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festival out on 5/3
Fall Out Boy, Cobra Starship, All Time Low,
Metro Station, Hey Monday
http://www.friendsorenemies.com/web/foe/ce/beli...
Mainly because Beale St. is cheap as dirt to go to.
But there are usually 5-10 good bands that make the eventual lineup.. I am holding out hope that they'll add something.
There certainly isnt anything worthwhile on the current "confirmed" list...
Anybody know when the lineup is usually released?
Before that company took over, I was one of the first in line to buy a three day pass when they went on sale because there were good bands playing all day.
Ever since they took over, I have only gone probably 2 days in the past few years. The only good time I have had since they took over was when Godsmack was here.
No offense meant, but when the company took over they said they wanted to make it more conservative for the older crowd. More music for the older people.
I am sorry, but the older crowd are not the ones who buy all the tickets to go and are willing to stand out there all day, whether it be cold and rain or hot and humid. Its the younger generation that will stand out there, no matter what, to see a band they like. I only speak from experience.
I think this company needs to rethink what they are doing. And its not just me who thinks this because if you look at the ticket sales for the past few years, they have gone down drastically compared to the years before them taking over.
There needs to be a change in management or something because right now it just sucks for the most part.
That's interesting that you talk about "that new company" taking it over. Because it's been the same booking company doing it since 1998. That would make you 12 years old when "the old company" was last doing it. I like the job that Beaver Productions has done with it. They consistently try to diversify everything, and no other festival does it nearly as well.
Rest in Peace, Bob Kelley. You made this festival what it is.
im already passing on bonnaroo, and lolla is looking iffy because of the timing this year..
im looking for an excuse to plan a trip and book a hotel down in memphis, but i need something a little better than fall out boy..
some recommendations: weezer, tom petty, the strokes,lupe fiasco, tv on the radio, vampire weekend, common, yeah yeah yeahs, band of horses, deVotchKa, flogging molly, N.E.R.D., rodrigo y gabriella...
There is no other festival that provides what BSMF does. First you have Beale Street, a hell of a street to party on (perhaps on rivaled in the States by Bourbon Street in New Orleans). The food on Beale and at the Festival is spactacular and affordable especially considering other fests. The scenery (over look the Mississippi River) is the best you are going to get at any festival. It is in one of the most historic musical cities in the country especially for Blues and Rock N Roll. You can feel safe at the fest and on Beale (security is wonderful, and just liberal enough for even a pot head to enjoy a good time). Once you are off Beale, however Memphis can be a bit scary.
Anyway it's three amazing days of music, so much that conflicts come up. I am 30 years old. Last year I wanted to see Carlos Santana but after seeing Lou Reid I was in the mood for a performance not lengthy guitar leads. So my friends and I walked over to see Matisyahu. The performance was amazing. 9 times out of 10 I'd say leaving behind a Legend for a likely "one hit wonder" was a mistake. Yet I saw one of the greatest performances I have ever seen. That is saying something because I have seen many, many musical performances from many Legendary and even Infamous performers.
As far as the line-up right now. I admit, nothing catches my eye other than the possibility of seeing James Taylor. I am not a fan of his but I like some of his music and he is a Legend. Also I am looking forward to Fall Out Boy, who are apparantly going to be in New Jersey and Memphis at the same time. That alone, is worth seeing, lol. Not sure what the truth is behind Fall Out Boy. 311 is boring live. I saw them about a decade or so ago with No Doubt. No Doubt was the opening act and I loved their performance, but walked out four songs in of 311 because it was stale.
But please all of you need to understand over 50 percent of this line-up is most likely inaccurate. There are other lists out there placing Rage Against The Machine, BB King, Social Distortion, Dave Matthews, and Lynyrd Skynyrd on the line-up. Like 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004 these are all rumors. You can't exactly trust a list that places Fall Out Boy in two states on opposite national hemispheres at the same time. With this All Time Low is in the same situation being that they are currently on tour with Fall Out Boy.
