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DŌ TASTY BURGER (Two locations within the festival!) ROXY’S GRILLED CHEESE (Two locations within the festival!) CHICKEN & RICE GUYS ARANCINI BROTHERS BON ME COPPERDOME PIZZA EL PELON TAQUERIA THE SMOKE SHOP BBQ (Two locations within the festival!) STONE & SKILLET AREA FOUR CAKED BOSTON THE CHUBBY CHICKPEA UNION SQUARE DONUTS RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE CHILI CHEESE TOTS TASTY ALL BEEF DOGS FOMU ICE CREAM FIREFLY’S BBQ JOE’S AMERICAN BAR & GRILL MOYZILLA JAJU PIEROGI COMMONWEALTH DEAN’S CONCESSIONS ZINNEKEN’S BELGIAN WAFFLE THE SAUSAGE GUY WHOLE HEART PROVISIONS RICE BURG YUME WO KATARE SHUCK FOOD TRUCK SATE GRILL
Quick thoughts...
*New England has a wealth of great ice cream makers -- Herrell's, Bart's Homemade, Soco Creamery, Ben & Jerry's, Parlor, Honeycomb, JP Licks, Toscanini's, and Little G -- yet there's still no ice cream available, just vegan frozen dessert product. Nothing wrong with offering a vegan dessert option, but why not have real, dairy-rich ice cream too?
*I'm wondering what Area Four will be offering. I haven't been there yet, but their pizza is highly regarded and they supposedly do a righteous mac & cheese. Like The Smoke Shop, their restaurant is a bit more upscale than those of many of the vendors at Boston Calling.
*El Pelon Taqueria should be a good addition. Burritos seem like the perfect music festival food, in terms of portability and ease of eating while on your feet. Plus, if you eat enough beans, you don't have to worry about people not giving you enough room to dance or standing next to you and talking loudly.
*Boston Calling has never brought in the right burger and pizza vendors and this year is more of the same. With the exception of Area Four -- and it's not even clear if they're serving pizza at Boston Calling -- we'd be better off with the Stoked Pizza truck. Tasty Burger used to do a few interesting specials which are never on the menu anymore, but otherwise they're hardly better than Burger King or McDonalds. Both Boston Burger Company and Bonetown Burgers have food trucks which would be a major upgrade, as would just about anywhere else.
*You know what else would be nice? A fruit stand where you could buy an apple or a peach or something like that.
DŌ TASTY BURGER (Two locations within the festival!) ROXY’S GRILLED CHEESE (Two locations within the festival!) CHICKEN & RICE GUYS ARANCINI BROTHERS BON ME COPPERDOME PIZZA EL PELON TAQUERIA THE SMOKE SHOP BBQ (Two locations within the festival!) STONE & SKILLET AREA FOUR CAKED BOSTON THE CHUBBY CHICKPEA UNION SQUARE DONUTS RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE CHILI CHEESE TOTS TASTY ALL BEEF DOGS FOMU ICE CREAM FIREFLY’S BBQ JOE’S AMERICAN BAR & GRILL MOYZILLA JAJU PIEROGI COMMONWEALTH DEAN’S CONCESSIONS ZINNEKEN’S BELGIAN WAFFLE THE SAUSAGE GUY WHOLE HEART PROVISIONS RICE BURG YUME WO KATARE SHUCK FOOD TRUCK SATE GRILL
Quick thoughts...
*New England has a wealth of great ice cream makers -- Herrell's, Bart's Homemade, Soco Creamery, Ben & Jerry's, Parlor, Honeycomb, JP Licks, Toscanini's, and Little G -- yet there's still no ice cream available, just vegan frozen dessert product. Nothing wrong with offering a vegan dessert option, but why not have real, dairy-rich ice cream too?
*I'm wondering what Area Four will be offering. I haven't been there yet, but their pizza is highly regarded and they supposedly do a righteous mac & cheese. Like The Smoke Shop, their restaurant is a bit more upscale than those of many of the vendors at Boston Calling.
*El Pelon Taqueria should be a good addition. Burritos seem like the perfect music festival food, in terms of portability and ease of eating while on your feet. Plus, if you eat enough beans, you don't have to worry about people not giving you enough room to dance or standing next to you and talking loudly.
