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ah. thank you sir

so confused

NH?

i walked by chez eric in wakefield today and on their sign out front it said all you can eat bacon saturdays and sundays

that place seems a bit sketchy - i did a few searches and all i could find were artists renderings, no real photos... if they're taking reservations i guess they're open though... and i didn't really search that hard but, it's definitely not walking distance - it's 8 miles from the coachella site here is the route from that place to the site

true that! i am not a fan of the heat

I'm glad you asked

end of april / end of october in a desert in socal, there isn't much moderation in temperature edit: i just checked out the yearly averages - end of april (coachella) average temp is 32, end of october (phish) average temp is 30. so a bit cooler but still not all that cool. it gets cold as soon as the sun goes down too. not meaning to be argumentative but it's f-ing hot down there. do-able though, for sure. velvet, the no onsite alcohol is for the campgrounds, beer flows quite well in the venue. maybe the rules will be different for phish, but i doubt it. the rules for coachella and stagecoach (country festival that happens on same site) are identical for camping.

i'll be at al green tonight, but shhh, don't tell my mom, i'm taking her as a surprise!!

the point is, it worked out well for coachella - after spending the day in 40 degree heat there's no way i could have stayed up all night (in the freezing cold) to drink.

just learned that they've doubled the size of the onsite camping since i was there, but it's still pretty small (compared to Limestone / Cypress / Bonnaroo etc) and all the other rules still apply

if they do the camping like it's done for coachella (and i imagine it will be the same, as the polo club and surrounding community has strict rules on how their facility gets used), get ready for a drastic change in how you've come to expect festival camping. no more sprawling shade tents and big circles of tents - the on-site camping for coachella is a polo field where they mark off (with a field marker thing) 8x8 squares or something, and you get assigned a square and that's it. if you want to share your tent with others you can get another 8x8 square. there is no alcohol allowed, and there is a curfew (2 AM i believe). when i was there they were very strict with both of those points - people were kicked out before even seeing one band. also, there is not 'plenty' of on-site camping - it's a small site and it will sell out fast if you want a raging party, on site camping is not the place to be. there are plenty of houses for vacation rentals down there. if anyone wants to rent a house for the weekend, i'm in! all the negatives put aside, it's an amazing venue for a big outdoor show. (and if you do camp there are free showers, a cool clubhouse that serves food and drinks, toilets, and it's a polo field so it's pretty level and great for sleeping).

Junta

Shawn Scallen, Ottawa promoter/booker/guru who is involved with this event said this on punkottawa: that 'space permitting' thing is ridiculous though - like Mavericks is the ideal venue for Basia Bulat and Great Lake Swimmers on the same night. Imagine the lineup for that. Stupid scheduling. Lots of other beefs as well but oh well.

most of those are etree torrents, but there are a few mp3 blogs linked from there as well. by far the most exhaustive collection of links for bonnaroo audio, so you'd be best to start there for sure.

It looks more like a Kevin Spacey movie. 6 degrees of Kevin Spacey...

Spacey always has and always will have my back

jeff goldblum was in new york two days ago.

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cp24 got the scoop ahead of CNN? i doubt that...

'the goat's eyeballs' hasn't been in their setlist for years!!

you'll want to go to Egypt-town for that.

just noticed that Broken Social Scene are on the menu for a free show in the Market on Sunday July 12. That's pretty f-ing sweet.