Coachella 2012

ShoulderChip

Anyone here going?

H8GHOTI

I'm not going but the leaked line-up looks very good.
Interesting idea having the festival on 2 weekends in a row. There must be some demand for tickets if they can sell it out twice.
The line-up last year had some decent names on it too.

Hopefully, if the line-up below is real, it looks like Daft Punk might be touring next year. Fingers crossed for an Irish date. An Electric Picnic appearance would be very welcome.

Furious-Red

ShoulderChip

was just gonna do that myself

what do people think of the lineup?

Furious-Red

ShoulderChip wrote: »

was just gonna do that myself

what do people think of the lineup?

Dont really like it tbh

PseudoFamous

Its like someone looked at my iTunes and said "get all of these bands and artists to play." Would be an incredible 2 festivals, wish I had the money to go to one of them, particularly the first weekend. Daft Punk and Justice are the real standouts for me in that lineup.

Mushy

PseudoFamous wrote: »

Its like someone looked at my iTunes and said "get all of these bands and artists to play." Would be an incredible 2 festivals, wish I had the money to go to one of them, particularly the first weekend. Daft Punk and Justice are the real standouts for me in that lineup.

Dont see Daft Punk on it. Also, Black Keys headlining? Didnt think were that big.

seachto7

so which lineup is the real one??

honru

Mushy wrote: »

Also, Black Keys headlining? Didnt think were that big.

They're pretty big in the States from what I've read. Like Madison Square Garden big.

Furious-Red

seachto7 wrote: »

so which lineup is the real one??

The 2nd one , the one i posted

H8GHOTI

PseudoFamous wrote: »

Its like someone looked at my iTunes and said "get all of these bands and artists to play." Would be an incredible 2 festivals, wish I had the money to go to one of them, particularly the first weekend. Daft Punk and Justice are the real standouts for me in that lineup.

It's the same line-up 2 weekends in a row. Not 2 different festivals.
Daft Punk aren't playing. The first poster above was meant to be a leaked line-up but, although a couple of the names were right, it appears that it was just a fake. That was on a few sites back in November.

Corholio

Looks a great line-up to be honest. Good to see a festival without Foo Fighters for once, nothing against the Foo's or anything. Kasabian, Arctic Monkey's, Miike Snow, Bon Iver, The Hives, Metronomy, Feist, thats a hell of a mix of acts.

honru

Ooh Refused. Hope this reunion extends to Europe.

lordgoat

Hoping there'll be alot of carryover to Prima.

honru

Apparently Black Sabbath were one of the headliners but were forced to pull out because of Tony Iommi's health. I guess that answers why The Black Keys are now top of the bill.

pistonsvox

lets just hope tickets are easy to get on friday

Jimmy Iovine

If I'd the money then I'd love to head over. Frank Ocean and DJ Shadow are the standouts for me. Two supremely talented artists.

Dre and Snoop headlining is a strange one. Neither of them have an album out. If it was 10 years ago then it'd be a superb signing but I'm not so sure now.

Jimmy Iovine

If I'd the money then I'd love to head over. Frank Ocean and DJ Shadow are the standouts for me. Two supremely talented artists.

Dre and Snoop headlining is a strange one. Neither of them have an album out. If it was 10 years ago then it'd be a superb signing but I'm not so sure now.

ShoulderChip

can anyone get tickets?

bruce wayne

Tickets are on sale now, but the website is running very slowly due to high demand.

johnpatrick81

I've been a couple of years ago and it was the worst festival experience I've had, and I include Oxegen in that:D Seriously, any euro fest is miles better. Sure the lineup is always phenomenal, but beyond that it's horrid. Too hot(on mostly durin sunlight too compared to say Benicassim), too many rigid rules(drinkin in the festival area is only allowed in a caged off area to the left, you cannot get beer etc and go watch an act), too many posers, no general craic, the most boring lifeless campsite ever, and many many other reasons. Can't stress enough how much you should avoid this if yer used to european festivals.

I'd only recommend it if you were in the vicinity and wanted to go purely for the music and the music alone. Even some of that suffered, some really awful cross over noise between stages.

pistonsvox

bahh.. have 2 different laptops with 2 different browsers.. all on the standby page stil since 6pm.:rolleyes:

Furious-Red

pistonsvox

was forced to buy the shuttle combo even though i'm doing car camping.. totally worth it though

ShoulderChip

pistonsvox wrote: »

was forced to buy the shuttle combo even though i'm doing car camping.. totally worth it though

Us also

Do you think it will be any use?
Anywhere to go on it during the day? do you know when coachella day starts?
OR could it be sold on?

Not too worried just happy to be going

pistonsvox

ShoulderChip wrote: »

Us also

Do you think it will be any use?
Anywhere to go on it during the day? do you know when coachella day starts?
OR could it be sold on?

Not too worried just happy to be going

The festival? Well I dont care if its gonna be scorching, much better than grey skies and torrential rain! The Car Camping opens on the 19th... The first coachella show day is the 20th. If you're doing the 2nd weekend that is.

I'm not too sure... havent a clue about the area.. my first time in the west coast! Were doing the car camping so staying onsite for the weekend! Spose the shuttle pass might come in handy to go get more gargle :pac:

ShoulderChip

ha

I meant if the festival started at say 2pm it might have been handy in the morning, but ultimately we would have better fun onsite and will most likely be too hungover at that time to venture far.

We are going to 1st weekend actually.

pistonsvox

Thats true! Too hot to even move i'd imagine! :pac:

indiewindy

johnpatrick81 wrote: »

I've been a couple of years ago and it was the worst festival experience I've had, and I include Oxegen in that:D Seriously, any euro fest is miles better. Sure the lineup is always phenomenal, but beyond that it's horrid. Too hot(on mostly durin sunlight too compared to say Benicassim), too many rigid rules(drinkin in the festival area is only allowed in a caged off area to the left, you cannot get beer etc and go watch an act), too many posers, no general craic, the most boring lifeless campsite ever, and many many other reasons. Can't stress enough how much you should avoid this if yer used to european festivals.

I'd only recommend it if you were in the vicinity and wanted to go purely for the music and the music alone. Even some of that suffered, some really awful cross over noise between stages.

a festival where people only go for the music and no messing in the campsites sounds good to me

johnpatrick81

yeah and no craic and atmosphere in the main arena either sounds good too eh? Enjoy!

For those wonderin about the area, there's not much in the nearby vicinity. There's a Dennys and a supermarket a short drive away which is always jammers every morn, Indio seems fairly sparse. Palm Springs is about 30 minutes away if I remember correctly, maybe a bit nearer.

And for those on bout goin stockin up on booze, you can't bring any booze bar cans of beer into the campsite. The security are nuts, they check everything. We managed to get lucky and sneak plenty of vodka in a slab of plastic water bottles, the vodka tucked away in the middle. They were checkin bottle tops and smelling them to make sure they were water.

MadsL

Got my ticket plus car camping...anyone up for a boards beers for the second weekend?

Worried about comments - this will be my first US festival of hopefully many this season, possibly working the rest of them...

John, I can already tell US festivals are not quite as evolved, but they also probably have to put up with a lot more in terms of licence/laws etc with booze..what year were you there?

Savage line up though....