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Post by davers on May 1, 2018 8:35:57 GMT -8
Also... damn.
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Post by davers on May 1, 2018 8:35:13 GMT -8
Ludacris live is the shit. Based on the time I saw him I strongly disagree. He just left stage for like 20 minutes and told his DJ to play songs. Also got the crowd to sing like half the time.
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Post by davers on Apr 25, 2018 17:35:46 GMT -8
I disagree, I thought she was awesome. If a person liked her on the stream on or Tiny Desk I think they'll really like her in person. I was a bit too hot and haggard to dance around at that point but the crowd was super into it. I'm willing to admit that I'm in the minority with that opinion of her set. Maybe it was the particular part that we watched, or where we were standing in the tent, because both Stacey and I were super excited to see her but the 20 or so minutes that we watched sounded like a directionless and muddied mess of noodling that we couldn't find anything engaging about. As we left the tent she finally started setting up her song Jungle, but by that time we had both completely lost interest. Having not actually seen her in person I feel like her sets probably need to be watched in full. I remember many years ago someone said they walked into Beardyman and just thought it was dance music for 15 minutes and left. If you don't watch from the start you don't know how it got to that point, so it's not as interesting. I could be totally wrong though. I love her recorded stuff (much of which is live) and loved the Coachella stream though, so I will still be giving her a shot.
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Post by davers on Apr 23, 2018 21:16:24 GMT -8
That's what did it for me. Just listening to their music, it seemed harmless. But seeing them on the live stream was an embarrassment. Exactly. Their beats aren’t terrible, and I get that they can’t really perform them “live,” but the fact that they didn’t even try to give any semblance of at least trying to mix them live was just insulting. I’m still not even sure why they needed to guys on stage to do it. A lot of the Sahara acts on the Coachella live stream were pretty embarrassing this year. There were a lot of camera angles from behind the decks where you could see exactly what they were doing, and some of them weren't doing much. Petit Biscuit also looked pretty bad on the stream from what I saw. It's easy to just look at the pretty lights and not care what DJs are doing when you're there, but sitting on my couch seeing them just jump up and down and yell into the mic every now and then kinda makes me wonder what the point is sometimes. That being said there were some great DJs on the stream, particularly Black Coffee. I don't think I'm going to have any problem finding things to see during their sets though, so works for me.
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Post by davers on Apr 2, 2018 17:31:32 GMT -8
I agree. A move like this sets a very bad precedent. I imagine festivals rely an awful lot on presales to help with bookings and it’s going to be very hard to justify buying presale in the future when two years in a row people got better deals a month or two after regular sale started. On the other hand, this isn’t necessarily a focus on now vs the future. Ticket sales are only a portion of a festival’s income. Corporate sponsors are another big one and I’m sure you’ve noticed that the last couple years haven’t had the same level of sponsorships as past years. I think this 4 pack deal could be their way of sacrificing some ticket income to be able to show potential sponsors higher overall attendance numbers. Logic dictates that a company will pay more to have their logo seen by 25000 people than they will for 12000 people. I really like the volume ticket deal, I just wish they had rolled it out sooner. I imagine that if it does well, they might incorporate it into presale for next year. I agree with pretty much all of that, but the logic behind it just fucks with my head. IF they could afford to sell tickets at $225 a pop for the next 2 months, they should have had cheaper tickets from the get go. Festivals like Panorama and Outside Lands are actually dropping their prices, which I guess Sasquatch is now doing as well. There's very little benefit to having an under-attended festival other than I guess you can hire less security and rent less Honey Buckets. They should have been aiming for a sell out from the beginning and set the ticket price around $250. I know it's only $75 and in the grand scheme of the cost of the festival it's not much but when people are comparing festivals to attend now, that makes it look a hell of a lot better. The last time this festival really sold out in any meaningful way was 2013 and tickets were something like $315 for a 4 day pass including camping. They got lucky with Macklemore and Mumford blowing up basically right before the lineup dropped, but it was still way more enticing at that price point than over $100 a day plus camping. Maybe they thought this lineup was worth Bonnaroo prices, but I doubt it. I think they were trying to squeeze a much out of people as they could. If that's the plan though, you should really be doing it the opposite way, starting cheap with presale, maybe some early bird prices when the lineup comes out, then slowly increase the price if enough tickets sell, not the other way around.
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Post by davers on Apr 2, 2018 12:11:23 GMT -8
Anyone notice you can get a 4 pack of weekend passes for $225 each? That's not exactly a great sign. Not necessarily. Could be they’ve already cleared a profit for the weekend and they’re trying to liquidate what they have left just to sell out ASAP. If sales were really bad, I think they would have announced a cancellation today instead of shifting into the next phase of sales. I don't know about that. Like Pea said, if the festival was selling well they wouldn't just drop prices 2 months before the festival. This is a huge middle finger to everyone that bought early. I knew I could probably wait until just before the secondary market and get cheaper tickets but wanted to actually support a festival doing things that I like. I felt fine paying $325 because I thought it was worth it, but knowing that if I bought now I could have saved $25 and gotten a free pass for a friend stings a little. This absolutely does not encourage ticket sales for next year, so it's a bit of a death rattle in my mind, since they are focusing on the now and not the future.
