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-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver
Post by rockthegarden82 on Apr 25, 2012 14:25:06 GMT -5
The fact is Roo wants to have as many people there as possible, so it seems to me that every time they make an addition its appealing to some group of people who are on the fence. I think these last few rounds have been trying to appeal to families (world music, R and G, Kenny Rogers). They break completely even (usually) on the bookings and make no money off of ticket sales at all, Capps was saying in an interview with NPR last year. They make almost all of their money off of shit people buy there. So it makes sense for bonnaroo to spend more on acts and barely break even with ticket sales, as long as there are as many consumers as possible brought to the event. I hope this is coherent—Im at work.
That's what I thought too horn but he's playing the CMA Music Fest in Nashville on Saturday
Ha, SUNDAY addition!???
Bonnaroo 2012 - All the bands you want to see, conveniently scheduled on the same day!
Edit* didn't mean to imply i'd be particularly mad if the ROASTER was on Sunday, I'm just generally pissed at how weak the Friday/Saturday top acts are, especially compared to Sunday.
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I was lying in a burned out basement With the full moon in my eyes. I was hoping for replacement When the sun burst thru the sky. There was a band playing in my head And I felt like getting high.
The fact is Roo wants to have as many people there as possible, so it seems to me that every time they make an addition its appealing to some group of people who are on the fence. I think these last few rounds have been trying to appeal to families (world music, R and G, Kenny Rogers). They break completely even (usually) on the bookings and make no money off of ticket sales at all, Capps was saying in an interview with NPR last year. They make almost all of their money off of poop people buy there. So it makes sense for bonnaroo to spend more on acts and barely break even with ticket sales, as long as there are as many consumers as possible brought to the event. I hope this is coherent—Im at work.
If that is true, it makes me wonder why they continue with the Sunday Jam headliner tradition. Am I wrong, or is that mainly the reason some people leave early on Sunday?
Post by rockthegarden82 on Apr 25, 2012 15:06:10 GMT -5
You're right, but I think that's for purposes of practicality. I don’t think there are too much sales during that time period, and I even got a ton of free Indian food last year because the stand closed down half-way into WSP and gave me the remainder because I knew the real names of stuff. Plus they don’t want to dissuade families and others with hectic and inflexible work schedules from attending the event if they can’t realistically leave until Monday morning and won’t be able to make it to work or school. But I’m sure that keeping people in centeroo for as long as possible, and maybe roaming between a few acts with small gaps of time in between, is part of the goal of their scheduling.
-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver