The best photos from Day 1 of Outside Lands
After months of anticipation, the Outside Lands Music Festival is here, taking over Golden Gate Park with a slate of music that attracts 75,000 attendees per day. The park transforms into a three-day playground for music fans, with eight stages of acts ranging from Bay Area upstarts to international stars.
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Friday afternoon was a decidedly cloudy affair, with not a sliver of sunshine poking through a heavy cloud cover. Thankfully, it looked like most attendees got the memo to wear layers, although a few brave souls dared to flex some decidedly less-warm festival fashion.
Early standout performances included Nezza, a homegrown San Jose R&B star in the making who did double duty performing on the Twin Peaks stage and then on the Duboce Triangle stage, one of the most underrated stages at the event, which she referred to as an “enchanted forest.” After a couple of songs, she noticed her parents in the crowd, who were dancing wildly in support. Pop upstart Grace Ives blessed a dedicated early crowd at the Lands End stage, serenading them from her keyboard.
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Meanwhile, the Sutro stage served as the festival’s rock epicenter, with opening act Bad Nerves sparking an impressive mosh pit and heavy shredders Die Spitz out of Austin, Texas, bringing high kicks and a devil-may-care attitude. (Members of Die Spitz screamed out “f—k ICE” during their set.)
Bad Nerves bringing the early afternoon mosh pit
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SFGATE’s photo squad was on the ground capturing all the action, running between the photo pits and stopping the fest’s most fashionable figures for portraits. Scroll down to see all of their best photos so far.
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