Virgin Free Fest returning to Merriweather

so what time are you getting to the show walky?  ;D

kosmo wrote:

DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:
No tailigating allowed in the parking lots either? Lame! Ive heard this one is ACTUALLY true. Man.

the festival is free to those attend but bills still need to be paid., so of course they are going want you to buy food and drink inside the venue

That's what sponsors are for! I'm still going to buy beer there, but who wants to walk in stone cold sober? Pft. It's going to be like 1 or 2pm when I get there! Unacceptable.

Fuck it, I'm not even going.  I'm shutting up.

wml7 wrote:

hutch wrote:
pretty sure living social is not vip.. just go look at ticketfly page when you try to buy tickets

yes hutchy is right, the living social tickets are just the plain 125 ga tickets because it says so right on the ticketlfy page  ;D

walkonby wrote:

K8teebug wrote:
for those of you who smoke, merriweather is smoke free.  Just an fyi.  Yes, I know it's outside…

I don't think they've allowed tailgating there for a while.

merriweather sucks.  their lot sucks.  getting there sucks.  the beer prices sucks.  maryland cops suck.  the lawn sucks.  the sound sucks.  i'll take pier six any day.

Man you are wet noodle.   You can tailgait at merriweather.   People set-up tents and barbacue.  It is against howard county law to smoke in public but they don't enforce it at merrieweather. 

I love the sound at merriweather.  Beach House was amazingly beautiful at merriweather.  Best sound I have ever heard from them and I have seen them in some tiny places. 

Beer at merriweather is better than 930 club.  You can get 24 oz for 8 bucks.  They have a huge selection.   Last year at Virgin I talked the Vodka lady into giving me 24 oz of pure Vodka for 6 bucks.   Which sounds like a good deal but later I regreted that move. 

Merriweather is easy to get in and out of and their lot is a grass field nestled in the woods.  I don't get your whinning. 

K8teebug wrote:
for those of you who smoke, merriweather is smoke free.  Just an fyi.  Yes, I know it's outside…

I don't think they've allowed tailgating there for a while.

At My Morning Jacket this year we hung out with some people from the MMJ board and they had a tent and a couple of barbecues going.  A ton of lawn chairs and a shit load of beer.  We probably tailgated for 3 hours before the show.

At M3 Rock Festival we tailgated for 2 hours before going in. 

I might tailgait this  year but it is a long day and don't want to be wasted by noon. 

any artists going to be doing signings at the merch table? any special freebies this year? Last year i think a lot of people got chuck taylors but i didn't make it..

Fuck this, I am going to tailgate at work.  Then stumble across the closed BLP and have fun…

Sir wrote:
Fuck this, I am going to tailgate at work.  Then stumble across the closed BLP and have fun…

now that's the right attitude!

http://www14.ticketingcentral.com/V2/Quantity.aspx?8CD298566AF456A

They are now selling $30 karma tickets (free ticket plus $30 donation)

Got wrote:
http://www14.ticketingcentral.com/V2/Quantity.aspx?8CD298566AF456A

They are now selling $30 karma tickets (free ticket plus $30 donation)

that link doesn't work, but it's linked from the front page of ticketfly.

i guess that's how they're releasing the unclaimed tickets?

Got wrote:
and here is the schedule!

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/midnight_sun/blog/untitled.JPG

really hate the fact that pavement and lcd soundsystem are playing the pavilion stage

that schedule has the event going until 11 pm… doesn't MPP have a 10 pm curfew?  or did we party it up until 11 last year?

i think i'll be more of the west side and dance tent ..minus trombone and ludawatever…not sure what to do about lcd soundsystem and sharam playing at the same time. 
the only band i'm interested in seeing at the pavillion is edward sharpe cause they are out there. haah

sweetcell wrote:

that schedule has the event going until 11 pm… doesn't MPP have a 10 pm curfew?  or did we party it up until 11 last year?

I recalled it ending at 10 last year.

Pretty sure the curfew is 11, but they probably cut it off at 10 in an attempt to get all the drunken riff-raff out of there.  ;D

It is 11pm.  With the always installed lawn PA, they can keep the SPL below the limits and get an extra hour.  It used to be when bands brought the whole PA, the SPL wasn't as well controlled outside the pavilion an so sound problems were worse.

I grew up about 2-3 miles from Merriweather and as a kid remember hearing concerts from my house.

from last night's LCD SS show in Jersey:

"Sleigh Bells was shit. Their weak karaoke act needs to go away. The guitar player wasn't even on stage for 1/3 of their songs."

I agree with that, I saw them at the Ottobar earlier this year and pretty much exactly what I thought.  I wasn't even sure the singer was singing most of the time, and when the guitar player was on stage, i think most of the guitar sounds were coming from the laptop, not his guitar.

Got wrote:
I agree with that, I saw them at the Ottobar earlier this year and pretty much exactly what I thought.  I wasn't even sure the singer was singing most of the time, and when the guitar player was on stage, i think most of the guitar sounds were coming from the laptop, not his guitar.

I guess the Sleigh Bell backlash has begun.  I was at that show as well.  I thought they were pretty good.  I don't know how much was live but look at how many people go see Daft Punk and they are probably not even in the country for their shows.  Much less playing anything live

atomicfront wrote:
I don't know how much was live but look at how many people go see Daft Punk and they are probably not even in the country for their shows.  Much less playing anything live

it's definitely the 2 daft punk dudes in those robot suits. 

people that go to an electronic music show expecting a rock show will be disappointed every time.  the music wasn't written "live" and wasn't recorded "live" (for the most part) - why should it be performed "live"?  i can't decide if it's more disengeneous or ignorant to think that it should be performed in the same way as rock music.

admittedly, some artists are partially to blame.  instead of embracing the genre for what it is - live remixing, with maybe vocals or a guitar "live" on top - they try to make it into a rock show.  on the other hand, watching someone behind a computer/mixer/etc isn't very visually compelling :)  hence the brilliance of daft punk's show: we aren't that interesting to watch while we make the music, so here, have a mind-blowing light show ;D

hip-hop has live music in the recodings, but no one ever complains that at concerts it's always a DJ and not a full band (or alternately, praise them for having a live drummer or whatever).