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Aug 01 '08 by blythed
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Way Late: Is anyone else going to Lollapalooza this weekend?

Hey-o!

Normally I would've put the word out earlier, but this year I was a lazy bum about it. Anyhow, Lollapalooza weekend is upon us once again and if you're anywhere in the Chicago area and you're NOT going... well, that's just unacceptable.

I'll be there (with proverbial bells on!) along with a few others so if you're going, let it be known.

Here's my (tentative) agenda:

Friday, August 1
12:15pm - 1:15pm Holy F*ck (AT&T)
1:15pm - 2:15pm Rogue Wave (MySpace)
2:15pm - 3:15pm The Go! Team (Bud Light)
3:15pm - 4:15pm The Kills (MySpace)
5:15pm - 6:15pm Cat Power (PlayStation)
6:15pm - 7:15pm Bloc Party (AT&T)
7:15pm - 8:00pm Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (MySpace)
8:00pm - 10:00pm Radiohead (AT&T)

Saturday, August 2
12:15pm - 12:45pm Margot & the Nuclear So and So's (MySpace)
12:30pm - 1:30pm Does it Offend You Yeah? (Bud Light)
2:15pm - 3:00pm Foals (Citi)
3:30pm - 4:30pm MGMT (MySpace)
3:30pm - 4:30pm DeVotchKa (PlayStation)
4:30pm - 5:30pm Explosions in the Sky (Bud Light)
5:30pm - 6:30pm Okkervil River (PlayStation)
6:30pm - 7:30pm Broken Social Scene (Bud Light)
8:30pm - 10:00pm Rage Against the Machine (AT&T)
8:30pm - 10:00pm Wilco (Bud Light)
10:00pm - 11:59pm Broken Social Scene w/ Yeasayer (Metro)
* Going to try to do halfsies between Wilco and Rage, if only because RATM is a nostalgic kick in the pants and Wilco is playing in Chicago every ten minutes or so. But then I might end up just taking off early so I can beat a hasty path to the Metro for BSS.

Sunday, August 3
11:30am - 12:15pm Office (PlayStation)
12:45pm - 1:45pm Small Town DJ's (Perry's)
1:45pm - 2:30pm Tally Hall (BMI)
3:30pm - 4:30pm Black Kids (Citi)
4:15pm - 5:15pm Iron & Wine (Bud Light)
6:30pm - 7:30pm Girl Talk (Citi)
7:15pm - 8:15pm The National (PlayStation)
8:15pm - 10:00pm Kanye West (AT&T)
8:15pm - 10:00pm Nine Inch Nails (Bud Light)
* I don't really care between Kanye and NIN since I've seen the former before (back at Lolla '06) and I'm not a huge fan of the latter, so I might split my time between both.

Maltzmania on Aug 01 '08 at 12:31am

hi Blythe!

littlem on Aug 01 '08 at 12:31am

luckyyyyyyyyyy!! :)

Mike4507 on Aug 01 '08 at 12:31am

no.

hi.

valorandvellum on Aug 01 '08 at 12:32am

Can I live vicariously through you??

blythed on Aug 01 '08 at 12:32am

Hi Dan!

Annie, this is my event of the year, every year for the past three! I *love* Lolla weekend!

juliejeremiah on Aug 01 '08 at 12:34am

cool beans.

i'm not going to lollapalooza, but I am going to see Broken Social Scene next weekend.

blythed on Aug 01 '08 at 12:34am

Hi Mike!

Priscilla, I will take lots of photos (if I can get away with being sneaky and getting my camera in) and report back.

But I hear Simon Pegg was at Comicon so I wish I could've been there too!

valorandvellum on Aug 01 '08 at 12:35am

There's too much awesome going on Saturday! *face melts*

valorandvellum on Aug 01 '08 at 12:36am

Everyone got to see famous people at Comicon except for me! I think because I'm too short. Next time I'm wearing stilts.

blythed on Aug 01 '08 at 12:37am

Juliejeremiah, where will BSS be that you'll be seeing them?

They're my favorite!

littlem on Aug 01 '08 at 12:39am

it sounds fantastic. i also wish to live vicariously through you!

juliejeremiah on Aug 01 '08 at 12:40am

The Regina Folk Festival!

7:00pm - 7:30pm ROCK PLAZA CENTRAL

7:45pm - 8:30pm FINAL FANTASY

8:45pm - 9:30pm RUPA & THE APRIL FISHES

9:45pm - 10:45pm WEAKERTHANS

10:45pm - 11:45pm BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE

I'm only going for one of the three days, so unfortunately I'm missing out on Great Lake Swimmers....but for $35 it's a solid lineup.

blythed on Aug 01 '08 at 12:40am

Saturday is THE day. And the weather is supposed to be sunny (although up to 98!). Sunday is pretty weak for a closing day (which is normally supposed to be the best). I'm so excited for BSS twice in one day.

The Weakerthans are on Sunday as well, so I might try to catch that, although they did a show at my bar back in November and it wasn't that impressive.

blythed on Aug 01 '08 at 12:42am

Aw! Final Fantasy and Great Lake Swimmers! That'll be rad.

jublin on Aug 01 '08 at 12:44am

i totally wanted to go, but now it's too late.

!!

shakethesheets on Aug 01 '08 at 12:46am

Saturday looks amazing

iPear on Aug 01 '08 at 12:51am

YEASAYER.

