Chicago Weekend Fun!

Lollapalooza was last weekend in Chicago and it was so much fun. Lollapalooza is a concert music festival that runs for 3 days once a summer in Grant Park in Chicago. It originally back started in 1991 and grew into a traveling concert series that traveled all over the United States. But after several years of big ticket sales successes, Lollapalooza faltered and canceled a lot of the series in 1997. It came back in a new form just in Chicago only in 2005. We love that Chicago is home to Lollapalooza now and they have signed a 5 year deal with Grant Park to host it here every year.

The music featured at the concert festival has a broad range of popular musicians from rock, to alternative to punk rock to heavy metal, to electronic to hip-hop and rap. Lollapalooza is kind of an equal opportunity music festival, everyone is invited. There has been a custom though that once you play Lollapalooza you don’t perform there again. So it’s always new. Maybe since they are going on for so long now they will bring back some bands and artists from prior years that have new music since they are almost out of known bands and singers now. (orat least for us old folks) I have heard that a lot of people my age are not sure who any of these bands are now and want to see some of the old ones again since it’s been years and years. I think they also end up appreciating it as a way to find out about new music too though. So I guess it works both ways.

It’s funny too that a Lollapalooza is also known as an all day lolly pop that is really large. I could definitley see people eating those at Lollapalooza too. It’s kind of a hippie style festival. It’s not really said publicly, but I have a feeling that people are pretty high there too. It’s just that crowd that goes to 3 day musical events to party.

Some of the 2007 Bands and Artists were:

Location: Grant Park in Chicago (artists listed from earliest to latest set times)

The dates the shows run this year are: August 3-5

Ghostland Observatory, Jack’s Mannequin, moe., Satellite Party, Daft Punk (my personal favorite), Tokyo Police Club, Silverchair, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Muse, Dax Riggs, Lupe Fiasco, Kings of Leon, My Morning Jacket, Pearl Jam, Soulive, The Polyphonic Spree, M.I.A., The Black Keys, Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, I’m from Barcelona, Stephen Marley, The Roots, Snow Patrol, Interpol, The Cribs, Amy Winehouse, Iggy & the Stooges, Modest Mouse, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Son Volt, Sparklehorse, G. Love & Special Sauce, Femi Kuti & the Positive Force, Matt and Kim, Pete Yorn, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Regina Spektor, Patti Smith, Juliette and the Licks, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Paolo Nutini, Yo La Tengo, The Fratellis, Ted Leo & The Pharmacist, Slightly Stoopid, Blonde Redhead, LCD Soundsystem, Last Band Standing Runner-Up (TBA), Sherwood, Tapes ‘n Tapes, Motion City Soundtrack, The Hold Steady, Spoon, White Rabbits, Heartless Bastards, Blue October, TV on the Radio, Carey Ott, Colour Revolt, Charlie Musselwhite, Electric Six, The Rapture, High Class Elite, Ryan Shaw, Sam Roberts Band, Rhymefest, Roky Erickson & the Explosives, The Postmarks, Dios Malos, Los Campesinos, Apostle of Hustle, The Wailers, Last Band Standing Winner (TBA), Illinois, Chin Up Chin Up, Viva Voce, Against Me!, Silversun Pickups, Arckid, The Satin Peaches, Aqueduct, Cold War Kids
Sunday: The 1900s, David Vandervelde, The Black Angels, Annuals, Peter Bjorn & John, The Switches, Tom Schraeder, Bang Bang Bang, Powerspace, Inward Eye, Wax on Radio, Dear and the Headlights, Ludo, Kevin Michael, Lady Ga Ga, Cage the Elephant, Back Door Slam, The Graduates, Mr. North, Smoosh, The Diffs, John Paul White, Bound Stems