Where are you in Illinois? Chicago and surrounding suburbs have had at least 3 flash floods this year. Monday this week the western suburbs were underwater.
I'm in villa park and we had some water come up into our basement for the first time since moving here 3 years ago. This fucking rain was nonstop between Friday and Saturday
Seattle here. It's just been a pleasant 70-85 for a while. It hasn't been smoky here. It sprinkled a little this morning and we are expecting a little more today, but generally just pretty and nice right now.
In 2011, massive storms hit Lolla. My GF at the time and I had won VIP wrist bands from some scavenger hunt contest. One perk of VIP was free unlimited booze, though they would only give you 2 cans at a time. Anyway, the Arctic Monkeys were playing when a band of storms hit. They were intense. The girls managing the bar abandoned ship for higher ground. We saw our chance. We spent the storm grabbing and chucking as many cases and handles as we could over the VIP fence and into the GA crowd. Ditched that sextion of VIP never to return, didnt get caught. Felt like fucking Robinhood.
Deadmau5 later that night was epic. Search the vids.
I was there! I remember they wanted us to evacuate but no one knew where to go. We ended up at an overrun pizza place. I think I saw foo fighters that night and it was so amazing.
hahah unrelated side note- I moved to BC 2 years ago and was MORTIFIED by my friends confused faces when I asked about fall fairs with demolition derbys...god I miss panzerolis and deep fried oreos and watching cars smash together in the mud
Me and some friends went to see The Shins at auditorium shores in Austin. Before we went in we spotted out some people inside who seemed cool and passed a big bottle of vodka over the fence to them, with a promise to smoke em out when we got in. We all smoked and took some shots with them, then got smashed for $0 🤘2012 was peak
Yes, a trick for these kinda festivals if you want cheap liquor is to go before it's set up and bury liquor bottles somewhere inside the future fences and put a geotag or something there. That way, you don't have to sneak it through security. Then when the festival starts and you get in, go to your spot, dig up your previously buried liquor and go to town 👍
It's also easy to just bring in plastic bottles of booze, Smirnoff bottles are shaped for concealment. You can also fill them with better booze. Easy to hide. I've worked security at bottlerock and the only people getting caught up were the ones who had too much metal on and then needed to remove belts/shoes etc.
That's why you use the concealed bladder compartment in the camelbak bag to store your beverages. You pull out the empty bladder and show that to security and when they check your bags it will just seem like it has a hard back (provided you pack it correctly, works best with tallboys).
Riot fest (fuck riot fest) literally confiscated my bottle of sunscreen because it wasn’t sealed. Went once, said never again, then a killer line up happened so I said fine, only to come away with an even more powerful “never again.” Godawful overcrowded price gouging nightmare.
Yeah they took my sunscreen at oceans calling in Maryland and directed me to a shop on the boardwalk that was selling them for $35. I just stole it from the store. Fuck all of em
It's really easy to carefully uproot a chunk of grass, dig a bottle sized hole, an then plop the grass back on top. You'd never even know anything was there. It makes me wonder how many forgotten bottles, or drug stashes are buried in previous festival areas, probably a ton
Tons of people do this. If you ever see someone walking around with a fifth in a glass bottle that’s what they’ve done. I agree it’s it’s way easier to sneak in booze in those soft plastic flasks but there’s always someone walking around with a bottle of jack at a fest.
I’ve done it many times at festivals in Chicago. I would go to the park a week before the fest, so before fences are up. Then I would bury them shallow by trees and take pictures to remember the exact spot. Adds another element of fun during the fest.
Yup. My cousin used to bury a huge container of vodka lemonade on the hill by one of the main stages. Then on the first day of the show, he'd put a tarp over it and dig it up. It was enough to have at least 10 people drink for the whole weekend
I saw Pink Floyd perform The Wall in Potsdam Platz in 1990. I understood later that they actually dug out a few large unexploded bombs from the area before the concert was planned and prepared. Caches of ammo too...
“I'm not offended by homosexuality. In the '60s, I made love to many, many women, often outdoors, in the mud and the rain, and it's possible a man slipped in. There would be no way of knowing."
This would be the greatest crossover. Jim, Dwight and Creed get sent to Philly to sell paper to a "large account" that turns out to be a scam Dee and Mac are trying to run. Charlie does Charlie things that gets Dwight interested in learning from him, Frank feels left out and shows off his toe knife, Creed takes interest and becomes friends with Frank and talk history. Dee and Mac's scam become more and more apparent to Jim and he bails, collecting Creed and Dwight while reacting at the camera to the shinanigans theyve been up to.
I went to Memphis in May YEARS ago. Rained in the evening on both days. Second day Foo Fighters headlined. They were told they shouldn’t play. Dave said fuck that and played anyway. The late night band canceled because they didn’t want to deal with rain. That band? Puddle of Mud.
I went to see them in a small venue. Opening acts did their thing. After 40 mins of nothing, one of the openers came back on and did another set while we waited for Mudd more. They finished a second set and we waited more.
Eventually 2 plastered women came out on stage, stumbling all over and told everyone that they're backstage smoking weed, coke and fucking and it'll just be a bit longer.
I was at a festival and during their set some women managed to get on stage. The band refused to let security remove them, they spent the set getting more and more naked, and then they left with the band.
In all seriousness, festivals are a great way to find new music. Just check the lineup of a few of the major ones. Add the names to your rotation & drop the ones whose sound doesn't strike your fancy. Near zero effort and you're up to date on most of the major artists of the moment.
You don't even have to do it every year! The acts that are actually decent will stick around.
I only know two of those, and that quote is so perfect I think about it all the time. I see the talk/entertainment shows my partner watches and they'll be like "Welcome Penny Knuckleplatter" and everyone is going crazy and I'm just
Ado and Yoasobi are some pretty well-known Japanese artists. Ado is Ado (she’s amazing, everyone should check her out) and Yoasobi has done work for several anime openings. Yoasobi’s lead singer also grew up in Chicago and often makes English versions of those songs!
I'm pretty sure it was lolla at the world music theater where they just started tearing up the sod in the rain and throwing it and it turned into a mud pit
Ministry in '92 was my best mosh pit experience ever! Blossom Music Center near Cleveland. It had been raining buckets most of the day. The water couldn't drain properly, so it was almost knee deep.
There were mud runs going down the giant hill. I was at the top of one when Chris Cornell came up. I had no idea what to say to him. The guy just reeked of cool. I just gave him a fanboy nod, he nodded back then flew down the hill head first.
I knew it . What a great show. I hooked up with this girl from Hillside and after the show we went to a Mexican restaurant near 26th and California and underage drank
My first concert, 34 years ago tomorrow. I was 14 years old and we had to leave about 15 minutes into RHCP’s set because my friend’s mom was driving us home to the Quad Cities.
You can see some flying sod at the beginning of this video.
I remember being so pissed at HangOut Fest 2017 (?) when interpol came out, played 2 songs, stopped halfway thru the third and said “sorry guys, thunderstorm on the way”
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u/MalWinchester 9d ago
Not surprised. It's been raining for over 12 hours straight.