Lollapalooza schedule, part 2
I realize I haven’t written a post in a while. I’ve been traveling a lot. I was in Nashville for two weeks for work, then last weekend I was in Chicago for Lollapalooza. That’s not really an excuse because I had Internet access from the hotel in Nashville, but it sounded better than saying that I just didn’t feel like posting anything.
I still don’t feel like posting anything but I’ll give a quick update about the Lollapalooza trip. It was fun. I saw these bands: The Subways, Panic! At the Disco, Editors, The Raconteurs, Sleater-Kinney, Ween, Be Your Own Pet, Living Things, Wolfmother, Sonic Youth, The Flaming Lips, The New Pornographers, Sparta, Hot Chip, The Shins, She Wants Revenge, and Queens of the Stone Age. I also saw a bit of The Frames, The Go! Team, and 30 Seconds to Mars but I wasn’t very into them. The lead singer of 30 Seconds to Mars, Jared Leto, was just downright annoying.
We watched the first couple songs of Kanye West but didn’t stick around for him, and the last day Red Hot Chili Peppers played but we left before that started. I felt like we should have stuck around anyway just so we could say we saw them and I wouldn’t get any crap from RHCP fans. They have some good songs for sure, but I really didn’t care about seeing them and neither did Mike or Jane so we just left and had dinner.
The highlight for me was seeing Sleater-Kinney. They absolutely rocked. Now that they’re breaking up, I can only hope they’ll do a reunion tour sometime. My other favorite performances were The Subways, Wolfmother, Hot Chip, and Queens of the Stone Age. I’ll definitely try to go again next year.
August 9th, 2006 at 10:57 am
Two more things I wanted to mention.
The lead singer of The Subways ended their performance by throwing himself onto the drum set, Cobain-style. Always a good way to end.
The lead singer of Be Your Own Pet “puked” on stage during one of their songs, but I don’t think she really puked. She was doing the whole retching motions but it looked like she was just spitting. She then said that she had puked and maybe it was heat exhaustion but they played one more song after that. Although I think she was faking the puking, I still appreciated the effort. She should work on that some more. If she can train herself to get some real streams of vomit to come up that would be very entertaining.