Festivals?
 

Where are you people going? I'm heading down to Reading at the end of August which i'm very much looking forward to.

I'm going to a Metal festival in Germany in a months time. Money a bit short on the ground to spend on lots of festivals this year :(

Which one? I went to Wacken the past two years, but I'm not going to any Euro festivals this summer.

i'm probably goingto go to this one that's name is impossible to remember and pronounce. (christians can get weird)
Besides that i don't know i'll porbably check out a few that comes by.

Bang your head. It is really more of an excuse to meet my old friend and get fucked on wheat beer and schnapps with the odd good tune floating over now and again.

I haven't been to many festivals, really. Any suggestions for North America? Also, I hear great things about European festivals. Jackhammer, who will be at the festival you're attending?

Every summer, there are free concerts downtown so I am hoping to catch some this year.

Last year's summer was garbage and always rained so I didn't get a chance to go.

Where is downtown?

Ottawa Bluesfest.

Les Claypool
That 1 Guy
Cake
Xavier Rudd
Styx
KISS


This is gunna be so sweet

The good:

Sacred Reich, Exodus, Voivod (f*ck yeah),Sodom

The Bad:

Blind Guardian, U.D.O, W.A.S.P

the WTF?:

Cloven Hoof, Alestorm.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Just looked at the website. Holy balls, Primordial are playing. Those guys are amazing.

Never heard them before. I should really listen to them before I go along with a couple of others on the bill.

:tramp:

Yeah there's always some cool stuff musicwise that happens here. I'm hoping to discover some cool new bands this year as the weather was horrible last year.

I hoping to go to Sled Island festival and the Edmonton Folk festival.

Alestorm belong in The Bad category, Pirate metal is nothing more than power metal with the fantasy setting changed to the Pirates of the Caribbean. If you're pissed by the time they hit the stage and you and The Cat feel like doing some belligerent I would love you long time if you could hurl something at their singer, preferably something sharp and stabby.

No doubt we will probably end up doing something completely stupid there. It's about time we both grew up really but then fuck that!

I have plans to go downtown tomorrow to check out what they have going on at Harbourfront if it doesn't rain and then I am going to see if I can find a schedule with the list of concerts.

Lots of free food as well <3

Went one day to the Pinkpop festival in Holland: Chris Cornell, The Killers, Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band a.o. Saw Brandon Flowers being all happy like a little school boy singing with the boss.

Going one day to North Sea Jazz in Holland: looking forward to Roy Haynes, Kyteman's Hiphop orchestra and have to figure out what to see for the rest.

After that it's off to Rock Werchter in Belgium. Very good line-up: The Killers, Kings of Leon, Nick Cave, Oasis, Eagles of Death Metal, Bloc Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Metallica (again) to name a few.

Last one is Lowlands in Holland: Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, Passion Pit, Prodigy, White Lies and...Faith No More (yeah!)

I just love those summer festivals. Or any music festival for that matter.

I desperately want to go to Lollapalooza this year... if only it came all the way to Aus.

Looks like i'm off to this for the day

Field Day

Mogwai! Whoop!

Four Tet and Toumani Diabate are on the bill too. Nice!

Would i like? I'll be investigating most of the acts there as i haven't heard a great deal of them. Skream and Santigold are some other highlights.

Toumani Diabate is an African artist. I have an album of his with the legendart Ali Farka Toure which is excellent. I am sure you will. I didn't notice skream but that's another highlight for sure.

Die!!!

Next Month:
Free Press Summer Fest :|: August 8th and 9th, 2009 :|: Eleanor Tinsley Park
Acts of Intrigue:
Of Montreal, Explosions In the Sky, Broken Social Scene, Voxtrot

October (pretty epic line up):
Austin City Limits Music Festival : October 2-4, 2009 : Austin, TX : Zilker Park

Acts of Interest:
Arctic Monkeys, Sonic Youth, Decemberists, Daniel Johnston, Mos Def, Lilly Allen, !!!, Bon Iver, Dead Weather, Beastie Boys

Die!!!!

Edit: You missed some more artists of interest for the ACL: Kings of Leon, Andrew Bird, Phoenix (they're fun), Devotchka, OMG GRIZZLY BEAR I WILL KILL YOU IF YOU DON'T GO SEE THEM!!!, Clutch, Passion pit, White lies...

Diabate's a bit hard to describe. He plays a much more chilled style than a lot of the rougher-edged desert blues you've got coming out of Mali at the moment. That and it sounds a lot more like classical music than blues.

