It only took me 4 1/2 years of living in Austin to finally get my butt to the Austin City Limits festival downtown, but I finally did it this year!!! Every year I have some kind of lame excuse as to why I'm not going to go, but with friends ( Suzie and Chris) flying in just for the festival- I really had absolutely no reason not to go. In the past I've walked the trail along the venue and posted up with a little picnic and listened to the concerts outside the fence, but now that I've actually been in the festival I'm not sure if that will do it anymore ; )
The whole festival was tons of fun!! My only regret is that it is so over packed (roughly around 175,000 people a day) I didn't get to hang out with as many friends as I had originally hoped : (
But I did get to share this experience with Ricky and I wouldn't have traded that for the world
This is only my personal opinion but the best performances of the weekend were:
Florence +The Machine
Averitt Brothers
The Lumineers
The Roots
The Black Keys
The Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Jack White
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| The weekend in a nutshell |
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| It's hard to tell but this was a picture of the crowds on their way down to festival on Friday night. I had to work during the day on Friday so I took the bus from our house and met Ricky down there. It was perfect $1.00 and dropped me off two blocks away -beats the $30 parking that I passed on my way over, lol |
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| The entrance to festival on Friday |
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| The weather was perfect during the first show I caught- Florence + The Machine |
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| The main stage at the festival |
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| This is the only picture I took with friends really in it, and it was only a fraction of everyone who was there. I tend to shy away from the camera when I've had a few drinks, I'm sweaty, and muddy. Lol but that is just me ; ) |
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| a blurry picture of Florence + The Machine |
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| The Black Keys on Friday night |
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| This was the weather on Saturday |
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| And this is how I felt about the weather on Saturday. If you know me I don't do "getting wet" very well, but I think I handled it better than Ricky would have guessed, ha ha |
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| Jack White on Saturday Night |
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| The Lumineers on Sunday |
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| Beautiful view of downtown landscape from the venue |
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| The Red Hot Chilli Peppers on Sunday |
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| Another pic of red hot Chilli Peppers |
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| a panoramic view Ricky's photo |
Below are a few videos of some the performances we saw
On Sunday there wasn't a cloud in the sky so Ricky and I drove over to our friend Anna's house with our bikes in town and rode them down the festival. It was really nice and was a great start to the last day of festivities . The only thing was we rode down hill for most of the ride- which meant we had to ride uphill on the way back. It wasn't as bad as I had originally thought we walked only here and there if it was just too steep for my cruiser. All in all, again it was a fabulous weekend : )
Now my body and wallet are slowly healing, ha ha
I have a feeling this next weekend is going to be very low key- have a great week! Love Di
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