The Music Festival thread

[WiccansIllusion]

Well summer is comming folks and I was wondering which festivals all you kittens are going too, and maybe we can work out a Kitten Gathering at one or many?



Michigan Womyns Music Festival? Bonaroo ?( TN, kind of a 3 day camping concert thing I'm going too )





Any other fun concerts? I know the Indigo Girls are touring, as well as Sarah McLachlan, Jewel and tons of others.

..this song is my anthem and it makes up my ideals and who I am... cause we pay for the stupid things we've done..if we ever use common sense it comes pretty cheap...Tegan and Sarah

[Jennpurr]

Cool thread.



Well, Melissa Etheridge is coming to Dallas in May and I'm hoping to get tickets to go and see her. That's really the only concert I have somewhat planned to attend.



If only Evanescence was scheduled to come to TX...



Jen

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[Footman311]

3-11 day is coming soon I got my tickets for that all ready and this summer if you go to the warped tour some where in the midwest you might see me.

Lifes a bowl of punch G'head and spike it-Nick Hexum

[walker]

I knew I saw a festival thread somewhere!



Glastonbury is but a week away so I thought I'd give this thread a bump. I'll be stewarding at the event for Oxfam so if you see a loud Scottish woman in a fetching yellow vest feel free to come over and say hi.



I usually work Saturday night so I'll miss the Scissor Sister's but then again I'll see them at T in the Park in July . So all's well that ends well.



Is anyone else going to either of the above event's?



What are you looking forward to most?



I think my highlight's going to be seeing The Pixies at T in the Park. I was too young for this group the first time they came out but loved all of their stuff once I'd heard it at uni. Sadly it doesn't look like The Libertines will be playing anywhere ever again as Pete Docherty quit re-hab

Arthur - I should have listened to what my mother said

Ford - Why, what did your mother say?

Arthur - I don't know, I didn't listen.

[bowieinberlin]

I passed up Bonnaroo this year so I could travel a little farther for my festival fix ... Lollapalooza in NYC.



I am so incredibly excited about this 2-day adventure, I can barely speak.



The Pixies, Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, PJ Harvey, Le Tigre, Von Bondies, Broken Social Scene, and more, more, more!



It's like I died and went to indie rock heaven.

"My pants are reaching a crisis point!" -- MST3K

[musicmad10]

Hi



i'm going to Summer XS on the 20th of June, soon!! then Party In The Park in Birmingham on the 10th of July. I'm gonna see my fav group at PITP, Girls Aloud!! woohoo!!!



Hope you all enjoy your concerts

Luv Hannah

[pookie ray]

I'm going to the Curiosa Festival in Tampa on July 25th to see one of the greatest bands of all time....The Cure!!!! I missed the day the tickets went on sale but god bless Ebay cuz I bought 2 GA tickets yesterday. Woohoo for me!

[walker]

Sounds like you all have fun gigs planned!



Bowieinberlin - Have you ever seen the Flaming Lips live before? It is a sight to behold. The only better festival band for my money are the Polyphonic Spree. The Lips replaced the White Stripes at T in The Park the other year and did a version of Seven Nation Army that kicked the Stripes ass!



I hope you all have a great time. I'll report back with any sneaky backstage gossip that I get from Glastonbury.



How cute is this little guy!!

Arthur - I should have listened to what my mother said

Ford - Why, what did your mother say?

Arthur - I don't know, I didn't listen.

[wolfwynd]

I'm going to Cropredy this year (underated folk festival in the middle of an Oxfordhsire field!) its run by Fairport Convention and my favourite band is playing! - Oysterband Jethro Tull is also playing.



I was scheduled to do the stewarding at Glastonbury for Oxfam too but couldn't get the time off work I really wanted to go! My mates are going tho!



Wolfy

"Love and hate... the only two emotions one does with complete and utter abandon... both consue fully..." - me

[seurat]

I'm thinking about Lollapalooza too, but Toronto isn't getting the Pixies or PJ Harvey and ther only band I really want to see on the second day is the Lips, so I'm not sure yet. Also the Bluesfest looks good this year again with Gillian Welch and a tribute to Gram Parsons featuring Chris Hillman, Bernie Leadon and Neko Case.



ETA: Lollapalooza has just been cancelled, the whole tour. The announcement comes from Perry Farrell, so I guess that's official. No word on what happened.

"Life's complications and frustrations/they disappear when the music starts playing/I found a place where it feels alright/I hear a record and it opened my eyes/do you remember what the music meant?" - Speakers Push Air, Pretty Girls Make Graves

Edited by: seurat at: 6/22/04 4:45 pm

[SySnootles]

From what I understand, lagging ticket sales across the board caused Farrell to cancel the tour.



MSN Entertainment article...



"The Lollapalooza music festival tour has been canceled because of poor ticket sales, according to its Web site.



The tour, featuring Morrissey, Sonic Youth and The Flaming Lips, had been set to begin July 14 in Auburn, Wash., and continue through August, including stops in Toronto, New York, Atlanta and Dallas.



Tour organizers and concert promoters "faced with several million dollars of losses, made the very tough decision to pull the tour," the Web site said Tuesday.



The Web site said there had been "poor ticket sales across the board."



