Boston Calling 2017

Just wanted to say I'm THRILLED at the news about the new location. I've been hoping for a long time that they'd move, sooner rather than later, to a larger space big enough to accommodate multiple concurrent stages.

The days of "one band at time" at Boston Calling will be over in a couple of days. We're getting a big ass festival, just like other big cities have.

Future lineups will likely be as diverse and expansive as they are at the biggest festivals. All the lineup complaints anyone could ever have will be a moot point next year.

To give you some perspective about the size of the space in the photo, the football stadium alone seats 30K, not including standing room on the field. With that in mind, the space is certainly large enough for three big stages (including the stadium) far enough away from each other to run simultaneously, along with two smaller music stages/tents, plus room for the comedy stage and film screening area. (My guess is that they might do the film screening in one of the buildings).

It looks like the acreage might actually be bigger than the 53 acre Suffolk Downs (City Hall Plaza is 8 acres.)

This also means that we can start speculating about the same headliners that every other festival gets. The days of our top line being everyone else's second line are over.

I'm surprised that Harvard University agreed to this. We're going to be stomping a mudhole on every field they've got. I suspect that they'll be paid nicely for the wear-and-tear.

Big winner here will be the food trucks and beverage vendors. You may have re-entry privileges, but you're looking at a 10-15 min. walk to Harvard Square and even longer to get to the parts of Allston/Brighton with a lot of bars and eateries.

This will also work out well for people heading to The Sinclair for an aftershow. That's probably a 20 minute walk.

Memorial Day Weekend 2017 can't come soon enough!!