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The Cure/ TOP/ Post Malone Lana Del Rey/ Beck/ The 1975/ Wu-Tang Clan
or
Paul McCartney/ Travis Scott/ TOP Bjork/ Vampire Weekend/ ODESZA/ Run The Jewels
or
Foo Figters/ Frank Ocean/ TOP Iggy Pop/ Erykah Badu/ My Morning Jacket/ A$AP Rocky
I'd be happy with all three but in order of preference 1>3>2
I have to go 2 > 3 > 1 and honestly it's not close. I hate Travis and TOP, but Macca would be awesome, plus I'm a huge VW/Odesza/RTJ fan. Choice 1 is the only one where i feel somewhere between indifference and hatred for all 3 headliners.
Unrealistic, but out of those options, my ideal combo would be:
Paul McCartney / Foo Fighters / Frank Ocean Vampire Weekend / Beck / ODESZA / Wu-Tang Clan
Florence and the Machine | Travis Scott | Twenty-One Pilots Vampire Weekend | Kacey Musgraves | Silk City (Diplo & Mark Ronson) | Death Cab For Cutie Greta Van Fleet | Hozier | Father John Misty | Dua Lipa
No way Hozier would be that low here. He was selling out Boston gigs before he started selling out shows everywhere, due to the large Irish ex-pat population.
Half of the crowd walked out of City Hall Plaza after his Fall 2015 set and didn't stay for the Alabama Shakes. He's be no lower than 5th in that lineup (but, realistically, Vampire Weekend isn't 2nd line here. They'd book either Flo or Vamp for a top line spot, not relegate one of them to second line. And Kacey Musgraves would be nowhere near as high as 5th in any Boston Calling lineup.)
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The Cure/ TOP/ Post Malone Lana Del Rey/ Beck/ The 1975/ Wu-Tang Clan
or
Paul McCartney/ Travis Scott/ TOP Bjork/ Vampire Weekend/ ODESZA/ Run The Jewels
or
Foo Figters/ Frank Ocean/ TOP Iggy Pop/ Erykah Badu/ My Morning Jacket/ A$AP Rocky
I'd be happy with all three but in order of preference 1>3>2
MMJ isn't happening in 2019 at Boston Calling, or any other festival. They announced this week that they're only doing three shows in 2019, two at Red Rocks and one at Forest Hills.
No way Hozier would be that low here. He was selling out Boston gigs before he started selling out shows everywhere, due to the large Irish ex-pat population.
Half of the crowd walked out of City Hall Plaza after his Fall 2014 set and didn't stay for the Alabama Shakes. He's be no lower than 5th in that lineup (but, realistically, Vampire Weekend isn't 2nd line here. They'd book either Flo or Vamp for a top line spot, not relegate one of them to second line. And Kacey Musgraves would be nowhere near as high as 5th in any Boston Calling lineup.)
While I'm hoping VW will be a really strong #4 on the lineup, I worry that you're right and they'd be headliner-or-bust. I guess we'll see.
As for Hozier, he sold out HOB a couple months ago, sure... but that's one night at HOB. Kacey Musgraves has a sold out show at the Wang coming up in January and is popping up on tons of year-end Top 10 Albums lists, Death Cab almost sold out 2 nights at the Wang this fall, and even Greta Van Fleet sold out 2 nights at HOB earlier this year before their debut album was even released. I thought it was a stretch to put Hozier above FJM, who played the Pavilion last time he was in town and has a new album since then... I don't see any way Hozier could be second-line on this lineup.
No way Hozier would be that low here. He was selling out Boston gigs before he started selling out shows everywhere, due to the large Irish ex-pat population.
Half of the crowd walked out of City Hall Plaza after his Fall 2014 set and didn't stay for the Alabama Shakes. He's be no lower than 5th in that lineup (but, realistically, Vampire Weekend isn't 2nd line here. They'd book either Flo or Vamp for a top line spot, not relegate one of them to second line. And Kacey Musgraves would be nowhere near as high as 5th in any Boston Calling lineup.)
While I'm hoping VW will be a really strong #4 on the lineup, I worry that you're right and they'd be headliner-or-bust. I guess we'll see.
As for Hozier, he sold out HOB a couple months ago, sure... but that's one night at HOB. Kacey Musgraves has a sold out show at the Wang coming up in January and is popping up on tons of year-end Top 10 Albums lists, Death Cab almost sold out 2 nights at the Wang this fall, and even Greta Van Fleet sold out 2 nights at HOB earlier this year before their debut album was even released. I thought it was a stretch to put Hozier above FJM, who played the Pavilion last time he was in town and has a new album since then... I don't see any way Hozier could be second-line on this lineup.
Hozier's most recent U.S. tour was only a few shows at venues much smaller than he usually plays. Most sold out instantly and they intentionally didn't add more shows. He will be selling out bigger venues on his world tour next year once his new album is released.
Florence and the Machine | Travis Scott | Twenty-One Pilots Vampire Weekend | Kacey Musgraves | Silk City (Diplo & Mark Ronson) | Death Cab For Cutie Greta Van Fleet | Hozier | Father John Misty | Dua Lipa
No way Hozier would be that low here. He was selling out Boston gigs before he started selling out shows everywhere, due to the large Irish ex-pat population.
