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This may be the worst possible time to do this (considering the lineup trend), but I've wanted to try something for years now and next year is the year! I'm going to do everything I can to completely avoid seeing the lineup for next year and still buy a ticket and go. Several years ago I had a dream that I pulled into the farm and was handed a booklet with a lineup I had never seen. It was incredible and I've decided to make it a reality. The biggest reason not to do this is that I won't get to explore the lineup and find new bands I want to see. However, I'll try to wander more and trust the advice of strangers. I'll obviously have to avoid inforoo all together but I figured I'd post this and see if anyone else might be interested in trying it. If so, we could start a community of "blind roosters"
Post by 3post1jack1 on May 23, 2016 18:20:50 GMT -5
i like your moxie, but i couldn't personally do it. i love hanging around here and talking about things too much to avoid it for a season.
having said that, if you do it, i would choose one friend who is extremely familiar with your musical tastes to assist you. when the lineup is released, this friend could at the very least give you a thumbs up or a thumbs down. i mean, next year could potentially be a really, really bad lineup. as awesome as it would be to show up on the farm and be delighted by a bunch of kick ass artists, it would be the hugest. fucking. bummer if you showed up and it was The Weekend - Lana Del Rey - Kenny Chesney, with an undercard filled with pop singers with one album and americana banjo bands that used to be christian rock, and all the late nights end at 1:30am and the superjam is DJ Snake presents EDM classics of 2009-2013.
so if you have the willpower to do it, by all means do it. it would be a lot of fun to read about your bonnaroo experience after the fact. but if the lineup is shit and you don't have a failsafe... hell i'd PM you and spoil it for you just to avoid a catastrophe.
it would be the hugest. fucking. bummer if you showed up and it was The Weekend - Lana Del Rey - Kenny Chesney, with an undercard filled with pop singers with one album and americana banjo bands that used to be christian rock, and all the late nights end at 1:30am and the superjam is DJ Snake presents EDM classics of 2009-2013.
"Why is Macklemore playing this time slot? Who canceled?" "I can't wait to see what's on late night - that's where all the good acts must be!" "Where is everyone? It's really empty this year!!!!!!"
I'd love to do this but so much of the music I discover is based around who will be playing Bonnaroo. Roman Gianarthur, Waxahatchee, Twin Peaks, Hundred Waters, Dungen, Daughter, IBEYI, Kamasi Washington, LCD Soundsystem (yeah I'm one of those people), Beach Fossils, and Natalie Prass are all artists I started listening to because of Bonnaroo this year. I won't even be seeing a few of those artists due to conflicts but I'll still listen to their music now. It might be kind of weird but it's a cycle I'm in. Half the music I discover within a year (especially the first half leading up to Bonnaroo) is because of me researching the Bonnaroo lineup.
this has the potential to be amazing or terrible. can i ask what your most ideal/realistic top 5 would be for 2017?
Neil Young - Arcade Fire - Iron Maiden - My Morning Jacket - Frank Ocean
And since it's a year ending in "7", I'll toss in Daft Punk as a wildcard
But the whole point of this would be to have little to no expectations. I would call that a wish list but I don't necessarily expect any of them to be there
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If you do this you're going to have to delete all your internet history/cookies right after purchasing the presale ticket to insure you don't get a random popup ad with the top 6 names on it. Most forms of social media would probably be a constant threat as well.
If you do this you're going to have to delete all your internet history/cookies right after purchasing the presale ticket to insure you don't get a random popup ad with the top 6 names on it. Most forms of social media would probably be a constant threat as well.
Yeah I've thought a lot about what it would mean. I would also have to unfollow a bunch of Facebook pages/people. I think I'd probably just play it safe and work in a social media cleanse while I'm at it
This may be the worst possible time to do this (considering the lineup trend), but I've wanted to try something for years now and next year is the year! I'm going to do everything I can to completely avoid seeing the lineup for next year and still buy a ticket and go. Several years ago I had a dream that I pulled into the farm and was handed a booklet with a lineup I had never seen. It was incredible and I've decided to make it a reality. The biggest reason not to do this is that I won't get to explore the lineup and find new bands I want to see. However, I'll try to wander more and trust the advice of strangers. I'll obviously have to avoid inforoo all together but I figured I'd post this and see if anyone else might be interested in trying it. If so, we could start a community of "blind roosters"
I like coming to Inforoo, also with the way Social media is, it would inevitably show up in my news feed, also the temptation to look would be too strong to resist. Also I have friends family that know about me going to Bonnaroo who would bring it up in conversations, (one of them goes with me every year).
Only way it could work would be for me to camp out in the woods in Manchester after Roo this year and wait for 2017, I'd be the ultimate wook.
"Why is Macklemore playing this time slot? Who canceled?" "I can't wait to see what's on late night - that's where all the good acts must be!" "Where is everyone? It's really empty this year!!!!!!"
