Bonnaroo Update
Since quietly adding The Roots and The Wild Magnolia Mardi Gras Indians, Bonnaroo has not officially announced much. I’ll take this opportunity to address a few things. First, here’s some confirmations on who is playing on what day. Remember these are not official, but all the pre-line-up confirmations were pretty right on. Thanks to LIGuy at Inforoo:
Thursday (6/14)
Apollo Sunshine
Sam Roberts Band (website says 1 PM start time)
Elvis Perkins in Dearland
Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers
Tea Leaf Green
The Annuals
Sonya Kitchell (7 PM)
Charlie Louvin
Black Angels
The National
Dubconscious
The Little Ones
Friday (6/15)
The String Cheese Incident
Michael Franti & Spearhead
The Black Keys
DJ Shadow
Hot Chip
RX Bandits
Lily Allen
Brazilian Girls
Manu Chao
Tortoise
Gillian Welch
James Blood Ulmer
Uncle Earl
Paolo Nutini
Cold War Kids
(Friday Late Night)Sound Tribe Sector Nine
Saturday (6/16)
The Police
The Hold Steady
Keller Williams (WMD’s)
Ben Harper & Innocent Criminals
Xavier Rudd
Feist
Hot Tuna
Girl Talk
Galactic
Fiction Plane
Kings of Leon
Ween
Railroad Earth
Old Crow Medicine Show
Feist- (some sites are saying Sunday)
The Slip
Spoon
The Nightwatchman
(Saturday Late Night)Gov’t Mule
(Saturday Late Night)Sasha and John Digweed
Sunday (6/17)
The White Stripes
North Mississippi Allstars
Fountains Of Wayne
Mavis Staples
Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
Wolfmother
The Decemberists
Regina Spektor
Wilco
Junior Brown
I’m hearing that Tool plays Friday night and Widespread Panic plays Sunday night, but i have no confirmation.
Bonnaroo has released last year’s performances from Blackalicious, Buddy Guy, and The Neville Brothers in MP3 and FLAC.
The hippier-than-thou folks who like to hate on Bonnaroo have spread alot of rumors involving MTV and Clear Channel and I’m always surprised how many people actually believe this. Here’s straight from guy who runs the roo:
Rumor: Clear Channel is buying out the festival.
AC Says: “Not true.”
Rumor: MTV/Viacom is buying out the festival.
AC Says: “There’s never even been a discussion. What would MTV do with a music festival?”
Rumor: Six Flags wants to build a new theme park on the land where Bonnaroo is held.
AC Says: “[Referencing a recent News Sentinel article], Six Flags over Georgia is in trouble. They’re not buying land; they’re selling land.”
Rumor: Bonnaroo is moving to a different location.
AC Says: “We’re actually exploring options for creating a more permanent site in Coffee County for Bonnaroo. If we owned the land, we could put in more infrastructure that would make it easier to produce. We’ve started tentative discussions with landowners for possibly purchasing the land, but it’s completely speculative at this point.”
Rumor: 2006 was the last Bonnaroo.
AC Says: “At this stage in the game, we’re here to stay for another few years.”
Also, if you want tickets to the ‘roo and haven’t got them, just keep in mind that only the high priced tickets remain. Last year tickets sold out in May, but remember Coachella sold out in record time, so I’d expect Bonnaroo them to sell out a little earlier this year.
- Posted by Davy Minor on March 12, 2007 at 2:29 am
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Bonnaroo Update
The best part of January for me is the rumor blitz of Bonnaroo and Coachella line-ups. Current rumors circling the Bonnaroo Message Board are that The Police, Bob Dylan, and Pearl Jam are the headliners and that Bonnaroo will officially announce their line-up on January 31st. The Hold Steady are confirmed to play along with these bands. 177 Days and counting.
- Posted by Davy Minor on January 19, 2007 at 2:28 am
