OFFICIAL Virgin Mobile FREEFEST 2009 Q/A - Hype Thread! REVISED

More bands for the mythical late Sept festival…. The Posies and The Knack are playing the Charlotte Pop Festival Sept 24 + 26

kosmo wrote:
More bands for the mythical late Sept festival…. The Posies and The Knack are playing the Charlotte Pop Festival Sept 24 + 26

remind me to post an ultra late review of the Posies show last Friday….

kosmo wrote:
… The Knack …

Yes, please!

bkrome wrote:
Might as well make it free.  They can't lose more than they lost last year.

no, making it free is an easy way to lose more than last year.

no way vfest is going to be free.  maybe cheap, but not free.

Ozzfest went free a few years back and made money, allegedly. It's all about finding corporate sponsorships (iffy in this economy) and keeping the lineup relatively cheap.

gaaaaaaaaah wrote:
Eh?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postrock/2009/06/virgin_festival_speculation_bl.html

How could it be free? Does that mean a bottle of water is going to be 15$?

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:

gaaaaaaaaah wrote:
Eh?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postrock/2009/06/virgin_festival_speculation_bl.html

How could it be free? Does that mean a bottle of water is going to be 15$?

$40 beer!! yay!!

Well that cancels out the McCartney rumors (Fed Ex Field August 1), and wow that's close to VFest.  I bet there were some attempts at negotiation.

vansmack wrote:

Dojokoto wrote:
JESUS CHRIST SETH

Just TELL us when it's going to happen, everyone is turning from anxious to furious. I'm not kidding. Many people I know won't even buy this year's ticket since this year = FAIL.

Wait.

If you don't have any powers to make this happen, how did you make this thread the OFFICIAL thread?

I'm calling shenanigans on the whole thing. 

Imposter.

hehehehe! No shenanigans sir! This is the real deal, I swear!

With the Flaming Lips playing MPP on Friday, Blink/Weezer potentially on the Sunday and the Killers on Monday, what are the possibilities that "Vfest" isn't so much a festival as a series of concerts at MPP over four days?

well, since tickets to the Killers have already gone on sale (they have right?), i cant see them being packaged into anything like that.

seems like anything thats part of Vfest would have to be announced, ticketed together. 

That's a good point.  It just seems strange.  You'd think a festival at a non-festival setting would require more set-up/clean-up time, but the Lips/Killers shows really squeeze that weekend together.

I'm kinda worried it will just be throwing the Vfest name on the Blink/Weezer show, and getting a few more openers, to make it an all day show, possibly just one stage.

We're at the point now we're we'll have to find out for sure very soon, so I suppose it's back to waiting.

It's on.

Holy Fuck's MySpace page lists Aug. 30 "Virgin Freefest" in Columbia, MD

http://www.myspace.com/holyfuck

serpent wrote:
It's on.

Holy Fuck's MySpace page lists Aug. 30 "Virgin Freefest" in Columbia, MD

http://www.myspace.com/holyfuck

yeah looks like all the rumors were correct then.  Weezer, Blink 182 and Holy Fuck..what a combination.

Got wrote:

serpent wrote:
It's on.

Holy Fuck's MySpace page lists Aug. 30 "Virgin Freefest" in Columbia, MD

http://www.myspace.com/holyfuck

yeah looks like all the rumors were correct then.  Weezer, Blink 182 and Holy Fuck..what a combination.

yeah, see. look, with at least 2 stages, theres NO reason to be griping cause Blink is headlining (if they even are).  9 out of 10 festivals i attend i donteven like the headliners (Kanye West, RHCP, Coldplay, jack johnson)

there could be 18 more bands on the bill plus a dance tent.  plus, leaving when Blink goes on = getting home early and avoiding traffic!!!

  lets get this thing announced this week though.  (i love me some Holy Fuck!)

and wait, a Freefest????  apparently it IS free…..who'd a thunk.  ….oh yeah, seth.

Holy Fuck is the exact band I'd want at a festival.  I saw them open for SFA last year, and enjoyed them, but their set got a bit tiring after a while.  A festival spot would be a good chance for people to check a band like Holy Fuck out.

And for free?  Appealing…

Holy Fuck were a good first set band at Lollapalooza last year.  Though I do prefer them somewhere like RNRH.  It was weird seeing them in the mid day sun. 

If its free is it first come, first served? 

I assume if it's free there will be some sort of system to get tickets.  Maybe something like Ozzfest did.

So, logically, an official announcement is coming very soon?

How was the system for ozzfest for getting tickets?

I don't know exactly, but it had something to do with getting tickets from various companies, which I guess is how the event was paid for.