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| best day evar you guys |
Coachella is this weekend YOU GUYS. Here's a reminder on how to deal with the approaching summer music festival from last year.
Summer music festival season is here, with the Pitchfork Festival, and Lollapalooza and probably some other bullshit on the horizon, and that means it's time to pack a cooler, hit the road with 17 of your tightest broz for life, and go get baked in the sun all day in the general proximity of live music you have a passing interest in. With that in mind we've compiled a list of the ways to make the most of your summer music festival experience. Step one:
- Don't go.
The end.
Pretty simple, really. Basically you just take all of the reasons explained here in this post Stop Going to Big Concerts, then reapply them to standing in a desert-swamp all day.
Music festivals aren't for music fans, they are for people who think they like music, but are really more into camping and drinking outside. The idea is this: instead of going to see one or two bands you like in a decent venue every couple weeks or so, why not kind-of-see all of the bands ever in the worst setting imaginable?
When you envision this perfect trip to the big show! you think it's going to be like this:
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| sooo sick |
And it is for like 12 people up front. You're not going to be one of those 12 people. Here's your vantage:
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| Wait what was that pill you just gave me, bro? |
If you're lucky. It's probably more likely something like this.
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| Where the fuck is the stage that Best Coast is on? |
Or you could end up like this dude. Or at least feel like him.
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| Arcade Fire killed it. |
Or this bro here, who'll you remember from a while back from the post Tripping balls at Coachella is a metaphor.
Bonus points to this shit-faced Brit for summing up most of the people at the festival so concisely. "Look at this shit. Look at me. I'm such a DICKHEAD!"
I dunno. Maybe I'm wrong. You'll probably spend all day holding hands with these chicks and sharing a genuine musical experience over your mutual respect for LCD Soundsystem.
Or girls like this rather, if you're my age.
Aww fuck it, who am I kidding. Here's my people.
So to sum up: I hate music and myself, but mostly you.
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16 comments:
Abbey-fest at the Combah kid
Ha, the combah. Played one or two shit shows there in my day.
To quote a good song by a good band you've probably never heard of because they're not crappy emo shite: "Life is unfair. Kill yourself or get over it!"
Yeah but what about option c, do neither and just bitch about it on the internet?
so, so true if you live in a coastal city, you have zero excuse to go to a music festival. I've had more interaction with bands going to a concert at Great Scott or PA's than any music festival i've ever been too and paid a fraction of the price(coachella was the biggest waste of cash ever).
However, if you make it painfully clear that you are only at a festival for the "atmosphere" (women, drugs)than cool, do your thing.
however, boston has sort of a shitty/expensive hip-hop scene, so i'm most certainly attending rock the bells.
What about this, though:
http://www.theweezercruise.com/
I only go to widen my illicit drug repertoire.
@fraiche: oh god, weezer. come on you guys.
@anon that seems doable elsewhere, no?
Re: banner pic
Best day evar, until she had fifteen filthy hands jammed up her top, mashing her tits.
Yeah,but you saw the way she was dressed...
WOW. This one is awesome. I like small camping festivals. But after Woodstock 99 which is really what I will return to when I got to hell, fucking awful and stupid. People from hell you would wish never existed.
Bro, I went to Woodstock 94 (via being old). That was probably fun though because I was too stupid to know any better.
Is that a photo of Powerman 5000??
ha, in the red shirt? too young by like twenty years i think
Speaking of old people at hip musical shows, anyone else go to the Ting Tings at the Paradise? No lie, like 40% of the attendees were 50 or over! MNDR killed it tho, do recommend.
I didn't go, no. I SAW THEM AT THEIR FIRST SHOW AT GREAT SCOTT THO.
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