Man a regret from Bonnaroo for me was sleeping through the Tractorbeam late night set.

I was so beat from the drive that I passed out, deciding to sleep through ICP and wake up for Tractorbeam. But alas, I didn’t wake up until morning.

 

I’ve been in Austin about 8 months now and I now drink Lone Star every week. Before i moved here, i was a Miller Lite guy 90% of the time. Now it’s Lone Star or bust!

@mindwater man you’re an OG! i was in middle school in 06 haha. You got to see some of those legendary early days lineups

I still had fun during the time i spent, but it was definitely cut short. When i wrote that last post i was being a bit melodramatic.

I agree that things should step back big time in the industry. Bonnaroo sent out a survey last week and one of the questions mentioned trying to switch to every other year.

Overall it sounds like the thing is becoming a beast to manage, and probably has been for a while. Not sure what they will do but it will be interesting to see.

It’s such a weird time to be alive. So much is changing in all parts of the world. I do think the art world will be going back to grassroots as much as possible in the coming years. This could be a whole topic for another thread haha

It’s a major bummer that Bonnaroo got canceled.

For me, the biggest thing was the travel and time commitment to get to the festival. The long drive from Austin through the rain. Setting up camp. Being tired all day on Thursday and trying to take it easy for the long weekend.

I got some good rest on Thursday night and on Friday I was looking forward to a lot of great music. It was shitty to break down my soaking wet campsite and drive back to Austin without experiencing what I drove out there to experience.

I still had a good time while I was there. Bonnaroo is a special place and the spirit had begun to blossom. Mother nature stomped it out.

There is a lot to be said about this. Some people think this was the last Bonnaroo. People are super bummed.

I can see how some might be hesitant to make the Bonnaroo trip knowing that it could be swept away. This is the second time it has been canceled for me personally. Yet I still put in the time and money to get there.

It’s 3am here in Austin. I’m glad to have this little clubhouse here at Extra Chill. We do what we can in this world that becomes increasingly dark and scary. We carry onward and try to find the light where we can.

It makes me wonder if the festival model is cooked. If Bonnaroo can’t even pull it off, it goes to show how fragile an event of this scale can really be.

I  understand that many other festivals this year went off without a hitch. But Bonnaroo is the pillar of festivals in my eyes. And the festival failed massively, and sent a lot of folks home with their tails between their legs.

I don’t know what else to say. But it’s not good

Last night was a lot of fun. I feel like i was still recovering from the drive all day yesterday. That drive to Tennessee from Austin is brutal. Next time I’m breaking it up into two days

otherwise my favorite set yesterday was Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country and my second favorite was Dogs in a Pile

the first set i saw was Crumbsnatchers on the Who Stage. They have that stage out in the campgrounds now and it’s a nice free vibe.

i also saw Die Spitz who crushed it in one of the Tents in the heat of the afternoon

i wanted to see Tractorbeam but i fell asleep before they went on and didn’t make it back into Centeroo

my campsite is so close to the centeroo entrance that it isn’t too hard to come in and out multiple times in a day.

Which is great when you’re like me and you like to drink a lot of beer but don’t have a lot of money to buy alcohol

today i’m going to Shakedown Street. I’m trying to find a few things

there is also rain on the forecast that i hope isn’t too bad

Here’s how i know I’m getting old

i walked up to the customer service desk to look for a paper map

they have a sign that says “no paper maps”

time has moved on from paper maps

@jollymonster haha, they will be kept reasonable until the bewitching hour

As for walkie talkies, i’m going by myself so i probably wouldn’t have much fun with the walkie talkies lol

i’m gonna hand out tons of stickers this year. bringing all my merch.

There is a special “media camping” area so i’ll also get to meet some other journalists and network

Okay – Added:

1. Featured link setting on Advanced Tab
2. Subscription feature on the link page, with exporting
3. Social icons can now be moved to the bottom

I am still working on some more updates, but these ones are pretty big enhancements.

Everything should be working smoothly but let me know if you find any bugs

Hey Beatsville

To perform at a major music festival, first you will have to make a name for yourself, and then the festival booking team would approach you.

For a smaller festival, such as one on the local level, a lot of it is about who you know.

I’ve booked my own festival 5 times, and each year I mostly worked with artists that I had gotten to know via running Extra Chill over the years.

Only a few of the acts I have ever booked are artists that I don’t have some kind of personal relationship with.

I think the saying “it’s all about who you know” rings super true in the music industry, from the local level to the top.

Getting involved in the local scene near you, attending lots of events, and meeting lots of local artists is a great way to stay on people’s radar.

I guess there are also some festivals that take applications, but most of them are going to have a few key people deciding the lineup and negotiating with all the talent.

Major events like Bonnaroo and Coachella probably have a whole booking team behind them, maybe even dividing the lineup up into segments for different teams to handle based on genre.

Thanks for joining Extra Chill! Super glad to have you here. Let me know if you need anything!

@headliner let me know if you have any questions about how things work around here!

i’m always looking for feedback and to make it better and easier to use

@jollymonster Just shipped a fix for that. It turned out to be more complicated than I expected. But everything should be working now. And slightly better than before, because I reworked the whole backend system to be more reliable.

Still working on:

1. YouTube Thumbnails
2. More Icons (Substack, Venmo, ETC)
3. Adding a better subscription feature similar to the way Linktree does it
4. Option to move social icons to the bottom of the links instead of the top
5. Advanced setting for a single featured link with its own special style

Thank you again for checking this out and giving feedback. There are a few more tiny bugs I noticed that I will be gradually working out.

But the items listed above will be the first things I implement.

This will keep getting better over time! Super proud of it