Boston Calling 2017 Festival • Page 9

THE HOTELIER COMETH

 

As much of a headache as all the logistics of this weekend were, the quick math makes it worth it. Would I have paid 100 bucks just for that Bon Iver performance? Yep. Would I have paid 50 each for those 1975 and Brandi Carlile performances? Yep. Done.

 

Did not realize there was a thread for this lol. I was so far back for Bon Iver and missed half his set, which was disappointing. Chance was incredible though. Going early today for the Hotelier so I'm pumped

 

The food lines were horrible. My girlfriend stayed in line while I went to see the 1975. It took her an hour and a half to get two burgers. So horrible. Also we went to the comedy arena for Hannibal but went outside to get a beer and when we came back Police wouldn't let anyone back in. I didn't have the best experience there yesterday

 

Someone please see Converge and report back.

 

Why did I leave my sweater in the car and wear shorts today?

 

It feels like they only planned for it to work at 3pm with no consideration of what it would look like at 7pm

 

Mitskiiiiiiiiii

 

I do agree that I like Harvard for a venue for this, even though Gov. Center was always a cool and convenient spot -- but there's certainly a lot of logistic issues (overlapping / competing headline sets are annoying) to address. Hopefully this is just new location/growing pains related and they'll have it tightened up going forward.

1975 killed it last night

 

At least the ferris wheel whips.

 

Lol was wondering if it was just me or if it really did look fast as fuck

 

Whats the story there? WHos on, whos done....?

 

According to someone on Twitter, people were NOT into Converge at all but apparently they killed it.

 

Just a little taste.

 

I mean is anyone surprised that the average "I'm just here to see a bunch of bands and have a day out with my friends" attendee would be horrified by Converge? Haha

 

While I wasn't walking around far from the stage I did hear some people say stuff like, "it's just a bunch of screaming."

For goodness sakes, have some pride in your local bands.

But lol, nobody should be surprised.

 

well of course, they don't fit at all on the lineup but are easily one of the best, hah

 

converge killed it. whole weekend was a lot of fun, but yeah the layout/organization could definitely be improved. i kinda missed not having to walk so much at city hall.

 

Converge was awesome and I loved seeing the reactions of people. Piebald was a ton of fun. Mitski was great but the bass was waaaaay too high in the mix. Only caught three songs of Tool which was a bummer because it looked awesome. Weezer was a lot of fun.

I think it was a much better experience than Friday tbh, especially with lines to get in. Even food yesterday was much easier. Hopefully they fix the stage setups a little bit, but I'll happily go next year

 

honestly I don't really have any complaints other than the bottleneck of everyone trying to leave the Blue Stage at once. I had to jump over a fence and ended up cutting my hand. That's ~festival life~

 

I had a lot of fun and Boston is a nice town I'd like to check out some more.

Hope it stays this size.

 

Tbh I was pretty happy Major Lazer and Weezer played at the same time. It made getting out of the festival much easier because the crowd was split up.

Overall very solid fest. The Red Stage "headliner" sets were all impressive (Bon Iver, the xx, ML) regarding both sound and overall performance/visuals.

 

i forgot to mention the highlight of the weekend, meeting esteemed chorus user @St. Nate. cc @Dominick

 

Man I can't stop thinking about those Bon Iver and Chance sets. I'd easily have paid 100 each for those.