Coachella 2005

[sonickteam2]

Ok, so this is WAY early....well, 5 1/2 months early, but i found that the dates are announced for next years festival.
 
    April 30th and May 1st are the show dates.
 
   I thought I'd tell you so that anyone planning on going could get a jump on pre-booking rooms.
 
   Its my third year going, and not taking anyone else's advice..I found my own room....in walking distance to the show (1 mile)
 
   if you are interested.....check out the Travelodge on Hwy 111....$125 a night, kinda steep but if you tried to get out of that lot on Sat last year....you'll know its worth it.

[jkeisenh]

eh hem.  some of us like our dusty freezing cold at 3am loud campground with 2 hour lines for showers.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
  eh hem.  some of us like our dusty freezing cold at 3am loud campground with 2 hour lines for showers.

i know.  and i said, one year I'll camp.  But i think I'll save that for Glastonbury.

[Random Citizen]

Thanks for the head's up, Sonick. I have a airline credit voucher to cash in...  I did have fun at this year's festival, which was my first time there, definitely looking into returning.

[distance]

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
  Ok, so this is WAY early....well, 5 1/2 months early, but i found that the dates are announced for next years festival.
 
    April 30th and May 1st are the show dates.
 
   I thought I'd tell you so that anyone planning on going could get a jump on pre-booking rooms.
 
   Its my third year going, and not taking anyone else's advice..I found my own room....in walking distance to the show (1 mile)
 
   if you are interested.....check out the Travelodge on Hwy 111....$125 a night, kinda steep but if you tried to get out of that lot on Sat last year....you'll know its worth it.

i don't think there's any lineup that could get me back to coachella.   coachella and then ACL totally soured me on festivals (which i wasn't a huge fan of in the first place).  in both occasions the temperatures were unseasonably warm at both shows.  the crowds sucked (i would say the acl crowd was more annoying to me than coachella).  i don't think the lineup could be better in my eyes for coachella unless they start raising some people from the dead.  there were way too many overlaps of things i wanted to see and at times it was hard to get in to see what you wanted.
 
 as far as saturday's parking lot, we got out with no problem.  when we arrived, we ended up being put on the edge of one of the lots right by an exit, so it took us less than 5 minutes to get out of the lot.  it sucked walking to the show, though, from that location.

[Dandy01]

I loved it last year and missed this year's but look forward to catching up next year!  Let us know when the line-up is announced!

[vansmack]

Have they announced The Smiths reunion as the headliner yet?

[alex]

If the lineup is decent, I'll probably go back.  I had a blast last year, besides the whole getting out of the parking lot situation.  We also decided go to kinda late last year and had to get a hotel out in Hemet which was like 90 mins away.  I really didn't mind that because the drive through the desert was beautiful for Virginia kids like us, and it was easier to get back to LAX early Monday morning.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by Dandy01:
  I loved it last year and missed this year's but look forward to catching up next year!  Let us know when the line-up is announced!

definitely, its been getting more popular each year, so I woiuld imagine the lineup is going to be pretty great.  I am hoping for a U2/Chemical Brothers headlining bill.....
 
   a Smiths re-union would be nice.  The line-up usually starts trickling out Mid-January...

[K8teebug]

How do you know this is definitely the date?  Just going by what a hotel says on their website is not necessarily the dates....
 Goldenvoice has not announced anything yet.

[godsshoeshine]

i heard a rumor of a coldplay/nin coheadliner, but i forget where

[SalParadise]

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
  i heard a rumor of a coldplay/nin coheadliner, but i forget where

that's what i've heard too (with new order and outkast thrown in there somewhere too).
 
 it was a great experience last year, but i think only a smiths reunion could drag me out to that again.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by K8teebug:
  How do you know this is definitely the date?  Just going by what a hotel says on their website is not necessarily the dates....
 Goldenvoice has not announced anything yet.

its the date.  i know. and i didnt see it on the internet.
 
   besides, even if you dont trust or if my source is wrong.....booking a hotel is free and very cancellable.
 
   but its 4/30-5/1.  and I'd say they have no intention of getting Coldplay to play.
 
   but they are hush hush about the old headliners in case someone dies again like in 2003.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
   I am hoping for a U2/Chemical Brothers headlining bill.....
 

A little birdie told me that you can just about count on U2 playing the Polo Grounds.  Now, the question becomes whether they play the Coachella Festival, a revival of the US Festival (for those that are old enough) or if they combine the two.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
   I am hoping for a U2/Chemical Brothers headlining bill.....
 

A little birdie told me that you can just about count on U2 playing the Polo Grounds.  Now, the question becomes whether they play the Coachella Festival, a revival of the US Festival (for those that are old enough) or if they combine the two. [/b]

i know, i know, but shhhhhhh...dont go jinxing anything!!!