Ultra 2013 | Miami | March 15-17 AND 22-24

I really want to go to this too. I'm not sure I'm willing to drop all that money by the time it goes on sale though. Considering how fast it sells out, that probably means I wouldn't be able to buy a ticket past the first day. Does anybody know about volunteering at Ultra? I would almost definitely go if I could.

Also, for headliners, I would imagine Tiesto comes back again, as he's pretty much a mainstay by now. Deadmau5 could, but he did say last year that he hated playing Ultra, so he probably won't do it. Daft Punk would be great. I'm not sure beyond that though, since I feel like they had so many huge names last year, that I don't know how many would repeat and/or be billed higher/lower than they were last year.

They got f'n Kraftwerk this year.
They'll get Aphex Twin next year.

SHM is almost enough to get me to pull the trigger. DP and SHM there is no way im missing that. BUT at the same time, if Ultra got DP then that means Coachella DEFINITELY gets DP and I'll see them there.

24/2
best bring your tastiest pacifiers for that mess

Curfew outdoors in Miami is 12 pm. So unless they somehow managed to work something out with the city, that's unlikely.

2 weekends, a la coachella would be really great, and smart- as they could probably sell out both or come close. But I find that unlikely also.

So far they've never dropped lineup before Jan (maybe late dec at some point?) I'd be surprised to see a headliner dropped so early but it sure as hell would build huge hype

The "announcement" so far is just a 10 min promo video

2 weekends

This trend will never end.

Thats not what your mom said.

So, given this news, does it make anyone more or less likely to try to attend?

My crew already had a hotel room booked at the Hyatt Regency for the original dates, and we went ahead and got one for the new weekend as well, but that's the final few days of SXSW 2013, so I'm pretty sure we'll do "Weekend 2."

Selfishly, the two things I like about this announcement are: 1) Better opportunity to get Early Bird tickets (in theory) and 2) Larger revenue stream with which to book upper echelon talent.

I know I should probably give myself a swirlie rather than ask this, but if Ultra and Coachella each offer Daft Punk somewhere around $4 million to play both weekends of the respective fests (which is the amount Coachella allegedly paid Radiohead and Dr. Dre & Snoop), could we see a significant Daft Punk tour along both coasts in Spring 2013?

2007 Coachella was part of DP's Alive Tour was it not?

If Ultra gets DP and Coachella doesn't, I will cry.

So my big question is- will the line-ups be the same each weekend, or different?
Alot of people assumed it would be different line-ups.
I assume they're following coachella's lead and giving the same line-up each weekend
Then they posted this


This suggests that they plan to have the same artists both weekends, but playing on different stages.

but then I saw this from a NYT blogger:
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/miamis-ultra-music-festival-expands-to-two-weekends/


But what's his source? Did he just mis-understand like so many others?

Ultra is bad with communication and clarity

If I had to guess I'd it'll be about 70% the same, with 7-9 out of the top 10 playing both weekends. That's right in the middle of can't market it as the same but can't market it as different either.