Day 1: Daft Punk Killed Lollapalooza

Posted on August 4, 2007 by

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I mean that in the non-literal, yet literal sense of the word of course, in that after their set you felt like it would be OK to go to heaven. It was a great big party, that’s hard to describe in words, so here are photos.

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Lovers were kissing everywhere you looked at Grant Park.

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Viva Voce — so talented, so hot.

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The Against Me! crowd rocked the heat…

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Brought on by its lead singer.

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A bunch of geen initiatives were led by a police car with flowers growing out of it.

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The Kidsapalooza section gave cool hairdos out.

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M.I.A. would’ve been cool–except she kept losing her voice. She did give props to the FBI for making her return to American soil so difficult, given her political ties.

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It was also great watching Perry Farrell’s Satellite Party, mostly because it WAS his party, and it was the perfect context to watch him in. I thought Tila Tequila was singing backup, but I could be wrong. Nuno Bettencourt lookalike Neil Perry was on guitar — funny! I was surprised at how many Jane’s Addiction songs he performed.

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All the sponsors were kind of offputting — like Summerfest there were stages named after sponsors. But the MySpace tent was interesting — there were meet and greets where you could get a photo taken with the band! I opted to just take a photo of Blonde Redhead.

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LCD Soundsystem was a great opener to Daft Punk (and of course he played “Daft Punk is Playing at My House” early on) …
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And then I saw a pyramid housing two DJs in helmets. After that, everything else was just a bright light I danced my way to.