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Post by bansheebeat on Jun 25, 2013 17:06:59 GMT -5
When I saw Jeff Mangum the venue had "No photos or videos" signs up EVERYWHERE. And they STRICTLY enforced it. As in I saw a couple people kicked out for taking pictures.
All up to the artist. I understand Chapelle requesting that. Like someone else said I bet his shows could get obnoxious with someone yelling "I'M RICK JAMES BITCH!" every five minutes.
Are you going to see him Dave? I wanted to go so bad.
When I saw Jeff Mangum the venue had "No photos or videos" signs up EVERYWHERE. And they STRICTLY enforced it. As in I saw a couple people kicked out for taking pictures.
All up to the artist. I understand Chapelle requesting that. Like someone else said I bet his shows could get obnoxious with someone yelling "I'M RICK JAMES biznatch!" every five minutes.
Are you going to see him Dave? I wanted to go so bad.
Too rich for me right now. We are broke as sh*t.
sang_xcx, yeah, a lot of it is up to the performer. My co-worker that does security on the side says one of the most frustrating parts of his job is having different rules for different shows especially in regards to cameras. Some allow none, some allow point and shoots, some allow whatever. He said there is always a problem with venue regulars who bring their SLRs to shows that don't allow them, and he has to make them go back out to their cars with them.
It's just a freakin picture. Everybody has a camera phone in their pocket at this point and people enjoy taking a pictures of the neat things happening in their lives. These performers need to get over themselves. It's not like throwing rotten tomatoes.
It's just a freakin picture. Everybody has a camera phone in their pocket at this point and people enjoy taking a pictures of the neat things happening in their lives. These performers need to get over themselves. It's not like throwing rotten tomatoes.
While I'd normally agree, this no cameras trend is just a consequence of the idiotic few again ruining it for the many.
Post by well behaved antelope on Jun 26, 2013 6:31:27 GMT -5
I woke up this morning in an Allen Stone kind of mood because I had a dream about Thursday night at Bonnaroo this year. I went to his website to track his tour wondering how far I'd have to drive to see him...hmmm the Orange Peel isn't terribly far...wtf? His only free show on this side of the country is less than 2 miles from my front door. Everything is turning up Milhouse!
Post by Dave Maynar on Jun 26, 2013 11:02:01 GMT -5
So yeah... about that Chappelle disclaimer from yesterday. Here is a letter to the editor of the local alternative newspaper.
"Dear Knoxville,
You can be beautiful, brilliant, unexpected, and often surprising. But last night, you were awful. You absolutely sucked the life out of what could have been a magical evening for hundreds; you basically pushed it down, unzipped your collective flies, and urinated all over it.
I'm speaking about the show last night [June 25] at the Tennessee Theater, where well-loved comedian Dave Chappelle came to visit and to tell us some jokes. I was so excited to see Dave Chappelle. I've been a longtime fan, as I know many of you are, and was thrilled that he's come out of his quasi-reclusive state to talk to us for an hour or so. The evening started out well enough, with a local comedian who was pretty funny, and though I had to strain to hear over your incessant talking, I thought, "Surely they'll calm down for Dave."
The security people had signs asking for no heckling, cell phones, cameras, etc. I was totally fine with all of this. As a fan of comedy and a visitor of various comedy shows, I understand how frustrating it is for the audience, and the performer, to get derailed. Comedy is a tenuous thing. If done right, it can be one of the best experiences ever. Done poorly, or in an uncontrolled environment, it can be extremely uncomfortable and maddening. But the performance isn't all about the performer. It's also about the crowd. So though Dave came out to bring us the best experience, he relied on us to be there, with him, in the moment. And Knoxville, you utterly failed him. You drank too much, and had to get up to piss so many times, you didn't even hear half of his jokes. You couldn't stop talking to your date about how you loved his "black white-supremacist skit" from a show that ended nearly seven years ago, so you missed a great story, and made others around you unable to hear that story also. Between the catcalls, the heckling, and the blatant use of cameras, it was hard to enjoy anything. In fact, Dave said this was the second hardest show of the tour, second only to Myrtle Beach.
Let that sink in for a minute. Our crowd was second only to Myrtle Beach.
Dave said he'd been told "You're in Knoxville—remember that." This was said early in the show and I thought, that's strange—what does that mean? And then Knoxville showed me. I have been to a lot of shows, and yes, I have seen rowdy Knoxville crowds. But in all of my years of living in East Tennessee, I'd never been so appalled as I was by the crowds last night.
