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Post by nanatod on Jul 19, 2022 11:25:11 GMT -6
I saw Coolio at Lolla '95. same, the tinley show tho, not kc. |
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Post by Pale Hose on Jul 20, 2022 19:15:33 GMT -6
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Post by nanatod on Jul 20, 2022 19:52:08 GMT -6
got no problem w/ booting heatwave and lyrical lemonade from douglass park, or from the chicagoland area completely.
and if we can get back humboldt, I'm okay w/ riot fest leaving douglass, so I can actually drive there and park, instead of using public transportation as I do now.
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Post by Pale Hose on Jul 20, 2022 20:00:15 GMT -6
I honestly don't blame the community for being fed up. Three festivals shutting down the park for more than half of the summer is not right.
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Post by mookie on Jul 20, 2022 20:08:17 GMT -6
Hell yeah Riot Fest Hoffman Estates 2023
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Post by Pale Hose on Jul 20, 2022 20:23:46 GMT -6
Hell yeah Riot Fest Hoffman Estates 2023 If Lolla leaves I wouldn't be surprised if Riot Fest moved into Grant Park. |
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Post by fivehole on Jul 20, 2022 21:06:05 GMT -6
Does Riot Fest have the cachet for the city to approve their use of Grant Park? I know it isn't but I still think of it as a smaller local fest, not the 100k people a day mess that is Lolla.
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Post by Pale Hose on Jul 20, 2022 21:14:34 GMT -6
Does Riot Fest have the cachet for the city to approve their use of Grant Park? I know it isn't but I still think of it as a smaller local fest, not the 100k people a day mess that is Lolla. I'm sure the city would weigh its options and might even try to market to a different or new festival if Lolla decides to leave, but Riot Mike has mentioned Grant Park in the past. I would expect they would at least try. Riot Fest is never going to attract 100k a day, but they could still bring in large crowds and use a smaller footprint of the park as well. |
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Post by venom on Jul 21, 2022 6:54:28 GMT -6
Hell yeah Riot Fest Hoffman Estates 2023 If Lolla leaves I wouldn't be surprised if Riot Fest moved into Grant Park. speaking of privatized public parks... how many weekends in a summer is grant park actually open? i feel like every time i bike the lakefront there're tents or stages up for some event. |
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Post by Pale Hose on Jul 21, 2022 7:23:37 GMT -6
If Lolla leaves I wouldn't be surprised if Riot Fest moved into Grant Park. speaking of privatized public parks... how many weekends in a summer is grant park actually open? i feel like every time i bike the lakefront there're tents or stages up for some event. They do tons of events and I think a sticking point in the Lolla negotiations is that the city wants to be able to host other music festivals there. I understand how the Taste has an exception but somehow they were able to sneak Pride In The Park in as well. The city wants to squeeze as much cash out of Grant Park as possible. |
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Post by Kamera on Jul 21, 2022 10:28:49 GMT -6
Riot Fest on the [Montrose] Beach, yes?
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Post by c1916 on Jul 21, 2022 10:40:41 GMT -6
speaking of privatized public parks... how many weekends in a summer is grant park actually open? i feel like every time i bike the lakefront there're tents or stages up for some event. I understand how the Taste has an exception but somehow they were able to sneak Pride In The Park in as well. Also Suenos this year (although C3 was a partner in the event, so may have had an inside track in obtaining permission to be there). But, Suenos also offers a possible footprint for a smaller festival since they blocked off from the stairs South of the fountain to Roosevelt (leaving the fountain platform and the North side available to the public), and while Columbus was closed, the area between Columbus and Michigan was also not part of the footprint. I just don't think Riot Fest could put any more than 3-4 stages in that same smaller footprint. They'd almost have to go back to side-by-side mains and a third stage on the LSD side of Balbo, maybe a small stage in the Kidza area? Interesting to consider, though. |
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Post by ten15 on Jul 21, 2022 11:17:23 GMT -6
Riot Fest on the [Montrose] Beach, yes? But, what about the piping plovers?! (RIP Monty) |
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Post by Tweet on Jul 21, 2022 13:51:29 GMT -6
Riot Fest on the [Montrose] Beach, yes? But, what about the piping plovers?! (RIP Monty) Fuck them birds. |
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Post by dij22 on Jul 21, 2022 15:30:27 GMT -6
If all these fests are getting kicked out, I would happily welcome a small 3-stage fest to Horner Park.
