Is anyone going? I want to go so fucking bad, but I can't find anyone to go with me. I'm not giving up, though. Someone will want to drive 8 hours with me and camp out for 3 days. Sounds like a fucking blast.

Let me guess... California only?

Yeah, it's in Indio, California. Eight hours from San Francisco.

Urgh... I hate it when that happens. That's like, 40 hours away from here, I bet.

People are flying from all over the world for it, though. Coachella is famous for reunion shows. This year is Rage Against The Machine, The Jesus & Mary Chain and Crowded House. In the past they've reunited Jane's Addiction, Siouxie & The Banshees, Iggy & The Stooges, Pixies and Gang Of Four.

This has led to rumors of The Police or Smashing Pumpkins being added later. *Crosses fingers*

Ohhh my I heard about that the other day! I want to go soooo friggin badly. I would totally take the 6 hr flight to get there. No one wants to go though "too much money" ughh you only live once.

I want to see the New Pornographers & Rage Against the machine the most

I will definitely be seeing:

1) Red Hot Chili Peppers
2) Rage Against The Machine
3) The Decemberists
4) Sonic Youth
5) Willie Nelson
6) The Jesus & Mary Chain
7) Crowded House
8) Happy Mondays
9) Interpol
10) The Lemonheads

the Smashing Pumpkins! that sounds so cool but I can't go anyway. even though it's like 3 hours from here.

i wish i could go to this show.
so many good bands are playing.
i'd love to see peeping tom, rhcp, placebo, and regina spektor. =/

What an amazing and unique variety of bands. If I could, I'd go with you for sure!!

That'd be nice, because I'm not sure how the hell I'm gonna convince someone to come with me. The average person doesn't have 400 bucks to spend, not when you're in college. I'm actually asking my parents to make this my birthday present. Hopefully they'll at least pay for part of it.

that would be a great present.

I'm trying to convince my friends to go. No one wants to spend the money so I'm like "Look at it this way, think of it as 3 days of partying and music with no parentals" I'm desperate I want to go soo bad.

I could never fly across the country for a concert. haha. Though, if the Smashing Pumpkins get added, I would definatley be begging. I'd like to see the Jesus and Mary Chain, too.

EDIT: $400?! Fuck that, I'll wait until they come closer (if they so choose to, which they probably won't). I don't have $400 for a concert ticket and a few hundred more for a plane ticket.

no tix aren't 400, I think a 3 day pass is almost 200.

Oh... someone else said something about $400. That's still a hell of a lot, though, in my opinion.

Ticket for a 3-day pass: $250+Ticketmaster fee
Ticket for a camping pass: $45+Ticketmaster fee
Gas: About $120 from the Bay Area and back, divided by amount of people that come with me
Total estimated cost: $380 (with one other person)
Seeing Rage Against The Machine: Priceless



I'm not even going to buy food. I'm just going to bring tons and tons of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and water bottles.

My dad just said I'm allowed to go if I can pay for it!
He was like "if I were still your age I'd want to go camping with a bunch of E-ed out hippies too"
SCORE

Gah! I can't find anyone to go with me!!

My parents won't let me take the car if I go alone! This SUCKS!

That is a sick list of bands.

Circa Survive and the Decemberists. That's another plus for me along with RATM.

Yes! I finally convinced one of my old friends to come with me! Now we just gotta clear everything with our parents and we're fuckin' set!

awesome!

HOLY SHIT!!!

I just won two tickets and two camping passes on the radio!!


Thank you Live 105! I'm going to Coachella!!

Congrats
I am beyond jealous lol

Thanks! I deserve it, man, I called in so many times until I was caller 105.

ahh, lucky! I'm saving up to go, it's going to be amaaazing!

So it's like 2 weeks away. Who's going? Who do you want to see?

I AM SO FUCKING EXCITED!!

i found the ad the other day and circled all the bands i wanted to see but won't because i suck.

interpol
jesus and the mary chain
stephen marley
of montreal
gogol bordello
RHCP
decemberists
LCD soundystem
black keys
new pornographers
!!!
fountains of wayne
andrew bird
rage against the machine
explosions in the sky
lemonheads
jose gonzalez
klaxons

only thing that could be better would be....
bonnaroo 07!

I agree, Bonarroo is better this year, but Coachella is more epic - The Police are playing tons of shows, but Rage Against The Machine are only playing a handful (and Coachella is the FIRST). Plus the fact that Coachella has the reunions of The Jesus & Mary Chain, Crowded House and Happy Mondays is a major bonus.

