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

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

Additions:

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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

totally. maybe we could do it here:
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-CO-Misc/StanleyHotelPostcard-1917-EParkMuseum.jpg

weed pairings with each band please.

Perhaps the makings of a very interesting festival there ....

obv thrilled about earth

so percussion is pretty dope

yeah they are great

and they're playing all three days!

are you going?

yuh

are you going to eat quail eggs again?

idk

Is that place still there?

yep

What are the must-eat spots these days? I remember enjoying Breakfast at the Bistro.

i had a grandiose daydream that we made an ilx all stars band during this festival and then john cale asked us to perform with him
lol

bistro still has a great brunch. there are so many new good food place. big boom in the last 2 years. i'll compile a list. haw

xp !!

I just got the email about daily tickets -- is that for people who just want to go to one day OR does a person need to secure tickets on top of buying the weekend pass? I'm confused.

its for people who just want to go to one day