Lolla Day 1



Great Start to Lollapalooza 2006. Here's who I saw on Friday:

deadBoy & the Elephantmen
The Subways
The M's
Editors
Mute Math
Ryan Adams
Iron & Wine
The Raconteurs
Sleater-Kinney
Death Cab for Cutie

The groups that were in the "plus" category: The Subways, The M's, Iron & Wine, The Raconteurs, Sleater-Kinney. Iron & Wine is here mostly because they handled the venue better than I thought they would. The Subways played much "bigger" than their album. Chicago's own "the M's" were a new find for me. Sleater-Kinney played fantastic and really set a high bar for women who rock. The Raconteurs were the best act of day one. Besides playing their album fantastically, they (jack white) did a cover of "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley that was the individual highlight of the day.

The bands that were in the "eh" category": deadboy & Elephantmen, Editors, Mute Math, Death Cab for Cutie. The Editors could be in the "plus" category, as they had a great stage show, but I just couldn't see myself buying a CD of theirs.

The only "minus" act I saw today was Ryan Adams. This is unfortunate because his last three solo albums have been good, and his songwriting is of a high calibre. It's just that he has a careless jerk persona that he brings to the stage which really takes away from his ability to take his singing seriously. He even referenced it today, "you're just waiting for the meltdown" before launching into a long several minute digression about "eggs".

Am looking forward to Day 2.

Posted: Sat - August 5, 2006 at 12:28 AM      


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