LCD Soundsystem’s Bonnaroo Crowd was Small… and Witnessed Something Special
The order goes a little something like this: LCD Soundsystem is booked as a festival headliner, the size of their crowd is extremely small, they put on a fantastic show, everyone has more room to dance because the crowd is so small, rinse, repeat. Such was the case at Coachella, and such was the case at Bonnaroo 2016 on Friday night (June 10); this is how James Murphy’s unlikely reunion voyage is going to play out from to now until whenever he’s finally lost his whole edge.
With Pearl Jam and The Dead serving as the other two headliners this weekend, LCD Soundsystem stuck out like a sore thumb on the lineup, an NYC-bred nostalgia trip invading the space so often held by classic rock. Bonnaroo isn’t a cool-kid convention like Coachella, or a New York festival like Panorama (which LCD will headline next month). The fact that J. Cole easily outdrew LCD Soundsystem on the main stage on Friday underlined that, yeah, LCD is a little bit out of their comfort zone here.
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