Worst ever festival line up?

There's another sad story in The Dirt, where Nikki Sixx goes on L.A. radio in 1994 and says he's handing out free concert tickets on the street. Two kids show up.

I am also extraordinarily curious as to how safety and insurance work for a wrestling bear attraction that promises a cash prize to "anyone who can pin him"

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, June 30, 2021 11:39 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

No idea, but here's more on the poor bear. Gonna guess this guy was fewer than 6 degrees of separation away from Joe Exotic.

https://gawker.com/5618474/a-hungry-caged-bear-mauls-its-caretaker

ugh, no surprise though

https://peloton.shorthandstories.com/all-for-one-music-festival/assets/TdlfFfW2vk/afo-poster-us-1044x1728.jpeg

I don't get it. So, it's a bunch of Peloton workouts set to different music playlists? Which is what Peloton usually is/does, but they're calling it a ... festival? Um, OK.

haha wtf

I know when I listen to Alice Coltrane it always makes me want to get on a fucking exercise bike.

haha, right?

It could be yoga or something else that's not heart-racingly rhythmic, tbf.

I'm imagining Alice Coltrane pieces recast as 80s montage rock now, it's not pretty

There's this weird 80's themed 5-day festival in Ostend, Belgium at the end of the Summer (scroll down a bit for names - Howard Jones! East 17! The Jacksons! T'Pau! Technotronic!) - wtf?

https://w-festival.com/en/

“Snap & Technotronic” no less, are they performing As One?

East 17 have plenty of fans on ILM:
POLL-right, POLL-right, everything's gonna be POLL-right: The Very Best Of East 17

Thought you guys might appreciate this:

https://www.hometownstation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Soundtraac-Music-Festival-2021-Poster-Final-8.5x11-768x994.jpg

some hidden mid-day gems on the second day

Wow, Toad the Wet Sprocket are still around? I saw them in the '90s.

NOON TO 8:30PM

Who are Shwayze and are they really bigger than Dishwalla to old people? (I know most bands are bigger than Dishwalla).

don't know who Poncho Sanchez, Shwayze or Dishwalla are, but they are instant entries on the "bands you won't check out because of their name" list

I can't tell if means you are under 18 or over 50....

*that means

I'm 41, maybe this is a US thing

ok, add Kylie Trout to that list.

Checked out their Wikipedia pages, Poncho Sanchez could be ok, thought would be a novelty rock group. Others do not sound at all promising.

Poncho Sanchez is a household name in Latin jazz...or so I thought....anyway i thought that was a cool booking lol

some hidden mid-day gems on the second day

― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Wednesday, July 7, 2021 4:54 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Seriously!

Also, Dishwalla once headlined the Fells Point Fun Fest. I was there to see Too Much Joy, who were the penultimate band before Dishwalla. Due to the festival running behind and an apparently precise starting time demand by Dishwalla, Too Much Joy only got to play 4 songs. So it brings me a small amount of joy to see them so far up this chaotic festival bill.

OK, so Lollapalooza is (I think) next week. That means the people least concerned about covid and least likely to be vaccinated against covid will be congregating densely in the midst of a dramatic spike in infections. Supposedly requiring proof of vaccination or a negative test, and those unvaxxed are supposed to wear a mask (yeah right), so what can go wrong?

I like DeRo's take:

“If you’ve got anyone at home you could be exposing, you should not go. Eat the ticket,” DeRogatis told The Post.

I can’t find a *best ever* festival lineup thread - never thought anything could ever make me want to go to vegas

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7n3VfgXsAAn_vV?format=jpg

my friend saw that and said NEANDERTHAL, WE ARE GOING

i want to. sounds like a fuckin' party

And here I thought this was going to be a bump of that Lollapalooza poster I've been seeing going around that just has "THE DELTA VARIANT" listed across it.

jesus, when too short, juvie, ying yang and mike jones are on the second to last line...

I heard the prices for that were pretty insane, especially for a single day fest.

https://i.imgur.com/UdStxWl.jpeg

I wonder how many original members are on that bill? And I'm including Joe Piscopo, who by all accounts is an enormous member.

Now if it were Joe Piscopo's Yacht Rock Review I might have been tempted.

"Positively NO masks or vaccinations on board."

one original member in The Beach Boys, one in The Temptations, assuming that there will only be one in the Monkees, and that nobody here knows the name of any members of the Surfrajettes

lol i actually can name several surfrajettes, theyre a modern/non-elderly band

nesmith and dolenz are the monkees!

It's just Dolenz, I read an article about it last week.

Just Mike Love for the Beach Boys (although Bruce Johnston and rumours of Blondie Chapman).

blondie is playing with brian right now. the current monkees lineup is def nes and mickey!

Is John Cowsill playing with the Beach Boys? (He did a few years ago.) They could add The Cowsills to the lineup!

the current monkees lineup is def nes and mickey!

The final show of that lineup is in November apparently.

Cowsill has been full-time in the Beach Boys for 21 years.

Nez and Dolenz are sometimes both in the Monkees these days, but I doubt Nesmith would play a pandemic cruise.

(It was the combination of modernity and obscurity that made me caveat the Surfrajettes!)

ahh got it! final nez mickey show is at the greek in nov, then mickey goin solo as "the monkees." ty!

nez is on the covid cruise!

https://i.imgur.com/yeDhm04.jpg

Wow

Holy shit:

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/injuries-reported-near-nrg/285-19d48d85-2564-4242-bdcc-084677f6d6d8

Astroworld Festival update: 8 confirmed deaths, many others injured during Travis Scott concert

About two dozen people were rushed to Houston hospitals and at least 11 were in cardiac arrest, HFD Chief Pena said. The victims were as young as 10 years old.

God it's like a much worse version of the Pearl Jam show incident. Horrifying.

Not good news to wake up to.

I literally live 5 minutes from the concert site, close enough that last I could hear the fest and the music from inside my place. I was watching the news when this was happening, so I didn't hear said music stopping, and whatever initial local news coverage was a little after the fact.

My heart breaks for everybody. It'd been a treat this week watching the news leading up to the show, seeing coverage of all the charity stuff Scott's been doing around town, and then finally the reports from earlier yesterday from the opening of the festival, all these excited concert-goers getting interviewed and such.

This is hard time for Hip Hop fans in Houston. Just a couple weeks ago there was another show--forget the act, one of those new guys--that was being put on at an indoor arena in the same complex as this fest. People were in line for hours on a hot day when a sudden rain storm came up and eventually the gates were opened early to get everyone out of that, only to be left waiting for couple more hours inside before an announcement that the show had been cancelled. A minor riot ensued with skirmishes w/the police/security, and tramplings (although iirc no fatalities).

The details reported here are even more horrifying and infuritating:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/at-least-8-dead-after-panic-at-astroworld-festival-in-texas-during-travis-scott-opening-night-set-with-drake?ref=home

First thing this morning, I turned on CNN during an interview with a woman who had barely escaped the crush: she said a countdown began on the screen, 30 minutes before "he" (presumably Scott) appeared---as it got to 0, she told her boyfriend she couldn't breathe, passed out, woke up sitting in a relatively secure area. He'd had the crowd pass her overhead, and somehow they were able to do this, despite the surges: true crowdsurfing, 'til finally a security guard got her. She's a nurse, and observed that the "medics" (quotes audible) couldn't seem to do anything but apply icepacks to victims; "he didn't know how to find or take a pulse" etc. She said she's okay, just still trying to absorb all this (neither she not interviewer seemed to know about any deaths yet, though was mention of somebody in critical condition)