Have you ever been to gig where something unexpected has occurred and it changed your live music experience forever? Well, for the lucky folk at Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest a few days ago, this happened.
Indie rock mainstays Modest Mouse were performing their evening set at the Texan festival when one of the universe’s most beautiful natural phenomenons occurred, with a massive meteor burning out in the skies above, as Musicfeeds point out.
The incredible sky-light show holds a few pretty interesting tidbits that would suggest to the more superstitious types that this flashy event was all a wondrous twist of fate. At the time the meteor crashed to earth, the band oddly enough were performing the track ‘Dark Center Of The Universe’ which is from their 2000 record The Moon And Antarctica. On top of this, Modest Mouse were not originally billed on the lineup, having replaced fellow indie contemporaries Death Cab For Cutie.
You can hear a few faint “woos” of shock from audience members, however the majority are transfixed on the performing band, who too at the time did not notice the strange happenings. Later, they tweeted,
There was a rather large meteor over Texas during our set at @funfunfunfest that was caught on camera. http://t.co/pqdNihfCZ1
— Modest Mouse (@modestmouseband) November 10, 2014
Interestingly The American Meteor Society confirmed that the falling object was in fact a meteor, detailing that it was “at least four feet wide, weighed about 4,000 pounds and burned five times brighter than a full moon” adding a little mystery, there has been no official release as to where the rock fell.
Check out the spectacular fan-footage below:
