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i was planning on being at green for paramore anyways but this would be a bummer
This wouldn't bother me one bit. Bump Bleachers up to the Red closer, and give King Gizzard a two hour set on Blue, ending around the same time as Bleachers.
Considering that the usual King Gizzard live experience is 2-3 nights in a city, and playing for 2-3 hours each night, that would be as close as Boston gets to the full-on Gizzard live experience until sometime between 2024 - 2026. (I'm no longer optimistic that any touring artist will play Boston. Many do, but the number of tours which skip Boston, while playing other similarly-sized concert markets, seems to be growing, despite now having so many local venues for mid-level touring artists.)
Last Edit: Apr 19, 2023 8:53:34 GMT -5 by tw12 - Back to Top
not gonna get to see walkmen it looks like. ah well
I’ll probably be at the Walkmen until QOTSA starts, you can still catch a solid 30 minutes of their set
its more getting a decent spot for paramore. my partner has terrible crowd anxiety esp after the crowd crush after Megan at Coachella last year so i dont wanna leave them alone
Not bad, although the expected dead zone between Celisse and The National is brutal. That's way too early in the weekend to spend two hours without anyone I want to see. I may just forget about The Beaches and Celisse and arrive in time for The National.
I'm either going to do National -> YYY -> Foo Fighters or National -> Niall Horan -> Foo Fighters (If Horan's stuff is as interesting as Harry's music, it could be worth catching him now.) Starting early with Beaches -> Celisse -> Talk is also a possibility.
Saturday:
The big question for me about Saturday's lineup would be whether they'd go with all of the folk/Americana artists on Green/Red or have Alanis Morisette close Red. The answer turned out to be "all of the above." The Lips vs. Alanis conflict would seem like a no-brainer for me, but I've seen the Flaming Lips once on the original Yoshimi tour and they're not a band I really listen to anymore. I may opt for Alanis.
Joy Olakdokun -> Mt. Joy -> Noah Kahan -> Alanis Morissette
Sunday:
I expected a ton of conflicts, but I never thought that I'd be so happy to see one of them. They haven't had a Blue closer overlap with the headliner for that much time since the Chance The Rapper vs. Sigur Ros overlap. I can close my day with 90 minutes of King Gizzard and I'm now happy that Paramore was booked in that spot. I'd be really torn if, say, Hozier was closing Green on Sunday and overlapping with Gizz for an hour. This way, I get to see the artist I'm most interested in seeing close out Blue on Sunday and then head home afterwards.
I know that I'm seeing Wunderhorse, The Linda Lindas, and King Gizzard, but everything between them interests me to some degree and I'm going to have to spend some quality Spotify time with The Walkmen and Genesis Owusu before I make my decisions. Most likely Wunderhorse -> Linda Lindas -> 070 Shake -> Genesis Owusu -> The Walkmen -> King Gizzard
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I do like seeing that they're now giving some of the Blue and Red closers a full 90 minutes. An extra 15 minutes of Goose last year would have been nice.
All in all, they did a pretty good job with the schedule and not booking artists with similar appeal against each other. (Last year's weather-induced RTJ vs. EARTHGANG conflict was absurd.)
Last Edit: Apr 19, 2023 10:10:02 GMT -5 by tw12 - Back to Top
Wish this sold as poorly as last year so I could get a cheap ticket to see gizz and then leave
I'm pretty sure that they sold a ton of one-day passes for Sunday, because the place was crawling with middle aged guys in Metallica t-shirts. There wasn't a biker left in New Hampshire that day.
Happy that The National are not closing Blue on Friday.
Friday is a somewhat easy day - the only conflict being YYYs & Niall Horan since my teenage daughter likes both, so we may either split up or try and catch 1/2 of each. Up until The National, it's a wander around and check out a few acts day.
Saturday - probably spend most of the early afternoon flipping between Green and Red, then catch FLips.
Sunday - Wunderhorse > most of Linda Lindas set > Brutus > Genesis Owusu > 30 minutes of Maren Morris > The Walkmen > QotSA > King Gizz
Wow- these are truly dual- headliner days, with second billed still getting 90”. The Friday schedule is perfect for me: Celisse/GA20- Talk- The National- Yeah Yeah Yeahs (90”!)- Foo Fighters (2 hours). No overlaps. That’s a great festival day for our tastes. We’ll do at least a Friday single-day.
Only going Sunday. Nothing unexpected - glad Gizz gets 90 min - they are the reason I’m coming up from NY. Was hoping to catch more of Paramore but hopefully will see them at Roo.
Will be at the Blue stage all day - stepping away for Linda Lindas and as much QOTSA as I can get between Walkmen and King Gizzard.
The more I think about the schedule, the more I like it. There seem to be longer sets than in past years throughout the daily schedules and there are now 10 minute breaks between many of the alternating Red and Green stage artists. I'm guessing that they may now be using the sort of scheduling software that sports leagues use to juggle full regular seasons, playoffs, and everything else happening in arenas and stadiums.
