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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: sonickteam2 on February 14, 2006, 04:38:00 pm
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didnt see this posted anywhere else
but i just got an email for Lollapalooz 2006
august 4-6
yeah, 3 days, saying something like 130 bands.
pretty cool, since i am skipping Coachella AND Bonerroo.
i just think , Radiohead wanted to play in Chicago...........
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Is it in Chicago again?
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Originally posted by bearman:
Is it in Chicago again?
sorry, yes its in Grant Park again
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Lollapalooza rock festival to double in size
By Greg Kot
Tribune music critic
Published February 13, 2006, 1:45 PM CST
Lollapalooza will double in size when it returns to Grant Park next summer on a bigger playing field that will stretch from Hutchinson Field to the Petrillo Music Shell, organizers announced Monday.
The rock festival said it will schedule 130 artists to play eight stages over three days, Aug. 4-6. A Chicago citizens group said the event is expected to bring at least $800,000 into Chicago parks, and promoters estimated that as many as 225,000 people would attend over three days.
In its inaugural year last summer, Lollapalooza booked 60 acts on five stages over two days. It brought 65,000 fans to Grant Park and $400,000 into the Chicago Park District, and ran relatively smoothly despite sometimes oppressive summer temperatures. The event was closely scrutinized by city officials and citizens groups as a test case for staging a major rock event in a downtown park after decades in which such concerts were not often welcomed.
A Chicago citizens group, the Parkways Foundation, praised the festival for helping pay for a playground program, and is again teaming with a Texas-based corporation, Capital Sports & Entertainment and Charles Attal Presents, and Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell to return the event to Grant Park.
Charlie Jones, executive producer of Capital Sports & Entertainment, promised a more diverse roster with bigger names when the lineup is announced next month. He also said that the stage layout will be adjusted to prevent the sound-bleed issues that hampered last year's festival.
The festival's expansion has been in the works since last summer, when Park District President Tim Mitchell proclaimed the event a success and said he was willing to work with the organizers to expand the event north of Hutchinson Field and Buckingham Fountain into Butler Field, home of the Petrillo Band Shell. The fountain is again expected to remain open to the public during the festival, despite the expanded stage set-up.
Bob O'Neill, president of a citizens group, the Grant Park Conservancy, said that some of the $800,000 in funds expected from this year's show will go toward a "complete restoration" of Hutchinson Field. In addition, the event will underwrite the creation of Solti Gardens south of the Art Institute on Michigan Avenue, named after the late Chicago Symphony Orchestra conductor Georg Solti.
O'Neill said that such benefits have helped assuage nearby residents who complained about the noise from last year's festival. "You can tolerate certain things when you realize there is a great reward attached to them," he said.
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I'm excited. Last year was so much fun. Let's hope they have a great lineup! (I always wonder when I see "bigger names" mentioned.) I wonder if it will be as easy to get around if there are 8 stages.
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anyone that went last year have any lodging tips? I see the Congress Hotel looks to be the closest.
I am definitely going this year, and hope to pre-book a room ASAP.
definitely looking for somewhere cheap and close! :)
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any other rumors besides radiohead? i've heard lots of mentions of the smashing pumpkins, and earlier rumors of dave matthews band. thievery corp. apparently said they're on board.
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Re: lodging. I booked a cheapie hotel far in advance. But then when it got closer to the time, I found a screamin deal through Priceline for a much nicer place. It was well worth it to be within walking distance of the park. As you can imagine after suffering through parking lot issues at Coachella, it was a beautiful thing to be able to walk from the fest to my hotel with this fest.
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Oh and you wouldn't need to be as close as the Congress. My hotel was about 6-7 blocks walk and that was easy enough.
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I'll almost definitely be going this year.
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Let's hope it's a little cooler this year! (It's in August so who knows.) And that there will be a lot of British bands. ;) Maximo Park, please!
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Originally posted by kurosawa-b/w:
Oh and you wouldn't need to be as close as the Congress. My hotel was about 6-7 blocks walk and that was easy enough.
awesome, i figured anywhere on that side of town should be easy. the Congress is $129 a night right now.
yeah, i may look for something cheaper.
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I can't remember the name of my hotel, but it was on E. Wacker Dr. along the river. There were a few hotels along that Drive. It was so easy. I just walked down Michigan Ave to the park.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers are headlining one day.
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Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Red Hot Chili Peppers are headlining one day.
dude, that REALLY REALLY sucks.
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Originally posted by Thom Foolerie:
Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Red Hot Chili Peppers are headlining one day.
dude, that REALLY REALLY sucks. [/b]
Didn't they already headline that like 15 years ago? Sad state of affairs!