The announcement will likely come on the last week of February or the first week of March, like it does every year. And like it does every year, 45 percent or more of the rumors will be untrue. And like every year, Beale Street Music Fest will sell more than enough tickets because they will sign major talent. Like every year many acts you weren't expecting will sign on. Like it does every year all of these whining morons who complain about Beale will be sitting on the railing on Sunday drunk off their rears talking about how much of a good time they had for under 70 bucks while rubbing their nipples with their own vomit. Memphis in May is amazing and the organizers do a hell of a job with it. I am so sure of the excitement I will have for the line-up that I never wait to reserve a room, tickets, and take time off. BSMF is a holiday for me. With that allow me to place my own set of rumors that are just as accurate as these "confirmed" and "rumored" acts.
Elvis Presley
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
Jimi Hendrix
Jim Morrison and the Doors
Janis Joplin
Alice in Chains featuring Layne Staley
Patsy Cline
Hank Williams
John Lee Hooker (not Jr.)
Robert Johnson
Fall Out Boy
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Mary Poppins
Howard The Duck and his band
The Rat Pack
Ghandi
and Jesus Christ of Nazareth
also appearing for the first time ever a cover band of that famous rock band from 2025 "We Like To Rock with Pop Rocks" the "Disco Duck Furs".
oh and George W. Bush is presenting evidence of the WMDs at Beale this year, Barack Obama is going to sing the Boy George hit "Yes We Can" and also Giant Ants from the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
finally...my favorite act
Grow Up
And yeah, Lou Reed was pretty awful. I was disappointed. :(
I would have agreed with a lot that you said but then you threw in that Matisyahu was potentially one of the greatest live acts you have ever seen and that you are looking forward to Fall Out Boy and your message was lost. I like your enthusiasm though
Horse baloney!
The festival thrives on lowbrow, past-their-prime top 40 bands and routinely brings the same, affordable acts back to the river every year. Examples:
3 Doors Down
Sheryl Crow
Cowboy Mouth
Saliva
The Offspring
Black Crowes
OAR
Hootie and the Blowfish
Ike Turner
Puddle of Mudd
Seether
Ingram Hill
Counting Crows
Three Six Mafia
Gomez
Sister Hazel
Shinedown
Lucero
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jack Johnson
Tommy Castro
Mavis Staples
Collective Soul
Little Richard
Bar-Kays
Anyone look familiar? These same overplayed acts litter the stage year after year with variety few and far between. I have the impression that BSMF is simply too bootleg for most national touring acts, and they simply don't waste their time.
You pretty much nailed it there..
But every year they do have some surprises..
I would have loved to see Lou Reed or Tegan and Sarah last year.
Memphis is close to me, and I have already confirmed that I can get a hotel room right on Beale for fairly cheap..
I just need a few decent bands on the lineup to get me down there..
they need to release the lineup for this fest...
may 1st isnt all that far away..
Also The All-American Rejects and The Academy Is... are rumored to play on May 2nd.
P.S. The full lineup is supposed to be announced on March 5th at a public press conference at the Hard Rock Cafe Memphis.
I did walk out on 311 to meet No Doubt. This was when No Doubt was still fresh and young. 311 was a boring college band with a hype man. Honestly I gave them a shot and after seeing more of the back of my eyelids than the band I figured that I would rather meet Gwen Stefani. It's the same with every college act. Their just frat boys with instruments that smoke pot and drink beer. OAR makes amazing music, but last year at Beale I was about as excited during their performance as I would be to see an Andy Dick / Carrot Top comedy special. That's college bands for you. 311 again, great music stale performance. No Doubt "hit and miss" music, amazing performers. I'd rather claw my eyes out with fish hooks and cover the wombs with peanut butter then lie in an ant bed than to partake in anything Marilyn Manson or Korn does ever. However, their crappy music not withstanding "in 1996" when both bands were virtually no-name acts I saw them open up for Danzig. These two performances were mind blowing. Three years later a well known Korn was disappointing as a headliner. Performances and taste in music are two totally different things all together.
I've seen Dave Matthews, Tool, Danzig, Stone Temple Pilots, Smashing Pumpkins, Live, Counting Crows, The Black Crowes, Distubred, Bob Dylan, The Ramones, The Misfits 90s version, Def Leppard, Tori Amos, No Doubt, 311, Weezer, Third Eye Blind, Better Than Ezra, Social Distortion, Cheap Trick (unfortunately), Hatebreed, Dropkick Murphy's, Rage Against The Machine, Static X, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Marilyn Manson, Korn, REM, Green Day, The Flaming Lips, The Rolling Stones, Sheryl Crow, The Presidents of The United States of America, Switchfoot, P.O.D., Soundgarden, Stereomud, Drowning Pool (unfortunately), B.B. King, Taj Mahal, Johhny Cash, Snoop Dog, Kid Rock, 3 Doors Down, Perfect Circle, Skid Row (don't ask), Prong, Five For Fighting, Ben Folds Five, Seven Mary Three, Violent Femmes, The Urge...all with major set time as either mid openers or headliners. That's not counting all of the acts I have seen at several music festivals.
