Sam Roberts Band, Aug. 4/07, Lollapalooza, Chicago, IL

At 7:30pm last night the tour bus swung through Ottawa to pick me up and head down to Chicago for Lollapalooza, arguably one of the coolest festivals in North America. The drive itself was pretty painless; we had a nice bus and the FOH guy supplied homemade tacos and margueritas. A good way to start...

We pulled into Chicago around 10am, parked the bus behind the stage and began our business. The great thing about this festival is that it's right in the heart of downtown in Grant Park, great scenery all around, and you get a shot of the skyline behind almost every stage. It's pretty incredible. Anyways, the show went really well. It was packed with re-located Canadians who started singing the national anthem before the guys went on. It was pretty nuts.

Afterwards, I ran into some friends I had toured with previously, and I had a chance to check out a few of the other bands, and the site of course. Incredible site, great catering, free jeans... What more could you want? Good times all around, but like all good things, it came to an end way too quickly as we had to hit the road to head up to London, ON for a balloon festival...