Bonnaroo Music Festival 2008 Music Videos featuring Metallica and Battles
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It's hard to believe there are only two days left in the four-day Bonnaroo Festival. So far, Bonnaroo fest goers have seen a variety of bands and musicians including Metallica, The Raconteurs, My Morning Jacket, Steve Marley, Battles, Jose Gonzales, Rilo Kiley, Willie Nelson, Tegan and Sara, MIA, The Swell Season, Les Claypool, Minus The Bear.
Here are some of the best YouTube videos from Bonnaroo from Thursday and Friday. Surprisingly, there are very few videos from Bonnaroo, unless you want to watch slices taped off a computer of the webcast.
Bonnaroo Music Festival 2008 Kicks Off Thursday with Superdrag, Vampire Weekend, Battles and MGMT
Jack Johnson performing at the second annual Bonnaroo (2003). Photo courtesy of evilvince.com
Thousands of music and arts enthusiasts are gathering in the beautiful foothills of Tennessee to enjoy four days of music, arts and plenty more. Bonnaroo is one of the largest festivals in the United States and the first major festival of the 2008 summer season.
In recent years, Bonnaroo has become as well known as other big music and arts festivals like Lollapalooza, Coachella and Austin City Limits.
But Bonnaroo does not start of with a bang. The line up for the first day of the festival pales in comparison to the artists and bands set to perform this weekend.
For the Thursday kick-off, bands like Vampire Weekend, Superdrag, Battles, and MGMT are scheduled to play - all of these in the so-called "This Tent". The other 'stages', or tents, feature lesser known artists, or bands and musicians that have a comparably small or local following, such as Lez Zeppelin, Dark Star Orchestra, Grand Ole Party and The Felice Brothers.
For music fans that have never heard The Battles, check out this driving electronic rock video titled "Atlas". It has been viewed over one million times.
It's not much of a surprise that the first day of the festival, being that it is a Thursday, is not loaded up with must-see bands. Furthermore, the music doesn't even get started until early evening.
Nevertheless, on Friday, June 13, Bonnaroo becomes the epicenter of a wide array of impressive bands and artists, including The Raconteurs, Metallica, My Morning Jacket, Drive-By Truckers, Steve Marley, Jose Gonzales, Rilo Kiley, Willie Nelson, Tegan and Sara, MIA, The Swell Season, !!!, MSTRKRFT, Tiesto, Les Claypool, Minus The Bear and almost a dozen others.
Tegan and Sara performing "Back In Your Head" (YouTube video)
The only problem, and this is the problem with most festivals that have multiple stages, is that you are almost guaranteed to miss some of your favorite artists or bands because they perform simultaneously in different locations. That's why pouring over the schedule in advance and mapping where you want to be and when is so important to maximizing your musical experience.
With that said, and to the credit of the organizers, Bonnaroo is one of the top music festivals at which who plays where and when has been scheduled in such a way that most festival goers will have the opportunity to see most of the 'big name' performers in their genre (i.e. indie rock) without too much overlap.
Another cool thing about Bonnaroo is that headliners play very long sets (Metallica is playing for 2 1/2 hours and My Morning Jacket is playing for three hours) and the music goes well into the wee hour mornings, when the summer sky is full of stars and the cooler night time air makes for a wonderful experience.
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Bonnaroo Organizers Pre-Ticket Sales Rhymes Both Annoy and Entertain
Promoters for major music festivals realize that beating the others to the punch as far as announcing lineup and ticket sale dates could mean the difference in tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Many fest heads need to plan early which festivals they want to go to, so the sooner a lineup is announced, the better the odds (if the lineup is good) are in favor of that festival - like Coachella, partly because it's so early, usually April.
Therefore, fest promoters rush to get the lineup out with the hopes that many people will plan to go to their festival rather than a competing festival. Unless you are geographically close to many festivals - say if you live in the northeast or mid-Atlantic - or happen to have a lot of time and money, many festival lovers have to pick and choose. So, getting out a killer lineup means the difference between a profitable fest and a very profitable festival.
In what was a bizarre, and quite frankly annoying effort to some (entertaining to some less) people, Bonnaroo organizers teased fans with a list of riddles and rhythms about the Bonnaroo 2008 lineup.
Clues on Radio Roo. « Thread Started on Feb 1, 2008, 2:14pm »
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I posted this on another thread but I think it deserves its own. The DJ just came on and said
Clue #1 "For all you lineup lookers....here is a clue: There is more than one Manchester."
Manchester Orchestra Man Man Oasis Verve
Clue #2 20 minutes later she said " Memphis isnt Albany" Changed to "Memphis ain't Illbany"
"There is more than one Memphis. This is not a clue just an observation."
