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For the purposes of making a mock more realistic, who are some artists you’d absolutely hate to see booked?
This might get me some hate, but I really hope we don't get Sabrina Carpenter.
I don't have anything against her, her music, or her fans. But her music just seems like such generic and throwaway commercial pop to me, it sounds like it's more designed to be in a Kroger commercial than trying to push boundaries like Charli or Chappel does. The Taylor association has kind of artificially risen her stock and most certainly her asking price for a festival. I kind of mentioned this in the podcast, but I think gambling that much money on her could kind of backfire in the same way that booking Macklemore for such a high spot in 2016 did.
For the purposes of making a mock more realistic, who are some artists you’d absolutely hate to see booked?
ABBA AC/DC Aerosmith The Allman Brothers Band Amadou and Mariam The Andrews Sisters The Animals Arcade Fire The Band The Beach Boys The Beastie Boys The Beatles The Bee Gees Big Star Black Flag Black Sabbath Blondie Booker T. and the MG’s Boston The Boswell Sisters Boyz II Men Brooks & Dunn Buffalo Springfield The Byrds Calle 13 The Chemical Brothers Chicago The Clash The Coasters Coldplay Alice Cooper Cream Creedence Clearwater Revival Crosby, Stills & Nash Daft Punk De La Soul Death Cab for Cutie The Decemberists Def Leppard Devo The Dillards Dion and the Belmonts Dire Straits Dixie Chicks The Doors The Drifters The Eagles Earth, Wind & Fire Emerson Lake & Palmer The Everly Brothers The Flamingos Fleetwood Mac The Flying Burrito Brothers The Four Seasons The Four Tops Fugazi The Gang of Four Genesis Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five The Grateful Dead Green Day Guns N’ Roses Hüsker Dü The Hollies Iggy and the Stooges The Ink Spots The Isley Brothers The Jam The Jefferson Airplane The Jesus and Mary Chain Jonas Brothers Joy Division The Judds The Kingston Trio The Kinks Gladys Knight and the Pips Kool and the Gang Kraftwerk Ladysmith Black Mambazo Led Zeppelin Little Anthony and the Imperials The Louvin Brothers Love The Lovin’ Spoonful Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers Lynyrd Skynyrd The MC5 The Mamas and the Papas The Mekons Metallica The Mills Brothers Modest Mouse The Monkees The Moody Blues The Moonglows Mumford & Sons My Chemical Romance New Order The New York Dolls Nine Inch Nails Nirvana The O’Jays The Ohio Players One Direction The Orioles OutKast Parliament-Funkadelic Pavement Pearl Jam Pere Ubu The Pet Shop Boys Peter, Paul and Mary Pink Floyd Pixies The Platters Poco The Police Portishead Public Enemy Puffy AmiYumi Queen R.E.M. Radiohead Rage Against the Machine The Ramones Rascal Flatts Red Hot Chili Peppers The Replacements The Rolling Stones Roxy Music Run-D.M.C. Sam and Dave Santana The Sex Pistols The Shadows The Shirelles Sleater-Kinney Sly and the Family Stone Smashing Pumpkins The Smiths Sonic Youth The Soul Stirrers Spice Girls Stanley Brothers The Staple Singers Steely Dan The Strokes TV on the Radio Talking Heads Television The Temptations Tinariwen Toots and the Maytals Traffic The Turtles U2 Van Halen The Velvet Underground The Ventures The Weavers The White Stripes The Who Wilco X The Yardbirds Yes Yo La Tengo ZZ Top
The only issue I've got with having Gambino headline again is it still relatively feels like we just had him. That would have been six years ago in real time, but only four Bonnaroo's ago. That feels like a really quick turnaround, and it kind of highlights even more that we seem to have a revolving door of a large handful of artists that come back to headline every so often. That already felt like an issue this past year with RHCP and Posty.
That said, that Gambino set back in 2019 was probably in my top five of shows I've ever seen so I'm still very much cool with it.
I agree in an ideal world it’s too soon. But unfortunately, as you alluded to the industry has changed. The economics of festivals are tough, and so many HL acts would rather make way more money on an arena tour.
For Gambino though, it’s not as egregious as Post last year. And by all indications this is his last tour under that moniker so I’m personally thrilled we are getting him back with a new album of material that I’m excited to hear live.