"My heart aches along with the bands, and all of our employees, whose hard work developed one of the most exciting and important tours that this nation was to see," festival co-founder Perry Farrell said in a statement.



"My heart is broken."



The two-day, traveling hippielike music festival that began in 1991 took a hiatus in 1997 and returned last year.



"In real terms, it's been a tough summer," said Alex Hodges, executive vice president of HOB Concerts. "Ticket sales have been mixed and often inexplicably soft. There are a number of contributing factors, and, as a result, many tours have been cut back, rerouted or canceled."



Ticket holders will be given full refunds, the Web site said."

Catie



When I'm 130 years old, I want a pill that makes me so happy and so unself-conscious and so randy I'm willing to make love to my fuzzy bed slippers on my front lawn and yodel at the same time. -- Scott Adams from Dilbert and the way of the Weasel

[BFR from Paris]

I went to the Solidays festival last weekend, it was created 6 years ago to support anti-AIDS funds, and there's always some great music!!!!



You can also do some bungy jumping, so my friend and I tried it, and it was great!!!



I have short clip of our jump here: membres.lycos.fr/dvero/sautdivx.avi (1,5 Mo)



yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

[pookie ray]

I went to the Projekt Revolution Tour last wednesday here in sunny Florida. Of course it rained, so I ended up sitting in my car for an hour and praying I wouldn't get hit by lightning. Finally arrived at the venue in time to see Snoop Dogg, Korn and Linkin Park. Not impressed by Snoop, blown away by Korn and absolutely in awe of Linkin Park. If they come to your area and you can afford tickets I highly recommend, if only to hear Korn and Linkin Park played at the highest decibels you can imagine.

Never forget the beauty and pain love can bring

[bytrsuite]

I seem to remember some people mentioning this Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. It looks like fun, too bad I live like 700 or so miles away. The only performers I recognize are Shawn Colvin and Susan Werner.

[FineyMcFine]

Wow, Kathy, I didn't even know this thread existed. Yep, next weekend I'll be heading up to Hillsdale, NY for the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. I've been going since 1998. What drew me there initially was (of course) Dar Williams, but I fell in love with the place and became a semi-regular ever since.

I think it's for a few reasons: there's a real community, and the music is fantastic. The people who I've heard of are great, of course, but every year I hear new people who are FANTASTIC. It's one-stop-shopping to find quality music all in one place.

I think part of why there's such a great community there is that it's in a small town (2 hours north of NYC, 2 hours west of Boston, 1 hour south of Albany in the Berkshires) and there's not much around but farms and small-town stuff. That means that most people end up camping or staying in motels around the area, and there aren't people who just come for part of the day and leave. Well, there are, but they are in the minority. And the festival makes a lot of use of volunteers, who do a lot of the work (and get free admission.) So there's a real sense of "we're all in this together" and there are lots of food vendors and other vendors. Anything you want to eat, you're likely to find a yummy and healthy option. (Or you can bring food and cook, they totally allow that too.)

Lots of music fans band together and camp in one spot and play music together at night (and during the day) when all the music on the stages is over. For me and my compadres, we've been having Camp Dar since 1996, I think, most of whom are on the "dar-list" ( http://darweb.org/stax ). The Moxy Fruvous fans camp at the Budgiedome, a giant tent. The Nields fans have a camp, Tracy Grammer (and the late Dave Carter), and the list goes on.

There are people who come from around the country (to Camp Dar, anyway) - Florida, CA, WA, MI, WI, OR, and folks from Canada, Germany, Scotland - because it's so special. More states than I could name.

[kisstheviolets]

ditto to everything ms. mcfine had to say about falcon ridge. its the most amazing event. i look forward to it all year and generally get the fever when the first warm day of spring hits. that's when the gear lists come out, and my friends and i start discussing what kinds of additions we can make to our camp this year (we're a little over the top... we have a screen room we call the living room, a canopy, ginormous tents, all sorts of cooking gear, a marine battery with a power invertor to run the little fairy lights we string up in the living room, a shower enclosure, a portable toilet, and a propane heated shower pump, among other stuff). then there are some people who bring a pup tent and some trail mix and they're all set. you see all types at falcon ridge, and that's what i love about it. i love folk music, but am by no means a hippie, but for those five days no one's demographics matter. so, its cool people, incredible music, gorgeous scenery, and a chance to escape from the world to a perfect little community. i can think of nothing better.

and don't let distance deter you from going. the first few years i went i was traveling from california and north carolina to go. now that i only live an hour and a half away i'm a little bummed that there's not more travel involved. cause really, there's nothing like flying down the freeway a few hundred miles hoping that you don't see your gear falling in the rearview mirror.

[FineyMcFine]

That's the other thing, yeah - people at Falcon Ridge are very friendly, much more so than in any other setting, I think, and many of the teenage boys wear skirts. It's hard to explain, and they're not gayboys, they appear to be heterosexual teenage boys who wear skirts because it's comfortable. Many wonderful and magical things are to be seen at Falcon Ridge. And it looks like it will be good weather too, and we're apparently supposed to have 100-degree weather here in DC this week.

ETA: ktv, I owe you a PM and will PM you today.