Somehow, they've both managed to minimize direct conflicts as well as avoid an abundance of functional overlap where one artist ends on Green/Red and another begins on Blue (or visa versa) at the same time, and there's no way to catch full sets if you have to travel from one end of the grounds to the other.
After checking out a few artists with whom I wasn't terribly familiar, I've finally settled upon a schedule for the three days (weather permitting...it's seems like there's always one day that's absolutely ruined by rain, wind, or heat. We're due for a plague of locusts this year.)
I'm always complaining about everything here, but I really can't complain much about the way things have played out with the lineup and schedule. Weather Gods, be kind.
Last Edit: Apr 24, 2023 22:32:13 GMT -5 by tw12 - Back to Top
Not bad, although the expected dead zone between Celisse and The National is brutal. That's way too early in the weekend to spend two hours without anyone I want to see. I may just forget about The Beaches and Celisse and arrive in time for The National.
I'm either going to do National -> YYY -> Foo Fighters or National -> Niall Horan -> Foo Fighters (If Horan's stuff is as interesting as Harry's music, it could be worth catching him now.) Starting early with Beaches -> Celisse -> Talk is also a possibility.
Saturday:
The big question for me about Saturday's lineup would be whether they'd go with all of the folk/Americana artists on Green/Red or have Alanis Morisette close Red. The answer turned out to be "all of the above." The Lips vs. Alanis conflict would seem like a no-brainer for me, but I've seen the Flaming Lips once on the original Yoshimi tour and they're not a band I really listen to anymore. I may opt for Alanis.
Joy Olakdokun -> Mt. Joy -> Noah Kahan -> Alanis Morissette
Sunday:
I expected a ton of conflicts, but I never thought that I'd be so happy to see one of them. They haven't had a Blue closer overlap with the headliner for that much time since the Chance The Rapper vs. Sigur Ros overlap. I can close my day with 90 minutes of King Gizzard and I'm now happy that Paramore was booked in that spot. I'd be really torn if, say, Hozier was closing Green on Sunday and overlapping with Gizz for an hour. This way, I get to see the artist I'm most interested in seeing close out Blue on Sunday and then head home afterwards.
I know that I'm seeing Wunderhorse, The Linda Lindas, and King Gizzard, but everything between them interests me to some degree and I'm going to have to spend some quality Spotify time with The Walkmen and Genesis Owusu before I make my decisions. Most likely Wunderhorse -> Linda Lindas -> 070 Shake -> Genesis Owusu -> The Walkmen -> King Gizzard
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I do like seeing that they're now giving some of the Blue and Red closers a full 90 minutes. An extra 15 minutes of Goose last year would have been nice.
All in all, they did a pretty good job with the schedule and not booking artists with similar appeal against each other. (Last year's weather-induced RTJ vs. EARTHGANG conflict was absurd.)
Damn, already rethinking my choices after finally stumbling upon a Lumineers song that I really like and realizing that there's no way I'm missing the Flaming Lips for Alanis M. Also, while I really liked the Genesis O. songs within the context of some well made videos I caught when the lineup first dropped, I would like to see Bleachers more.
Like sports drafts and election run-ups, festivals can keep us engaged for months before we actually attend, as we check out artists, and then once the schedule actually drops, plan out whom we want to see. This is fun, and I'm looking forward to warming up for Boston Calling at Harvard Square Mayfair and Somerville Porchfest, and then kicking off live music season during Boston Calling week.
Heads up on the Boston Calling phone app. I didn't see the schedule in the app, so I uninstalled the app and installed what turned out to be a new edition of the app for 2023. The current schedule is in the new app.
I was hoping Alanis would backload all the hits so i could catch the first half of Flaming Lips and be totally happy with just the second half of her set, but unsurprisingly that is not the case. (And really FL start and end later than her so it'd be tough to do anyway.) Looks like her setlists have been pretty consistent the last year or so, so we can expect something like this: www.setlist.fm/setlist/alanis-morissette/2022/highland-festival-grounds-at-the-kentucky-expo-center-louisville-ky-13b029c5.html
I'll probably end up skipping Flaming Lips entirely, even though Yoshimi is the only album of theirs i've ever actually cared about... and especially given that my friends probably barely even know who Flaming Lips are. Oh well.
Whelp, after being iffy on attending this year, for real life stuff and being so so on the line up, looks like I’ll be pulling the trigger and making the trip solo.
Line up probably couldn’t have worked out better for the sets I really wanted to see, wasn’t 100% sure how Gizz and Queens of the Stone Age was gonna shake out, but the run of Bleachers > The Walkmen > Couch (Just saw these guys open for Ripe at the MGM, awesome energy/show) > King Gizz is looking very nice to me.
