The 2006 Festival Thread

[Senor_Whippy]

I made a thread like this last year and it was a pretty big hit so I've gone and done it again. Basically, you can discuss anything about this year's Festivals, in the UK, in the states, anyway around the world is allowed. What bands are playing where, what festivals you've got tickets for, previous festival experiences etc etc. It's all allowed, so let's get started.

[Jacaranda]

Perfect timing. I'm leaving for Sasquatch in about an hour or two. I'm very excited seeing as this is my first big concert and obviously first festival. Dunno what to expect hopefully I'll have a good experiance.

http://www.hob.com/tickets/festivals/sasquatch/2006/artists/
I'm going mostly for QOTSA.

[Sepstrup]

I'm going to Roskilde Festival in Denmark. The band list is here: http://www.roskilde-festival.dk/object.php?obj=538000c&code=45

Does anything come recommended? It's a pretty good list in my opinion.

[Dave de Sylvia]

I'm going to Roskilde Festival in Denmark. The band list is here: http://www.roskilde-festival.dk/object.php?obj=538000c&code=45

Does anything come recommended? It's a pretty good list in my opinion.
Damn. Guns N' Roses and the Wainwrights are essential.

The only festival I'm going to is one of the mini-Download dates in Dublin: GNR, Bullet For My Valentine, Funeral For a Friend and To My Surprise.

[Sepstrup]

Did you upload Want Two on the mailing list? If so I missed it. I have his self-titled though, but it's just ok, in my opinion. Have Want One as well but haven't listened to it yet.

I borrowed Martha Wainwright at a library and listened to it once. Seems like good stuff...

Is the newest GnR any good? If so could you upload that? (If you have it)

I'm gonna spend next month preparing and getting to know as much of the music as I can.

[Dave de Sylvia]

Oh, right, I never did upload that. I'll do them now, and I'll put together some new GNR too.

[Sepstrup]

Cool, thanks a lot. Which is better? Want one or two?

[xon]

Today my rock am ring tickets arrived.
http://www.rock-am-ring.com/schedule.html
its the best festival around here this year.

[Dave de Sylvia]

Cool, thanks a lot. Which is better? Want one or two?
Most people seem to think Want One, but Want Two is my favourite of all his releases.

[PinkFreud]

I'm going to Roskilde Festival in Denmark. The band list is here: http://www.roskilde-festival.dk/object.php?obj=538000c&code=45

Does anything come recommended? It's a pretty good list in my opinion.
Daaaaamn. Sigur Ros, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Dylan (just to say you did), P-Funk, Matisyahu, Anoushka Shankar, the Wainwrights, and Tool would be my must sees. Great line up.

Jac, have fun at Sasquatch.

Edit: I like Poses best.

[Sepstrup]

Tool haven't grabbed my yet, ditto for Sigur Ros... I'll give them an extra chance, though. I've already seen Dylan last year, and he is pretty worthless live these days, but I'll probably see him again because I love his music :).

Could you upload some Anoushka Shankar and Jenny Lewis for the mailing list maybe? Haven't heard anything from either

I won't have time to get drunk :/

[PinkFreud]

Unfortunately they were on my now deceased and unrecoverable portable hard drive. Bleh.

Anoushka Shankar, as you can probably read at the site, is the daughter of Ravi Shankar and is a Sitar virtuoso. Beautiful stuff if you're into it.

Jenny Lewis is the lead singer for Rilo Kiley. Her solo stuff with the Watson Twins is more country and roots inflected. Pretty cool.

I don't blame you for not liking Tool. Haha. They're not the most popular in Alt/Indie. Sigur Ros you should definitely see though. I've heard they're greaty live, though I don't know how they'd be in a festival setting.

Anyway, I might be going to Lollapalooza, I guess. Definitely will if Rilo Kiley plays there as rumored that they might.

[Sepstrup]

I'll see Sigur Ros if they don't collide with anything I have to see. It's not that I don't like their music, I just think it's more mood/background music. Might be cool to see live, though.

[Kyle]

Reading Festival, not that great this year, but it's my duty to go.

[Duman]

I'll see Sigur Ros if they don't collide with anything I have to see. It's not that I don't like their music, I just think it's more mood/background music. Might be cool to see live, though.

It is!

[musicisgood]

I'll see Sigur Ros if they don't collide with anything I have to see. It's not that I don't like their music, I just think it's more mood/background music. Might be cool to see live, though.


They're really good live... but I can't see it being that good in a festival setting. They're great with theatre shows where they have full lighting and video screens, plus it's just more intimate. I wouldn't really be all that excited about them at a festival...

[pikester]

I wanted to go to Sasquatch this year but.... no.

[Dragon_Prince]

I would liek to go to Rockwerchter in Belgium but I couldn't

that line up is the best I've seen yet: RHCP, The Who, Sigur Ros, Tool, Muse, Rovert Plant, etc etc

[Sepstrup]

They're really good live... but I can't see it being that good in a festival setting. They're great with theatre shows where they have full lighting and video screens, plus it's just more intimate. I wouldn't really be all that excited about them at a festival...

Some of the scenes are actually quite intimate. I don't think (or hope) they will be playing at the orange stage, the largest one and I think the only one, which is out in the open.

[Holyed]

I'm going to three festivals; Wireless for a day (Dj Shadow day,) V Festival for Radiohead day and going to Reading festival again, it were amazing last year. The lineup is slowly getting better too.

[Kaden]

I'm going to Lollapalooza, it will be sublime. And it's ridiculously convenient how close it is to where I live.

[211dave112]

i'm off to reading this year, got early entry tickets so it's wednesday-sunday camping in a field with pretty much no washing, cant ****ing wait. great line-up this year.

