{"id":83673,"date":"2025-10-20T12:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=83673"},"modified":"2025-10-20T12:06:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:06:56","slug":"djo-at-grinders-kc-concert-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2025\/10\/20\/djo-at-grinders-kc-concert-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Djo at Grinders KC Concert Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article and photos by Lillian Hammer<\/em><\/p>\n

Djo took the Grinder\u2019s stage in Kansas City on October 7th. Getting there not much earlier than the start of the opener\u2019s set, I spent the time between Post Animal and Djo\u2019s set in the photo pit in front of the barricade talking to fans. Some had lined up as early as 8 in the morning, a majority of them had homemade gifts for the band, and everyone was overwhelmingly happy.<\/span><\/p>\n

I spent the rest of the show on the balcony of a coffee shop that neighbors the pizza restaurant the venue is nestled in the backyard of. There were two other girls on the balcony with me, one in a beautiful white dress dancing atop a bench the entire night, and the other taking videos of her and occasionally accompanying her dancing. It was like stepping into a story that wasn\u2019t mine, but I felt like I belonged anyway.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s how I felt most of the night. I\u2019m not entirely familiar with Djo\u2019s music, but he put on a killer set. I knew a few songs off of his earlier albums but was still able to appreciate the rest of the show. It helped that all of the interactions I had with different fans at the show made me feel totally at home\u2013under the open sky and city lights, surrounded by strangers who somehow felt like friends.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Article and photos by Lillian Hammer Djo took the Grinder\u2019s stage in Kansas City on October 7th. Getting there not much earlier than the start of the opener\u2019s set, I spent the time between Post Animal and Djo\u2019s set in the photo pit in front of the barricade talking to fans. Some had lined up as early as 8 in the morning, a majority of them had homemade gifts for the band, and everyone was overwhelmingly happy. I spent the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":83677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8774,8747,8776,8762,15,4,8775],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concert-coverage","category-concert-reviews","category-creative","category-creative-writing","category-featured-on-kjhk","category-music","category-photography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Djo-2.jpg?fit=998%2C1200&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83686,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83673\/revisions\/83686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}