Washington Post Disparages Virgin Fest Bookers

[kosmo vinyl]

maybe since there so many of them they'll come by greyhound, that way the driver can be instructed to ditch them somewhere in kansas...

[walkonby]

"with the way fashion (as in clothes/lifestyles) change, and how people alter their attitudes throughout their lives, why do people have tattoos?"

[kosmo vinyl]

here's hoping they'll do something to piss kanye off  

[Relaxer]

Originally posted by walkonby:
  "with the way fashion (as in clothes/lifestyles) change, and how people alter their attitudes throughout their lives, why do people have tattoos?"

Because they like them, Richard Cohen.

[walkonby]

Originally posted by Relaxer:
   

Originally posted by walkonby:
  "with the way fashion (as in clothes/lifestyles) change, and how people alter their attitudes throughout their lives, why do people have tattoos?"

Because they like them, Richard Cohen. [/b]

actually, a lot of people think like him.  even the bible says that tattoos are marks of the devil.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by kosmo:
  here's hoping they'll do something to piss kanye off    

thats awesome.  
 
   maybe we should have maskapalooza and have slipknot and insane clown posse play.
 
   bands with masks suck almost as much as bands with saxaphones.

[sweetcell]

but not as much as bands with accordions.

[_adam]

i for one think this is going to be hilarious
 
 they're astonishingly bad, no doubt, but who doesn't love watching a good ol' fashioned musical trainwreck?

[Driveway]

I saw F-them.  I'd rather see Jimmie's Chicken Shack.

[killsaly]

Originally posted by DeathFromAbove1979:
 
 Ugh, that's horrific. And what's wrong with We Are Scientists!?

you would think they would have been a shoe in.  I still think the masses picked the wrong band last year, by not voting for Cold War Kids.

[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by sweetcell:
  but not as much as bands with accordions.

watch what you say about accordions... i remember when a record store in detroit ran an ad making  a disparaging remark about accordion music and it caused quite an uproar

[serpent boy]

I think the promoters really just want to mock anyone who bought a ticket. Now you get to see these talentless shitheads along with Paramore and Taking Back Sunday! It's like a sub-par Warped Tour for half the day.
 
 The Washington Post has it right (except We Are Scientists aren't half bad). The V-Fest made a really dumb mistake.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Is it fair to say the V-Fest has one of the highest single day price tags of any American festival, for the least amount of bands and stages?

[sweetcell]

i'm pretty sure it's the most expensive, i can't think of any other major festival that charges as much.  
 
 the worse value proposition (# bands/stages vs. price) is questionable.  don't forget the dance tent, i'd consider that a third stage.  VFest has a really solid line-up for folks into EDM.  
 
 friday @ outsidelands has VFest beat in terms of a worse value, on a one-day basis.
 
   

Originally posted by Relaxer:
  Who actually gets to festivals early enough to see the first band on the bill?

if it's not oppressively hot on day 1 of lolla, i plan to catch fuck buttons @ 12:15 - first act of the day on the at&t stage.  on saturday i might catch the ting tings, also first band of the day on that stage.

[ggw]

I'm disappointed that nobody has tipped off the band so that they can unleash the fury of the "Undead Army" on the Post's blog.