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Post by ixquit on Jul 26, 2022 11:06:45 GMT -6
Weird question, But does anyone know if they will let you upgrade to Deluxe VIP for 1 day if you bought a 3 day VIP wristband? We were thinking about trying to upgrade for Sunday to check it out and see if it would be worth it to spring for the deluxe next year. According to the FAQ it has to be the same type of ticket (3 day for a 3 day), but that is more talking about doing it before the festival and not actually on site. Just figured I'd ask here and see if anyone had any more insight.
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Post by mookie on Aug 2, 2022 9:23:20 GMT -6
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Post by venom on Aug 3, 2022 9:08:16 GMT -6
do we think aftershow announcements will coincide with that sox night?
aftershows were announced last year in june, but i think that was pretty early and they usually come out early august.
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Post by mookie on Aug 5, 2022 6:26:41 GMT -6
This was not a great look... Click to read the whole thread
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Post by concertgoer on Aug 5, 2022 8:01:22 GMT -6
I've read multiple articles this summer about how the residents and businesses in Douglass Park are over the festivals being there. Between Summer Smash, Heatwave and Riot Fest parts of the park are inaccessible for residents for almost half of the summer. They want their park back and I don't blame them. These festivals need to find a new location next year.
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Post by goodson on Aug 5, 2022 8:06:16 GMT -6
we need to ban festivals imo
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Post by concertgoer on Aug 5, 2022 8:13:13 GMT -6
The audio of the meeting is brutal.
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Post by fancypants on Aug 5, 2022 8:15:47 GMT -6
The audio of the meeting is brutal. This is an understatement. Horrible look. |
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Post by llamaoftime on Aug 5, 2022 8:39:45 GMT -6
I clicked this thread on mobile this morning and saw Mookie saying "this isn't a good look", but I somehow accidentally clicked the White Sox tweet instead thinking it was the same post, and I thought for a second the implication was partnering with the White Sox was not a good look
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Post by venom on Aug 5, 2022 9:06:55 GMT -6
that meeting was a brutal look for riot fest. but i am curious how it compares to other fest community meetings. what did the pitchfork meeting look like? what does a typical lolla meeting look like?
i'm also curious what other parks are realistic for riot fest. i'd love it to be back in humboldt. but is there actually anything farther north that works for their footprint?
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Post by Pale Hose on Aug 5, 2022 9:15:17 GMT -6
Listening to this audio, they need to move the festival. Also, could they have sent a worse representative for the fest? I agree with his points that Riot Fest has tried to do more to give back than the other fests, but he's so confrontational about it.
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Post by Tweet on Aug 5, 2022 9:45:03 GMT -6
White people strike again
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Post by alady on Aug 5, 2022 10:54:54 GMT -6
Riot Fest sucks
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Post by totally on Aug 5, 2022 10:59:57 GMT -6
i am as a rule pretty skeptical about taking the views expressed at a community meeting with a dozen people in attendance as meaningfully reflective of the attitudes of the larger community without more information to back that up, but it is pretty impressive how riot fest approached this as poorly as humanly possible
i'm always astonished when an organization doing something this high profile is not even able to do the cynical bare minimum "we see you, we hear you, we'll take that into consideration" bullshit that gets trotted out there by anybody with a baseline level of competence
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Post by fancypants on Aug 5, 2022 11:03:32 GMT -6
i am as a rule pretty skeptical about taking the views expressed at a community meeting with a dozen people in attendance as meaningfully reflective of the attitudes of the larger community without more information to back that up, but it is pretty impressive how riot fest approached this as poorly as humanly possible i'm always astonished when an organization doing something this high profile is not even able to do the cynical bare minimum "we see you, we hear you, we'll take that into consideration" bullshit that gets trotted out there by anybody with a baseline level of competence But he was hired because he is really good at his job and he said that in "clear english" |
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