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Post by davers on Apr 2, 2018 9:26:12 GMT -8
Anyone notice you can get a 4 pack of weekend passes for $225 each? That's not exactly a great sign.
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Post by davers on Mar 30, 2018 15:41:24 GMT -8
Someone on Reddit claimed both FYF and OSL would have Janet Jackson, Future and Florence and the machine. Well FYF has all 3 of those, so it's fairly possible. Same person also claimed the Weeknd for OSL.
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Post by davers on Mar 28, 2018 16:04:05 GMT -8
I'm finding it hard to believe that Petite Biscuit and Odesza are different things Well Odesza is Latin for little cookie so they basically are the same thing.
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Post by davers on Mar 27, 2018 22:24:14 GMT -8
Yeah additions aren't going to matter to me at all based on the potential schedule as it stands. I am slowly making my way through the lower parts of the lineup and every second band gets a "Holy shit, I need to check these guys out" reaction, so my days are probably more than full as it stands.
When I go though schedules of Sasquatch past I realize I only see like 6-7 full sets every day (I suck at splitting sets at the gorge, that hill kills me), and there's easily 30 acts I really want to see right now, so I going to be busy as hell.
Man it's creeping up and I'm finally starting to feel how real it's going to be after a year off.
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Post by davers on Mar 21, 2018 19:06:38 GMT -8
I've seen em three times, they are pretty great live. They do best in a smaller setting, so Ponderosa, a festival with like 800 people was pretty much perfect for them. I would say their ideal set time would be closing the Yeti, though that would probably be conflict central.
Kissing the Beehive is probably my favourite of theirs, but clocking in at around 10 minutes they will probably only break it out if their set time is over an hour, which I highly doubt.
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Post by davers on Mar 15, 2018 22:06:07 GMT -8
Oh man I didn't even see Funtcase and that is exactly as stupid as I would expect him to look.
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Post by davers on Mar 15, 2018 21:40:09 GMT -8
Generally yes as long as you don't have a criminal record, and even then they are being a little nicer about it depending on the crime now. Be advised this is a festival very close to downtown Vancouver with no camping, so similar to Bumbershoot. Also similar to Bumbershoot Vancouver's hotel rooms can be pretty spendy. Well, I guess I take my chances. Are you sure there's not a wall? I might not leave if I can get across the border. No wall, just a treeless path known as the 'no touching zone.' More info here.
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Post by davers on Mar 15, 2018 21:33:19 GMT -8
Nightmre picking up all the drops. He was also one of the replacements for Cardi B at Snowbombing since she is probably preggers.
I also love that there's an act called Bro Safari. It's like a parody of what I assume this crowd will be like.
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Post by davers on Mar 15, 2018 20:08:25 GMT -8
New festival in Vancouver! $280CAD ($220USD) to see some great bands in Stanley Park View AttachmentThus could be fun. Is Canada letting in Americans? Generally yes as long as you don't have a criminal record, and even then they are being a little nicer about it depending on the crime now. Be advised this is a festival very close to downtown Vancouver with no camping, so similar to Bumbershoot. Also similar to Bumbershoot Vancouver's hotel rooms can be pretty spendy.
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Post by davers on Mar 15, 2018 20:06:36 GMT -8
New festival in Vancouver! $280CAD ($220USD) to see some great bands in Stanley Park I don't know anybody after Greta Van Fleet, but St. Vincent, TWOD, Florence would make it worth it. Pretty much everyone after Greta Van Fleet is only known to Canadians anyway so that probably isn't a surprise. I can confirm that there are a lot of great acts down low though. These guys used to do Squamish before they essentially sold it to Live Nation who promptly ran it into the ground. Little Destroyer, Shred Kelly, Belle Game and Hey Ocean are all great, and interestingly enough all female led bands.
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Post by davers on Feb 23, 2018 20:14:03 GMT -8
You realize the second thing is just a copypasta that is very commonly found on reddit, right? 1) Well aware but thanks for the pro tip 2) Pretty sure it started on 4chan I just wasn't sure if your point was this place is different from reddit or the same as reddit. Still not really sure.
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Post by davers on Feb 23, 2018 17:45:25 GMT -8
Wanted to give a quick side by side of us vs Reddit: Here's reddit: Annnnnd here's us: You realize the second thing is just a copypasta that is very commonly found on reddit, right?
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Post by davers on Feb 23, 2018 17:44:42 GMT -8
Regarding Bon Iver (SPOILERS): A user on the Bonnaroo subreddit reports that Bon Iver is splitting the shows on this tour into two 45-60 min sets. 22 A Million in full > intermission > a mix of material w/ "surprises" + an encore. I'd speculate that well get 22AM in full, maybe a short break followed by a shorter second set. This makes his Bonnaroo booking seem a lot less special. I was kind of under the impression he would play 2 sets, possibly on different days, with a different setup, maybe different band members, different stage, different setlist... But it sounds like it's just 'set 1' break 'set 2'. So what? Lots of acts have an intermission, I don't ever see them booked as '2 unique sets'.
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Post by davers on Feb 21, 2018 13:12:13 GMT -8
Maybe instead of a ferris wheel they could put nonshit food in the food court. You make it sounds like there's these mobile kitchens that make great food that are normally mere hours away from the Gorge and would probably love to make food for us all. What kind of fantasy world do you live in?
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