3 posts tagged “new orleans”

Guess who I'm going to be seeing, and these are just on the main stage (there are two other stages for local and regional acts, I believe):

• R.E.M.
• Nine Inch Nails
• Stone Temple Pilots
• Lil Wayne
• Erykah Badu
• Dashboard Confessional
• Shudder to Think
• Death Cab For Cutie
• DeVotchKa
• The Gutter Twins
• Cold War Kids
• Wyclef Jean
• Panic At the Disco
• King Britt Tribute to Sister Gertrude
• Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
• Reverend Horton Heat
• Lupe Fiasco
• Joss Stone
• Man Man
• Thievery Corporation
• Ghostland Observatory
• Manchester Orchestra
• Old 97's
• Joseph Arthur
• Colour Revolt
• Tokyo Police Club
• Innerpartysystem
• The Vettes
• Big Blue Marble
• Sons of William

I am uber excited.  Only a few more months!

I'm sure that some of you have lived in or visited New Orleans.  Do you have any advice on lodgings?  Of course, I would love to stay in some renovated, former-bordello bed and breakfast (I could stay at the Marie Laveau Guest House, named after the voodoo queen!), and it would be nice to be close to City Park, but if you have any inside info, I'd love to hear it.  Even if it's just along the lines of, "Hey, don't go anywhere near _________."

Thanks!

VME - New Orleans

Being the complete freak that I am, I'm already planning out my Halloween.  I wasn't able to celebrate last year, and it's my absolute favorite holiday, so this year, I'm going to try my best to go all out.  It's no longer acceptable to go trick-or-treating at my age, unless I have kids, and I don't really know anyone who likes Halloween enough to throw a big costume party, so I think a road trip is in the works.

The Voodoo Music Experience is the weekend before, in New Orleans, and if I buy my tickets soon, I can get in for all three days and it only costs $100.  Then I have to get a hotel room (I'm not hardcore enough to sleep in the park) and pay for gas, food, etc.  It's going to be a costly trip.  I could tuck away my plasma money.  But how cool would it be to hang out in New Orleans so close to Halloween?  In my mind, it would be second only to Salem, Massachusetts.  Ghost tours, the legendary cemeteries, the voodoo....I'm getting chills just thinking about it!

I don't know the lineup yet, except for the Big Three: R.E.M., Nine Inch Nails, and Stone Temple Pilots.  Wow, that's worth the price of admission, and then some, and then more.  I just wish it was on Halloween.