Lollapalooza?

[ggw]

http://www.lollapalooza.com/

[distance]

are they goign to try this again?
 i was interested in last year's lineup, but they had to pull the plug.... so whatever.. i'm not getting my hopes up.

[HoyaSaxa03]

april fools?

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[jkeisenh]

I prefer the Us Festival.
 You know, the Us Festival?

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Lotsapoploozers.

[SPARX]

According to Anton,the BJM are on the bill for this years Lolla,should be interesting   :cool:

[ggw]

Lollapalooza Music Fest Is Chicago Bound
 By Chris Morris
 
 LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Lollapalooza -- a marquee touring festival of the 1990s that fell on commercial hard times last year -- is returning this year in drastically scaled-down form.
 
 Lollapalooza '05 will run July 23-24 in Chicago's Grant Park. The band lineup will not be announced until the third week in April. The festival Web site (www.lollapalooza.com) will go live Friday.
 
 Lollapalooza began life in 1991 as a major vehicle for the exposure of left-field rock talent. A highly successful summer touring proposition in the early '90s, it took a five-year hiatus from 1998-2002, as other treks like the Vans Warped Tour stepped in with similar concepts.
 
 Grosses for Lollapalooza were uneven in 2003: The tour collected $13.7 million from 25 dates, according to Billboard Boxscore, and some dates were killed.
 
 Last year, the festival's entire July-August run of two-day dates, with scheduled headliners including Morrissey, the Flaming Lips, the Pixies and Sonic Youth, was canceled because of poor ticket sales.
 
 Some of the festival's founding participants are involved in this year's Windy City event.
 
 William Morris Agency veteran Marc Geiger booked
 Lollapalooza before leaving the agency to head the ill-fated Web-based label ArtistDirect; he returned to the agency in 2003, booked the '04 festival and is working on the Chicago shows. Jane's Addiction lead vocalist Perry Farrell also is on board in a creative capacity.
 
 Capital Sports & Entertainment, the Austin firm that is partnered in the city's highly successful Austin City Limits Festival, will mount the Lollapalooza shows.
 
 WMA declined comment on the '05 festival. A spokeswoman for Capital Sports & Entertainment did not return a call seeking comment.
 
 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

[ggw]

Lollapalooza Returns!
 
 Rob Kleckner reports:
 Don't laugh: Lollapalooza is back. We all know what happened last year when nobody wanted to go to Lollapalooza-- they cancelled it. But, because the single-weekend megafests have been so successful the past few years, they're going to try and apply that tactic to Lollapalooza 2005, which will take place in Chicago's Grant Park on July 23 and 24. Considering the downtown location, it is highly unlikely that you'll be able to camp out at this festival. Billboard reports that the only confirmed acts thus far are Beck, the Killers, Kings of Leon, and Widespread Panic. This seems to take after Bonnaroo's half-jam, half-indie rock mentality.
 
 Lollapalooza's website has been updated and simply says to come back on April 1, hopefully with more info and a more complete line-up. Given Lollapalooza's snafu last year, let's just hope a visit to the website on Friday doesn't say "April Fools!"

[walkonby]

widespread panic at lol.  i am lol, all over the place.  what next, widespread opening up for interpol and the pixies?  and here we thought warren haynes was the slut of rock.

[SPARX]

Originally posted by SPARX:
  According to Anton,the BJM are on the bill for this years Lolla,should be interesting    :cool:  

As a follow up,the BJM may only be playing the show on the 23rd.

[distance]

lollapalooza.com is live now
 it's being promoted by the ACL people.
 all the same rules
 recording devices allowed.
 should be good food there too.
 seems like it'll be a relaxed atmosphere like ACL.
 
 both the sox and the cubs are in town around the festival too.
 
 first on-sale = $35 2-day passes (and with a 2day pass you can come and go as you please)
 
 i think i'm gonna gamble and go for it.  no lineup announcement yet and i'm sure it won't be before the onsale.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by SPARX:
   

Originally posted by SPARX:
  According to Anton,the BJM are on the bill for this years Lolla,should be interesting     :cool:  

As a follow up,the BJM may only be playing the show on the 23rd. [/b]

wouldnt thier be different bands on both days anyway?  they wont have  the same bands play both days will they?

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[kurosawa-b/w]

I'm seriously considering going. $35 for two days is a great deal. With a group of friends, it could be a lot of fun. Any word on when they will announce the lineup? The site says there will be "after-show events around town."