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Can anyone confirm on what Motorco Music Hall is like?
Considering heading down to Durham tonight after work for Bob Moses to Grimes to Odesza to Black Madonna. The venue for the first 3 is turning me off though, may just stay here in Richmond for Keller Williams and G-Love (since Dominion Riverrock is free this weekend).
First Hangout fell through due to work, then Shaky Beats...trying to come up with the best plan C.
Okay, I'll give you my thoughts on the whole Motorco set-up as it exists.
First of all, there are two venues with the same address (that of Motorco bar): the Motorco Showroom (inside and fairly small) and Motorco Park (a pretty large, temporary stage that has been set up for the duration of this festival).
I thought it would be easy to bop between the two, but last night once it hit 830/9, the line to get into the area that comprises "Motorco Park" was quite long. smellycat and another friend of mine and I left the Motorco Park area after Hundred Waters ended to go chill at the Motorco bar for a bit; about 30 mins later we prepared to reenter for Floating Points, and the line had suddenly grown exponentially and it took a solid 10/15 minutes to get back in. So then we just stayed in the Park part until we departed for home around 1.
The space around the main stage isn't huge but is fairly easy to navigate. We were able to get rail for Blood Orange with very little issue. It seemed to be a predominantly hang-back-and-chill kind of crowd around us.
I say it is worth coming down for Bob Moses>Grimes>Odesza>Black M (which is my exact schedule for the evening too, haha). You can just come into Motorco Park before Bob, stay through Odesza, then walk the ~10 minutes over to the Armory
OH. And the drink ticket thing. Really not a fan of their system...you have to stand in one line to buy "drink tickets" and then another separate line to actually acquire the drinks. This isn't a terrible idea in theory, but it was operating as kind of a clusterfuck last night.
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.
Can anyone confirm on what Motorco Music Hall is like?
Considering heading down to Durham tonight after work for Bob Moses to Grimes to Odesza to Black Madonna. The venue for the first 3 is turning me off though, may just stay here in Richmond for Keller Williams and G-Love (since Dominion Riverrock is free this weekend).
First Hangout fell through due to work, then Shaky Beats...trying to come up with the best plan C.
Okay, I'll give you my thoughts on the whole Motorco set-up as it exists.
First of all, there are two venues with the same address (that of Motorco bar): the Motorco Showroom (inside and fairly small) and Motorco Park (a pretty large, temporary stage that has been set up for the duration of this festival).
I thought it would be easy to bop between the two, but last night once it hit 830/9, the line to get into the area that comprises "Motorco Park" was quite long. smellycat and another friend of mine and I left the Motorco Park area after Hundred Waters ended to go chill at the Motorco bar for a bit; about 30 mins later we prepared to reenter for Floating Points, and the line had suddenly grown exponentially and it took a solid 10/15 minutes to get back in. So then we just stayed in the Park part until we departed for home around 1.
The space around the main stage isn't huge but is fairly easy to navigate. We were able to get rail for Blood Orange with very little issue. It seemed to be a predominantly hang-back-and-chill kind of crowd around us.
I say it is worth coming down for Bob Moses>Grimes>Odesza>Black M (which is my exact schedule for the evening too, haha). You can just come into Motorco Park before Bob, stay through Odesza, then walk the ~10 minutes over to the Armory
OH. And the drink ticket thing. Really not a fan of their system...you have to stand in one line to buy "drink tickets" and then another separate line to actually acquire the drinks. This isn't a terrible idea in theory, but it was operating as kind of a clusterfuck last night.
How did you all like Hundred Waters? I have only seen them in a festival setting (Voodoo) which wasn't ideal with a really loud band (was either Revivalists or Flow Tribe blasting at 11 across the park). I would like to see them in a club/concert venue where there would be no sound bleed in the quiet parts.
Also, with Keith Emerson's recent suicide, did Moogfest not have any Keith tributes? Seems to me he was sort of the one to put Moog on the map back in the early 70's. Thanks.
