3 days. 8 stages. 161 bands. 90,000 people.
YEP!
Ohh Lollapalooza. How I've been waiting since August 2010 to go back. First and foremost, here are the bands that we saw.
Friday: Young The Giant, The Naked and Famous, Reptar, Smith Westerns, Two Door Cinema Club, Bright Eyes, Skrillex, OK GO, Muse, Ratatat
Saturday: Walk The Moon, Phantogram, Friendly Fires, Fitz and The Tantrums, Death From Above 1979, Big Audio Dynamite, Local Natives, Cee Lo, Atmosphere, Eminem
Sunday: Lia Ices, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., The Cool Kids, Flogging Molly, Ralph's World, Boy & Bear, Artic Monkeys
Sunday wasn't quite up-to-par since it down poured for 45 minutes and hang out in drenched clothes for 5 hours doesn't really interest me all that much. We had the intentions of going back once we changed into dry clothes but saw another storm coming and held back. But let's rewind.
My favorite from friday is hands down Reptar, Ratatat, The Naked and Famous and Muse, in that order. I had never heard of Reptar until I bought my ticket and looked up bands that I didn't know. I'm glad I looked these guys up because they put on a great great show. The lead singer interacted with the crowd and overall, for me, it was the best show at Lolla this year. Ratatat, as expected, was amazing. Everyone was dancing and having a great time, just loving the music. Muse, who had just played a show in Indianapolis a couple days before lolla did a solid job as well as The Naked and Famous. After the show we went out to a bar close by the festival and met some Canadians, who we hung out with for the remainder of the night. We told stories and jokes back and forth and instantly hit it off. We crawled into bed around 2 that night.
Saturday we got up and moving and walked to Panera Bread around noon. Walk The Moon was the first band we saw, by accident. We were waiting for Phantogram to play and in the mean time listened to Walk The Moon. I give Walk The Moon a meh, rating. Phantogram was amazing to see. I wasn't sure what to expect with them but they put on a great show, regardless of the rain. Death From Above 1979 might have been my favorite this day, mainly because they were the first rock band that we saw. Up until that point we had seen all different types of music ranging from dance, indie, slow, electronic, rap but no rock yet. Tossing in good rock music was what was needed. We had signed up for an after party at the Hardrock Hotel so that's where we were off to after Eminem. My brother and his friend Tom met up with us and we walked to Hardrock. Jess's friend Nicole helped get us in without waiting in line. Free drinks? You bet. The after party was held by Filter Magazine and we didn't have to pay for one drink, we tipped of course. Phantogram played at this after show and played great again.
There was only one band that was on my 'must see' list and that was Boy & Bear. This may have been my second favorite band that we saw that weekend. They had a smaller crowd but regardless I was there singing along to the songs they played and loving it. The rain came down right as Boy & Bear were done play, perfect timing. We hid under a tree but even that didn't stop us from getting drenched. It wasn't bad to begin with but as we stood there the rain kept coming down harder and harder and wasn't going to let up anytime soon. People started leaving their tree posts and started mud sliding. This was entertaining to watch: people going from "I can't get touched by one drop of water or I'll melt" to "Let's see if I can completely cover myself in mud." We were about as drenched as we were going to be so we bucked up and walked to the next stage for more music and mud.
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