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Proposal: GV should combine JLH and TANP into a real indie music festival successor a la FYF. JLH is running out of legacy acts to book, and TANP lineups are fine but a bit thin. There’s no reason that Salt Lake City should have a better indie fest than LA.
Thoughts?
they should also throw Cruel World into that. Hell, I've even got a name for this trifecta... COACHELLA! oh wait
Interpol & The Walkmen 11.23 I Am Morbid/Suffocation 11.26 King Diamond 11.29 Sadistic Intent/Massacre 11.30 70K Tons Of Metal 2025 Hell's Heroes 2025 Sick New World 2025 Maryland Deathfest 2025
The Postal Service...a festival headliner with only one album and one song casual listeners would even know. Rest of the lineup sounding mid.
Ticket sales on their current tour would prove you sorely wrong, as others have already pointed out. In fact, I went back and looked at every past Just Like Heaven lineup, and The Postal Service’s ticket sales on their current tour is stronger - by a lot - then any other act the festival has EVER booked. They’re the only band the festival has ever booked that could sell out 3 nights at the Bowl. You may not want to see them but to insinuate they are not popular enough to headline this festival is so off base.
I didn't say they weren't popular, just that they only have one hit that non-fans would know, and no band with only one album should ever headline a festival. 3 nights at the Bowl mean 54,000 people in LA just saw them a few months ago, and it's not like they have any more material to draw from for another set.
As suggested in the Coachella thread, I would rather they do away with these mini festivals that are cannibalizing Coachella. I get that they're more local and only one day and more "stacked" with nostalgia acts and whatnot but I am proud to say I've been relatively against these since day one. (I also blame them for the subsequent Live Nation incarnations that have since blown up even further - When We Were Young, Sick New World, Lovers & Friends, etc.)
Clearly I'm in the minority. And in the interest of full disclosure, I've attended most of these like the rest of y'all (though mostly via cheap resale and/or for free)
As suggested in the Coachella thread, I would rather they do away with these mini festivals that are cannibalizing Coachella. I get that they're more local and only one day and more "stacked" with nostalgia acts and whatnot but I am proud to say I've been relatively against these since day one. (I also blame them for the subsequent Live Nation incarnations that have since blown up even further - When We Were Young, Sick New World, Lovers & Friends, etc.)
Clearly I'm in the minority. And in the interest of full disclosure, I've attended most of these like the rest of y'all (though mostly via cheap resale and/or for free)
I don't think these are cannibalizing Coachella anymore, I think without festivals like CW and JLH those bands just wouldn't get booked at all at the major festivals so if the choice is between these niche festivals or no festivals I choose niche festivals. I wish musical tastes shifted back to when these bands were more popular but I think we're still many years from that. Hopefully Kilby keeps showing their success so we can at least get more sprinkles in a Coachella lineup though.
Or combine CW and JLH into a 2 day festival at the polo fields lol
Ticket sales on their current tour would prove you sorely wrong, as others have already pointed out. In fact, I went back and looked at every past Just Like Heaven lineup, and The Postal Service’s ticket sales on their current tour is stronger - by a lot - then any other act the festival has EVER booked. They’re the only band the festival has ever booked that could sell out 3 nights at the Bowl. You may not want to see them but to insinuate they are not popular enough to headline this festival is so off base.
I didn't say they weren't popular, just that they only have one hit that non-fans would know, and no band with only one album should ever headline a festival. 3 nights at the Bowl mean 54,000 people in LA just saw them a few months ago, and it's not like they have any more material to draw from for another set.
As a person that lives in LA and saw TPS/DCFC 3 times(once at the Bowl) on the first leg of the anniversary tour I am thrilled that they will be at JLH. I don't want new material(and its been made clear we wont get any) I want to see this show as much as I can since we only got it for the 10th and now the 20th anniversary shows. I highly doubt they will ever do shows again so thats why I plan on seeing it at least twice on this second run.
I saw DCFC and The Postal Service at the Bowl 2 out of the 3 nights last year. After the first night, I wasn’t too stoked to see them again. It’s nice hearing the albums live, but it felt like they lacked energy and excitement. Somewhat seemed like they were phoning it in. I’d be more stoked about them on the lineup if they didn’t just play 3 big shows in LA. I mean, I’d be fine with just one of them on the lineup, so that the fest could book another big act for a top line spot.
