The Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival debuted hit-like, although it did not lack technical and organizational related problems. However, it comes as no surprise, since approximately 60,000 music lovers took over Golden Gate Park so as to attend a top-notch talent exhibition.

Perhaps Radiohead was one of the most popular groups to hit the stage on Saturday, but yesterday’s program, nonetheless, ended with a two-hour performance which unfortunately uncovered the fervent English band striving to overcome numerous technical difficulties.

Produced by San Francisco’s Another Planet Entertainment and the crew which also organizes Tennessee’s annual Bonnaroo Festival, the three-day Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival includes over 60 musical performances on six stages in Golden Gate Park’s Polo Field, Speedway Meadow and Lindley Meadow. Besides the musical acts, the fest also features presentations on environmental issues, a technologically advanced interactive circus tent, plus plenty of snacks and booze offered by Bay Arena producers. The event is due to conclude this evening with a top-billing set by Jack Johnson.

In spite of the unavoidable gray fog, which almost covered the stages, all the three-day tickets had been given out by the fest’s second day and the music ran practically nonstop. The gigs kicked off on Friday at 5 p.m. on only three stages and the crowds filled the park’s fields slowly but surely.

Beck, one of the most famous and popular names of the fest’s first edition list, performed on the pretty restricted Sutro Stage in Lindley Meadow, which produced a major tailback as a measureless crowd went all-out to fit in.

Other Saturday music acts included Steve Winwood, Café Tacvba, the Coup, Primus, Matt Nathanson and Regina Spektor.