So everyone is talking about the Coachella Music Festival lineup for 2007…an insane amount of incredible bands playing April 27-29 in Cali and Rage Against the Machine reunited at long last and ohmygod the Happy Mondays and Interpol and Arcade Fire and tickets go on sale this Saturday and etc, etc, etc…but why should we say what the entire blogosphere is saying?Â
To give you just a taste on the off chance you live in a dark hole in Antarctica and haven’t heard about the official list yet…the confirmed headliners are Bjork, Red Hot Chili Peppers and the aforementioned Rage Against the Machine but the secondary acts are mindblowingly good as well. Quite a few Superstarcastic-recommended favourites will be performing, such as the Jesus and Mary Chain; Tapes ‘n’ Tapes; the Decemberists; the Good, the Bad and the Queen; Kings of Leon; New Pornographers; DJ Shadow; Gillian Welch; Andrew Bird; Peter, Bjorn & John; the Frames; Silversun Pickups; and Gogol Bordello. To see the (very long) complete list, check out Coachella’s website.
One more thing - if you plan to go to this, I’d pick up some protective headgear for that Rage show. Those fans have a lot of Audioslave issues to work out and methinks they will do it, um, with passion. I’ll bet you some cash that you will be able to find at least one tooth on the ground after they finish playing. And when you do, please give it to Joiezabel so she can add it to the one she found after the Tool show she went to in 1995.
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The Jesus and Mary Chain is reuniting for this??? whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa? dammit.
i agree with both of those sentiments wholeheartedly, girls. this better not be the chain’s only show, that’s all i can say.
I saw JAMC on what turned out to be their last tour at Metro. My friend Mera came with me, and here’s the conversation we had at the end…
Mera: *makes sour face*
Me: “What?”
Mera: “That was awful.”
Me: “What are you talking about?!?”
Mera: “They were nothing but noise! They were drunk! They spent half the set fighting! The set was only 40 minutes long!”
Me: “Yeah! It was everything I’d hoped for from a Jesus an Mary Chain show! It was a glorious mess! I loved it!”
hahaha nice. My friend Jamie saw them on their Stoned & Dethroned tour and I was soooo jealous.
And yeah, I’m hoping that they’ll stay true to their working-class-horny-Glaswegian roots and, a la Pixies, do a reunion tour the rest of us can afford to see. I mean, c’mon, Jim and William, the $249 they’re asking us to pay to see you at Coachella has already been earmarked for hookers and black tar heroin. Surely you understand!
again…what the hell do they put in the water in glasgow? how can one dirty, cold, industrial city put forth so much awesome music?
omgzor!!! I would so be there if I could.
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Comment by amber — January 25, 2007 @ 7:38 am
it’s so sad that the jesus and mary chain is a secondary act. hmph.
if i were the one deciding the hierarchy of these acts, the world would be a better place.