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Title: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 27, 2007, 08:43:00 am
Gee I wonder how Fiction Plane ended up on the schedule...
 
 Fronted by singer/songwriter Joe Sumner -- who is the adult son of pop/rock superstar and former Police vocalist Sting -- Fiction Plane is a mostly British alternative pop/rock outfit that started to acquire a U.K. following in the early 2000s.
 
 I recall seeing them with Paul Weller awhile back and thinking they were naught special.
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: alex on April 27, 2007, 09:03:00 am
An othewise decent lineup sullied by...Velvet Revolver.  Why, God, whyyyy
 
 
 Still going though  :)
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 27, 2007, 09:12:00 am
Anyone want to swap Incubus for CSS?
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: K8teebug on April 27, 2007, 09:24:00 am
Since I'm buying a house this weekend, I cannot go  :confused:
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: sonickteam2 on April 27, 2007, 09:26:00 am
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Originally posted by K8teebug:
  Since I'm buying a house this weekend, I cannot go    :confused:  
congrats!!! are you buying a house in the city?
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on April 27, 2007, 09:30:00 am
Were you part of the retired couple from Maryland that bought Jack White's Detroit house for 590K the other day?
 
 
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Originally posted by K8teebug:
  Since I'm buying a house this weekend, I cannot go   :confused:  
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: thirsty moore on April 27, 2007, 09:50:00 am
Anyone that's paying that much for a house in Detroit is a fool.
 
 
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  Were you part of the retired couple from Maryland that bought Jack White's Detroit house for 590K the other day?
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on April 27, 2007, 09:56:00 am
Details:
 
 White Stripes?? Jack White sells Indian Village house
 April 22, 2007
 
 ASSOCIATED PRESS
 
 
 Garage-rock whiz Jack White cut one of his last ties to the Motor City when he sold his five-bedroom, 5,800-square-foot home in the old-money Indian Village neighborhood.
 
 The Grammy-winning leader of the White Stripes and member of the Raconteurs sold the 93-year-old house to a retired couple from Maryland for $590,000, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
 
 Advertisement
 
 White, 31, paid $524,000 for the house in 2003, put it on the market last August for $930,000 and later cut the price to $650,000, the Journal said.
 
 The house was designed by C. Howard Crane, best known as a movie palace architect whose works include the lavish Fox Theatre in downtown Detroit. Its oak paneling and damask wallpaper contrasts with the White Stripes?? signature red and white color scheme.
 
 White now lives in Nashville with his wife and daughter. He told the Associated Press in a 2006 interview that he had to leave Detroit because he ??couldn??t take the negativity anymore.?
 
 
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Originally posted by econo:
  Anyone that's paying that much for a house in Detroit is a fool.
 
   
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  Were you part of the retired couple from Maryland that bought Jack White's Detroit house for 590K the other day?
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Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: sonickteam2 on April 27, 2007, 09:56:00 am
its not a bad house!
 
   <img src="http://cmsimg.detnews.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C3&Date=20070421&Category=ENT01&ArtNo=704210389&Ref=V2&Profile=1033Q=100&MaxW=500" alt=" - " />
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: nkotb on April 27, 2007, 10:04:00 am
You crazy?  People are buying TOWNHOMES in our neighborhood for more than that!
 
 
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Originally posted by econo:
  Anyone that's paying that much for a house in Detroit is a fool.
 
   
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  Were you part of the retired couple from Maryland that bought Jack White's Detroit house for 590K the other day?
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Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 27, 2007, 10:05:00 am
Indian Village is one of the few areas in Detroit where property is worth that much... it's a nice couple blocks of "historic" homes.
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: DeathFromAbove1979 on April 27, 2007, 10:05:00 am
What was all this nonsense about MSTRKRFT!?
 
 
 Harumph!
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 27, 2007, 10:10:00 am
and leave to Charlie thread jacker extraordinary to get it off track...
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: miss pretentious on April 27, 2007, 10:11:00 am
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Originally posted by DeathFromAbove1979:
  What was all this nonsense about MSTRKRFT!?
 
 
 Harumph!
good call... i wonder.
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: taperkat on April 27, 2007, 10:14:00 am
Well, eating my own words somewhat.. see you on Day 2. Maybe. $110+ per person to just see Interpol seems pretty shitty.
 
 (does this mean we don't get Interpol anywhere else? sonofadlksdjflsdjlfjdsf. damnit.)
 
 Tho I wonder .. for those who have been there before, is it possible to split a 2 day pass? ie: one person uses first day, one person uses second? bleh. I'm moving in the middle of July so I don't think there's any way in hell I can justify that much. sldkjsdljfs.
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on April 27, 2007, 10:27:00 am
That's my gripe about V-Fest: taking club shows away from us so that the performer will be exclusively at the festival. Though my compaint is not about Interpol specifically.
 
 
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Originally posted by -kat-:
 
 
 (does this mean we don't get Interpol anywhere else? sonofadlksdjflsdjlfjdsf. damnit.)
 
 
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on April 27, 2007, 10:29:00 am
Great lineup, Seth, and a fair price.
 
 Day two seems a little better then day one, personally.
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: Seth Hurwitz on April 27, 2007, 10:54:00 am
thanks
 
 I appreciate that
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on April 27, 2007, 11:05:00 am
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Originally posted by Seth Hurwitz:
  thanks
 
 I appreciate that
No, thank you!
 
 P.S. If you could see to it that IF Chris Cornell has to play the second stage he goes up against 311 or Wu Tang Clan, that'd be super for me.
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: Julian, Alleged Computer F**kface on April 27, 2007, 11:07:00 am
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Originally posted by miss pretentious:
   
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Originally posted by DeathFromAbove1979:
  What was all this nonsense about MSTRKRFT!?
 
