To all music fans, artists, agents, managers, promoters, labels, sponsors and Ultra supporters who share our belief that it is all about the music:
Ultra Music Festival would like to address certain points in light of recent announcements made.
While the circumstances that have taken place this year have rendered it impossible for Ultra Music Festival and WMC to coincide on the same dates in 2011, we will use our best efforts to try and work with WMC and coordinate dates together in 2012.
First and foremost, Ultra Music Festival has always been an avid supporter of WMC and is grateful for the many years of working together with them. Throughout those years of our partnership Ultra has always admitted WMC delegates into the festival for free, speaking volumes to Ultra's commitment and support of the music scene. It is with great disappointment that we could not host Ultra during the same week as WMC in 2011.
Due to WMC's claim to us that they could not secure a convention host hotel on the last week of March to meet their facility requirements as a conference, they chose to go on the second week.
Unfortunately WMC did not take into consideration that during the second week of March the city of Miami hosts the annual Calle Ocho street fair, which attracts more than one million people into Downtown Miami for this free event. As much as we felt it was a bad idea to move the dates to the second week of the month with such short notice to the public, as it would cause serious logistical and financial issues to fans that have already confirmed and purchased travel to Miami for the last week, Ultra used absolute best efforts to maintain the relationship with WMC and join them in the move to the second week. However, this was rendered impossible by the City of Miami police department as they do not have the resources to host Ultra Music Festival and Calle Ocho in Miami on the same weekend due to the fact that all police resources will be outsourced to the one million person annual event.
WMC was notified of this by UMF in writing months in advance of this week's announcement.
Second, being the last weekend in March in recent history has caused artists and everyone in the industry to rely on these dates to make their touring plans; same goes with music lovers who plan as much in advance to control the costs associated with their trip. We never felt comfortable letting those people down. We always felt a move like this would have to be done well over a year in advance to allow time for proper planning. Large-scale events and festivals traditionally do not move their dates around year to year.
Third, after UMF was notified of the possibility of WMC's intentions of moving to the second week, we aligned ourselves with every contact and resource we had on Miami Beach to try and secure a host hotel for them on the last weekend as the second weekend was not possible for UMF as stated above. For various reasons, the options we presented were somehow not good enough for them to remain on the last weekend together with us.
Ultra Music Festival is one of the best consumer value propositions in the festival business. The price paid for each day at Ultra is equal to or in many cases less than what is paid to attend a single nightclub for one night. Three full days of Ultra includes 32 hours of more than 300 artists, DJs and bands programmed on 30 stages collectively. Ultra, like most major music festivals around the country, features exclusive performances by many artists, increasing the value of the festival experience.
Our fans agree as the on-sale launch this week shattered past ticketing performances with an increase of over 5,000 percent! We are on pace to sell out Ultra in advance this year.
UMF guarantees all of our loyal long time supporters and new fans alike that we have been humbly working harder than ever throughout the last eight months on producing this festival and the confirmed line-up is extremely impressive. Hands down the best Ultra has ever presented. Once again UMF will set the standard for EDM festival programming and production worldwide.
Phase 1 Line Up Announcement Is Imminent!!
Stay connected for very exciting artist announcements!!!
PvDoBseSSioN
btw sander k @ shine this year was pure garbage! it was soooo damn boring
amdmaxx
Lack of Droid/iPhone 720p recording on their phones?
quote:
Originally posted by pyro264jb
Im not sure what you experienced last year, but I envy the experience these kids had back in 2001.....................
Start this at 3:45
:eyespop: :eyespop: :eyespop: :eyespop:
The Vza
my spring break is 6-13
:-)
Bobby Fist Pump
As per FB
THE REBEL AGENCY ý** WMC ANNOUNCEMENT ** Crosstown Rebels GET LOST PARTY The Electric Pickle, Miami is 100% confirmed for Sat. 26th March 2011. See you all there!! (Tickets on Sale in February.......)
Pretty much all that matters to me :D
Greggy4202k
That is a sick vid of PVD. Man I wish I there for that.
2 things about the video. First, at 1:35 min mark,that girl is def going off when when the beat drops. I think I'd have the exact same reaction. Second, in the later half of the video, PVD looks like a robot! I mean, there are some up close shots of him and he has literally no emotion or reaction on his face.HE is just staring with a blank face at the crowd and the decks. I dont know why, but I find that funny. and look at him today, he'll sometimes break a smile and do a fist pump...hahaha. he's come so far.
get nyce
quote:
Originally posted by Greggy4202k
That is a sick vid of PVD. Man I wish I there for that.
2 things about the video. First, at 1:35 min mark,that girl is def going off when when the beat drops. I think I'd have the exact same reaction. Second, in the later half of the video, PVD looks like a robot! I mean, there are some up close shots of him and he has literally no emotion or reaction on his face.HE is just staring with a blank face at the crowd and the decks. I dont know why, but I find that funny. and look at him today, he'll sometimes break a smile and do a fist pump...hahaha. he's come so far.
pvd was always emotionless
and everytime he played ny during his residency, it would rain
PvDoBseSSioN
quote:
Originally posted by get nyce
pvd was always emotionless
and everytime he played ny during his residency, it would rain
yeah he looks sooooo damn bored!
Armitage350
quote:
Originally posted by DJ Eco
The booking offers my manager's been taking care of are from the week before Ultra, this whole WMC separation thing is weird!
So there are parties the week before UMF as well as during?
hellosam
quote:
Our fans agree as the on-sale launch this week shattered past ticketing performances with an increase of over 5,000 percent! We are on pace to sell out Ultra in advance this year.
from the above Ultra quote
This line pisses me off. We dont agree on anything just bc sales are rising...the only thing we all agree upon is the fact that you are ass raping us and we are scared as that you will invovle a donkey and a large gerbil in the attack if we wait any longer to purchase the tickets
we are being locical...bend over and take a smooth invasion or wait and pray to god you can find vicoden for the pain that will ensue if we procrastinate
PFFFTTTT :whip:
cl0wnz0r
quote:
Originally posted by Armitage350
So there are parties the week before UMF as well as during?
90% of the parties are going to be last week of march. just an estimate, but i'm very certain that most people not attending the actual conference will come only for the last week.
ArminD1981
Above & Beyond (Anjunabeats) - Ice Palace March 24th 2011
So i guess this help us to make a final decision? :toothless
