Mud & Music

If you’re someone who enjoys going to wild and extremely muddy concerts than read on, and if you don’t…well let’s just say I don’t like you and you should learn to live a little. Riot Fest 2014, where do I even begin? This past weekend was the three day celebration of Riot Fest’s 10^th anniversary.  Music, mud, and booze, seems like a great time to me.

I was lucky enough to spend two days at Riot Fest this year thanks to my internship with 101.1 WKQX, who was one of the many sponsors for Riot Fest. The way I see it, it was a win-win. 101.1 WKQX got a chance to further market themselves and I got to go to Riot Fest for free.

Two days filled with punk-rock music, and a killer line up, what more could a girl ask for?

Here, take a look at some of the line-up: 

Like everyone else who went to Riot Fest, I had a few bands that I was dying so see. The Flaming Lips, Taking Back Sunday, Motion City Soundtrack,  Cheap Trick, Patti Smith and Wu-Tang Clan, just to name a few. I was lucky enough to make it through the war zone that use to be Humboldt Park, and get to see Taking Back Sunday, Dashboard Confessional and Wu-Tang Clan. All three were incredible, by the way.

Getting around Humboldt Park however, was the biggest pain I had to deal with this weekend. On the first day of Riot Fest, it rained the entire day, and like we all know when we mix rain and grass it usually results in mud. But hey, a little mud never hurt anybody (unless you're a pair of shoes, in which case RIP).

Even if I didn't get to see all the bands I wanted to, having the opportunity to even go to Riot Fest is definitely something I'm always going to remember, and I may have stumbled upon some new bands I'll be adding onto my iTunes (Here's looking at you Streetlight Manifesto) and going back to some bands I'd almost forgotten about (I'm sorry Dashboard Confessional, I'll never do that again).

Until next year Riot Fest.

XOXO.

Photo credit @chicago_wallflower