No ty. Bonnaroo is a marathon and i doubt anyone could handle a second weekend. Especially with how the water from the mushroom got everyone sick this year ?! Imagine the second weekend when everyones got diarrhea 😂
I live in Nashville (the closest major city) and went to college in Murfreesboro (also super close) and I’ve always camped. Two weekends would just mean all that camping hooplah TWICE plus next level exhaustion. No thankbu
They should just make a rotating single genre festival in a cooler time of the year (spring /fall) and have it focus on the subgenres within. So a 2/3 day jam festival with folk/jam/electro jam/bluegrass etc then the next year a rock fest with all those subgenres, then the next year a pop festival with all those subgenres etc... so they hit all the fanbases, urilize the farm more, give it time to breathe and restore, and it doesn't get repetative. Far better than trying to do 2 roos b2b in one small window of the year.. and yes im aware of maximizing target audience available.. but it doesnt have to be a roo 2.0.. id rather have a smaller 30k person jam fest in the fall without all of outroo staffed and operating imo. Bring it back to the roots..
I'm really scared to see what live nation does. Some of those questions got me nervous like acting if we want two weekends and less acts 😭
There's always things that could be changed that would help everyone and those ideas are not it!
Honestly, as much as I love Bonnaroo and all the people there, this year felt like such a money grab that it bummed me out the entire time. The arch was closed to GA for at least day one, the stands in the center of the crowd for the What stage were totally wack, and the volunteers (with all due respect) didn’t seem to have a clue what the were doing. I had 2 walkie talkies taken away by security to centeroo (not against the rules) and saw at least 3 people pass out (hopefully from dehydration and not ODs) and it took med at least 10-15 mins to send help. We were lucky there was a random EMT guy nearby for the 1st incident. It was a mess this year. They were definitely catering to anyone above GA.
This is from the census that bonaroo posted on their ig and fb. [Bonaroo Census](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeD3WuJpfziD3JONXgZ4M8VvJyUNn9iFqwh_ynAA5cBwe_xEQ/viewform?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR19sZeW0q7KdBaIjW0pYwTWRf1EIJFqw1gHP4y54_ZIs4-IWq6licoklKQ_aem_gMdNVj2tNx3In3VoRExniw)
Hell no!!! Most of us can barely scrape up the money to go one weekend annually. We’re not that Coachella crowd that LiveNation wished we were. There’s travel, most besides the wealthy,retired or still living with parents have got to get time off work way in advance,many need to find somebody to take care of our pets. Nine Times out of 10 I have to pay $50 a day to board my dog and that’s cheap,lots of people have to find trust worthy child care so they can go enjoy it without fear about who is going to take care of their kids for 5 days or whatever. Two GA passes are 1 thousand 1 hundred and 80 dollars after fees. Primitive camping ⛺️ costs $150 plus $15 in shipping. I’d put the cost of going to back to back Bonnaroos around 5k at least. There’s food, gas or airline tickets or both. I am sorry that I’m not very wealthy Live Nation I really am but even if I were there’d be no way in hell I’d travel to back to back 2 day Bonnaroos. Here’s an idea and it might sound insane how bout if you go ahead and book Bonnaroo as a 7 day feastival and not raise prices. Hire 7 nights of headliners and give people the option of leaving after 4 days but have the extra 3 tacked on just in case anyone is up for it.
I mean, I would do a whole week of bonaroo non stop. Like if it started mom/ Tuesday and kept going til wendsday, but this is an event in some field in Manchester TN, idk if they could get that kinda pull for two weekends without some major headliners. Also it fucks the consumer, the whole point of going to a festival is to experience all the artists not just one good one the second week
I feel like they ask this every post Roo survey. More festivals were doing it pre COVID but most have dropped that format. I can't see them implementing now especially since most have dropped it (Electric Forest in particular).
This is how Sasquatch at The Gorge died. They tried to do two weekends with different line ups. One weekend was obviously way better and on the original 3 day weekend. So no one bought tickets to the second weekend and they had to cancel it entirely. Even with the first weekend selling out they never really recovered. 2 years later they had their last event and it was sort of sad to see how bad it got so quick, place was empty and plagued with high winds that year, final nail in the coffin. RIP Sasquatch.
It's kind of crazy seeing the no's in this thread.
Adding a second weekend with the same lineup hurts your experience in zero ways no matter the weekend you pick. Hell, it might help with getting a bigger Croo if they struggle with the usual slot. Meet up the next time.
