Washington Post Disparages Virgin Fest Bookers

Remember what Seth said. Should be better then Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo combined.

After further reflection, there is no way this is legit.

This "band" has to be some sort of a Borat meets Andy Kaufman type of joke.

You heard it here first.

I hope I can beat the rush of people to the stage and get a up close view.

Originally posted by kosmo:
what would make this even more comical is the rantings of a forumer who no longer trolls these parts…

you honestly think he doesn't. i feel he reads here and posts somewhere else.

ok, although i said i wasnt going to , i did finally go to the myspace page and listened to a couple tracks

from a musical standpoint. i have 3 words

Eminem
Part
Two


edit: they sound a lot like Linkin Park too.

Originally posted by wml7:
Remember what Seth said. Should be better then Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo combined.

So the bar is set high then?? ;)

ok so this whole band thing reminds me of that Halloween movie where they put on those masks and then the commercial came on and everyones heads turned to snakes.

i think thats whats happening here.

seth is in bed with Silver Shamrock.

Originally posted by very sonick:
ok, although i said i wasnt going to , i did finally go to the myspace page and listened to a couple tracks

from a musical standpoint. i have 3 words

Eminem
Part
Two


edit: they sound a lot like Linkin Park too.

What about Flobots?

VERY NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!

WATCH ANYWAY.

THIS IS THE SHIT!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-tnryUkd4Y&feature=related

Originally posted by very sonick:
ok, although i said i wasnt going to , i did finally go to the myspace page and listened to a couple tracks

from a musical standpoint. i have 3 words

Eminem
Part
Two


edit: they sound a lot like Linkin Park too.

i think that the dude who does most of the actual singing of the choruses (as opposed to the rappers) sounds a lot like Weird Al. then again, maybe it's just my mind playing tricks on me since hollywood undead are such a joke…

but seriously, he does sound like weird al to me.

http://www.nj.com/business/prnewswire/index.ssf?/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=NJ&STORY=/www/story/07-23-2008/0004854190&EDATE=Jul+23,+2008

"Music has always been at the core of the Virgin Mobile USA brand and
for that reason, Book The Band is a natural extension of Virgin Mobile
Festival," said Ron Faris, Director of Brand Development & Partnerships,
Virgin Mobile USA. "As far as we're concerned, this year's contest was won
on the mobile phone, with Hollywood Undead ramping up a huge campaign to
get over 186,485 text votes. We at Virgin Mobile USA along with Kyocera
Wireless are thrilled to host their first live show at our Virgin Mobile
Festival."

"Book the Band is a brilliant extension of the next wave of music
discovery, and Virgin Mobile Festival has certainly found promising talent
in Hollywood Undead to open Day Two," said Sir Richard Branson, whose
legendary Virgin Festival heritage is the inspiration for the Virgin Mobile
Festival. "I'm curious to see how well they'll do going from MySpace to our
space!"

"We can't think of a better venue than the Virgin Mobile Festival to
play our first-ever live show," said J-Dog of Hollywood Undead. "To stand
in front of the same fans who will be there to see musical legends perform
is unreal. We'll do everything we can to make our first show something for
fans to remember."

Hollywood Undead beat out four other up-and-coming bands by receiving
an overwhelming 53% (285,000 votes) of the more than 540,000 votes placed
online and via text between June 16 through July 21. Hollywood Undead will
release their highly anticipated debut album, "Swan Songs" (via A&M/Octone)
on August 26, 2008. Tampa-based Automatic Loveletter came in second place
with more than 161,000 votes. New Jersey's The Parlor Mob, Brooklyn's We
Are Scientists, and New York's The Virgins came in third, fourth and fifth,
respectively.

do i smell damage control?

and whats the over/under on them lip synching their performance given they all wear masks..

lol at We Are Scientists. They couldn't even place #2 behind these cock-acceptors.

I thought We Are Scientits are suppose to be pretty big, very surprised they didn't win.

Originally posted by wml7:
I thought We Are Scientits are suppose to be pretty big, very surprised they didn't win.

they have superior music, but inferior street-teaming skillz

Originally posted by wml7:
Remember what Seth said. Should be better then Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo combined.

he also said he would never book limp bizkit.

he came pretty close though.

Originally posted by Arthwys:
we can't think of a better venue than the Virgin Mobile Festival to play our first-ever live show," said J-Dog of Hollywood Undead.

these people have bad thinking skills then.

Originally posted by lancha:

Originally posted by Arthwys:
we can't think of a better venue than the Virgin Mobile Festival to play our first-ever live show," said J-Dog of Hollywood Undead.

these people have bad thinking skills then.

Shouldn't it be J-DAWG? Fucking amateur wiggers.

Originally posted by Arthwys:
http://www.nj.com/business/prnewswire/index.ssf?/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=NJ&STORY=/www/story/07-23-2008/0004854190&EDATE=Jul+23,+2008

"Music has always been at the core of the Virgin Mobile USA brand and
for that reason, Book The Band is a natural extension of Virgin Mobile
Festival," said Ron Faris, Director of Brand Development & Partnerships,
Virgin Mobile USA. "As far as we're concerned, this year's contest was won
on the mobile phone, with Hollywood Undead ramping up a huge campaign to
get over 186,485 text votes. We at Virgin Mobile USA along with Kyocera
Wireless are thrilled to host their first live show at our Virgin Mobile
Festival."

"Book the Band is a brilliant extension of the next wave of music
discovery, and Virgin Mobile Festival has certainly found promising talent
in Hollywood Undead to open Day Two," said Sir Richard Branson, whose
legendary Virgin Festival heritage is the inspiration for the Virgin Mobile
Festival. "I'm curious to see how well they'll do going from MySpace to our
space!"

"We can't think of a better venue than the Virgin Mobile Festival to
play our first-ever live show," said J-Dog of Hollywood Undead. "To stand
in front of the same fans who will be there to see musical legends perform
is unreal. We'll do everything we can to make our first show something for
fans to remember."

Hollywood Undead beat out four other up-and-coming bands by receiving
an overwhelming 53% (285,000 votes) of the more than 540,000 votes placed
online and via text between June 16 through July 21. Hollywood Undead will
release their highly anticipated debut album, "Swan Songs" (via A&M/Octone)
on August 26, 2008. Tampa-based Automatic Loveletter came in second place
with more than 161,000 votes. New Jersey's The Parlor Mob, Brooklyn's We
Are Scientists, and New York's The Virgins came in third, fourth and fifth,
respectively.

Got me a story didn't it

Posted by: Seth Hurwitz | July 25, 2008 1:03 PM

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/postrock/2008/07/hey_virgin_festival_decision_m.html

Originally posted by walkonby:
VERY NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!

WATCH ANYWAY.

THIS IS THE SHIT!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-tnryUkd4Y&feature=related

Finally, a song with more references to, um, putting it where it doesn't belong than Nick Cave's version of Stagger Lee!