Comments on: Just In Case You Were Wondering: No Coachella Lineup So Far

By: Maura Johnston

Maura Johnston — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:04:45 +0000

Ryan Seacrest's Web site posted this list as if it were real.

Oops.

By: MayhemintheHood

MayhemintheHood — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:14:56 +0000

@2ironic4u: I think you're right, but I wasn't necessarily talking about around the date of Coachella. I just meant that eventually, any act I want to see will come...may have to wait months, but they'll come.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:06:14 +0000

@T'Challa: How does the VIP section work? I usually prefer to be in the general crowd because that means you can get closer to the stage.

@MayhemintheHood: If you live in the OC/LA area, don't count on headlining shows from most acts near it (as I think there is some sort of out-clause that prohibits acts from playing competing shows).

By: MayhemintheHood

MayhemintheHood — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:04:51 +0000

@Ned Raggett: Boredoms blew my mind, but only because I had not only never heard of them, but I didn't listen to anything that resembled them at the time. I basically went for Rocket From The Crypt, Get Up Kids, GBV and Sonic Youth. I got introduced to a bunch of rad bands that day(like Superchunk, and Sunny Day Real Estate, Sleater Kinney).

By: Ned Raggett

Ned Raggett — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:53:31 +0000

@MayhemintheHood: Wow, I had totally forgotten about This Aint No Picnic. I went in 1999

That makes three of us. (I was there with Mackro and a couple of other friends visiting from Arizona.) That Boredoms set was a monster.

By: MayhemintheHood

MayhemintheHood — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:39:44 +0000

@mackro: Wow, I had totally forgotten about This Aint No Picnic. I went in 1999.

I also went to the first Coachella(I snuck in...and on a weird note, I've never met anyone that paid for the first Coachella). I don't think I ever need to go again, because as Mackro said, 99.9% of the acts that play there that I'm interested in will play a show around OC/LA area that I can go to(and will most likely be better). I do like to do drugs though, so Coachella was kinda cool for that reason. But again, I could probably do that here.

By: T'Challa

T'Challa — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:24:52 +0000

All of the above points are valid: Coachella is an amazing weekend that can border on spiritual. Coachella is an overpriced weekend that especially sucks for the general admission crowd who spend too much time trying to find a way into VIP. And then there's the whole drama of the VIP section...

There are a million reasons for and against the festival, and they're all true.

I try to go every year, and every year I think at one point, "I am NEVER doing this nonsense again!" And every year at one point I think, "As long as I'm in the area, I'll NEVER miss coming to Coachella!"

It's a love/hate relationship that hurts so good...

By: T'Challa

T'Challa — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:24:52 +0000

There are a million reasons for and against the festival, and they're all true.

It's a love/hate relationship that hurts so good...

By: Ned Raggett

Ned Raggett — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:10:49 +0000

@mackro: Also, as a non-driver, Coachella is extremely inconvenient for me. (Public transit out to and in SE Cali is lite, to make an understatement.)

Big issue for me as well (as you well know!) -- but they did a special one-off Amtrak run out there from Union Station last time around and perhaps that's the case again this time, who knows.

By: mackro

mackro — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:04:09 +0000

I've avoided Coachella because of the main problem with big festivals: lines, lines, lines.

Lines happen at all annual festivals, but they get exponentially worse the bigger they are. Especially in the heat, they're even worse than that. Also, as a non-driver, Coachella is extremely inconvenient for me. (Public transit out to and in SE Cali is lite, to make an understatement.)

And every group that's been a big deal at Coachella has headlined a show in Seattle, right in the city. (Yes, Prince, Daft Punk, etc.)

So, just due to logistics and financial reasons, there was never a need.

I have been to the dry run of Coachella, This Ain't No Picnic, in O.C. in 1999 and 2000. These were much smaller and simpler (and much easier to get to.)