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Also if anyone was wondering if someone wasted their time with the Coachella quests, I did and I won a Disco Shark
One of our friends tried all weekend and couldn’t get one, was bummed for him
Just couldnt get to Yuma fast enough? I snagged one Sunday W2 and some girl almost made me drop my phone cause she was running and pushing to scan the qr code.
One of our friends tried all weekend and couldn’t get one, was bummed for him
Just couldnt get to Yuma fast enough? I snagged one Sunday W2 and some girl almost made me drop my phone cause she was running and pushing to scan the qr code.
Not sure what happened the first two days, but he was there on time Sunday and just didn’t have service. T-Mobile was rough this weekend for us.
Just couldnt get to Yuma fast enough? I snagged one Sunday W2 and some girl almost made me drop my phone cause she was running and pushing to scan the qr code.
Not sure what happened the first two days, but he was there on time Sunday and just didn’t have service. T-Mobile was rough this weekend for us.
Mandy, Indiana was one of the best shows of the weekend. If you weren’t there, you fucked up.
I am pretty sure you are among the few winners (let’s see my kind of music fans? hehe) or with great music tastes or maybe a little close to my taste lol here because they made it at my 10 or so best of W1 Couchella list. Only few dared/raving about them here/had even time to see them. I am very interested with the entirety of your best of lists. But then with so many mind-blowing, as in utterly brilliant music with substance, not just the performances /style and life/changing sets then, I am not sure any of my top 10 at 2024 Couchella will make it even at my Top 30 lists then (especially pre-2017).
“W2 was empty”
Travelfan: “and the festival was crazy packed”
Only been mostly or hangout with EDM BROS or at packed stages like Sahara as you only saw 4 songs from No Doubt and none of the other headliners?
1. No Doubt 2. Justice 3. Mandy, Indiana 4. Orbital 5. Gesaffelstein 6. Boy Harsher 7. Bicep 8. Eartheater 9. Two Shell 10. Last Dinner Party
Wasn’t expecting No Doubt to be #1 but it’s now my #1 all time Coachella show. I haven’t listened to them in 20 years, but knew nearly every song and was amazed by the crowds’ energy. Everyone was dancing and singing along to every word. Haven’t seen a crowd that large so engaged, it was superb.
Ninth Coachella for me, and amazing as always. A few years back it crossed from comparing different years to just enjoying all the moments along the way, and a ton of high points this year...
- No Doubt blew me away. Wound up right next to the end of the walkway area during Blur, and their entrance was a top all time Coachella moment. Amazing energy throughout from the band and crowd.
- Saturday in general was a crazy run, from an 18 piece band at 4 PM for Raye, to Last Dinner Party with insane stage charisma, and Jack Antonoff seemingly shockingly cool. After all the hate last weekend, Blur had a solid crowd that all seemed into it when I expected a lot more No Doubt campers, Gesaffelstein went super hard and wound up watching all of Tyler despite planning to stay for just a couple of songs.
- Justice was epic, definitely highlight of Friday.
- I love her music, but Lana did not nail it. The second half was stronger than the first, but it's crazy to play so many down tempo songs in a row and leave "Mariners Apartment Complex," and "The Greatest" on the table.
- Barry Can't Swim was great fun, though definitely felt like a less impactful version of the Fred Again moment from two years ago. Lil Yachty and band sounded amazing, and it was funny to sandwich the epic prog rock with rap songs the crowd was actually there to see.
- Fugees/YG was a lot more coherent than I expected, though nothing was funnier than Lauryn Hill saying "Now it's time for the song you came here to see" before YG Marley performed his one song at the end.
Already booked for next year, excited for the rumor cycles to start all over again.
16th Coachella, 4th time going both weekends, 1st time getting an artist pass.
Definitely in my top 5 favorite years, though probably closer to #5 than #1. Didn't see a single "bad" thing the entire time, and almost every act had surprisingly incredible crowds, all felt well attended, while also still having room to dance in a decent spot. Love the new Sahara location, and the Quasar stage (which I really enjoyed, even if I only went a couple times) being in its old place made that whole area of the grounds feel so much more spacious, which seemed to affect the rest of the fields in a positive way.
The art was terrible, probably my least favorite year for Coachella art of all time. I know they've been cutting back on art in recent years, but only 3 new pieces this year felt pretty bad. Food options were also quite a bit worse/felt more limited than most recent years.
Favorite acts over the course of both weekends:
1. Vampire Weekend 2. Justice 3. No Doubt 4. Jon Batiste 5. Orbital 6. Doja Cat 7. L'Imperatrice 8. The Aquabats 9. Gesaffelstein 10. Atarashii Gakko!
HMs: Sid Sriram, Mdou Moctar, Saint Levant
Overall just an incredible year. Can't wait for the next one.
