Coachella Dates Announce
 

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Will love to hear your report. :)

So, when will T-Bone get to experience his first Coachella?

Its never too early to start!

T-Bone sounds like the name of a guy born at a rock festival.

That's what those baby backpack carriers are for! I bet the little dude would totally rock out. :snap:

If our finances greatly improve after the first of the year, we're thinking about checking it out this time around, depending on who's playing, of course.

There's nothing I find more unnerving than seeing an infant at those shows - in 100 degree heat, blasting music (even with the headphones one).

We're NOT going to be those people.

Take it to Burning Man instead. Those babies always seemed to be having fun.

The line-up is supposed to be announced tomorrow morning

Poster is up. Sunday is my favorite, followed by Friday:

Jay-Z? Seriously?

You know, Friday is the only day that's really pulling at me. Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Fever Ray, Yeasayer, The Specials, Little Dragon. At risk of getting a glare from CP when she wakes up and sees this - Theo should be babysittable by April, I'm seriously tempted to hand him over for the day.

Ugh, then I noticed Edward Sharp on Saturday. I've been dying to see them live. And seeing MGMT again would be awesome. And of course Gorilla on Sunday, and I see that Infected Mushroom finally made it past the rumor stage. So no doubt it will be another great full weekend. But Friday is, fo me, the definite standout if I have to (get to) pick one day.

eta: oooh, Miike Snow and King Kahn on Sunday. Man, Theo's lucky I love him so much.

ETA more: What's with the ???? after Thom Yorke? Does that mean he's questionable? That it might or might not be Radiohead or just him? What gives?

Eh, give it a couple more weeks and the novelty will wear off. You will soon come to discovered what a time and money suck the little parasite truly is.

Hmmm.... if I could only go on one day, it would be Sunday. The headliners are cool and all (I have tix to see Pavement in NYC in September), but Gary Numan! Charlotte Gainsbourg! Talvin Singh! Gil Scott-Heron! What's the word?

Friday line-up is the most tempting, but I'm still stuck in the same place I always am: There are few acts I really want to see and I'd rather see them in a small venue individually. Was bummed when I realized I missed Florence + the Machine in L.A. recently.

Passion Pit is GREAT live, btw.

The last time I saw Faith No More was the same year I won a trip to Australia. I'd like to see them again.

Unfortunately it seems that new for this year, they will not sell single day tickets, except for the day of the event at the box-office. We'll see if that stands, but if it does it may just prevent me from going.

I really would love to see Charlotte Gainsbourg and Talvin Singh

I'm guessing the presence of DEVO on Saturday the 17th will seal your determination to attend?

Sunday is the day for me. But, no one day tickets? The ONE year I want to go one day and they pull this crap?

I've seen Devo recently enough that they aren't as much of a Draw for me - but i I were there on Saturday I would certainly catch their set.

I'd go Friday to fill out a long list of bands I never got to see like, Public Image Ltd, Grace Jones, the Specials, and Echo and the Bunnymen. LCD Soundsystem would be fun to see again, and I'd love to see Little Dragon as well.

In the past - day of tickets always were available, so I'm not going to write this one off yet and will probably ask for the surrounding days off just in case I win a contest or something.

There is some weirdness going on at Stubhub. Separate tickets are listed. I'm contacting them.

Yes, we are interested in Friday, and I believe Theo will be able to handle a day with grandparents by then. :)

So, I asked for the days off...

Gary Numan, Devo & Grace Jones would be enough to guarantee that I'd want a three-day-ticket.

Well, I'm free to to go now......

Probably not worth starting a new thread for this, but Pitchfork tickets just went on sale. Chicago - July 16-18. $40/day, $90/all three days.

The lineup so far:

Friday, July 16:

-- Modest Mouse

Saturday, July 17:

-- LCD Soundsystem
-- Raekwon

Sunday, July 18:

-- Pavement
-- St. Vincent
-- Lightning Bolt
-- Cass McCombs
-- Sleigh Bells
-- Here We Go Magic

I'd see LCD Soundsystem

St. Vincent is the name on that list that would attract me.

St. Vincent is playing this Tuesday in LA, at the El Rey. I already have my ticket.

