Saturday, Jul 20, 1991
Lollapalooza 1991
Lineup: Jane's Addiction , Siouxsie and the Banshees , Living Colour , Nine Inch Nails , Ice-T & Body Count , Butthole Surfers , Rollins Band , Violent Femmes
- Date
- Saturday, Jul 20, 1991
- Doors
- 11:00 AM
- Show time
- 1:00 PM
- Venue
- Southwestern College Stadium
- City
- Chula Vista, CA
- Seating
- General Admission
- Face value
- $26.00
- Sold by
- Ticketmaster
The first-ever Lollapalooza, billed locally as 91X-Fest. Ticket: "TAKE THE WHOLE DAY OFF FOR LOLLAPALOOZA — RAIN OR SHINE. DOORS 11AM / SHOW 1PM SHARP." Parking included. Lineup is the touring bill, not printed on the stub.
What Jane's Addiction played
- Up the Beach
- Whores
- Standing in the Shower... Thinking
- Thank You Boys
- Ain't No Right
- Three Days
- Been Caught Stealing
- Idiots Rule
- Jane Says
- Ted, Just Admit It...
- Classic Girl
- Mountain Song
13 songs, from setlist.fm.
What Siouxsie and the Banshees played
- Cry
- Cascade
- Got to Get Up
- The Killing Jar
- Paradise Place
- Silver Waterfalls
- Kiss Them for Me
- Peek-A-Boo
- Christine
- Fear (of the Unknown)
- Silly Thing
- Happy House
- Spellbound
13 songs, from setlist.fm.
What Living Colour played
- Memories Can't Wait Talking Heads cover
- Desperate People
- Funny Vibe
- New Jack Theme
- Love Rears Its Ugly Head
- Time's Up
- Cult of Personality
- Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing James Brown cover
- Elvis Is Dead
9 songs, from setlist.fm.
What Nine Inch Nails played
- Now I'm Nothing
- Terrible Lie
- Sin
- Physical (You're So) Adam and the Ants cover
- The Only Time
- Wish
- Ringfinger Aborted
- Down in It
- Head Like a Hole
9 songs, from setlist.fm.
What Ice-T & Body Count played
- Ziplock
- You Played Yourself
- I'm Your Pusher
- Girls L.G.B.N.A.F.
- The Iceberg
- O.G. Original Gangster
- Straight Up Nigga
- New Jack Hustler (Nino’s Theme)
- Colors
9 songs, from setlist.fm.
What Butthole Surfers played
- Human Cannonball
- Blindman
- Some Dispute Over T-Shirt Sales
- Hey
- No Rule Leather Nun cover
- Creep in the Cellar
- You Don't Know Me
- Fast
- Dancing Fool
- Bong Song
- Ricky
- Second Time Around Blue Cheer cover
- Gary Floyd
- Booze, Tobacco, Dope, Pussy, Cars
14 songs, from setlist.fm.
What Rollins Band played
- Tearing
- Do It Pink Fairies cover
- Another Life
- Obscene
- Just Like You
5 songs, from setlist.fm.
The moment
Perry Farrell invented this as a funeral — a farewell tour for Jane's Addiction dressed up as a traveling carnival — and accidentally built the machine that organized alternative culture for the next decade. The inaugural 1991 run stacked Siouxsie, Living Colour, Ice-T, the Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band, and a young Nine Inch Nails onto one stage, two months before Nevermind proved the audience was there all along. Twenty-six dollars for the whole first draft of the nineties, in a college stadium in Chula Vista.
From the time
- Lollapalooza
“Conceived as Jane's Addiction's farewell tour in 1991 — the festival that became alternative rock's traveling capital.”