jayryan wrote:FYI: the fest we went to last year, called 'intonation festival', is being run by the same people / organizers / location under the name 'pitchfork music festival' this year. this is due to a parting of ways between the organizers and the company which technically owns the intonation name.

to confuse things, the legal owners of the 'intonation' name will be having an intonatiuon festival this year, but the organizers & booking people are all different.

also: keep in mind that lollapalooza has 130 bands playing in grant park in three days. this is frightening. there are a couple good bands in there, too.

j_harvey wrote:

jayryan wrote:FYI: the fest we went to last year, called 'intonation festival', is being run by the same people / organizers / location under the name 'pitchfork music festival' this year. this is due to a parting of ways between the organizers and the company which technically owns the intonation name.

to confuse things, the legal owners of the 'intonation' name will be having an intonatiuon festival this year, but the organizers & booking people are all different.

also: keep in mind that lollapalooza has 130 bands playing in grant park in three days. this is frightening. there are a couple good bands in there, too.

This sounds like the ramblings of a conformist outsider.

electrons wrote:I went last year. I had a great time.

Eksvplot wrote:pitchfork i don't care for. but i'll admit i dislike them just a little less after hearing mr. whiney white stripes man (who can't act his way out of a paper bag) recently dissed them. too bad he didn't have the guts to diss the Onion as well.

John W. wrote:I missed this -- what did he say? A brat dissing a bunch of brats...

Eksvplot wrote:btw, my new sunglasses are awesome!

BadComrade wrote:I think what it comes down to is that I just hate "scenes". I'm not saying that my point of view should be the norm here... that's why I asked if people were going and what they thought of it.

Fests like this one / Lollapalooza / etc just seem to use peoples taste in music to create these large scenster events, so they can make money. Pitchfork are going to make a -lot- of money doing this, right? I mean, I might think a little differently of this kind of thing if they did it in a "non-profit" kind of way, yet made sure that the bands all got paid well, etc. It just seems like a big scam. To me, paying to get in to a fest like this one is like paying $20 to get in to a dance club. The people that pay to get in to those places do so because they want to feel like they're part of some "select group" of people, and they make the club owners rich in the process. I don't view regular rock club shows as being in the same vein as these fests, because 3 bands playing a show is a smaller, more focused thing. When you book a fest that has multiple stages, and a wide variety of bands that almost no one is going to like more than 25% of, it just seems like the promoter is casting a large net out to try and "catch" as many people as he can, so he can take their money from them, and make them feel like they are part of "something really cool and special" in the process.

I don't have a soul.

slowriot wrote:I too, have no soul. I have negative soul.