I am not naming those to brag. I mean, how much boasting can you actually do about getting off your but dropping a little cash and going to see someone else entertain you? I named those acts to explain I have seen a lot of musical entertainers get plenty of stage time (enough to impress an audience or not). I am telling you that YES 311 was bad (at least the night I attempted to watch them). No Doubt was amazing, not one of the best I have seen but a solid and over all entertaining performance. Matisyahu honestly can only be touched by four bands I have seen to my knowledge (performance wise). Those bands being; Rage Against The Machine, Dave Matthews Band, Live, and Kid Rock. Now with that being said I have never been a Kid Rock fan, am barely a Live fan, and do not listen to Rage Against the Machine now, but when they were in their prime these guys were the greatest performers I have ever seen. Also I have always been a DMB fan. I'd even give Marilyn Manson the runner up to what I consider to be a top five. I hated Manson then and hate him now. But when you can put on a show, there is no arguing that.
Matisyahu, obviously "best performance" is of an opinionated matter (as most of this is) but perhaps I did over state a bit. He was among the "best performances" I have ever seen. Not necessarily the best.
Finally as long as I am wasting time and life acting like a child on a forum, lol. I wouldn't say my music taste is in question. I enjoy live music (period). Most of those acts I see are only partially based on my "taste". I can listen to any song at home, but even if I am only half way interested in the music if the performance is right it's undeniable entertainment. My favorite band of all time Social Distortion did a great job performing when I saw them. The venue sucked, but the music was great and so was the performance. Yet, they did not out perform Marilyn Manson a man and band I loathe.
So when I say Matisyahu gave one of the best performances I mean just that PERFORMANCES. If you questioned that then I doubt you saw his act. If you did, you must have left well before it was over. If not, then I suppose the question is why did you stay at a crappy performance? 311 and No Doubt musically could go jump off a brige as far as I am concerned. I enjoy a lot of their music, but if their music had never existed I wouldn't care. However 311 performing makes me want to jump off a bridge. That's the bones of it.
In response to David
3 Doors Down (at least ten hit songs in three albums and five years when they showed up first)...Perhaps they are washed up but not when they showed.
Sheryl Crow (Still cracks the charts, one of the most successful female musicians of all time, has had 14 hits that I can count without googling in less than 15 years.) She is no wash up.
Cowboy Mouth (A college band that still draws a crowd. Seriously. I know they suck. But they draw a crowd) Wash ups to the masses, but huge to college kids.
Saliva (Sucks yes in our opinions, but when they showed they were still cracking the metal charts) Maybe wash-ups but not when they showed.
The Offspring (Perhaps the most chart topping "punk" band of all time. Yes, you for all of you "sell out and fake punk labelers" they are punk. They've done nothing that The Ramones, Black Flag, and Social Distortion haven't done before them in terms of possible "sell out". Pretty Fly for a White Guy was a humorist anthem. Every punk band does at least four or five of these. Anyway to this day they still crack the charts, they have a huge cult following, and are perhaps the smartest rock band out there today.) These guys are no wash ups.
Black Crowes (LMAO did you see their crowd last year, it was touching the back end of Aretha's crowd. This band is HUGE in the south, and have had several hits. Not to mention one of the most successful rock albums of all time in terms of song realease hits, followed by one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the 90s, followed by sporatic hits, huge tours gathering larger crowds than some of the "major" tours. They have almost a "dead head" following. People travel to see them three times, four times, five times within one tour. To say they have a cult following is like saying Aerosmith has a cult following. While they are not as big as Aerosmith their numbers out shine by far any other "cult" following act. Ahem in terms of album sells this includes The Grateful Dead's 15 years befor Jerry Garcia's death.) They are not only not wash ups but may well be around years after the bands listed on here are drawing royalties for peanut butter and jelly sandwhiches.
