Lollapalooza Chile

History

The annual festival launched in April 2011 in Santiago’s O'Higgins Park and features alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock and hip-hop bands from both Chile and abroad. It was the first edition of Lollapalooza to take place outside of the United States and was followed by the launch of Lollapalooza Brazil in São Paulo in 2012. Lollapalooza Chile returned to Santiago in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. the fifth edition is scheduled for the 19 and 20 of March 2015. It is managed by Chilean production company Lotus Productions in partnership with Lollapalooza founder and Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell, and drew crowds of approximately 100,000 in 2011 and 115,000 in 2012.

Acts

Lollapalooza Chile has featured a range of international artists such as The Killers, Jane's Addiction, Kanye West, Deftones, Fatboy Slim, Thirty Seconds to Mars, The Flaming Lips, Arctic Monkeys, Foo Fighters, Björk, MGMT, Tinie Tempah, Sublime with Rome, Foster the People, Calvin Harris and Armin Van Buuren. The 2013 lineup included The Black Keys, Pearl Jam, Queens of the Stone Age, Keane, Deadmau5, A Perfect Circle, Franz Ferdinand, The Hives, and many others.

The festival has also provided an important platform for Chilean music and rock in particular, and shows by Chilean artists have drawn some of its biggest crowds. Featured bands have included Chico Trujillo, Anita Tijoux, Los Bunkers, Javiera Mena, Francisca Valenzuela, Joe Vasconcellos, Gepe, Fernando Milagros, Juana Fe and Los Jaivas. The Chilean contingent of the 2013 lineup included Banda Conmoción, Gepe, De Saloon and Chancho en Piedra. Lollapalooza Chile has also provided a springboard for Chilean artists such as Los Bunkers, Chico Trujillo and Anita Tijoux to play the original Lollapalooza festival in Chicago.

2011

In mid-November 2010, the American musician Perry Farrell announced that the twentieth version of Lollapalooza festival would be held for the first time outside the United States; The site chosen was the Parque O'Higgins in Santiago, Chile, on 2 and 3 April 2011. The event gathered approximately 100,000 people between the O'Higgins Park Ellipse, the Movistar Arena and the Theater Dome.

Some critics felt that the poor organization affects the development of evento. Also, many people of Chile felt that the final festival did not meet expectations, feeling more like a "Lollapalooza Chile" than a "Lollapalooza in Chile."

The organization had many problems, one of them being the cancellation of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs show due to health problems of one of its band members. Problems escalated when Lotus announced that tickets would not be refunded under any circumstances. Added to this, the organizers did not program another band to replace the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but as time passed they were able to present other artists.

2012

When the lineup was first revealed it was very poorly received by many festival fans, there were only a few big name artits sucha as Björk, MGMT, Joan Jett and Foo Fighters, but by the time the festival finally started many popular artists such as Arctic Monkeys Calvin Harris, Skrillex, Tinie Tempah and Foster the People, among others were in the line up. This new version of the Festival showed various improvements, such as security, a wider selection of food posts, better information regarding the festival itself and a better atmosphere.

2013

The lineup was very well received by the people as it brought many quality, big name artists such as Pearl Jam, Keane, Franz Ferdinand, Queens of the Stone Age, The Black Keys, The Hives, Kaiser Chiefs, deadmau5, Passion Pit, Two Door Cinema Club, Of Monsters and Men, A Perfect Circle, Hot Chip and Foals, and many others.

On January 28, 2013, Lotus released the schedules of each artist on Facebook, with the participation of fans through "likes", which served to open the "curtain" with the schedules of each stage on their website.

2014

Lollapalooza Chile 2014 was the fourth version of this popular festival in the country. It was held in the O'Higgins Park in Santiago on 29th and 30 March of that year. The final attending number of spectators estimated by Lotus Productions was around 160,000 people, about 80,000 in total.

"In pursuit of the ultimate band of Kidzapalooza", sponsored by Lotus Productions and Coca-Cola Chile, the competition was intended to encourage the participation of young people across Chile between the ages of 14 and 18 years old encouraging them to participate with their own band for the grand prize to appear in the official scenario of Kidzapalooza during the 2014 Lollapalooza Chile Festival. To participate, each band had to send a home video (uncut) of 90 seconds, where all members appeared playing and/or singing. This video had to be sent, together with information of the band, between October 24 and December 22, 2013. The winning band was Mangoré.

2015

The line up was released on November 16, 2014. Jorge Gonzalez, ex leader of a Chilean 80's rock band known as Los Prisioneros cancelled his presentation after suffering a stroke on February 8, 2015. On March 2, it was confirmed that his replacement would be Ana Tijoux.

2016

The sixth version of Lollapalooza Chile was held on 19–20 March 2016. The official 2016 lineup was released on October 6, 2015, the 2016 headliners will be; Eminem, Florence + The Machine, Jack Ü, Mumford and Sons.

2017

The seventh version of Lollapalooza Chile will be held on 1-2 April 2017. The official 2017 lineup was released on September 28, 2017, headliners will be; Metallica, The Strokes, The Weeknd and The XX.