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BONNAROO 2005 DATES CONFIRMED, JUNE 10-12

The fourth annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is confirmed to take place June 10 - 12, 2005. The three-day camping and music festival will once again be held on the same beautiful, 700-acre farm in Manchester, TN, 60 miles southeast of Nashville.

Stay tuned to the website and mailing list for all info including lineup announcements, ticketing info, special activities and more. We are looking forward to another incredible festival and to seeing you all in Manchester!

 

See ya there

 

well, the final word is in. Although event planners are still working out the final lineup, it has been verified that bonnaroo will have a "wider variety" of bands this year. Their goal this year is to expand the music selection beyond jam bands. I thought that was the whole point of the festival! Can you imagine all the pop princesses trying to camp for 3 days with a bunch of crazy people? Can you imagine all the punks and posers mingling with tye-dye peace loving hippies? This year I imagine, will be bonnaroo's last. I predict violence, more than 2 deaths, and a lot more arrests. It's a nice idea to try and bring together all these people, but look at woodstock 94, and 99- it just didn't work. I don't hold out hope that it will work this time either. Musical tastes have widened so much. Can you imagine the line-up? What will it be like? Is the Dead's special guest going to be Jay-Z? Will Ani perform next to Ashlee Simpson? Will the punks and grunge bands put more of a violent rowdy vibe in the air?

What do you guys think?

 

All of you guys saying that Bonnaroo is going to be ruined by pop artists like Ashlee Simpson are ridiculous. Sure they will let in a wider variety of groups, but it will still be good groups. It means that groups such as Radiohead or The Mars Volta may show up, and this would be great for the festival. Of course I'm all about the jamband roots, and they will still have that, but to suggest that Britney Spears is going to start playing Bonnaroo is idiotic. Have no fear, Bonnaroo will once again prove itself the best festival in the world in '05.

 

I'm just concerned about the line up that's all. Last year Bonnaroo was... different and a lot of people agree.How different will it be this year? I read an article that said specifically the festival was scheduling bands that did NOT have a jamband sound. by the way, anyone can see I was exaggerating by saying that the tween queens are going to be invading. SO CHILL MY MAN!!

My point is a lot of people go to these festivals to GET AWAY from society and all the evil people in it. I'm not into paying a higher price for a ticket (that has been comfirmed also) to see bands I'm just not into.

And calling me idiotic doesn't get you anywhere... it just makes you aggressive. Hope you can chill and see someone's opinion as just that- an opinion.

much love brother

 

Look, how many times have you been too bonnaroo? i was there in '03 and '04 and they both had about the same scene i thought. i would also like to see this article that said they are specificaly not scheduling jambands, because frankly it sounds made up. and the ticket price has been rising since year one, increasing every year, so its really not a surprise that it will increase again. and you still can't complain about a choice of 80+ bands even it costs $160 this year. you would pay much more to see all of those bands seperately. what ever kind of music comes to bonnaroo it will always be quality. as far as i'm concerned even if they did have only a few jambands but had lots of bands like Wilco or the Flaming Lips whom they've had in the past, it would still be a quality festival. There is more music out there than just jambands.

 

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Check this fest out. Look at last years lineup and this year will be a lot like it. They are capping tickets at 30k unlike Roos 100k+. Also the place is a park, with campsites, buildings to shower and use the restroom, roads, a river feeding a lake with a beach, and best of all a good vibe.

Bob<---Going to Waka, not Roo

 

Too bad it's so far away from me...

 

i hate to say it, but getting away sounds kind of upsetting. i guess the jam scene doesn't have to be the music of an inclusive kynd-sort of movement, but if the overall scene grows and the vibes can be fostered by the jamming community then we'll be better off. woodstock with a backbone again! sadly, i think i'll probably go somewhere else because i want more for myself now. i want a small, cheap, jam lineup with fewer people. i might actually want to post this as its own thread. in fact, i will

 

bonnaPOO 05

 

If you think Radiohead even MIGHT play Bonnaroo this year, you're an idiot.

