After navigating around the massive VIP viewing tower, fans dance along to British DJ’s beats.
One of the most entertaining elements of Saturday’s headlining performance by British artist, producer and DJ Jamie Smith, in his guise as Jamie xx, didn’t even take place on the Red, Green or Blue stages.
This year at Pitchfork, a massive VIP viewing tower overhangs the soundboard at each of the adjacent Red and Green stages, making it difficult to walk from one to the other despite their relative proximity, with an intricate network of guardrails meant to separate Pitchfork’s 1% from the general admission hoi polloi.
De La Soul’s Posdnuous poked a little fun at the large towers from the Red Stage Saturday afternoon. “What is that middle section? Is that VIP?” asked the rapper out of seemingly genuine curiosity as the crowd booed.
