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Given that Boston Calling has always made a point of booking artists originally from the area, both Bell Biv Devoe and Rob Zombie are way overdue for their BC debuts.
As long as they're running other artists at the same time, much as the first hour of Paramore overlapped with Gizz, I can live with anyone in the top line if I like the alternative.
Imagine My Morning Jacket or Goose on Blue, at the same time that any of those three are playing Green.
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FYI- the webiste has been *slightly* updated from what it looked like last week. you can now sign up for text alerts al la other live nation fests. Here. It looks like a beta version of the website, kinda bland and VERY basic.
also- take this with an intense grain of salt- but my brother was on business last week, and he mentioned to me that one of his coworkers also does VIP things for boston calling "and pretty confidently said Ed Sheeran was one of the headliners". Now...I'm not too sure about this- he has 0 state side dates next year. He also did 2 nights at Gillette last year. That said- flip side is he has a big gap between April-May, and he does a euro festival circuit starting June 8th. Maybe he's doing a random fest circuit next spring? Not sure. Notably, he's doing some random festivals that I wouldn't think he'd typically do in the EU, and he usually doesn't do festivals at all- but still.
BTW, this is not a new signup. I just attempted to sign up by email and text and both times received a message indicating that I was already signed up.
The new site doesn't look great, but I think it looks a little better than the most recent design. I don't know why they don't just make the graphic design elements of the branding way more vibrantly colorful than they've been since the move to Harvard. It literally doesn't cost them a penny more to have the graphic designers do something more visually appealing than what they spend now for the big ugly.
As for Ed Sheeran, the interesting thing about that rumor is that it suggests that they may be opening up more adjacent space at the festival. The football game capacity of the stadium is 30,323 and you could fit another few thousand people on the field. Is that more than you can squeeze into the Green/Red area (including the food/sponsor activation areas where the additional PA speakers and large video screens on the sides of the stages make it possible to genuinely catch a set from far back)?
Still, I don't understand why someone who can fill Gillette on two consecutive nights would even bother with any festivals other than the big five U.S. fests, unless he wanted to do Newport Folk for the experience, as opposed to being representative of playing a festival with capacity that matches his appeal. The other exception would be performers with local ties, like the guy who lives in Watertown and will probably be headlining NFL stadiums by 2025, but may want to headline Boston Calling someday because he grew up in New England.
But if this is true, it may indicate that LiveNation wants to go big, which isn't a bad thing. If Ed Sheeran is one of the headliners, maybe both Tyler Childers and Hozier are subheadliners and/or maybe they'll be running more stages this year beyond additional little dink-and-dunk spaces like Fort IKEA or the Orange Stage (both of which are nice, but don't have a thing to do with anything on the top half of the poster.)
Interesting take on LN wanting to go bigger. It could be a possibility and utilizing more space on the Harvard grounds would be a way to balance increasing size while keeping a somewhat central location where patrons can "easily" utilize public transportation. Over the summer a friend mentioned that her niece, who has familiarity with the inner workings of what goes on in the city with this type of stuff, had told her that the contract with Harvard wasn't renewed. I was skeptical at first, but wonder now if instead of not renewed they renegotiated and/or expanded on the available space. We'll know more over the next few weeks.
Also, Indigo De Souza, Nation of Language, Dehd, Sheer Mag, The Heavy Heavy, and, mentioned before, Geese are out. They are playing at Field Day Festival in Northampton the weekend of May 31st. Second year for this festival that is expanding from 1 day to 3.
So, MA now has 4 annual and 1 semi-annual summer festivals? Boston Calling, Field Day, In Between Days, Green River and Solid Sound.
BTW, this is not a new signup. I just attempted to sign up by email and text and both times received a message indicating that I was already signed up.
The new site doesn't look great, but I think it looks a little better than the most recent design. I don't know why they don't just make the graphic design elements of the branding way more vibrantly colorful than they've been since the move to Harvard. It literally doesn't cost them a penny more to have the graphic designers do something more visually appealing than what they spend now for the big ugly.
As for Ed Sheeran, the interesting thing about that rumor is that it suggests that they may be opening up more adjacent space at the festival. The football game capacity of the stadium is 30,323 and you could fit another few thousand people on the field. Is that more than you can squeeze into the Green/Red area (including the food/sponsor activation areas where the additional PA speakers and large video screens on the sides of the stages make it possible to genuinely catch a set from far back)?
Still, I don't understand why someone who can fill Gillette on two consecutive nights would even bother with any festivals other than the big five U.S. fests, unless he wanted to do Newport Folk for the experience, as opposed to being representative of playing a festival with capacity that matches his appeal. The other exception would be performers with local ties, like the guy who lives in Watertown and will probably be headlining NFL stadiums by 2025, but may want to headline Boston Calling someday because he grew up in New England.
