Global Citizen Festival/Larapalooza 2012

When: Saturday, September 29, 2012

Where: Central Park, New York, NY

Accompanied by: Lara, Donna, Mae Mae, Megan, Melly, Alana, Tarquin, Heather, Cheryl, MJ, Sarah, Kathryn, Amy

Genre: All that is good and glorious



Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse, Foo Fighters, John Legend, The Black Keys, Band of Horses, K'Naan



K'Naan: In The Beginning, The Seed, Wavin' Flag

Band of Horses: Knock Knock, The Great Salt Lake, No One's Gonna Love You, The Funeral

John Legend: Imagine

Foo Fighters: Times Like These, All My Life, My Hero, Learn to Fly, Arlandria, These Days, Walk, Best of You, Everlong

The Black Keys: Howlin' For You, Next Girl, Run Right Back, Same Old Thing, Dead and Gone, Little Black Submarines, Money Maker, Strange Times, Nova Baby, She's Long Gone, Tighten Up, Gold on the Ceiling

Encore: Lonely Boy, I Got Mine

Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse: Love and Only Love, Powderfinger, Born in Ontario, Walk Like a Giant, The Needle and the Damage Done, Twisted Road, Fuckin' Up, Rockin' In the Free World

I cannot for the life of me believe that I never posted anything about this adventure... I suppose in 2012, I wasn't as dedicated to tracking my shows. But seriously, what an oversight that was!!

This was the first real WWLD? adventure.  Later deemed "Larapalooza 2012"....

WWLD?

A less than 36 hour adventure to New York to meet up with the FFPB peeps...and what's amazing is that with nearly FOURTEEN of us there, we managed to all meet up and actually hang out!!  Damn, we are just that good!!

FFPB IRL

If you care to know...WWLD? is something that I came up with whenever faced with a question about whether or not to pick up and go to a show. It stands for "What Would Lara Do?" and 9.5 times out of 10, Lara would find a way to get to a gig, come hell or high water. So that is the attitude I decided to take when making my travel arrangements for this weekend. From there it turned into Larapalooza 2012... and, as far as I'm concerned, will go down in history as one of the great FFPB meet ups in PB history.

She is the L in WWLD?

Amazingly enough, I got to do some stuff and things aside from just going to the show...

Seeing as much of NYC as possible in a short amount of time = Adventure

It was all a blur..but we managed to cover a lot of ground. Time Square. 30 Rock. A handful of different bars. Taxi cab rides. More walking than I think any of us ever dreamed of.  (photo in the middle of the collage below are of me with a coworker and his wife who happened to be in NY the same time as me...how we managed to meet up during this expedited vacay is beyond me!!??)

And in between all this....there was a festival. And it was magical. And amazing. And we enjoyed every moment. And it was awesome. It was the icing on the FFPB cake.Granted, we were too far back to really get any good photos, and the photos that I know I have somewhere are no longer to be found...so thanks to the Internet and Google Image Search.. here are a few that are most definitely NOT mine, but help fill in the blanks...

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