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Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Red Hot Chili Peppers are headlining one day.
Oh, Man.....that is pathetic.....of all the bands to headline......they go to the retread.....that's another trip I won't be making....
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Normally, I don't go to those festivals for the headliners. I'm much more interested in the smaller stages and bands.
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Originally posted by kurosawa-b/w:
Normally, I don't go to those festivals for the headliners. I'm much more interested in the smaller stages and bands.
very very true. i was at the Coachella they headlined and didnt see one song from them, thanks for Interpol and Fischerspooner. ;)
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Yes, I really think it's premature to fear the worst. 129 bands have yet to be announced. I expect a fair number to be bands I don't want to see. But I also expect that there will be an equal number that I'm desperate to see. Who knows! That's what makes the anticipation fun. :)
I'm not that surprised about RHCP. Organizers said there would be bigger bands, and RHCP have a new album coming out.
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yeah, other than Radiohead I cant really think of a "headliner" band that i would really care to see....
I am totally hoping for Mudhoney so that perhaps we could start a muddy moshpit like the Lollapalooza of years ago!
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Come on. You know you'd be all over Depeche mode.
Originally posted by Thom Foolerie:
yeah, other than Radiohead I cant really think of a "headliner" band that i would really care to see....
I am totally hoping for Mudhoney so that perhaps we could start a muddy moshpit like the Lollapalooza of years ago!
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Come on. You know you'd be all over Depeche mode.
only if they promised not to play anything after Some Great Reward!
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I don't feel like looking this up: How many bands played both Coachella and Lolla last year? (I'm asking because I really want Wolfmother to play Lolla.)
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Oh and I'd love to see Depeche Mode. Or New Order! Radiohead goes without saying.
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Originally posted by kurosawa-b/w:
I don't feel like looking this up: How many bands played both Coachella and Lolla last year? (I'm asking because I really want Wolfmother to play Lolla.)
i dont think more than a handful, but seeing as how they have like 50 more bands playing this year, i bet there will be more. Wolfmother would be sweet!
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Originally posted by Thom Foolerie:
yeah, other than Radiohead I cant really think of a "headliner" band that i would really care to see....
I saw for the last week or so the "SP-RHCP-Flaming Lips as headliners" rumour that I'm sure everyone else has, so I'm thinking with the RHCP confirmation that looks like it's probably true.
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Originally posted by Thom Foolerie:
Originally posted by kurosawa-b/w:
I don't feel like looking this up: How many bands played both Coachella and Lolla last year? (I'm asking because I really want Wolfmother to play Lolla.)
i dont think more than a handful, but seeing as how they have like 50 more bands playing this year, i bet there will be more. Wolfmother would be sweet! [/b]
Wolfmother were incredible over the weekend. I thought they would be a bit stoner, but they had the craziest energy onstage. Lots of dancing, jumping, twisting, falling, etc. all over the place. I haven't been that excited at a show since Maximo Park last Summer. Awesome. They are definitely a must-see band. I'll send you some pictures, if you like.
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Originally posted by Thom Foolerie:
Originally posted by kurosawa-b/w:
I don't feel like looking this up: How many bands played both Coachella and Lolla last year? (I'm asking because I really want Wolfmother to play Lolla.)
i dont think more than a handful, but seeing as how they have like 50 more bands playing this year, i bet there will be more. Wolfmother would be sweet! [/b]
Just Announced (http://www.930.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=004729;p=140#005570)
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i'd definitely consider lollapalooza this year.
last year i got in on the $35/2-day passes, but decided not to go and sold them to a friend.
i've been looking for an excuse to get to chicago this summer (i'm actually going to be there next week for mogwai, but..)...
want to hit up either a cubs or sox game...
and the tut exhibit is there and i am too impatient to wait for it to hit philly next year.
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All this talk about the Gorillaz made me think of Blur. They'd be a good headliner for Lolla at some future date/year.
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The presale just sold out at $45.
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yeah, i just got the email about it and went and saw it was sold out. i didn't even know it was going to be happening today.
i probably wouldn't have bought the tickets anyway, but it caught me a bit off guard.
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Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
The presale just sold out at $45.
whew, i musta JUST got in!
$113 for a pair of tickets.
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Yeah, with my new job, I can't check my personal email very often, so I missed the presale by 10 mins. For $45, I would have bought a ticket. Oh well! General onsale and lineup announcement will be coming soon.
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Blackalicious is playing :) makes me happy.