My list looks like this (following the order on the poster):

Friday:

Interpol
The Jesus & Mary Chain
Arctic Monkeys
Sonic Youth
Stephen Marley
Gogol Bordello
Circa Survive
Silversun Pickups
Gillian Welch

Saturday:

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Arcade Fire
The Decemberists
Kings Of Leon
!!!
Fountains Of Wayne
Jack's Mannequin
The Nightwatchman

Sunday:

Rage Against The Machine
Happy Mondays
Willie Nelson
Crowded House
Kaiser Chiefs
Placebo
The Lemonheads
Against Me!
The Kooks

On the first day, definitly check out Tokyo Police Club. They are amazing live, I saw them two days ago.
Stephen Marley will me cool to see, I saw him four days ago haha.
I think mstrkrft is playing, I'd see them.

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I'm so excited!!!!

I might be going to Coachella after all! I'm part of WCW World Can't Wait, an organization to drive out Bush. This year Rage Against The Machine invited WCW to set up a table in their tent! So they need volunteers to work the table and I might be one of them! =] I'm so excited. I'm going on this conference call tonight at 10 to see what's going on so I hope everything goes well.

Good luck! If two GDA members get free tickets, we will know that Billie Joe's spirit has blessed this festival.

God damn the people who arrange the set times at Coachella. They were just posted, and I'm going to miss so many bands I want to see. Here are the conflicts:


Friday:

Silversun Pickups vs Gillian Welch = Silversun Pickups
Arctic Monkeys vs Stephen Marley vs Circa Survive = Arctic Monkeys
Interpol vs Sonic Youth = Sonic Youth
Saturday:

Kings Of Leon vs The Decemberists vs !!! = The Decemberists
Arcade Fire vs Ozomatli = Arcade Fire

Sunday:

Willie Nelson vs. Kaiser Chiefs = Willie Nelson
Crowded House vs. Placebo = Crowded House
Rage Against The Machine vs The Lemonheads = Rage Against The Machine

So I'm missing the following bands:

-Interpol (Will watch for 20 minutes)
-Stephen Marley
-Circa Survive
-Gillian Welch
-Ozomatli
-Kings Of Leon
-!!!
-Kaiser Chiefs (Will watch for 20 minutes)
-Placebo
-The Lemonheads


Sooooo, my schedule looks like this:

Friday:

5:10 – 6:00 – Silversun Pickups
6:25 – 7:15 – Arctic Monkeys
7:40 – 8:35 – The Jesus & Mary Chain
9:30 – 9:50 – Interpol (Leave early and rush over to…)
9:55 – 10:45 – Sonic Youth
11:05 – 11:59 – Gogol Bordello

Saturday:

2:35 – 3:25 – Fountains Of Wayne
3:50 – 4:40 – Jack’s Mannequin
5:05 – 5:55 – The Nightwatchman
6:20 – 7:10 – The Decemberists
7:30 – 8:40 – Arcade Fire
9:15 – 10:30 – Red Hot Chili Peppers
11:10 – 11:59 – The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Sunday:

3:30 – 4:15 – The Kooks
4:40 – 5:30 – Against Me!
6:05 – 6:25 – Kaiser Chiefs (Leave early and rush over to…)
6:30 – 7:20 – Willie Nelson
7:45 – 8:35 – Crowded House
8:45 – 9:25 – Amos Lee
9:40 – 10:10 – Happy Mondays (Leave early and rush over to..)
10:40 – 11:59 – Rage Against The Machine

I'll eat a BIG lunch, which will hopefully last from 2pm till midnight every day. That should just about do it.

HOLY SHIT, I'M LEAVING ON WEDNESDAY!!!

have fun! Take pics!

I decided not to go cause i'm heading a group at a protest on Friday and I already had 2 shows planned for this weekend.

Plus I can't afford plane tickets at the moment

I'm overcome with envy of those who are going this weekend. ahhhh! well, at least it's gonna stream online. that's the next best thing. although nothing can beat the real thing!

Its being streamed online? I would totally rip some preformances if I could...

i wanted to go so bad (haha im in Connecticut) vause i wanted to see Rage Against the Machine, but no. i was busy that weekend...but, what the hell, i got to go to a red sox vs. yankees game instead =DD