 
 Harumph!
good call... i wonder. [/b]
Take it up with Spin magazine. They reported it in the latest issue.
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: Shadrach on April 27, 2007, 11:36:00 am
I'm still in shock that Clutch isn't playing.
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: sonickteam2 on April 27, 2007, 11:38:00 am
and no Jimmie's Chicken Shack!!! they must've been booked already  ;)
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on April 27, 2007, 11:46:00 am
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Originally posted by le sonick:
  and no Jimmie's Chicken Shack!!! they must've been booked already   ;)  
it's a deal-breaker for me, sorry
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: taperkat on April 27, 2007, 12:23:00 pm
I think overall it is a very fair price and there are some great bands going, Seth, it's just i know for me personally I can't justify paying -that price- for two or three bands. I'd gladly pay $50-60 at the 930 for Interpol alone, but to deal with traffic + downtime + festival + people (when you've worked too many festivals you tend to shy away from them.. that's the problem with working venues in my experience) it's very hard to justify. If that makes sense.
 
 Me personally, I prefer club shows and smaller venues, and thusly would pay the price for those. I'm an enormous DMB fan and coughing up $150 for (notably, guaranteed awesome seats) Nissan might make it my last DMB show unless tickets go down.
 
 I think it'll be a great fest and I wish you all the success in the world. I'm hoping I'll get to go, but if I can't, it's really solely about money over anything else.
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: Firebutt McGee on April 27, 2007, 12:53:00 pm
M.I.A., Spoon, CSS, LCD Soundsystem, Girl Talk, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, Incubus, and Amy Winehouse...PLUS the Police?
 
 Yeah. I'm sold.
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: K8teebug on April 27, 2007, 12:54:00 pm
It's 87/day.  That's a pretty good price for all of the artists mentioned.
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on April 27, 2007, 01:34:00 pm
Are you going for the tickets that don't have extra fees tacked on?
 
 
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Originally posted by K8teebug:
  It's 87/day.  That's a pretty good price for all of the artists mentioned.
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: sonickteam2 on April 27, 2007, 01:35:00 pm
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  Are you going for the tickets that don't have extra fees tacked on?
 
   
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Originally posted by K8teebug:
  It's 87/day.  That's a pretty good price for all of the artists mentioned.
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last year i bought tickets at the merriweather box office, i dont know that there was a service charge at all, if so, it was like $1 a ticket.
 
  930 club was also sellling virtually-service charge free tickets.
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: ggw on April 27, 2007, 01:49:00 pm
I think the line-up is fascinating.  If I weren't going to be on vacation, I would go to V-Fest -- if only for the great people-watching potential that lineup brings.
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: on April 27, 2007, 01:50:00 pm
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Originally posted by ggw?:
  I think the line-up is fascinating.  If I weren't going to be on vacation, I would go to V-Fest -- if only for the great people-watching potential that lineup brings.
Are you going to PEI again?
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: ggw on April 27, 2007, 02:03:00 pm
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Originally posted by Dupek Chakra:
  Are you going to PEI again?
Peak-bagging in the High Sierra.
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: on April 27, 2007, 02:22:00 pm
ggw's goin' back to Cali
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: kosmo vinyl on April 30, 2007, 09:30:00 am
So there is actually a band called Shout Out Out Out  and not a typo for Shout Out Louds   :(  
 
 Sonick is this one of those Canuck bands you mentioned in the past?
 
 No so inspired by their motto   "barf everywhere fuckin' party man!"
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: beetsnotbeats on April 30, 2007, 09:47:00 am
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Originally posted by kosmo:
  So there is actually a band called Shout Out Out Out  and not a typo for Shout Out Louds    :(  
 
 Sonick is this one of those Canuck bands you mentioned in the past?
 
 No so inspired by their motto   "barf everywhere fuckin' party man!"
Kinda like when I see The Feeling mentioned somewhere.
 
 BTW, were I in the market for a car I would not get a Volvo. I love The Feelies but I don't want to here the same song every fifteen minutes.
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: sonickteam2 on April 30, 2007, 09:57:00 am
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Originally posted by kosmo:
  So there is actually a band called Shout Out Out Out  and not a typo for Shout Out Louds     :(    
 
 Sonick is this one of those Canuck bands you mentioned in the past?
 
 No so inspired by their motto   "barf everywhere fuckin' party man!"
I have brought up shout out out out out, they are along the lines of Rapture, LCD Soundsystem and !!! (chk chk chk).  i saw them in February in Toronto.  they were good.  not great.  
 
 i am wondering where seth got into em though!
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: sonickteam2 on April 30, 2007, 10:01:00 am
while i am thinking about it, i saw CSS last night on the Coachella webcast, and ummmmm...
 
 gross....people dont really like them do they?
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on April 30, 2007, 10:42:00 am
Lucky you. That's sounds like more fun than any music festival.
 
 
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Originally posted by ggw?:
   
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Originally posted by Dupek Chakra:
  Are you going to PEI again?
Peak-bagging in the High Sierra. [/b]
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: on April 30, 2007, 10:45:00 am
I wonder if flawd is going to attend?
Title: Re: Official Virgin Festival Commentary Thread
Post by: sonickteam2 on April 30, 2007, 10:49:00 am
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  Lucky you. That's sounds like more fun than any music festival.
 
   
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Originally posted by ggw?:
     
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Originally posted by Dupek Chakra:
  Are you going to PEI again?
Peak-bagging in the High Sierra. [/b]
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i dont think it sounds fun at all!!!!!!   :)   sounds like a lot of work!!!