Holla for Lolla

I volunteered for Lollapalooza again this year and it was, again, a very fun experience. My sister was nice enough to let Annie vacation with her for the weekend so that I didn't have to worry about leaving her for three very long days in a row.

I'm too tired to give a whole overview - which I will at some point - because there are some really funny stories (like a groupie looking for Perry Ferrell at our Volunteer Headquarters - yeah, we're SOOOO cool that he's hanging out here instead of backstage where Jane's Addiction is getting ready to go on in two hours... dumb bimbo).


Friday it rained pretty much ALL day and it was pretty miserable. It cleared up for Depeche Mode, however, so that was cool. I was able to get the boy in to see them, so Friday night ended up being much better than Friday day. Saturday and Sunday were hellishly hot and humid, but overall, not too terrible.

I saw all the headliners I wanted to see, and caught most or all of the sets of some other folks. The lineup I saw or heard (out of order, just as I remember them):

Depeche Mode
Tool
Jane's Addiction
Kaiser Chiefs
Ravonettes
Gomez
MSTRKRFT
The Knux
Rise Against
Atmosphere
Passion Pit

Pretty clouds & skyline from Sunday

Rain on Friday => no fun

MSTRKRFT

Night time shot of Prudential building Sunday night

Jane's Addiction! My friend Jenn got us freakishly close to the stage. We stayed until the crowd got to be too much then moved back a bit. I also have a 7 minute video of their intro/opener that came out REALLY well. I just have to get around to compressing it since it's 800MB

Buckingham Fountain and more pretty clouds from Sunday

Beer garden - why make this thing so tall that short people can't see through?

A guy and his kids waiting for Tool