OAR (again a college act with a huge following. They draw crowds. They too are seen by many fans three, four, five times a tour.) No wash-ups.
Hootie and the Blowfish (Fine they were wash ups when they showd but I am certain many people wanted to hear their hits. They had enough to draw a crowd.) Wash ups but okay there is one.
Ike Turner (Was he relevant enough to place on this list. This was unfair to mention)
Puddle of Mudd (Hugely chart topping when they appeared, despite of falling since then)
Seether (Chart toppers when they appeared)
Ingram Hill (Relevance? again)
Counting Crows (Huge Cult Following, Adam Duritz is considered to be one of the greatest lyricist of all time. Adored by women of all ages. Women, not girls. Draws major crowds. Had one of the most successful albums of the nineties) No Wash Ups
Three Six Mafia (This is about Memphis. He's a Memphis Hip Hop Legend. So in a sense complaining about him showing up at BSMF is like complaining that Bruce Springsteen showed up in Jersey, or Clay Aiken showed up at Gay Pride Music Festival. He belongs there, and he's successful. Like him or not)
Gomez (F'N relevance? why are you listing low-liners?)
Sister Hazel (low-liner again but this one is another college act with a following. Did you run out of people to complain about?)
Shinedown (Chart toppers when they appeared even if they do suck)
Lucero (Again with relevance. You have to name acts that are not listed as low-liners or mid-low liners if you are going to make a point. EVERY FESTIVAL HAS THESE! Even The Almighty Banoroo)
Jerry Lee Lewis (Musical Legend, Memphis Legend) You can't call a actual LIVING LEGEND a wash up. In that case I suppose Aretha Franklin is a wash up, B.B. King is a wash up, Hell would Paul McCartney be a wash up? How about Eric Clapton. Damn Carlos Santana hadn't had a hit song in 20 years until he began performing with modern vocal acts. Legends draw crowds because they are Legends.
Jack Johnson (Huge act when he showed up at Beale as a mid-low-liner)
Tommy Castro (relevance?)
Mavis Staples (relevance?)
Collective Soul (A true wash up when they showed as a mid-liner. Here you make a point)
Little Richard (LEGEND)
Bar-Kays(relevance?)
In the past 9 years BSMF has been diverse. If you are looking for every act to please you then you'd like be showing up to an empty Music Festival. Every person's taste are different than the other. The key is one rock concert can cost 25 bucks minimum. You spend 70 for three days. If you can find two acts you are excited about plus four you would enjoy it's worth it. BSMF has Blues, Modern Rock, Bands who were huge in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and even LEGENDS from the 50s and 60s. You are garaunteed to see at least two acts a year which are LEGENDARY performers, three who are current chart toppers, and Three or Four with large cult followings. Not to mention a broad range of genre (punk rock, alternative rock, heavy metal (or hard rock), hip-hop, cultural music, blues, country, modern rock, pop, soul, and even jazz). There is not another festival out there that offers this and to push it into three days is phenomenal!
Yes some of the line-up is going to make your eyes roll in the back of your head. Some of it will be of acts you've never heard of. But the diversity is why there are three stages and a blues tent. Not only do they offer diverse music but rarely is a modern hit making act on seperate stages at the same time. Rarely are two acts from the same genre on seperate stages at the same time. Example (last year) Santana, Disturbed, Matisyahu, Keb Mo covering the four stages (including the blues tent) at the same time. LEGEND, Popular Modern Metal Act, Current Hit Maker, Blues Legend. Another example was (if it hadn't came a ligtning storm) My Chemical Romance, Sheryl Crow, Johnny Lang, and Ben Folds. Again current hit makers, Female Rock/pop Legend still relevant, New Blues hit maker, and hit maker of the nineties and early 2000s. Beale does a fantastic job. But if it's a more "modern line-up" you are looking for I guess BSMF should be filled with
unimaginative hip hop with advertisements instead of lyrics (the state of modern hip hop)
Growling and screaming (like my metal generation has never seen) drowning into whining singing and bad guitar riffs (EMO, Screamo, Tickle Me Elmo whatever you call it)
American Idol rejects and winners
Oh and kids (YES KIDS) who do not know anything about life singing about LIFE.
That's the state of modern music. I know I am an old geezer who doesn't understand. I told my parents the same thing. But most of the modern music has nothing to do with substance nevermind the sound.
