Summer Music Festivals 2009
 

So what Music festivals are you all heading to this Summer?
theres so many all across the world so i wont even start naming them, ill leave that to you!

Anyway ill be heading to oxegen in ireland, its got some pretty good bands like Blur, Kings of leon, Nine inch nails, jane's addiction, the mars volta, tv on the radio etc.

lol greerex at least we agree on something.

now even captain Picard can't stand this shit anymore

I've already been to Donnau Festival in Austria and Primavera Sound in Spain and I'll be going to ATP in England this year.

yeah, so many good festivals around.

why Oxygen and not Electric Picnic? I know EE doesn't have stongest lineup compare to previous years, but I heard it's a good crack as well and what I like about it is, that it's not so mainstream orientated. I live in Ireland for 6 years now and I haven't been to both yet...it's time to experience some propper Irish music festival :-).

lol geez dont get so offended like, i was merely naming bands that i thought you wud know since most of you here are probably american, i dont actually like mars volta much but you can go to hell if you think NIN and blur are shite!

ohh i would loved to go to EP last year, they had an amazing line-up, yeah EP is a way better festival with better music, though theres a few am dying to see at oxegen and was there last year and was brilliant craic, and plus loads of my m8's are going whereas its harder to find m8's going to EP!

Refer to my location then. Thanks.

lol

I'm not a fan of summer music festivals. Too much time spent in the heat with a bunch of irritating people sitting through a bunch of shit acts just to get to a few good ones (which in some cases, you'll be lucky if there are any.)

The Free Press Houston is doing a summer festival
http://www.freepresssummerfest.com/
among a shit-ton of houston bands are these cats

Broken Social Scene
Of Montreal
explosions in the sky
voxtrot
devin the dude
prince paul
octopus project
UME

and on and on

I'm going to a folk festival in a few weeks - weekend in a field, three pubs, some tents with half-stages in, lots of real ale and cider, youngest by 20-odd years. It'll be the third year in a row, and it's always a fucking brilliant weekend. Last year I had 4 geriatric Yorkshirians singing Carter family songs to me less than two foot away. Utterly gorgeous.

I'm also off to the the fiddlers festival in county Donegal, which is always an intense 7 days of mostly Donegal fiddling (which, so far as I can make out, is quite a difficult style), though there was some Cajun and Klezmer stuff last year. It's a proper shambles of a festival, no stages, just pubs and sessions.

I'm tempted by a Sevdah festival in Bosnia, but as the dates get closer, it's looking less likely. There's a load of festivals all over the show that I always fail to get to. I'll probably nip into a few Westcountry 'field + bands + rough cider + bad organisation' type festivals as well, but that's always more ad-hoc.

Oh, and the proms, I think that counts. It looks like I won't make it to more than 2 shows for financial reasons, but I'm really quite excited by the prospect of some Schnittke.

You're going to the wrong festivals, clearly. Festivals, for me, aren't really so much about seeing band x, they're about having a good time, seeing some things you haven't seen before and getting pissed with your mates.

15th Olympia Experimental Music Fest starts tonight, but I can't make it despite earlier plans to. I will be there tomorrow, which I booked, and am playing.

Then No.Fest is in Portland in my neighborhood St. John's next week, and we're playing that too.

Then I probably won't leave the house until Sonic Youth play here at the end of July.