[DrunksWithGuns]

Check out www.austincitylimits.com for the line up.

It's going to be great year in my opinion.

[Kaden]

Check out www.austincitylimits.com for the line up.

It's going to be great year in my opinion.
That festival looks awesome. I'd still prefer Lollapalooza, and they have many artists in common. But Austin City has Explosions in the Sky, and Damien Rice, which is awesome.

[Kyle]

i'm off to reading this year, got early entry tickets so it's wednesday-sunday camping in a field with pretty much no washing, cant ****ing wait. great line-up this year.I need to find a Wednesday pass so badly :(

[Holyed]

I need to find a Wednesday pass so badly :(

I would like to do it, but last year we just went early on Thursday and it was enough, as you are actually staying till monday, not sunday as that guy said. Thursday-Monday is long enough without a proper wash or anything, i assure you.

[Untitled]

MUSE AT LEEDS :D :D :D

im a bit excited for that.

[Kickflip_Burrito]

i'm off to reading this year, got early entry tickets so it's wednesday-sunday camping in a field with pretty much no washing, cant ****ing wait. great line-up this year.
Actually, this year is one of the weakest line-ups in the past few years. I'm sure people will think its great but compare it to the line-ups of '03, '04 and '05, this year looks as though its been desperate.

The fact that Audioslave pulled out and were not replaced by another big-name band was extremely disappointing. There are some bands on main stage that really shouldn't be on there, like Cribs, Towers of London (although they are cool, they are no way main stage material) and Fightstar. I'd say half of the bands on main stage this year, would've been on Radio 1 stage if we were in 2003 or so when the standard for Radio 1 was set higher and more vast.

I'm sure there some Cribs, ToL and Fightstar fans thinking 'hey what the hell?' but I just don't think they are main stage material given the standard of the past few reading festivals. Having said all this, Pearl Jam are gonna be incredible.

[Jacaranda]

Just got back from Sasquatch frickin' mazin'.

My favorites were:
1. Trail of Dead/Queens of the Stone Age
2. Flaming Lips/Nine Inch Nails
3. Bauhaus/Arctic Monkeys
I really had to do that. But almost everyone was amazing. I might write a short little blurp about it later. After I get back some sleep seeing as over 3 nights I've had a little over 10 hours of sleep.

[eburton04]

BONNAROO! (http://www.bonnaroo.com)


ben folds
bright eyes
death cab
g love
tom petty
lyrics born
common
blackalicious
my morning jacket
the disco biscuits
neville brothers
buddy guy
clap your hands say yeah
elvis costello
damian marley
rusted root
cypress hill
beck
les claypool
RADIOHEAD
dr john (the night tripper)
soulive
bela fleck and the flecktones
matisyahu
phil lesh
sonic youth
moe


just to name a few...

[bumblebeebass]

well my year has been pretty dang good i got a new bass it's a ricenbaker ohhh ahh and i get to go to a nine inch nails concert on saturday yay (insert leap of happiness) oh well i hope yours is going as well
lym,
~Bunble Bee Bass
p.s.
(ok this is totally random but i love your user name because that's how i answer my phone literally i answer my phone " you have reached senior whipp's house of whips can i take your whippy order" second is that the cover of one of the streets albums? it looks really formiliar)

[Baudelaire]

Its the Arctic Monkeys album cover.

[nag*with*a*gun]

WARPED TOUR

w/ NOFX

and edgefest

the early november, hawthorne heights, matchbook romance


I'll put more bands in here later, These are just the ones i remember.

[I Was A Kaleidoscope]

Gah.
Have you seriously seen how terrible Hawthorne Heights are live? I saw this video on someones myspace...and it was just..ugh.

I'd definitely go to the Pitchfork one if I wasn't in Australia. :p
It's so damn cheap for so many bands.

[incubotic]

Reading is a bad lineup imo this year, I cant really go anyway so I guess Im glad Im not missing out on much.

[nag*with*a*gun]

WARPED TOUR 2006 (straight off the website)

Vans Warped Tour August 1
Featuring:
Adair, Against Me, AIDEN,Anti-Flag, Armor For Sleep, Britt Black & The Vincent Black Shadow, Cartel, Comeback Kid, Down To Earth Approach, Emanuel, Escape The Fate, Every Time I Die, From First To Last, Gatsby's American Dream, Greeley Estates, Halifax, He Is Legend, Hellogoodbye, Helmet, I Am Ghost, I Am The Avalanche, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Less Than Jake, Motion City Soundtrack, Mute Math, NOFX , Protest The Hero, Reggie & The Full Effect, Rise Against, Saves The Day, Senses Fail, Silverstein, Spitalfield, Stretch Arm, Strong, The Academy Is..., The Bled, The Bouncing Souls, The Classic Crime, The Fully Down, Underoath and many more!

[Wlokos]

You have no idea how badly I want to go to Bonnaroo, but it's just too much of a commute for me to go this year. ;_;

Maybe next year..

[FungusAmngus870]

Kuyahoga

It is pretty small
- The Flaming Lips, Deathcab, Secret Machines, Sonic Youth etc, heres the link with the rest of the bands:http://hob.com/tickets/eventdetail.asp?eventid=38434

[tearyan]

I'm going to the Pitchfork Music Festival.

Silver Jews
The Futureheads
Ted Leo / Pharmacists
Art Brut
Destroyer
Mountain Goats
Band of Horses
Man Man
Chin Up Chin Up
Hot Machines.
Os Mutantes
Spoon
Yo La Tengo
Devendra Banhart
Mission of Burma
Aesop Rock
The National
Jens Lekman
Tapes 'n Tapes

nothing could be better


Same here