Huge thanks Rummy, you have convinced me. I shall buy you a beer (since we are at the same places and all). Tall and will likely have my standard glowsticks that look like infinity symbols on my forearms
I imagine it will be a crapload more packed for Odesza tonight (since it is the weekend and they have been selling out everywhere), but this is still sounding like the right thing to do. I think I had the opportunity to catch the first 3 acts at the other festivals I was originally planning on. And was going to catch Black Madonna after the Above and Beyond Acoustic show in Boston Tuesday (I flew up just for the night, a crazy first), but my friends I was staying with were too tired. I've seen all 4 acts other places, and they are quality live.
Does anyone have an extra ticket (please text me if so)? I currently found a 3 days pass for $75 (was only going to do Friday, but might stay tomorrow for The Orb if I end up with a 3 day for the same price). Thinking I can get one cheaper there, but would be nice not to have any hassle. I won't arrive until like 7:30.
Is Keith Emerson from Emerson, Lake, and Palmer Esteban? Would love to get a 'Lucky Man' cover live if so, have always dug that track.
Yeah. That's more of a Greg Lake song (first album) and Emerson hated the solo he dropped in it, but he was the king. I have him all time up there with Wakeman and probably Eddie Jobson or Brian Eno as the masters of modern keyboarding. There is a ton of Moog work on Tarkus and particularly Karn Evil 9 off of Brain Salad Surgery. I assumed someone would be doing a tribute...
Huge thanks Rummy, you have convinced me. I shall buy you a beer (since we are at the same places and all). Tall and will likely have my standard glowsticks that look like infinity symbols on my forearms
I imagine it will be a crapload more packed for Odesza tonight (since it is the weekend and they have been selling out everywhere), but this is still sounding like the right thing to do. I think I had the opportunity to catch the first 3 acts at the other festivals I was originally planning on. And was going to catch Black Madonna after the Above and Beyond Acoustic show in Boston Tuesday (I flew up just for the night, a crazy first), but my friends I was staying with were too tired. I've seen all 4 acts other places, and they are quality live.
Does anyone have an extra ticket (please text me if so)? I currently found a 3 days pass for $75 (was only going to do Friday, but might stay tomorrow for The Orb if I end up with a 3 day for the same price). Thinking I can get one cheaper there, but would be nice not to have any hassle. I won't arrive until like 7:30.
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Is Keith Emerson from Emerson, Lake, and Palmer Esteban? Would love to get a 'Lucky Man' cover live if so, have always dug that track.
Cool! I'm glad you decided to come
I'll be there in a few mins, wearing a navy skirt and neon green crop top. Blonde hair. I plan to be v close to rail.
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.
What a crazy weekend it turned out to be. After having to miss Hangout and Shaky Beats due to work, created a pretty outstanding Plan C:-)
Had zero idea what to expect out of Moogfest, not sure I have ever actually done a multiple indoor venue city fest before. Pulled into Durham around halfway through Bob Moses's set. Instantly found a free parking space, and followed the noise to the main stage. I still didn't yet have a ticket/wristband, but was pleasantly surprised to find that you didn't even need one. They had the street blocked off at the back of the stage. You had sight lines around the fence at 2 places, and could perfectly hear the music from just outside the gate. And the best part was there was a brewery right there, Fullsteam, and were allowed to just be hanging out walking around drinking (I even asked the cops standing around to be sure). They had an excellent IPA you could buy unopened in a can for $4 (or $12 for a 6 pack) with zero line. And plenty of portos right there too. So was able to enjoy the rest of Bob Moses's set without missing a beat, their closing track was outstanding whatever it was.
Now I had a debate with myself whether to try to find a wristband at all. If it wasn't for the Black Madonna set in the Armory later, I would have been perfectly happy with the 'free' main stage set up. But ended up finding a $250 3 day wristband for $70 after some negotiation, so couldn't pass that up. And the guy will have extra passes for Locken too, so I now have an even harder decision to make between Locken and Imagine in August.
