Coachella 2008 Line Up and Cost

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Coachella 2008

Here's the line up My favs in bold:

FRIDAY, APRIL 25: Jack Johnson, The Verve, The Raconteurs, The Breeders, Fatboy Slim, Tegan and Sara, Madness, The Swell Season, The National, Slightly Stoopid, Mum, Pendulum, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Stars, Battles, Aesop Rock, Les Savy Fav, Midnight Juggernauts, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Minus the Bear, Spank Rock, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Diplo, Adam Freeland, Santogold, Jens Lekman, John Butler Trio, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Architecture in Helsinki, Sandra Collins, Busy P, Cut Copy, Black Lips, Datarock, Professor Murder, Reverend and the Makers, The Bees, Porter, Rogue Wave, Modeselektor, American Bang, Luckyiam.

SATURDAY, APRIL 26: Portishead, Kraftwerk, Death Cab for Cutie, Cafe Tacuba, Sasha & John Digweed, Rilo Kiley, Dwight Yoakam, M.I.A., Hot Chip, Cold War Kids, Animal Collective, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, DeVotchKa, Flogging Molly, Mark Ronson, Turbonegro, Scars on Broadway, Islands, Enter Shikari, Calvin Harris, Boys Noize, Junkie XL, Cinematic Orchestra, Jamie T, The Teenagers, VHS or Beta, Carbon/Silicon, Erol Alkan, Yo! Majesty, Little Brother, Bonde Do Role, St. Vincent, Akron/Family, MGMT, Institubes Paris Terror Club - Surkin, Para One and Orgasmic, James Zabiela, SebastiAn, Kavinsky, Dredg, The Bird and the Bee, Grand Ole Party, Man Man, New Young Pony Club, 120 Days, Yoav, Electric Touch, Yelle, Uffie.

SUNDAY, APRIL 27: Roger Waters (“Dark Side of the Moon”), Love And Rockets, My Morning Jacket, Spiritualized, Justice, Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, The Streets, Metric, Danny Tenaglia, Simian Mobile Disco, Booka Shade, Murs, Dimitri From Paris, Autolux, The Field, Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Cool Kids, Sons & Daughters, Sia, Holy ****, Black Kids, Black Mountain, Annuals, Kid Sister w/A-Trak, Duffy, I'm from Barcelona, Manchester Orchestra, Deadmau5, The Horrors, AUSTIN TV, Shout Out Louds, Plastiscines, Brett Dennen.


And I've done a few calculations:

All in Euro:

Tickets: €187
Camping €37
Flights €460 (to LAX on wed 23rd back on wed 30th.)
Car rental €34 (each for Ford Focus fitting 4)

Total €718

Toast

Its not a bad lineup as such, in fact its very good and Id go if it was local but its remarkeably boring in terms of exclusives and the like.

Maybe Ive just reached the point of saturation from going to so many festivals and gigs but theres no one on that lineup who couldnt be seen relatively easy anywhere else in the next few months or who hasnt played recently enough in the past. Coachella usually has a lot of acts that rarely tour Ireland/Europe but this year it looks very similar to a European festival lineup.

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Yeah, last year it had RAGM on their comeback. It is kind of missing a major headliner!

I would want to go more for the experience....same for Glasto....just so I can tick Coachella off my to do list!

Zapp Brannigan

Looks good, wish I had the money to go. Gogol Bordello would be one of my must-see's. Hopefully they do a few of the Euro festivals. Uffie would be cool aswell.

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Zapp Brannigan wrote: »

Gogol Bordello would be one of my must-see's. Hopefully they do a few of the Euro festivals. .

Would love to see them somewhere like Whelans! They did play one festival over here last summer but missed them!

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Mr.S wrote: »

wow, a bit on the expensive side for a 3 day festival, and for that lineup? and charging 40€ for camping?

I don't know...if I saw that as the line-up for Electric Picnic I would still pay €220 for it....and this is €224 including camping sounds just about right. The camping looks pretty plush too. And you are guaranteed the weather (pretty much). That's worth the money alone!

seanironmaiden

went to Coachella last year. amazing line up, amazing location, amazing weather, etc...

Line up this year is very poor imo. Nothing stands out at all for me really. still, for 700euro it'd be still worth goin to just for the experience.

mar17

Pretty good lineup! I'm stoked to see Yoav... he's awesome. His album "Charmed & Strange" really impressed me.

JæKæ

Anyone know of any festivals up nearer to the Northwest area? Or Western Canada even?

Bumbershoot in Seattle looks decent