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As festivals owned and run by different companies I suppose it is weird with no known affiliation.
On the other hand....
Both festivals are considered independent from the likes of the big corporate entities (Livenation, AEG, whatever else there is) so I suppose there is a sort of camaraderie. In Austin, Eurphoria, Utopia, FFF/Sound on Sound, Levitation, Art Outside and other smaller fests, including Day 4 Night, frequently marketed each other's festival but wouldn't peep about ACL.
I thought that there must have been an affiliation between the two quite honestly.
EDIT: Fingers crossed this isn't a bad sign for the festival. That lineup is stellar.
As festivals owned and run by different companies I suppose it is weird with no known affiliation.
On the other hand....
Both festivals are considered independent from the likes of the big corporate entities (Livenation, AEG, whatever else there is) so I suppose there is a sort of camaraderie. In Austin, Eurphoria, Utopia, FFF/Sound on Sound, Levitation, Art Outside and other smaller fests, including Day 4 Night, frequently marketed each other's festival but wouldn't peep about ACL.
I thought that there must have been an affiliation between the two quite honestly.
There may certainly be that I just don't know of, or maybe the owners just know each other.
I'd say it is fairly weird that a festival whose fans were worried it was cancelled because of their recent silence popped their head up to offer discounts for an unrelated festival five hours away.
Agreed. We Okee patrons are still worried since no lineup or even a word of a lineup drop has surfaced yet, other than a bunch of "soon"s dating back for two months and a tweet on Thursday that told everyone to relax. Kind of hard to relax when you hear horror stories like Pemberton.
There may certainly be that I just don't know of, or maybe the owners just know each other.
Could be. This sounds like a really cool fest. I'm assuming Houston may be hurting right now in terms of tourism because of the hurricane?
Day4Night really is a unique festival. I hope Okee survives because I really want to go this year now that my schedule is favoring that kind of trip. While the top lines aren't that exciting to me, the undercard is filled with more than enough to justify the trip and the images/videos/reviews all sounds/look great.
There may certainly be that I just don't know of, or maybe the owners just know each other.
Could be. This sounds like a really cool fest. I'm assuming Houston may be hurting right now in terms of tourism because of the hurricane?
Not sure. They said ticket sales were up. I realize it's kind of a music geek festival, but it should be selling fairly well unless they just want to pile in bodies. It's 100 days until Okeechobee, so you'd think they would be more getting their information out. But perhaps there is some type of a cross-marketing agreement between the promoters or maybe D4N will allow some Okee advertising at Post HTX in December?
Could be. This sounds like a really cool fest. I'm assuming Houston may be hurting right now in terms of tourism because of the hurricane?
Not sure. They said ticket sales were up. I realize it's kind of a music geek festival, but it should be selling fairly well unless they just want to pile in bodies. It's 100 days until Okeechobee, so you'd think they would be more getting their information out. But perhaps there is some type of a cross-marketing agreement between the promoters or maybe D4N will allow some Okee advertising at Post HTX in December?
Yeah. I would think there is some mutual back-scratching going on. I wouldn't mind an Okee discount if the lineup is reasonable.
I feel like this lineup is suffering from the opposite of what I normally yap about on here. There aren't as many mainstream EDM names or big hip-hop names to bring in the kiddos this year. I guess Pretty Lights would count 5 years ago, but I don't see him drawing like Travis Scott/Odesza at this point. This year's lineup is borderline too obscure and I think this year's attendance, like Panorama, will reflect that. NIN might bring in the oldies. I'm not sure most of them are willing to throw out the money just for their set though (unlike Aphex last year who was super rare).
NIN might bring in the oldies. I'm not sure most of them are willing to throw out the money just for their set though (unlike Aphex last year who was super rare).
I feel like this lineup is suffering from the opposite of what I normally yap about on here. There aren't as many mainstream EDM names or big hip-hop names to bring in the kiddos this year. I guess Pretty Lights would count 5 years ago, but I don't see him drawing like Travis Scott/Odesza at this point. This year's lineup is borderline too obscure and I think this year's attendance, like Panorama, will reflect that. NIN might bring in the oldies. I'm not sure most of them are willing to throw out the money just for their set though (unlike Aphex last year who was super rare).
I think the names most popular to the kids are Tyler, James Blake, and Justice. None are as big as Travis Scott or Odesza.
It would be a shame if this festival didn't survive, not just because it's a cool festival, but because it would affirm to other festival organizers that people who listen to shit like this don't go to festivals, at least not in the US.
But fuck it, enjoy it while we can everyone. Life's too fucking short, lets all meet up at Bjarki.
I feel like this lineup is suffering from the opposite of what I normally yap about on here. There aren't as many mainstream EDM names or big hip-hop names to bring in the kiddos this year. I guess Pretty Lights would count 5 years ago, but I don't see him drawing like Travis Scott/Odesza at this point. This year's lineup is borderline too obscure and I think this year's attendance, like Panorama, will reflect that. NIN might bring in the oldies. I'm not sure most of them are willing to throw out the money just for their set though (unlike Aphex last year who was super rare).
I think the names most popular to the kids are Tyler, James Blake, and Justice. None are as big as Travis Scott or Odesza.
It would be a shame if this festival didn't survive, not just because it's a cool festival, but because it would affirm to other festival organizers that people who listen to shit like this don't go to festivals, at least not in the US.
But fuck it, enjoy it while we can everyone. Life's too fucking short, lets all meet up at Bjarki.
Phantogram and Pretty lights are both in the 'probably 5 years ago' stage, Jamie is probably a big draw for all of the thousands of people that were gushing over the xx this year, Cardi is huge right now, I assume that only young people listen to Lil B, G Jones/Rezz have the young bass kids, St. V/Solange for anyone who's way into Tay Swift/Beyonce by association, Cashmere is pretty big for the youngins songs with Ariana and Selena and such, idk how popular Sky is I'm assuming somewhat since she keeps getting booked to things, I also kind of assume that Of Montreal is to the kids now what the Flaming Lips were to me in that their peak was probably before their time but they're just now getting into cooler critically acclaimed stuff.