I think I personally would've loved to do that this year. Just the headliners alone would've been huge pleasant surprises for me. Dead & Company aren't playing any other fests so I would've been so pumped to find out they were closing. Pearl Jam headlined my first Bonnaroo and put on one of the best shows I've ever seen. I would've assumed Bonnaroo missrd the obvious booking of LCD like they did with Outkast.
I'd love to do something like this. It would be impossible without totally staying off the Internet and away from friends that go to fests. I would try it at a smaller fest like Shaky Knees or Newport.
Alright guys. Here's my hurdle. I would really prefer to earn a street team ticket and not have to pay to go. Do you think I could strategically accept orders without seeing the lineup if I had a trusted friend scope them out for me?
Post by downonthefarm on Jun 16, 2016 22:12:04 GMT -5
I would take it a step further and not even look at the schedule once you arrive. Imagine wandering around finding something you like and staying not knowing someone you love is playing across the fest. Or catching your all time fav band as a headliner or late night totally unexpected. May be hard once you arrive everyone talking lineup and all. This is what i considered doing.
Several years ago I had a dream that I pulled into the farm and was handed a booklet with a lineup I had never seen
I almost do this since I haven't heard of half the bands who were here this year and am too lazy to look up what kinda music they play. So I have a few must sees, but the rest of the time I sorta wander around until I hear something that sounds good.
Post by dreamingtree on Jun 17, 2016 8:55:39 GMT -5
This is pretty much what I did my first year in 2006. I knew that Radiohead was playing, and that was about it. I was extremely under-prepared, and overwhelmed and literally just wandered around from stage to stage. I was SO clueless. I discovered My Morning Jacket that year, but not much else.....
I would take it a step further and not even look at the schedule once you arrive. Imagine wandering around finding something you like and staying not knowing someone you love is playing across the fest. Or catching your all time fav band as a headliner or late night totally unexpected. May be hard once you arrive everyone talking lineup and all. This is what i considered doing.
Or on the opposite side, missing one of your favorite acts because you didn't know the schedule.
Post by 10goldbees on Jun 17, 2016 10:09:22 GMT -5
I like the idea but I agree with Sang that smaller fests are a better idea for this, especially if they're really genre specific. This would be amazing for something like Moog, Big Ears, Austin Psych, NFF, Gathering of the Jugaalos, etc. That way it's an immersive introduction to a whole new genre of music instead of wandering around a big musical carnival for four days.
I'm gonna go against the consensus veteran opinion here and say that Roo is the perfect fest to do this at, or at least it would have been in the past.
You're going to hit on at least a few acts that you like, and more than likely the headliners will make 1/3rd of the ticket cost worth it on their own. On top of that, there's at least potential for the top few lines to get you really excited, since those are acts that would be headliners at a smaller festival.
I would have done this in a heartbeat after 2013, but my faith in the people behind Bonnaroo has hit a new low after this year.
There's no way I could do this; so much of the new music I listen to comes from researching the Roo lineup. If I did that this year, I wouldn't have known how badly I wanted to see Vulfpeck, or FIDLAR, or even LCD Soundsystem. I'd probably end up catching 3 songs from each band at each time slot and never really see any full sets unless I already knew who they were.
I'm gonna go against the consensus veteran opinion here and say that Roo is the perfect fest to do this at, or at least it would have been in the past.
You're going to hit on at least a few acts that you like, and more than likely the headliners will make 1/3rd of the ticket cost worth it on their own. On top of that, there's at least potential for the top few lines to get you really excited, since those are acts that would be headliners at a smaller festival.
I would have done this in a heartbeat after 2013, but my faith in the people behind Bonnaroo has hit a new low after this year.
I agree that roo would be a great place to do it. The thing is I think it would be impossible. You would have to totally avoid the internet and all of your friends, if they go to fests. You would end up having everything spoiled even if you try to avoid it, kinda like Walking Dead or GOT a day late.
I'm gonna go against the consensus veteran opinion here and say that Roo is the perfect fest to do this at, or at least it would have been in the past.
You're going to hit on at least a few acts that you like, and more than likely the headliners will make 1/3rd of the ticket cost worth it on their own. On top of that, there's at least potential for the top few lines to get you really excited, since those are acts that would be headliners at a smaller festival.
I would have done this in a heartbeat after 2013, but my faith in the people behind Bonnaroo has hit a new low after this year.
I agree that roo would be a great place to do it. The thing is I think it would be impossible. You would have to totally avoid the internet and all of your friends, if they go to fests. You would end up having everything spoiled even if you try to avoid it, kinda like Walking Dead or GOT a day late.
As much as I agree that you would have to avoid a large chunk of social media, I think it is doable (I personally wouldn't). Especially if you get your social media under lock down starting now. I personally never have shit spoiled on social media due to my notification settings and that I don't really post on it. You would just probably have to unfollow any music blog/page/group and if you have music friends you'd have to change post notifications or change your following settings. All of those things are pretty easy to do.
