Coachella Vs. Bonnaroo

ScReaMing LunGs

Which Festival would you rather go to? Which lineup do you feel is stronger? Does anyone know the attendance at these festivals? I went to Lollapalooza last year in Chicago and there were about 70,000 people there each day. Great festival. I'm heading out to Coachella this year, anyone else going?

clayton12

ive been to both bonnaroo and coachella and i have to give the edge to bonnaroo. i just think bonnaroo is more about the music while coachella is all about hipster people wanting to be seen and put in vice magazine. both festivals get great lineups but bonnaroo tends to be more artist friendly giving them MUCH longer sets and what not.

wickedmonkeyz

clayton12 wrote:

ive been to both bonnaroo and coachella and i have to give the edge to bonnaroo. i just think bonnaroo is more about the music while coachella is all about hipster people wanting to be seen and put in vice magazine. both festivals get great lineups but bonnaroo tends to be more artist friendly giving them MUCH longer sets and what not.

music aside these two fesivals are completely different, but like you said, and this is a fact... the artists at bonnaroo play full sets (2006- radiohead 2.5 hours, mmj- 3.5 hours) just to give you an idea

binauralonthecape

i think so far, that coachella has a better lineup, im pretty sure more bands will be added to bonnaroo but id only want to see about 5 bands on that list...

clayton12

i expected to sit on the worlds largest traffic jams last year but it was very smooth last year at bonnaroo. i was quite impressed.

ScReaMing LunGs

clayton12 wrote:

ive been to both bonnaroo and coachella and i have to give the edge to bonnaroo. i just think bonnaroo is more about the music while coachella is all about hipster people wanting to be seen and put in vice magazine. both festivals get great lineups but bonnaroo tends to be more artist friendly giving them MUCH longer sets and what not.

i kinda pictured coachella to be like that. bonnaro on the other hand seems more like one of the festivals from the late 60's, very hippie-ish atmosphere. i'm pumped because coachella is in cali and i cant wait to go there. i'm freezing my balls off up here in canada.

soulsinging

lollapalooza was awesome. being in downtown chicago in the middle of a huge city is so cool... rocking out to the headliner with the skyline in the background was awesome. but i do have to admit, full sets would be awesome... id have loved to see that mmj set, the 45 min they got at lolla last year wasnt nearly enough.

Brainofdz

You really can't go wrong with either. A few years back, I would have said Coachella easily. However, the increasing diversity of the lineup, coupled with my incresing acceptance of jam music has certainly narrowed the gap. I would love to go to either. I'm probably gonna go to Bonaroo, because it's closer to me.

I'd like to give South by Southwest an honorable mention, another awesome festival.
and some hometown love to the CMJ music marathon

Red Lukin

I haven't been to either, so I can't really say, but with the jam bands and bands playing full sets I'd have to give the edge to Bonnaroo.

I'm actually going there for my first time this year!

Manstis1604

Sawyer wrote:

be honest....how much of a pain in the ass factor is bonnaroo, getting there i mean.

Not much of one, I drove ten hours from Cleveland to go to Bonnaroo 2005, and it was absolutely 100% worth it. From what I hear its much better than Coachella because the bands get long sets and there's music scheduled until like 4 in the morning, and bands still play after that. Coachella has a midnight curfew if I remember correctly. Plus, Bonnaroo's starting to become much more eclectic, the headliners this year are Tool and the Police...that's fucking crazy, especially for what was once nothing but a jam band festival.

bharQ

I've decided on Bonnaroo this year.. with audioslave gone..i think rage will do more dates.. and i'd rather see them at a less hyped show.. Arcade fire are amazing live.. but ive seen em a couple times and they'll do another canadian tour im sure.. Bonnaroo's lineup this year is amazing.. Police, Tool, WEEN!!!!, Kings Of Leon, Black Keys, and my fav comedian is even there.. David Cross

Never been to Nashville either.. gonna be a cool trip!

wickedmonkeyz

Sawyer wrote:

be honest....how much of a pain in the ass factor is bonnaroo, getting there i mean.

