Editor’s note: This is day 3 of Celeste’s coverage of Lollapalooza
Winner of “everyone obviously only knew one song and was waiting for that one song to be played” for Lolla Sunday: Mowgli’s. These guys played the BMI stage and it was packed (I headed there when I got bored of Lianne La Havas – I’m sure she’s great but she’s not fantastic as festival fare) and everyone just chatted throughout the entire set until they got to “San Francisco” and then it was just one big sing-a-long.
Best timing of Lollapalooza Sunday: Alt-J. Ran from Two Door Cinema Club to Alt-J just in time to catch dissolve me. Perfect. I’ve heard great things about this band but as was the theme of Lolla Sunday they weren’t great festival fare.
Lolla Sunday band that sounded the best as I breezed by on my way to another stage: Waaves.
Most impressively packed crowd of Lolla Sunday: Two Door Cinema Club. It’s hard to gauge at festivals how popular an act is going to be, but I did not expect Two Door Cinema Club to pack the huge Bud Light stage. They weren’t quite as fun as I thought they were going to be (as in, I thought they were going to be wearing outrageous outfits and rocking out, but in fact they were wearing suits and they were rather staid) but they were spot on music-wise.
Best food of Lollapalooza: River Valley Kitchen portabello mushroom tamales. Jum.
Overall Winner of Lollapalooza: Vampire Weekend. Halley once saw a band try to cover a Vampire Weekend song – they apparently couldn’t keep up with the fast paced beat of the song and fell flat on their face. Halley then gained major respect for Vampire Weekend, because she figured if it was that hard to cover their stuff they must be pretty talented to play it in the first place. Being her little sister I of course follow blindly behind and believe everything she believes, so I was pretty damn excited when I found out they were playing Lolla. They did not disappoint. Starting with Cousins – one of my favorites, and ending with Walcott – another one of my favorites – and hitting every amazing, bubbly, fast paced chord perfectly on pitch, Vampire Weekend had every man woman and child busting out their finest dance moves from the front row to the last. Normally I’m all about hitting the small stages and getting up close and personal with the band, but it did not make the slightest difference how far away from Vampire Weekend you were. Their energy radiated out to the farthest reaches.