The weather was glorious and the music went down a storm during the first weekend of the Austin City Limits Music Festival 2016 which was the 15th anniversary of the event.
Needless to say that Radiohead’s ACL debut on Friday night ranked right up there with the fans crammed into Zilker Park for the series of electrifying sets served up.
The British indie stars enthralled the crowd with a two-hour set that packed full of their greatest hits – encore Paranoid Android leaving them on a massive high.
Dance DJ Major Lazer then ensured the energy did not drop for the rest of Friday night with rapper Kendrick Lamar taking over the baton on Saturday.
Lamar picked out songs from his two most recent albums good kid, m.A.A.d city and To Pimp a Butterfly to thrill the younger fans, while hip-hop legend LL Cool J got the older fans up on their feet with a set of his own.
Norwegian DJ Kygo was quick to keep the crowd buzzing later that night thanks to an eclectic set of strong dance tunes.
Willie Nelson collaborator Kacey Musgraves sported a rhinestone-encrusted nose ring for her Sunday set on the Samsung stage, including a popular cover of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy and the show-closing These Boots Are Made For Walkin’.
She set up the crowd perfectly for country star Chris Stapleton, who has won a slew of awards in the last year for his album Traveller and standout song Nobody to Blame.
Last, but by no means least, fellow headliners Mumford & Sons and LCD Soundsystem closed out the opening weekend with two very different but well received sets.
Nelson will step in for Stapleton next weekend in an otherwise similar line-up set to keep the musical bar high for Weekend Two of this seminal event.