Comments on: Festival Off!

By: charlie's

charlie's — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:01:08 +0000

come to belgium !

best festival in the world : rock werchter (voted 3 times in a row, 4 times in 5 years)
but you have also : pukkelpop, dour, les ardentes, gentse feesten, cactus festival, …

cheaper, and better !

By: Brennan

Brennan — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:25:35 +0000

I agree with Edd. But I do think that the bigger festivals are pushing away true music geeks by increasing the capacity to ridiculous amounts (as anyone who went to Reading last year will testify; I mean, 150,000 people?!) and by charging extortionate amounts. The original target audience for these things also happens to be the poorest… It’s no wonder the fans are leaving.

By: Edd

Edd — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:45:34 +0000

I couldn’t agree less I’m afraid… the new bands are there at the festivals the whole point of festivals is to discover the new talent for yourself whilst also watching well established quality bands! I mean come on RATM?? that is once in a lifetime opportunity there… if you were properly into music you would hear of these “new hyped bands” before the media grabs hold of them for example I saw the Arctic Monkeys at leeds and then 2 years later they are on the main stage right before the headliner??.. another example of that is We Are Scientists!
Also if you look vampire weekend are playing reading and leeds along with MGMT, FOALS
and HotChip arent exaclty new having just released there third studio album and having been going since 2001… also they played a few years back headlined the carling stage which i was lucky enough to be at the front of!!

So your points although valid about acts coming back and repeating sets. i.e. Bloc Party (who i dont care if they repeat there set list they are one of the best live bands around at the moment and i have seen them 6 times already haha) are ruined by no real research.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:15:44 +0000

The Lolla lineup released today definitely did not disappoint – MGMT, woohoo!

By: marey

marey — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:35:11 +0000

hey, Im totally with you on this one. your absolutely right about the point of festivals. luckily, the roskilde festival in denmark (im swedish) has booked MGMT, Hot Chip AND Digitalism, to name a few. will be awesome.

By: Luis [EDITOR]

Luis [EDITOR] — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:06:32 +0000

Great job dude

By: jamietod119

jamietod119 — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:54:14 +0000

Thanks for the impeccable music taste comment. Glad no hideously embarrassing tracks popped up on that Shuffle.. Wouldn’t have been a great introduction!

Hi, I’m Jamie. And I’m a music-aholic.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:48:17 +0000

Hell, I’m still going this year

By: Smith

Smith — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:08:44 +0000

Festivals are still fun, Ii don’t mind the media.

Hell, sometimes they give free stuff out. Everyone loves free stuff

By: Reena

Reena — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:03:27 +0000

Awesome, another new writer, and from the UK to boot!

Whats your name? I’m going on is your impeccable music taste.