Aunykk wrote: » Hey!! Planning to go to coachella next year, any ideas how can I can get my hands on tickets? Also can I purchase them from Ireland? Any info greatly appreciated ðŸ˜႒
Sideshow Mark wrote: » Go to their website in early January and buy them. They're expensive, but the process is not difficult. Like Glastonbury you need to be online at the right time.
bodhrandude wrote: » Man! You are really planning ahead here, 2015 festival hasn't even happened yet.
Reggie noble wrote: » Ah **** only seeing your post now from few months back , we were at weekend 2 as well , it was class . Who were your highlights ? I'd love to go next year but doubt I will be able , realistically won't go again until 2018
davywalsh7 wrote: » Trying to organise to go for next year. Any tips? Is it worth going to?
Reggie noble wrote: » Definitely worth going to , first time there this year , thought it was class, will u camp ? I'd recommend staying in a hotel if uv a bit of extra dosh . Shuttle bus pick you up there n drop u back every day . They offer hotel packages on the official site when ur buying the tickets
davywalsh7 wrote: » Ah def hotel. We r going on our honeymoon at that time next year so trying to work around it. What were the ques like for the shuttle and what was the drinkin situation like? Thanks for the reply
BurtMacklin wrote: » There are ways around everything lads. I've often taken my beer outside the drinking area with me. Just hide it or put it under your t shirt passing the guy at the exit. The drinking areas are huge as well. We used it as a meeting spot between acts and even watched a lot of acts on the main stage from there. We also brought in our own vodka in zip locks bags. Double bag it just in case. ha. Fill up bags with vodka and put them down your pants when walking in past security each day. Buy a mixer then at any of the stalls and you're laughing. You've saved yourself a few quid. I highly recommend going to Coachella. Yeah the weather is hot but there is plenty of shaded area and it definitely beats the rain. I love it there. I use my drivers licence to get my daily over 21 wristband and kept my passport safely locked away. Another thing I like about it is that there is no scumbags at Coachella, everyone is there to have a good time. The line up is usually great and it's a perfect opportunity to discover new acts. I've camped every time I've went. Each year we say that next year we'll get a villa but always end up camping. We car camp. We fly to LAX, rent cars there and drive to festival. You get a designated plot of land to park your car and pitch your tent/canopy. We had a big group, we arrived together and we got to park / camp beside each other. I didn't sleep in a tent. A lot of us just slept in our sleeping bags that we got at Walmart for a tenner under a canopy we got for $60. Some slept in the car. You are up again at 8-9am due to the heat and people moving around you. The neighbours are always friendly and enjoy meeting the Irish over there. They'd call over for cans at our camp area and we traded beer for steaks with them. Everyone just seems to get along. If anyone has any questions, just drop me msg.
BurtMacklin wrote: » How much did your hotel + ticket package cost if you don't mind me asking? Another option is get festival pass and shuttle pass combo and then try sort your own accommodation.
It suggests that these celebs weren't fully aware that their photographs were being taken. It forgets that Coachella is one big branding exercise in which the vast majority of celebrities are paid to wear 'x' label for 'y' amount of money. Most of these celebrities aren't there to let loose; they are there to be seen. Many of them turn up just to do their obligatory papp lap before heading off to one of hundreds of private parties that take place in the surrounding area. I was there in 2009 and it was truly one of the most boring festivals I've ever attended. The line-up was extraordinary of course - it always is - but the atmosphere was about as counter-cultural as Spring Break. For every photograph you see of an impossibly long-legged Coachella glamazon, remember that there's another insufferable, beer keg-shaped man who wants to know if you're rolling/riding the drunk bus/ready to PAR-TAY!!! You can't really par-tay, though. Alcoholic drinks are prohibited in the main arena. You have to consume them in a beer garden which feels more like a holding cell. Also, there's nothing to explore or discover. It's like a concert in a huge polo field... which, incidentally, it is. Thinking back to my Coachella experience reminds me how lucky we are to have festivals like Electric Picnic and Body & Soul on our fair shores. They really are best in class.
johnpatrick81 wrote: » To each their own but I couldn't agree more with the following columnist from the Indo;http://www.independent.ie/opinion/katie-byrne-field-of-dreams-34664233.html
Reggie noble wrote: » Who cares which Celebs are wearing what clothes at it , I didn't see any celebs and couldn't care less if they had their underpants on their heads . I go to festivals primarily for the lineup , Irish festivals don't hold a candle to the lineups coachella gets . I've been to EP 7 times now over the years and have my tickets for this year but the lineup is cat so far . I do admit before coachella I was thinking would it be full of 'frat boy' goons going round shouting everything they say but thankfully I saw none of that.