But if this is true, it may indicate that LiveNation wants to go big, which isn't a bad thing. If Ed Sheeran is one of the headliners, maybe both Tyler Childers and Hozier are subheadliners and/or maybe they'll be running more stages this year beyond additional little dink-and-dunk spaces like Fort IKEA or the Orange Stage (both of which are nice, but don't have a thing to do with anything on the top half of the poster.)
Interesting take on LN wanting to go bigger. It could be a possibility and utilizing more space on the Harvard grounds would be a way to balance increasing size while keeping a somewhat central location where patrons can "easily" utilize public transportation. Over the summer a friend mentioned that her niece, who has familiarity with the inner workings of what goes on in the city with this type of stuff, had told her that the contract with Harvard wasn't renewed. I was skeptical at first, but wonder now if instead of not renewed they renegotiated and/or expanded on the available space. We'll know more over the next few weeks.
Also, Indigo De Souza, Nation of Language, Dehd, Sheer Mag, The Heavy Heavy, and, mentioned before, Geese are out. They are playing at Field Day Festival in Northampton the weekend of May 31st. Second year for this festival that is expanding from 1 day to 3.
So, MA now has 4 annual and 1 semi-annual summer festivals? Boston Calling, Field Day, In Between Days, Green River and Solid Sound.
Interesting take on LN wanting to go bigger. It could be a possibility and utilizing more space on the Harvard grounds would be a way to balance increasing size while keeping a somewhat central location where patrons can "easily" utilize public transportation. Over the summer a friend mentioned that her niece, who has familiarity with the inner workings of what goes on in the city with this type of stuff, had told her that the contract with Harvard wasn't renewed. I was skeptical at first, but wonder now if instead of not renewed they renegotiated and/or expanded on the available space. We'll know more over the next few weeks.
Also, Indigo De Souza, Nation of Language, Dehd, Sheer Mag, The Heavy Heavy, and, mentioned before, Geese are out. They are playing at Field Day Festival in Northampton the weekend of May 31st. Second year for this festival that is expanding from 1 day to 3.
So, MA now has 4 annual and 1 semi-annual summer festivals? Boston Calling, Field Day, In Between Days, Green River and Solid Sound.
1/16: L'Impératrice 1/30: Jamie xx 2/1: DJ Seinfeld 2/7: Mild Minds* 3/1: Father John Misty* 3/4: knock2 3/7: Inhaler* 3/19: Confidence Man 3/23: DARKSIDE 5/8: Rüfüs Du Sol
BTW, this is not a new signup. I just attempted to sign up by email and text and both times received a message indicating that I was already signed up.
The new site doesn't look great, but I think it looks a little better than the most recent design. I don't know why they don't just make the graphic design elements of the branding way more vibrantly colorful than they've been since the move to Harvard. It literally doesn't cost them a penny more to have the graphic designers do something more visually appealing than what they spend now for the big ugly.
As for Ed Sheeran, the interesting thing about that rumor is that it suggests that they may be opening up more adjacent space at the festival. The football game capacity of the stadium is 30,323 and you could fit another few thousand people on the field. Is that more than you can squeeze into the Green/Red area (including the food/sponsor activation areas where the additional PA speakers and large video screens on the sides of the stages make it possible to genuinely catch a set from far back)?
Still, I don't understand why someone who can fill Gillette on two consecutive nights would even bother with any festivals other than the big five U.S. fests, unless he wanted to do Newport Folk for the experience, as opposed to being representative of playing a festival with capacity that matches his appeal. The other exception would be performers with local ties, like the guy who lives in Watertown and will probably be headlining NFL stadiums by 2025, but may want to headline Boston Calling someday because he grew up in New England.
But if this is true, it may indicate that LiveNation wants to go big, which isn't a bad thing. If Ed Sheeran is one of the headliners, maybe both Tyler Childers and Hozier are subheadliners and/or maybe they'll be running more stages this year beyond additional little dink-and-dunk spaces like Fort IKEA or the Orange Stage (both of which are nice, but don't have a thing to do with anything on the top half of the poster.)
Interesting take on LN wanting to go bigger. It could be a possibility and utilizing more space on the Harvard grounds would be a way to balance increasing size while keeping a somewhat central location where patrons can "easily" utilize public transportation. Over the summer a friend mentioned that her niece, who has familiarity with the inner workings of what goes on in the city with this type of stuff, had told her that the contract with Harvard wasn't renewed. I was skeptical at first, but wonder now if instead of not renewed they renegotiated and/or expanded on the available space. We'll know more over the next few weeks.
