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Has anybody completed their survey yet? Any takeaways that you gleaned from the questions asked or responses that you felt were important?
For me, I thought that Question 5 (What changes would need to happen to raise your recommendation rating?) was the opportunity to voice concerns.
A return to the deeper lineups of the past. The 2015 and 2016 lineups suffered from a lack of artists with more than an album or two, "legend" category acts (e.g., Kris Kristoffersen, Tears For Fears, Weird Al, Bonnie Raitt, Public Enemy, etc.), metal or jam.
The scheduling left something to be desired with the later starts, early end to late nights, and - most importantly - the decision to schedule stages in tiers instead of staggering them. You could choose between What & This or Which and That at any given times when in the past there was a lot more overlap. I'd love a return to some longer sets for more established acts (an hour and fifteen to two hours didn't used to be a rarity).
Finally, a moratorium on price increases. It's gotten significantly more expensive in the last five or six years - something like an 85% increase in Tier One plus charging for camping.
I expanded on a lot of my ratings when the option was there. For example, while I generally am fine with the food selection at Bonnaroo I think that there is an option to offer a greater variety of vendors by only offering one or two locations per vendor instead of three or four. The vendor menus are pretty stagnant as well. That's more of an issue for repeat attendees so that issue may take care of itself but I'd like to see, for example, the food trucks offering at least one different item than the previous year.
Post by Launchpad McQuack on Jun 15, 2017 12:38:44 GMT -5
I asked for a return of legacy acts in the undercard. I suggested they book The Jacksons. Noticed Glastonbury had them and thought that was kind of neat.
For me, I thought that Question 5 (What changes would need to happen to raise your recommendation rating?) was the opportunity to voice concerns.
I thought this was the key question as well. I posted my response elsewhere, but in essence I echoed your concerns (and all of our concerns) about the depth and variety of the lineup. I was fairly aggressive in my language, but I suggested they book acts other festivals aren't booking, to not just book the same stuff everyone else is getting. Bonnaroo used to be weird, and it's not anymore.
My artist suggestions were Nine Inch Nails for the headliner (unlikely but not totally unrealistic), and for the undercard Chris Liebing and Adam Beyer. Totally unrealistic but I wanted to include some big name techno DJs.
Waters / Radiohead / Arcade Fire Justice / Queens of the Stone Age / Nine Inch Nails
And I asked them to put some kind of EDM/deep house venue in the campgrounds for 3 AM and later, like the Garage but more focused. And just to book more diverse EDM in general. I'm sure they'll do exactly as I ask.
More diversity in the lineup Focus on improving the upper/middle of the lineup (4-15) Late night needs to go past 3:00 More diversity in food (rotate trucks) Open the which stage Thurs night (and get some real acts to put on it) water lines into VIP
3 headliners - Roger Waters, Arcade Fire, Taylor Swift 3 Under card - Gorillas, Dolly Parton, Frightened Rabbit
More diversity in the lineup Focus on improving the upper/middle of the lineup (4-15) Late night needs to go past 3:00 More diversity in food (rotate trucks) Open the which stage Thurs night (and get some real acts to put on it) water lines into VIP
3 headliners - Roger Waters, Arcade Fire, Taylor Swift 3 Under card - Gorillas, Dolly Parton, Frightened Rabbit
I think that Gorillaz is most definitely a headliner but all in favor of the Dolly love.
Post by pondo ROCKS on Jun 20, 2017 7:35:06 GMT -5
I asked for older, legacy acts. Been missing more in recent years. Tears for Fears was probably the last good one. We had Earth, Wind and Fire, ZZ Top, Alice Cooper, Slayer, Lettuce, & others. Phil Lesh & Friends, Primus, Tori Amos, Govt Mule, Billy Idol had amazing sets on the farm. Appeal to an older crowd while still have EDM and such for a younger crowd.