*Boston Calling has never brought in the right burger and pizza vendors and this year is more of the same. With the exception of Area Four -- and it's not even clear if they're serving pizza at Boston Calling -- we'd be better off with the Stoked Pizza truck. Tasty Burger used to do a few interesting specials which are never on the menu anymore, but otherwise they're hardly better than Burger King or McDonalds. Both Boston Burger Company and Bonetown Burgers have food trucks which would be a major upgrade, as would just about anywhere else.
*You know what else would be nice? A fruit stand where you could buy an apple or a peach or something like that.
Agreed on pretty much all points.
When DO opened up in NYC I'd see lines a block long in the winter. People are weird. It's good, but not worth the hype and you're right that it's probably not a great music festival treat, although the servings are fairly small.
LOVE a good festival burrito though. Also always gotta shout out Roxy's. Grilled cheese is another great fest food. Pretty sure the first thing I ate at the first Boston Calling was a Roxy's Green Muenster.
They could do better wth pizza and burgers but honestly I'd almost always prefer something else. Those are just good because they're cheap and simple.
And I 100% support a fruit stand and other similar options
*New England has a wealth of great ice cream makers -- Herrell's, Bart's Homemade, Soco Creamery, Ben & Jerry's, Parlor, Honeycomb, JP Licks, Toscanini's, and Little G -- yet there's still no ice cream available, just vegan frozen dessert product. Nothing wrong with offering a vegan dessert option, but why not have real, dairy-rich ice cream too?
*I'm wondering what Area Four will be offering. I haven't been there yet, but their pizza is highly regarded and they supposedly do a righteous mac & cheese. Like The Smoke Shop, their restaurant is a bit more upscale than those of many of the vendors at Boston Calling.
*El Pelon Taqueria should be a good addition. Burritos seem like the perfect music festival food, in terms of portability and ease of eating while on your feet. Plus, if you eat enough beans, you don't have to worry about people not giving you enough room to dance or standing next to you and talking loudly.
*Boston Calling has never brought in the right burger and pizza vendors and this year is more of the same. With the exception of Area Four -- and it's not even clear if they're serving pizza at Boston Calling -- we'd be better off with the Stoked Pizza truck. Tasty Burger used to do a few interesting specials which are never on the menu anymore, but otherwise they're hardly better than Burger King or McDonalds. Both Boston Burger Company and Bonetown Burgers have food trucks which would be a major upgrade, as would just about anywhere else.
*You know what else would be nice? A fruit stand where you could buy an apple or a peach or something like that.
Agreed on pretty much all points.
When DO opened up in NYC I'd see lines a block long in the winter. People are weird. It's good, but not worth the hype and you're right that it's probably not a great music festival treat, although the servings are fairly small.
LOVE a good festival burrito though. Also always gotta shout out Roxy's. Grilled cheese is another great fest food. Pretty sure the first thing I ate at the first Boston Calling was a Roxy's Green Muenster.
They could do better wth pizza and burgers but honestly I'd almost always prefer something else. Those are just good because they're cheap and simple.
And I 100% support a fruit stand and other similar options
I just called Commonwealth Cambridge, who do homemade ice cream, and was told they won't be selling it at the festival
(One other cheap food option to consider, if you've got a little time to leave the grounds...a Trader Joe's recently opened across the street from the grounds. If you keep walking past the main gate on the corner on JFK street, heading away from Harvard Square, when you cross the side street just past the stadium, it's there and there's a Kosher-style deli that opened recently there, too. You can get prepackaged salads and wraps at Trader Joe's, along with fresh fruit and such. I just don't know if I'll feel like leaving the grounds, with this lineup.)
By the way, I heard from a area food purveyor who's a mutual Twitter follow this morning who looked into BC. They said that the cost to get in was prohibitive (for them, anyway).
According to an article in the Boston Globe, which Boston Calling quoted in a tweet, Area Four will be selling wood-fired pizza at the festival. Good news!!
According to an article in the Boston Globe, which Boston Calling quoted in a tweet, Area Four will be selling wood-fired pizza at the festival. Good news!!
That sounds pretty awesome, I'm very dissappointed in the fact that flatbread company wont be there this time around but I definitely need to research these new vendors and maybe even go to their restaurants before the fest.
