Bonnaroo 2022 Lineup Discussion Thread

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My mom and I wanna go to Coachella this spring.

I count over 40 acts on the Coachella lineup that if Roo had booked like...3 of, it would have significantly improved my feelings on the lineup

Coachella’s top 45 acts, like the top 15 each day, is weak af. Minus a few obvious wins like Danny Elfman and Jamie XX.

However, acts 46-100 are absolutely phenomenal. Its weird.

I personally kind of feel the Coachella lineup is the inverse of Bonnaroo’s. Solid headliners on all three nights for their demographic, but it kind of quickly falls off not far down the list with some good names sprinkled in. I think both are on par overall, it’s just tough to book all around in 2022.

ok after reading various comments i wanted to do a subjective-ish breakdown of coachella vs bonnaroo. These are the acts I'm interested in without homework.

Bonnaroo headliners: Tool, Stevie Nicks

Coachella headliners: Harry Styles, Billie Eilish, Ye

Objectively, the Coachella headliners are much bigger, more popular, more expensive names than Bonnaroo's. Subjectively I prefer Coachella's, just because a festival is the place I'd see Harry Styles or Billie Eilish. But the only headliners from either I'm somewhat passionate about seeing are Tool and Kanye. But I understand someone not wanting to support Kanye because of all his bullshit. Tool I love but have seen many times before and will see many times again, though it'd be super cool to see them on the What. I have no idea how Stevie Nicks is live but I'd definitely check her out at a festival.

Bonnaroo undercard (28): Sons of Kemet, VNSSA, Weval, Plant & Krauss, Disclosure, King Gizz, Goose, Bleachers, Isaiah Rashad, Lane 8, Denzel Curry, Japanese Breakfast, John Summit, LP Giobbi, Billy Strings, Suicideboys, Ludacris, Chris Lake, 100 Gecs, Nora En Pure, Slowthai, Femi Kuti, Rezz, Herbie Hancock, Puscifer, All Them Witches, Tierra Whack, Lettuce.

Coachella undercard (44): Lil Baby, Baby Keem, King Gizz, Lane 8, Peggy Gou, Carly Rae Jepsen, Spiritualized, Daphni, slowthai, the Avalanches, Purple Disco Machine, John Summit, Code Orange, Megan thee Stallion, Disclosure, Isaiah Rashad, Caribou, Dixon, Turnstile, 100 gecs, Hot Chip, DJ Koze, Floating Points, Steve Lacy, Japanese Breakfast, Richie Hawtin, black midi, Chris Liebing, ANNA, VNSSA, Mannequin Pussy, Sama, DJ Holographic, Doja Cat, Jamie xx, RTJ, Fatboy Slim, Solomun, Denzel Curry, Vince Staples, Orville Peck, the Blessed Madonna, Honey Dijon, Channel Tres.

Acts in bold above are shared with Bonnaroo (9).

so Coachella wins on headliners for me but mostly because of Harry and Billie who I'm interested in seeing, not super passionate about seeing. Coachella wins on the undercard, but primarily because of the electronic (Yuma?) acts. So my initial impression was heavily influenced by my disposition towards techno/house.

and given that disposition i'd likely just be at the yuma all day no matter what, and would miss some of the non-electronic acts, so essentially coachella would turn into a more expensive movement but with crazy production. which sounds cool honestly, but not as cool as seeing all that techno and a bunch of other stuff.

so i still prefer coachella, but i understand better now that if popular pop headliners aren't your thing, and techno isn't your focus, you might prefer the bonnaroo lineup.

Ye's going to bring out at least 1/2/3 headliner or sub headliner level acts not listed on the lineup as well.

If we could have got Idles , The Avalanches , Jamie xx , Caribou , Ducksauce, and RTJ would have been cool. Also Doja over Mgk would have def been ideal. Coachella always is going to have a great electronic lineup and the hip ish. Maybe one day I’ll go to Coachella but probably not. Nc to Cali is a trip. Here’s to hoping Ye plays Gov Ball.

Elfman and Billie on the same day is going to be cool too. You know she’ll be going out to sing on some Nightmare before Xmas songs

Coachella Acts that would have made my Top 5 Most Anticipated at Bonnaroo (bolded acts would be my #1 at Roo):

Kanye West, Spiritualized, The Avalanches, Caribou, Jamie xx, Run The Jewels, Freddie Gibbs and Madlib, Hot Chip, DJ Koze, Black Midi, Floating Points, Danny Elfman, Disclosure, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, 100 Gecs, Idles, Carly Rae Jepsen, Purple Disco Machine, Denzel Curry, Kim Petras, the Blessed Madonna, Griselda

So my #1 at Bonnaroo and 7 others that I clearly want to see more than Disclosure. Also contains 4 of my actual Roo top 5. 22 acts that would be Top 5 at Roo for me.

Additional Coachella Acts that would land in my top 15 at Bonanroo:

Billie Eilish, Phoebe Bridgers, Lane 8, Peggy Gou, Daphni, slowthai, BBNG, Ela Minus, Megan Thee Stallion, Brockhampton, Turnstile, Rina Sawayana, Nilufer Yanya, Doja Cat, Vince Staples, JID, Fatboy Slim, Honey Dijon, Bedouin, Channel Tres, Yola, Crumb

22 more acts that would be must sees at Roo. 44 total acts better than the 16th best act at Roo.

I will say the first half of Friday isn't getting me on a plane across the country. Other than that it slaps.

would also love to go to Coachella some day, but i'm not sure what a lineup looks like that gets me scrambling for a ticket, accommodations, and flying from Alabama. would have to be some super rare act and i'm not sure what that act is anymore. like the smiths or talking heads, stuff that will never happen.

if it was like a seven hour drive like bonnaroo is for me i'd be there every year.

Agree completely! So much of why I attend Roo is the convenience of location. For a few hours after the Bonnaroo lineup dropped I was trying to look into attending Coachella and got super overwhelmed trying to "figure out" a new festival again. I didn't even realize you could camp, but I don't know that I'd wanna fly with all my camping gear... the lineups are of course, always super tasty though. 

If it was Ye - Frank - ? I would have thought about it but I just can’t justify doing one fest for the price I could do 2-3 fests. Thank Roo for being driving distance from me.