getting into bonnaroo depends on two things... first, which raods you take in, or rather which exit off of the highway... i think they built a new exit for last year, but im not sure, i'll never forget my first year, we were just about to hit nashville and we turned on the local radio to see what they were saying about bonnaroo, sure enough they were reporting a 30 mile back up on the 24 leading into manchester, so we pulled oer and looked at the map and decided to take another route to manchester, so we drove along interstate 40 for a while towards knoxville, and then cut south onto what we expected to be another big highway, but it totally wasn't, we ended up on the winding country road with a 25 mph speed limit for about two hours, but there was no traffic... ha ha good times

second, what day and time you arrive, in 2005 we got there thursday night around 8 pm and we we in line waiting to get in to the farm for well over four hours, i think we clocked 2 miles on the odometer, but last year we got there at like 6 am thursday morning (drove through the night from buffalo, 12 hours) and we were setting up our tent within a half hour or so, so if you can manage it arrive nice and early and things will go smooth

also, not positive on this one but in my experience when you arrive has an impact on where you camp, 2005 we got there about 15 hours after the gates opened and we ended up camping a good mile or so from the main grounds, 2006 we got there two hours before the gates opened and we were literally a couple hundred feet from the entrance, or the big bonnaroo arch for all you veterans

bharQ

so would bonnaroo start during the day of june 14th? we would need to fly in the night before and probably stay in nashville?

also when do they normally post the schedule?

Tek Money

I am going to Bonnaroo. I am not usually a festival person but I love this lineup and I always love camping. We are driving down the night before and staying in Nashville. I am excited about Nashville too.

bharQ

Tek Money wrote:

I am going to Bonnaroo. I am not usually a festival person but I love this lineup and I always love camping. We are driving down the night before and staying in Nashville. I am excited about Nashville too.

yup.. we are pretty pumped for this too.. sasquatch will announce their lineup in a couple days I believe.. but it looks like it wont have anything on bonnaroo or coachella according to the rumours....

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=50961765

Red Lukin

Tek Money wrote:

I am going to Bonnaroo. I am not usually a festival person but I love this lineup and I always love camping. We are driving down the night before and staying in Nashville. I am excited about Nashville too.

Looks like we're doing the same from Toronto. Leaving early Wednesday, staying in a hotel close by Manchester, waking up early on Thursday, and getting there in plenty of time to set up the tent and see Sam Roberts at 1pm!

Red Lukin

bharQ wrote:

so would bonnaroo start during the day of june 14th? we would need to fly in the night before and probably stay in nashville?

also when do they normally post the schedule?

From the looks of things the festival is likely gonna start around noon on Thursday...nothing confirmed though

Tek Money

Red Lukin wrote:

Looks like we're doing the same from Toronto. Leaving early Wednesday, staying in a hotel close by Manchester, waking up early on Thursday, and getting there in plenty of time to set up the tent and see Sam Roberts at 1pm!

Where are you seeing this schedule?

Are you driving?

bharQ

Tek Money wrote:

Where are you seeing this schedule?

Are you driving?

yeah I'm looking everywhere.. where did you see a time posted for when bands go on?

wickedmonkeyz

they have not announced yet when the festival actually starts,in previous years the main area (centeroo) opens sometime during the day on thursday, with some of the smaller bands playing at night.... BUT this year is the first time they have officially included the thursday in the official dates, the bigger groups may or may not play thursday, i wouldn't count on thursday being a full day of music until it is clarified by bonnaroo

red lukin, i wouldn't make any definite plans for sam roberts at 1pm on thursday, it still sounds like a good plan for driving down, but so far it seems that bands are putting the first day of the fest down on their sites/myspace's, for instance both ween and widespread panic are listed for 8pm thursday, which would not happen as widespread is a guaranteed headliner, and all of the other stages are shut down during the headlining slot

here's last years schedule if you want to get a feel for what it looks like

http://www.jambase.com/festivals/bonnaroo/printable.asp?ID=12&un=&showID=&pass=324320

wickedmonkeyz

bharQ wrote:

yeah I'm looking everywhere.. where did you see a time posted for when bands go on?

nothing has been announced yet, prolly not for another few months... but some bands have posted their info individually on their websites

Here's whats out there so far...all credit to Inforoo for researching all of this

Friday

The String Cheese Incident
Michael Franti & Spearhead
The Black Keys
DJ Shadow
Hot Chip
RX Bandits
Hot Tuna
STS9 (late night)

Saturday

The Police
The Hold Steady
Keller Williams
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
Xavier Rudd
Tortoise
Feist

Sunday

The White Stripes
North Mississippi Allstars
Fountains of Wayne
Mavis Staples
Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
Wolfmother