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No More Coachella!!! Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| DjWoody |
:o :o :o My work (The OC Register) is reporting that this MIGHT have been the last coachella EVER!!!!! :o :o :o
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http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/entertainment/homepage/article_1125291.php
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Monday, May 1, 2006
Coachella Day 2: Tool ruled, Madonna bombed
Review: Meanwhile, Massive Attack returned from the dead. Tons of great music, and a rumor that it’s all over. Welcome to Day 2 of Coachella 2006.
By BEN WENER
The Orange County Register
Got this little ditty in my head. Sounds like rapper Cee-Lo of Gnarls Barkley singing a nursery rhyme with those plucky so-and-so’s from the Go! Team.
Goes like:
Tool. Madonna.
Tool, Tool. Madonna.
It’s my way of explaining that I can’t quite figure out where to start talking about the Great But Clouded Sunday Rebound of Coachella 2006 right now.
Oh, and did you hear that this may have been the last Coachella?
Ever.
Yeah. I know.
Tool, Madonna. Tool, Tool. Madonna.
Oh, I’ll just avoid the dilemma altogether and get to them later. (Short version: Tool was incredible. Madonna, too much the diva, fizzled. Big time.)
Because right now I know what you’re thinking: “Someone says they hear there’s never gonna be another Coachella every year.”
I’m aware. But this time the rumor came direct from the stage.
Second stage, anyway.
That’s where Roxanne (I was seeing Tool, you might have concluded) happened to hear Scissor Sisters vocalist Anna Matronic (not her real name, you might have guessed) say something like, “This is your last chance. Last chance to dance.
“They lost the lease.
“This is the last one.”
Last one?
Ever?
Is she serious? Was she joking? She seemed rather snide about some meet-the-person-next-to-you shtick she indulged later on. So maybe she was joking.
She’s gotta be joking.
Or maybe she knows something.
There’s a processs we journalists like to go through when something like this happens. It’s called getting confirmation. But, see, it’s now 4:26 a.m. as I read this for goofs (I wish I was making that up). And though I’m on good terms with the people who build this momentary musical home-away-from-home every year, I’m not on such good terms that I can get them on the phone right now and verify squat.
So by the time I really know whether that remark was premature news Goldenvoice didn’t want out yet or whether it was just more of Anna Matronic’s haughty-campy sarcasm (she’s known for that, after all) ... well, by the time I can get to the bottom of things someone else probably already will have.
Let’s not speculate on the bitter end, then, for it remains hypothetical. Let’s speculate on this: Shouldthis be the last Coachella?
Coachella isn’t simply a festival. Doheny Days -- that’ssimply a festival. Fun-in-the-sun on a couple of stages with some BBQ stands attached. Nothing more.
Coachella, on the other hand, is a living, breathing, body-pounding, mind-probing, sometimes exhausting work of conceptual concert art. Its ambitious programming is as challenging to conceive as it is to sell to 100,000 people across two days -- or even make run on time.
About that: No surprise Madonna was every bit as late as Kanye, huh? But, then, Tool was 20 minutes late, too, and nobody booed them. Know why?
Because they put on a proper show.
Ten songs total -- not roughly half that, as Madonna tossed out during her 30 minutes that most fans who waited and waited and waited in and all around the Sahara tent thought would be at least 15 longer. Heck, when she left, I thought for a second it might just be for a costume change. Bet that’s where it goes in the real Madonna show, anyway.
And I don’t doubt the real Madonna show -- three nights of it at the Forum, starting in two weeks -- will be another typical dazzler. I’ve never been one who thought she didn’t belong at Coachella. But she should have ownedthat dance tent, left people talking for days.
They’ll be talking, of course, but not for the reason she intended, because instead of fully pleasing dead-tired fans, she offered something that felt like the sort of tour tease you’d get at Wango Tango. The new stuff was solid, but delivered as pop product, not as dance manna. Only “Ray of Light,” with Madonna on guitar, had me going. She should have come back immediately and played at least “Music,” “Holiday” and maybe something truly erotic (like “Erotica”) to reassert her roots in being naughty (since the roots on her head were already showing).
Tool, on the other hand, drew as large a crowd, offered three riveting new ones (including a hellacious version of funky departure “The Pot”) and gave a fullperformance that felt like a satisfying tease to a much larger coming tour. Which, by the way, could be the hard-rock tour of the decade and signal a shift away from so much effete new-wave and art-rock and toward, for better and worse, turbo-testosteroned, sonic-overload-rock. That’s how powerful it was.
