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As of now I still want the ticket. I really don't think that will change.
am i able to just transfer it into your name or something like that whenever you want it? the sooner i get rid of it the sooner ill stop being bummed i cant go lol
i can help take your mind off that pain right now sir.
My friends grandmother saw them written on his wristband one year and said it was bad news. She kept calling it luh-wah , something about some voodoo shit.
She's from Pierre Part and primarily speaks french. So I always just stuck with her pronunciation.
Post by readyforfestseason91 on Jun 6, 2017 11:00:44 GMT -5
Personally wasn't sure what I was going to plan on for voodoo before the lineup since I'm doing iifenis beautiful fest, but with living 2 hrs from Nola and actually being someone who's favorite band is the killers and a strong music love for Kendrick and Foo Fighters I won't pass this up for $140. I personally don't care for LCD but it's cool to see them on there for peeps who I know on here love them! I will say dissapointed not to see anymore hip hop I like on there but glad to see prophets of rage, live, and especially Cold War Kids since it's the one year I missed at Hangout Fest and head and the heart since I missed them at Hangout this past year while there. I'll check out some others and pretty sure it will be worth my ticket.
Keith Spera who is our best music writer of the main 2 newspapers in the city (Offbeat is the best of all) has some information in the lineup release about what they're doing this year. One particularly cool thing was that they offered Charles Bradley a contract the day he pulled out last year from the stomach cancer. Good karma and good job there.
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Foo Fighters, Kendrick Lamar, the Killers and LCD Soundsystem will headline the 2017 Voodoo Fest in New Orleans over Halloween weekend, organizers announced Tuesday.
The roster also includes the Head and the Heart, Miguel, DJ Snake, Cold War Kids, Brand New, the Afghan Whigs, Galantis, Charles Bradley and Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness. They’ll join dozens of additional artists on four stages at the City Park Festival Grounds Oct. 27-29.
Tickets for what is formally the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. A three-day general admission pass is $140 plus taxes and fees, the same price as 2016.
The 19th Voodoo Fest overall is only the second edition curated by C3 Presents, the Live Nation Entertainment subsidiary that also produces the Austin City Limits Festival in Texas and Lollapalooza in Chicago. Voodoo founder Stephen Rehage is no longer involved.
Don Kelly and Sig Greenebaum, two holdovers from the Rehage years, are Voodoo’s co-directors. In 2016, their first year in charge, they enjoyed picture-perfect weather for headliners The Weeknd, Tool and Arcade Fire. Total attendance was 150,000, a sizable uptick from previous years.
They also revamped the festival map and made other improvements. The mindset going into 2017, Kelly said, is, “How can we take what we did last year that was successful and improve on it? We’re not going to sit on our laurels.”
Changes to the stage configuration in 2016 greatly reduced sound bleed; the layout this year will be essentially the same. The hugely popular “vac toilets” – toilets that flush via a vacuum system – will return in 2017. They’re more expensive to lease than portalets, Kelly said, but “are worth every extra dollar.”
The improved restroom experience generated considerable goodwill last year. “The No. 1 pain point of any festival is the bathrooms,” Greenebaum said. “For people to talk about the bathrooms being a great part of Voodoo – that’s a win.”
They’ll also implement an innovation from other C3-produced festivals: Selling merch in an enclosed, climate-controlled, retail store-like setting instead of from a booth where customers, as Greenebaum described it, must “squint their eyes and say, ‘Can I see No. 10?’”
The creative team from the Mortuary haunted house will once again build a haunted graveyard on the Voodoo site. The carnival rides will be back again, as will the colorful flag motif that dressed up the grounds. The popular Brew Dat craft beer tent will be expanded.
Such niceties aside, a festival is largely defined by its headliners.
Foo Fighters, one of the world’s most popular rock bands, have an extensive history with New Orleans dating to an especially sweaty set at the 2012 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
In May 2014, frontman Dave Grohl and his bandmates spent a week based at Preservation Hal in the French Quarter while shooting an episode of “Foo Fighters Sonic Highways,” an HBO series that chronicled the making of the “Sonic Highways” album in eight cities with rich musical histories. The week culminated with a surprise show at Preservation Hall that briefly shut down St. Peter Street.
They returned that fall to headline the 2014 Voodoo Fest; Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews joined them onstage. They came back yet again three weeks later for a gig at the House of Blues on Nov. 21, 2014, the same night the New Orleans “Sonic Highways” episode premiered on HBO.
Foo Fighters will likely release a new album by the fall. The first single is a fast, heavy song called “Run.” The accompanying video depicts the musicians as old men rocking out in a retirement home.
Voodoo actively pursued Foo Fighters as a 2017 headliner. “They were interested right off the bat,” Kelly said. “The interest was mutual.”
The Killers have apparently not performed in New Orleans since an early afternoon set at the 2004 Voodoo. The band’s most recent album was 2012’s “Battle Born,” but “Somebody Told Me,” “When You Were Young,” “Human” and other older singles have remained staples of alternative rock radio. A new Killers album is reportedly slated for a fall release.
Rapper Kendrick Lamar is among the most acclaimed and hottest new stars in all of popular music. He headlined the 2015 and 2016 Essence Festivals in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. In April, he extended his hot streak with his fourth studio album, “Damn,” which entered the Billboard chart at No. 1 and has already sold more than 1 million copies.
