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From Chance The Rapper's moped to Whitney's love of 'Golden Girls'

 

Boston. Sitting right on the east coast of the USA, it’s a seafood haven that’s home to the Red Sox, Harvard, and late May’s Boston Calling Music Festival. The formerly bi-annual event now takes place just once a year, and this time it’s in a new location. Here’s 17 things NME discovered on our first outing there.

1. Harvard’s athletics grounds are mint

For its eighth edition, Boston Calling has moved from its city centre location to new grounds over the Charles River from Harvard. This is Harvard’s athletics complex, where the grass is mostly astroturf and the food stalls are laid out properly and there’s little to no soundclash between stages.

Boston Calling 2017

Ty Johnson

2. Chance The Rapper has a sweet moped

Opening his triumphant headline set on Friday night, Chance arrived onstage on a miniature motorbike, crashing it off to stage right and leaping up to play a fire-backed ‘Mixtape’. Below you can see a clip of the showman doing the same at NYC’s Governors Ball on June 4.

You can see the Chicago rapper’s ‘3’ merch everywhere in the crowd as he takes us on an uplifting tour of third album ‘Coloring Book‘, while also playing choice Kanye collabs (‘Waves’, ‘Father Stretch My Hands’, ‘Ultralight Beam’) and his early mixtape hits, like ‘Cocoa Butter Kisses’. Still – that moped though!

3. Two Migos is almost as good as all three

…or maybe not. Mega-hyped trap trio Migos were the last-minute replacements for considered R&B star Solange, who’d pulled out. They began their set with a 20-minute hype set from DJ Durel, before two of three Migos members finally arrived onstage. Takeoff and Quavo did give it some, and ‘Bad and Boujee’ went down awesomely with the crowd, but the missing member made the vibe weird. We still don’t actually know where Offset was.

Migos 2017 Boston Calling Music Festival - Day 1

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