A look back at triumphs and growing pains.
The Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary in Golden Gate Park next weekend, Friday-Sunday, Aug. 11-13, with a stellar lineup that features Metallica, the Who and Lorde, along with nearly 100 other acts. But it wasn’t easy g
2008 AUG. 22-24 Radiohead, Beck, Manu Chao, the Black Keys, Cold War Kids, Steel Pulse, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, Primus, Cake, Steve Winwood, Regina Spektor, Matt Nathanson, Jack Johnson, Wilco, Widespread Panic, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Drive-By Truckers, Bon Iver, others. Radiohead was the first band to play in Golden Gate Park after dark, at the inaugural Outside Lands in 2008. Headliners for the new festival also included Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Jack Johnson, joining an eclectic lineup of 60 other artists. “We wanted what I call ‘credibility acts,’ ” said Gregg Perloff, founder of Another Planet Entertainment, the Berkeley concert promotion firm that started the festival in partnership with Superfly Productions of New Orleans (the folks behind Bonnaroo). “We went for great live bands.” Passes for the three-day event went for $225.50. 2009 AUG. 28-30 Pearl Jam, Incubus, Thievery Corporation, Tom Jones, Silversun Pickups, the National, Q-Tip, Built to Spill, Dave Matthews Band, the Black Eyed Peas, the Mars Volta, Mastodon, Raphael Saadiq, Os Mutantes, Tenacious D, M.I.A., Ween, Modest Mouse, Band of Horses, the Dead Weather, Lucinda Williams, others. There was a smaller turnout for the festival in its second year, as promoters struggled to deal with bureaucratic red tape while finding their bearings. The main stage attractions — Pearl Jam, the Black Eyed Peas and Dave Matthews Band — didn’t have quite the same draw as the first year’s