Peace

 

so this may be off topic... but does anyone know the lineup for hookahville '05!?!?

 

hahahaha. truth!

 

alright, I didn't want to say this and be a huge bitch, but I have gone VIP the last two years, dropped a ton of money for it, and I'm a valued customer to the people who put the festival together

I'm not going to waste my time trying to convince any of you that Bonnaroo WILL be different this year. They want to target people with MONEY! C'mon, it's a business, and generally (I hate to stereotype, but this is coming from the people who have a hand in it, not me) hippies do not have tons of cash. They want to try and target those other people with out losing the following they have now.

say what you want, think what you want, hold out hope that it will be no less dramatic than last year, I admire you for your determination and optimism for that. But don't act like I have no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to Bonnaroo

 

The only way they can salvage Bonnaroo, and in my opinion that's exactly what needs to happen, is they would have to have a major overhaul and scale it way down again, more like the first and second year. Bonnaroo has gotten too huge and is drawing more and more people who don't really understand the whole idea of a festival. I have to say that last year when I was leaving, I was disgusted as I looked around throughout the campgrounds. I don't know if I have ever seen that much garbage in one place at the same time. And i've heard people blaming clean vibes for this but let's face it. Clean vibes can only do so much. It wasn't that they were working any less hard than they had in the previous years, It was that a large majority of the attendees just really didn't give a shite. I had wonderful experiences at the past Bonnaroo's, but I'm going with a smaller fest this year. Wakarusa or High Sierra are the way to go I think.

 

it's very close 2 me, and friends who've never been 1a go, So I'll probly be at Roo again in 05, but 1 change this time... I'm not goin to jail on the way!, no way SCI! But as for the artists, I expect some high quality acts, after all that's the draw for most ppl, 'cept the strict business(wo)men. 100k tho, whew!!! Last year I only saw my friends in the morning & at night... Roo is bittersweet I guess, even if you don't go 2 jail b/c of it...

 

bonnaroo is not a "festival" in the sense of other festivals. the vibe is not there, and there are people who are going to make a mess and steal and fight and disrupt. but also, being among so many people, there is an extreme energy unlike anything live ever experienced. its different, and it is not in my opinion growing in a positive way, but it is still something i think should be experienced. its not a small community like at smile, or telluride. its a huge booming city. quite exciting

 

I went to Bonnaroo last year and for the most part it was a huge dissapointment. Unfortunatly that was my very first bonnaroo. Besides the erratic weather, the mud, and the grueling heat and exhaustion...the scene was not what I expected. I saw A LOT of negativity...so much that it affected one of the nicest trips I had there. I saw a lot of wasted frat boys that spent thier time making lewd comments at pretty girls and HORRIBLE slanderous comments at the girls that weren't up to par on thier view of beauty. I was absolutely disgusted. The staff wasn't nice at all. I can't say that about all of the staff, but the staff that I ran into wasn't very positive to me.

I was overwhelmed at how many people there were. I'm not claustrophobic and I didn't really have a problem until I hit centeroo for the bands.

I don't mind so much the different people that are there as long as the vibe was the same. However, it was NOT. I felt MORE bad vibes at Roo then good. It seemed to me...out of all of the people there...you could just tell large quantities of people were only there to get wasted. *shakes head*

However, I did have good times and met nice people. Because of this I made up my mind to return the following year more prepared for the weather.

Now...I don't know. I PAY money to see JAM BANDS. I go to these "festivals" TO get away from MTV and the mainstream bullshit...if Bonnaroo is going to mainstream it then what the fuck is it all about then? I'm sorry, but I AM angry... as much peace and togetherness we preach...some people just don't get it. And they WON'T get it with alcohol and other drugs mixed in with it. You know, I may be somewhat new to the scene, Jerry know's I'm know veteran but I DO have the heart...and if the heart isn't in the scene then why the hell waste 200 bucks?

The more I think about it, the less appealing Bonnaroo is to me. I'd rather go to festival that has heart, man, regardless of size.