Pitchfork Festival - anyone going?

Anyone in the forum going? It's really tempting…

http://www.pitchforkmusicfestival.com/

There will also be a pre-party at the Metro with Sunset Rubdown, Voxtrot, and the Joggers!

I'll be there. Got my tickets a while ago. Amazing lineup for $30. My plan is to stay in Chicago for the week and go to Lolla the following weekend.

Originally posted by amnesiac:
I'll be there. Got my tickets a while ago. Amazing lineup for $30. My plan is to stay in Chicago for the week and go to Lolla the following weekend.

I envy you…but if I do that, I'll miss Sleater Kinney, Rentals, and Pretenders at the 930…so I think it's fair ;)

I'm going.

I was going to go, but had to cancel. I just bought a car, so now I don't have any money right now for a trip. For people that go, check out Flatstock at Pitchfork. It's a bunch a people that do concert posters around the country. A lot of good stuff…

Looks like I'm going.

The schedule is up.

Saturday:
9:10-Silver Jews(A)
8:10-The Walkmen(C)
7:10-The Futureheads(A)
6:10-Ted Leo & Rx(C)
5:10-Art Brut(A)
4:20-Destroyer(C)
3:30-Mountain Goats(A)
2:35-Band of Horses(C)
2:00-Man Man(A)
1:30-Chin Up Chin Up(C)
1:00-Hot Machines(A)

plus Biz 3 stage:
8:40-A-Trak
7:40-Matthew Dear
6:45-Matmos
5:25-Spank Rock
4:30-Ghislain Poirier
3:45-Tyondai Braxton
2:50-Chicago Underground Duo
1:50-Flosstradamus
1:00-8 Bold Souls

Sunday:
9:10-Os Mutantes(A)
8:10-Spoon(C)
7:10-Yo La Tengo(A)
6:10-Devendra Banhart(C)
5:10-Mission of Burma(A)
4:20-Aesop Rock/Mr. Lif(C)
3:30-Liars(A)
2:35-The National(C)
2:00-Jens Lekman(A)
1:30-Danielson(C)
1:00-Tapes 'n Tapes(A)

plus Biz 3 stage:
8:10-Diplo
7:10-Dominik Eulberg
6:10-Glenn Kotche
5:20-Ada
4:30-Tarantula A.D.
3:40-Cage
2:50-CSS
1:55-Bonde Do Role
1:00-Jeff Parker / Nels Cline Quartet


There is a "pre-party" at the Metro on Friday night.

Sunset Rubdown
Voxtrot
Eugene Mirman, Todd Barry, & Aziz Ansari
The Joggers

Damn I want to go to this….not possible. Gggrrrr.

good lineup, but it just sounds boring to me. I mean is there really like a party going on here or is it a ton of folded armed indie kids staring at rock bands and the like?

anyone ever been before?

i'll be there for the pre-party, the festival, and sleater-kinney when i get back here. it's gonna be a fun couple of days.

Well, something came up at the last minute and now I can't make this one. Just Lollapalooza now.

Oh well, I've pretty much seen all the bands I want to anyway. I'm just bummed that I'll be missing Os Mutantes. And I also wanted to see Silver Joos again…

os mutantes?
fuck yes.

As much as I hate pitchfork, I'll take that lineup over Lolapalooza or Virgin Festival lineups.

And if I remember correctly, the cost was only a small fraction of the other two.

Originally posted by Weird Little Self Loathing Man:
As much as I hate pitchfork, I'll take that lineup over Lolapalooza or Virgin Festival lineups.

And if I remember correctly, the cost was only a small fraction of the other two.

Yeah, I think this is the best lineup out of all the festivals this year. Well, this one or Sasquatch.

Tix were only $30 for two days.

I thought it was a great festival.

Art Brut took home the blue ribbon.

Originally posted by Weird Little Self Loathing Man:
As much as I hate pitchfork, I'll take that lineup over Lolapalooza or Virgin Festival lineups.

And if I remember correctly, the cost was only a small fraction of the other two.

i paid $45 for 3 days of Lolla.

Originally posted by le sonick:

Originally posted by Weird Little Self Loathing Man:
As much as I hate pitchfork, I'll take that lineup over Lolapalooza or Virgin Festival lineups.

And if I remember correctly, the cost was only a small fraction of the other two.

i paid $45 for 3 days of Lolla.

Me too :)

Anyone see the Silver Jews set there? How was it? Malkmus?

silver jews was great. best/craziest was the liars+man man. yo la was good. best part about it was they did not rape people for food + water. big bottles of water were $1, if you did not get one for free. food was local, good + reasonable. just like lolla last yr it was almost 100 degrees. the announcer might have been the best part of the show.

did anyone see Jens Lekman? looks like a super-short set from ggw's schedule, i wish i had been able to go up to NYC and see his 2 shows a couple of weekends ago

Jens is one of the few acts in this lineup that I haven't seen live before, and so another reason I regret missing this festival. But it looks like he was given a solid hour or so. On at 2, then Liars at 3:30.

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
did anyone see Jens Lekman? looks like a super-short set from ggw's schedule, i wish i had been able to go up to NYC and see his 2 shows a couple of weekends ago