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Post by funkymunky on Dec 27, 2016 11:38:00 GMT -5
This is what I call a fruit cake booking. No one likes fruit cake, at least no one I respect. But someone likes it and I'll avoid it like the plague. Ill call it Getter's nghtmr fruitcake.
May Tycho May Phoenix June Rooo July MMJ and Margo Price August Queen with Adam Lambert August Roger Waters (Bucket list #1) August Spoon and Portugal the man Sept Depeche Mode Sept Pilgrimage Fest
This has really been discussed ad nauseam, but it really just boils down to Cost vs. Reward. The major costs are the actual financial cost, the travel, and the will power and physical effort needed to get through the festival. Each person will weigh this differently against what they perceive as the rewards of attending bonnaroo. But it's hard to deny that for most fans of what Roo was 3+ years ago, the costs are rising while the rewards are decreasing. It's all just a matter of where those lines cross.
I've been wondering for a while, how much travel affects the opinions of different members on this board. It's a topic I've though of bringing up in the headliner thread a few times. It's so easy for me to get to Roo that it just needs a couple of key acts to make it worth it. At the same time, I can't imagine coming from the west coast or making a 10+ hour drive for last year. Lollapalooza east is fine for someone like me that is a state away. I completely understand if that is unapealing to others that have to fly or take a multi day road trip to make it work.
definitely, i've mentioned before that travel makes a big difference in my Roo decision. it's a seven hour drive from where i live, which to me isn't a bad drive to attend a large diverse music festival in a venue that i have an emotional attachment to. i can't imagine flying or driving multiple days to attend 2016 or 2015's festival, though.
as an aside, hangout is about 50 minutes from me and i haven't attended in three years.
repeating myself, but last year it was all three headliners and ween and inertia that led me to attend. the current year's headliners don't inspire too much excitement, so we'll need to return to the undercards of yore if i'm going to attend this year. the clues aren't giving me much hope.
people keep talking about "bonnaroo's booking strategy", but i'm beginning to wonder if there is any strategy at all.
There's definitely a strategy: do the same thing every other festival is doing and assume it'll work, even though Bonnaroo is radically different than most of those others.
There's definitely a strategy: do the same thing every other festival is doing and assume it'll work, even though Bonnaroo is radically different than most of those others.
people keep talking about "bonnaroo's booking strategy", but i'm beginning to wonder if there is any strategy at all.
The 2016 lineup was so weird with the two "classic" headliners, a third headliner that is a great act but arguably peaked almost a decade ago, and the rest of the lineup filled with acts that would only hype up college kids who are into shitty EDM and pop that emerged the past 2-3 years. There seemed to be a clear disconnect between the headliners and the rest of the lineup. It was fair to believe that it was actually their strategy, if they had one at all.
Feels like we're on our way to the same thing in 2017.
I've been wondering for a while, how much travel affects the opinions of different members on this board. It's a topic I've though of bringing up in the headliner thread a few times. It's so easy for me to get to Roo that it just needs a couple of key acts to make it worth it. At the same time, I can't imagine coming from the west coast or making a 10+ hour drive for last year. Lollapalooza east is fine for someone like me that is a state away. I completely understand if that is unapealing to others that have to fly or take a multi day road trip to make it work.
definitely, i've mentioned before that travel makes a big difference in my Roo decision. it's a seven hour drive from where i live, which to me isn't a bad drive to attend a large diverse music festival in a venue that i have an emotional attachment to. i can't imagine flying or driving multiple days to attend 2016 or 2015's festival, though.
as an aside, hangout is about 50 minutes from me and i haven't attended in three years.
repeating myself, but last year it was all three headliners and ween and inertia that led me to attend. the current year's headliners don't inspire too much excitement, so we'll need to return to the undercards of yore if i'm going to attend this year. the clues aren't giving me much hope.
people keep talking about "bonnaroo's booking strategy", but i'm beginning to wonder if there is any strategy at all.
This is where I am as well (my drive is almost 8 hours). We bought presale last year because of the headliners that were leaked. For me the undercard wasn't horrible (there were things that I did like a lot and others not so much) but if I wouldn't have bought presale we wouldn't have made the trip.
I haven't bought for this year. If they don't have some magical shit on that lineup we will not be returning. The headliners really don't do anything for me at all and I need justification to return and these clues aren't helping to get me back there.
Starting to believe the theory of them having multiple events on the farm throughout the year and not totally caring about bringing back the attendance to 80k+ for roo.
definitely, i've mentioned before that travel makes a big difference in my Roo decision. it's a seven hour drive from where i live, which to me isn't a bad drive to attend a large diverse music festival in a venue that i have an emotional attachment to. i can't imagine flying or driving multiple days to attend 2016 or 2015's festival, though.
as an aside, hangout is about 50 minutes from me and i haven't attended in three years.
repeating myself, but last year it was all three headliners and ween and inertia that led me to attend. the current year's headliners don't inspire too much excitement, so we'll need to return to the undercards of yore if i'm going to attend this year. the clues aren't giving me much hope.
people keep talking about "bonnaroo's booking strategy", but i'm beginning to wonder if there is any strategy at all.
This is where I am as well (my drive is almost 8 hours). We bought presale last year because of the headliners that were leaked. For me the undercard wasn't horrible (there were things that I did like a lot and others not so much) but if I wouldn't have bought presale we wouldn't have made the trip.
