Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Festival • Page 118

I can't help but think of this scene from This is 40 when I see these lineups...

 

• Bad Bunny
• Kaytranda
• Gorillaz
• Metro Boomin
• Pusha T
• Idris Elba
• Soul Glo
• Becky G
• DannyLux
• Doechii

Maybe:

• The Chemical Brothers
• Wet Leg
• Yves Tumor
• Angele
• MUNA
• Magdalena Bay
• Domi & JD Beck

I’m starting my listen of just the Friday list and this is what I got so far. The top portion is all the ones I know and the bottom portion is the suggested one from friends and stuff.

 

Nothing sold out from yesterday's sale

 

Is that normal?

 

No. Usually passes sell out right away

 

portola and second sky both didn’t even sell out either

 

Not in this economy

 

no festival is going to sell out with these prices

 

Last year didn't sell out either, it's definitely a post covid change

 

more space for me to mosh

 

Yeah it made weekend 2 last year very spacious

 

just being able to go to the beer lounge near main stage and chill and get food and internet was so damn nice it was always empty

 

Got my tickets, never been before any tips?

 

car camping? That’s @irthesteve and @ComedownMachine area of expertise

 

I think that's the plan now, we'll rent a car and get a space Thursday

 

How isn’t this sold out yet?

 

1. Ticket price increases
2. Post-COVID hesitancy
3. Post-COVID influx of tours of shows
4. Unconventional headliners
5. An undercard that requires a deeper dive than usual

 

Makes sense, but not sure I’d include 2 and 3. Last year had no issues selling out immediately right after coming out of the peak of Covid.

I think they overestimated the pull of the headliners, especially when two of them have played 7 arena shows in the SoCal area in the last 6 months.

 

It’s weird because bad bunny fans would shell out like $500 to see him in an arena but yet this won’t sell out especially because this could be his only US show for the year

same with Frank but yeah I think if they had one more truly solid headliner over Blackpink it would have sold out

 

You could argue anyone who was willing to do that would've done that last year though and with no new album they may feel like they can't justify it again especially when you add all the additional costs and camping and such.

Blackpink fans probably skew a little younger and less likely to be willing to camp out

Frank fans are scared to bet it all on a 3 day weekend since he (fairly or not) has a reputation for last minute cancellations.

 

I think I most likely would do 1 more year of this just in hopes of Rihanna and Rage Against doing next year but yeah buying during the first pre-sale would be preferred easily and last year it didn’t even sell out until a few days in.

 

A festival is a big commitment in terms of cost but also getting there, having days off, not having other obligations etc

Personally being around 100,000 people in 90 degree weather would literally kill me

 

Last year didn't sell out immediately though, it was the first time in a LONG time that it didn't. Also, being there physically weekend 2, it was a pretty empty weekend 2 related to all other years

 

But it did…just looking at Twitter, Coachella announced a sell out for 2022 on 1/14, the same day tickets went on sale.

 

they announced that it sold out the same day, but it definitely didn’t