Lollapalooza 2017

[cosmo]

Best Early Act - Slothrust
Best Mid Tier Act - tie Tegan and Sara and Live
Best Headliner - Arcade Fire
Best Aftershow - Pre-show in Indianapolis "Retro Futura" Howard Jones/Men Without Hats/The English Beat/Modern Englsih/Paul Young/Katrina
Best Change To The Fest - tie Bathrooms and big screens
Worst Change To The Fest - very hands-on security
Best Food/Drink Purchase - Connie's Pizza
Best Merch Purchase - the 'rainbow' Lolla shirt that actually looked like lightning
Worst Food/Drink Purchase - it was all good
Act Most Likely To Disappear - Vance Joy
Act Most Likely To Blow Up - Rag 'n' Bone Man
Most Disappointing Act - Liam Gallagher
Best Party of the Weekend - Suicide Boys
Best Time to give into your heatstroke - anyone playing on the Toyota stage
Best Wake Up Call Barns Courtney
Best Surprise Find - The Lemon Twigs
Best College Déjà vu - Live
Best Crowd - Arcade Fire
Worst Crowd - Lil Yachty
Best Comeback - Live
Best Cover - so many....how about Blossoms doing "I want you (She's so heavy)"
Best Looking/Best Dressed - Barns Courtney in a hospital gown
Underrated Act - Ron Gallo
Overrated Act - Chance the Rapper
Best Crowd Banter - Arcade Fire
Act Most Likely To Play Lollapalooza 2018 - Lorde
Best Non-musical Activity - the 'Jane Says' sounded lame at first but I won three t-shirts and got an unoffical meet and greet with Perry Farrell.

[mikemacncheese]

Forgot the new board doesn't have the individual band pages, but here's a new rendition of Mr. Brightside:

[pigs]

Accidentally clicked on this thread and looking at the poster on the first post makes me wonder why I went to this fucking festival.

[neader]

Still v much a fan of this lineup.

[thebosma]

It was a fun lineup but scheduling was kinda fucked, in the grand scheme of things. They booked a pretty good female undercard and then scheduled most of them at the same time or majorly overlapping, which was really frustrating

[thebosma]

That being said, it was an awesome year and the lineup was deep enough that I was never bored

[concertgoer]

Lorde being rained out was the only negative
Otherwise A+ weekend

[Xamnam]

Feb 7, 2018 9:45:46 GMT -6 thebosma said:

It was a fun lineup but scheduling was kinda fucked, in the grand scheme of things. They booked a pretty good female undercard and then scheduled most of them at the same time or majorly overlapping, which was really frustrating

This is the festival that scheduled Mavis Staples against Raphael Sadiiq back in 2010.

Some things never change. 

[thebosma]

Feb 7, 2018 9:47:27 GMT -6 concertgoer said:

Lorde being rained out was the only negative
Otherwise A+ weekend

Those first few songs made me feel like that was gonna be the show of the weekend too, which is disappointing

[Kamera]

2017 had the best Lolla Aftershows, hands down.

[teekoh]

I would say whatever year had Baroness, Death Grips listening/destroy the Bottom Lounge party, and Postal Service had the better aftershows.

[monasterymonochrome]

Better late than never, right??

Best Early Act - Ron Gallo
Best Mid Tier Act - Alvvays / Sylvan Esso
Best Headliner - Arcade Fire
Best Aftershow - San Fermin @ The Bottle / Ryan Adams @ The Vic
Best Food/Drink Purchase - Eating Cheesies while watching Migos from afar was a great choice
Best Merch Purchase - PUP hat that I wore all fall
Worst Food/Drink Purchase - it was all good
Act Most Likely To Disappear - Crystal Castles, but this is cheating
Act Most Likely To Blow Up - Middle Kids is gonna have a good year
Most Disappointing Act - No one really
Best Party of the Weekend - The 5 minutes when it slowly became clear Liam wasn't coming back
Best Wake Up Call - White Reaper
Best Surprise Find - MGK was about 10x more fun than I would've guessed
Best Crowd - PUP
Worst Crowd - The Killers
Best Cover - Arcade Fire's closing medley with bits of "Karma Police" - Lorde coming out to "Running Up That Hill" was dope too
Best Looking/Best Dressed - White Reaper drummer in his underwear
Underrated Act - Slothrust
Overrated Act - Car Seat Headrest (love him and have seen them live 4 times, but their set has gotten boring at this point)
Best Crowd Banter - Ron Gallo
Act Most Likely To Play Lollapalooza 2018 - Some DJ I don't care about
Best Non-musical Activity - Drinking before the Royal Blood pit

[lollaman44]

Feb 7, 2018 10:30:25 GMT -6 Kamera said:

2017 had the best Lolla Aftershows, hands down.

and i only did spoon and ryan adams. imagine if i had gotten foos...