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Seems like a lot of crossover this year between Lolla and Firefly: Paul McCartney, Kid Cudi, Kygo, Gary Clark Jr., Walk the Moon, Cold War Kids, Sylvan Esso, Sturgill Simpson, Tove Lo, Odesza, Charli XCX, Logic, Glass Animals, The Chainsmokers, DJ Mustard, Twin Peaks, Broods, Ryn Weaver, Night Terrors of 1927, Alison Wonderland, Zella Day, Børns, Skylar Spence, Halsey, SNBRN, Raury, and Vérité.
A lot of notable differences too, though. I'm still feeling okay with the Firefly lineup.
I'm not going to let other fests' lineups bring me down about FF, since I know that I'm going and will have fun.
That said, Lolla is fucking incredible this year and I'm 110% jealous of what they got. But Lolla always has it stacked as shit...and I don't really want to spend 300/400 plus dollars on a fest ticket where every night ends at 10 pm, personally.
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
Post by greekster346 on Mar 25, 2015 9:33:29 GMT -5
Obviously having paul as the headliner is huge but I'm not a fan of Metallica at all and as far as Sam Smith I find his music very boring. And aside from all the extra edm at lolla there is like almost 30 cross over acts between them and firefly. I'm not saying it's a bad lineup i just am not a big fan but that's only my opinion obviously
Care to elaborate? Lolla's lineup absolutely wipes the floor with Firefly's. It's not even close.
That's true, but prob not fair to say. Who's lineup in the US can standup to their lineup besides Coachella?
Exactly. I am not gonna waste energy being sad that Lolla's lineup is better than FF's because was anyone expecting that not to be the case? Aside from 2014, Lolla consistently books incredible lineups. No need to let that get you down about FF - two very separate entities.
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
Seems like a lot of crossover this year between Lolla and Firefly: Paul McCartney, Kid Cudi, Kygo, Gary Clark Jr., Walk the Moon, Cold War Kids, Sylvan Esso, Sturgill Simpson, Tove Lo, Odesza, Charli XCX, Logic, Glass Animals, The Chainsmokers, DJ Mustard, Twin Peaks, Broods, Ryn Weaver, Night Terrors of 1927, Alison Wonderland, Zella Day, Børns, Skylar Spence, Halsey, SNBRN, Raury, and Vérité.
A lot of notable differences too, though. I'm still feeling okay with the Firefly lineup.
I'm not going to let other fests' lineups bring me down about FF, since I know that I'm going and will have fun.
That said, Lolla is fucking incredible this year and I'm 110% jealous of what they got. But Lolla always has it stacked as shit...and I don't really want to spend 300/400 plus dollars on a fest ticket where every night ends at 10 pm, personally.
This is they key for me. I'd love to go to Lolla but it's apples and oranges to Firefly/Bonnaroo/Coachella. No camping, it ends early, and headliners go on at the same time. It's probably more comparable to Hangout, generally speaking.
I'm not going to let other fests' lineups bring me down about FF, since I know that I'm going and will have fun.
That said, Lolla is fucking incredible this year and I'm 110% jealous of what they got. But Lolla always has it stacked as shit...and I don't really want to spend 300/400 plus dollars on a fest ticket where every night ends at 10 pm, personally.
This is they key for me. I'd love to go to Lolla but it's apples and oranges to Firefly/Bonnaroo/Coachella. No camping, it ends early, and headliners go on at the same time. It's probably more comparable to Hangout, generally speaking.
Hangout doesn't end that early, does it? Plus Hangout is on the beachhhhh man. Lolla is just a shit ton of people piled into a huge area of cement-covered ground (or maybe it is grass/dirt, idk).
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
I'm not jealous of Lolla's lineup at all. Plenty of crossover but Lollapalooza consistently has the worst conflicts of any festival. They have a curfew of 10 which sucks in itself but they really stack the acts on top of one another. Is Paul going to start at 7? Friday it'll likely be Paul vs The Weeknd Vs Kaskade or something to that effect. Last year they had Arctic Monkeys Vs Eminem Vs Phantogram Vs Zedd. It is great to have options but its another thing to be uninterested during the day and then only having maybe 6 hours of acts that you want to see and then pay again for aftershows. Firefly's Friday lineup I think will really deliver a great top to bottom 12+ hours of music.
