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Post by chetguy on Mar 29, 2018 11:40:23 GMT -5
I've brought this up here before but this festival is a little weird. I went last year and was almost assaulted by some drugged out dude at Diplo. Coming to the festival I didn't know what to expect, but i figured it would be in and around the stadium. It actually takes place in a shockingly small area, It's two stages in the mapfre parking lot. There's one stage that's tiny and doesn't really have any big names playing, and the other stage is pretty big and that's where all the big names are so naturally that stage is packed at all hours of the day. Not a great festival if you like EDM I'd say, but if you like rap I'd go for it. That's the weird part I wish they would change. I didn't go last year but I had an idea of the layout and it was odd. You NEED to put a stage in the stadium if you are going to do it three days at least. I noticed the lineup last year was rap heavy with some dubstep mashed in. They need to do more variety but I noticed the Dallas lineup they released thus far is almost exclusively Rap. I'm not a rap fan so that wont get me to go. There are big names in EDM they could get but for some reason have kind of went the route of just some middling players thus far. PSG is pretty good at booking talent so I'm surprised thus far they haven't booked more. I went to the first one in 2013 (then they took 2 years off which is why ppl don't remember them) but they had Twenty One Pilots, Bassnectar, Kendrick Lamar, Porter Robinson, Robert DeLong, Tritonal, Empire of the Sun, Tokyo Police Club ... I don't know how many tickets were sold (it wasn't marketed that well) but that is a great lineup. They need to do more of that and less just rap and dubstep. That's only going to bring in so many people and keep them interested. I just checked out the 2013 lineup, and those are totally tickets I would grab. I'd imagine they're going to a rap centered festival because that type of festival is under represented considering how big rap is becoming. Breakaway does seem to have a good amount of draw though, they booked a good lineup in 2013, and they landed chance the rapper in 2016 (which if you recall 2016, he blew up that year). Curious to see who they'll grab
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Post by whitneyhouston on Apr 5, 2018 11:41:42 GMT -5
Full lineup Attachments:
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Post by joel on Apr 5, 2018 13:06:05 GMT -5
It's a solid lineup of bands that are just to the left of my personal tastes. Every one of those acts is something that I should probably like given my musical tastes, but they just don't hit me for some reason. It does give me hope that this can be a good festival for years to come if the first year brings in a decent crowd.
I do like Dr. Dog a lot. Bob Schneider's good too. Very funny when you see him live. I've never seen Erika Winnestrom solo before, but if you've ever heard The Heartless Bastards, you know how talented she is.
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Post by whitneyhouston on Apr 5, 2018 13:07:31 GMT -5
Flaming Lips are a band you have to see once in your life, but unfortunately so much goes into their shows that the rarely change the setlist
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Post by chetguy on Apr 12, 2018 14:07:45 GMT -5
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