Tuesday I want to see Nouvelle Vague and Soko at the Music Box

Stubhub has taken off the 1-day passes for Coachella.

GD and I are currently planning to get our asses out there early on Friday and attempt to get the 1-day pass. If it sells out we can just spend a day at a Palm Springs resort instead.

The rumor is ticket sales may be pro-rated on the day of - meaning Friday, pay full price, Saturday pay 2/3 price, Sunday pay 1/3 - since attendance requires a 3-day wrist band. I'm still waiting to see how it plays out

:mad: What, they can't afford 4 different colored wristbands?

The wording from the site is: Tickets can be purchased at the box office for cash, Visa / Mastercard, only on the days of the event and only if tickets are still available (from 3-day pass allotment).

Could be read either way.

Indeed - waiting on some clarity on that

So.

Coachella sold out. Their f'd up ticket concept apparently did exactly what they wanted it to do.

It's entirely possible that they lowered the amount of tickets available. Thing is, Coachella is a bellweather for the coming events for the summer and everyone sees this as a huge thumbs up, especially in these economic times. The idea that everyone is going to point at a lowered maximum as being sold out would be sucky.

I'm not sure what to believe. In any case, GoldenVoice looks like geniuses and we're still not able to go because of it.




However, I didn't come here for the whiny recap, I came to post this.

The Coachella Crane





A friend of ours did the lighting design. He has the flu so he might not even get to see it in the desert. Seems like an unlucky year all around.

Wow, that's gloriously beautiful.


Word on the "street" is that day tickets will be available at the gate, as always. Of course, you'd have to drive out there to find out if it's true. But some folks will, and then you'll know for next year.



if there IS a next year.

If they hadn't sold out, I might think there were one day passes hidden somewhere, but since this is big news, I don't think so. Could be wrong, of course.

Yeah, there is definitely next year. :cheers:

I had considered the option of driving out and gambling. Worst case would be spending a day shopping in Palm Springs, which ain't a bad consolation prize. But eh, there was too much risk of having to sit in a huge line of cars for an hour without getting a reliable answer one way or another, only to finally get close enough to learn you were boned. No amount of swanky furniture that I can't afford makes that less frustrating (although I suppose we would have had the excuse to blow the $200+ dollars we would have spent on tickets and food).

I am pretty supremely bummed that I actually know someone who worked on one of the big installations and won't get to see it. CP and I agree, we're going to try to keep our eye on the coverage through the weekend. It'll be bittersweet, but I'd like to have some insight into how it goes, plus I'm really curious as to how well it gets covered. With the many outlets, between artists I follow on twitter, facebook fan pages, official webcasts, and searchable social media, I expect to be able to keep pretty decently abreast. Kinda makes me wish I'd studied set times.

I have TWO clients going while I stay and home and watch their dogs. At least I'm making money and not spending it.

The website clearly states they will not be selling tickets at the gate - now I'm sure there will be scalpers as always but it's still a big crap shoot.

And it would still be 3 day tickets. Even at scalper prices, it'd be more than I'd like to spend while being able to attend only one day. Bleh.

Wouldn't scalper prices be higher than face, since it sold out?

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Depends on the demand.

At least one band (Cribs) has had to cancel due to travel problems caused by the volcano ash.

It's unclear if Gary Numan will make it either - current schedule has him arriving in time for his set with musicians he hasn't rehearsed with yet.

Add Frightened Rabbit to that list.

Meanwhile, CP found this great twitter photo post aggregator which should get fun an interesting once the gates open:

http://twicsy.com/tag/coachella/sort/date/past/1d#

Screw Coachella. Let's go to Glastonbury

That's a longer drive.

Yeah, but I think that sold out even before the line-up was announced

Holy Shamoly!

In. I wish.

I hope the volcano calms down so air travel can resume.

no sh!t! :eek:

Hey Jack, does your truck have a 2-5/16" trailer ball? Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeroes needs someone to tow their trailer from SD to the show and will get you in if you do.

I'm not sure what I'm seeing in that photo above. Was it Everyone Wear Blue Day?

The Scottish flag



It's not uncommon for Europeans to carry flags, wear flag-themed clothing, wear national football club team colors, etc. to large public events like this. I'm guessing that's what you're seeing.

