Walk In Lay Down

Walk In Lay Down (commonly referred to as WILD^[1]) is a biannual concert event held in the Brookings Quadrangle at Washington University in St. Louis and has been a campus tradition since its inception in 1973. WILD, produced by the WUSTL Social Programming Board, is sponsored by the Washington University Student Union and is the largest student run event at the university.^[2] WILD is free to university students and faculty and has rooted itself in the campus culture as an exciting time of the semester for students of the university to get together and celebrate free live music, food, and friends.

History

WILD was first held in 1973 and was originally presented as a movie screening event. Around the 1980s, the event then expanded to incorporate musical acts to accompany the movies. By the early 1990s, the movies were dropped altogether and WILD became the music festival that it is now.

The concert is named for an old tradition in which students would bring sofas into the quad and lie on them while watching the performances. Although this tradition is no longer allowed, in Fall 2007 the university permitted that inflatable couches be allowed in the quad during the concert in an attempt to revive the tradition.^[3]

In 2013, production of WILD was passed on from student group Team 31 Productions to the WUSTL Social Programming Board.

Past WILD performers

The following is a chronology of past WILD performers.^{[4] [5]}

Other Performers

The following musical acts have also performed at WILD:^[4]

• Chuck Berry
• Hieroglyphics
• The Guess Who
• The Association
• The Grateful Dead
• Sly and the Family Stone
• Little Feat
• Weather Report

Commentary on name

Student Life, the university's newspaper, published an op-ed which pointed out that the name Walk In, Lay Down is not grammatically correct.^[6]

See also

Campus life at Washington University in St. Louis

References

External links

• SPB/WILD Official Site

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