August 01, 2015 – Chicago, IL – Lollpalooza (Day 2)

Venue:  Grant Park

Lineup:  Metallica, Brand New, Tame Impala, Death From Above 1979, Charli XCX, Django Django, Catfish and the Bottlemen

Lollapalooza 2015 was the year that my brother Joe had to stay behind, because our father had just gotten out of the hospital after being diagnosed with Diabetes.  I might go into that in further detail when I write about the first day, but here I just want to comment on what I remember from this second day.

My friend Chuck, who I was with at this festival, loves Catfish and the Bottlemen and I think that they are pretty decent.  We caught their set and then I broke away to get into a good spot for Django Django.

Django Django ended up being amazing live.  I prefer them live to their recording and they had a great vibe and great energy.

Continuing that energy was Charlie XCX.  She did not stop moving for the length of her set and was a fun novelty for me.  I'm not a big fan of her music, but she had some big singles and she put on a good performance.  I don't want to be creep, but I remember her pigtails, tall socks, and short short shorts.

I'm a creep.

Death From Above 1979 was fine.  They are another novelty act to me, because they only have a bass and drums and they get alot out of that, but many of their songs sound similar.

Tame Impala played on the main stage before Metallica, but before Brand New, and this dude in a leather jacket standing near me did not like them at all.  He kept booing and screaming "You suck!", at the stage.  He had a mohawk and his leather jacket was covered in Metallica badges and buttons.  Tame Impala was good, but not as good as when I saw them in the rain at the Bunbury Festival.

Brand New played across the main field, and were fine and I then met up with Chuck at the back of the crowd and we walked over to Metallica.

Metallica was a big band in my life, because they were my older brothers favorite band when I was growing up.  I listened to Master of Puppets and Ride The Lightning and The Black Album many times either through the bedroom wall or while hanging out in their rooms when I was little.

I am not, nor have I ever been, a big Metallica fan, but they put on a great show.  All of their songs were sing-a-longs and I knew most of the words.  I even liked some of their songs that people make fun of like 'Fuel'.  Fuel was good live.  Master of Puppets was also great love.  I loved the song 'Creeping Death' and 'Seek and Destroy' was really good.

They played with a bunch of their fans up on stage behind them, which was cool.  They also played over the curfew by about 20-30 minutes.  It made me wish that Pearl Jam, Radiohead, or some of my favorite artists would have played longer in past years.