Governors Ball Music Festival 2014: Day 1 Recap
Trend of the day:
Walking through (or on for Phoenix frontman Thomas Mars) was a big theme and Gov Ball partiers were completely into it. Bastille's lead singer, Dan Smith, donned a wolf hoodie and strutted his way through the crowd. Phoenix's, Thomas Mars, literally standing on the crowd's hands during Phoenix's set not only takes major balance, but he did it with thousands of eyes on him and still looked cool.
Most impressive moment of the day:
I'm no professional singer, but when lead singer of The 1975, Matt Healy, started smoking a cigarette during one of his songs, the entire time I was waiting for the song to go sour. But his vocals were consistent as ever. The man has the lungs of a gorilla.
Performance of the day:
And then, Outkast happened. As they return for their 20 year anniversary, the crowd loved when they played all their heavy hitters, opening with "Bombs Over Baghdad," and bringing out guests Janelle Monae and Killer Mike for their finale with "Whole World."
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