BB King Beastie Boys
Clue #3 "Clouds taste this way"
Metallica Beastie Boys
Clue #4 "Some Herrings are red, Jimmy"
Widespread Panic Led Zep Metallica
Clue #5 "Hard Substance, Soft Substance"
Iron and Wine Mars Volta Carbon Silicon
Clue #6 "Janis Joplin's preserves will be served"
Pearl Jam
Clue #7 "Rumors are just rumors, but twist them sideways, grow your humor hair and they become a more yen reality. No, this is not about Fleetwood Mac"
Dread Zep Whigs
Clue #8 "it's not sour, what is sowed in the earth"
Plant and Krauss Sigur Ros
"Three certain birds, add one"
Counting Crows Black Crowes maybe with Page All the Crows including Old Crow Andrew Bird Ryan Adams and the Cardinals The Band plus Dylan (use to be the Hawks)
Clue #9 "look to the center of Europe to get the sound, but the band comes form all around."
Beirut Gogol Bordelo JUI Daft Punk Russian Circles
Clue 10 Here is another clue for you message board people. Open up the church and you will see the steeple. Some of your guesses have been way off but correct for the wrong clues. Now I must cough.
Ani DiFranco REM lyric from Bad Day
Clue 11 (Feb 4th Monday at 12:20) "Message board chatter? Yes it does matter. We hear your song requests. So Listen High Listen Low Don't Look Too Hard This Is New Radio Bonnaroo"
1:30 Low of the Hour Daft Punk 2:00 High Hour Ween 2:30 Drive By Truckers Nadasurf
Clue 12 Charlies imaginary band will not be playing and what he wrote on his hand the last few things he was not saying.
Oasis not Playing ? Paul McCartney
Clue 13 The Walrus ain't Paul Sean Lennon Ringo
Clue 14 alternative language clue Sufjan Stevens
Clue 15 What rhymes with orange
Nothing NADASURF
Clue 16 Arizona in Manchester
Tom Petty Cheryl Crowe Alicia Keys Counting Crows Ludacris
Clue 17
What is in the dessert isn't.
Oasis Any of the super bowl bands
Clue 18 "The Chairman of the board, after the Birthday Party"
Cake Nick Cave
« Last Edit: Feb 5, 2008, 2:00pm by zoey
The following is the first list of rhymes (without guesses) that was posted on the Bonnaroo official message boards (and started the flack):
1. "There is more than one Manchester"
2. "Memphis isn't Albany"
3. "Clouds taste this way"
4. "Some Herrings are red, Jimmy"
5. "Hard Substance, Soft Substance"
6. "Janis Joplin's reserves will be preserved"
7. "Rumors are just rumors, but twist them sideways, grow your humor hair and they become a more yen reality. No, this is not about Fleetwood Mac"
8. "It's not sour, what is sowed in the earth"
9. "Three certain birds, add one"
10. "Look to the center of Europe to get the sound, but the band comes form all around."
11. "Here is another clue for you message board people. Open up the church and you will see the steeple. Some of your guesses have been way off but correct for the wrong clues. Now I must cough."
Tip to Bonnaroo promoters: Check out some marketing 101 tips for next year and do the shrooms at the festival, not while your planning and promoting it. : p
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The Low-Down on Coachella: Tickets, Maps and Where To Sleep
When single-day tickets for Coachella 2008 went on sale two weeks ago, they were gone in a matter of hours.
But there's hope, if you're willing to throw it down.
For folks only interested in single-day tickets, competitive bidding is underway on eBay, and for sale on Craigslist. Of course you can expect people to hold out in posting for sale their tickets until closer to the festival opening day (April 24).
Even in a recession, people will decide to go at the last minute and shell out for the so-called 'once-in-a-lifetime' experience of Coachella (even though logic says it'll be around for years to come).
If you simply cannot find, or do not want to pay the inflated prices for single tickets, I strongly recommend getting a three-day pass now before they sell out. It is a pisser that the three-day passes are a ridiculous $269 each. Nevertheless, once they are gone for the official price, they will be much more valuable in the next couple of months.
Also, when you are buying the three-day pass from the official website, you have the option to add the flat fee of $55 for a three-day camp site, if they are still available. Campsites, because they are reasonably priced (but have many restrictions and security), also usually sell out quickly.
A big part for this is because the average hotel room in the area, if you can find one at this point goes for almost $300 a night right now. As the scalpers do, hotels will take advantage of 'last minuters' and block out a set of rooms so that in the days leading up to the opening of the festival they can sell them for twice as much.
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