I'm not jealous of Lolla's lineup at all. Plenty of crossover but Lollapalooza consistently has the worst conflicts of any festival. They have a curfew of 10 which sucks in itself but they really stack the acts on top of one another. Is Paul going to start at 7? Friday it'll likely be Paul vs The Weeknd Vs Kaskade or something to that effect. Last year they had Arctic Monkeys Vs Eminem Vs Phantogram Vs Zedd. It is great to have options but its another thing to be uninterested during the day and then only having maybe 6 hours of acts that you want to see and then pay again for aftershows. Firefly's Friday lineup I think will really deliver a great top to bottom 12+ hours of music.
I am definitely jealous of their lineup, taken at face value - but not jealous of everything else you just described, because it is by way of those conditions that I wouldn't get to see even half of what I felt passionately about seeing. Maybe this is a weird take on it, but I'd actually feel perpetually stressed being at a festival where nearly every show I was at (past 4 pm or whatever) was slightly tainted by the nagging thought in the back of my head of "but ____ and ____ is also playing right now, did I make the right decision, am I missing a better show than the one I'm at right now?" etc. etc.
Sure, festivals like Roo and FF also unavoidably have some bad conflicts, based upon personal tastes, but it isn't hours upon hours of terrible conflicts for which to try and make the right decision.
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
I'm really not that impressed with lolla lineup they have a ton of EDM I def think Firefly has more quality bands!
Care to elaborate? Lolla's lineup absolutely wipes the floor with Firefly's. It's not even close.
Eh, I'm bored at work so I'll play. All opinions, and probably too much effort, but here we go.
I think "wipes the floor" is a bit of an overstatement. We start seeing overlap around Cudi, Kygo, Gary Clark Jr - and they're all billed in similar locations. Is billing order a fail-proof way to compare? No - but it's the best metric I have. It's safe to say that the Lollapallooza lineup is deeper, but given it's history, reputation as a "big 3", and the fact that it's 10% larger in capacity this year - nobody should be surprised.
It's also packed with EDM "cheese" - which surprises me that many of you are so impressed. I guess Firefly could've shoved some more Aoki-esque Nicky Romero's up top to make it deeper, too.
There are a ton of acts that I wish we had: Bassnectar, Alt-J, Of Monsters and Men, Alesso, Kaskade, Dillon Francis, War on Drugs and The Wombats to name a few. They'll come through next year or the one after that, as every single other act that we envy will. We also have a solid number of great acts on the lineup that they don't.
Artist
Firefly Billing
Lollapalooza Billing
Paul
1
1
Kid Cudi
11
14
Kygo
20
19
Gary Clark Jr
19
21
Walk the Moon
24
27
Cold War Kids
25
32
Sylvan Esso
38
38
Sturgill Simpson
47
41
Tove Lo
29
42
Odesza
31
45
Charli XCX
27
46
Logic
33
47
Glass Animals
49
48
Chainsmokers
22
50
DJ Mustard
36
55
Twin Peaks
84
57
Broods
34
61
Ryn Weaver
46
67
Nights Terrors
82
80
Alison Wonderland
53
82
Zella Day
72
88
BORNS
89
91
Skylar Spence
81
82
Hasley
75
86
SNBRN
96
90
Raury
62
97
Verite
63
101
Also, Lollapalooza is full of children and I have to pay for a hotel, and for that reason,
This is they key for me. I'd love to go to Lolla but it's apples and oranges to Firefly/Bonnaroo/Coachella. No camping, it ends early, and headliners go on at the same time. It's probably more comparable to Hangout, generally speaking.
Hangout doesn't end that early, does it? Plus Hangout is on the beachhhhh man. Lolla is just a shit ton of people piled into a huge area of cement-covered ground (or maybe it is grass/dirt, idk).
11 for hangout. personally i dislike camping and prefer the city fest where i can go out and explore the city nightlife afterwards or in hangouts case go party on the beach outside of my condo.
At least you would get to take advantage of your comfortable hotel bed at Lolla and sleep in late due to nothing worthwhile happening before 5 pm.
Yeah, but three days of 5-10 pm music doesn't quite constitute the price tag of the ticket for me.
And Firefly might have the rep for lots of college kids in attendance, but isn't Lolla FULL of 15/16 year olds? No thx.
None of this is to take away from how good the Lolla lineup is - because in my opinion, it is fucking impressive. As an overall festival experience though, I'm not so interested.