They covered the whining crowd last year. Simple Plan, My Chemical Romance (who while Kudos to their performing in the rain sounded like crap from afar), Matisyahu, Finger Eleven, Fergie, Tegan and Sara, and I believe Flyleaf was there. That's to name about half of the modern popular acts which were there. Within that age target they covered four genres (Reggae, Pop, Rock, and even EMO "Ears Might Obstruct")
BSMF is more than worth the price of your parents credit card swipe. But if not, hey stay home and pretend blowing things up via a few buttons and a television screen is deep turn My Chemical Romance all the way up and cry about how life isn't fair because Dad bought you a Mustang and not a Viper, Sarah dumped you because you made out with Jessie, and You haven't got the newest version of Grand Theft Auto the one where you really learn great social skills like killing a prostitute and a cop with copies of Slayer albums "because it's cool retro like that. and Hot Topic has their cool t shirts that only teenagers who killed cats for fun and play Dungeons and Dragons wore. YEAH Cannibal Corpse ruled when I was like...NEVER!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fla-b5mYbM
You really aren't helping the cause here.. Your musical knowledge is iffy, at best. For example, Three Six Mafia is a hip-hop group and not a single artist..
If people here are even checking the COS Festival Outlook page.. they are hoping that the folks that run the Beale Street Fest book some first rate bands this year.. So far, the lineup is.. uh.. uninspiring, to say the least.. But there is still hope.
Apparently the lineup is coming out March 5th.. They just need to get 5-10 artists that are relevant today.. And people will be happy. So far on the list above.. they have zero. But I think the festival organizers will come through in the end.. I really do.
There is one thing that I hope Memphis in May does this year. Keep the larger acts off the middle stage and keep them at two end stages. There is a whole lot more room at the end stages and when there is a huge group in the middle, people walking from one end of the park to the other can't make it through.
But to me personally, The Beale Street Music Festival organizers have done a tremendous job. You look at festivals around the globe and the complaints they receive and Beale Street Music Festival seems very nicely designed.
- that would be AWESOME!
It also seems to be a good chance to catch some legends for cheap while you still have the chance. I think James Brown and Bo Diddley both played a few years before they passed on. I didn't get to make it down those years but wish I would have.
i used to do the beale st. music fest every year until i found a festival i like better...new orleans jazz fest the same weekend.
the only 2 bands that would make me pick MIM over jazz fest is phish and van morrison.
Each person will have 2-3 groups to see each of the three days and for the price you just cannot beat it. 2007's Barenaked ladies was absolutely incredible and that one band made the entire weekend worth while.
I am sure when the announce the actual line up for 2009 many of you will be surprised and have bands that make the trip worth while.
Just a guess, but a press conference at Hard Rock to announce a lineup with the Steve Miller Band & James Taylor as headliners seems like a waste of time. They seem more suited for the early evening slot on one of the middle stages.
R. Flair
IV Horseman
Please do post.. Im holding off buying tickets to a couple of local shows here in St. Louis, just in case those same bands end up showing up at Beale Street.
Al Green
Maroon 5
Counting Crows
Joe Cocker
Three Days Grace
Pearl Jam
All-American Rejects
Jeff Beck
Steve Miller
Ben Harper
Barenaked Ladies
Jason Mraz
MGMT
My Morning Jacket
Kings Of Leon
Fall Out Boy
James Taylor
Panic At The Disco
Secondhand Serenade
Peter Frampton
Jack’s Mannequin
Snow Patrol
One Republic
B-52’s
Alice In Chains
Snoop Dogg
Little Feat
Metro Station
Plain White T’s
Blues Traveler
George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic
Saliva
Duffy
Katy Perry
Dashboard Confessional
Beck
Weezer
Death Cab For Cutie
Ani DiFranco
Tracy Chapman
Jerry Lee Lewis
Earth Wind & Fire
Ryan Adams
The Roots
Ben Folds
Melissa Etheridge
Motorhead
Modest Mouse
The Black Keys
Muse
The Mars Volta
Three 6 Mafia
I'll believe it when I see it when it comes to having Pearl Jam on the lineup..
Alot of great acts on that list tho..
