Walking into the KSU Stadium, sounds can be heard from as far away as the Milstead Village apartment complex across the street. Most of the attendees, dressed in white, flock down the stairs that lead into the massive and brilliantly lit stage that is constructed in the center of the soccer field. Upon first view, a countdown with three minutes remaining is seen from every angle of the stadium. The music grows louder and louder in sound and intensity as the clock inches closer to zero. No, this isn’t a countdown to the apocalypse, a theme that was played upon throughout the night, but this is the nationally touring and critically acclaimed DayGlow, now known as Life In Color tour, and the “World’s Largest Paint Party,” and it has hit Kennesaw State University.
DayGlow/Life In Color parties began in 2006 on college campuses in Florida, and have since grown quickly into one of the most popular musical tours in the world, featuring aerial acts, stilt walkers and other visual attractions that rival Barnum and Bailey’s circus acts. Capitalizing on the recent EDM (electronic dance music) craze sweeping American radio waves and mainstream music, Life In Color not only offers high tempo remixes to Top 40 songs, but offers a “colorful” experience with this, in which large watercolor paint guns are carefully placed around the large dance area and sprayed onto the crowd at set intervals during the night, to the delight of the screaming crowd. Streaks of pink, green and other various neon colors were splattered throughout the floors and other attendees’ bodies for five hours on that Sept. 14 night where students from not only Kennesaw State, but Georgia State, Oglethorpe and even University of South Carolina universities made the journey to the KSU Stadium to go “hard in the paint.”
As each leg of the tour hosts a different high-profile disc jockeys, Kennesaw was fortunate enough to feature DJ’s Kap Klap and Tommy Trash taking over the ones and twos for the majority of the evening, spinning high tempo remixes to songs by One Direction, The Wanted, Calvin Harris, LMFAO and even Gotye’s summer smash, “Somebody That I Used To Know.” Other celebrity DJs known to spin at Life In Color parties include Sunnery James, Dmitri Page and Bassjackers. Felt like you missed out on a great time? Well never fret, the Life In Color tour returns to Atlanta on Nov. 10, the exact location to be determined, as of the time this article is printed. Details can be found on dayglowtour.com.
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