Grimes was next, and was the most packed show I saw all weekend. Not much space anywhere, but finally found great dancing room over in the exit lane off to the right side and really enjoyed her set. A woman was there with her 2 young kids, who were starting to get restless. I gave them each lollipops after getting her permission (which left me with none, but all good, ha ha.) And stuck up a great conversation with a dude in a Bonnaroo 2014 shirt, glad I decided to actually get a pass. Grimes songs are much better live than recorded IMO. She is so manic, dancing all over the place and fiddling so much with instruments. Seems like the kind of woman just naturally hyper, but one could easily think that she did ALL the coke before her set:-)
Odesza were next, and played a fantastic set. Think this was my 4th time seeing them in the past year. The first was Hangout last year, and it was completely lackluster and disappointing. Each time has gotten better, think part of it is they are meant to be at night (lights always help a show, especially more downtempo music). Found a spot right in the middle with perfect sound, sight, and room to dance around. It drizzled a little, to which Odesza commented "leave it to the Seattle boys to bring the rain", but never enough to bother putting on my raincoat. I love that they have a band playing with them, but think they could really still benefit from a live vocalist or 3. It was outstanding when they did on the Coachella stream last year, regardless of how much more expensive it is to add another bandmate.
After that had no idea how to get to any of the other venues (not like I had a festival map or anything), just followed a crowd through the city hoping to not be led astray. Was about a 15 minute walk to the other handful of venues, turned out to be no big deal. 5 minutes through the line, and I was inside the Armory. Robert Hood was quite good spinning techno when I arrived. Minimal will never be my favorite, but you can still have fun dancing if you try. He handed off the decks to Black Madonna, and she played a very fun set (I have no idea what genre to classify her stuff, disco techno?). Stayed there until she ended (somewhere around 2). Turns out my mom only lives 10 minutes from the venue, so added bonus there.
Wasn't originally planning on returning, but I did have a 3 day pass so why not? Returned to Moogfest at about 9:15 after a very promising date (something else out of the blue). Caught a few minutes of 'sonn O)))', craziness. Combination of metal and Gregorian Chanting. Experimental music at this festival for sure, ha ha.
Arrive at the Armory about 20 minutes before The Orb starts to find DISASTER. Ridiculous line that does not appear to be moving. After some investigating, learn that they are at capacity and are not letting anyone else in (not even VIP pass holders). This was my #1 act of the day, been trying to catch them for like 8 years now. But there is nothing I can do.
And this is the downfall of city fests. Not being able to see top acts is a travesty. Why they didn't have The Orb at the main stage I have no idea. Not sure how early you would have had to arrive to get inside, but it was likely over an hour when you didn't have this same problem for any earlier shows (making it pretty hard to plan around). The same thing happened at Explosions of the Sky later, venue was already at capacity over an hour before their start time. Baloney, having to sacrifice 2 hours for 1 act is certainly not something I look for in a festival (more power to those who camp all day for rails, something I would never personally do missing other fun times).
But I accepted the inevitable and shrugged it off. Went and ate an outstanding pizza (there were nice foodtrucks all over the place) and explored the other offerings. Some weird ambient tunes being played in the Carolina theater, so much smoke (from fog machines) you could barely see. Definitely not my thing. Heard another few strange things on the walk, ended up back at the main stage.
Oh my, talk about meant to be. Had never heard of the artist before and had zero chance of seeing this if not for being locked out of The Orb. Dawn was just coming out, and they played an absolutely fantastic set. I didn't know R&B could reach such levels (rarely enjoy the genre), the production and dancing were totally on point. It was a futuristic fusion between EDM and R&B, so freaking good. There was this visual of a babies doing matrix style jumping around, nuts. So happy to have experienced it, my set of the festival. They would be absolutely perfect in a tent late night Bonnaroo (and I know how sacred those spaces are).
Went back to the Armory afterwards (zero line this time!) for a few hours of DJ Harvey. He was fun too, spinning all kinds of un-classifiable stuff. I like how he just had a single headphone cup on a stick, rather than actual headphones. I really must invest in something like that, NEVER cover both ears when I am DJing either (too dangerous not to hear what is going on in the room around you and missing a mix).
All in all had a blast and definitely glad I went. Good times overall, but certainly a few rare complaints from me:
-Unfortunate that the parking lot for the main stage wasn't level, get so much more muscle sore. I avoid sloped floors when possible for this reason, but hard to get away from it here.
-Completely annoying that you couldn't bring a beer outside of the main stage. There were literally people drinking right outside the gate, but "those were the rules". I had just bought a beer with my last remaining beer tickets (always an annoying system over just buying it when you get the beer) and couldn't of imagined this would be a rule. So I turned around, put my coat over my beer and still walked right out of the other exit. I make my own rules, ha ha.
