The general admission fans hoping to get up close to Lollapalooza’s mainstage headliners like Odesza and the Red Hot Chili Peppers might find themselves fenced off and farther back this year.
A VIP viewing section at the T-Mobile mainstage is mostly empty during Tems’ set during Day 2 of Lollapalooza on Friday.
But in the freshly gated VIP area, only 40 people watched the show — few enough so that each fan could find a spot on the guardrail a few feet from the artist. There was about 20 yards of empty space behind them.Madiely Torres sat in the small bit of shade behind the barrier blocking off the almost-empty VIP section. She was holding down a spot as close as she could get for the Kendrick Lamar set scheduled to start in eight hours, she said.
Festival organizers did not respond to questions about why the VIP section was added. The festival also expanded its daily capacity from 100,000 to 115,000 for the first time this year. The new section worked better for Lindzee McKatims. Last year, her VIP ticket only got her into a few private spots.The new section didn’t fill up for the otherwise jam-packed“There were definitely some open areas. And I imagine that’s frustrating for folks who were waiting in GA,” she said.
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