Big Ears Festival 2014 [Knoxville, TN] -- Reich, Cale, Ribot & more...

also come to this and lets hang out!

i really want to! maybe if i just buy the ticket, everything else will slowly come together.

Yeah, Riley played 4 different concerts over the 3 days.

ok, ticket has been purchased. when should i start worrying about arranging lodging?

yay!

I still need to book a hotel room too :/

Fwiw we have an upstairs bedroom with its own bathroom that a couple ppl can crash in if you want. There's a bed and air mattress. Email if you want -- jmaysh4rk AT gee mail. (That 4 shd be an a, obv.) We're just outside downtown.

iiiiiinteresting!! is downtown where we want to be staying?
last time i was in knoxville we stayed in a cabin near the park (what a bummer to go all the way there and not go hiking but i doubt there will be time for that, unless there is!)

to clarify -- last time i went there specifically to go hiking; this time, no (or maybe?)

All the Big Ears stuff is downtown. Hiking stuff not so much, though there are some nice trails not far across the river.

dammit I am gonna be ready the next year this thing happens, I had a different vacation scheduled in VA for the week before and there is just no way I can swing it this time

tm i emailed you

flight booked http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

where downtown? old city?

meet u at the market square subway whiney

dang man, i wish i was in town for this

you guys have to promise me you'll go to toot's and document the consequences

this fest is like one act from getting me to go. Like, if they announce Matana Roberts or Ben Frost or Laurel Halo or something, I'll take it as a sign than I can spare the $150. But that's a lotta money esp when you factor in travel, accommodations, food, etc

i'd have somewhere to stay, but I can't take off work. :(

is it sold out yet?

and jimmywine otm, if i hadn't already seen some of these acts i'd be there in a heartbeat.

plus the money thing, but ya know

Checked the website last night and there are still some $150 passes left before they move up to the $175 passes. Nowhere near selling out completely, unless they're only selling a half dozen $175 passes.

flying in from LA to go to this, pretty fucking stoked

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Ridic

jeez louise

aaargh

yeeeeeeah

so jealous

oh my god

Damn, such a heavy lineup.

Kinda dreading the schedule now -- I think there are going to be some hard choices to make.

Just got the emailed version with a few more details: O'Malley/Ambarchi duo will be "performing compositions by Alvin Lucier, Iancu Dumitrescu and more."

HAILU MERGIA!!

Also psyched about Lonnie Holley, Jenny Hval, solo Haino ...

This is going to be fun.

Has there ever been an American festival that has pulled off an avant thing of this scale?

Maybe Sonic Youth ATP in 2002?

http://www.atpfestival.com/events/latpsonicyouth/lineup.php

how quickly you seem to forget thee no vun vest.

not American, but Victoriaville gets 15K every year

wanna go grumble grumble grumble

xp -- yeah, at BE#2 I caught up with Ashley Capps and thanked him for a festival that didn't take a day and a half of travel time each way. He said FIMAV was kind of in his mind when he started conceiving BE.

man, one of my dreams is to get together with SASSAS or dublab or some other hub of socal experimental music and assemble a festival like this for los angeles. an anti-coachella.

Ashley rules, glad he's redoubling his efforts on this festival and I wish I could go.

holy shit!

how quickly you seem to forget thee no vun vest.

― ian, Thursday, January 16, 2014 3:44 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah dude pain jerk rolling through is definitely on par with television and steve reich, come on now

i loved loved loved No Fun fest, but this is a different scale of event

Someone tell me So Percussion weren't named using Shiba-Inu snow-dog speak (even if you have to lie).

man, one of my dreams is to get together with SASSAS or dublab or some other hub of socal experimental music and assemble a festival like this for los angeles. an anti-coachella.

― Esa-Pekka Merkerson (get bent), Thursday, January 16, 2014 4:02 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I often fantasize about helping organize one for New York. I think the two biggest problems are
A) New Yorkers are generally spoiled fucking babies and go "ennngh I can see [band] any time" whenever someone brings an amazing festival to their doorstep (ie, see ATP's troubles in NYC)
B) The cost of putting up, say, Merzbow or Neubauten or Dead C or whoever in a hotel is way more cost prohibitive in NYC than, say, Knoxville or Hopscotch's North Carolina

let's do it in colorado. cheap, centrally located, w33d.

*votes CO*

also hiking

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