Coachella 2008: Meh Effect

The music blogs are all abuzz about the 2008 Coachella line-up. Not to sound like a complainer, since I will in fact be going no matter what, the lineup does sound kinda weak with Jack Johnson headlining on Friday. I found many people with similar responses to the line up on stereogum. Nevertheless, I am stoked about Portishead, Vampire Weekend, Kraftwerk, and much of the small print bands.

Suspiciously, single day tickets are “sold out” according to ticketmaster. I call bullshit since they were labelled sold out after only being on sale for 3-4 days! This thing isn’t until April, so what gives? But like I said, I’m going and the three day tickets are still on sale for now. I see it being very unlikely that it will sell out before April even. That’s as long as no giant musical act is added like say Radiohead, The Smiths or what not.

If I can find a good deal on the panasonic pv gs31 online, I plan to make my own Coachella video journal. Since the birth of youtube, many music fans have begun recording live concerts and sharing them on the internet. I have about 30 clips from last year’s fest that I took with my Nikon digital camera. Watching them again definitely gets me hyped up for this year’s event.

So if I manage to buy my own compact camcorder, I’m sure to get better quality clips this year. And this way I don’t waste money on the Coachella movie, which btw never has a complete documentation of all the musical acts. The 2006 version was edited together okay, but I’d rather have a more personal video memory that I filmed myself.

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