Not so fast...it looks like the Globe just assumed they'd be making pizza. According to this comprehensive list in Boston Magazine, A4 is just doing garlic, BBQ pork, and lamb knots. El Palon isn't even doing burritos, just burrito bowls. Still, there's lots of good stuff here and The Smoke Shop BBQ waffle cone is back.
For a vendor-by-vendor menu, here are the details:
The Boston Calling website is down right now, and has been for a little while. I wonder if this indicates some sort of wholesale changes to the site and its content, such as posting the schedule. (This sort of thing used to happen all of the time in the early days of the internet, when sites would go offline whenever pages were edited, but I haven't seen it happen in years.)
The Boston Calling website is down right now, and has been for a little while. I wonder if this indicates some sort of wholesale changes to the site and its content, such as posting the schedule. (This sort of thing used to happen all of the time in the early days of the internet, when sites would go offline whenever pages were edited, but I haven't seen it happen in years.)
After 30+ minutes or so, it's back up with no changes. We return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
this feels like another hail mary to get people to buy tickets to a clearly underselling event.
i live pretty close by (only a few miles). last year i knew at least 20 people who went. this year, i know exactly one person who plans to attend.
Agreed, although I don't quite get why it's underselling. I feel like it's about on par with last year. Let's blame the headliners and hope they book something more exciting for 2019.
this feels like another hail mary to get people to buy tickets to a clearly underselling event.
i live pretty close by (only a few miles). last year i knew at least 20 people who went. this year, i know exactly one person who plans to attend.
Agreed, although I don't quite get why it's underselling. I feel like it's about on par with last year. Let's blame the headliners and hope they book something more exciting for 2019.
The Killers and Jack White, sure, but Eminem is a massive headliner and hasn't played New England since fuck-knows-when.
The majority of festivals appear to be underselling this year, as predicted by anybody who's been following the festival bubble.
Agreed, although I don't quite get why it's underselling. I feel like it's about on par with last year. Let's blame the headliners and hope they book something more exciting for 2019.
The Killers and Jack White, sure, but Eminem is a massive headliner and hasn't played New England since fuck-knows-when.
The majority of festivals appear to be underselling this year, as predicted by anybody who's been following the festival bubble.
There's just not much else on the lineup for average Eminem fans,. He could easily sell out a couple nights at TD, but idk how well he can pull people into this fest.
I guess we'll find out in a month. Maybe it'll be like last year and Sunday will be filled with people obviously just there for Em
this feels like another hail mary to get people to buy tickets to a clearly underselling event.
i live pretty close by (only a few miles). last year i knew at least 20 people who went. this year, i know exactly one person who plans to attend.
Agreed, although I don't quite get why it's underselling. I feel like it's about on par with last year. Let's blame the headliners and hope they book something more exciting for 2019.
the headliners arent even that bad either. i feel like if jack white was replaced with someone like arctic monkeys, red hot chilli peppers, pearl jam or radiohead it'd sell much better. as much as I love jack white, i dont know many people who care for him or white stripes. edit: not having a huge edm act to take the spot of major lazer last year definitely is hurting them too
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Agreed, although I don't quite get why it's underselling. I feel like it's about on par with last year. Let's blame the headliners and hope they book something more exciting for 2019.
The Killers and Jack White, sure, but Eminem is a massive headliner and hasn't played New England since fuck-knows-when.
The majority of festivals appear to be underselling this year, as predicted by anybody who's been following the festival bubble.
In hindsight, it may not have been a great idea to book a headliner who just played the Garden five months earlier. Even some diehard The Killers fans may skip Boston Calling because they just saw the band in January.
Maybe it's just my vantage point as an old dude, but having a handful of acts who were around in the 60's, 70's, or 80's could sell more tickets to Baby Boomers and Gen X'ers. You don't have to go full Arroyo Seco; if five out of 45 acts, regardless of genre, fit this category, they'd sell more tickets (especially to local folks who aren't being asked to camp out in the wilderness or travel to another city, just buy a one-day pass which costs around the same as a pricey TD Garden show.)
Agreed, although I don't quite get why it's underselling. I feel like it's about on par with last year. Let's blame the headliners and hope they book something more exciting for 2019.
the headliners arent even that bad either. i feel like if jack white was replaced with someone like arctic monkeys, red hot chilli peppers, pearl jam or radiohead it'd sell much better. as much as I love jack white, i dont know many people who care for him or white stripes. edit: not having a huge edm act to take the spot of major lazer last year definitely is hurting them too
Imagine the argument if both Jack White and Radiohead were headlining Boston calling...
