Bagels wrote:
Kirkwood wrote:
Fuck you assholes.
Looking at you small dick cuntswab fucks Pitchfork and Lolla.
just my take, but I think as far as Lolla (and Coachella , etc. ) goes, the majority of the people going to that don't even really care what the lineup is. it's an "event", a "thing" . i would say that in 95% of the cases, the artists appearing there are not exclusive to that fest- meaning they're probably on tour, playing club dates, etc. Look at the 3 headliners for Coachella- Outkast is playing like 100 festivals this summer, Arcade Fire is playing everywhere on gods green earth....so you don't HAVE to go to those events in order to see the people you want- it's just a weekend long party basically
i think Pitchfork is a little different- spanky and i discussed briefly in the concerts thread but take last years headliners- none of them were promoting a current album or were on a tour. to me it makes it a little more unique. not saying the whole lineup is like that, but I feel pretty confident that Pitchfork is going to deliver some fairly unique content, enough that I'm willing to purchase without seeing the lineup . and even last year's lineup, which i thought was probably the worst in recent years- was still pretty damn good...so i can't imagine a circumstance where i'd be super disappointed
I see the whole "festival" thing heading toward what happened to the mega tour type thing a few years ago.
When Lolla first started out in the early '90's, it was unique as a traveling tour that brought together a lot of bands of the same genre that stopped once in each big city. Soon, there were a dozen of those every year - from Warped to Lillith to Horde to country stuff to.......and then they all went away because they became more and more similar.
Then Lolla decided to do the weekend-long thing in one city instead of a tour - followed by Coachella and Bonnaroo and ACL and the thing in Delaware. And like Bagels said, they are becoming more and more interchangeable. I assume they will kill each other off and a new format will arise. (I do agree that things like Pitchfork are slightly different).
I just pray to Prince that the stupid "cruise with a band" thing isn't the new format. That sounds pretty bad.
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FavreFan wrote:
Im pretty hammered right now.