BEST FESTIVAL EVER!!!

[ateolf]

idea from Kerry

Create your own three day dream festival. You must have five bands for each stage: a main stage, second stage, and a themed tent for each day. The bands must still be alive today, and either together, or possible to get back together to play this festival. if it isn't obvious, top billing is on top...down through the "supporting" acts in order...oh wait, i didn't pay attention and see the "themed" tent idea...i'll go back and add themes...even though it's stupid...

Friday:
Main Stage:
The Fall
Devo
Merzbow
The Secondmen
Suicide
Second Stage:
Ornette Coleman
The Magic Band
Destroy All Monsters
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Two Dollar Guitar
Tent: (theme: good bands that i couldn't fit on the other stages...)
Blonde Redhead
Damo Suzuki Network
US Maple
The New Year
Add N to (X)

Saturday:
Main Stage:
Wire
Mission of Burma
Glenn Branca
The Dead C
Joan of Arc
Second Stage:
Public Enemy
Tom Waits
Pere Ubu
Coil
Mogwai
Tent: (theme: more good bands that i couldn't fit on the other stages...)
Shellac
Bardo Pond
Erase Errata
Cat Power
Bride of No No

Sunday:
Main Stage:
Sonic Youth
The Family Ghost
Radiohead
Whitehouse
Ken Vandermark
Second Stage:
The Stooges
Television
Yo La Tengo
Sigur Rós
Low
Tent: (theme: a few more good bands that i couldn't fit on the other stages...)
Faust
Jonathan Richman
Melt-Banana
Hood
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone

wait a minute...i this this just may be TOO fucking good...like, how the fuck can you choose between some of this shit!? perhaps it should go on for three weeks in a row, then you could see everyone!!! that would stomp ballz...

Comments

[i-am-in-here.livejournal.com]

Hey! Themed tents aren't stupid! They're part of the game! Dick!

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

a stupid part of the game!

you're a stupid part of the game

[ethangrim.livejournal.com]

you have to have theme tents.
especially a METAL tent!
aaaaand it should really be made of metal.
then, if there's a thunderstorm and lightning strikes, it'll be like "AWRIGHT! We got some HOT Rökkïn' tonii i i iiiii iiii ii i i i iiight!!!!!"

it could be the bestest show there ever was....

Re: you're a stupid part of the game

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

holy shit!!! that would rival even those gods of showmanship: Great White!!!

Re: you're a stupid part of the game

[ethangrim.livejournal.com]

Good Lord! How could I forget them?
Say what you will about their generic riffs and bland style.
'coz when it comes to great entertaiment,
nobody brings down the house like Great White...

Re: you're a stupid part of the game

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

the same goes for their uncanny ability to kill over a hundred people with their illegal pyrotechnics malfunctioning!!!

[ex-vitanuova530.livejournal.com]

But the themes make it interesting. Otherwise it's just a list of your favorite bands that could still play.

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

no, themes trivialize the music...it's like fucking Beale Street w/ some shitty zydeco tent or whatever..."this ain't real ROCK'N'ROLL so it don't belong on the real stages...but it's a cute little thing to look at...unlike the REAL music we've got up here..." it's set up so that no one would care about the actual bands...just a little sideshow so they can hear five minutes of their zydeco and feel all culturally diverse...

besides my festival isn't just a list of bands...it is arranged like the most beautiful symphony...and there's a band or two that can still play that i didn't list but i still like more than something that i did 'cuz it fit the feel of what i had going w/ the festival better...

[i-am-in-here.livejournal.com]

Yes, it IS like Beale Street. That's what started the whole game. PLUUUUUUUUS you said that you chose bands to fit a certain mood, which is the same thing as a "tent," except a tent has a name. Being in a tent doesn't make it a sideshow. I put GYBE in a tent. It's just an aspect to make the Fantasy Musicfest game more interesting. So there.

And why are we being so serious over a fucking tent? I'll pitch a tent in your ass!

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

yea, and i don't quite think Beale St. is the nicest model for a festival...and no, what i said is not the same thing at all as a theme tent...you may not have noticed, but it's a shifting mood...it's not a static, one-dimension kind of mood that fits one mere theme...it's dynamic and expressive...as i stated earlier, like a brilliantly orchestrated symphony...because i'm a fucking genius...not a gimmicky themed hack...

pitch away! i've been waiting my whole life for this moment!!!

[newness-ends.livejournal.com]

And why are we being so serious over a fucking tent? I'll pitch a tent in your ass!

that's one of the funniest things i've ever read! but actually doing is is kinda disappointing. you can't really feel it...

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

could you feel it if i pitched a loaf in your ass?

[newness-ends.livejournal.com]

umm...what? like a chocolate trainwreck?

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

choo choo chew!!!

[amohongos.livejournal.com]

Hey, this is a really good idea!