As a moral boosting exercise English photographer Arthur S Mole, and American colleague John D Thomas, were commissioned to make these pieces. The activity occurring during the peace between WW1 and WW11 using soldiers.
“The Numbers Song” pretty much sums up everything expected from Acid Girls... a bit playful, a bit experimental but their stuff is still total club and totally top shelf
Damn, it's day 3 and i'm ready to kick it! Feeling fly. Its barely noon and its already tipping 100 on the heat index, i'm sure of it. First up was the most awesome and inspiring Bat for Lashes, needless to say we in the crowd were wowed and she went through song after song just laying into each and every note. However, the Street Index noticed something out of the ordinary while at the performance, During one of her songs (it might have been "Siren Song" or "Wizard") that she hit the climax and on the peaking note on that climax the most massive gust of wind just through the crowd and past Natasha in her most fantastic sequenced leotard and flew open the back of the stage. It was utterly amazing! She even commented on it in an interview with Billboard.
On from there we drifted towards the Chicago 2016 stage were we drank some, and sat some, and danced some to the Airborne Toxic Event. But once again, all of a sudden, we found our selves back at the Vitaminwater stage for Dan Deacon and his traveling band of...well, band members. I love Dan's music. There just isn't any expectations except for audience participation.
At one moment during the performance we were all instructed to point to a phallic looking balloon and then to place our hands on the head of the person in front of us and to suck out all the negative energy and release it into the cosmos. Another interactive thing we did was to participate on a kneeling interpretive dance lead by the bus driver, Geoff. A circle was created and the crowd was challenged to mimic him as he moved around. His offering to the weather gods for such sunny weather was trash. Suddenly Deacon took to his synths, sine wave oscillator, distorters and his mic and slammed the crowd with a rousing rendition of Crystal Cat. With that the libation was sent sailing into the air! Vitamin Water bottles, beer cans and cigarette packs rained down and the dancing began again with great glee. what fun!
The party traveled up the slope and stopped in front of Citi Stage where there was a massive crowd lined up for Passion Pit. At 5:00 on the dot the gang let loose their ecstatic electro-pop upon a crowd of the willing. The street was packed with everyone dancing, it was an awesome show!
Saturday started off for us with Atmosphere at 2:45 at the Chicago 2016 stage. Slug and Ant got the crowd hyped mid-afternoon as the heat index started pushing 100 degrees! We here at the Street Index were missing the rain of Friday. Ant kicked out his lackadaisical bass-heavy beats while Slug flexed his lyrical prowess with astute rhymes. The setlist included hard pounding hits like “God Loves Ugly”, “Saves The Day” and “Modern Man’s Hustle”. The highlight of the set came with “Trying to Find a Balance”. Over all, it was a good start to the day.
Chairlift played the Citi Stage on Saturday at 3:30, and were unfortunately faced with sound problems. The first song, an unlikely, but much enjoyed, cover of Snoop Dogg's "Sensual Seduction," (complete with a rap by guitarist, Polachek). The lively "Evident Utensil" was next, still with spotty sound. Fortunately, the audio situation improved after that, with "Bruises" sounding fantastic. Even with the problems, I and the crowd seemed overly happy to soak in the group's vibe.
However, during the set, some 17 years young girl was off to the side passed out and puking. luckily avid reader and friend of the Index, Caroline, snapped to action! We think partying is fun... but be smart about it!
After getting a late start on the day, wasting time on a street corner outside of a 7/11, the Street Index arrived at Grant Park around 3:00 and obtained our bracelet, caught our bearings and prepared our bodies and minds for the rain. First caught some of Dark Wave Disco outside of Perry's to get the weekend kicked off on the right foot. The music began to fade and we began to wander towards south lolla and made our way to the front of the vitaminwater stage for some Crystal Castles. To our surprise, from our location, we were able to jam out to the end of STS9, but as the time drew near for Alice to rock, the aura of the crowd turned a hostile shade of grey. I'm sure it was just the weather acting in coordination with the prospects of Ethan's sick beats but it's presence was building. Chants of "Alice Alice Alice" were started by avid readers and contributes to the Index Ben and Caroline. then they came out starting with "Atlantis to Interzone" (Remix of Klaxxons) and the place went nuts. The crowd was whipped into a convulsion and the ground underneath was turned into a pulp from the moshing and jumping of ravers. When they played "Baptism", the crowd lost all sense of time and direction after that.
After that rager, the crew got about halfway to the Chicago 2016 stage for Thievery Corporation before we were sucked into a spontaneous dance party where we jammed to a tight fusion of sensual and passionate melodies. The sitar was sick and an created a very chill and very interesting change of pace from CC.
Check out these awesome illustrations done by graffiti artist AUGOR, for Complex mag.
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