The art was terrible, probably my least favorite year for Coachella art of all time. I know they've been cutting back on art in recent years, but only 3 new pieces this year felt pretty bad. Food options were also quite a bit worse/felt more limited than most recent years.
This actually isn't being talked about enough. I fully agree that the food and art this year were at an all time bad. I used to really get excited for all the art, but it seems like such a small part of the fest now. They used to have a piece near the outdoor/food market that wasn't there this year, and there is tons of space in the Quasar/Sahara area for another large scale piece. Very disappointing.
With that said, overall this year was still incredible.
Post by TickleMeElmo on Apr 23, 2024 21:54:59 GMT -5
So was it just me or did the Gobi feel smaller this year? Felt like the stage didn’t extend out as far as it has in the past. Couldn’t tell a difference with the Mojave but the Yuma felt a little smaller too.
So was it just me or did the Gobi feel smaller this year? Felt like the stage didn’t extend out as far as it has in the past. Couldn’t tell a difference with the Mojave but the Yuma felt a little smaller too.
Can’t speak to the Yuma since I don’t go in there often but the Gobi felt the same to me. It’s felt small ever since they expanded the Mojave; I just can’t tell if it actually got smaller then or if it’s the difference between the two that makes it seem smaller.
So was it just me or did the Gobi feel smaller this year? Felt like the stage didn’t extend out as far as it has in the past. Couldn’t tell a difference with the Mojave but the Yuma felt a little smaller too.
Gobi having the back portion covered so the stage wouldnt be in the sun essentially shrunk it down. Cause all that open space behind the soundboard disappeared and you had to watch from the sides or the 2 rear openings. I get they didnt want the 3 acts that wouldve been in the sun to go blind but it did really take away from the audience to just have that space. And giving those cameras an elevated position mightve also been a choice made. Yuma felt the same except they took the rear sitting away? ( unless i didnt notice ) they had way more seating on the sides thats for sure.
my group thought the Gobi was smaller this year, though I'm not entirely sure either. The soundstage was at the very back of the tent and I don't remember that ever being the case before, also there definitely used to be two openings on the sides instead of one - though they may have changed the openings without changing the size of the tent.
There was never a back wall to Gobi. Thats the whole thing everyones glossing over. Thats what shrunk it down. If its totally open then you wouldnt think it changed at all.
So was it just me or did the Gobi feel smaller this year? Felt like the stage didn’t extend out as far as it has in the past. Couldn’t tell a difference with the Mojave but the Yuma felt a little smaller too.
It was definitely smaller. I felt that it was smaller even before noticing the specific details. The sound stage was not very far from the stage, but it was at the very back of the tent and it used to be at most like 2/3rds of the way back. Even the arrangement of the chandeliers seems like it was more clustered than it used to be. I'm pretty sure it used to extend at least a bit further out into the grounds. Sitting just outside the back of it felt like sitting in the back of it used to feel. I don't know if the tent was overall just shorter or if they just shifted everything forwards so more of it was taken up by the stage/backstage but it absolutely has less room in it.
Post by circlebreaker on Apr 23, 2024 23:06:45 GMT -5
Mainly the soundstage is proof. It was at most 10yds further back than where it used to be (cause it still wasn't far from the stage), but there used to be much more room than that behind it
I haven't collected my thoughts yet for a top 10 sets list but this was my 11th Coachella weekend, 10th year of going, and it's definitely in the top 3 for me. The logistics were so smooth - whether that was due to lower sales or the expanded grounds and myriad improvements, everything felt so easy to navigate this year and that enhanced the overall experience so much. Every set I saw was fantastic and several of them were legendary. I managed to get absurdly close to the rail for a few sets (which I don't normally do) and that was incredible as well.
There's also a certain magic to these undercard-centric years, the crowds were awesome all weekend. Personally I would be thrilled if GV gave us another "mid" lineup next year
Looked backed and just looked at videos to see if you can tell the difference with Gobi. So by my count its 10 rows of panels from front of stage to end of the tent in 2019 for Gobi. 2024 is 7. Did they do that because they wanted to make it seem that certain acts would looked packed af or what.
Funny because I felt like the Gobi got smaller in 2022. I didn't go that year but remember watching the livestream and being like "wow they made the tent way smaller". The only things that felt different this year were the raised roof and that back panel but the size felt the same to me. I think this was mostly a good thing because there were years like 2017 (when Gobi and Mojave were essentially the same size) where the Gobi would feel absolutely pathetic if the set was under attended. Flip side, a Barry Can't Swim debacle.
The one where I had to squint and say "did that get smaller?" for me this year was the Mojave, not the Gobi. And that tent definitely had a bunch of packed sets. Harder to tell what overflows from the guest area, but I know I couldn't get anywhere near the guest area for Victoria Monet which was surprising to me, there was an enormous line and that tent was beyond overflowing W2.