Post.Lollapalooza.2011August.8.2011
Boston ,MA
REALLY, FCVK! I arrived on time for my flight back to Boston from O'Hare and sure enough my plane was delayed. The chances for this to happen, again. There was a huge storm in Boston and the planes there have been grounded. No planes are allowed to land in Boston until it's cleared.
The plane took off an hour and a half later that made me miss my connecting flight back to Provincetown. I missed my flight by 20 minutes. I went to customer service to see if I can catch another flight, but there was none until tomorrow. FCVK! Stuck in Boston again! What the HELL! The man told me that I can take a bus to Hyannis Port and get a person to pick me up. He said, "it's only an hour away from Provincetown". I told him that we did not drive to Ptown. He just looked at me and tried to push it, but I told him again. He gave in and booked me a hotel and comped my cab ride, going and coming back.
I gave my comp ticket to the taxi service lady. She called someone. When the cab driver arrived, the taxi service lady and the cab driver got in to it. Nice. They had a fight about, "if I call you, you need to get back to me" said the lady. "You ignored me the other time and blah blah blah blah". What is going on? This is bananas. The cab driver got in and told me, "it's not about you and sorry for that". "No problem", I told him. I gave him my ticket and he told me, "I don't get why they don't pick a hotel close to the airport". I told him, "why, what's up?". "This place they booked you is 45 minutes away". "$H!T, really?". It was a ride to the hotel and I noticed a sign for New Hampshire.
I got to the hotel and it was a family water park. Nice. It was 10:30pm when I arrived to my room. I set the alarm for 5:00 am. Of course, the FCVKR did not wake me. If it was not for my hard time sleeping, I could of missed my flight. But I didn't. I got to the airport on time and my flight was not scheduled to leave until 7:30am. When the time arrived to board, I was the only one on the plane. They decided to bump me and I was about to flip because I wanted OUT of this FCVKN city already. 10 minutes later, I got on the plane. Thank God. This was one CRAZY A$$ trip to Chicago for Lollapalooza.2011, but it was worth it. Until next year.
It's 9 o'clock and Calpernia (well known Pre-op) was the opener. Who knew she could sing. Calpernia is a Reality TV Star that had a dating show on Logo a few years back. It was an okay show. She got up stage and played the violin. After two song, she started singing. I liked it when she was playing the violin. After a couple of songs, I was getting bored. She played for thirty minutes (thank God!). She walked into the crowd and people started to grab her and talk to her. I went to the bathroom. 
I went back to my seat and they started to place more chairs for the new people that have arrived.
Patrick Wolf connected with the crowd and had conversations with us. He told us that last night he was a bit off because he was jet lagged. "Today is better and I am more focused. Less talk and more music", he said. What I loved more was his love for Mariachi music and when he is in town, he puts on the Spanish radio station. ROCK ON! 
I like, "Famous First Words" (New album). It's not, WOW! It has a couple of good songs, but of course the album got slammed BIG TIME on NME. Oh well. It did not stop me from buying the album.
You would think (once again), all the press they get, this place would be packed...Nope. Once again, it's LITE! Lot more people from last time. Maybe...twenty or twenty five more. It was a DEAD crowd, once again. Even Leonard Newell (Lead Singer) was trying to pump us up and it was working, but just for a few minutes. The girl in front of me made a cute Viva Brother sign (all by pencil) and Leonard saw it and gave her a smile. At the end of the show, Leonard gave her a guitar pick. That was really nice of him. All that hard bullshit, he really has a soft spot.
Less then 30 minutes, The B52's where next. They hit the stage and they where GREAT. Never seen them before and they kicked some a$$. I was so excited when they played "Planet Claire" and it sounded...PERFECT. Other songs they played where; "Rock Lobster", "Love Shake", "Party Out of Bounds", "Mesopotamia" and so many others. The great part of the show was watching the people. It was a party. 
The Human League was up next and they...K!LLED !T. They sounded amazing and they had kick a$$ visuals. The stage was simple. It reminded me of Kraftwerk and Yazoo. This is how I pictured O.M.D.'s stage, but it was far from any of them. They really kept it simple, that made that show a bit boring. But what I really noticed, was the crowd was DEAD! No one stood up the moment they came out on stage and when they played there first song, "Never Let Me Go" (new song), still no one stood up to dance. The song is KICK A$$ and it has a great catchy beat to it, but no response from the audience. Just the sound of crickets. The energy level dropped after The B-52's. 
When they played, "The Sound of the Crowd", I thought that would get the people moving, but no. Still DEAD! But sure enough, once they played, "Don't You Want Me" and "Fascination", people got up and danced. After that, flatline. "Human" sounded amazing and the band still looked great. The girls (Susan Ann Sulley and Joanne Catherall) looked...HOT, like they never aged. That goes the same for Philip Oakey (lead singer who kept moving around the stage alot). He lost all of his hair and he looks good bald. 
Besides watching the fans getting into the music, I mean, REALLY GETTING INTO THE MUSIC. Sade was AMAZING! This is her BEST yet! Sade looked and sounded GREAT. Even the visuals and the stage design was FCVKn K!LLER. This show was PERFECT, even the set list.
Sade opened up with "Soldier Of Love" and you knew right away that song set the bar with hit after hit. Almost every song from her "Best Of" album and once they played "Smooth Operator", everyone got up and sang along. I was hoping they would play, "The Safest Place" (my favorite song from the latest album, Soldier of Love") but, no. But, they made up for it with "Kiss of Life". 
Sade closed the night with, "Cherish the Day" (the encore) and what a perfect song to end this AMAZING concert. This goes to show that you don't need 20 dancers and dozens of costume changes to keep us entertain. We just want you to connect to us personally. That's what Sade and her band did. I love that they displayed old video footage of themselves when they where young, playing at small clubs. What a nice way of saying, "Thank You" (that's what I got). 