As far as other music I would not say my knowledge is limited at up up until about 2004. It was about that time that I did what most adults do I decided all the great music had already been performed so I stopped listening to modern radio. Though a few songs and acts impress me from time to time. But no not at all am I limited up until that point. In fact I'd venture to say my diverse taste as well as my libraric knowledge of Punk Rock, Blues, and Jazz would place me as a pretty smart cookie when it comes to music. Not the smartest, probably not among the smartest but certainly "in the know". I grew up in a generation where music was on a pedestal. The 90s was in my opinion the greatest musical generation. Though everyone thinks their generation was the best.
Anyway just defending myself a bit. I am not sure how taste and such can make someone musically ignorant. That is unless you listen to Emo and Screamo, lol.
The point I was trying to make is a point that many made after my last comments. BSMF is diverse, affordable and worth while, not to mention vastly more convenient than other fests specifically the camp happy Bonaroo. Pray for no rain!
I agree that this complaining people are doing about the festival is ridiculous. You have to be pretty discriminating to not get your 25 bucks per day worth or under 70 bucks for the weekend's worth. I do not want to see this festival become polarized. Then again, I don't have to worry because most of the complainers are in the minority.
I know some of the kids are nervous about partying around a bunch of 50 year olds, 40 year olds, 30 years olds, and such. I know that the music which appeals to those groups does not necessarily appeal to the younger crowd. But the older crowd is a wonderful addition to the festival. By in large the older audience members look out for people where as the younger crowd are usually the culprits to problems in such a social utopia like a music festival.
The last major music festival to cater almost exclusively to the youth was the last time they celebrated Woodstock. The result was the reason this cannot be. A very dangerous situation occured and that was the end of that. Even Ozzfest and the Warped Tour acknowledge that older acts bring older crowds which lessens the problems within the crowd.
Bottom line no matter your taste in music...
If you can't find atleast two bands a day that you can enjoy. I am being very limited there by the way. Then you are far too discriminating to concern yourself with a music festival. You shouldn't be satisfied with Bonaroo either.
It you can't respect the fact that in order for these festivals to take place they need to be diverse, then you are a part of a problem. This reason is exactly why Birmingham's City Stages went from being an event to being in debt. They began being very specific on their target crowd, by the time they realized the mistake they were three years in debt. Soon there will be no Birmingham City Stages.
If you can't even positively entertain the truth that you can logically see 20 plus acts in three days for under 70 bucks as a deal, you must be financially spoiled.
If you can't appreciate that Beale offers undeniably the best back drop scenery of any American Music Festival (at least that I know of), then you don't understand how having a good time can include moments of tranquility.
If you can't appreciate that the attraction of Beale Street alone outshines that of any festival, you don't understand what partying is about.
BSMF offers so much for under 70 bucks. Sure if you travel there and spend three nights you are going to likely spend 300 - 400 bucks plus the cost of a hotel.
Now let's take Bonaroo for example. The cost of three days at BSMF if you enjoy the amenites and surroundings to their fullest (let's say 450 bucks). Well Bonaroo charges almost 3/4 of that for their festival alone. You still have to buy food, beverages, and whatever else. You are likely to double your expenditures at Bonaroo. But that's okay because you'll save on the hotel right? Sure and if it doesn't rain it will be great. If you enjoy not taking a shower for three days or traveling to do so, or waiting in line for one it will be great. If you enjoy getting bitten my mosquitos and hearing the sound of Joe the Fat Guy and his toothless wife making love noises from his nearby tent while you are trying to sleep or make love to your mate yourself it will be great.
I am no modern day painsy. I enjoy camping, but not around tens of thousands of other campers. Certainly I can take a thunder shower as I did last year to see Sheryl Crow perform only four songs. Yet I personally like the opportunity to come out of the rain when I want to. I also like the idea of being able to stay warm afterwards.
Comparing BSMF to the Festival desires of the average person can't be proven but would like result in it being the BEST MUSIC FESTIVAL year in and year out.
That's all I'm trying to say.
