Does anyone in this bitch like rock festivals?

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Fuckin shit, I don't. Not that I ever went to none except once. I was just thinking about it 'cause my friend Cameron is in the UK & he just writ to me about going to some festival & it sounded like it was v. stinkful. Only time I tried to go to one I just went because the thing was falling apart due to major economic snafu - Neon Picnic, 1988[?], a lot of international "stars" (Roy Orbison! he was still alive then so what year does that make it?) had already flown into the country but they weren't going to get paid 'cause nobody had bought tickets or something...we went out to the site anyway & had a good time getting fucked up ... me & Marc Walsh & the Axemen & Surgical Brain Implant ...Axemen & SBI played & so did this hippy house trucker band 'cause the hippy house truck crew were the only other people that had made it out there & they were like, Let's have our own little festival anyway! Yeah!...there was a fight. a running battle betw. the hippies & our crew, started by Dragan Stojanovic...the coolest thing was when the Axemen played Stojanovic had a radio pickup on his gtr & he ran out in the "crowd" (10 people maybe) playing a solo & 1 of the hippies was chasing him for some reason...not just kidding round, real angry. I can't remember why.

― duane zarakov, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

All depends on how it's done. The two Terrastocks I've been to were the right balance, I think -- plenty of great people all in one place, enough bands that you didn't have to worry about too much if you missed them to offset the must-see performances. On a touring level, I went to the first four Lollapaloozas -- and it was a big rock show with more people on stage. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it did eventually mean the rise of HORDE and the Warped Tour. ARGH.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

used to love them - passed out at Livid two years running, first time at beastie boys, 2nd at rollins; you make the bizarrist chocies about acts, and then last year went and discovered my body achiing aafter 3 hours and just wishing lou reed would come on before 10pm

― Geoff, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

It's not a festival unless you are in a FIELD and you are OUTSIDE. Hence Terrastock and ATP are disqualified for being far too comfortable.

I hate festivals. I decided that at South Park the weekend before last. There really is just no way to enjoy the music when there are that many people.

― masonic boom, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

kate is right, festivals have to be outside yo. have been to some good ones in the past, esp when 15-18. went to quite a few, never been to one that had ANY rain whatsoever. lucky. however, festivals are getting ever more corporate and bland, and i wouldn't even consider going to one now. which is a shame

― gareth, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Being such a recluse and not one for being trampled in the mud or mosh pit, I've never been to one in my long life--but I would be interested in the Openly Queer Festival supposed to take place in the US this summer, featuring Magnetic Fields, Pet Shop Boys, Loudon Wainwright the Youngest, etc.--at last, one at which I wouldn't feel out of place with a green carnation in my buttonhole! It has some clever polysyllabic name, but I've forgotten what.

― X. Y. Zedd, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Wotapalava -- but you're not going to see it, it got postponed to next year (and you can thank Sinead for that).

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Wotayaplaying is a better name for it. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that finally we queers get a big inclusive festival except for two points: 1) the gesture is way dated by a decade; politics and outdoor festivals have since become estranged bedfellows, the main emphasis now is on consumerism. 2) Lesbians have had everyone beat by at least 30 years on this front. Check MI Women's music festival started back in the 70's. And, if i can be even more contrary - the larger problem with most outdoor music fests is that they are whoring the acts that the labels have on indentured slavery. Unless your actually commanding stadium sized venues, you won't be seeing any of them fan dollars... Odds to one that Wotapalava will be sponsored by 'Bud Light'...

― Jason, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I saw the area: one gig last night. Sadly, I got lost on Long Island and only caught Outkast and Moby (I wanted to see the Roots). Outkast was great. Moby was pretty lively and charming, although his last "song" in which he stands on top of his keyboard looking very Christ-like was pretty silly. I heard Paul Oakenfold was immensely boring, but Carl Cox rocked da house. Also, the lack of liqour was a big minus.

― bnw, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

the revived sweetwaters a coupla years ago was pretty great with all that financial ruin scandal.the promoter took off without paying the acts, apparently elvis costello was very annoyed but i think the promoter was more worried about the head hunters (very proffessional very nasty NZ gang) who he owed for 'services rendered. anyways the highlight was Pere Ubu, a band that had a great deal of influence on underground nz music, playing in this practically empty field (the crowd made up mostly of NZ underground music personalities still above ground) while the stage was being dismantled around them, david thomas looked like a billowing circus tent and was torturing the amps with weird magnet packs built into his suit.listening to 'final solution' i wondered whether the song had something to do with LSD.

― sean o'reilly, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

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