OTHER BANDS.

BUT YEAHSAYER IS BOLDED.

Robsoul on Aug 01 '08 at 12:54am

I think MGMT and Explosions in the Sky are really the only two performances I'd really want to see

hope everyone has fun who is attending, as I'm sure you will!

jublin on Aug 01 '08 at 12:56am

i'd love to see radiohead again. MGMT would be great, and i bet RATM and NIN would be crazy fun. INITIALS!

blythed on Aug 01 '08 at 1:06am

I've never seen Radiohead before and they've been on my "to see" list for forever and day, so I'm happy as a clam in pants about that one. Even though we're supposed to get random thunderstorms tomorrow (boo!).

I'm probably most excited MGMT, Girl Talk (the new record is fantastic) and BSS (of course). I'm also looking forward to Bloc Party because I saw them when I shared this crazy night with my BFF, who is now living in the UK.

thedarrien on Aug 01 '08 at 2:37am

damn you, I was going to see BSS at the metro but it sold out before I could get my hands on any tickets.

Girl Talk gives a SUPER live show.

blythed on Aug 02 '08 at 2:48am

Day 1:

Rogue Wave - meh. Nothing to write home about.

The Go! Team - OMG! AMAZING! So unbelievably wonderful. Probably the highlight of the day.

The Kills - Not entirely my cup of tea, but they put on a good live show.

Cat Power - I love her voice so much.

Obama! - Haha, not really, although there's a rumor floating around that he'll be by to introduce Wilco or Kanye. I'm a bit skeptical because I think he'd be way too exposed with the lack of security there, but it remains to be seen.

Bloc Party - Pretty good, but it was crowded and I had these two obnoxious dudes near me who were trying to pick fights with the security staff. FYI, event security isn't "the 5-0!"

Radiohead - Really glad I got to see them and there were some wonderful moments, but I guess I was expected a bit more. Very mellow, but almost a bit too much so. Ah well, still glad I saw them.

Also saw (but did not get photos of!):

The Black Keys

Gogol Bordello

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks

2 days later

blythed on Aug 04 '08 at 2:52pm

Day 2:

I got there a bit late, so I missed a few things I wanted to see, but I caught MGMT. They put them on one of the mid-size stages at the same time as Booka Shade and DeVotchka. Not smart. It was PACKED. Great show, but it was impossible to get photos.

Next I hit Explosions in the Sky, who were very good, but I couldn't get into it when it was so sweltering hot out. HOWEVER! They were performing at the Broken Social Scene stage, so I managed to get up front and camp out for that one. Despite that, I was able to hear and sort of see Okkervil River on the other side of the same field.

MOST IMPORTANT:

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE - As per usual, they were EPIC! My favorite band ever, especially live. Andrew Whiteman of Apostle of Hustle and Amy Millan of Stars were with them. The set was perfect and I love how "Major Label Debut" always turns into this crazy sing-along. The highlight of the day, definitely.

After that we left early and missed both Wilco and Rage Against the Machine so we could get to the Broken Social Scene aftershow at Metro early. It started late, but the whole band was milling around as we were standing in line waiting to go in. I, of course, was so excited but way too shy to say anything when they came by (I have a history of doing that).

SO GOOD.

blythed on Aug 04 '08 at 3:07pm

Day 3:

Got there late (again) after sleeping in.

The Black Kids - Kind of fun.

Saul Williams - I'd never heard of him before, but we wanted to stake out good spots for Girl Talk, so we caught his entire set. He was phenomenal! Great message. And he closed with a cover of U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday" that was pretty wonderful.

Girl Talk - Easily the highlight of the day. I was up fairly close to the front, though, and it was NUTS. I lasted about 20 minutes before I had to bail cause I was being shoved all over the place and I didn't want to risk my camera.

Mark Ronson - Meh. Caught a bit of his set on my way to Kanye. Not my thing.

Kanye West - I'm not a big NIN fan, so this was sort of an easy choice, but... he was kind of underwhelming. He'd been at Lollapalooza two years ago and I thought his performance was better back then. HOWEVER! His backup singer did launch into a fantastic cover of Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" that made me pretty happy.

valorandvellum on Aug 04 '08 at 8:09pm

YOU'RE SO LUCKY!!!

canceromega on Aug 04 '08 at 8:12pm

Ahhh, super jealous of your BSS X 2!

Looks fun, and the photos turned out great!

iPear on Aug 04 '08 at 8:17pm

Dude all of those bands are great! Saul Williams ftw!

4 days later

juliejeremiah on Aug 09 '08 at 5:11pm

Yaayyy BSS were awesome! Their set was only about an hour long though.....so they promised to "come back soon and play like a 2 1/2 hour set...every song we know." Haha I frickin' hope so!

The lineup I saw looks the same, minus Amy Milan and plus Lisa Lobsinger.

I was just so happy when they played "It's All Gonna Break," which is my favourite song but I wouldn't have bet on them to play it in concert.

The Weakerthans were also awesome live...I'm not a huge fan but I can appreciate their performance. Except for this song, it's fucking great:

juliejeremiah on Aug 09 '08 at 5:12pm

also, Kevin Drew was wearing the same hat last night. :)

juliejeremiah on Aug 09 '08 at 5:14pm

PS. Final Fantasy aka Owen Pallett is frickin' adorable! Such a delight to see him perform and chat nervously with the audience. I highly recommend his show.

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