Also, Indigo De Souza, Nation of Language, Dehd, Sheer Mag, The Heavy Heavy, and, mentioned before, Geese are out. They are playing at Field Day Festival in Northampton the weekend of May 31st. Second year for this festival that is expanding from 1 day to 3.
So, MA now has 4 annual and 1 semi-annual summer festivals? Boston Calling, Field Day, In Between Days, Green River and Solid Sound.
FWIW, Harvard is still mentioned at the top of the BC homepage:
"May 24-26, 2024 Boston, MA - Harvard Athletic Complex"
(Don't forget about Levitate and Beach Road Weekend.)
Interesting take on LN wanting to go bigger. It could be a possibility and utilizing more space on the Harvard grounds would be a way to balance increasing size while keeping a somewhat central location where patrons can "easily" utilize public transportation. Over the summer a friend mentioned that her niece, who has familiarity with the inner workings of what goes on in the city with this type of stuff, had told her that the contract with Harvard wasn't renewed. I was skeptical at first, but wonder now if instead of not renewed they renegotiated and/or expanded on the available space. We'll know more over the next few weeks.
Also, Indigo De Souza, Nation of Language, Dehd, Sheer Mag, The Heavy Heavy, and, mentioned before, Geese are out. They are playing at Field Day Festival in Northampton the weekend of May 31st. Second year for this festival that is expanding from 1 day to 3.
So, MA now has 4 annual and 1 semi-annual summer festivals? Boston Calling, Field Day, In Between Days, Green River and Solid Sound.
FWIW, Harvard is still mentioned at the top of the BC homepage:
"May 24-26, 2024 Boston, MA - Harvard Athletic Complex"
(Don't forget about Levitate and Beach Road Weekend.)
Right - can't believe I forgot about those two. So, quite a few festivals competing for talent.
Yeah, the Pearl Jam rumor for Bottlerock has a lot of fire behind the smoke. PJ is already rumored for 2 shows at Fenway in September, so they wouldn't do a Fri/Sun Bottlerock/BC.
On the flipside, though, isn't Ed Sheeran too big to do these relatively smaller festivals? He was performing at football stadiums here in the US and is doing multiple nights at 50K+ stadiums in Dubai and Japan. The festivals he is performing at in Europe are huge - Hurricane is 80K, Southside is 62K, Pinkpop is over 100K.
seems to me like Pearl Jam is rumored for Fenway shows every single year. i'll believe it when i see it.
they are doing Fenway next year. alongside Philly and MSG in September.
The website, which was recently updated, does still say "4 stage, outdoor festival" which to me means no expansion. More likely than not, the 4 stages will be the exact same as the last 2 years.
It is a little interesting that it also says "featuring the biggest and best acts in live music, DJs." which could indicate the LN influence bringing back some electronic artists..?
The website, which was recently updated, does still say "4 stage, outdoor festival" which to me means no expansion. More likely than not, the 4 stages will be the exact same as the last 2 years.
It is a little interesting that it also says "featuring the biggest and best acts in live music, DJs." which could indicate the LN influence bringing back some electronic artists..?
I want to see just as many DJ's on the poster as I saw folk singers and indie rock bands in the Breakaway lineup.
The website, which was recently updated, does still say "4 stage, outdoor festival" which to me means no expansion. More likely than not, the 4 stages will be the exact same as the last 2 years.
It is a little interesting that it also says "featuring the biggest and best acts in live music, DJs." which could indicate the LN influence bringing back some electronic artists..?
The stadium is an outdoor stage!! But yeah, I can’t imagine the profit margins were so great with this fest that they would be trying to amp it up and charge $500+
Really do wish they found a decent programming direction to use the arena. I get that a DJ/EDM focused area for a fest with dad rock headliners may not work as well…
The website, which was recently updated, does still say "4 stage, outdoor festival" which to me means no expansion. More likely than not, the 4 stages will be the exact same as the last 2 years.
It is a little interesting that it also says "featuring the biggest and best acts in live music, DJs." which could indicate the LN influence bringing back some electronic artists..?
my guess is they keep the same stages but the orange stage turns into either hybrid local acts/DJ or fully DJ
Boston Calling lineup dropped on the 10th last year... so next week COULD be the week. The Bonnaroo lineup is dropping Tuesday 1/9 (was 1/10 last year) and Coachella likely dropping somewhere in the 8th-10th range. That being said, Coachella is usually out by now so it's possible BC doesn't drop until like the 16th-18th. Either way, we're so close.