If you're up for a link, just let me know :)

Why the damn hell not?

I went down for the Ottawa Bluesfest last Saturday actually. I mainly went to see Philip Sayce (who if you haven't heard of, look up, he's an incredible guitar player), but I also caught Rachael Yamagata, Loreena McKennitt, Doyle Bramhall and Cotton Jones. I hadn't heard of any of them except Doyle Bramhall, but they were all really great. I caught a lot of other acts intermittently throughout the day too, 10 hours of music is just a lot of fun. It was a hell of a trip actually; I had to leave at 5 am to catch a Greyhound to Ottawa so I would be there for noon, I watched music until midnight, then caught another Greyhound at 12:30 so I was back in the city at 6 am. Wandering around Toronto at 6:00 am on a Sunday when the streets are literally empty is quite a cool experience too.

Lollapalooza in like 2 and a half weeks! I can't wait I've actually never really been to a music festival before (I'm only 19 and never had the money to go to any before). I've also never been to Chicago, and as a lover of cities I'm really excited to be there too; I'm getting there Friday morning but staying all day Monday so I can see the city. And hit up some record stores :D I went to Warped Tour when I was a dumbass 8th and 9th grader but that really wasn't so good... I guess I actually liked some of the bands back then. But some bands I'm really looking forward to:
Depeche Mode, Jane's Addiction, Lou Reed, Thievery Corporation, Snoop Dogg, The Decemberists, Animal Collective, Of Montreal, Arctic Monkeys, Atmosphere, Deerhunter, The Gaslight Anthem, Los Campesinos!, Portugal. The Man, Hockey, Chairlift, Gomez, Band of Horses, Tool, and some other ones.

glastonbury is the only festival for me, i have not missed it since 1999

i found a 4 leaved clover infront of the pyramid stage in 1999 and its been my lucky charm ever since

did you know the pyramid stage sits on the st michael's ley line, which also connects stone henge anf hope Bagot (site of the oldest tree in europe) which happens to be the most incredible yew tree ever, its got real history

I registered for next year's edition. It's high on my list of festivals I want to go to in other countries. Next year's 40th edition should be the right moment.

Wrote a review about the Werchter festival in the review thread. Hope to have one ready for the North Sea Jazz festival in a few days.

michael eavis has been quoted saying he does not think that 2010 will be as good as 2009

my opinion on 2009 was: the line-up was good, a little middle aged for me. it was interesting to see acts like nerd and dizzie rascal there, but in my opinion they have no place at glastonbury. although glastonbury has always been a festival for all tastes, it has only recently introduced RnB and hip hop acts to the main stage and because of this it is bringing in a different audience.

i have been going every year for 10 years and the last 3 years the music has been ok, but the crowd has all been stuck up middle class posh kids who are there jst to say they have been there.

gone are the days of naked hippies, mud wrestling and all the other crazy **** that comes with the working class heros and travellers

Hmmm...hadn't heard of this until now. Sounds mildly interesting...may have to check it out.

Hard rock calling was amazing last year! Line up this year was iffy but for last year i give it 10/10 - great atmosphere

Ah right. I thought they had a pretty good line-up this year and was hoping for something special for the next edition. Ah well, just wait and see I guess.
I know what you're saying about the RnB/Hip hop acts. Not my cup of tea and it does feel kind of out of place. But that's probably the idea since otherwise it will be a festival for middle aged (I'm 37 myself so I guess I fit in) visititors. And with these prices nowadays this does attract a certain kind of audience. Fortunately there's still a large part of the people who think that festivals only attract unshowered naked and mud wrestling weird alternative hippies so there's still some natural selection. But you're right things are changing.

It's the same over here with the Lowlands festival (which copied their format from Glastonbury by the way). It already attracts quite a lot of posh hipsters who are sipping coctails all day and have no clue what band is playing. Don't even get me started on the North Sea Jazz festival over here.

Sounds great! I would love to see Tool again! I read they really rocked at the Mile High festival.

I am so ridiculously completely insanely jealous of you right now.

That lineup's awesome! Animal Collection, Of Montreal, Deerhunter AND Los Campesinos!I'm going to Leeds... would've prefered to go to Glasto/Latitude/Pretty Much Anything Else but can't get the time off. I only really want to see The Bronx, MSTRKRFT, Crystal Castles, The Horrors, Dananananaykroyd, Gaslight Anthem, Brand New, Rival Schools. Might try and catch Radiohead and Arctic Monkeys too. Anyone else heading to Leeds this year?