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Anyone going to the 2005 Coachella Valley Music Festival?

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mechorg:
This will be my third year at Coachella, and i have no problems with the travel distance to the show.  The last couple years I flew down and this year i'm road-trippin' it for the first time.

I honestly can't say enough about the festival and i could fill pages with stories and great times had the last couple years.  Maybe I'll add more when I feel like typing and actually read everyone elses replies so far.

I will be there.  I will probably be there next year and every year after.  It also gives me a good excuse for a vacation in southern california. ;)

Anyone else that is going, feel free to hit me up.  Meeting new people is one of my favorite things about the festival.

mechorg:

--- Quote from: Willis ---
For those veterans of Coachella, I have one question for you: how was the bathroom situation there?  One thing that really (and I can't stress this enough) impressed me was the cleanliness of all of the port-o-pots at Bonnaroo last year.  It seems whenever I needed to take care of business I could go in and the places were pretty clean.  I could sit comfortably and do my thing.  It was definitely a perk to the whole weekend.

~~Willis
--- End quote ---


As for that, the port-o-crappers seemed just fine with me.  No waiting in line, even.  However, I am a guy and can go pretty much anywhere I feel.  I heard some of the girls compaining about the smell, but thats because the company stopped by durning the day to each of the bathroom 'stations' for an emptying.

As for bands that i am making a note to see this year besides the big headliners:
Doves, Spoon, M83, Four Tet, Josh Wink, the Kills, UNKLE, Arcade Fire, Dresden Dolls, Fiery Furnaces, Aesop Rock, Autolux, the Bravery...

It is pretty hard to see everything you want if you like a lot of different music.  For those not familiar with the setup, they have 5 stages going almost simultaniously.  Set up and break down times are very quick and more than likely you will have a conflict in who to see and when.  I strongly recommend getting there early at least on the first day and try to snag a small setlist program because they disappear quick.

I'll also recommend seeing a band you've never heard of if you have the time.  There's a reason most of these bands are invited to the festival and I've gotten hooked on a lot of past unknowns just by randomly walking into one of the performance tents.

Sturge:
haha, my friend went to Coachella last year and he brought back some random American girl who got over on a stolen credit card and lived off money sent over by her brother. She got deported -_-

I would love to go to Coachella last year, the line up was awesome. Shame I lacked funds and time though.

jus:
Money's a little tight, but I think I can afford a day... or steal money for both. I'm having trouble deciding between day one and two, I'm leaning towards day two though.

I'm an OC resident so it's not inaccessible, unfortunately I'm one of those poor few carless souls... I'm conning my equally broke friends it's worth it as we speak!

Oerdin:
If they like music then this will be as close to the holy grail as they're likely to get without a much longer trip.  I'd give you a lift but I'm driving from San Diego east on I8 and then up north on the freeway which runs next to the Salton Sea (I can't remember it's name right now... 167?).

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