So it doesn’t so much bother me that there’s two festivals on one weekend within 9 hours of each other, 3 and 6 from LA to SD and SF respectively, it’s the fact that… there’s two festivals the same weekend – how could these planners actually make a blunder this big. Attendance will suffer, regardless of lineups. And both these lineups carry a number of similarities:
~Black Eyed Peas/Thevery Corp/M.I.A/Modest Mouse/The Dead Weather/Silver Sun Pickups/Conor Oberst/Band of House/Mastodon/Calexico/Deerhunter/Matt&Kim/Extra Golden~
So I mean, I guess it’s economical and all, it just doesn’t make much sense to me. Don’t both these companies talk to each other, or at least know when each festival was being planned? Street Scene doesn’t even have a real headliner. How are the Black Eyed Peas the first on the list? Where Street Scene might catch those short on money and time, coming in at $132.50 for the two day pass, Outside Lands boasts the bigger sonic bulge (technically a-sexual), coming in with three days of music, yet costing around $250 for the ticket.
It’s your call… But I have a feeling Golden Gate Park will be easier to infiltrate. It’s hard to be camouflage in the concrete paradise of East Village SD…
And we can’t forget the Sunset Junction Fest, only a weekend before both these behemoths go down.
Outside Lands has Q-tip, which I guess means I can post a Q-tip song?
And a shout out to the Govonator for being himself and all- We will always remember…
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