Jack White: "Don't bring your phone, put it into a bucket, fill that bucket with concrete, and drop it into the Charles River."
Radiohead: "Bring your phone, steal your neighbor's phone and bring that, too. Free VIP upgrade to anyone who builds a phone from scratch on the festival grounds using only paperclips, gum wrappers, and last year's wristband."
Agreed, although I don't quite get why it's underselling. I feel like it's about on par with last year. Let's blame the headliners and hope they book something more exciting for 2019.
the headliners arent even that bad either. i feel like if jack white was replaced with someone like arctic monkeys, red hot chilli peppers, pearl jam or radiohead it'd sell much better. as much as I love jack white, i dont know many people who care for him or white stripes. edit: not having a huge edm act to take the spot of major lazer last year definitely is hurting them too
I don't even like EDM, but think that for the type of diverse genre thing they're going for, they should have one major-ish EDM top line or second line act, or two EDM acts further down the poster.
(I just wonder if the economics of festivals are changing, in terms of payouts to headliners. It seems like just a couple of years ago, a lot of headliners were doing only or mainly festivals. I can't remember a summer in recent years when so many acts you'd expect to find on the festival circuit are doing arena shows. I can't remember a late Spring-early Summer run when there were so many concerts booked at TD Garden (Paul Simon, Smashing Pumpkins, Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead, Depeche Mode, Kygo, U2, and Panic! At The Disco, and that's not counting poppier acts less likely to headline a festival, like Shania Twain, Harry Stiles, and Sam Smith. I wonder whether the money may have been better for headliners at festivals than in arenas a couple of years ago, but if that's since changed.)
The Killers and Jack White, sure, but Eminem is a massive headliner and hasn't played New England since fuck-knows-when.
The majority of festivals appear to be underselling this year, as predicted by anybody who's been following the festival bubble.
In hindsight, it may not have been a great idea to book a headliner who just played the Garden five months earlier. Even some diehard The Killers fans may skip Boston Calling because they just saw the band in January.
Maybe it's just my vantage point as an old dude, but having a handful of acts who were around in the 60's, 70's, or 80's could sell more tickets to Baby Boomers and Gen X'ers. You don't have to go full Arroyo Seco; if five out of 45 acts, regardless of genre, fit this category, they'd sell more tickets (especially to local folks who aren't being asked to camp out in the wilderness or travel to another city, just buy a one-day pass which costs around the same as a pricey TD Garden show.)
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I don't even like EDM, but think that for the type of diverse genre thing they're going for, they should have one major-ish EDM top line or second line act, or two EDM acts further down the poster.
(I just wonder if the economics of festivals are changing, in terms of payouts to headliners. It seems like just a couple of years ago, a lot of headliners were doing only or mainly festivals. I can't remember a summer in recent years when so many acts you'd expect to find on the festival circuit are doing arena shows. I can't remember a late Spring-early Summer run when there were so many concerts booked at TD Garden (Paul Simon, Smashing Pumpkins, Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead, Depeche Mode, Kygo, U2, and Panic! At The Disco, and that's not counting poppier acts less likely to headline a festival, like Shania Twain, Harry Stiles, and Sam Smith. I wonder whether the money may have been better for headliners at festivals than in arenas a couple of years ago, but if that's since changed.)
Agreed that The Killers are playing again too soon.
We already discussed why Depeche Mode was never an option for BC, but they totally fit your description of an older act that is still relevant to this day and would have been a solid headliner. The real problem here is that there are too many competing promoters in the same market, thus, acts that are exclusive with Live Nation (such as DM) won't play certain festivals.
And I don't think the problem is festival payouts, but more that everybody wants to be a headliner, which of course isn't possible. Thus, doing your own large scale tour instead can be a better long-term career move (for say, Kygo and Panic!).
E-mail just went out re. secret acoustic performances.
They will send out an RSVP e-mail on Thurs, April 19 at 11 am. First 50 people to respond for a given day get in.
I suspect that this may indicate that we're getting the schedule next week, because if they've fixed performance times for the acoustic sets, they've probably scheduled all of the stages by now, too.
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seems interesting
