Is anyone going to Bonnaroo this year?
So tomorrow I leave to my 6th year of Bonnaroo. Fully shooting and being directly paid from old employer, AOL. Coverage will be mostly on Spinner.com but also on AOL Music. All this means I’m being paid more because I can also resell my images as stock as well as being paid form AOL. Better [...]
Clearing Out the Pit
So I applied for press passes for Bonnaroo 2008 today. For the first time on part of the application it was stated: “Only photographers with SLR, interchangeable lens cameras will be allowed into the photo pits. There will be no ‘point and shoot’ cameras permitted.” I have to say THANK YOU. The pits over the [...]
freaking Chris Rock
So, yesterday Bonnaroo announced that Chris Rock will be performing in the hot sun in June this year. Wow, not only that, he’s also going to be on the main stage, possibly the largest venue for a comedian ever. This adds to the already great comedy line up of David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, Zach Galifianakis, [...]
Bonnaroo 2008 Lineup Annouced
Interesting line up. Not exactly was it’s been in the past, but great names in the list. I wasn’t sure how I felt about Metallica, great musicians, and they have alienated much of this type of audience with the backlash against music sharing. The video from Lars (at the bottom of this post) helps explain [...]
Bonnaroo Book
Flaming Lips at Bonnaroo 2003 So I’ve started re-editing my 5 years of photos from Bonnaroo. In 2003 I borrowed work’s digital camera, which it’s longest lens was a 70mm, really not great for some shows. But it actually worked fairly well for the most part. My second camera was my old Pentax film camera [...]
Bonnaroo 2008
John Paul Jones, bassist of Led Zeppelin playing at Bonnaroo 2007 as part of The Super Jam If you haven’t heard, Bonnaroo will be June 12 – 15, 2008. More exciting? It seems Led Zeppelin and Metallica will be there as well. A different music festival then we have seen in the past for sure. [...]
All my Bonnaroo Photos
Ok, this is the 5th year I’ve shot Bonnaroo. I threw together all of my photos from this year into one movie. This is everything unedited from 4 days of shooting. It includes out of focus, over/under exposed and bad shots as well as the good ones. It’s fun though, I think. Bonnaroo ’07 Through [...]
The National
Ok, with all the hype around The National these days, I have to put up a video of theirs. I shot them at Bonnaroo, though I need to add in a few more images to the gallery. Video is pretty cool, check it out.
Cold War Kids video!
I shot this at the press-only performance during Bonnaroo. Enjoy and more to come soon. Cold War Kids at Bonnaroo 2007 Press Tent from 3sight and Vimeo.
Lily Allen is brilliant
Ok, I really didn’t know much about her until about a week or two before Bonnaroo. But, if you haven’t heard of Lily Allen, you will. She put on a hell of a show at Bonnaroo (click for my photos) and she seems to keep being compared to Amy Winehouse as the rising stars coming [...]
Bonnaroovians
OK, I heard this term while at Bonnaroo. Basically people who have been to Bonnaroo. Kinda funny and odd, yet fitting. This year I spent more time this year shooting the crowd then I have in the past, trying to get a sense of the atmosphere of the festival and not just the musicians playing. [...]
Infinity!
So there are different levels of passes for Bonnaroo. Everyone has something, including the general concertgoer. You either have a wristband or two or a lanyard. Wristbands are good, red gets you into the concert grounds, VIP, I think was blue, you get special camping, food, parking, though you pay for it. I had a [...]
Flaming Lips
Wow, great show last night. Might have been the highlight of this year’s Bonnaroo. Incredible show, great production. If you have never seen the Lips live, you need to. More to follow. Exclusive to Feversmile: Flaming Lips Gallery Bonnaroo 2007 Gallery
Spinner Coverage
Manu Chao, more photos here. OK, I’m pretty much running ragged around here. 10 bands so far today and I haven’t hit the late night yet. You can check out Spinner for more of my photos and lots of great coverage. Taking all I can to keep up loading, captioning and sending them to Retna [...]
we’re here
We all made it and it’s hot and hot. More later with photos. Everything starts very soon with Lewis Black. Bonnaroo also sold out today at 80,000 people.
On the way
Well, I’m leaving for Bonnaroo. I’m officially, as of now suppling photos for Spinner, AOL Music and from Retna for resale. I’m excited, video is going to be interesting and challenging. Look for photos soon.
Next week
Well, Bonnaroo is 5 days away. Paul and I will be posting directly from the press tent during the show. Might not have too much before then because of travel. Drive 8 hours to Ohio on Sat. Drive 7 hours to Manchester, TN from Columbus on Wed. night, spend the night on the road or [...]
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday
Sunday @ Bonnaroo, I’m sure I’ll add more, but it I’m normally fairly tired by Sunday and may edit more on this day and your know, enjoy some of the shows and hang out with everyone. These are my “for sures” Pete Yorn (1:00 – 2:00) Wolfmother (2:30 – 3:45) The Decemberists (4:30 – 6:00) [...]
Superjam!
Wow, I have to amend my Friday listing. I will be hitting up The Superjam on Friday night. This year they actually announced who will be there ahead of time. Get this, former Led Zeppelin bass player, John Paul Jones with Ben Harper, and Roots drummer Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson. Wow
10 Free Songs
Ok, I’ll hand it to Bonnaroo this year, they are at least up on their technology. Apple’s iTunes and Bonnaroo have teamed up to give away free music. Bonnaroo normally give out a CD to everyone that enters, this year they have made it so you can download from iTunes, one per account, so I’d [...]
getting ready for a big music festival
Ok, sorry to be pretty much only posting on Bonnaroo lately, but it’s T-Minus 9 days before we leave and I have to be ready. So, I’ll try to impose my experience on others. What do I need to bring. Now it’s going to be a little different as I’m covering the show, taking lots [...]
bonnaroo schedule, Saturday
OK, I’m kinda light right now, but these are my “for sure” concerts for the day. I haven’t shot any of these bands, ‘cept The Flaming Lips, but I only shot them on B&W film the first year I was there. Only so-so results, ‘cept for one luck shot with strobe lights and confetti flying [...]
bonnaroo schedule, Friday
OK, here’s who I’m looking at for Friday right now. Who am I missing, let me know, here’s the full schedule. Cold War Kids (1:15 – 2:15) Brazilian Girls (2:15 – 3:30) Kings of Leon (3:45 – 5:00) Very excited about this one. Gillian Welch (3:45 – 5:15) I’d love to see part of this [...]
bonnaroo rollcall #4, Cold War Kids
OK, so I haven’t been doing as many of these as I wanted to, so I’m hitting bands that sound fair cool and I might go check out, but are not big names. Hense, Cold War Kids. Besides having a kick ass name, they really sound really great. Hailing from Long Beach (I know, I [...]
