Riot Fest Chicago 2014 – Saturday (NSFW)

Saturday: The Buzzcocks, Television, The Afghan Whigs, (burlesque dancers), Wu-Tang Clan, The Flaming Lips, The National

The Buzzcocks still have it.  Old school Brit punk at its best.  Talked with Steve Diggle (white shirt) about how Simon Cowell  is ruining music, his love of rock ‘n’ roll, and the importance of music festivals.

Television was perfect.  Period.

The Afghan Whigs:

Burlesque for all…

Wu-Tang Clan

Wu-Tang was sick.  It seemed like everyone at Riot Fest went to see them.

The Flaming Lips:

The Flaming Lips blew out the power as they transitioned into the second song.  So Wayne did his best to entertain by bringing out a “Fuck Yeah Riot Fest” balloon (which can be bought at your local Jewel-Osco for $19.99).  The crowd destroyed it within a minute.

But then the power was back on, and they fired up the confetti canons, and all was well in this strange, strange universe.

The National:

7 Seconds, All, Andrew W.K., anobium, anobiumlit, Anti-Flag, Archie Powell & the Exports, Baby Baby, Billy Bragg, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Blue Meanies, Bring Me the Horizon, Broncho, Buzzcocks, Cerebral Ballzy, Cheap Trick, Chumped, Circa Survive, Citizen, City and Colour, Clutch, Cock Sparrer, Dads, Dashboard Confessional, Descendents, die antwoord, Dropkick Murphys, Emarosa, Ex Friends, Face to Face, Failure, FrnkIero And The Cellabration, From Indian Lakes, Gogol Bordello, GWAR, Hot Snakes, I Am the Avalanche, In the Valley Below, jacob singer, Jane's Addiction, Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas, Kurt Vile & the Violators, La Dispute, Laura Stevenson, Lemuria, Lucero, Lucki Eck$, Mastodon, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Metric, Mineral, Modern Baseball, Motion City Soundtrack, Mudhoney, My Gold Mask, Naked Raygun, New Found Glory, NOFX, Nostalghia, Of Mice & Men, Only Crime, Patti Smith, Paul Weller, Pianos Become the Teeth, Pity Sex, Plague Vendor, Primus, Pup, Pussy Riot, Radkey, Red City Radio, Restorations, Riot Fest, Rise Against, Rose's Pawn Shop, Rx Bandits, Samhain, Samiam, Saosin, Say Anything, Senses Fail, ShowYouSuck, Silverstein, Skaters, Slayer, slider, Social Distortion, Somos, Stiff Little Fingers, Streetlight Manifesto, Superchunk, Survay Says!, Taking Back Sunday, Team Spirit, Tegan and Sara, television, The Afghan Whigs, The American Scene, The Bots, The Bouncing Souls, The Crombies, The Cure, The Dandy Warhols, The Flaming Lips, The Front Bottoms, The Get Up Kids, The Hold Steady, The Hotelier, The Menzingers, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Murder City Devils, the national, The Offspring, The Orwells, The Picturebooks, The Pizza Underground, The Unlikely Candidates, The Used, The Whigs, The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, Tiny Moving Parts, Title Fight, Tokyo Police Club, Wavves, We Came as Romans, Weezer, Wounds, wu-tang clan