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I asked for older, legacy acts. Been missing more in recent years. Tears for Fears was probably the last good one. We had Earth, Wind and Fire, ZZ Top, Alice Cooper, Slayer, Lettuce, & others. Phil Lesh & Friends, Primus, Tori Amos, Govt Mule, Billy Idol had amazing sets on the farm. Appeal to an older crowd while still have EDM and such for a younger crowd.
Excellent suggestions there Pondo. I enjoyed many of those myself.
Maybe they consider "Hip Hop/R&B" to be stuff like The Weeknd, Tory Lanez, Bryson Tiller, and Post Malone. Then "Rap" would be all of the stuff they could have booked but didn't like Danny Brown, Joey Badass, or Schoolboy Q. I'm probably wrong though. It should just be one category "Hip Hop".
Hopefully this doesn't turn into something like firefly's "fan curation"
Yeah, I assume all the novelty throwback acts on Firefly's line up were a result of that. A lot of people are stupid enough to vote for T-Pain and Busta Rhymes at Roo.
I had to redo my math three times to try and allocate 100 points across 13 different genres. But I think I have EDM lol two or three. Also in my open suggestion in the last box I, like most, complained 'bout the lack of late nights, and legacy acts the last two years. Along with a lot of other gripes we've already heard these last two years.
Jam Band - 10% Hip Hop/R&B - 10% Other Genre(s) - 0% Indie Rock - 5% World Music - 5% Country - 10% Classic Rock - 10% Americana/Folk - 5% EDM - 10% Rap - 10% Metal - 10% Pop - 5% Soul/Funk - 10%
Up and coming artists:
1. Johnny Hayes and the Loveseats (good friend of mine plays lead) 2. The Mulligan Brothers (great local americana band, I always recommend them) 3. Futurehate (local band, couple friends of mine, thrash punk)
Comedians
1. Ali Wong 2. Tom Segura 3. Kumail Nanjiani (will probably be too big for roo by next summer)
Films
1. Baseketball 2. 21 Jump Street 3. 22 Jump Street
The most epic Bonnaroo Superjam collaboration EVER would be:
A long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation (Late Night)
What one artist would you most like to see do a surprise set at Bonnaroo 2018?
I don't want surprise sets, I want schedule sets
Ideas for parades
I don't care about parades, I just want good artists booked
Further feedback
Have Resident Advisor curate the Christmas Barn so we can get some decent electronic artists on the farm. Its a waste to book the same tired artists in the Barn year over year. Regardless, please book some interesting electronic music and less pop music EDM trash. Also late nights should go all night. Also just book a better lineup than 2016. Y'all used to try, it'd be nice to see you try again. Book a lineup that doesn't look like every other large multigenre festival. Coachella be whoopin' yall's ass every year because they book a rad undercard filled with cool shit. So just do that, just book cool shit if you want cool people to buy tickets.
Since I like a lil' bit of everything at Bonnaroo, I started with 10% in each genre (except for Other Genre(s)) which left me with 120%, so I had to whittle 20% off of something.
Americana/Folk was easy because I don't like most of the popular American type artists over the past several years.
I moved world music to 5% because I figured Bonnaroo won't book more than that anyway, and personally I'd be happy with just 2-3 solid world music acts.
Then I had to ask myself, given the low quality of Bonnaroo's bookings over the past two years, what are the chances that an act booked within a given genre will be lame/boring/milquetoast?
Pop music was easy to pick on. Obviously there is plenty of great pop music but pop music has also been the primary offender of Roo booking very new one hit wonder type artists.
Then I picked on indie rock because it's just a broad, vague term. Similar to pop music, there are acts like Savages or Courtney Barnett that are awesome that we could classify as indie rock, but when I hear indie rock and Bonnaroo I think Real Estate or Conner Obersts solo stuff or Hamilton Leithauser or Cage the Elephant or any number of uninspiring SiriusXMU/Alt Nation acts. It's just such a broad genre, and my confidence in Bonnaroo is so low, that if I go to them with the instructions of "book indie rock" they'll interpret that as Jason Mraz and The 1975.
