Music Festivals

[troutman]

[East Coast Flame]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

Pemberton is slightly underwhelming:

PEARL JAM

J. COLE • KASKADE • SNOOP DOGG • BASSNECTAR • WIZ KHALIFA • ICE CUBE • HALSEY • FKA TWIGS

NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS • DJ SNAKE • THE CHAINSMOKERS • BILLY IDOL • STEVE ANGELLO

FLOSSTRADAMUS • MIGUEL • PURITY RING • DIE ANTWOORD • TYLER, THE CREATOR • MAC MILLER

CYPRESS HILL • MASTODON • ARKELLS • WOLF PARADE • COLD WAR KIDS • THIEVERY CORPORATION

GIRL TALK • YG • BAAUER • TORY LANEZ • BIG GIGANTIC • GRACE POTTER • BØRNS • METHOD MAN & REDMAN

RAE SREMMURD • DATSIK • COLEMAN HELL • KEHLANI • RA RA RIOT • WINTERSLEEP • SAVAGES • JOEY BADA$$

KEYS N KRATES • ROBERT DELONG • SZA • JON BELLION • PROTOJE • ANDERSON .PAAK & THE FREE NATIONALS • LIDO

HUDSON MOHAWKE • GIVERS • KALEO • DIIV • WHITE DENIM • ALLEN STONE • BULLY • HUCCI

MARK FARINA • LUNICE • BAS • BRAIDS • THE GLORIOUS SONS • SHAWN HOOK • MIAMI HORROR

STICK FIGURE • THE FUNK HUNTERS • THE ZOLAS • THE ELWINS • THE LONDON SOULS • HIPPIE SABOTAGE • ESTA

CHROME SPARKS • DIZZY WRIGHT • JAHKOY • PELL • JESSE ROPER • MICKEY BLUE • QUAKER CITY NIGHT HAWKS

PEMBY COMEDY

CHEECH AND CHONG • CRAIG ROBINSON & THE NASTY DELICIOUS

MARIA BAMFORD • NICK SWARDSON • PETE DAVIDSON

DOUG BENSON (STAND-UP + DOUG LOVES MOVIES + GETTING DOUG WITH HIGH)

EUGENE MIRMAN • KYLE KINANE • JERMAINE FOWLER • THE LUCAS BROTHERS • MORGAN MURPHY

BETH STELLING • DJ DOUGGPOUND • JACKIE KASHIAN • JOHN EARLY + KATE BERLANT

AIR SEX • CHRIS TREW • IAN ABRAMSON

Man, looks like they got hit hard by the Canadian dollar. That's pretty rough compared with previous years.

[troutman]

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by troutman

I never thought Ween would get back together after the way it ended. I must go to there.

[iLoveLamp]

Man the hip-hop at Pemberton is pretty good

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by iLoveLamp

Man the hip-hop at Pemberton is pretty good

Was going to say the same thing. If you're a hip-hop fan then you're going to be in heaven at Pemberton, but the rest of the lineup leaves a lot to be desired. The Killers were just added today. Too bad because I was really considering going, but there just aren't a lot of acts that I need to see who won't probably be at Rifflandia in September.

[troutman]

Belly, Death From Above 1979, Bahari, Lera Lynn, JD McPherson, Jeff Lang, Tor Miller, Steve Hill, Kirby Sewell Band, Colin Linden, Jordan McIntosh, Garrett Klahn, and Jack Broadbent have all been added to Bluesfest's 2016 edition.

An additional round of local talent has also been added to the bill, featuring Steve Adamyk Band, Bonnie Doon, Wotts, Merganzer, Scary Bear Soundtrack, Her Harbour, Danielle Allard, Noushka, The Powergoats, Chris Page, Yusso, Silver Creek, Thrust, and leMeow.

[troutman]

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by troutman

This festival looks like it was programmed in 2003.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

This festival looks like it was programmed in 2003.

I was going to ask if they called it "Amnesia" because everyone forgot what year it was.

[jayswin]

Everyone's favorite festival joke aside, that looks like it would be an absolute blast. It was started by a 17 year old kid ten years ago, and grew into a ****show, fun festival beside the lake.

For what it is, that's a lot of bands for people in their mid twenties to mid thirties to get drunk and rock out to for a weekend. Not every festival can be Glastonbury and Canadian festivals in this economy are lucky if they're even a go.

[polak]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

This festival looks like it was programmed in 2003.

Everything I hated about music as a kid all summed up in one picture

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by iLoveLamp

Man the hip-hop at Pemberton is pretty good

Hip hop is cheaper to tour, this is the new millennium equivalent of be bop taking over from swing jazz!!

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Everyone's favorite festival joke aside, that looks like it would be an absolute blast. It was started by a 17 year old kid ten years ago, and grew into a ****show, fun festival beside the lake.

For what it is, that's a lot of bands for people in their mid twenties to mid thirties to get drunk and rock out to for a weekend. Not every festival can be Glastonbury and Canadian festivals in this economy are lucky if they're even a go.

I didn't say it would be bad, but basically they went to Billboard top 100 from 2003 and pulled every piece of pop punk, rap-core and then made a festival. If it was closer, I'd consider going depending on price.

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

Hip hop is cheaper to tour, this is the new millennium equivalent of be bop taking over from swing jazz!!

A lot of new hip hop is great for festivals. No elaborate set designs. 45 minute sets and aside from headliners (Kendrick, JayZ, Eminem, people of this caliber) most rappers just use a DJ so like you said, cheaper to tour.