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
I'm not jealous of Lolla's lineup at all. Plenty of crossover but Lollapalooza consistently has the worst conflicts of any festival. They have a curfew of 10 which sucks in itself but they really stack the acts on top of one another. Is Paul going to start at 7? Friday it'll likely be Paul vs The Weeknd Vs Kaskade or something to that effect. Last year they had Arctic Monkeys Vs Eminem Vs Phantogram Vs Zedd. It is great to have options but its another thing to be uninterested during the day and then only having maybe 6 hours of acts that you want to see and then pay again for aftershows. Firefly's Friday lineup I think will really deliver a great top to bottom 12+ hours of music.
I am definitely jealous of their lineup, taken at face value - but not jealous of everything else you just described, because it is by way of those conditions that I wouldn't get to see even half of what I felt passionately about seeing. Maybe this is a weird take on it, but I'd actually feel perpetually stressed being at a festival where nearly every show I was at (past 4 pm or whatever) was slightly tainted by the nagging thought in the back of my head of "but ____ and ____ is also playing right now, did I make the right decision, am I missing a better show than the one I'm at right now?" etc. etc.
Sure, festivals like Roo and FF also unavoidably have some bad conflicts, based upon personal tastes, but it isn't hours upon hours of terrible conflicts for which to try and make the right decision.
Thats fair enough. I just think Lollapalooza is something I'd do for a single day and use the rest of the weekend to see the city and maybe go to an aftershow or two. The scheduling is just a dealbreaker for me to ever consider a full weekend.
Also on another note if anyone here is from the CT/RI area Misterwives are doing a free show at the Wolfs Den at Mohegan on April 2nd. It's only advertised on the Mohegan website.
So any odds that Firefly makes a couple late add-ons? Who would you like to see?
Artists I would love to see get added on would be Galantis, Madeon, or Porter Robinson to close out the Festival as a late add for Sunday. But it's totally wishful thinking at this point
Post by Jeremy Jamm on Mar 25, 2015 14:06:19 GMT -5
I would be ecstatic if they added Porter for Sunday to close. That would be perfect. Of course, there are plenty of EDM acts as it is and not many traditional rock or alt rock bands, so I'd like to see an addition or two there.
Also, I'm actually beginning to wonder if Morrissey is actually going to get the pre-headliner main stage act. At first glance, it would seem like a slam dunk. But then again, the younger demographic probably isn't familiar with him to begin with, much less cares about him. Then Paul McCartney himself isn't as appealing to a large portion of the younger demographic (as we've seen by the face palm worthy Facebook posts). So to go back to back on the main stage may not be the most appealing for Firefly. It may be that Morrissey gets the preheadliner Lawn or Backyard close out, while Modest Mouse or Cage goes pre-Paul on the main stage.
Considering you've found the need to respond to my threads as if you are threatened by me I offer you some peace my confused counterpart. May you find peace in your restless soul.
Post by imalikindamusic on Mar 25, 2015 17:27:32 GMT -5
Hey guys, now that McCartney is at Lolla I'm planning on selling my Firefly pass. I live in Chicago, so it just makes a lot more sense to go to Lolla. I'll be bummed out on missing Snoop and all that good stuff. Anyways, if any of you guys have a friend that's still looking for a ticket. I'd totally be willing to sell mine.
From the videos I've seen online, drake is horrible live, thats why i have coachella and ball so low, i would rank shakey knees slightly higher if it had some EDM or rap, even though i understand its not that type of fest. But overall i think Lolla and Roo whipped the floor with everyone. Ill most likely be attending FF and Bunbury because of how close they are to me, hoping FF can do a slightly better job next year, especially with delivery.
Hey guys, now that McCartney is at Lolla I'm planning on selling my Firefly pass. I live in Chicago, so it just makes a lot more sense to go to Lolla. I'll be bummed out on missing Snoop and all that good stuff. Anyways, if any of you guys have a friend that's still looking for a ticket. I'd totally be willing to sell mine.
If you guys could choose two out of four between roo, lolla, ff, and osheaga, which would you do coming from the Boston area? I'm trying to get the best bang for my buck without too much overlap. all things equal I would probably choose lolla and roo, but they are the two furthest away and likely to cost me the most. I also don't like the idea of how conflicted lolla is ending at 10. decisions, decisions