What I did on my Lollapalooza Vacation
Saw a little or most of the following acts, and enjoyed occasional highlights:
Saturday: Cold War Kids, The Go! Team, Built to Spill, Particle, Gnarls Barkley, Disco Biscuits, The Flaming Lips, The New Pronographers
Sunday: Hot Chip, Nickel Creek, Andrew Bird, The Shins, Poi Dog Pondering, Wilco
Sorry I missed (Sat/Sun only): Sa Ra, Feist, Calexico, Lyrics Born, Sonic Youth, Kanye West, Of Montreal, Deadsy, Broken Social Scene
Not sorry I missed: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Thing that mostly sucked: The walking. The distance from the Northern-most to Southern-most stages was exactly a mile. Couple this with 60,000+ people going in every which direction and plan on spending 40 minutes just to get where you need to go. Everyone who went must have missed at least one high priority show because of this.
Thing that mostly did not suck: Lots of water fountains, portapots and shade. While not as fan-friendly as the Pitchfork fest last weekend, I do have to give multiple props to Lolla management for putting together the resources to make it all happen and to the crowd for keeping it chill all weekend. At $3 a piece, water was definitely overpriced. The food could have been a little more reasonable as well, but I don't feel like there was any major gouging.
Biggest Surprise: The marketing presence. AT&T's air conditioned tent was like walking in to a giant spiderweb of an advertisement. Everywhere you look people were giving away free shit, be it CDs, lip balm, mist fans, fake tattoos, whatever.
Saturday: Cold War Kids, The Go! Team, Built to Spill, Particle, Gnarls Barkley, Disco Biscuits, The Flaming Lips, The New Pronographers
Sunday: Hot Chip, Nickel Creek, Andrew Bird, The Shins, Poi Dog Pondering, Wilco
Sorry I missed (Sat/Sun only): Sa Ra, Feist, Calexico, Lyrics Born, Sonic Youth, Kanye West, Of Montreal, Deadsy, Broken Social Scene
Not sorry I missed: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Thing that mostly sucked: The walking. The distance from the Northern-most to Southern-most stages was exactly a mile. Couple this with 60,000+ people going in every which direction and plan on spending 40 minutes just to get where you need to go. Everyone who went must have missed at least one high priority show because of this.
Thing that mostly did not suck: Lots of water fountains, portapots and shade. While not as fan-friendly as the Pitchfork fest last weekend, I do have to give multiple props to Lolla management for putting together the resources to make it all happen and to the crowd for keeping it chill all weekend. At $3 a piece, water was definitely overpriced. The food could have been a little more reasonable as well, but I don't feel like there was any major gouging.
Biggest Surprise: The marketing presence. AT&T's air conditioned tent was like walking in to a giant spiderweb of an advertisement. Everywhere you look people were giving away free shit, be it CDs, lip balm, mist fans, fake tattoos, whatever.
posted by Mike H. at 7:21 AM