Meanwhile - this year's Do Lab:

And candidate #1 for best dressed:

She's still to covered up.

Hahahaha....I'm 99% sure I recognize this guy (I'll leave it to you to guess who I'm referring to).
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From my flickr set from last year:

DJ Lance Rock

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wish I did. even if I did I cant go :(

Hmm, I think it's a different guy. He might have let himself go but I think the body is too different.

I'm loving watching the tweeted pics. BTW if you use the search link GD provided above, you have to click through to see the decent resolution images.

Crikey, this is the line to get in. That's the freaking RV park. For those of you who have not been, that's easily 1/2 mile or more from the entrance. A 200 yard long line takes about an hour. Ummmm, yikes.

I wonder if the wristbanding process is clogging the works.

As a perpetual long-distance observer, I think what I'll miss most about no swankers attending this year is the Annual Coachella Fashion Show photos.

:(

I was hoping the twitpic stream would fulfill that. So far not so much. Those 2 I posted have been the most interesting.

Actually, I almost posted another pic of some rather interesting towels...but it turns out to be a promotional gimmick, so meh.

I see nothing

And I even tried pasting the addy into the address bar :(

Yeah, sorry about that, I hadn't yet realized that the links I was grabbing were dynamic. Here's the shot:

Holy Hell! Lucent has outdone themselves yet again!

Jealous - just green - maybe lightening in a bottle

Fashion Show entrant #3

It's nice to know The Specials still rock.

I am seriously impressed with this "live" stream on Facebook. I was skeptical, it was billed as "live" and that it is not. But I dare say it's better than live. It's actually produced very very professionally, captures the pace of the day surprisingly well, and, combined with the day of twitter feed watching, I successfully felt informed about what was going on through the day. Like, next best thing to being there.

That probably has a lot to do with the fact that, except for one omission the acts they've been showing (they only showed a subset) have been the ones I would have chosen to see.

And, it also helps that they've all rocked. And much to my surprise, rather than feeling bummed or jealous, I've just been thrilled that Coachella once again rocks, and that I at least got to get a glimpse into it.

Well, maybe it's a good thing we didn't go, with 75K in attendance word is Coachella's been a huge Clusterfvck this year. Our friends gave up after 4 hours trying to get from their Hotel to the venue - they sold their tickets for the remains of the weekend and are just kicking back in Palm Springs instead. Reading the Coachella boards their story is not uncommon with 6 hour waits getting in and hour + waits getting out. Apparently the tents are at capacity as well making stage hoping difficult if not impossible.

I will miss seeing these bands, and of course Lucent Dossier, but it seems they hit some serious snags this year. I have to wonder if all the new housing around the venue has disrupted the normal traffic control, which always has been annoying in the past, but still tolerable.

Now, imagine the clusterfu<kchella if the temp was 104.

We read that at one point they ran out of wristbands at the gate. They always screw day 1 up in terms of traffic and gate entry, the added confusion of an entirely new ticketing model must have really thrown them for a loop. It will be interesting to see if today is any better. Among other things, most people should already have wristbands, which should theoretically make entry a lot smoother, right?

I wonder how official those crowd #'s are. It seems pretty surprising in a down economy and with getting rid of 1 day tickets that attendance would be up.

All I know is that my friends are going to be spending a lovely day viewing wildflowers in Joshua Tree, lounging by the pool at their swank hotel and eating/shopping in Palm Springs. That sounds pretty good to me (except I have to wait 3 weeks to do that).

Seems to me there's a lot less (though not zero) bitching about traffic and lines today.

The main stage is on fire.

And I don't mean that the acts are really good. The main stage is ON FIRE

It seems to have been put out.

According to their message board getting out is a complete cluster too.

I'm becoming really happy I didn't go this year!

The Trojan Marching band showed up (Coheed and Cambria... not sure who that is)

The LA Weekly did a nice job of capturing Coachella with this slide show:

The 40 Most Memorable People at Coachella

Heh, saw the pot chick on Twitter.

I know the antler woman.

Curious Josh should have a full gallery of Coachella pics up in the next few days.

Oooh! I sure think Roger is memorable!