Lollapalooza Day 2!
Written by lupethefiasco on Tuesday, 5 of August , 2008 at 12:07 pm
After a successful first day, I headed over to the park at around 1:15 to catch the end of The Ting Tings and get a good spot for Dr. Dog. The Ting Tings were ok, nothing special just an average festival band. You know, the one you go see just because. I guess I would have enjoyed it a little bit more if I wasn’t on the other side of the field, waiting for Dr. Dog. So around 1:30 Dr. Dog came on, and me along with all the college bros watched. Dr. Dog was ok, once again nothing special just decent. They kind of seemed like ass holes, which really turned me away. At one point the crowd got loud and started cheering, and they told us to be quiet. If you’re a small band, you don’t tell a cheering crowd to be quiet. You just don’t.
After a little bit of Dr. Dog, I headed across the whole park to check out the FYE music store and autograph tent. I passed by Does It Offend You, Yeah… And they are the worst band I’ve ever heard in my life. They were absolutely terrible. Anyways, I found out that in order to meet my hero, Mr. Fiasco I would have to buy his album and get to the tent before 8 PM, when he started. The lines were projected to be crazy, because Lupe’s from Chicago so I figured I had to leave his set early, which ended at 7:30.
So around 3:30 I headed back to the other side of the park to go check out MGMT. There were so many people at MGMT I decided to just sort of hang back. During their set I realized how much I hated them and how funny it was that Booka Shade was playing so loud, you could barely hear MGMT. MGMT started pissing me off so much, I headed back to the other side of the park to catch the end of Devotchka, who I really enjoyed. I was really far back but that didn’t really matter. They were really, really good. We also spotted a man with a Transformers tattoo, which was legendary.
Devotchka- The Clockwise Witness
MGMT- Of Moons, Birds And Monsters (Amplive Remix)
I then headed back to the other side of the park to catch Spank Rock. Spank Rock looks like he’s 12 years old, but none of that matters once he starts rapping. He put on one of the best shows of the weekend. Good enough to prompt me to buy one of his shirts, of course me not seeing the boob on it before I bought it. Anyways, my favorite part of his set was when Amanda Blank came out and he started saying “Ain’t no one got a bitch like this.” I consider Amanda Blank to be one of the worlds only female misogynists.
After Spank Rock ended I anxiously headed over to Lupe, just waiting for his autograph session. Lupe was packed with Rage fans which really pissed me off, especially when shit was being thrown all over the place in the middle of Lupe’s set. Lupe had a fantastic introduction which I caught on the video below. He plays a similar set every time so I figured it would be safe to duck out early. Sorry for the horrible camera work, I was excited. If you look closely you can see Lupe doing some push-ups and then a back flip.
I ran across the whole park to get in line to meet Lupe. I was the third in line and when he finally showed up I started freaking out. I got a couple of pictures of him, but I’m not going to put the one up of me and him to save embarrassment. He couldn’t have been a nicer guy and he engaged me in a conversation which was more than I had ever expected of him.
After that I headed over to Rage. It was insane, so after about 4 or 5 songs I headed over to Wilco. Wilco was good, really relaxed, but good. I made my way back over to Rage for the encore and watched everybody go ape shit for Killing In The Name Of.
Category: Concerts
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Comment by scott
Made Tuesday, 5 of August , 2008 at 8:37 pm
Nice review… I wish I’d gotten to check out DeVotchKa.
