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When have tickets sold out in the past? And when are tickets expected to be off sale this year?
I've got a few friends on the fence about coming but I'm trying to convince them to buy their tickets asap. It will be easier to convince them if I have a specific cut-off date.
I'm calling it right here. Bonnaroo won't sell out this year. If it does they will just say it did. How can anyone justify a true sell out or not? 80,000 is the same as 70,000 compacted into a farm in my opinion.
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My guess is that they'll sell out in about 2 weeks. Barring an terrible line up, I believe Bonnaroo will sell out each year from here on out as long as it exists. Music festivals are becoming more and more popular, Bonnaroo just needs to make sure they have consistent line ups.
My guess is that they'll sell out in about 2 weeks. Barring an terrible line up, I believe Bonnaroo will sell out each year from here on out as long as it exists. Music festivals are becoming more and more popular, Bonnaroo just needs to make sure they have consistent line ups.
I don't know...Bonnaroo is a different beast compared to most festivals. It takes a certain type of person to travel to the middle of nowhere in Tennessee to camp out in brutal conditions for 4 days. It is true that festivals are becoming the cool thing to do, but I don't think Bonnaroo will have sell-out years unless the lineup is really strong. And by really strong, I mean lots of big name recognition like last year.
This year is fantastic talent-wise, but most people I talk to don't know the majority of artists. And the only way you're going to get a lot of people to go to Roo is to just have a knockout lineup.
I think it's more along the lines of "If the lineup is incredible, it will sell out" as opposed to "If the lineup doesn't completely suck, it will sell out".
My guess is that they'll sell out in about 2 weeks. Barring an terrible line up, I believe Bonnaroo will sell out each year from here on out as long as it exists. Music festivals are becoming more and more popular, Bonnaroo just needs to make sure they have consistent line ups.
Terrible line up? What were you wanting? You have two sets of Phish, RHCP and Radiohead headlining. You have some really big up and coming EDM musicians (Big Gigantic, SBTRKT, Major Lazer, Mimosa). You have great lesser know bands (ALO, Devil Makes Three, LP). You have Danzig from the Misfits, you have freaking Sam Bush. You have Rod y Gab with a 13 piece orchestra. You have Luda and Black Star, performing good hip hop. You have Umphrey's. You have Dispatch, one of the greatest testaments of independent music. This years lineup is far from terrible.
My guess is that they'll sell out in about 2 weeks. Barring an terrible line up, I believe Bonnaroo will sell out each year from here on out as long as it exists. Music festivals are becoming more and more popular, Bonnaroo just needs to make sure they have consistent line ups.
Terrible line up? What were you wanting? You have two sets of Phish, RHCP and Radiohead headlining. You have some really big up and coming EDM musicians (Big Gigantic, SBTRKT, Major Lazer, Mimosa). You have great lesser know bands (ALO, Devil Makes Three, LP). You have Danzig from the Misfits, you have freaking Sam Bush. You have Rod y Gab with a 13 piece orchestra. You have Luda and Black Star, performing good hip hop. You have Umphrey's. You have Dispatch, one of the greatest testaments of independent music. This years lineup is far from terrible.
I'm not bashing this years lineup. I'm saying unless there is a bad lineup, expect Bonnaroo to sell out.
My guess is that they'll sell out in about 2 weeks. Barring an terrible line up, I believe Bonnaroo will sell out each year from here on out as long as it exists. Music festivals are becoming more and more popular, Bonnaroo just needs to make sure they have consistent line ups.
I don't know...Bonnaroo is a different beast compared to most festivals. It takes a certain type of person to travel to the middle of nowhere in Tennessee to camp out in brutal conditions for 4 days. It is true that festivals are becoming the cool thing to do, but I don't think Bonnaroo will have sell-out years unless the lineup is really strong. And by really strong, I mean lots of big name recognition like last year.
This year is fantastic talent-wise, but most people I talk to don't know the majority of artists. And the only way you're going to get a lot of people to go to Roo is to just have a knockout lineup.
I think it's more along the lines of "If the lineup is incredible, it will sell out" as opposed to "If the lineup doesn't completely suck, it will sell out".
That's definitely true and a good point. The only thing I would say is that there are many surrounding cities so traveling to the middle of nowhere for a music festival isn't as crazy as it sounds.
There is no way in hell there were 120k attendees last year.
80K GA + ??? VIP + Workers/Volunteers/Artists/etc...it isn't outlandish to think 120K is a possibility.
The 80k is VIP plus GA and volunteers, and there is no way there is a 2-1 ratio of workers to attendees. If you paid 40k people a average of 1000$ for four days work you would then have a 40 million pay roll.
80K GA + ??? VIP + Workers/Volunteers/Artists/etc...it isn't outlandish to think 120K is a possibility.
The 80k is VIP plus GA and volunteers, and there is no way there is a 2-1 ratio of workers to attendees. If you paid 40k people a average of 1000$ for four days work you would then have a 40 million pay roll.
Yeah there's no way. The max may have been 85-90K. The 80K number for attendees included VIP and Vols. Maybe 10k more with staff and musicians but that's still too high I believe.