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Red Hot Chili Peppers
Kanye West
Manu Chao
Wilco
Death Cab For Cutie
The Raconteurs
The Flaming Lips
Ween
Queens of the Stone Age
The Shins
Common
Matisyahu
Ryan Adams
Umphrey's McGee
Sonic Youth
Thievery Corporation
Sleater-Kinney
Nickel Creek
Blues Traveler
Broken Social Scene
The New Pornographers
Iron & Wine
Poi Dog Pondering
Coheed And Cambria
The Secret Machines
Eels
Panic! At the Disco
The Disco Biscuits
She Wants Revenge
The Dresden Dolls
Reverend Horton Heat
The Smoking Popes
Andrew Bird
Gnarls Barkley
Stars
Cursive
Blackalicious
Editors
Lyrics Born
Lady Sovereign
Hard-Fi
Calexico
Nada Surf
Feist
Aqualung
The Frames
The Hold Steady
The Go! Team
Mates of State
Pepper
Particle
The Redwalls
Mute Math
Wolfmother
Sparta
The Subways
Of Montreal
Blue October
Jeremy Enigk
Living Things
Sound Team
The M's
Hot Chip
The Benevento-Russo Duo
Matt Costa
The New Amsterdams
deadboy & the Elephantmen
Sybris
Anathallo
The Burden Brothers
What Made Milwaukee Famous
Manishevitz
Husky Rescue
The Towers of London
Ohmega Watts
Boy Kill Boy
Jim Noir
The Standard
Be Your Own Pet
Elvis Perkins
Trevor Hall
Midlake
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some good stuff there
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wow. thats really awesome. not so big on the headliners, but this is a really solid lineup of bands, better than Coachella. lets see how 8 stages pans out tho.
oh, and thats only 82 of whats said to be 130 bands....
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Well DC still has Robbie Fulks playing the Old Dominion Music Festival. At least that's something.
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Originally posted by Mike Rohsopht:
wow. thats really awesome. not so big on the headliners, but this is a really solid lineup of bands, better than Coachella. lets see how 8 stages pans out tho.
oh, and thats only 82 of whats said to be 130 bands....
didn't they say 90 last year and we only got 75 or so...and that was including the bands on the kidsapalooza stage.
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Damn...I'd love to see QOTSA and the Shins again. Nice lineup.
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Maybe a half dozen good bands. A load of crap. South by Southwest lineup is ten times better.
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Definitely a solid lineup. Many bands that are excellent live. No one that I am freaking out about seeing, but I still think it will be a lot of fun. I'm going. And I'm still hoping for a few more bands that I've been really wanting to see.
And of course it isn't as good as SXSW. How could it be?!
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I got my tickets today. I'm really excited for the line up. It's not bad.
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Maybe a half dozen good bands. A load of crap. South by Southwest lineup is ten times better.
god, it must just suck being you.
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Originally posted by Mike Rohsopht:
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Maybe a half dozen good bands. A load of crap. South by Southwest lineup is ten times better.
god, it must just suck being you. [/b]
and good luck seeing all those bands at SXSW...
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anyone who went to Lolla last year...and i know things will be different this year maybe with more days and more stages...but...
what was the re-entry policy last year?
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what about alcohol? were there beer gardens or could you buy it and walk around?
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the funniest Lollapalooza review EVER (http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:c7U6vh8mOF8J:www.theseattlesinner.com/current/arts/music/music.php%3FDOCUMENT%3Darts/music/Sep20051127278320.xml+lollapalooza+2005+beer+gardens&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3)
this just had me cracking up...i think someone on this message board wrote this..(lol)
I Love Corporate Rock!!
Lollapalooza 2005
by John Fox
I have never been afraid to admit that I have a soft spot for corporate sponsored, summer festival rock concerts. On the 23rd of July, 2005, I found myself staggering around in a half drunken/hung over haze for ticket scalpers at some un-godly hour of the morning in front of Chicago's Grant Park, Lollapalooza's only stop this year. Tickets for Lollapalooza 2005 had been sold out long before e-bay ticket scalpers sent the prices soaring to the willing buyers who bought them. I slithered through a sea of crack dealers, prostitutes and STDs before I found a sketchy looking heroin addict who had somehow gotten his hands on a few tickets. I bought one two day pass for a mere $65.00, face value was $125.00.
This year's festival seemed to have the best lineup it has had in years. With Weezer and The Pixies leading the way, the supporting acts included Primus, Billy Idol, Liz Phair, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead, Blonde Redhead, G. Love And Special Sauce, Cake and, um, oh yeah DINOSAUR JR!!
The first band I remember catching were The Redwalls. Though their music was merely alright at best, their pretentious, "elite hipster," attitudes drove me into the beer tent a lot earlier than I had anticipated. The International Noise Conspiracy was playing at one of the other stages, but I was knee deep in alcohol before I actually started giving a shit about seeing them.
