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fredxmertzDunno why exactly I'm paying attn to these music festivals that I usually write off as rip offs.
SXSW fest in Austin TX is Mar 16-20
Flogging Molly is playing, Hot Hot Heat, Joan of Arc, The Kills, Thee Oh Sees,...
Coachella is in April... only 84 days left! Tickets go on sale tomorrow. Flogging Molly is playing this year, Cee Lo Green! Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Gogol Bordello, Wire, the Kills, Big Audio Dynamite, OFF! (Keith Morris), and the Strokes, among tons of others, many of whom are cool, but i'm just not as familiar with em. Little chance that the podcast will be able to buy tickets for me and a photographer. But if you've got some extra tikets, I'll be happy to drive....
Sasquatch is at least slightly more local. It takes place in May, and I haven't been able to find the lineup. Get on the ball, kids! Foo Fighters are comnfirmed, I duno who else...
Bonaroo, in June, non lineup listed yet.
Bumbershoot is labor day in Seattle, but I haven't located their lineup yet either...
Dan was trying to get his ticket for Burning Man. I don't think he's missed a year since 1995. their online ticketing system may have insured him that either he won't get a ticket, or he will have to pay extra when the cheap tix run out.
Top 10 Reasons Why Music Festivals Suck:
10. They are too dang expensive --All day pass = $700 dollars Canadian; $6 water, $10 beer in a dixie cup, $15 Cajun Bleckened chicken testis.
9. Weather - 105 in the shade, and pressing your body against a sweaty hairy, faoming mouthed fan, who knows all the words to every dong, i mean song.
8. You're going to get so burned out on Rock and Roll that you'll want to listen to Lawrence Welk the rest of your life . Will I be able to last more than 2 days without kicking someone in the dick?
7. The sound is shite - either you're going deaf in the front, or some twat is next to you singing louder than the band .
6. Its enievitable that the only 2 bands you're there to see are playing at the same time, at stages that are opposite ends of an ocean of drunken smelly revelers.
5. Porta Potty lines, and you wind up getting the one decorated with finger paintings.
4. You missed it? That's fine, because the week prior and post-festival, all you'll fucking read about is that fucking festival. Let's be honest, baring a naked Wizard being tazed, you ain't reading all the Coachella coverage on Pop and Hiss are you? No. Not to mention you can see most bands next week at the House of Blues anyway.
3. Press passes still blow -- I love looking at the portrait side of artists faces and critiquing music coming out of a monitor on stage.
2. Ugly naked people -- if you're ugly, most likely you know it, so do us a favor and keep your clothes on. Check your wangs and boobs at the door. Did you see the Wizard?
1. TOO DANG EXPENSIVE, 100% 'service charge'. To quote Monty Burns, 'insures a mix of only the richest and most ignorant'
Dictated but not read by Vince and plagiarized by Fred X Mertz.
SXSW fest in Austin TX is Mar 16-20
Flogging Molly is playing, Hot Hot Heat, Joan of Arc, The Kills, Thee Oh Sees,...
Coachella is in April... only 84 days left! Tickets go on sale tomorrow. Flogging Molly is playing this year, Cee Lo Green! Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Gogol Bordello, Wire, the Kills, Big Audio Dynamite, OFF! (Keith Morris), and the Strokes, among tons of others, many of whom are cool, but i'm just not as familiar with em. Little chance that the podcast will be able to buy tickets for me and a photographer. But if you've got some extra tikets, I'll be happy to drive....
Sasquatch is at least slightly more local. It takes place in May, and I haven't been able to find the lineup. Get on the ball, kids! Foo Fighters are comnfirmed, I duno who else...
Bonaroo, in June, non lineup listed yet.
Bumbershoot is labor day in Seattle, but I haven't located their lineup yet either...
Dan was trying to get his ticket for Burning Man. I don't think he's missed a year since 1995. their online ticketing system may have insured him that either he won't get a ticket, or he will have to pay extra when the cheap tix run out.
Top 10 Reasons Why Music Festivals Suck:
10. They are too dang expensive --All day pass = $700 dollars Canadian; $6 water, $10 beer in a dixie cup, $15 Cajun Bleckened chicken testis.
9. Weather - 105 in the shade, and pressing your body against a sweaty hairy, faoming mouthed fan, who knows all the words to every dong, i mean song.
8. You're going to get so burned out on Rock and Roll that you'll want to listen to Lawrence Welk the rest of your life . Will I be able to last more than 2 days without kicking someone in the dick?
7. The sound is shite - either you're going deaf in the front, or some twat is next to you singing louder than the band .
6. Its enievitable that the only 2 bands you're there to see are playing at the same time, at stages that are opposite ends of an ocean of drunken smelly revelers.
5. Porta Potty lines, and you wind up getting the one decorated with finger paintings.
4. You missed it? That's fine, because the week prior and post-festival, all you'll fucking read about is that fucking festival. Let's be honest, baring a naked Wizard being tazed, you ain't reading all the Coachella coverage on Pop and Hiss are you? No. Not to mention you can see most bands next week at the House of Blues anyway.
3. Press passes still blow -- I love looking at the portrait side of artists faces and critiquing music coming out of a monitor on stage.
2. Ugly naked people -- if you're ugly, most likely you know it, so do us a favor and keep your clothes on. Check your wangs and boobs at the door. Did you see the Wizard?
1. TOO DANG EXPENSIVE, 100% 'service charge'. To quote Monty Burns, 'insures a mix of only the richest and most ignorant'
Dictated but not read by Vince and plagiarized by Fred X Mertz.