Led by James Murphy, the Brooklyn-born LCD Soundsystem successfully fused electronic music and rock in the mid-2000s. The band staged a farewell concert at Madison Square Garden in April 2011, only to regroup five years later and headline Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, Outside Lands and other major festivals.
LCD Soundsystem has premiered several new songs in 2017, with a full album reportedly due later this year. The band's booking for the 2017 Voodoo was confirmed only hours before the schedule's release early Tuesday morning.
Kelly is especially excited about modern rock band the Afghan Whigs. Though founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, the band has close ties to New Orleans. Singer Greg Dulli has lived in the city part-time for years, and guitarist Dave Rosser is a full-time resident. “I think of them like a New Orleans band now,” Kelly said.
Soul/blues singer Charles Bradley was forced to cancel his scheduled 2016 Voodoo Fest performance to undergo treatment for cancer. “We made him an offer (for 2017) the day he canceled,” Greenebaum said. “We’re really excited that he’s coming back.”
Le Plur, at the northwest corner of the festival site, will again face City Park’s interior so as not to pump its bass at the other stages. New Orleans on Halloween weekend has become a destination for EDM fans from around the country. “There is a portion of our audience that comes every year exclusively for that,” Kelly said.
A three-day LOA VIP pass is $400 plus fees. Amenities include access to a lounge and a raised viewing platform near the main Altar stage, complimentary hot shaves for men, massages and face-painting, and an express entrance line.
New this year is a premium “platinum” ticket. For $1,050, purchasers receive all the amenities of a LOA VIP pass, plus catered lunch and dinner, complimentary open bar, priority viewing areas in front of the stages, shuttle service between stages, and free, on-site parking.
Another new offering this year is “Feast Under the Stars,” a chef-curated, five-course dinner with wine pairings at the Voodoo site on Thursday, Oct. 26, the night before the festival opens. Tickets are $130 per person.
Welp, I'm not as mad as I thought I'd be that work is cockblocking me out of this fest anymore.
Who needs a ticket? $140 shipped to your door 2 day priority USPS. Obviously I won't have them in hand until they mail them, but just wanted to put that out there before any of you buy any at the new price. Will save you $25.59 in tax and service fees. And single day passes will be $100 when they go on sale later.
This lineup is a great value for $140! I've never been to New Orleans before, but I am seriously considering making the journey down there after seeing this
It was just brought to my attention that the only real local act playing this year is Flow Tribe. What's up with that?
There are more and quasis like Benjamin Booker lives here now and Afghan Whigs of course have their ties. Pell, Alfred Banks, Unicorn, Herb Christopher are too and probably a couple others.
It was just brought to my attention that the only real local act playing this year is Flow Tribe. What's up with that?
There are more and quasis like Benjamin Booker lives here now and Afghan Whigs of course have their ties. Pell, Alfred Banks, Unicorn, Herb Christopher are too and probably a couple others.
Ok. We were looking for distinctly New Orleans bands. I just don't know those I guess, Benjamin is a transplant and so are the Afghan Whigs apparently.
Thanks C3, you've saved me heaps of money this year!
I don't blame you. If it wasn't a couple hours away and we weren't meeting our friends from Houston there, I wouldn't go either. Not worth a plane ticket or several hour drive.
Thanks C3, you've saved me heaps of money this year!
I don't blame you. If it wasn't a couple hours away and we weren't meeting our friends from Houston there, I wouldn't go either. Not worth a plane ticket or several hour drive.
Thanks C3, you've saved me heaps of money this year!
I don't blame you. If it wasn't a couple hours away and we weren't meeting our friends from Houston there, I wouldn't go either. Not worth a plane ticket or several hour drive.
Not for Sarge, but primarily Prophets have me seriously contemplating Platinum for $1,050. Chuck D is a hero for me.
I don't blame you. If it wasn't a couple hours away and we weren't meeting our friends from Houston there, I wouldn't go either. Not worth a plane ticket or several hour drive.
Not for Sarge, but primarily Prophets have me seriously contemplating Platinum for $1,050. Chuck D is a hero for me.
I think a strong case could be made for NOT buying the platinum ticket. If your primary concern is getting close for Prophets of Rage, I doubt that will be a problem. Thing about the crowds last year for the undercard acts. The main stage got dense for some of them, but it never happened at the other two (non Le Plur) stage. If Prophets of Rage ends up not on the mainstage, I'd bet all you have to do to get rail is walk right up after the previous act finishes. If they are at the main stage, you might have to work a little harder, given people will be camping for headliners, but I still think you wouldn't have a problem getting pretty damn close on the main stage.
Not to mention you save $910 not buying the platinum ticket. That's a lot of money.
Man, Prophets of Rage are SOOOOOOOOO bad live though. Like cringe worthy.
Definitely not great, I don't know about cringeworthy though. At least the music is solid.
I have a tough time with anyone doing Rage other than Zack though. It loses so much without his voice. Prophets just feels like a bunch of middle-aged men having a fun time; there's no edge
Man, Prophets of Rage are SOOOOOOOOO bad live though. Like cringe worthy.
thejeremy has watched their live stream several times and said that ALL of their performances were horrible live. I am going to be checking them out at Riot Fest first, so I will let you know, but I am really worried about being disappointed.
I really don't think that will change. 
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