-No water bottles at the beer tents, only available from the 1 really long liquor line. Ridiculous, and dangerous not to be able to get water.
-City fest capacity issues. I have read about these before, but over an hour early is simply too much time to be standing around during a festival.
Will absolutely return next year if there is not a better conflicting festival that same week. Sorry to have missed you Rummy, didn't see that message until today:-(
Oh, and just to top the weekend off I randomly stopped by the main theater in Richmond on the way home. Found a $75 ticket for Blue Man Group for half price, 2nd row on the grand tier (literally almost the best seats in the house). Another excellent show. Amazing that I had never seen Blue Man Group before in all these years (like 30 million people have), but now I have too:-)
Wasn't originally planning on returning, but I did have a 3 day pass so why not? Returned to Moogfest at about 9:15 after a very promising date (something else out of the blue). Caught a few minutes of 'sonn O)))', craziness. Combination of metal and Gregorian Chanting. Experimental music at this festival for sure, ha ha.
-Completely annoying that you couldn't bring a beer outside of the main stage. There were literally people drinking right outside the gate, but "those were the rules". I had just bought a beer with my last remaining beer tickets (always an annoying system over just buying it when you get the beer) and couldn't of imagined this would be a rule. So I turned around, put my coat over my beer and still walked right out of the other exit. I make my own rules, ha ha.
I also had a really promising date and also snuck beers around in my jacket.
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So I guess they may not be announcing artists today? They also mentioned that single day passes will not be sold this year.
The Management / Communications / Operations of this fest leaves a lot to be desired.....
"Philadelphia's Moor Mother, Michigan band Wolf Eyes, and S U R V I V E members Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein are among the first artists to be announced on the lineup for Moogfest 2017. The festival will take place in its regular location of Durham, North Carolina from May 18–21.
Other acts so far announced include Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs collaborating with The Haxan Cloak, new age veteran Laraaji, and American artist Nona Hendryx.
For their performance, Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein will perform selections from their beloved score for the Netflix show Stranger Things. Meanwhile, Hendryx will do a special presentation on wearable electronic instruments.
Wolf Eyes will present a workshop and conversation on sonic protest, while Brooklyn label RVNG Intl. will present two workshops, one each with label signees Visible Cloaks and Syrinx."
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.
Is anything happening with this fest? Their website still hasn't even updated to list those acts announced 3 weeks ago.
They decided to slowly unveil the lineup through emails every Tuesday for 11 weeks. I think there's been 3 announcements so far, but they've all been for the Future Thought presenters, no artists yet, though inferring from some of the presenters I would bet S U R V I V E and KING among others will be performing. There should be another announcement today. I'm hoping it's related to artists playing.
Jesus Christ this is taking forever. Bonnaroo, take note. This is more of a pain in the ass than the MySpace release.
They really did manage to kill any momentum/hype they might have had. I was initially very excited for the possibility of this fest, but I have to wonder what kind of lineup they have at this point.
In Wave 9, we reveal the 2017 music lineup led by Flying Lotus, Animal Collective, Gotye, Suzanne Ciani, Derrick May, 808 State, Jessy Lanza, Simian Mobile Disco, Moor Mother, Syrinx, Visible Cloaks, Princess Nokia, and Function.
Over forty of the artists announced today will also participate in the Future Thought daytime program including Flying Lotus, Animal Collective, MNDSGN, Sudan Archives, Deantoni Parks, DJ Greg Belson, Nona Hendryx, KING, Syrinx, Visible Cloaks, Princess Nokia, Russell E.L. Butler, Elysia Crampton, K-Hand, Colleen, Elon Katz, Marisa Anderson, Mary Lattimore, Pharmakon, Noveller, Container, S U R V I V E, and Wolf Eyes.
Tributes to those we have lost will be led by Gotye, The Center for Deep Listening, and Peanut Butter Wolf. Gotye will honor the late French electronic music pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey with an intimate performance alongside his Ondioline Orchestra, The Center for Deep Listening will present daily workshops that celebrate the teachings of the late Pauline Oliveros, who prior to her sudden passing had been scheduled to appear at Moogfest 2017, and Peanut Butter Wolf will perform a tribute DJ set with a special section dedicated to synth legends like Keith Emerson and Bernie Worrell.