Terrible line up? What were you wanting? You have two sets of Phish, RHCP and Radiohead headlining. You have some really big up and coming EDM musicians (Big Gigantic, SBTRKT, Major Lazer, Mimosa). You have great lesser know bands (ALO, Devil Makes Three, LP). You have Danzig from the Misfits, you have freaking Sam Bush. You have Rod y Gab with a 13 piece orchestra. You have Luda and Black Star, performing good hip hop. You have Umphrey's. You have Dispatch, one of the greatest testaments of independent music. This years lineup is far from terrible.
I'm not bashing this years lineup. I'm saying unless there is a bad lineup, expect Bonnaroo to sell out.
My bad. I'm still surprised it hasn't sold out but apparently everyone else isn't.
80K GA + ??? VIP + Workers/Volunteers/Artists/etc...it isn't outlandish to think 120K is a possibility.
The 80k is VIP plus GA and volunteers, and there is no way there is a 2-1 ratio of workers to attendees. If you paid 40k people a average of 1000$ for four days work you would then have a 40 million pay roll.
True...although volunteers wouldn't affect the payroll, but its obvious they wouldn't amount to tens of thousands. The one thing that I would dispute though is that VIP + GA is 80K. I've seen many places that GA alone is 80,000. I'd love to be proven wrong though.
Post by Vector Viking on May 2, 2012 13:46:43 GMT -5
This year's lineup is the best since 2008. Completely kicks the crap out of last year. I expected it to sell out pretty quickly, but keep in mind that Bonnaroo selling out of tickets is sort of a nebulous thing. If they want to sell more tickets, they'll just keep leasing land around the farm until sales start to trickle, then they'll shut off the ticket spigot. Plus there's -some- competition with CMA Music Fest, and that we don't have the population density that southern California does with Coachella. As far as I'm aware, 2004 still holds the attendance record at 90,000.
If I remember correctly, the Bonnaroo email list usually gets a "tickets WILL sell out in the next few days" warning message when they start to run low. There's really no way for us to know when / if its going to sell out until that point. Sell out or not, they usually put some tickets on sale at the radio station in manchester (WFTZ on Hillsboro Blvd) on Wednesday/Thursday . I always pass a line of people trying to buy them when I'm driving in. Don't worry. You'll get your tickets one way or another.
The 80k is VIP plus GA and volunteers, and there is no way there is a 2-1 ratio of workers to attendees. If you paid 40k people a average of 1000$ for four days work you would then have a 40 million pay roll.
Yeah there's no way. The max may have been 85-90K. The 80K number for attendees included VIP and Vols. Maybe 10k more with staff and musicians but that's still too high I believe.
80K paid attendees (GA+VIP), 20K staff and volunteers, 3-5K? artists/performers/crews/guests
They really do have about 20K people working there, including volunteers. It's quite the operation they have going on. Vendors, catering, production, clean vibes, sanitation (porto cleaners), security, parking staff......
This year's lineup is the best since 2008. Completely kicks the crap out of last year. I expected it to sell out pretty quickly, but keep in mind that Bonnaroo selling out of tickets is sort of a nebulous thing. If they want to sell more tickets, they'll just keep leasing land around the farm until sales start to trickle, then they'll shut off the ticket spigot. Plus there's -some- competition with CMA Music Fest, and that we don't have the population density that southern California does with Coachella. As far as I'm aware, 2004 still holds the attendance record at 90,000.
Why does the phrase "ticket spigot" make me so giggly?
Last year pretty much from pre-sale on they seemed to post once or twice a week about how quick tickets were selling. Haven't seen any of that this year.
This year's lineup is the best since 2008. Completely kicks the crap out of last year. I expected it to sell out pretty quickly, but keep in mind that Bonnaroo selling out of tickets is sort of a nebulous thing. If they want to sell more tickets, they'll just keep leasing land around the farm until sales start to trickle, then they'll shut off the ticket spigot. Plus there's -some- competition with CMA Music Fest, and that we don't have the population density that southern California does with Coachella. As far as I'm aware, 2004 still holds the attendance record at 90,000.
Not to split hairs but 09 was a much better lineup than this year.
If I remember correctly, the Bonnaroo email list usually gets a "tickets WILL sell out in the next few days" warning message when they start to run low. There's really no way for us to know when / if its going to sell out until that point. Sell out or not, they usually put some tickets on sale at the radio station in manchester (WFTZ on Hillsboro Blvd) on Wednesday/Thursday . I always pass a line of people trying to buy them when I'm driving in. Don't worry. You'll get your tickets one way or another.
This is incorrect. You have to live in coffee or one of the surrounding counties to buy a tick at the radio station. They will check your ID to make sure live in the area.
My bad. I'm still surprised it hasn't sold out but apparently everyone else isn't.
Seriously this! I'm pretty surprised it hasn't sold out myself. RHCP, Radiohead, Phish, Avette Bros, for any one of those bands individually you would spend at least 2/3 the ticket price of Roo to get a decent seat.
In response to the OP, I'm not getting the feeling it will sell out so I think any one waiting last minute to get tix will be safe.......maybe.