For the purposes of making a mock more realistic, who are some artists you’d absolutely hate to see booked?
This might get me some hate, but I really hope we don't get Sabrina Carpenter.
I don't have anything against her, her music, or her fans. But her music just seems like such generic and throwaway commercial pop to me, it sounds like it's more designed to be in a Kroger commercial than trying to push boundaries like Charli or Chappel does. The Taylor association has kind of artificially risen her stock and most certainly her asking price for a festival. I kind of mentioned this in the podcast, but I think gambling that much money on her could kind of backfire in the same way that booking Macklemore for such a high spot in 2016 did.
Sabrina is a big pop star who is only going to get bigger and whose demand is very high right now. Take a look at some the resale prices for the arena shows, cheapest is around $200 on average. I think her rise is legit and festival age people love her. Very different than booking a gimmick rapper 3 years past his prime.
I don't have much reason to disagree with you too much, I just see it from a different perspective is all. I think another argument against her is that it doesn't seem like she's that smart of an investment when it feels like those die-hard fans of her are not going to feel that compelled to buy weekend passes and camp out.
I don't have much reason to disagree with you too much, I just see it from a different perspective is all. I think another argument against her is that it doesn't seem like she's that smart of an investment when it feels like those die-hard fans of her are not going to feel that compelled to buy weekend passes and camp out.
these Chappell Roan, & Sabrina Carpenter fans are a different breed. People were camping out at 5 am to see Chappell in Richmond, contemplating ways to sneak on the island she was playing by swimming. I think a camping experience wouldn’t be that hard a sell.
Tbh I like some Sabrina songs but I think I know 3. Could be a worse booking wouldn’t hate it but wouldn’t be the thing that gets me to Roo that’s for sure lol.
For me, the biggest argument against her is that I fear she would eat up too much of the talent budget. But they seemed to do just fine after probably paying Megan a large sum last year, so it probably wouldn't be that big of a deal.
For me, the biggest argument against her is that I fear she would eat up too much of the talent budget. But they seemed to do just fine after probably paying Megan a large sum last year, so it probably wouldn't be that big of a deal.
I think the current hype might make Sabrina more expensive than Megan.
For the purposes of making a mock more realistic, who are some artists you’d absolutely hate to see booked?
ABBA AC/DC Aerosmith The Allman Brothers Band Amadou and Mariam The Andrews Sisters The Animals Arcade Fire The Band The Beach Boys The Beastie Boys The Beatles The Bee Gees Big Star Black Flag Black Sabbath Blondie Booker T. and the MG’s Boston The Boswell Sisters Boyz II Men Brooks & Dunn Buffalo Springfield The Byrds Calle 13 The Chemical Brothers Chicago The Clash The Coasters Coldplay Alice Cooper Cream Creedence Clearwater Revival Crosby, Stills & Nash Daft Punk De La Soul Death Cab for Cutie The Decemberists Def Leppard Devo The Dillards Dion and the Belmonts Dire Straits Dixie Chicks The Doors The Drifters The Eagles Earth, Wind & Fire Emerson Lake & Palmer The Everly Brothers The Flamingos Fleetwood Mac The Flying Burrito Brothers The Four Seasons The Four Tops Fugazi The Gang of Four Genesis Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five The Grateful Dead Green Day Guns N’ Roses Hüsker Dü The Hollies Iggy and the Stooges The Ink Spots The Isley Brothers The Jam The Jefferson Airplane The Jesus and Mary Chain Jonas Brothers Joy Division The Judds The Kingston Trio The Kinks Gladys Knight and the Pips Kool and the Gang Kraftwerk Ladysmith Black Mambazo Led Zeppelin Little Anthony and the Imperials The Louvin Brothers Love The Lovin’ Spoonful Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers Lynyrd Skynyrd The MC5 The Mamas and the Papas The Mekons Metallica The Mills Brothers Modest Mouse The Monkees The Moody Blues The Moonglows Mumford & Sons My Chemical Romance New Order The New York Dolls Nine Inch Nails Nirvana The O’Jays The Ohio Players One Direction The Orioles OutKast Parliament-Funkadelic Pavement Pearl Jam Pere Ubu The Pet Shop Boys Peter, Paul and Mary Pink Floyd Pixies The Platters Poco The Police Portishead Public Enemy Puffy AmiYumi Queen R.E.M. Radiohead Rage Against the Machine The Ramones Rascal Flatts Red Hot Chili Peppers The Replacements The Rolling Stones Roxy Music Run-D.M.C. Sam and Dave Santana The Sex Pistols The Shadows The Shirelles Sleater-Kinney Sly and the Family Stone Smashing Pumpkins The Smiths Sonic Youth The Soul Stirrers Spice Girls Stanley Brothers The Staple Singers Steely Dan The Strokes TV on the Radio Talking Heads Television The Temptations Tinariwen Toots and the Maytals Traffic The Turtles U2 Van Halen The Velvet Underground The Ventures The Weavers The White Stripes The Who Wilco X The Yardbirds Yes Yo La Tengo ZZ Top
For the purposes of making a mock more realistic, who are some artists you’d absolutely hate to see booked?
