I'm kind of really pissed that I'm missing Coachella right now.

crash_override · 04-16-2010, 12:21 PM

I would hardly call Morrissey being a little pussy **** a top ten moment. "Oh I can't play while people are cooking, can I still have my 3 million dollars?" What a douche.

lucifer_sam · 04-16-2010, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by crash_override

I would hardly call Morrissey being a little pussy **** a top ten moment. "Oh I can't play while people are cooking, can I still have my 3 million dollars?" What a douche.

Still doesn't compare to what U2 did a few years back.

After calling people out for their carbon footprints, they go on a North American tour, dragging along a hundred tractor-trailers' worth of set material and take a cumulative half-million-mile roadtrip around the continent. Makes Bono's first-class hat ride look modest.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 04-16-2010, 12:59 PM

A friend of mine went to this festival to see The Cure headline.

She told me seeing so many goths baking in the middle of the desert was one of the funniest things she's ever seen.

CanwllCorfe · 04-16-2010, 02:45 PM

I've heard of Coachella but I had no idea they had such a variety of music. How kickass! You want a big lineup? This is for 2 days: Friday & Saturday

Seltzer · 04-17-2010, 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by mr dave

generally speaking festival gigs are the epitome of quantity over quality. looking at the current list as compared to what i remember from a few years back it's pretty obvious that Coachella is going with the bigger is better mentality. it's looking like about 30 bands a day over 3 days now. first time i recall looking into Coachella that's about the amount of bands they had for the entire weekend.

to me the best thing about seeing a festival was knowing that you saw X bands during the run of a day and when you bump into someone who happened to be at that same show you can reminisce about how awesome it was when the rain finally stopped between these two bands, and you also know that you didn't miss something awesome somewhere else like when Band A jumped on stage near the end of Band B's set to have a super jam to finish things off before the headlining act bored everyone to tears.

now it's like you need to plot out an itinerary to maximize what bands you'll check out between the main stage, the side stage, the tent, the other side stage, and food. i suppose on one hand it allows for more diversity but it seems rather bloated and ostentatious to me at this point.

also, that myspace link doesn't work and yes, i am a cranky old man hahaha

Amen to that. It's pretty annoying getting psyched up for a festival after hearing about the announced acts, shelling out $$$ for a ticket, and then seeing the timetable and realising that you have to solve an optimisation problem in order to see a maximum of half of the bands you originally wanted to see.

Mojo · 04-18-2010, 04:12 AM

Personally Ive never taken issue with the size of the festival bill. The only reason id get frustrated by it is if the organisers organised it poorly and were putting big names (not bands that i personally like, im not that stupid) on different stages at the same time instead of putting their biggest names on the main stage and sharing the rest of the bands out among their smaller stages.

Of course the chances are you wont get to see every single band you would like to over the course of the weekend but surely you know this before buying your ticket? I mean, when you see 100+ bands announced over 3 days, you just do the math?

Plus, when I check the bill I always look for the 3 headliners and then the smaller announcements on the lower stages first. One of my favourite things about festivals is walkng around in the early afternoon checking out the smaller stages. The size of the lineup certainly helps makes that a much more enjoyable experience as I can pick and choose rather than be told which bands im going to see that weekend.

Astronomer · 04-22-2010, 11:44 PM

This guy seems to be enjoying it.

duga · 04-22-2010, 11:59 PM

^

That was funny, but I almost felt bad for the guy.

04-16-2010, 12:59 PM	#13 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	A friend of mine went to this festival to see The Cure headline. She told me seeing so many goths baking in the middle of the desert was one of the funniest things she's ever seen. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

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CanwllCorfe Quiet Man in the Corner Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Pocono Mountains Posts: 2,480	I've heard of Coachella but I had no idea they had such a variety of music. How kickass! You want a big lineup? This is for 2 days: Friday & Saturday __________________ Your eyes were never yet let in to see the majesty and riches of the mind, but dwell in darkness; for your God is blind.

04-18-2010, 04:12 AM	#16 (permalink)
Mojo Melancholia Eternally Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: England Posts: 5,018	Personally Ive never taken issue with the size of the festival bill. The only reason id get frustrated by it is if the organisers organised it poorly and were putting big names (not bands that i personally like, im not that stupid) on different stages at the same time instead of putting their biggest names on the main stage and sharing the rest of the bands out among their smaller stages. Of course the chances are you wont get to see every single band you would like to over the course of the weekend but surely you know this before buying your ticket? I mean, when you see 100+ bands announced over 3 days, you just do the math? Plus, when I check the bill I always look for the 3 headliners and then the smaller announcements on the lower stages first. One of my favourite things about festivals is walkng around in the early afternoon checking out the smaller stages. The size of the lineup certainly helps makes that a much more enjoyable experience as I can pick and choose rather than be told which bands im going to see that weekend. __________________ Last.FM \| Echoes and Dust

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Astronomer we are stardust Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 2,894	This guy seems to be enjoying it. __________________

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duga MB quadrant's JM Vincent Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 3,762	^ That was funny, but I almost felt bad for the guy. __________________ Confusion will be my epitaph...