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Originally Posted by mr dave
generally speaking festival gigs are the epitome of quantity over quality. looking at the current list as compared to what i remember from a few years back it's pretty obvious that Coachella is going with the bigger is better mentality. it's looking like about 30 bands a day over 3 days now. first time i recall looking into Coachella that's about the amount of bands they had for the entire weekend.
to me the best thing about seeing a festival was knowing that you saw X bands during the run of a day and when you bump into someone who happened to be at that same show you can reminisce about how awesome it was when the rain finally stopped between these two bands, and you also know that you didn't miss something awesome somewhere else like when Band A jumped on stage near the end of Band B's set to have a super jam to finish things off before the headlining act bored everyone to tears.
now it's like you need to plot out an itinerary to maximize what bands you'll check out between the main stage, the side stage, the tent, the other side stage, and food. i suppose on one hand it allows for more diversity but it seems rather bloated and ostentatious to me at this point.
also, that myspace link doesn't work and yes, i am a cranky old man hahaha
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Speaking about festivals in a general sense, since I'm not really familiar with Coachella, I totally agree. I was so pissed off when I attended a festival at the beginning of this year and at least
three pretty big bands were on at the same time. I remember thinking how stupid it was and why on earth would they put those particular bands on at the same time. It's because they have an immense number of bands playing and they have to squeeze them all in somehow. I went to my first music festival about 5 years ago and although it's not really
that long ago I remember it being so much more chilled and you didn't have to plan out an itinerary to work out which bands you could and couldn't see. Festivals lately seem to have a massively huge and impressive list of bands but what they don't tell you is that you won't be able to see all of them due to the timetable.
That MySpace link works fine for me, and I just checked up the lineup and HOLY CRAP that is a huge amount of bands for 3 days! Pleased to see some local artists from down my way in there too, though.