name of the song @ 9:20?

GarethJune 11th, 2009 at 5:57 pm

DUDE, that’s Box Elder, by Pavement.

MattttJune 11th, 2009 at 6:14 pm

A hoy hoy.

Your show in Detroit MI back when it was cold, was the most alive amazing show I’ve been to in a long time.

I can’t wait for you guys to return, whenever it may be. You are amazing in all sense of word. =]

Also, very fun video. Greatly enjoyed!

ILJune 11th, 2009 at 6:32 pm

oops! my bad haha Ellen did a good job making that video, it seems you had wonderful times at Coachella!!! let’s hope there’s a sequel or at least bloopers

TessJune 12th, 2009 at 4:36 am

I like how you girls asked if you could throw water balloons at people. Oh that was hilarious. But California is lame, but you guys… aren’t =)

EllenJune 12th, 2009 at 11:10 am

the ladies throwing the water balloons were not the oestrogen gifted Campesinos! but in fact two thirds of the “The Vivian Girls,” a talented bunch of ladies who have better aim then Neil x

JuliaJune 12th, 2009 at 4:28 pm

My favorite part of this might be the shot of a girl saying “heyyy, nice t-shirt”…and then the cut right back to your performance. That is probably a good example of what fills the minds of those vacuous, creepy people. The two girls at the piano were something special.
That being said, I adore that red/pink dress you wore at Coachella, Ellen.

theendoftheworldcanbefunJune 12th, 2009 at 9:40 pm

that video was amazing. i hope rhode island will get grace with your presence like that one day….
i really liked ellen’s comment about neil’s “lovely gym shorts”. thanks so much for…for just being Los Campesinos! That’s just great.^-^

DaveJune 12th, 2009 at 11:35 pm

Thanks for sharing this Ellen. I love to see that you love what you are doing and are documenting so much of it. I’m even happier that you share it with us. I can’t wait to hear the new material and I’m excited to see the band the next time you are passing through

VeeeJune 13th, 2009 at 10:44 am

You’ve seen Jake Gyllenhaal?? I want to go to Coachella too!
thanks for that video,you should do this more often :D
x

EllenJune 13th, 2009 at 12:52 pm

Those are also my two favorite shots Julia, I loved that girl desperately trying to remember this piano piece she has not played in five years, when she was all young and innocent and not wearing a swimming costume in some strangers house when she probably has no intention of going swimming…. I have another 7 hours of footage of our time in America, there will be more at some point x

MattttJune 13th, 2009 at 5:18 pm

7 hours?! you’re going to explode trying to sift through that.

Good luck!
(we all look forward to seeing it)

ClairJune 14th, 2009 at 3:28 am

Heard “All Your Kayfabe Friends” on the radio yesterday here in Seattle. This has added to the joy that brought me during these time of final test prep.

JeniJune 19th, 2009 at 9:49 am

LOS CAMPESINOS! 4:20 -

Lolz.

RobJuly 30th, 2009 at 4:13 am

fucking lovely butties….aaah Cali

Dennis Carlos IIOctober 20th, 2009 at 7:51 am

yus~! i found myself in the crowd at coachella behind gareth when he walked into the middle of the crowd/
that made me grin.
by the way. i ain’t one of ‘em rich kids.
i had to save my lunch moneyz for months hahaha.

LC!,MoZ,Cure,YYY,Jenny,Conor,M.Ward,OkkervilRiver and loads of booz…. was def worth it

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