Boston Calling lineup dropped on the 10th last year... so next week COULD be the week. The Bonnaroo lineup is dropping Tuesday 1/9 (was 1/10 last year) and Coachella likely dropping somewhere in the 8th-10th range. That being said, Coachella is usually out by now so it's possible BC doesn't drop until like the 16th-18th. Either way, we're so close.
coachella has been dropping late the past few years due to last min headliner fuckshit. They dropped a couple hours after Bonnaroo last year so I think even if its late we are on track for a BC lineup next wednesday or thursday
Boston Calling lineup dropped on the 10th last year... so next week COULD be the week. The Bonnaroo lineup is dropping Tuesday 1/9 (was 1/10 last year) and Coachella likely dropping somewhere in the 8th-10th range. That being said, Coachella is usually out by now so it's possible BC doesn't drop until like the 16th-18th. Either way, we're so close.
Given the shit that's going on with the rumored headliners for both Coachella and Bonnaroo, the organizer of one of the larger metal festivals talking about the difficulty in curating this year's festival and this year being the first full C3 Boston Calling, I wouldn't be surprised if the BC headliners are headscratchers and/or underwhelming. There just doesn't seem to be a lot of big artists doing festival circuits this year. I usually go based on the undercard (last year's Sunday was a kid in a candy store scenario for me, while Friday was a kid in a vegetable patch), so as long as the organizers do a good job with the undercard, I will be there.
I usually go based on the undercard (last year's Sunday was a kid in a candy store scenario for me, while Friday was a kid in a vegetable patch), so as long as the organizers do a good job with the undercard, I will be there.
Totally agree about going more for the undercard.
Maybe this is too "big" of a 4-6, but my best guess at the moment is a top 6 of something like RHCP, Tyler Childers, Lana Del Rey, Hozier, Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
I usually go based on the undercard (last year's Sunday was a kid in a candy store scenario for me, while Friday was a kid in a vegetable patch), so as long as the organizers do a good job with the undercard, I will be there.
Totally agree about going more for the undercard.
Maybe this is too "big" of a 4-6, but my best guess at the moment is a top 6 of something like RHCP, Tyler Childers, Lana Del Rey, Hozier, Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yep - that is almost exactly my top 6 too. Not sure about Yeah Yeah Yeahs since they were just here (not that that stops them from being on the lineup), but the other 5 are who I am thinking too. If that ends up being the case, for a 2nd tier festival (Coachella, Roo, ACL, Lola being top US tier), that's actually not bad at all.
Actually forgot Vampire Weekend. Switch them with Yeah Yeah Yeahs and I think that may be most of the top 6, Lana or not.
yea zero chance we get Lana. even bonnaroo couldnt get her
Couldn't or didn't want? Or, would it be due to GV not allowing artists to perform at competing festivals?
She is supposedly also headlining Hangout (same capacity as BC, but also owned by Goldenvoice), so BC wouldn't be out of the picture unless she has completely priced herself out of their headliner budget parameters or is contractually not allowed. I think they will have a female headliner, whether it's Lana, Phoebe Bridgers (if boygenius is taking 2024 off), Dua Lipa (although they've never gone that far pop before), or Stevie Nicks. Bridgers can be booked for less than $500K and Nicks is roughly $1.25M (at least based on this list - How Much It Costs to Book Your Favorite Band in 2024 )
I usually go based on the undercard (last year's Sunday was a kid in a candy store scenario for me, while Friday was a kid in a vegetable patch), so as long as the organizers do a good job with the undercard, I will be there.
Totally agree about going more for the undercard.
Maybe this is too "big" of a 4-6, but my best guess at the moment is a top 6 of something like RHCP, Tyler Childers, Lana Del Rey, Hozier, Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Based upon the lineups that have already dropped, who's on tour but not playing Boston around that time, and such, this all seems very reasonable, although I still think that Hozier won't be billed lower than Childers.
off a quick glance for crossover I hope we get: Stevie Nicks, Megan Thee Stallion, St. Vincent, MMJ, Action Bronson, and Miike Snow
Some crossover is very likely, but I wouldn't expect a ton of it. Not every artist wants to make the cross-country flight between gigs. Without taking time to research this at the moment, isn't it around 4-6 artists?
Boston Calling has only shared headliners twice (The Killers in 2018 and Metallica in 2022) over the last 10 years and once was due to unforeseen circumstances. Last year we shared The National and Teddy Swims. In 2022 it was Metallica, Grandson, and DJO. So, usually 2 or 3 crossover.
So, hopefully the crossover is on the undercard (Royel Otis is pretty much a lock to do both, most likely Friday Bottlerock and Sunday BC before heading to Primavera), but if it is a headliner, let it be Stevie Nicks. I know there was a source that said that we were getting Sheeran, but I hope that source is wrong.
Would love to have Dehd, but they are at Field Day the following weekend. St. Vincent would be good - maybe have her close Blue.