No one is forcing you to go to both weekends. If LN is trying to go the ACL route then both weekends will have the same headliners. If they did do this, it's pretty understood that the second weekend is for "real" fans of \[insert two weekend fest here\]. Like everyone saying no to this is creating a boogeyman that doesn't exist. Or, for some idiotic reason, trying to shit on Coachella when their tickets were the same. (Side note: whether you want to believe it or not, Coachella has similar vibes to Roo. It's just the plot to camp at is weird.)
No. It takes me a month to recover from one weekend. They don’t understand that the partying that goes on at Roo can’t be sustained for more than 4 days.
They would really have to have some MAJOR acts each year to pull this off. Only so many people would make the trip . So they need to get a huge crowd from Nashville and locals to help fill the 2 weeks. They would need to have expansive shuttle service from Nashville. Still don’t see it happening
Grass would only be nice for one day, two max. Second weekend would be disgusting unless they had one in the fall and one in the spring, but then you have cold weather and rain. So nope one weekend is good.
From being to both fests back back to back years I don’t plan on going back to ACL this year. I already started my payment for next years Roo. Fuck. That.
As much as I love Roo 2 weekends makes no sense, I’m completely exhausted after 1 weekend and I just honestly can’t keep enough gas in my tank to do it back-to-back.
lol what? The vibes were immaculate this year. But vibes are always about what you give.
That being said yes, this would destroy the communal aspect that makes Roo special.
I was more or less piggybacking off what other people were saying,,, vibes were good… the heat not so good…
But every year yall complain about bonnaroo catering towards the bass heads and how it’s just another festival for them to cross off,, so adding to that if they took a two weekend approach it would add to that? Idk sorry maybe I didn’t word it right.
No, I don't think you did the first time but I see your point. The biggest issue I see here is that with the bass heads so many are still going to skip Weekend two of Roo for Electric Forest, so there still isn't any win for Roo sales if they did add a lot more bass artists to make it span two weekends. I also think they'd do a 2× 3 days like ACL and I like the Thursday-Sunday more. I know it's a drive but after spending several days in the heat I'd rather pack up and go to electric forest too for the second weekend.
I’m local and I highly doubt the locals would let that happen. Now a fall roo and a summer one maybe. Or even different kinds festivals like a exit 111 spread out sure! Just no back to back weekends.
I don’t think I’m necessarily as opposed to it as many people seem to be… I would personally LOVE to have double the roo. I think the chances of them going for a double weekend are slim to none though.
And would you be happy paying $1100 for most of the lineup to overlap between the weekends? Because that is what the other live nation festivals are like
Downvotes will happen. But single day tickets, questions of 2 weekend festival.
Granted im prolly 10years older than the average person on this sub. But I do think roo lost touch with its roots long ago. I gotta go next year for a wedding and I am looking forward to it. But goddamn if it’s 2 weekends that will be so incredibly lame.
They’re tryna radiate financially. They’ll shoot themselves in the foot if they go thru with this.
More like Jazz Fest. It would give me a better opportunity to go, as there just happens to ALWAYS be an event that I have to work when Bonnaroo takes place.
As a local I probably wouldn’t love it. I love Bonnaroo, but traffic the Monday to Thursday makes going to work a pain in the ass. Can’t imagine what it would be like if it was two weekends.
I wish they’d do something like Exit 111 again instead. It was fun, I loved getting to see more of a rock festival vibe and it honestly felt pretty full. Don’t know why they didn’t end up doing it again.
i just wish roo boasted a more diverse lineup. its pretty diverse as is but so heavily stilted towards edm. two edm headliners for a multi-genre fest is nuts, esp when your “legacy act” is rhcp. also… barely any legacies on the undercard? *sigh* i want firefly back
(love roo energy and vibes ofc but livenation is a different story)
ETA: Ik firefly isn’t independently owned either but their lineups tended to be more diverse.
Maybe if it was two different times of year like spring/fall. A local fest in my town used to do a spring and fall fest and the same people would show up to both and it became a great community. Still would probly way too much money for me to do two roos in a year though.
As a person who has done both festivals more than once, I would hate to see the two weekend split. It hurt my heart to see that question. Being from Austin I wish the two festivals were comparable but the vibes are completely different. ACL feels very commercial and on the farm we are one.
I don’t get the vehement opposition to this. You would go to one weekend, you could do both but most would do one. It would most likely increase overall attendance across 2 weekends but decrease the amount of people on the grounds each weekend.
Is this likely with the type of festival Bonnaroo is? No. Are there potential problems with weather and campgrounds they would need to figure out? Yes.
