FPSF Day 2

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.

For the next show favorite can’t even describe all my feelings. I LOVED IT SO MUCH. It was the one thing I was waiting for all this time; I loved the artist, loved the songs, loved the messages, loved the style, filled my camera up with pictures, did anything I could to get closer, and yet at the end I still wanted more. I just LOVE Macklemore! So much that I feel not even that (<---) exclamation point is enough. 

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.

FPSF Day 1

The line up:

-Japandroids

-The Arctic Monkeys

-Passion Pit

- The Postal Service

Walking to the concert took a long time, but once we were there it was so exciting. So many people were dressed crazy, in a fun way of course. One girl even had rainbow stockings with her purple bikini top. Once we arrived we immediately went to see the Japandroids (one of the boyfriend’s favorite). They were pretty good and some fun because of how the band joked about their work and Texas heat.

At one point Brian got on the drums and was jammin’ with David. Later David gave a crazy drum solo. I don’t know if the picture was foggy because of the smoke machine or the weather.

            After the show was over we had some time to hang so we went and got food. They had so many food trucks it was hard to decide at first. In the beginning I wanted a turkey leg (like the ones at six flags) then to see how monstrous they are we went with corn dogs(another craving)d. Of course being at a special event I just had to get a funnel cake. A little expensive but man oh man fried batter with powdered sugar, gets me every time. Because seating was low, actually non-existent, we sat in the shade near a little puppet truck…thing. We had a bit more time left after eating so we ended up getting my hand hennaed and filling the water bottles(ice was free at first then a $1 after-how cruel haha) . The next concert to begin was The Arctic Monkeys.

What made this concert was not only the music but also Alex’s attitude. With the way he would slick his hair back and joke it was obvious that he just knows he’s attractive haha. And that accent hubba hubba (: Of course I was only one of the many screaming girls in the crowd.

After The Arctic Monkeys we went to my personal favorite, PASSIONN PIT!!!! WHICH. WAS. AWESOME. I got a little close to wear I was able to get a lot of pictures. The rest of the time I was with the crowd jumping and singing to most of the songs. At first we decided to leave a little early to get to The Postal Service, that is until the started playing “Sleepyhead” and “Little Secrets”. In the end it was a truly awesome situation because of how Michael would spread the love and visit the left, middle, and right side of the stage <3 He was also so enthusiastic-

I loved it!

It was also cute to see how hard the bands went on despite the heat and sweat.

Despite being totally in love with all the songs we managed to break away from passion pit to see The Postal Service for the one song I love so much (Nothing Better). To be honest I was only familiar with one or two of their songs but loved it all nonetheless. I want to say it was Jenny Lewis with the cool attitude but was a bit far to see. Either way it was great when her and Ben would sing together

At one point Jenny began playing her black V-guitar with her tongue!