Hotel. check
Train tickets. check
Concert tickets. check
Lineup. CHECK!
Schedule. No check yet.
Of course, at this point it's all speculation until the Lolla schedule comes out sometime in June, but I'm hoping to see:
Radiohead
NIN
Rage
Wilco
The Raconteurs (hoping to hear a lot of their new stuff)
Love and Rockets
Bloc Party
Broken Social Scene
Flogging Molly
The National
Gogol Bordello
CSS (since they were on the lineup last year and didn't make it due to an airline fiasco)
Battles
Spank Rock
The Go! Team
Yeasayer
MGMT
The Weakerthans
The Ting Tings
Office
The Cool Kids
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Manchester Orchestra
Foals
De Novo Dahl
Now, we all know that the schedule is probably going to make at least some of this impossible, and thus begins the prioritizing. Without a doubt, I will see MGMT (unless they're playing opposite Radiohead, which is very unlikely). I know their live show supposedly isn't that great, but I still want to see them. I'd like to see Rage, although hopefully from the side of the hill. Carl wants to avoid actually being in the middle of the riot. The chances are good that we'll start that set out on the opposite end of the park and then come up on the tail end of Rage just to see what happens.
Anyway, I'm really happy with the lineup for the most part. I wish there was a more solid middle set, and I'm really disappointed to not see the Chemical Brothers on this list (and the lack of Portishead is sad), but overall I think Lolla is going to be a good time this year. They really pulled out some great headliners! And frankly, I couldn't be more thrilled to see that Jack Johnson is NOT coming. I'll admit to being a little curious about whether Perry is going to drag the Satellite Party onto the kids stage, tho. I don't see them listed anywhere, but we don't have the entire list yet, there are still another 25 bands left to go! Wheeeeeeee!
In other news, we're still waiting for our foster care license to be completed. We finally bought a crib last week, and my Mom convinced me to buy some mattress protectors this weekend, but that's about it. I'm hoping to pick up a monitor this week.
I think that's it. It's been quiet lately.
Posted by tomiandc at April 8, 2008 10:32 AM