live on penn cancelled...

[thirsty moore]

Well said.  What may have been a more succesful approach is two concerts with a few good bands.  Let that snowball into a popular summertime event and then go from there.  Saturating the city with crappy music is no way to create "cultural events."
 
 Eve 6 played at my college's annual concert to appease the students.  I didn't bother attending the show.    
 
 

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
 People who graduated from college circa 1992 and were casual music fans in their early twenties.  They are now thirty-somethings and wouldn't be interested in going to a commerce-free section of the city to sit in a fenced-off area listening to bands they've already seen half-a-dozen times.
 
 Look at these "headliners"
 
 Eve 6
 Tonic
 Sister Hazel
 Cowboy Mouth
 Pat McGee

[Lamb007]

Originally posted by samsfresh5:
  Whatever happened to "DC Sessions"?  ..on H St. across from MCI Center 2 years ago (wow has it been that long?)  

It has resurfaced as "McDonald's Sessions at Merriweather."  Booking is by Mad Booking who do similar events in Atlanta and Nashville.  Line-up isn't much more exciting than Live On Penn (Live, Twista, Fuel, etc.)

[bellenseb]

I was at the Fountains of Wayne/TMBG show and it seemed pretty well-attended to me. But that might have been an anamoly.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
 
 
 Look at these "headliners"
 
 Eve 6
 Tonic
 Sister Hazel
 Cowboy Mouth
 Pat McGee

i wouldnt pay $5 for ALL 5 of those bands together.  unless there was free beer.

[samsfresh5]

Originally posted by Lamb007:
   

Originally posted by samsfresh5:
  Whatever happened to "DC Sessions"?  ..on H St. across from MCI Center 2 years ago (wow has it been that long?)  

It has resurfaced as "McDonald's Sessions at Merriweather."  Booking is by Mad Booking who do similar events in Atlanta and Nashville.  Line-up isn't much more exciting than Live On Penn (Live, Twista, Fuel, etc.) [/b]

Yeah, but you have to pay for those, and they are at a venue instead of in the middle of a DC street. (I mean, you answered my question, and I remember that Mad Booking did DC Sessions, but it's sad to think that that's what it turned into    )

[granita]

i went to one of the live on penn shows.
 it was nothing special. 3 dollars for a bottle of water. the same for a slice of cold pizza.
 it was like an older, smaller hfstival.
 i wasn't impressed at all and i don't plan on going next year (if it happens next year.)
 
 it does surprise me that it was cancelled. it's a bit silly for promoters to expect people to be buying tickets before the show, when it's much easier to do so on the day of the event.
 
 when i went to live on penn, i didn't see it as dc trying to bring in some sort of "cultural event." unless dc culture involves a whole lot of beer (two ridiculous blow up bottles of beer right next to the stage), really UGLY cars (scion. aldgasdf.), and jams from 1982 (via the radio station being played between bands.)
 
 on second thought...maybe it was a very cultured event.

[thirsty moore]

Something's gotta loosen those policy wonks up.  When you describe it this way, it makes it sound like a sad attempt at drawing a crowd to Penn Quarter.
 
 

Originally posted by granita:
 when i went to live on penn, i didn't see it as dc trying to bring in some sort of "cultural event." unless dc culture involves a whole lot of beer (two ridiculous blow up bottles of beer right next to the stage), really UGLY cars (scion. aldgasdf.), and jams from 1982 (via the radio station being played between bands.)

[eltee]

Originally posted by redsock:
   

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  The Live on Penn site has stopped working.

Still works for me. [/b]

Works for me but the ticket buy doesn't work (just testing...)

[ggw]

It worked for me earlier this morning, but since 10:30 or so it has just been showing the homepage icon, and no entry to the site.
 
 

Originally posted by Sugartastic Tee Silk:
   

Originally posted by redsock:
   

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  The Live on Penn site has stopped working.

Still works for me. [/b]

Works for me but the ticket buy doesn't work (just testing...) [/b]

[TheNomad]

Problem with Live on Penn was that at the end of the day you were on a street.  Having the Capitol as a backdrop was obviously their goal but why not do it on the mall.  People like setting up blankets and chillin on grass fields.  I think more people would've come if it was a nicer place to hang around at.

[thirsty moore]

Yeh, and playing Frisbee to Eve 6.
 
 

Originally posted by Stuart Ransom Miller:
 People like setting up blankets and chillin on grass fields.

[Bags]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
 Paying money to stand in a penned-off area listening to second rate bands does not appeal to me in the least.
 

$5?  That's half a movie....I don't get cost as a factor at all.  Not that I'd go if I don't like the bands, so I was at Fountains of Wayne/They Might Be Giants last weekend, and would have been at Old 97s if I'd been in town.
 
 That's one issue -- summer in DC is lots of weekends away.  And as someone mentioned, the same bands seem to come back each year.
 
 But, flip side, I have a really awesome time every time I've been.  And the crowd last week seemed good -- we were packed in pretty tightly all the way back to just in front of the soundboard tent.  Oop, one thing -- there was *never* a line for beer (though there was for Papa John's pizza) -- I wonder if they just weren't selling enough shit?  Miller was a sponsor, after all...
 
 It's a major, major bummer.

[Bags]

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
 
 other venues are outdoors, but free.
 

For national acts?  Where/when?

[kosmo vinyl]

i had no idea this band was popular
 
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[Guiny]

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
  it's a shame, but with such a crappy lineup, they had it coming.

I guess fans of Penn. Ave. concerts could use this quote for why Lollapolloza was cancelled.