Liz Phair sucks, there's no doubt in my mind about that. She was the first act that I actually left the beer garden for and I regretted it to the fullest extent. I had this idea that she was going to rock, but she sang a bunch of ballads and was so off key that I couldn't avoid the horrid screeching that was her singing voice from any point in the entire venue.
I started feeling sick as the entire crowd of about 20,000 people started migrating toward one of the other stages to see Dashboard Confessional. At that point, I decided to go lay down near some bushes where I found a side bag with two pints of vodka stashed in it. I took the contents of the bag and ran off toward the kids stage where I hid out.
I came out from behind the kids stage reeking of alcohol and staggering around like a giraffe that had just been beaten behind its two back legs with an aluminum baseball bat. I staggered toward the stage area where the music was playing before hitting the floor. I brought myself to my hands and knees, crawled a few feet and then turned to my right to see some hippie laying down on a cot in a white tent that had a large red cross on it. The next thing I know, I am sitting on one of the cots, violently throwing up into a bucket and swearing up and down to the two police officers that I wasn't going to cause any trouble at all.
I was released from the medical tent just before Cake went on. That hippie dude who was occupying the cot right next to mine looked to be in pretty bad shape. He was breathing heavily and would let out a frantic cry that would stir up the tent volunteers about every five or six minutes. Later on, I saw him getting beaten up by a group of frat boys near the Honey Buckets. I had seen Cake once before at Bumbershoot a few years ago. I have always had a mild fascination with their music and own one or two of their CDs. They ran through their set with ease and the crowd sang along to every one of their hits.
Billy Idol was next. He came out plugging his new CD, Devil's Playground, and rocked the house with a mix of new and old tunes. Stevie Stevens also accompanied him on guitar for the first time in a long while, but nobody gave a shit about that. One of the highlights of the whole festival was when Primus got on stage; they delayed their set because they all stood off to the side and watched as everyone in the entire venue sang along to Rebel Yell. Primus was a pretty interesting act to witness. They hadn't played a show in quite some time before stepping onto the Lollapalooza stage. Their stage props were two gigantic, inflatable rubber duckies that stood about thirty feet tall apiece. They played one of my favorite albums of all time, Sailing The Seas Of Cheese, from cover to cover and played a few other scragglers that included "My Name Is Mud."
There was no denying the fact that I was most excited about the act that was coming up next, my all time favorite band, The Pixies. This was the third time that I'd seen them. The first time I saw The Pixies was back in April '04 with my ol' buddy ol' pal Crystal Schaler down at the McDonald Theatre in Eugene, Oregon. To make a long story short, that entire trip nearly became a total and complete disaster because the amount of alcohol that I had in my system nearly got me banned from the venue (For the complete story, please read "Hail To The Pixies" Seattle Sinner, June 2004.) The Pixies weren't as good as I thought that they were going to be. They seemed very relaxed and not too excited as they seemed to just play their songs according to text book before strolling off of the stage. They didn't play with that same raw energy that had on display in Eugene, but I loved them anyway as they probably played their last ever show.
Last, but not least, was the band that everybody had been waiting for = Weezer. The last time I saw Weezer was when they played the DV8 way back in the day. Today, they are a massive, corporate rock, conglomerate that cannot be stopped. Everything about their whole presentation was grandiose and way over the top. Rivers Cuomo has taken "Nerd Rock" to a level where it cannot ever return to being cool ever again. They went from wearing cardigan sweaters and singing songs like "Buddy Holly" to wearing $5,000.00 Italian suits and hiring a pyrotechnics squad to blast fireworks out of that huge, flying "W" that they decorate the stage with. The only interesting things that came out of Cuomo's mouth the entire night was when he was speaking about how when the Blue Album first came out (March 10th 1994), it sold only ten copies in its first week. After that, he claimed that their second album, Pinkerton, hasn't done that much better. Beyond that, they played just about everything in their catalog and did every single macho, rock pose under the sun and even invented a few of their own.
At this point, I just wanted it to end. The last time I had sat down was ten hours earlier when I had that little episode in the first aid tent. I took off during their third encore, that's when I witnessed that hippie dude getting his ass whipped. Those fucking jocks were rubbing his face in feces as hundred of people just looked on. I reached the "El Train,? went home, and slept well.
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Originally posted by Mike Rohsopht:
anyone who went to Lolla last year...and i know things will be different this year maybe with more days and more stages...but...
what was the re-entry policy last year?
