Back to the night, the
first music we checked out was what we believed to be “The Begowatts”, a local
act that dressed as turtles while playing an awesome pop punk set, warming the
crowd up nicely. After more beer we then checked out “Mutemath” a national act
that has been featured on a “Twilight” soundtrack and recent session with “Twenty
One Pilots”. They played a show like it was their last ever, brilliant crowd
interaction and sing alongs for all to join in. One of the sing alongs included
a little girl, who we think was one of the band member’s daughters, sang along
to a song and rocked her little heart out. Other highlights of the set include the
band dressing up and the lead singer mattress surfing across the crowd while
everyone sang their songs back to them. A great band I would defiantly check
out again.
As we left that stage
towards the main stage outside of Capitol Square, there were more costumes as ever
and the best costume of the night. Two individuals dressed as the “Night King”
and “Daenerys Targaryen” from “Game of Thrones” was precisely perfect in their Coplay
and could be mistaken for the actual cast members. Unfortunatly due to time and
money we were unable to dress up this year but hopefully next time as the
planning for it has already begun. Another notable factor of this big event and
State Street was the fact, not many businesses were involved in this night in
terms of stands or open store fronts. The city and business could not only
benefit from their involvement but it would mean that the ticket price would be
more worthwhile from exclusive opening hours/offers.
As we hit the main
stage “George Clinton” and friends were just finishing their set, leaving the
crowd jumping around to the pop melodies and Halloween cheer. I managed to
secure a photo pass for “FreakFest” meaning I got into the very large photo pit
for main act “D.R.A.M.”, this provided me a place to get some great shots as
ever but always leaves you feeling watched by a million eyes who are looking
through you to see the stage. Nevertheless he put on a good show, with his charismatic
smile and easy going tunes, showing off what he does with ease and style. I
thought there would have been a more dramatic finish to the night and “D.R.A.M”’s
set but once it finished things just quickly fizzled out as the crowd broke
down. Hopefully with more investment and crowd in the future the shows will
become grander. The only other problem with leaving at the end of the night was
getting home. As ever with no public transport available (another problem with
these big events) we had to use a cab or “Uber” in our case and this was $6 for
a normal $6 trip plus about 15 minute wait. Needless to say we started the 3.5
mile journey on foot home until we got about a mile away we got one for $4.50
much better value and we walked off the pizza we had hahaha. Next we will pre
book.
Overall, Freak Fest
2017 was a frightfully great time for a great price and we can’t wait for it to
roll around again, hopefully we will have costumes this time, is boy scouts a
good idea? (PS the image is also a great costume couple but not us.)
No comments:
Post a Comment