Post Malone Has Stellar Performance At HIVE Festival

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Hometown hero Post Malone had the crowd wild on Saturday night at Salt Lake City’s HIVE Festival. The two day event was held over the weekend which off to a rocky start after one of the headliners turned to be a no show on Friday evening. Many of the fans, a good number of whom had spent hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on VIP packages for the well-hyped event were already inside the Utah State Fairpark when they learned from a Facebook post that Suicideboys had canceled their appearance. Their managers said the band was recovering from COVID-19 and told fans they would make it up to them.

Despite the upheaval, the bad feelings largely came to an end the moment hip-hop headliner Post Malone appeared above the stage; walking on a catwalk atop the lighting grid, beverage in one hand, microphone in the other, Posty serenaded the hometown crowd with his hit, ‘Wow,’ including his famed reference to driving a “750 Lambo in the Utah snow.”

Building steadily in intensity and bolstered by top-notch visual effects, Malone’s performance proved captivating and, for many we talked to, tilted the festival experience into the plus category. Others, however, remained skeptical. The fireworks were great, but many said they were feeling a bit burned.

The talent that showed up, topped off by Post Malone, provided a hopeful glimpse of what the festival could become. Whether it gets a chance to live up to its billing may take a while to sort out.