In fact, everywhere I turned Sunday the offerings were consistently a cut above, often fantastic, at the very least highly engaging. Never did I sense the day lag musically; Madonna was the only letdown, and a sudden one at that. Overall the day was a remarkable rebound from the aimlessness and disunity of Saturday. Roxanne said this during Matisyahu, who was so invigorating -- and broadly appealing -- I feel sheepish for ever suggesting the Hasidic reggae sensation might amount to nothing more than a novelty: “If nothing else, you’ve found your unifier.”
I found more than a few. Tool for sure, my eyes and ears having been opened. Massive Attack for those who really felt it. Bloc Party and the Magic Numbers at times. Even Madonna, during “Ray of Light.”
Much greatness ensued.
But is it all downhill from here? Can Coachella wipe whatever egg some think is on its face and continue evolving into an accurately eclectic reflection of a large segment of Southern California’s uncategorizable taste in music? Or has it played itself out? People like to imagine they’ve actually heard organizer Paul Tollett often say, “Let’s just do the DVD and say we’re done.” Well, the DVD’s out. Is it time to move on to the next creation? Maybe refocus on other types of smaller fesetivals and large one-off events? (Tool at Home Depot Center! Tool at Home Depot Center! With two other cool bands!)
Coachella is a ridiculously long annual double-album, and the people who stage it are the band. They had a sophomore slump, and were primo by albums four and five. But ask yourself: How many bands do you know that could put out a double-album year after year and still be ingenious, let alone staggering, by the seventh?
Maybe it isn’t meant to last through this seven-year-itch flirtation with the mainstream.
Maybe it’s just time for a new location.
Or maybe it’s time we broadened our focus to other festivals. The Jazz & Heritage Festival in New Orleans (heavy emphasis on the “Heritage” from what I read) was the truly important musical gathering this past week. It’s the one teased on the front-page of my hotel-room’s courtesy newspaper. Not Coachella.
“Dude ... it can’t run forever, you know.”
Yeah. I know.
(There’s lots more about performances, I swear. Just look in the blog.)[/url] |
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| SVGmethod |
im sad i missed daft punk. i saw all their vidoes on youtube and it looked amazing.
2002 was the only time i ever went to Coachella and that was one of the best experiences I have ever had. It was my first time seeing DJ's live and it was the event that kick started my full time obsession with the music and culture. I went for day 2 in 2002 and I caught BT, Oakenfold, Pete Tong, Tiesto. That was heaven for me. I wasnt too into this years lineup and that was the reason why I didnt go.
I agree with what people have been saying on a bunch of other boards...Coachella has become Ashlee Simpson's birthday party. It has lost its underground-new age hippy feel. They should take a couple years off and do a bunch of smaller events. I thought one of the main purposes of Coachella is to showcase new up & coming talent. Whats up with all the commercial acts this year? Kanye West and Madonna.
Check out the boards over at coachella.com, theres a lot of debate going on over there. But damn, I do wish I went to see Daft Punk. Looks like they were the best act of the weekend. |
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| TheQuiz |
| Daft Punk was the best act at Coachella by far. |
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| dj_bas |
| quote: | Originally posted by TheQuiz
Daft Punk was the best act at Coachella by far. |
Yeah. Why that reporter didn't touch on them at all actually makes me upset. Woody have this man fired immediately. |
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| Drake44444 |
| I never liked Kanye West before, but he was impressive. Just because he sells a lot of records doesn't mean he shouldn't play coachella. He was trying to get more time on the stage too during his set and had the largest crowd up to that point (a really large main stage crowd considering it was still day) |
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| serch54 |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj_bas
Yeah. Why that reporter didn't touch on them at all actually makes me upset. Woody have this man fired immediately. |
in the day one report: http://www.ocregister.com/ocregiste...cle_1124536.php
he gives a lackluster passive comment:
"the coolly detached yet potent half I saw of utterly odd Daft Punk’s distorted rethinking of Kraftwerk’s man-machine music."
how could you leave halfway through that? lol, neeb. |
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| philippe |
"I keep hearing from everyone out there that this is the last Coachella here. Believe me, it's not, we're here to stay"
-- Paul Tollet |
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