This year’s line-up includes Modest Mouse, My Morning Jacket, Drive-By Truckers, Rilo Kiley, Citizen Cope, Ray Lamontagne, The Gourds, Iron & Wine, The Mars Volta

I am thinking about going with a lineup like that.

Is that the hippie fest in Tennessee?

Yea.

A quick look at the line up revealed these bands also:

Joanna Newsom
Toots and the Maytals
M. Ward
Secret Machines
Rilo Kiley
Drive by Truckers
Mars Volta
Widespread Panic


Aural, yes it's the hippie fest but they also have some non-jam indie rock bands every year too. It's usually a pretty eclectic line up.

Tix are on sale Saturday. $141 for 3 days. I believe that includes a camping pass but there are hotels around there also with shuttles running.

Don't forget Ozomatli

Thats it i am buying tickets, although I was hoping that Trey would play. Maybe he will be announced later.

Oy, why?

Bonnaroo with yor Bonnacrew!

I'd like to see Joanna Newsom very much, but I have a feeling that a festival setting would be less than ideal, as with Iron & Wine. This seems like a homogenous lineup, despite of or including its hippie leanings, albeit slightly misguided perhaps.

Because I will always be a huge Phish phan. I have never been and I would like to see what all the hype is about.

i might actually be going too. it depends more on who else will be announced but it's looking good.

After a friend's stories about how it took something like 8 hours to go 4 miles getting into bonaroo it kinda turned me off. It might be that my tolerance for crowds has decreased greatly.

I'll make the hour drive if I can get in for free.

I don't fit in at these places any longer. I would rather just hole up in a cheap motel room and smoke crack.

well i got to work there last year so i got in and out early, fed for free and hot showers so i'm only going if i get to do that again.

i decided yesterday that i'm going. herbie hancock played a major part in that.

I went last year, and had fun. The lines were a little over exaggerated. It probably took 4 hours. However, it was skin torturing hot, and hippies smell. But overall it was worth it. I kinda filed it as "that was fun but I probably won't be back" event.

I'm not going.

I have to agree. It was fun and I got it out of my system, but probably never again. My tent promptly became an oven right around 7am. I did get to meet some really cool people, though. I also met some real assholes.

And was it me or was the volume on Trey's show the last night turned WAY down. I was pretty close and all I could hear is the nutbags beside me switch between complaining about Trey directing an orchestra and bragging about how many mushroom chocolates they had consumed that day.

I've been to all three years, and I believe I've had my fill. Last year was the worst without a doubt, but I know plenty of people still had a good time. There was, however, far too much nitrous (and coca... and smack of all things), and the crowd definitely got lamer (translation= "totally unheady.")

In addition, the organizers are cramming too many people in that park. The difference between the first year and last was insane. Not only that, but if you show up early you get shoved to bum-f***-egypt (also known as Camp Daniel Fucking Boone.) Ughh. Music Midtown (and hotels) here I come.

PS - You might not be able to find a hotel this late into the year. The last few years all the rooms have been booked way in advance.

I lucked out and got a pretty good campsite (Camp Chilly Willy). The bad thing was its proximity to what became shakedown street. Every morning I would wake up and find black ballons all over the place. However, there was a guy a couple sites down who made an amazing bloody mary and they were 2 fer 5 bucks!

i went to the first bonnaroo....and that was enough for me. never again.

I still *might* be going. Still waiting for an answer on passes.

yeah I had "oven tent" too. We didn't stay for Trey b/c we looked around at our campsite and said "this is gonna be one huge clusterfuck once cars start getting stuck in the mud", so we left early on the last day.

We showed in house that was for sale's pool. Defintely a life saver.

I left around 3am that night hit a wafflehouse full of hippies and irritated waitresses*. While we were waiting in the airport I actually fell asleep with my eyes open. Freaked my girlfriend right out. And for the record, falling asleep with one's eyes open feels no different than falling asleep with them closed.

*Even though they were visibly not very happy to be serving a bunch of stinky, muddy hippy-types, they were still extremely nice to all of us. This goes for all the "natives" I met. They were all nice as hell and so willing to help you with anything. Coming from the northeast it seemed pretty freakin' wierd. I just naturally expect everyone to be rude these days.