!!! Keep It Trippy at Bonnaroo

When dance-punk band !!! took to the stage on Day Two of Bonnaroo, many newbies in the audience were a bit confused. It could be that the band was named after three exclamation marks or the fact that the stage was called 'That Tent' (as opposed to 'This Tent' and 'The Other Tent' across the Centeroo field), or that singer Nic Offer was in short shorts, prancing around the stage like a fairy-gnome-wookie hybrid. The band tore through hits, including the trifecta of 'All My Heroes Are Weirdoes,' 'Must Be the Moon' and title-track 'Myth Takes' off the band's latest, while a kinetic and awkward Offer made sure he covered every inch of the stage at least twice.

Immediately before taking the stage, Offer told Spinner that when !!! performs at festivals such as Bonnaroo, "I definitely keep it in mind that somebody out there might be tripping balls and I try to keep it especially trippy for them." A minute later, and literally as he was walking onstage, he came back to say, "And I've been proven right because people have come up and told me, like, 'That festival that you did last year, dude, I was so f---ed, and then you guys came on, and I was like, 'Woooooah.'" Suffice it to say, next year he'll have plenty of fans saying "Woooah" to him in regards to this year's Bonnaroo set.