Hey for those who like cheap festivals, Arkansas Riverfest in Little Rock is looking like a pretty good deal with what they have released so far. Willie Nelson, Heart, 3 Doors Down, Little River Band, Flyleaf, Gavin Rossdale, the B-52's, Trout Fishing in America, and Jason Aldean are the first acts announced. Tickets for the 3 day festival are 12.50 in advance or $25 the weekend of. that price is for all 3 days. Thats pretty good. It takes place May 22-24th
i would love to see:
Counting Crows
Pearl Jam
All-American Rejects
Steve Miller
Barenaked Ladies
Jason Mraz
Kings Of Leon
Peter Frampton
Snow Patrol
One Republic
Alice In Chains
Snoop Dogg
Blues Traveler
Katy Perry
Dashboard Confessional
Beck
Weezer
Death Cab For Cutie
Muse
The Mars Volta
Artists currently on the list include Snoop Dogg, Al Green, Katy Perry, Fall Out Boy and 311.
This isn't an absolute, but last year around this same time Sheryl Crow, Santana and Disturbed were on the songlist. Each of those artists ended up playing the festival.
This is easily one of the cheapest festivals around. It's located right on Beale, which makes for a great party atmosphere after the shows, and the organizers always come up with a diverse lineup that includes jam bands, hip hop, rock legends and up and comers. No the elite level, heavy hitters of music don't typically show up, but if they did you'd be paying $250 just like Bonaroo.
I guarantee anyone with an actual diverse, rounded taste in music will find MIM worth the price of admission every year.
JeffRey
Columbia, MO
http://www.tourtracker.com/shows/311/beale-stre...
#2 To all the people raving about how diverse the line-up is....screw that! WE need quality not quantity. They need to book less bands overall and spend the money on higher tier bands and allow them to play longer sets. 45 min sets suck!
#3 Please bring back the main stage video monitors!! Why did they only use these in 2000?
I'm sorry your worldview is so narrow. I have been to 6 of the last 7 MIM festivals. Some years have been better than others, but I have never felt I got ripped off.
If you want to be a music elitist you can go to Bonaroo instead ever year, of fly across the pond and attend Glastonbury or Reading.
Memphis is centrally located in the U.S. It brings a little something for everyone. It provides for a party atmosphere post-concerts. It's a big enough city to have plenty of hotel space near the festivities. I'm not sure what else you want. It's not like this is the only festival you could go to. Don't like the lineup? Don't buy an f-ing ticket.
JeffRey
Im not sure what you mean by narrow world view?? Im not saying the entire fest suck's because they do get some good acts but then they only get to play for 45 min at the most. I went to every MIM Beal Street fest from 1991 to 2002 and there were some incredible years (mostly before Beaver got involved)
The last time I went I was watching Wilco play (probably a 39 min set) and some redneck probably waiting for Creed, Nickelback or 3 Doors Down yells at Jeff Tweedy "not to quit his day job". nuff said! many fans there are just like this.
And by the way I do go to Bonnaroo and have every year. What does that say about MIM when I live in Midtown Memphis, get offered free tickets every year and I still dont bother to go? HOwever me and many of my friends will take vacation days off, travel across the state and spend a thousand dollars? Quality of bands!
Im just sick of the same old acts, many that just played Tunica within the prior year.
Precisely - They seem to have trouble booking anyone who has not played the festival multiple times before. On the bright side, maybe the shitty economy will enable them to book some bands that otherwise would have been out of their price range.
Regardless, they have done well to secure 311 for the lineup. It will be one of the most exciting BSMF performances in years.
I don't go to every show at these clubs. You don't go to every show in Memphis.
For me Beale Street is part of the appeal. And like I've said several times now, for the money MIM always comes through. There will be enough legitimately talented up and coming bands combined with a rock legend or two and blues artists to keep me busy and entertained most of the time each of the three days. And if there are gaps where I have no interest in any of the acts performing, I can just cruise up to Silky's for a Diver.
Quit crapping on everyone else just because elite level artists aren't brought in bunches to your doorstep ever single year.
JeffRey
311 rocks!!!
It was not always like this!
Get a clue you shitty production company!
Looking forward to the full lineup @ 2p...
Blow me. I dont go to musicfest to be culturally diverse, or to excuse myself when i bump into a senior citizen. I go to stand in the inevitable rain and mud and enjoy bands that dont require a lawnchair or collected social security. Regardless of what company is in charge, there is no excuse to have shitty bands waste everyones time until the "headliners". Why not just make the festival one day and fill it with headliners? point being when there are 60 bands, some are going to suck. and old people or diversity is a poor excuse.
Hats off for booking Korn, 311, Ben Harper, Snoop Dogg, The Cult, and several other noteworthy names. I will certainly be attending all 3 days this year.
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