Throwback Thursday Archives

Throwback Thursday : Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Power Packed Performance At Slane Castle!

July 6, 2017

This song never gets old. The concert starts off with an improvised jam with John Frusciante, Flea and Chad Smith. At the end of it, Frusciante and Flea in skeleton outfit coordinate perfectly to begin play...

Throwback To When Nine Inch Nails Went Apeshit At Lollapalooza ’91

The Sherp

January 5, 2017

FS Features

Lollapalooza remains one of the most prominent music festivals of contemporary times, but do you know that it began as a farewell to legendary band Jane's Addiction? Time for some Throwback! The formerly Am...

Music Festivals In 2015 : Our Year In Review

Meher Manda

December 30, 2015

Culture, FS Features

Much has begun for much to end so much could pass. The Sherp reviews how music festivals have fared in the year of 2015. The year of 2015 was one defiant year when it came to music festivals and change in tr...

Prince Covered Radiohead’s Creep At Coachella 2008 And The Video’s Back Up!

Meher Manda

December 9, 2015

FS Features, Music

Remember that iconic moment when Prince covered Radiohead's Creep at Coachella 2008, before blocking the said video on YouTube? Yes, the video's back, and we have it right here. Prince and Radiohead are, bot...

Throwback Stories To Prove That Woodstock ‘69 Was The Most Special Music Festival Ever

Meher Manda

November 19, 2015

Culture, FS Features, Music

Music festivals today cannot hope to match the intimacy, authenticity and legend of Woodstock Festival, 1969. Some beautiful, timeless stories from the festival are testament to the same. It was the era of t...

Throwback: The Spooky, 2000 Year-Old History Of Halloween

Sanjana Ajith

October 28, 2015

FS Features

Have you ever wondered where strange Halloween traditions like costumes, trick-or-treating, pumpkin-carving and apple-bobbing actually began? This fun-filled festival actually has deep history that dates back t...

Throwback : To When 50 Cent Got Bottled On Stage

Dhriti Menon

October 7, 2015

FS Features, Music

2004 was a time when radio-played hip-hop got no love from largely rock-centric events like Reading Festival. Festival audiences make or break performances, while sometimes operating with a certain level of ...

Throwback: When A Man’s Lip Got Bitten Off At Oktoberfest

Sanjana Ajith

September 30, 2015

FS Features

When you put a bunch of drunk people together, strange things are bound to happen. But this is some next level weirdness, and there's even raw footage of the incident that you can watch, to satisfy your morbid ...

Throwback: Burning Man From The 90’s In Pictures

Meher Manda

September 2, 2015

FS Features

Burning Man's mantra of radical self-expressionism may find several takers today, but in the 90's, the festival was a lot more underground and exclusive. As it is with most phenomena in general, the more s...

#ThrowbackThursday – The San Fermin Fiesta

Karan Kumar

July 2, 2015

FS Features

There's all sorts of festivals in this world, some that began as traditions, some that began as a means to kill boredom, and some, that - we don't really know why they exist; but they do. For this Thursday's li...

Throwback Thursday: Seemingly Innocent Balloon Festival Goes Horribly Wrong

Anupama Khedkar

June 11, 2015

FS Features

It's Thursday, folks. And The Sherp is here for a short stroll down memory lane. This is the story of Cleveland's unfortunate Balloonfest fiasco in 1986. You know how Electric Forest aimed to break the world...

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