* Lollapalooza Paris 2017 *

Lollapalooza is an annual music festival conceived and created in 1991 by Perry Farrell as a farewell tour for his band, Jane's Addiction. The origin of the name means "an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance." and dates from a late 19th-/early 20th-century. While searching for the name for the festival, Farrell saw the movie Three Stooges and got inspired.

In the beginning and until 1997, as well as after it was renewed in 2003, Lollapalooza ran annually as a tour style of festival. After few setbacks, in 2005, it settled to the weekend format festival, in Grant Park, Chicago.

From 2010, Lollapalooza expanded internationally with it's first international debut in Santiago, Chile, following the edition in Sao Paolo, Brasil; Buenos Aires, Argentina and from 2014 with European edition in Berlin, Germany. This year, the festival decided to add one more European location to it's family, happening in July and in Paris.

All the previous editions always seemed too far away and non convenient, but even with the inaugural line-up of Lolla Paris I decided to go.

Until the weekend of Lollapalooza Paris we had almost the perfect summer. Then suddenly the weather changed and it was raining cats and dogs on the weekend. Fortunately, this didn't stop the crowd from attending it and having fun, me included. And even Perry Farrell with his wife visited the festival.

Lolla Paris happened on the city's Longchamp Racecourse grounds on July 22–23 and across 4 stages: Main Stage 1 and 2, Alternative and Perry's stage. The lineup featured several cool bands/artists and I've managed to see most of them: The Hives, London Grammar, LP, The Roots, Editors, The Weeknd, Martin Solveig, Lana Del Rey and Red Hot Chili Peppers

I was especially excited to see The Roots, the band that I've been a fan for almost 20 years, but never saw live before. Until Lolla Paris. Fortunately, they didn't disappoint. These impeccably skilled musicians delivered a perfect performance, with smooth flows and enough improvisation to keep the sound (and the whole gig) fresh and exciting. They were definite highlight of the festival, together with The Weeknd and Red Hot Chili Peppers, both so exciting that no matter how many times I see them, I always enjoy.

Another highlight of the festival was an über entertaining Village Greenroom area. Several little houses/boxes with different DJs that can accommodate only small amount of people was one of the most fun places at the festival: simple concept, brilliant idea, that brought good vibes and very happy crowd dancing the bad weather away.

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With Gimme A Beat coverage/review I (usually) explore *female factor* of the festival. This wasn't easy at Lolla Paris, the line-up featured only 6 female (related) artists and I personally liked only few ones from them: London Grammar, LP and Lana Del Rey. So I twisted the coverage a bit and female-ized it. 

Tune in to Gimme A Beat (18.09.2017) tonight to hear how that sounds like.

Lollapalooza Paris 2017
with following playlist and click-to-play playlist and Covers

from 22:00 - 00:00 on:
webradio lora

featuring:
gimme a beat covers for Lolla Paris

Kisses, Babymonster
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for the info about old shows please go to previous entries

 

 

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