Apparently, what Dave was supposed to remember was that Knoxvillians will pay almost $60 per ticket to heckle and jeer at a national comedy icon. They'll be rowdy and raise hell because you know what? They're from Knoxville! They don't give a damn about your rules, and they want to show their asses! They are so interesting, people won't care that they're absolutely ruining a show! They're so absurdly wrong about everything, and are so oblivious—while being so proud of that fact, they're defiant when you point out what they're doing, like a petulant child.
Knoxville, you are the friend I am so ashamed of today. I have known you all my life. I know you are not completely terrible, but when you get drunk, you get loud, and when you get loud, you're an idiot. I think it's best if we don't see each other for a few days. I won't be able to look at you for a while without seeing the regret on a comedian's face at even inviting you in. Please, just get out, take your beer with you, and clean up the urine from the carpet on your way out."
Post by well behaved antelope on Jun 26, 2013 11:11:31 GMT -5
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that northeastern Tennessee doesn't translate to southeastern Tennessee. I'm probably kidding myself, but fingers crossed none-the-less. Why can't people just be quiet drunks?
Why the f*ck do people pay good money to blab their faces off? It happens all the time here, too. I will never understand.
I could understand it if it was a cheap show to an extent (i'm not doing it but i understand if others wanted to), but if you are paying $50+ for a show, you should be paying attention.
So yeah... about that Chappelle disclaimer from yesterday. Here is a letter to the editor of the local alternative newspaper.
"Dear Knoxville,
You can be beautiful, brilliant, unexpected, and often surprising. But last night, you were awful. You absolutely sucked the life out of what could have been a magical evening for hundreds; you basically pushed it down, unzipped your collective flies, and urinated all over it.
I'm speaking about the show last night [June 25] at the Tennessee Theater, where well-loved comedian Dave Chappelle came to visit and to tell us some jokes. I was so excited to see Dave Chappelle. I've been a longtime fan, as I know many of you are, and was thrilled that he's come out of his quasi-reclusive state to talk to us for an hour or so. The evening started out well enough, with a local comedian who was pretty funny, and though I had to strain to hear over your incessant talking, I thought, "Surely they'll calm down for Dave."
The security people had signs asking for no heckling, cell phones, cameras, etc. I was totally fine with all of this. As a fan of comedy and a visitor of various comedy shows, I understand how frustrating it is for the audience, and the performer, to get derailed. Comedy is a tenuous thing. If done right, it can be one of the best experiences ever. Done poorly, or in an uncontrolled environment, it can be extremely uncomfortable and maddening. But the performance isn't all about the performer. It's also about the crowd. So though Dave came out to bring us the best experience, he relied on us to be there, with him, in the moment. And Knoxville, you utterly failed him. You drank too much, and had to get up to piss so many times, you didn't even hear half of his jokes. You couldn't stop talking to your date about how you loved his "black white-supremacist skit" from a show that ended nearly seven years ago, so you missed a great story, and made others around you unable to hear that story also. Between the catcalls, the heckling, and the blatant use of cameras, it was hard to enjoy anything. In fact, Dave said this was the second hardest show of the tour, second only to Myrtle Beach.
Let that sink in for a minute. Our crowd was second only to Myrtle Beach.
Dave said he'd been told "You're in Knoxville—remember that." This was said early in the show and I thought, that's strange—what does that mean? And then Knoxville showed me. I have been to a lot of shows, and yes, I have seen rowdy Knoxville crowds. But in all of my years of living in East Tennessee, I'd never been so appalled as I was by the crowds last night.
Apparently, what Dave was supposed to remember was that Knoxvillians will pay almost $60 per ticket to heckle and jeer at a national comedy icon. They'll be rowdy and raise hell because you know what? They're from Knoxville! They don't give a damn about your rules, and they want to show their donkeys! They are so interesting, people won't care that they're absolutely ruining a show! They're so absurdly wrong about everything, and are so oblivious—while being so proud of that fact, they're defiant when you point out what they're doing, like a petulant child.
Knoxville, you are the friend I am so ashamed of today. I have known you all my life. I know you are not completely terrible, but when you get drunk, you get loud, and when you get loud, you're an idiot. I think it's best if we don't see each other for a few days. I won't be able to look at you for a while without seeing the regret on a comedian's face at even inviting you in. Please, just get out, take your beer with you, and clean up the urine from the carpet on your way out."
