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For Those Going To Coachella

LiftedLifted Posts: 1,836
edited April 2011 in Other Music
i'm getting pretty excited for coachella next week, for the rest of you who are lucky enough to attend, check this article out...can't wait!...http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-ca-coachella-stage-20110410,0,5395883.story
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  • chimpatchimpat Posts: 590
    Very cool, can't wait to get out there!
    "This is about as perfect a crowd as you can get. I hate to placate, I ain't placating...." - EV, 9/29/96


  • kasedougkasedoug The Golden State Posts: 2,972
    I'm pumped. Can't wait.
  • HeisenbergHeisenberg Los Pollos Hermanos Posts: 4,957
    More on the stage...

    http://www.pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2011/04/14/763627.aspx?source=email


    This actually sounds pretty cool and I'm jealous I don't live on the West Coast anymore and can't go/
  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,671
    This is the first time I am missing it since 2001!

    The festival was moved up a week because of Easter, and the tax deadline was moved to 4/18/11, so this year is a no go!

    They really clamped-down this year on artist/backstage wristbands....most people who got hooked up in the past actually had to PAY to get in this year! In music industry circles, it is a sin for people to actually pay to get into shows!

    Luckily, Big Audio Dynamite is doing an L.A. show tonight, so it hurts less to miss the festival this year.

    Have fun, everyone!
  • HeisenbergHeisenberg Los Pollos Hermanos Posts: 4,957
    For those not going...

    http://www.youtube.com/coachella
  • killmoretroutkillmoretrout Burque, NM Posts: 162
    The suped up main stage was fantastic, btw. Not every really took advantage, though. The best, IMO, was Arcade Fire, who did an entire movie theme, complete with giant marquee that read 'COMING SOON ARCADE FIRE' just prior to the show and 'ENCORE PRESENTATION' or something like that, during the encore. The video screens displayed images of idealistic 1950's American suburbia while they tore through their catalog, the stuff of 'the Suburbs' hitting home the hardest. It was an epic concert on Arcade Fire's part, but Coachella made it something you absolutely won't see on any other headlining AF set. And of course, the balloon drop.

    Other stand-outs were Interpol and Animal Collective, who had incredibly intense light and graphics shows which featured components of the stage that moved. Pretty goddamn trippy if you were, um, tripping. Not that I, or anyone else there was tripping, though. Definitely not. Chemical Brothers had an intense, trippy stage show, too.

    Others like the Strokes (did an 80's video game theme) and Kanye (entered on a giant moving platform to make it look like he was flying in) did some stuff, but didn't really use the 'whole budget', so to speak. Other main stage acts just showed video of the bands (KOL and Mumfy & Sons, to name a couple). C'mon, bros. Go all out.

    Hats of to Coachella, though, for really setting their stage show apart from any other venue or festival.
  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,671
    My wife spent hours watching the webcast....the stages all looked improved, including the tents.
  • killmoretroutkillmoretrout Burque, NM Posts: 162
    Yeah, for sure. As far as tents go, Sahara can't be touched for lights/visuals, but they all seemed better to me (I missed 2010, though, and was last there in '09). Even the outdoor stage was improved. The National had a great visual performance there.
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