This Saturday, March 19, was the second date of the Lollapalooza 2023 and it was the only day that included a significant change of bands. The closure was to be in charge of Blink 182but their drummer, Travis Baker, had to undergo surgery and the band was replaced by Twenty One Pilots. The highest point of the day was the show of Jane’s Addictionthe ideologues of the festival.
Travis Baker’s was not the only setback prior to the event, Kevin Parker, the Australian creator of Tame Impala, fractured his hip and had to be operated. However, the tour was not interrupted by the artist’s state of health, who did not hesitate to show the process of the surgical intervention through the band’s official Instagram.
It is that Tame Impala, who visited Argentina in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016, did not want to miss this opportunity. Although she had to use a cane and crutches and at other times had to play sitting down, Parker was one of the featured artists on the second day of the Lollapalooza and it coincided with the moment when the air was most loaded with psychedelic aromas.
Previously, when the day began to prepare for its sunset, it touched Sophie Tucker, a New York musical duo made up of Sophie Hawley-Weld, a fan of Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, María Bethânia, Gal Costa, João Gilberto and Tucker Halpern. With a recent album, Wet Tennis, they are in Argentina for the first time and arrive at Lolla after performing a sideshow in Niceto.
His presentation was a shock of spring Amazonian electro energy while the audience swelled to the beat. A floral fruity sound like her wardrobe that went in gradient from fuchsia to violet through orange.
At the same time, there was the return of you point it out to me in a relaxed musical tune that a large part of the public accompanied sitting on the grass. The photo of the moment was a kind of Woodstock macerated in energy drinks and social networks.
Jane’s Addiction: rock on stage
The vertex of what happened on Saturday was marked by Jane’s Addiction voiced by Perry Farrel which is a pineapple that transports to nascent expectations of the nineties.
The band was born in 1985 composed of Perry Farrell (vocals), Dave Navarro (guitar), Eric Avery (bass) and Stephen Perkins (drums). After breaking up in 1991, they returned with a brief tour in 1997 and a brief reunion in 2001 and broke up again in 2004. But before their first breakup, Perry Farrell decided to create Lollapalooza to say goodbye to his group.
“Musically, Perry Farrell and Eric Avery had influences from post-punk and from bands like The Velvet Underground or Bauhaus. Avery’s bass lines are one of the characteristics in Jane’s Addiction,” Fabrizio Pedrotti, author of the book, told PROFILE. El ritual de Jane’s Addiction.
“In the ’90s, most of the grunge groups had the direct impact of them. In El Ritual de Jane’s Addiction there are stories from Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and The Smashing Pumpkins; and even the leaders of groups from other genres, such as Limp Bizkit, Deftones, Anthrax or Suicidal Tendencies, talk about it”, he continued. “Because Jane’s Addiction is so unclassifiable, so are its offshoots: they reached groups of all styles, eras, and colors,” he concluded.
The show Jane’s invited to pogo while Farrel drank red wine and three ballerinas in fishnet stockings, feathers and a lot of exposed skin, made an erotic show in the background of the stage. Fact: one of the girls was the singer’s wife, Etty Lau Farrell, who concluded one of her performances by kissing her partner and raising the temperature of the bet.
Two moments to highlight: the tribute they paid to Taylor Hawkins, the Foo Fighters drummer who passed away on March 25, 2022 and the moment he sang “Jane Says“, a mime for his followers of the first hour.
Catupecu Machu, The 1975 y Twenty One Pilots
On center stage he played The 1975, which began with “If you’re too shy (Let me know)”. The British rang at the same time as Catupecu Machu who chose to start his recital with “Magia poison”.
At 22.15 it started Twenty one pilots, made up of the Americans Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun who had already been part of the local edition in 2016 and 2019. The duo exuded youthful skill and performance. And good gestures: they covered Blink 182, the band they replaced, and sang the classic “Muchachos” to celebrate Argentina.
Sunday the 19th will be the third and last day of the festival in which the central thing will be the performance of Billie Eilish, but there will be many more options like every day.
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