After seeing Kilby’s lineup, I wish we got someone like Vampire Weekend, who hasn’t played LA in a while.
I mean, I’ll still be going to JLH cause I love The War on Drugs, and Phoenix is always great live. Hoping there’s some more exciting names (like a Hot Hot Heat reunion) once the lineup drops.
Pretty sure the secondary market tanked for those three Hollywood Bowl shows.
Slightly for night 3 but overall it held up. The Sb Bowl show had cheap af tix though. Friend went to the box office for Night 3 at the Bowl and got a Super Seat ticket no problem.
I saw DCFC and The Postal Service at the Bowl 2 out of the 3 nights last year. After the first night, I wasn’t too stoked to see them again. It’s nice hearing the albums live, but it felt like they lacked energy and excitement. Somewhat seemed like they were phoning it in. I’d be more stoked about them on the lineup if they didn’t just play 3 big shows in LA. I mean, I’d be fine with just one of them on the lineup, so that the fest could book another big act for a top line spot.
After seeing Kilby’s lineup, I wish we got someone like Vampire Weekend, who hasn’t played LA in a while.
I mean, I’ll still be going to JLH cause I love The War on Drugs, and Phoenix is always great live. Hoping there’s some more exciting names (like a Hot Hot Heat reunion) once the lineup drops.
I dont think they would tease TPS/DCFC in a social media post if they were a headliner. Last year they teased M83 who was 5th.
Hopefully Metric does an Old World Underground set.
Future Islands and now The War on Drugs don't really fit the era since they didn't break big until 2014, when indie sleaze was long dead. Branching more into the 2010s would help with things feeling so repetitive and limited.
Hopefully Metric does an Old World Underground set.
Future Islands and now The War on Drugs don't really fit the era since they didn't break big until 2014, when indie sleaze was long dead. Branching more into the 2010s would help with things feeling so repetitive and limited.
Alvvays too but it seems like they’ve run out of bands from that era.
Hopefully Metric does an Old World Underground set.
Future Islands and now The War on Drugs don't really fit the era since they didn't break big until 2014, when indie sleaze was long dead. Branching more into the 2010s would help with things feeling so repetitive and limited.
Alvvays too but it seems like they’ve run out of bands from that era.
Theres still bands. Current list barring whats announced.
Lcd Soundsystem The Strokes Arcade Fire Arctic Monkeys The Killers Vampire Weekend Dfa 1979 Klaxons Le Tigre Hot Chip CSS Hercules and Love Affair Soulwax TVOTR Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Head Automatica Walkmen Scissor Sisters Cobra Starship Silversun Pickups Whitest Boy Alive Rilo Kiley Editors Friendly Fires Lykke Li Metric Junior Senior The Subways Art Brut Moving Units Hot Hot Heat Be Your Own Pet Fischerspooner Kaiser Chiefs Doves Dresden Dolls Goldfrapp The Kills Futureheads Metronomy Fiery Furnaces Gossip
There’s obviously bands still left but this festival has been going on, for what, 4 years? If they’re already reusing multiple lower card acts and headliners while bringing in acts like War on Drugs, it’s unlikely anything will change. Metronomy is done for awhile, who knows what The Horrors is doing, Arctic Monkeys are arguably too big for this, Fischerspooner and Editors have given up playing the States, and so on.
11/19: Caribou 11/22: Ranger Trucco 11/29: Armand Van Helden* 1/16: L'Impératrice 1/30: Jamie xx 2/1: DJ Seinfeld 2/7: Mild Minds* 3/1: Father John Misty* 3/19: Confidence Man 3/23: DARKSIDE 5/8: Rüfüs Du Sol
Post by thepiratepenguin on Jan 22, 2024 12:10:41 GMT -5
Gossip reunion getting the No Doubt treatment I see!
BSS and Metric has me wondering if Emily pulls double duty. Also hoping it's a You Forgot It in People set since that tour skipped LA because they did Ohana, and I didn't feel like paying just for that.
The middle chunk of the poster is a little bland for me (Miike Snow returning is the biggest eye-roller), but it's super top-heavy and the lower names are also great. I'll be retaining my perfect attendance record at this festival.