I went to Pemberton the first year of the reboot because of the hip hop since we don't get a lot of great acts here in Calgary and when we do it's at some bar on a wednesday and they don't go on stage until midnight.

I've seen most of those artists already so I'll probably pass this year but if it interests you, it's a great festival.

Finally, GIRL TALK, was probably the most fun I've had in my entire life, do yourself a favour and go see him.

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

A lot of new hip hop is great for festivals. No elaborate set designs. 45 minute sets and aside from headliners (Kendrick, JayZ, Eminem, people of this caliber) most rappers just use a DJ so like you said, cheaper to tour.

I went to Pemberton the first year of the reboot because of the hip hop since we don't get a lot of great acts here in Calgary and when we do it's at some bar on a wednesday and they don't go on stage until midnight.

I've seen most of those artists already so I'll probably pass this year but if it interests you, it's a great festival.

Finally, GIRL TALK, was probably the most fun I've had in my entire life, do yourself a favour and go see him.

I like my music in small smokey dives, not that anyone's allowed to smoke anymore. The Wild Buffalo in Bellingham is my favourite these days. The Biltmore or the Rickshaw in Vancouver.
Never been a festival guy, which sucks as this looks like it will be the last home of live music.

Although saying that I always enjoy bumbershoot but that's in the middle of Seattle, not exactly the great outdoors.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

I like my music in small smokey dives, not that anyone's allowed to smoke anymore. The Wild Buffalo in Bellingham is my favourite these days. The Biltmore or the Rickshaw in Vancouver.
Never been a festival guy, which sucks as this looks like it will be the last home of live music.

Although saying that I always enjoy bumbershoot but that's in the middle of Seattle, not exactly the great outdoors.

http://www.under-main.com/big-ears-b...usic-festival/
It was around hour seven of waiting to see Radiohead at Bonnaroo 2006 when I almost lost it. Seven hours of standing in the same ever-shrinking patch of shadeless grass, a constantly growing mass of humanity closing in, closer and closer, until there wasn’t even enough room to sit on the ground.

Simultaneously growing more claustrophobic and bored, I stood there longer and longer – eight hours, nine hours, ten hours – no beer runs, no bathroom breaks, no way to exit the crowd, even if I needed to. All this to see Radiohead… and I was still 150 yards away.

Such was the tale the whole weekend. I got to see some great bands under terrible conditions, from far away, while hungry, thirsty, and sunburned. It was an endurance event, and I endured – but wasn’t it supposed to be about fun, not just surviving the experience?

Well, if you’re not prepared (or just unwilling) to battle the crowds of thousands for a distant glimpse of your favorite acts, there is a festival alternative: the multi-venue music festival.

Showcase multiple locations in a city’s downtown and provide people with high quality, small scale, intimate shows.

I much prefer the multi-venue festival. Sled Island is great - would love to see Treefort and SXSW. I don't enjoy being in a parking lot or farmer's field with 50,000 bros and girls screaming "wooooo".

[rubecube]

Nice little lineup for Tall Tree in Port Renfrew.

MOTHER MOTHER

CURRENT SWELL

NAHKO & MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE

SHAD • HOLLERADO • DJ DAN • jackLNDN

THE DUDES • BEAR MOUNTAIN • SMALLTOWN DJs

MAT THE ALIEN • FINE TIMES • ADAM MARSHALL

DIRTY RADIO • MOONTRICKS • RENNIE FOSTER

NEIGHBOUR • MURGE • ANDREW ALLSGOOD • KYTAMI

NATHAN JONSON • BOCCE AVOCADO • QUOIA • MINDIL BEACH

BAND OF RASCALS • BOUSADA • ZOUBI AND THE SEA • LABS

ODELL FOX • DJ NIGEL • GARDEN CITY SOUL CLUB • LITTLE JUNIOR

WEIRD PARTY • DJ SHMEEJAY • PRIMITIVE • FLEETWOOD SMACK

GHOSTY • AUDIOWRX • MOSES • J FEUD • SPIRAL ARCHITECTS

DJ ANGER • JEREMY BAKER • MATT ROSE • MONKEY BUSINESS

GI BLUNT • STEVE HUSH • SMASHA • SCOTTY STYLUS • DJ ALL GOOD

SOLOMON POTASHNICK • OJ • DJ PRAIZ • DJ DUNDIDIT • EMOTIONZ

KITKAT • MT. DOYLE • RHYTHMICON • DJ JETTS • TECSTYLEZ • XAVIER

DAN SNAKEHEAD • SINSESTHETIX • PHROH • BIG E • CONER

THE BURLY BEAT FARMER • SURGERY • THE FUNKEE WADD

MT ELIAH • JUSTIN BRAVE • ISHKAN • ASHLEIGH EYMANN

WOODHEAD • OUTSIDER • BATTERY POACHER

VORTOOZO • ESMI-VILLA • DJ MORGWAN

TALL TREE COMEDY CIRCUS PRODUCED BY: PAUL & SHIRAZ

[afc wimbledon]

Fleetwood Smack, the name is worth the price of admission alone

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

I like my music in small smokey dives, not that anyone's allowed to smoke anymore. The Wild Buffalo in Bellingham is my favourite these days. The Biltmore or the Rickshaw in Vancouver.
Never been a festival guy, which sucks as this looks like it will be the last home of live music.

Although saying that I always enjoy bumbershoot but that's in the middle of Seattle, not exactly the great outdoors.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind going to bars for shows, but I'm not going to go see Run the Jewels on a tuesday at commonwealth. They probably won't be done until after midnight and I have two kids and a job, it's just too difficult.