First actual day of Tomorrowland! Had breakfast in downtown Dreamville, walked around a little bit, and then headed over around 13:30. Red Bull had a marching band which joined us on the walk into the festival.
Once I got there, you walk through some food areas and then right into the MainStage area. That place is enormous! Definitely much bigger than the main stage at EDC or any other festival I had ever been to. The stage was set up in this valley so you had a good view from whereever you were... up on the hill, you could see over everyone else, and then down on the dance floor area, the stage was just so massive that you could see everything really well there too. The stage even had waterfalls on it!
The first artist who I wanted to see was Giuseppe Ottaviani at the Rise by Coke Studio stage. He's a regular on Armin's A State of Trance radio show and pretty famous so I was expecting a much bigger stage, especially after how huge the main stage was. Instead, it was a cozy area though which was very packed. After Giuseppe, we explored some of the other stages a bit and walked around the festival grounds. At the Elixir stage, there was a great vibe going where everyone was dancing to the 90's hits. Headed back to Rise to see Ruben de Ronde, Armin's co-host for ASOT. Then went back to the MainStage for Vintage Culture.
Headed to the other extreme end of the grounds to see a bit of Mau P at the Freedom By Bud stage. Unlike most of the other stages which were outside, this was a giant square building, which I assume they built just for the festival each year. It was nice and dark inside so they were able to do more creative things with the lighting than the outside stages. They had the A/C cranked up but there were a lot of people to cool off so it wasn't working that well!
After Mau P ended, I went back to Rise to see Aaron Hibell, who did the soundtrack for the Oppenheimer movie. Stayed for Cosmic Gate.
Finally wound up back at MainStage to see Swedish House Mafia followed by Armin Van Buuren to close out the night. Armin brought up a special guest, Rob Swire from Pendulum, to sing "Sound of You" which was really cool. Pendulum is one of James' favorite artists so I made sure to grab a clip of him playing.
The venue closed at 1am so we all headed back into Dreamville. I couldn't fall asleep right away after being all pumped up from the amazing music so I explored the campgrounds a bit more. I was surprised that nearly everybody just went right to sleep rather than continuing the party.
Once I got there, you walk through some food areas and then right into the MainStage area. That place is enormous! Definitely much bigger than the main stage at EDC or any other festival I had ever been to. The stage was set up in this valley so you had a good view from whereever you were... up on the hill, you could see over everyone else, and then down on the dance floor area, the stage was just so massive that you could see everything really well there too. The stage even had waterfalls on it!
The first artist who I wanted to see was Giuseppe Ottaviani at the Rise by Coke Studio stage. He's a regular on Armin's A State of Trance radio show and pretty famous so I was expecting a much bigger stage, especially after how huge the main stage was. Instead, it was a cozy area though which was very packed. After Giuseppe, we explored some of the other stages a bit and walked around the festival grounds. At the Elixir stage, there was a great vibe going where everyone was dancing to the 90's hits. Headed back to Rise to see Ruben de Ronde, Armin's co-host for ASOT. Then went back to the MainStage for Vintage Culture.
Headed to the other extreme end of the grounds to see a bit of Mau P at the Freedom By Bud stage. Unlike most of the other stages which were outside, this was a giant square building, which I assume they built just for the festival each year. It was nice and dark inside so they were able to do more creative things with the lighting than the outside stages. They had the A/C cranked up but there were a lot of people to cool off so it wasn't working that well!
After Mau P ended, I went back to Rise to see Aaron Hibell, who did the soundtrack for the Oppenheimer movie. Stayed for Cosmic Gate.
Finally wound up back at MainStage to see Swedish House Mafia followed by Armin Van Buuren to close out the night. Armin brought up a special guest, Rob Swire from Pendulum, to sing "Sound of You" which was really cool. Pendulum is one of James' favorite artists so I made sure to grab a clip of him playing.
The venue closed at 1am so we all headed back into Dreamville. I couldn't fall asleep right away after being all pumped up from the amazing music so I explored the campgrounds a bit more. I was surprised that nearly everybody just went right to sleep rather than continuing the party.