Gravity, as any festival veteran knows, is the one act that never cancels.And it headlined at Austin City Limits, bringing heavy rains and taking requests from anyone in white sneakers.
A nearly two-inch deluge pounded Austin across opening weekend, turning Zilker Park’s iconic Great Lawn into a massive mud pit and prompting a localized Flood Watch on Friday.The standing water forced festival organizers to delay Saturday’s gate opening by two hours while grounds crews worked around the clock with industrial vacuums and specialized soil treatments.
Rain boots were the only sensible footwear, and anyone who skipped them wandered the grounds with shoes caked in muck.People were taking pratfalls all weekend and watching the damage was, frankly, hilarious.
But this is the Live Music Capital of the World, so the show went on.Friday saw Skrillex close the T-Mobile stage while Charli xcx closed the American Express stage across the park, and the people who chose Skrillex got a masterclass.
The energy never relented for a second as he delivered a shapeshifting set, moving between his vintage growling dubstep and newer, more experimental bass music.His finale was a song-cycle of his biggest hits, blending ‘Bangarang’ with ‘Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites’ and the acapella of Benny Benassi’s ‘Cinema.’ Scroll to continue more from edm Framework Reveals Massive Lineup for Second Season of re:frame in Los Angeles Meanwhile, The Chainsmokers dropped ‘Selfie’ on the Snapchat stage, which is a joke that writes itself.
Another is that nobody could even lift an arm high enough to frame one because the set was so brutally crowded and congested.The same stage brought it’s murph on Saturday, when the grounds became a sun-kissed dance party in the middle of the mud.
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