[Heccubus]

Ozzfest:

• Judas Priest
• Dimmu Borgir
• Slayer
• Ozzy

Warped Tour:

• Avenged Sevenfold
• Alexisonfire
• Boys Night Out
• Flogging Molly
• The (International) Noise Conspiracy
• The Sounds
• Thursday

Lots of bad stuff besides them, but still...

Lollapalooza:

• Sonic Youth
• PJ Harvey
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
• Broken Social Scene
• Morrisey
• The Flaming Lips
• LeTigre

I want to go to them. ALL OF THEM.

[Reader]

If i had to choose one, i'd go to Lollapalooza.
The Warped Tour will be swarming with dummies, and all the bands that are worth seeing (ie. alexisonfire, t(i)nc, etc) are better seen under more intimate conditions. as for Ozzfest, that will have lots of dummies too, but i DO want to see Slayer and Priest (with HALFORD!!) once before i die.

[Despondent]

Well it starts in an hour or two. City Stages, Birmingham (AL) 's big music festival. this is it's 16th year of the 3-day fest, and I've never missed a single day.

the talent's not the best, and if you can snag free tickets and VIP passes, all the better. (Done and doing my share of that.) It's brought me 6 big tshirt jobs and one sensational backdrop suite for a law firm on site. (downtown Birmingham, in and around Linn Park.)

I'm one of the strongest critics too. Well I go, so I have that right.
three words: "threat of rain" always ensures another year. "Well, last year we lost money because people stayed away for it was raining/supposed to rain. (read between the lines: not because of a weak talent line up") They were really rollin' in the public's money in the mid-nineties. But it's such a holiday I'd go if it were only local bands (well, with free VIP's anyway )

One year they were so bloated a buddy and I "borrowed" a golf cart and tooled around the block, unnoticed. (except by a cop. "we're needed over here!" (gesturing, in full regal straight face) as we swerved away. Not laughing our heads off was the one of the hardest "stage persona"s I've ever undertaken.

Oh yeah, the Harbert center building/parking pass. the best part. A friend sets us up with this which is pheonomenal. Parking on the grounds, clean bathrooms, A/C, and did I mention clean bathrooms? these are pretty hard to get.

God Bless everyone. I'm pretty well set and packing my daypack. I can't toke in the porta-pottie this year, but it'll still be fun.

[Chyld]

Reading Festival, man!

• The Darkness
• The Offsping
• Hundred Reasons
• The Wildhearts
• The White Stripes
• The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
• Green Day

And that's just the bands I desperatly want to see off of the first two stages! Here's the rest of the list!

• Peaches
• The Donnas
• The 5678s
• The Icarus Line
• The Bronx
• Auf Der Met
• Mondo Generator
• Roxy Saint
• Throwing bottles at 50 Cent!
• And the drugs.
• And the bitches.
• Etc.

And that's about it as far as I care.

Love to go to Ozzfest, though. If I explain why, you'll all shout at me, and say I suck...

[Heccubus]

The latest issue of Revolver has interviews with a ton of Ozzfest artists, and is worth picking up. There is a very nice article on Judas Priest, and a nice one on Lacuna Coil with some lovely pictures of their lovely singer Cristina Scabbia . And Chyld, there's even a small bit in there about your Slipknot stuff. I think there was something in there on Dimmu Borgir as well...but it wasn't much.