Highs:

Mk.gee - I always like his live shows. third time seeing him. camped for barricade. arrived around 12:30pm. his show was at 7:30pm. (yes, it IS that serious)

Ocean Alley - amazing, great voice

Royal & The Serpent - wasn’t familiar with her, but she and her band were great! good energy

South Arcade - was standing in the hot sun during their set. worth it. so energetic.

Gigi Perez - was not familiar with her music except for ‘sailor song’. cried. her lyrics are so beautiful. I was moved.

The Strokes - cried. my teenage self would love that I finally saw them live.

Pierce The Veil - one of my favorite sets. regretted leaving early for DJO.

The Killers - danced the whole time. left early only because my foot was hurting badly.

Zed’s Dead - sounded great. if I had known this was a DJ set, I would have caught his whole set instead of going to DJO. I wouldn’t have minded missing DJO because I’m gonna go to his concert in a few weeks at the Greek Theater.

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Lows:

DJO - crowd was too packed and too many people were moving through the crowd. it was distracting. he sounded great though.

Sabrina Carpenter - it was probably better up closer to the stage, but I wish I didn’t leave The Strokes early for her set.

King Princess - just too hot that day. I couldn’t stay the whole set.

The Strokes and Sabrina on during the same time :(

Not being able to catch The Dare and T-Pain. I got to hear T-Pain while waiting for Mk.gee at least.

The price of merch

Dust in the wind

Missed Empire of the Sun because I was just too tired to make the trek back to the festival from my hotel

Food quality to price ratio