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what about alcohol? were there beer gardens or could you buy it and walk around?
re-entry was simple...wristbands allowed you in and out as you pleased. no beer gardens either. you got a separate wristband if you were 21 which allowed you to carry your beer anywhere.
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I just might go. Impossible to see everything at SXSW.
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Originally posted by El Sugartastic:
I just might go. Impossible to see everything at SXSW.
aww, wont that be nice. we'll have to meet up then. :)
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Maybe a half dozen good bands. A load of crap. South by Southwest lineup is ten times better.
You're comparing 75 bands to 1300. No wonder SXSW had a better lineup. There were probably 1000 crap bands in Austin last week, I saw a few...
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Originally posted by Bags:
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Maybe a half dozen good bands. A load of crap. South by Southwest lineup is ten times better.
There were probably 1000 crap bands in Austin last week, I saw a few... [/b]
Care to provide names? :p
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Originally posted by Jaguar:
Originally posted by Bags:
There were probably 1000 crap bands in Austin last week, I saw a few...
Care to provide names? :p [/b]
I'll mention two -- Wooden Wand and The Lashes. WW was just bad musically, but The Lashes took bad to a whole new level. It was the most over-the-top, fake feeling "whacky energetic aren't-we-goofy-guys-who-are-REALLY-great-performers-in-our-own-minds" performance. I could not look at these guys - not one second looked or felt genuine. If you just played the music for me, it was that HFS-y generic-sounding power punk a la newer versions of Blink 182, etc. Could be alright -- if you heard one song, you'd probably say, "I might check these guys out."
Funny thing is, you just know these are guys whose family and friends all really believe they'll be superstars because they have so much charisma!!!!
Here's their website (http://www.thelashes.net/).
And from the label's website:
"Members:
Ben Lashes - vocals
Eric Lashes - guitar
Nate Lashes - bass
Scotty Lashes - guitar
Jacob Lahses - keys & vocals
Mike Lashes - drums
The Lashes are a band we are proud to make some room for here at Lookout. These six young men write and perform some of the smartest, catchiest power-pop style punk today without sounding trite or retro. Listening to them you're reminded of classic bands like The Babies and The Raspberries as well as band favorites The Strokes, The Libertines and The Exploding Hearts. While The Lashes wear their influences on their sleeves - or their ripped jeans more accurately - their own distinctive style and character is what you notice. They're scruffy sweet boys playing undeniably well crafted but also scruffy pop music about break-ups and make-outs.
They formed in Seattle in 2000 but half of the band has known each other since high school. Lead singer and songwriter Ben Lashes' own musical aspirations go back even further to listening to Beatles' records and writing songs with his father as a boy. None of The Lashes are originally from Seattle - they all moved there to form bands but found the incestuous and exclusive scene difficult to infiltrate. Their alienation, desire to play music, and love for each other have made The Lashes a tight unit - best friends that are intensely loyal. The line-up galvanized in 2002 and a show with label president Christopher Appelgren's band The Pattern was the first step towards a record deal with Lookout Records that was finalized earlier this year. The Lashes recorded their first EP, The Stupid Stupid, with veteran producer John Goodmanson; it was a dream come true for the boys. Through perseverance, incredible live shows, great songs and a whole mess of charm, The Lashes have found acceptance in the fickle Seattle scene. Now they've set their sites on the rest of the world, so make some room in your record collection and your hearts."
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Originally posted by Bags:
I'll mention two -- Wooden Wand and The Lashes.
That sounds like a really bad and clumpy masscara.
I ran across The Lashes online God knows only how long ago and I was not at all impressed. I know what you mean about the friends and family support system being blinded by their relationships to them vs what's really happening onstage. It's great to have that support system going for you but sometimes it's so off that it would just be best for the band to stay home and play for a crowd who really cares.
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Originally posted by Bags:
There were probably 1000 crap bands in Austin last week, I saw a few...
LOL, I agree. A bunch of screamo music wafting on 6th...I was lucky to make it or get in to a few decent shows this year. Many were packed or simply conflicted.
Okay, looking for a hotel for Lolla. And hoping the weather isn't too heinous.
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Built To Spill just added. WOOHOO!!!
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Originally posted by Mike Rohsopht:
anyone who went to Lolla last year...and i know things will be different this year maybe with more days and more stages...but...
what was the re-entry policy last year?
and
what about alcohol? were there beer gardens or could you buy it and walk around?
And I will add, that if you go to the side entrances there is NO bagcheck what-so-ever. Near impossible to be able to do so as there was a stage and activities across the street from the main "venue"
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How many stages were there last year? Wasn't there some issue about stages being too close and hearing bands from other stages?
Edit: nevermind - I should've read the article posted on the other page first...