Coachella 2012, order now!
 

Wow, crazy changes for Coachella next years.

First, it will happen twice, on consecutive weekends (presumably with fewer tickets sold per weekend), with the intent to book the exact same acts for both weekends.

Secondly, tickets go on sale now. Or soon. June 3rd.

Wow.

So it makes me wonder if there will be a Stage Coach this year and if this is a way to fulfill lease agreements and maybe bring in more money.

Perhaps they can restrict one weekend to 3-day passes and the other to single day sales?

I don't know, but the whole thing sounds kind of goofy to me.

Um, absolutely insane (the buy-tickets-now thing). Good thing I won't miss it.

Last year Stagecoach was two weeks after Coachella. I can't see them cancelling, it's always packed.

I refuse to buy tickets for something when I don't know the line up.

That was the strange part to me, that they are selling tickets before they announce who's playing!

Electric Daisy Carnival starts on June 24 in Vegas. Tickets are something like $200/day and they've sold over 160,000 so far... The lineup still has yet to be announced.

Glastonbury now sells out the day tickets go on sale months before any line-up is announced so that's well precedented in the festival world. The duplicate festival is a new twist that should be interesting to see how it works out. I suppose where in the past you might have to agonize over a scheduling conflict, now you can go both times and see what you missed the first time around.

Heehee, this is crazy. EDC was one of our best times ever, though you'd have to set the way-back machine for 1999. :D What's the venue like these days?

I'm not shocked that they sell tix before the bands are booked. If I had the cash (and no baby) I'd be there every day of the festival, every year, regardless. Just being there is amazing, and discovering fantastic music by wandering around is part of the joy of it.

The duplicate weekend has me wondering what I would do...go for the first weekend when the feeling is fresh, or the second, when the sound is sure to be better? Sound is quite often an issue, but to think that it would be a bit rehearsed is kind of a bummer. I like Chris' idea of going to both so you can see EVERYTHING. :D

This morning Kevin and Bean were discussing that this is a concept they want to do but there is no guarantee that any band will return for the duplicate weekend. Touring schedules are created way in advance and they are hedging their bets that all the bands they want have nothing better to do those two weekends.