Half of the crowd walked out of City Hall Plaza after his Fall 2014 set and didn't stay for the Alabama Shakes. He's be no lower than 5th in that lineup (but, realistically, Vampire Weekend isn't 2nd line here. They'd book either Flo or Vamp for a top line spot, not relegate one of them to second line. And Kacey Musgraves would be nowhere near as high as 5th in any Boston Calling lineup.)
Half of the crowd walking out of City Hall Plaza after his Fall 2015 set was also because it was a Sunday night, and also because so many people in the crowd that edition fucking sucked and mostly didn't seem to care about the music.
And I question whether Vampire Weekend could be top spot here: they could easily get a slot such as The National last year on the second line.
No way Hozier would be that low here. He was selling out Boston gigs before he started selling out shows everywhere, due to the large Irish ex-pat population.
Half of the crowd walked out of City Hall Plaza after his Fall 2014 set and didn't stay for the Alabama Shakes. He's be no lower than 5th in that lineup (but, realistically, Vampire Weekend isn't 2nd line here. They'd book either Flo or Vamp for a top line spot, not relegate one of them to second line. And Kacey Musgraves would be nowhere near as high as 5th in any Boston Calling lineup.)
While I'm hoping VW will be a really strong #4 on the lineup, I worry that you're right and they'd be headliner-or-bust. I guess we'll see.
As for Hozier, he sold out HOB a couple months ago, sure... but that's one night at HOB. Kacey Musgraves has a sold out show at the Wang coming up in January and is popping up on tons of year-end Top 10 Albums lists, Death Cab almost sold out 2 nights at the Wang this fall, and even Greta Van Fleet sold out 2 nights at HOB earlier this year before their debut album was even released. I thought it was a stretch to put Hozier above FJM, who played the Pavilion last time he was in town and has a new album since then... I don't see any way Hozier could be second-line on this lineup.
Hozier sold out the HoB (around the same capacity as the Wang) in a couple of minutes. How long did it take Kacey Musgraves to sell that many tickets? His popularity in Boston outstrips his popularity elsewhere, because of the large number of Irish ex-pats living here. Because he tours with gear, lighting, etc. designed for venues of a particular size, he books that size venue for the entire tour, just like every other act out there, even if he can draw more in particular markets. As for his drawing power locally, thousands of people walked out of City Hall Plaza after he subheadlined at Boston Calling, suggesting that those thousands of people were there to see Hozier. It seemed like more than half of the 10-20 thousand people there that night left right after his set.
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No way Hozier would be that low here. He was selling out Boston gigs before he started selling out shows everywhere, due to the large Irish ex-pat population.
Half of the crowd walked out of City Hall Plaza after his Fall 2014 set and didn't stay for the Alabama Shakes. He's be no lower than 5th in that lineup (but, realistically, Vampire Weekend isn't 2nd line here. They'd book either Flo or Vamp for a top line spot, not relegate one of them to second line. And Kacey Musgraves would be nowhere near as high as 5th in any Boston Calling lineup.)
Half of the crowd walking out of City Hall Plaza after his Fall 2015 set was also because it was a Sunday night, and also because so many people in the crowd that edition fucking sucked and mostly didn't seem to care about the music.
And I question whether Vampire Weekend could be top spot here: they could easily get a slot such as The National last year on the second line.
Vamp has radio hits and car commercials in a way that The National don't and while I prefer The National, I get why Vamp's a bigger festival draw.
Hozier sold out the HoB (around the same capacity as the Wang) in a couple of minutes. How long did it take Kacey Musgraves to sell that many tickets? His popularity in Boston outstrips his popularity elsewhere, because of the large number of Irish ex-pats living here. Because he tours with gear, lighting, etc. designed for venues of a particular size, he books that size venue for the entire tour, just like every other act out there, even if he can draw more in particular markets. As for his drawing power locally, thousands of people walked out of City Hall Plaza after he subheadlined at Boston Calling, suggesting that those thousands of people were there to see Hozier. It seemed like more than half of the 10-20 thousand people there that night left right after his set.
The Wang is about 3,500 capacity and HOB is only like 2,500, which I would consider a sizable difference. Regardless, I probably put Kacey M too high up, but i think she has a ton of hype building around her right now and over the last several months. I think she'd be third-line.
And while I do think Hozier is bigger than a HOB-level act and more popular in Boston than other places, he hasn't put a new album out since his debut over 4 years ago. I haven't seen or heard any second album news/announcements, so it'll probably be at least a couple of months before it comes out, if not longer. I still don't think he could possibly be second-line at BC. He was better live than I had anticipated him being at Boston Calling a few years ago, and I'm sure some people left afterwards because he has that sort of weird culty following, but I stayed for Alabama Shakes and it wasn't close to the smallest headliner crowd I've seen at City Hall Plaza editions. (I think Robyn was smallest, though my memory is generally a little foggy by that point in the night.)
Because preparing/playing with BRM would cut into Vernon's rehearsal time with Bon Iver.
Big Red Machine are playing Primavera. I think we're getting them
Big Red Machine is playing Primavera on Wednesday 5/29, while Bon Iver's first show date of next year is Friday 6/31 (two days later).
The rehearsal time factor is still a factor, but you're right that it does raise the likelihood of BRM playing at Boston Calling. Especially given the Aaron Dessner connection.
Paul McCartney/ Twenty One Pilots/ Travis Scott Erykah Badu/ Big Red Machine/ Interpol
The VIP section gets Twenty Three Pilots and Platinum pass holders receive Twenty Eight Pilots, as part of Boston Calling's initiative to deliver more value to premium ticket holders.
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