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OAR (free to public; Fri Aug 29) R. Kelly (at Nationwide Arena, Fri Aug 29) Rusko (Fri) Paper Diamonds (Sat) Destructo (Sun) Future Islands Maps & Atlases Saintseneca Kap Slap The Mengzingers Roevy
Other names I found on the lineup that didn't seem to be previously mentioned: Twin Forks, OCD: Moosh & Twist, Bummers
Given that some of you live in Columbus and there are free shows (OAR, Local Natives, Cold War Kids), this isn't the worst thing ever. R. Kelly could be fun too (but I could see them overprice his show). But yikes, this won't even get me to make a 3 hour drive. I really wanted to too.
Given that some of you live in Columbus and there are free shows (OAR, Local Natives, Cold War Kids), this isn't the worst thing ever. R. Kelly could be fun too (but I could see them overprice his show). But yikes, this won't even get me to make a 3 hour drive. I really wanted to too.
A weekend of decent FREE music is always worth a drive.
Hopefully the R.Kelly show won't be super expensive, I had a BLAST at R.Kelly during Roo last year. It was tough to leave, but I really wanted to make my way over the superjam. If it's not too much, I'm totally going to R.Kelly, no shame at all.
Given that some of you live in Columbus and there are free shows (OAR, Local Natives, Cold War Kids), this isn't the worst thing ever. R. Kelly could be fun too (but I could see them overprice his show). But yikes, this won't even get me to make a 3 hour drive. I really wanted to too.
A weekend of decent FREE music is always worth a drive.
Hopefully the R.Kelly show won't be super expensive, I had a BLAST at R.Kelly during Roo last year. It was tough to leave, but I really wanted to make my way over the superjam. If it's not too much, I'm totally going to R.Kelly, no shame at all.
Well, gas isn't free. So if I wouldn't pay $40 dollars to see the free bands, then it's not necessarily worth it (Haha, yea I know, I'm being way too much of a realist right now!)
But, I'll keep watching. Usually it's easy to score free tickets to these first year festivals. And a really good schedule could get me to make it into a trip. I'm interested in Future Islands, Local Natives, O.A.R., and R. Kelly. If O.A.R. and R. Kelly don't overlap, hmm...
Soooooo. Two bands dropped out of the original schedule because R. Kelly was playing? Wonder who it was. Was there this much controversy over R. Kelly playing Bonnaroo last year? I find it shocking. One person on their Facebook said, "So they're trying to brand Columbus as a city that supports rapists?" Really? My god people. Pipe the fuck down. You either go or don't go. Just beside he's here doesn't mean you have to be involved in anyway. I hope this doesn't affect the festival. I want it to be successful.
Post by klimfactor on Jul 22, 2014 21:10:11 GMT -5
Yeah, I saw the article in Alive and saw some of the Facebook posts. It's curious because I've never heard of such an uproar about him playing anywhere else. And as an aside, I have to agree with the earlier poster: Angela Perley and the Howling Moons are awesome! A definite must see for me.
It's curious because I've never heard of such an uproar about him playing anywhere else.
My thoughts exactly. This is why I'm not understanding what the big deal is. Everything Saintseneca said in that article is cool and all, but I'm not seeing the big deal... Idk. Maybe I'm wrong and they're right. Who knows.
Plenty of time to find another headliner. Problem is they might have had to still pay R Kelly in full since it was the festival that cancelled his performance. If that's the case I doubt they have the money.
I went Friday night and most of Sunday. Crowds were really, really sparse all weekend. That had to be a huge issue for food, retail, and fashion vendors. I doubt any of them made back their fees, which were high from what I heard since FMMF really upsold this thing -- at least on the fashion side.
All fair food -- maybe one or two food trucks, which was surprising given how prevalent they are at other Columbus festivals. Beer selection was tiny -- Bud, Stella, or Shocktop -- so, again, no local (or even micro) brews for a city that prides itself on that sort of thing. Expensive too, but since the festival itself was (generally) free, I don't think one can complain.
