Earlier this week the "lineup" for Bonnaroo "leaked". It was awe inspiring. It was glorious. It went a little something like this:
Paul McCartney*Phish*Daft Punk*The Dead*Outkast*The Allman Bros. Band* The Killers*The Flaming Lips*Tenacious D*The Arcade Fire*Wilco*Kings of Leon*The Mars Volta* Gov't Mule*TV on the Radio*M.Ward*LCD Soundsystem*Modest Moust*The Disco Biscuits* Spoon* N.E.R.D*Air*Sufjan Stevens*Of Montreal*Band of Horses*Explosions in the Sky*Girl Talk*Bon Iver*Sound Tribe Sector 9* Andrew Bird*Jamiroquai*Ray LaMontagne and MORE, MORE, MORE
I don't even remotely kid when I say that folks in my office were tripping out. This is one of the coolest Bonnaroo line ups in years, if not ever.
And then, Tuesday came.
The actual festival lineup looks a little bit more like this:
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band*Phish (2 Shows)*Beastie Boys*Nine Inch Nails*David Byrne*Wilco*Al Green*Snoop Dogg*Elvis Costello Solo*Erykah Badu*Paul Oakenfold*Ben Harper and Relentless7*The Mars Volta*TV on the Radio*Yeah Yeah Yeahs*Gov’t Mule*Andrew Bird*Band Of Horses*Merle Haggard*MGMT*moe*The Decemberists*Girl Talk*Bon Iver*Béla Fleck & Toumani Diabate*Rodrigo y Gabriela*Galactic*The Del McCoury Band*of Montreal*Allen Toussaint*Coheed and Cambria*Lucinda Williams*Gomez*Neko Case*Jenny Lewis*Santogold*Robert Earl Keen*Citizen Cope
*The Ting Tings*Grace Potter and the Nocturnals*Zac Brown Band*Tift Merritt*Brett Dennen, and MORE
Now, don't get me wrong, the actual line up does not suck (and isn't entirely different than the fake), however, it just feels like it lacks a certain creativity that the first one had, and that is what really excited me. There are still a crap ton of artists that I want to see, and they have yet to release all of the names, so perhaps some of the Awesomes from the fake are just yet to be announced (who knows). I think I'm actually just upset b/c none of our artists are playing and now I dont know if I will have access to awesome free tickets this year (boo hiss).
Check out the rest of the Bonnaroo 2009 line up here
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