ABBA AC/DC Aerosmith The Allman Brothers Band Amadou and Mariam The Andrews Sisters The Animals Arcade Fire The Band The Beach Boys The Beastie Boys The Beatles The Bee Gees Big Star Black Flag Black Sabbath Blondie Booker T. and the MG’s Boston The Boswell Sisters Boyz II Men Brooks & Dunn Buffalo Springfield The Byrds Calle 13 The Chemical Brothers Chicago The Clash The Coasters Coldplay Alice Cooper Cream Creedence Clearwater Revival Crosby, Stills & Nash Daft Punk De La Soul Death Cab for Cutie The Decemberists Def Leppard Devo The Dillards Dion and the Belmonts Dire Straits Dixie Chicks The Doors The Drifters The Eagles Earth, Wind & Fire Emerson Lake & Palmer The Everly Brothers The Flamingos Fleetwood Mac The Flying Burrito Brothers The Four Seasons The Four Tops Fugazi The Gang of Four Genesis Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five The Grateful Dead Green Day Guns N’ Roses Hüsker Dü The Hollies Iggy and the Stooges The Ink Spots The Isley Brothers The Jam The Jefferson Airplane The Jesus and Mary Chain Jonas Brothers Joy Division The Judds The Kingston Trio The Kinks Gladys Knight and the Pips Kool and the Gang Kraftwerk Ladysmith Black Mambazo Led Zeppelin Little Anthony and the Imperials The Louvin Brothers Love The Lovin’ Spoonful Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers Lynyrd Skynyrd The MC5 The Mamas and the Papas The Mekons Metallica The Mills Brothers Modest Mouse The Monkees The Moody Blues The Moonglows Mumford & Sons My Chemical Romance New Order The New York Dolls Nine Inch Nails Nirvana The O’Jays The Ohio Players One Direction The Orioles OutKast Parliament-Funkadelic Pavement Pearl Jam Pere Ubu The Pet Shop Boys Peter, Paul and Mary Pink Floyd Pixies The Platters Poco The Police Portishead Public Enemy Puffy AmiYumi Queen R.E.M. Radiohead Rage Against the Machine The Ramones Rascal Flatts Red Hot Chili Peppers The Replacements The Rolling Stones Roxy Music Run-D.M.C. Sam and Dave Santana The Sex Pistols The Shadows The Shirelles Sleater-Kinney Sly and the Family Stone Smashing Pumpkins The Smiths Sonic Youth The Soul Stirrers Spice Girls Stanley Brothers The Staple Singers Steely Dan The Strokes TV on the Radio Talking Heads Television The Temptations Tinariwen Toots and the Maytals Traffic The Turtles U2 Van Halen The Velvet Underground The Ventures The Weavers The White Stripes The Who Wilco X The Yardbirds Yes Yo La Tengo ZZ Top
For me, the biggest argument against her is that I fear she would eat up too much of the talent budget. But they seemed to do just fine after probably paying Megan a large sum last year, so it probably wouldn't be that big of a deal.
not sure why Megan is the comparison here. RHCP and Post would've easily been the two most expensive bookings this year. RHCP pulled in $5M a show on average this tour. Post was around 1.7M avg last year.