I was impressed with how ambitious it was in terms of scale -- for instance, they had screens up behind the sound tent at the second biggest stage. They clearly expected big numbers -- and then no one went. It was also way too spread out -- fashion vendors at the convention center, free shows running from Nationwide & High to McFerson Commons, after party shows throughout the Short North area (like SXSW). Fashion didn't meet music -- they were in two totally separate areas, as far as I could tell.
The performances I saw were great -- the bands were pros and didn't seem to be bothered by playing to empty crowds. It's really a credit to them all.
After the R. Kelly debacle, I get the sense there was little community buy-in or coordination. Having it on Labor Day weekend might have also depressed turnout. (At first, I thought that could go either way.) It looks like they're planning on doing it again next year over Labor Day, but I doubt they can charge vendors what they had been charging. If it shrinks and then grows organically, that would be the way to go.
TL;DR -- To just press a button and put on a festival of that scale the first year was impressive, but it also couldn't live up to all that hype and high-end marketing. That showed when no one went.
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I went Friday night and most of Sunday. Crowds were really, really sparse all weekend. That had to be a huge issue for food, retail, and fashion vendors. I doubt any of them made back their fees, which were high from what I heard since FMMF really upsold this thing -- at least on the fashion side.
All fair food -- maybe one or two food trucks, which was surprising given how prevalent they are at other Columbus festivals. Beer selection was tiny -- Bud, Stella, or Shocktop -- so, again, no local (or even micro) brews for a city that prides itself on that sort of thing. Expensive too, but since the festival itself was (generally) free, I don't think one can complain.
I was impressed with how ambitious it was in terms of scale -- for instance, they had screens up behind the sound tent at the second biggest stage. They clearly expected big numbers -- and then no one went. It was also way too spread out -- fashion vendors at the convention center, free shows running from Nationwide & High to McFerson Commons, after party shows throughout the Short North area (like SXSW). Fashion didn't meet music -- they were in two totally separate areas, as far as I could tell.
The performances I saw were great -- the bands were pros and didn't seem to be bothered by playing to empty crowds. It's really a credit to them all.
After the R. Kelly debacle, I get the sense there was little community buy-in or coordination. Having it on Labor Day weekend might have also depressed turnout. (At first, I thought that could go either way.) It looks like they're planning on doing it again next year over Labor Day, but I doubt they can charge vendors what they had been charging. If it shrinks and then grows organically, that would be the way to go.
TL;DR -- To just press a button and put on a festival of that scale the first year was impressive, but it also couldn't live up to all that hype and high-end marketing. That showed when no one went.
That's what I was afraid of. I was trying to look at the crowd in all the pictures posted, but none were really crowd pictures- which led me to believe the turn out wasn't too great. I think that it being Labor Day weekend really hurts it. I'm surprised that they're trying to make it an annual holiday weekend thing. There's too much stuff to compete with that weekend. I also think that the lack of a real headliner hurt them too. Idk, I guess we'll see what happens next year. I hope the lack of turn out this year doesn't really hurt funding next year so that the line up sucks.
Honestly, they did nothing with the fashion side that made me interested in that aspect of the whole thing. There's is def room for improvement there.
Um, Victoria's Secret started in Columbus. You're welcome.
A) Victoria's Secret is about as fashionable as Hanes
B) It was founded in San Francisco
Ok, well it's made here. I thought it was started here, apparently I was wrong. It's definitely based out of here.
And Victorias Secret has an annual fashion show. Ergo, it's fashion. Duh.
Really though, something about Gap, Inc or Abercrombie and VS or something apparently makes us fashionable. We also have high ball Halloween which has a pretty big fashion show involved with it...
This thread was never very active, so I'm not going to start a new one. But they released the acts for 2015. Last year everything was free, but the whole thing bombed. I have hopes it'll fair better this year though. I'm not sure if they're making everything free again or not though. lostkid, could you maybe just change the thread title and take out the year?
Post by zenmastermatt on Apr 9, 2015 2:25:12 GMT -5
Well TBS has always been popular around these parts, but aside from ZZ Ward, who won my heart at Roo last season, there isn't much that interests me about this.
yea, ZZ Ward is great, and Allen Stone is really good. But those are the only two that I'd be interested in. Although I won't even be in Columbus anymore at that point
