I went to a music festival here in Freiburg, Germany on Wednesday and saw Foals. They were really great live, and I was about 10 feet from the stage. The only dumb thing was they only played for about an hour and didn't give any kind of an encore. The organizers said that the singer had a fever, but I don't quite understand why you play for an hour and then don't do even 1 more song when you have several hundred people going nuts for it.
Oh well. Anyway overall it was completely worth it, especially since it was a birthday present and I didn't pay.