The line up:
-Matt & Kim
-Of Monsters &
Men
-Macklemore
-TV On the Radio
Day 2 began a little later, got
there around 3 to see our favorites starting with Matt & Kim. The couple
was dynamite! With the cool songs and crude jokes in between the kept the crowd
cheering! It was especially cute and funny when Matt introduced Kim as not only
his “partner in crime” but also his “partner in sex”.
Then during one of the songs Kim
kept it lively by keeping the beat with her drumsticks and then standing on her
bass drum and keeping the beat by slapping her butt (got the crowd cheering
more). As though that wasn’t cool enough they even threw out confetti and
balloons to the audience. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to see what the balloons
led to because we had to get a good spot for Of Monsters & Men, but wow. It
was fun.
Having just left Matt & Kim, Of
Monsters & Men seemed like such a chill concert. Everyone was having a good
time and I even started chatting with a couple of girls there. What could make
it any better, right? Well nothing, except getting really close to the stage!
At first it was so surprising because it was the first big concert where we
actually got close to a part of the fence that kept us from jumping on stage
like crazed fans. Even better than the fence was that we got to a closer part
of the stage (more center) with the help of one of the girls I met. Overall the
concert was exciting and (for the lack of a better word) happy! The band did a
great job and it was fun to sing along and jump with the songs.
Of course like any other artist he played all his best known songs later on <3. One of them beginning with him spotting a guy who wore a fur coat to the concert in 100+ degree heat (you KNOW where this is going!). Macklemore then had the crowd surf the coat up to the stage and put it on, it was like an “anorexic grandma coat” because of how it made him feel so small and made him feel buff (haha).
After Thrift Shop Macklemore played a few more songs like Can’t Hold Us and Same Love featuring some special guests like Ray Dalton and Bun B. And then came the most special guest of them all, you know, the one exiled from Great Britain and loves dance parties…
The crowd went crazy for the act
and just had a lot of fun with it. In the end I could not stop screaming and
taking pictures. After the show we then went to my boyfriends favorite band TV
on the Radio. It was pretty packed so we weren’t able to get close like he had
hoped for. However we were able to get a good view of the screen and a bit of
the stage. For this concert I didn’t really get pictures because I made the
decision to get in a SUPER long line for a metal barrel cup for free soda
refills, no regrets (still got to hear the whole thing). Although, by the time
I got back thirty minutes had passed and we were all ready to go because he
bf’s favorite song was played while I was gone. Anyways, great band, great
performance, great day/night, especially because of what happened later.
On our way out of the concert we
decided to pick up some concert shirts to remember the whole shebang. The plan
then changed a little bit because the first tent we visited didn’t have our
sizes so we ended up going down the festival to the main booth. It was there
that the bf got the red fpsf shirt with the block style and dates and I got the
fpsf shirt with doodles of all the artists. Of course me being the indecisive
one, we stopped and as I spent a few minutes thinking whether or not to get the
red shirt. Then it happened. Right as I was making up my mind I saw the guy
with the fur coat. This wasn’t any fur coat though. This was the fur coat
Macklemore touched. Forget the shirt, I wanted to touch that coat! After asking
my boyfriend and his lil’ sis if it was normal I decided to kind of go up to
the guy and ask if I could take a picture with his coat. “Real quick, real
quick” he said as I motioned/told my boyfriend(the most camera awkward person
haha) to take the picture with my camera while putting my arm around the coat.
Unfortunately, my camera died and we weren’t able to take the picture so we
went on (despite the fact that my boyfriend had his camera capable iphone) because
in the end there are just some things you have to take in and remember.
Touching the coat Macklemore wore is
just one of those things.
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