Chris Lake is not the type to plan.
A few minutes before he occurred on the Coachella campsite, the British DJ sat on the headquarters before a Jeep Wagoneer, downloading music on several USBs. He spent the day reflecting on which direction he wanted to take this set of leading coachella. Before the Gates Festival officially opened on Friday, the performance of Thursday evening of Lake marked the first year that a musician played the campsite for the “Day Zero” festivities.
“If I go up and it's S—, then it's my fault,” joked Lake. “I literally don't know what I enter.
People sporting groove festive hats while Chris Lake kicks off the weekend 1 on camping grounds.
(All J. Schaben / Los Angeles)
Previously, “Day Zero” has always been an additional day for the campers to settle and take a step ahead of the party. But when Lake was announced to perform on the new Desert Sky scene, the festival pre-match has become a little more official.
In the tent in the shape of a circus, trains of pumping fans began to come together in the circular space. Flams and inflatable and agitated flags whistled by thickened marijuana smoke. Within the crowd, some took the opportunity to start their first festival look – bringing high -fashionable tops and crochet puffs. Others had adopted a more relaxed campsite approach, dressed in what seemed to be pajamas. In the middle of the campsite center (which consisted of a general store and several salons spaces), there were even listeners, wet hair of the showers and common toiletries, which stopped to hear the mixture of heavy bass and heavy pop music.
Beyond the dust, a feeling of palpable excitement filled the air. The long -standing fan of Lake James Guerrero has not been shocked to see that the DJ “Beggin” to appear at the festival.
“I went to the last five (Coachellas), and it always seems to appear. Which seems that Chris Lake wants to give me, I will accept. He is a pioneer of what he does. He is like LeBron (James),” said Guerrero. “It will be an absolutely phenomenal period.”
Campers and awnings are reflected in the lake while returning to their car campsites.
(All J. Schaben / Los Angeles)
Before entering the campsite that morning, many festival-goers were faced with prolonged waiting times. While waiting for the DJ to start turning, many campers have shared similar stories of waiting between six and eight hours in total before getting into the field. Many of them had also visited social networks to express their complaints – commenting “We have been online to enter for more than 8 hours, it's scandalous !!” And “it is the absolute worst that I have never seen this line during all my campsite. It's terrible to have people in the streets for hours without access to the bathrooms. Coachella Instagram.
Liz Hernandez, who camped eight times, arrived late Wednesday evening in the hope of obtaining an optimal campsite. In the past, she was able to enter campsites in three or four hours, but this year, she had to wait more than 12 hours to enter the region.
“We were so ready to wait, but this time it was excessive. I literally said (my partner) in the car,” tomorrow, that will not matter. We are going to enter it and we will forget it “, said Hernandez. “And we did it.”
It was also necessary to Guerrero, who came from the County of Orange, about six hours to enter the campsite. He shares a similar feeling: “It does not withdraw from it. It's in the past. We are about to see the goat and we live in the present now. Everything is fine.”
With each bass lake offered to the crowd, he encountered a sea of synchronized hand movements. People have piled up around the barricade to those of the extreme back, almost everyone raised their arms from top to bottom to coincide with the fluctuating rhythm. Lake says he was ready at this level of enthusiasm of the crowd only of campers.
The campers make a path through the clouds of dust to the new scene from the Sky of the Desert.
(All J. Schaben / Los Angeles)
“In the end, if you camp, you are fully submitting to the full experience of the festival. I can already say, just driving, how much energy there is among people,” said Lake. “These are the type of people you want to play.”
Setting up in an electronic sweet spot – where he made his debut of music from his next album “Chemistry” and mixed songs like “Messy” by Lola Young and “Poison” by Bell Devoe – Lake had sparked a new feeling of energy in the Coachella campsite. And it was not even day 1 yet.
“There is a large part of me that is selfish, and I would like it to be the best part of everyone's weekend,” said Lake. “At the end of the weekend, they are absolutely exhausted and I plan to contribute strongly.”
