Pitchfork Music Festival 2013

[StrangeGator]

Originally Posted by toon66

They did play in a small indoor venue.

Ouch!

[toon66]

Another new festival and this one on Lauderdale Beach.


http://www.tortugamusicfestival.com/

Odd lineup. I am a fan of Bright Light Social Hour but Kenny Chesney flat out sucks in my book.

[toon66]

Hangout Festival lineup announced.


http://hangoutmusicfest.com/lineup/

[StrangeGator]

Originally Posted by toon66

Another new festival and this one on Lauderdale Beach.


http://www.tortugamusicfestival.com/

Odd lineup. I am a fan of Bright Light Social Hour but Kenny Chesney flat out sucks in my book.

At a multi-stage festival, you could avoid Kenny Chesney. What you couldn't avoid would be Kenny Chesney fans and that's worse than having to hear Kenny Chesney.

[LeafUF]

There are so many festivals going on now I can hardly keep track. And I just saw the EDC is going to Chicago this year and they are having camping for the first time. That is a scary thought.

[StrangeGator]

Originally Posted by LeafUF

There are so many festivals going on now I can hardly keep track. And I just saw the EDC is going to Chicago this year and they are having camping for the first time. That is a scary thought.

We haven't had camping here since the Grateful Dead years. Where is EDC taking place?

[LeafUF]

Chicagoland Speedway. Be prepared for lots of this.

[toon66]

Originally Posted by LeafUF

There are so many festivals going on now I can hardly keep track. And I just saw the EDC is going to Chicago this year and they are having camping for the first time. That is a scary thought.

That will be full-on.

International Speedway Corp has been trying to land festivals at a variety of tracks they own and it makes sense. Vegas has been a success and you have wide open spaces with top notch facilities that are virtually bullet-proof. Infrastructure is already there, big time. Proximity to metropolitan areas is the biggest drawback.

[LeafUF]

You are absolutely right about proximity being a major issue. Adding camping in Chicago could really help with that. I have been to EDC Vegas the past two years and the traffic is a disaster no matter what you do. And when something goes wrong like 70 MPH winds like last year that cause them to shut down early you are stuck in the middle of nowhere with no good way back to town.

On the other hand though the space is fantastic and can handle crowds very well. I will be interested to see how they do it at Chicagoland, if its an all night thing like it is here in Vegas then Chicago could be the second largest of their festivals.

[toon66]

Speedways simply don't exist well within city limits for the obvious reasons but Chicago and Las Vegas both have top notch hotels that cater to the particular tastes of the talent performing there. A place like Daytona does not though Daytona could handle everything else with room to spare. Lack of high-end hotels prevents a facility like Daytona from hosting a similar event.

[toon66]

Another new music festival. This one come early May in Atlanta.


http://shakykneesfestival.com/

[mfpardnor2]

In my opinion the best place for a festival is The Spirit of the Suwanee Music Park just north of Live Oak
Waneeee!!

[toon66]

That is a great spot for sure.

[StrangeGator]

Originally Posted by toon66

Speedways simply don't exist well within city limits for the obvious reasons but Chicago and Las Vegas both have top notch hotels that cater to the particular tastes of the talent performing there. A place like Daytona does not though Daytona could handle everything else with room to spare. Lack of high-end hotels prevents a facility like Daytona from hosting a similar event.

Chicagoland Motor Speedway is in Joliet, which has some casinos nearby, so there should be some decent hotel accommodations in addition to what they have to handle the racing fans. In general, Joliet is not a very nice area. And it's almost an hour drive from downtown. On a regular Friday afternoon, I-55 is a parking lot from about 3:00 on. I can only imagine what it's like with a music festival going on.

Speedways are good in terms of holding a lot of people, vending, restrooms etc, but I don't like the idea of enclose areas without shade. Love festivals with shaded areas. Can't imagine camping at a speedway, unless I had an actual camping vehicle. I'm a tent/under the stars kind of camper. Camping at a speedway isn't my idea of getting back to nature. Will have to check out the lineup to see if this is my kind of thing. If the bands are good and the price is right, I'll probably be there, just not overnight.

[StrangeGator]

Originally Posted by toon66

Hangout Festival lineup announced.


http://hangoutmusicfest.com/lineup/

This is the festival I wish I hadn't missed last year. Wilco on the beach would have been incredible. Looks like a decent lineup this year.

It's not quite Florida, but it's close enough.

[StrangeGator]

Back to Pitchfork, which festivals offer the most shade? The Balance Stage at p4k is the chillest daytime stage I've ever experienced. Lolla has some nice shady areas, but far from the music. You can actually lay down in a hammock in the shade, but you can't really hear any bands while you're doing that.

I wouldn't mind getting out to some of the other festivals, but I like getting out of the sun for a while. Forget Bonnaroo. I went to school briefly near there, and I had some really bad hillbilly encounters. I don't even pull off the freeway on that stretch of I-24.

[LeafUF]

Bonnaroo just announced.

http://lineup.bonnaroo.com/

Paul McCartney, Mumford, Petty, Wilco and a ton more.

[toon66]

Tom Petty would be great so long as he overhauls the setlist. He's been playing the same stuff for over ten yrs now. Lame.


Calexico and Japandroids would be fantastic. The soul deal with Jim James and John Oates sounds very interesting and I would love to see Paul McCartney again.

[LeafUF]

I "retired" from Bonnaroo a few years back. Its still my favorite festival of all the ones I have attended but it requires a week away and the summer weather is brutal in Tennessee. This lineup might bring me back just because some of my friends are huge McCartney fans and I got shut out of tickets to Tomorrowland in Belgium.

[StrangeGator]

Originally Posted by toon66

Another new festival and this one on Lauderdale Beach.


http://www.tortugamusicfestival.com/

Odd lineup. I am a fan of Bright Light Social Hour but Kenny Chesney flat out sucks in my book.

A few bright spots, but overall, it would ruin a good afternoon at the beach.