I haven't bought for this year. If they don't have some magical shit on that lineup we will not be returning. The headliners really don't do anything for me at all and I need justification to return and these clues aren't helping to get me back there.
I'm that way for next year already
Bought presale on the strength of the headliners--The Weeknd is one of my favorite artists and U2 will be amazing on the farm. It's a ten hour drive for me and on one hand I don't want to miss those two headlining, on the other it probably wouldn't be worth it if I hadn't (foolishly) bought presale
More than a hundred acts will perform. Every festival has more than a couple of I dont like. These events are meant to appeal to a range of people. I dont really like NGHTMARE or Getter. But I am sure their are some college aged kids who are stoked. I wont attend those shows.
As previously stated, it's less that people couldn't avoid this kind of garbage if they wanted, and more that these are the names they're putting out there to stoke interest in the festival. Of course there will be some decent acts playing, but I think the worry is that they're going to go the Lollapalooza route and toss up a big headlining name or two, a bunch of shitty EDM to draw in that crowd, then a bunch of festival filler for the undercard.
Lolla can get away with doing that because the fest in Chicago. Roo is making a serious mistake if they think the same strategy will work for drawing 80k to a farm in fucking Tennessee
Having less conflicts is such a dumb argument lol. I mean yeah there was like 5 hours in a row on Saturday night last year where I didn't want to see anything but at least I didn't have to choose between multiple acts I would have actually enjoyed.
Yeah that line of thinking has gone unchecked for years around here. I always cringe when I see it.
This has really been discussed ad nauseam, but it really just boils down to Cost vs. Reward. The major costs are the actual financial cost, the travel, and the will power and physical effort needed to get through the festival. Each person will weigh this differently against what they perceive as the rewards of attending bonnaroo. But it's hard to deny that for most fans of what Roo was 3+ years ago, the costs are rising while the rewards are decreasing. It's all just a matter of where those lines cross.
I've been wondering for a while, how much travel affects the opinions of different members on this board. It's a topic I've though of bringing up in the headliner thread a few times. It's so easy for me to get to Roo that it just needs a couple of key acts to make it worth it. At the same time, I can't imagine coming from the west coast or making a 10+ hour drive for last year. Lollapalooza east is fine for someone like me that is a state away. I completely understand if that is unapealing to others that have to fly or take a multi day road trip to make it work.
This. I come from MN and it takes a minimum of 4 days of vacation to make Bonnaroo work, with 5 or 6 vacation days to make it a tolerable experience (14 hour drive each way typically by myself). Whereas I can do both Eaux Claires and Summer Camp (or something else) for virtually the same cost as Bonnaroo with a lot less headache and also use fewer vacation days.
definitely, i've mentioned before that travel makes a big difference in my Roo decision. it's a seven hour drive from where i live, which to me isn't a bad drive to attend a large diverse music festival in a venue that i have an emotional attachment to. i can't imagine flying or driving multiple days to attend 2016 or 2015's festival, though.
as an aside, hangout is about 50 minutes from me and i haven't attended in three years.
repeating myself, but last year it was all three headliners and ween and inertia that led me to attend. the current year's headliners don't inspire too much excitement, so we'll need to return to the undercards of yore if i'm going to attend this year. the clues aren't giving me much hope.
people keep talking about "bonnaroo's booking strategy", but i'm beginning to wonder if there is any strategy at all.
This is where I am as well (my drive is almost 8 hours). We bought presale last year because of the headliners that were leaked. For me the undercard wasn't horrible (there were things that I did like a lot and others not so much) but if I wouldn't have bought presale we wouldn't have made the trip.
I haven't bought for this year. If they don't have some magical shit on that lineup we will not be returning. The headliners really don't do anything for me at all and I need justification to return and these clues aren't helping to get me back there.
My sentiments exactly. The best festival value nowadays seem to come from the mid tier such as Shakey Knees, Peach, ect.
I might consider bigger festivals in the future but it's gonna take more than what most of the heavyweights consider "good enough" to get me back. Osheaga 2016 was a great example of how to do a large festival lineup right.
Post by Roo'adelphia on Dec 28, 2016 9:47:05 GMT -5
So to recap this years strategy: Step 1. Leak Headliners early (secure rock and U2 generation that has been missing) Step 2. Use cheap labor to hype up the youth sales (EDM & Bro scene). Makes mediocre EDM lineup look fantastic upon lineup drop
So to recap this years strategy: Step 1. Leak Headliners early (secure rock and U2 generation that has been missing) Step 2. Use cheap labor to hype up the youth sales (EDM & Bro scene). Makes mediocre EDM lineup look fantastic upon lineup drop
That is wild to think but putting out the initial acts like Getter and NGHTMRE will get everyone's hopes really down on the EDM portion (unless you are in the sect of college kids that like that stuff) and then when then drop some very average upper-end EDM names on the lineup drop everyone will be like "oh ok well it isnt' as bad as I thought" even though it will be technically no where near what it could have been.
Not the worst strategy ever if you are trying to control expectations/backlash.
So to recap this years strategy: Step 1. Leak Headliners early (secure rock and U2 generation that has been missing) Step 2. Use cheap labor to hype up the youth sales (EDM & Bro scene). Makes mediocre EDM lineup look fantastic upon lineup drop
Sounds pretty accurate. On point 2, definitely right. All they need is Avalanches, Kaytranada, and one other good name and we'll all be like "Well at least they didn't completely fuck up..."
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