This week, Steve and I were joined by a special guest from the Midwest, Josh Korin. After some brief housekeeping news (hint: keep your eyes peeled for more blog posts and written content from TWoL in the upcoming months), we dove right into the breaking news of the day. The initial artist announcement for Jamcruise 11 was announced today and features moe., MMS&W, and funk galore.
Next, Josh filled us in on UMbowl III, which happened last Friday night in Chicago. He was in attendance and gave a glowing review of the event. Check out his official review here. There’s also some great audio and video floating around for those who missed the show.
Next we did a quick ticket check for Phish tour legs 1 & 2. If you need tickets for nTelos, Jones Beach, or Bill Graham, hit up cashortrade.org, otherwise regular old Ticketmaster will do you. We also got a nice voicemail from the Wanee Festival, with a rave review of Buddy Guy. Now that festie season is starting add our number to your phone: 419.NO.WOOKS. We wanna hear from you!
We also gave you a rundown of upcoming festivals that we haven’t covered yet:
It’s not often that a concert occurs exactly where and when you want it to. This past Friday, 04.20.12, at the Roseland Ballroom, however, the EOTO show did just that for me. On this hippie holiday, one of the biggest party nights of the year for some, the super dark, packed dance floor was the perfect atmosphere for EOTO’s intricate beats and state of the art light show.
Tons of stories to cover this week, let’s get right into it!
First and foremost, Phish tickets go on sale tomorrow morning! If you got screwed in the lottery, and from the looks of the twitter updates we’ve seen you didn’t, hop on tomorrow bright and early. One thing to note is that SPAC tickets will have a 3 day “package” ticket you can go for on LiveNation. Good luck to all, and remember if you wook out and oversleep it’s your damn fault you didn’t get those h3tty pavilions brahs. Don’t say that TWoL didn’t try and help you out with the heads up!
If scalping is your thing Phish.net had a great recent post about how to obtain scalper software at the low low cost of about 4k. Personally I think we should get some of us together pitch in and buy the software, get great seats, sell them to our friends or put them on Cash or Trade, and beat the scalpers at their own game. Time to stop bitching and do something about the problem. Leave us a voicemail and let us know if your interested in pitching in. 419-NO-WOOKS is the number.
In other Phish news 2/17/90 has been posted onto youtube and includes almost 2 hours of footage. If you’ve got some time to kill we recommend checking it out, remember it’s 1990 in the video so the quality is what it is but it’s been remastered so it looks pretty damn good for being that old. Check it out!
If you’re into drinking beer and who isn’t, you need to check out this cool new service that allows you to tweet a beer to a friend and paypal the money to cover it. We thought “hey we like beer” and “hey this is pretty cool” so we decided to include it in this weeks episode. Have fun tweeting and drinking!
Moe.down is celebrating their 13th festival and can you believe there’s been 13 of them? We were kind of taking back there has been so many but I guess time flies when you’re jamming out. The are returning to their original location of Snow Ridge, NY this summer. If you got the means and the ways we recommend you check out Moe.down!
So somehow we stumbled across this site called ThisIsMyJam.com and thought it was interesting. It’s similar to Spotify in you can create a playlist but the premise for this site seems to be that your play list is only one song? Not sure what else the site is all about, feel free to check it out and give us feedback if you like, don’t like, or if you know more than we do.
Rock n’ Roll Resort is going on again this year and it looks like Sphongle is headlining. Steve and Laura went last year and had a good time, the venue has changed this year so we’re not sure how that will affect things but it’s sure to be a good time if you’re into the untz.
We had a few great voicemails this week, thanks to those that took the time to leave us a lot report. Remember to give us an update on the shows you attend and tell us about the scene! Thank you to all our listeners we really appreciate your support, we’ll see you next week on lot!
TWoL was back at Camp Bisco officially for the second year in a row, and we covered as much ground as a 2.5 person team could. 2 of us, Noob Laura and I, were paired up on site, talking to vendors, taking pictures, and catching as many sets as humanly possible. The “.5″ in the equation is Wade Wilby, who takes the guest spot on this week’s show. He was on site all 3 nights, while we couldn’t make it till Friday night. I had hoped to record the show live backstage, but bandwidth and sound issues would have made for a sub-par episode, IMHO (both AT&T & Verizon had horrible reception, plus there was a generator near the mobile studio unit). But not to fear, it probably worked out better since we all had time to collect our thoughts and discuss this amazing event a few days after the untz settled.
I always hate to give too much away on the blog post, but I’ll mention a few things since we have time. Very impressed that the festival sold out, with an estimated attendance of 25k. The grounds were able to handle this size crowd, however, it seemed the masses may have taken ILCC by surprise. There were reports of major traffic issues, people abandoning cars, and ticketless fans outside the gate. We only mention this as a word of caution for next year: Buy your ticket early, don’t show up without one, be patient in line, and cooperate with the staff when entering the site. If we all prepare for a sell out crowd next year, I would bet the entire process goes much smoother. Besides that, party safe, respect others, and leave the lasers pointers at home (the band has it covered).
In the end, all 3 of us agreed that Camp Bisco has grown “beyond the biscuits”, which is not a negative in any way. It is a party, a really well put on party. There were no incidents of violence. No reports of Nitrous. And no police intervention that we know of. This is quite remarkable when you have a crowd of 25,000 no matter who the band(s) is(are). If you want to dance, stay up late, and like seeing a MacBook on stage, this is the place for you. This is why we come each year (well, Wade and I do like Bisco .
Feel free to share your Camp experience via our hotline 419-669-6657, and we can play it on a future episode. Or, leave a comment below, it’s all good. As a bonus, we have added photos to this special report. There is a mix of crowd and artist shots, which we hope you will enjoy.
This week TWoL calls an audible play at the last minute and recruited Amy Fisher to guest host. She joins the two Steve’s as Nick was away on work, Emilie was MIA, and Noob Laura flat out said no. But it’s all good, as Amy will be going to Superball IX, so she was ready to wax poetic about our main topic. And while the details are still pretty sparse, we discuss what is known about Phish’s 3 day festival in Watkins Glen NY. Of course, there is much debate about the 2 ticket options and the “uber tent”, but at least we all like the payment plan that is available.
As has been the trend lately, there is more festival news to discuss. Rock and Roll Resort saw a lot report from a listener. Nateva has been cancelled. And Phil is setting up a “home base” in California.
We had another great week of voicemails from you guys, keep them coming. We’ll see everyone on lot next week.
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