Fashionable images from San Francisco’s Portola Music Competition

Organized by Goldenvoice (the Coachella promoters), this weekend’s Portola pageant is the most recent entry into the canon of San Francisco music fests. It goals to serve a neighborhood of digital music followers whose tastes usually get missed or relegated to smaller levels throughout different festivals. The lineup isn’t precisely underground — you possibly can nonetheless catch bona fide pop stars like Charli XCX — nevertheless it’s a rarity to amass this a lot DJ expertise in a single place anyplace within the nation exterior of Detroit’s Motion Digital Music Competition.

The primary incarnation of Portola kicked off Saturday at Pier 80, with hundreds of followers touring to the bayside vacation spot tucked away simply south of the Dogpatch neighborhood. Though the occasion was just for ages 21 and up, the group skewed comparatively younger, so pageant fashion was nonetheless a critical precedence amongst attendees, albeit with Outdoors Lands’ extra preppy kinds traded for extra exaggerated and colourful seems to be impressed by classic rave vogue. Many attendees rocked leather-based outfits, a style of Sunday’s different massive pageant, Folsom Street Fair.

Though the primary day of bands gave spectacular performances, starting from a jubilant set from the Avalanches to bass-heavy grooves equipped by Kaytranada, there have been definitely some first-year points. Spotty cell service and web entry are to be anticipated with a serious pageant, however service at Portola was primarily nonexistent, with textual content messages taking hours to ship. Meals strains have been additionally dangerously lengthy, so Sunday attendees ought to seize a chunk early or danger spending an hour in line. And noise complaints within the surrounding neighborhood have been additionally plentiful, with unofficial experiences noting the occasion may very well be heard within the East Bay.

All that mentioned, festivalgoers seemed to be having the time of their lives. Listed below are our greatest images from the pageant to date; test again later within the weekend for extra photographs of the group and performers.

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