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Post by cory's beard on Jan 25, 2013 0:16:20 GMT -5
How in the everloving Fuck is Violent Femmes not on like the second line?
Also, an impressive punk line-up. Jello Biafra and the FUCKING DESCENDENTS.
As per usual the undercard is phenomenal. While I love me some Blur, they definitely dug themselves in a hole by booking Radiohead and Dre/Snoop two weekends and then trying to live up to that expectation again--especially with all the Rolling Stones rumors lurking around. But it's all about the undercard anyway. And there's SO MUCH GOOD HERE that, statistically, a lot of that is going to carry over to Bonnaroo. And that makes me more excited.
And it's also exciting that this may be a year that Bonnaroo potentially out buzzes Coachella.
I went to Coachella once before and was thoroughly pissed off upon seeing the schedule right before I left. If you want to see more than 1 or 2 acts per line good luck, just by looking at that lineup and with the notroiously short 30-45 min sets youll be lucky to catch half of what you'd like to see on Friday and Saturday.
The headliners other than Blur don't do much for me but the undercard is solid if perhaps not wowing. Bummer about The Knife not being there. With no research I want to see 43 bands and 12 of those I'm highly excited for. If Moby is doing a live show I"m going to be so fucking happy. Moby, Blur, and the YYYs are the best things on there for me. Pretty good stuff. Time to stare at this poster more and get to researching.
Maybe the two weekend thing is backfiring on them in terms of headliners?
This is exactly what my buddy just texted me. Good lineup obviously, there's a ton of good music to see, but definitely their most disappointing lineup in years. Doesn't really have that "wow" factor to me outside of Blur and Jurassic 5.
As someone mentioned earlier, Primavera destroyed this. Bonnaroo will easily handle this lineup (First time I think that will have happened in a few years) and I wouldn't be surprised if ACL, Lollapalooza, Outside Lands and even Sasquatch had soundly better lineups.
How in the everloving quack is Violent Femmes not on like the second line?
Also, an impressive punk line-up. Jello Biafra and the quacking DESCENDENTS.
As per usual the undercard is phenomenal. While I love me some Blur, they definitely dug themselves in a hole by booking Radiohead and Dre/Snoop two weekends and then trying to live up to that expectation again--especially with all the Rolling Stones rumors lurking around. But it's all about the undercard anyway. And there's SO MUCH GOOD HERE that, statistically, a lot of that is going to carry over to Bonnaroo. And that makes me more excited.
And it's also exciting that this may be a year that Bonnaroo potentially out buzzes Coachella.
The one thing Coachella does that makes me envious every timeis getting old punks. Jello, Descendants, Dinosaur Jr, The Evens, Violent Femmes... FiREHOSE last year. Why doesn't Roo attract these guys? Certainly it's not being 'more corporate'. Jam band history? Money? In any case, I'm crossing my fingers that we get some of these acts, but I'm not holding my breath.
(1) Damon Albarn (2) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (3) King Khan & His Shrines (4) Ty Segall (5) Ms Lauryn Hill (6) Darkside (7) Kanye (8) Janelle Monae (9) Goat (10) Meshuggah.
The hate for the headliners is sort of confusing to me save RHCP.
For me, it's the fact that those bands are headliners. I don't think Phoenix and Stone Roses are deserving headliners and Blur to me is a borderline headliner and underwhelming. And yeah, RHCP needs to go away.
The hate for the headliners is sort of confusing to me save RHCP.
While The Stone Roses/Blur are freaking amazing and Phoenix are quite good as well, they just seem weird as Coachella headliners. I don't think there's much hate for them as just people being underwhelmed.
edit// I appear to be the 100th person to say basically this same thing. so yeah.
The hate for the headliners is sort of confusing to me save RHCP.
Pretty sure it's more "They're big enough to be headliners?" than "Their music isn't good."
That said, a SH*TTON of attendees won't know the Stone Roses or Blur outside of Song 2.
To me it's kind of exciting because they realized they're going to sell out on whatever plays the Sahara and the name of the festival alone anyway, so they went with smaller headliners the bookers of the festival would be psyched to see.