Well It's a hot summer night

Lollapalooza Recap:

Another year another Lolla and some things never change: it's always exhausting, I always leave with bad tan lines, all my money always goes to food and mainly ice cream, I always am glad I brought my poncho, I always have a drunk person fall on me at least once a day, the porta potties always run out of toilet paper, my body always leaves feeling like I just ran a marathon, and it's always worth it. Here's a quick recap of what my musical schedule actually ended up being. Be warned my pictures suck, but if you want the feeling of an average short persons view of Lolla here it is:

Friday:
2:30-Grace Potter

Lived up to the hype and excitement I've had in looking forward to seeing her. That girls got Tina Turner legs too,

5:00-Two Door Cinema Club

Sony stage sucked, sweaty bodies making me claustrophic sucked more, but two doors still was able to bring out the dance.

6:30-Bright Eyes

Much more genuine and sober than the first show I saw of him, hugging the crowd and security while singing protesting songs pleased the little indie rocker inside of me.

8:30-Coldplay

Amazing. If you don't believe me I'll make you talk to my sister who stood 4 hours in a pit of 1,000 bodies to experience it, and confirms it was worth every minute she had to hold her bladder.

Aftershow
11:45- Foster the People
At this point in the evening I was trying to figure out how to keep standing and forgot to take a picture and forgot how to enjoy the most jiving dance fest of the evening.

1:00AM- Lykke Li

Somehow my migraine, back ache and exhaustion disappeared when she took to the stage, it was a musical miracle and I'm pretty sure seeing your favorite artist perform cures all things.

Saturday
12:00pm-Grouplove

Newcomers brought it! I appreciate the amount of grouplove within the band with everyone taking lead vocals, dancing with each other and masks always a good idea.

1:00-An Horse

I think maybe every single song of theirs just might be perfect.

2:15-Friendly Fires

A jaw dropping performance and music that makes you want to run out to the nearest store so you can take home that kind of energy...I recommend you do this right now.

2:50-Maps& Atlases
3:05-Skyler Grey
Drive by peeks, no time for pictures but time for my sister to make a comment on my similarities to lead singers and Skyler Grey to reluctantly sing her famous songs along with a Cranberries tune.

4:15-Perryetty vs chris cox
Dance Tent!!

Always my most fav part of the festival, getting dance sweaty with the crowd for a few hours.

5:30-Local Natives
6:10-Ellie Goulding
Too crowded for pictures but not too crowded for my ears to enjoy.

7:15-Lykke Li

ok so this picture was from the night before, but it was too crowded for me to pull my camera out, but not too crowded to get my dance on, the price you pay for front row viewing. If I haven't convinced you to see a LL show yet well then I've failed at my job of music blogging.

8:45-Beirut

I regret not staying for the entire set, or actually purchasing a bottle of wine and enjoying the mood as I had hoped. It was like being transported to a french villa or what I assume one is like in darkly lit parks away from it all, though the smell of porta potties and weed still in the distance.

9:15-Eminem
I was more concerned with finding a patch of grass to sit on then taking a pic, whoops. If you're a fan it ruled, though I wanted to start a drinking game with the number of times he said chicago...however the dance tent was calling to me...

9:36-Pretty Lights

crazy night dancing with strangers!! A MUST at lolla. There was fist pumping, glitter, men in neon fishnet thongs, doll heads, techno lights, what's not to love?

Sunday
1:00-Joy Formidable

The jams were poppin, but my friend and i were more concerned in not having our sweaty bodies touch other people.

1:35-Fences
barely caught them, but heard the one song I knew, and no line to the bathroom, it was a good morning hurray!

2:30-Noah and the whale

Watching them in suits made me sweat enough to by a beer in the afternoon. But adorable and fantastic and reminds me that I need to buy their new album, as do you.

3:25-City and Colour

Simple but fantastic and a total sweetheart covered in tattoos, also a must buy on my list.

4:30-Lissie

Ending off my top 3 people I was dying to see at lolla, she was nervous and gracious and rocked the sox off of that stage.

6:00-RAIN DELAY...then Arctic Monkeys

Sadly I remember more about trying to stay dry under a poncho then the music, but by the time they took the stage we were all ready to dance ourselves dry.

7:15-Explosions in the Sky...or what I call being more distracted by muddy aftermath from rainstorm

Mud dance party!

8:00-Foo Fighters and SECOND RAINSTORM

Singing along under a tree branch, two ponchos, a wet hat covering me from a downpore
to "my hero" as Foo Fighters were killing it, soaking wet, was one of the best concert experiences ever.

9:15-Kid Cudi
couldn't reach the inside of the DJ tent because of the massive mud puddles surrounding it

9:30-Deadmau5

Sweet beats in a pitch black audience with only glow bracelets visible of thousands of hands in the air dancing, also enclosed by massive mud puddles....good luck walking out of that!I saw the mau5 ears in person though and danced along with him.

Though absolutely subjective cuz I didn't see a bad performance, my favorite goes to Grace Potter, cuz seeing your favorites live for the first time is hard to top. And since Lolla is cracking down on their streaming of the concert here is just a snippet of my happiness. Till next Year Lolla!