First Siren Festival Acts Announced

spizzle trunk · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2005 5:18 pm

one of my yearly summer highlights, the siren festival has announced its first acts.

from its website:

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New York, NY (May 31, 2005) The Village Voice, the nation's largest alternative weekly newspaper, is excited to announce the initial line-up for the 5th Annual Village Voice SIREN MUSIC FESTIVAL™ at Coney Island, 12:00 noon-9:00 p.m. Scheduled performers include Spoon, Mates Of State, Brendan Benson, VHS Or Beta, Dungen, Q And Not U, The Dears and many more to be announced.

i don't care who else is going to perform, i'm going anyway. it'll be neat to see q and not u perform there. i haven't seen them for the first year out of four in the washington, dc area.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

i can't tell you how much it would take me to get me to attend one of these again. i'd rather spend the weekend getting raped by gorillas while on fire.

shiv · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2005 8:07 pm

i drove down from boston last year, got there really late and heard some of blonde redhead while walking on the boardwalk, then i went on the cyclone and left.

i def. want to go again this year. i just want to see dungen really, i could deal with listening to spoon and q and not u from further away.

spizzle trunk · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2005 8:50 pm

you guys really hate it that much? i've gone the last two years and gotten there somewhat early so i had pretty choice spots in the front row. except for the shitty bands, i haven't been disappointed.

shiv · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2005 8:53 pm

i didn't hate it. just got there late and was too tired to try and fight my way up front.

legonads · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2005 8:54 pm

I always miss this, despite having really wanting to go for the last 4 or 5 years.

I can't really say this line-up gets me too excited, though. At least not yet.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

hated? no. but i still would never go again after the hellspawn of the !!!/Modest Mouse sets a few years ago. this is probably a lot to do with modest mouse fans as well, but still....

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2005 9:49 pm

I'm always on a business trip the weekend of Siren Fest.....fuckers.

gauchebag · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2005 10:09 pm

i'll probably hit this up. i want to see spoo play the new songs live and it'll be a good warm-up for catching them at acl.

Balls Mahoney · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:16 am

Cotton Wrote:

hated? no. but i still would never go again after the hellspawn of the !!!/Modest Mouse sets a few years ago. this is probably a lot to do with modest mouse fans as well, but still....

LOL!

spizzle trunk · **Posted:** Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:51 pm

they posted the rest:

http://www.villagevoice.com/siren/2005/press_0627.html

i hope all the bands i want to see are on the same stage.

shiv · **Posted:** Mon Jun 27, 2005 7:59 pm

i hope saul williams plays list of demands because that song is tha shit.

legonads · **Posted:** Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:07 pm

spizzle trunk Wrote:

i hope all the bands i want to see are on the same stage.

The schedule is up too.

The few acts I think I might be interested in are playing different stages. I guess I'll be doing the stage hopping thing.

I might just skip this, though.

spizzle trunk · **Posted:** Mon Jun 27, 2005 8:10 pm

ah i didn't even see that. looks like i'll be sticking with the main stage.

my only saul williams experience comes from seeing him open for andrew wk's first show in washington dc in 2002 at an empty 9:30 club. it was an odd pairing to say the least.

gauchebag · **Posted:** Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:35 pm

i really want to see spoon...that hasn't changed at all. i can't wait to go to this.

shiv · **Posted:** Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:49 pm

I have a question. Should I keep asking my supervisor for that day off, which I may not get since there's an assload of people on vacation that week or should I just shut up about it now and just call in sick that day?

hot. wax. · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:04 pm **Posts:** 251

An acquaintance of mine will be playing with his band, Nine Black Alps, so I will probably be going to this years edition of the festival.

Mmmm, Nathan's!

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