So for WID on Thursday I choose to ignore the inspiration, and did what was on my mind. I wrote about Lollapalooza, for those who don't know what this is I will explain. It is a massive music festival held every summer in Chicago's Grant Park.
Here is the list of artist, just to give you an idea.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers / Jack White / Black Sabbath / The Black Keys / Florence + The Machine / At the Drive-In / Bassnectar / Avicii / The Shins / Justice / Passion Pit / Kaskade / The Weeknd / Sigur Ros / Bloc Party / Calvin Harris / Miike Snow / The Afghan Whigs / M83 / Franz Ferdinand / Frank Ocean / Nero / J. Cole / Knife Party / Childish Gambino / Delta Spirit / Santigold / Metric / Zeds Dead / The Temper Trap / Wale / Big Gigantic / Die AntwoordDawes / Tune-Yards / Skream & Benga / The Head & the Heart / The Big Pink / Twin Shadow / The Tallest Man on Earth / Toro Y Moi / Little Dragon / Dr. Dog / Of Monsters And Men / Gary Clark Jr / Alabama Shakes / The Gaslight Anthem / SBTRKT / Amadou & Mariam / Porter Robinson / The Walkmen / Tame Impala / Sub Focus / Band of Skulls / JJ Grey & Mofro / Madeon / Neon Indian / Zedd / Dum Dum Girls / Paper Diamond / Washed Out / Aloe Blacc / Trampled by Turtles / Bear in Heaven / Blind Pilot / Chairlift / The Black Angels / Yellow Ostrich / GIVERS / Polica / Bombay Bicycle Club / Sharon Van Etten / White Rabbits / Doomtree / Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs / Macklemore & Ryan Lewis / The Devil Makes Three / Oberhofer / Star Slinger / The War on Drugs / Michael Kiwanuka / O RAPPA / Bowerbirds / Orchard Lounge / MonaThe Growlers / Hey Rosetta! / Jeff the Brotherhood / Anamanaguchi / First Aid Kit / Wax / Fidlar / JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound / Milo Greene / Los Jaivas / Kopecky Family Band / The Jezabels / Nadastrom / LP / DJ Nihal / Yuna / The White Panda / Walk Off The Earth / Animal Kingdom / DEV / SALVA / The Sheepdogs / The Dunwells / DJ Mel / Empires / Kevin Devine / Dry the River / Helena / Haley Reinhart / Imaginary Cities / Overdoz / Ambassadors / DJ Zebo / thenewno2 / Moon Taxi / Chancellor Warhol / Laura Warshauer / Red Oblivion / Kid Color.
So that gives you an idea of the artist there, and there was a total of 270,000 attendees over three days. So now done explaining the festival with words, I would like to expand on my ideas using pictures and videos of my own experiences.
Videos
Beware this is some bad language in the video please do not let children hear it. Thank You.
Pictures
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| People in the Streets of Chicago |
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| Childish Gambino |
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| Childish Gambino |
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| Trampled by Turtles Stage |
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| Frank Ocean |
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| and Childish Gambino |
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| J Cole |
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Santigold stage from far away
I hope you enjoyed seeing everything. Please comment and tell me what you thought of everything
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I never knew what the Lollapalooza was. Now that I know, I would love to go there one day.
ReplyDeleteI love how you started this with "I choose to ignore the inspiration, and did what was on my mind"…i tend to do that to most Writing into the Days..Sorry Lacy. Anyway, this Lollapalooza sounds like Warped Tour or Bamboozle…sounds really fun and I'd love to go if I could even if I only knew like 5 bands from that long list. Overall your blog seems really creative and unique. I like it.
ReplyDeletegood for you both. That's the point of inspiration and not "prompt" :)
DeleteI was going to go to Lollapalooza this yea but then somthing came up and I was unable to go. Two of my best friends went and they told me it was awsome. I would have loved to go. I dont know who all they saw but they did have some crazy stories to tell me when they got back.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty jealous that you got to go to Lollapalooza. I like that you used the blog assignment to talk about something that interest you. I've found that it's much easier for me to talk about what's on my mind during our writing into the day time, rather than trying to find inspiration from something that may not be that big of a concern to myself at that moment. When I do this kind of writing, it seems to have more of a realness factor...anyway, nice blog :)
ReplyDeleteThat's really cool the biggest concert I've been to was Winter Jam and it is small compared to this concert. i have heard of it but never really understood it i always thought it had something to do with llamas.
ReplyDeleteThis is really cool Jeremy. I've always wanted to go to something like this (it's on my bucket list actually), but anyways I like how you added your own video and pictures and I am soo jealous you saw M83. I love that song :)
ReplyDeleteThat is so cool. I wish i could have gone. There are so many great bands playing there. I feel like i kinda get ripped off living in Greensboro NC (Home town) because very few big bands will come here. Charlotte on the other hand gets a lot, so i am excited to start seeing more of the bands that i love.
ReplyDeleteYou have a video and pictures, I like it already. Music is freedom, creative expression because splattering paint on a canvas isn't creative expression to me, it's dumb.
ReplyDeleteThis is totally amazing ! Caused me to do a little bit of extra research on LOLAPALOOZA. I know you've told me a little bit about it in the past but I'm glad that you blogged about it and allowed people to look into your world a little and into what inspires you.
ReplyDeleteI'm sooo jealous you got to go! I was supposed to go to Bonnaroo this year, but it was on the same day as my graduation. But I like how you chose to write about something completely unrelated to the WID. I always find it difficult to think of something to write about.
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome! I wish I could have gone to this. What was your favorite part? I've been to warped tour a couple times, and it's the same sort of the just bigger.
ReplyDeleteWe saw RHCP when they were in town last spring. It was pretty fantastic. And we saw Jack White, in Whitestripes form years ago. I would have loved to see Franz Ferdinand. Nice band list and pics.
ReplyDeleteI caught the end of Jack White and he played seven nation army it was fantastic. I also saw Franz, although I did not know all of their songs I still enjoyed the concert.
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