FWIW, Dave Chappelle was funking incredible last night. His material was hilarious, the crowd was behaving rather well.
That is, until he was getting right to the climax in a story about how he was hiding in a bush and being confronted by a homeless man and at that moment a rather obnoxious drunk yelled out something incoherent (at least it was to me and I was sitting about 15 seats directly to the side of him) and completely ruined the flow and delivery. Dave was genuinely curious about what the guy yelled out and he was to afraid to say it again. About that time the crowd and Mr. Sunshine (Dave's handler/bodyguard friend) decided it would be better to just remove the guy. He flipped out and started kicking at security who called in the cops, but the poor little lady cop was way outmatched. Soon she got some backup and it took about 6 or 7 people to remove this guy from his seat with Mr. Sunshine giving him body blows and kicks to the ribs the whole way.
The crowd at this point was uproarious but still fully behind Dave and his routine (not one Chappelle show quote the whole night - I was pleasantly shocked). At this point Dave just started riffing and getting away from his material and it really showed how quick he is on his feet. He kept a swift moving dialogue going that never wasn't funny and it was arguably better than his rehearsed material. He ended up going waaaaaay over his alotted time because he said he was really enjoying the crowd. He had scheduled another showing behind ours (that started at 7:30) for 10pm and we were not even leaving the theatre until 10:10pm. On the way out it looked like there was a very anxious crowd who had been waiting a long time to get in and it wrapped all the way around the block, sooo glad I caught the early show.
It was honestly the funniest 2 hrs of anything I've ever seen on stage. So, Dave, I really hope you get the chance to see him in a better setting in the future.
So, Dave, I really hope you get the chance to see him in a better setting in the future.
For the record, I didn't go because I didn't have the money. I just posted that letter I saw after the show because of my previous post about the special rules the Tennessee Theatre had posted on their facebook the day before. I guess the second show was rowdier because I had a friend who also went to the early show, and she said he was great. My friend who went to the late show said he was great, but the crowd was a pain in the butt.
Post by Billadelphia on Jul 2, 2013 9:12:53 GMT -5
Pretty Lights 2013 Tour Dates Lots of TBA Surprise Sets
07/02 – Brooklyn, NY @ Output 07/03 – Boston, MA @ Ocean Club 07/06 – Calgary, AB @ Badlands: Stampede Music Festival 07/20 – Thornville, OH @ All Good Music Festival 08/03 – Toronto, ON @ VELD Music Fstival 08/04 – Montreal, QC @ Osheaga Festival 08/09 – San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands 08/10 – Squamish, BC @ Squamish Festival 08/16 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre 08/17 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre 10/04-05 – New York, NY @ Rock the Bells 10/10 – Kansas City, MO @ The Midland by AMC 10/11 – St. Louis, MO @ Chaifetz Arena 10/12 – Nashville, TN @ Greer Stadium 10/13 – TBA – Surprise Performance 10/16 – Auburn, AL @ Outdoor Arena 10/18 – TBA – Surprise Performance 10/19 – TBA – Surprise Performance 10/22 – Columbia, SC @ Township Auditorium 10/23 – TBA – Surprise Performance 10/24 – Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle 10/25 – Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle 10/26 – Las Vegas, NV @ Life is Beautiful 10/27 – Atlanta, GA @ Mountain Oasis 10/29 – TBA – Surprise Performance 10/30 – Amherst, MA @ Mullins Center 10/31 – Albany, NY @ Times Union Arena 11/01 – Camden, NJ @ Susquehanna Bank Center 11/02 – Wallingford, CT @ Oakdale Theater 11/03 – TBA – Surprise Performance 11/07 – Detroit, MI @ Masonic Temple 11/08 – Chicago, IL @ TBA 11/09 – Chicago, IL @ TBA 11/10 – Chicago, IL @ TBA 11/13 – Louisville, KY @ Palace Theater 11/14 – Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom 11/15 – Lincoln, NE @ Pershing Center 11/16 – St. Paul, MN @ Myth 11/17 – Fargo, ND @ Concert Hall at The Venue 11/20 – Missoula, MT @ Adams Center 11/21 – Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory 11/22 – Seattle, WA @ Showare Center 11/23 – Portland, OR @ Memorial Coliseum 11/27 – Reno, NV @ Summit Pavilion