If they figured out a way to make the logistics work and work well would I welcome it? Absolutely.
omg @the downvotes- ppl are angy at you for sharing thoughts on the survey question like op asked for lol
I hadn’t considered smaller crowds but I feel like the farm’s plumbing can only handle a week of use !
my theory is that they put the question on there just to have hard data to have an excuse to put down the concept whenever it gets shared in a planning meeting or proposed by other bigger stakeholders
Bonnaroo is a celebration of life that we go through together for 4 days. It’s a coming together, a reflection on the previous year, and a start to the next. It’s a beautiful ritual that starts on Thursday, whereby folks are transformed by Sunday. Turning it into 2 weekends a la Coachella or ACL will cheapen it and destroy what makes it special.
I just disagree that it would destroy what makes it special. It would open it up to people that couldn’t make it on one of the weekends. I think day tickets, gigantic platinum pits, and bleachers do more to cheapen the experience than something like this would.
i was a day pass holder. it was my first roo and i wanted to test the waters before i committed to a 4 day thing. i see what you mean by sucking the life out of it — lots of ppl were just rlly mean (and like cliquey??? mean girls???) it was weird. Everyone that was there to actually be there was nice as FUCK and gave me all sorts of roo gifts it was amazing 😭 so inclusive and inviting and very much welcoming i LOVED IT
srsly considering buying my 4 day roo tix rn
I could be 100% wrong. I’ve only been to Roo last year and this. But I feel like the weather/heat and the line up really determine the crowd. There was WAY more theft this year at camp and the crowd was definitely not the target market for Roo. We met some awesome people at camp but the general crowd seemed to be way younger or older that the artists’ demographic. AKA teenagers for some artists and 50+ for other artists. No disrespect if you can be down with the vibe but I saw plenty of belligerent kids and judgy “adults”
Single and two-day tickets are an expected reality now. More and more people want the weekend experience, not the entire week experience. They're leaving money on the table if they don't offer flexible ticket offerings
I have a lot of friends who in previous years would buy week passes and come to roo after work on Friday, stay Saturday and leave mid day Sunday…. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to take off of work on the weekdays haha
Most of my friends are usually all in by noon on Wednesday lol it’s actually better if there are 1 day passes bc then I am more likely to get to see more of my weekend warrior friends on the farm as well :)
Haha exactly! Maybe I have a different perspective because I have done the full 4+ day battle royale many times before... but I'm a zombie on the struggle bus by Sunday. Seeing the fresh folks raging for Chappell on Sunday helped me try and get my energy up!
Considering 1 day has been around for many year's now I don't see it going anywhere soon plus add in Roo's ticket sale struggle's in more recent year's I just don't see it changing (as much as I'd like it to)
I am absolutely not denying that this was your experience and I'm sorry to hear that it was.
With that said, it was very much not my experience. I thought the vibe was stellar all weekend and I didn't see any noticeable difference in how people were interacting/approaching/engaging based on whether they had one-day or four-day passes.
I feel like that was a huge factor. I was deep in the center crowd for Post and had 6 teenagers slamming shots behind me, getting sloppy drunk, and jumping/pushing into me the entire time. Met a bunch of 50+ y/o that were only there for RHCP. I got no problem with problem coming to see one band (I didn’t know many this year) but be respectful.
I can understand where you’re coming from but it’s a concert/festival, people are there to have fun & let loose. Move away next time so it doesn’t ruin your fun as well. There’s plenty of different vibes in the crowd, just gotta find them. ✌️😎
I’m all for the party. Got no problem with that. Just didn’t like being pushed around the entire time and literally could not get out of the crowd. PLUR.
I encountered one day pass holder. She seemed like a sweet person. Invited me to hang out with her and her friend. Villainizing day pass holders is a weird thing some people in this subreddit like to do.
I met one of the nicest dudes ever that was a 2 day pass holder. WTF does it matter? So if you have a 1 day pass your an asshole and fucking up vibes? My gramps was a black man in the south who wasn’t far from being born during slavery.He’d call me and say” ya know ya cousins got in trouble again? Told em not to call me. They in jail crying that they’re there cause they’re black. Nope. They in there cause they criminals. Life’s what you make it. You can sit and cry that all your troubles is cause of your color, where you was born,how much money your daddy had and boo hoo all day. If you got the attitude that you’re treated badly over the color of your skin, the kinda clothes ya wear, what part of town you grew up then you’ll manifest it and make it your reality. I love you. I might live 15 more years or die a week from now.. Will you promise me something son ? I want you to wake up each day and say I’m going to do whatever I have to do to earn an honest dollar,I’m gonna treat everyone with kindness and respect till they give me a reason not to. I’m gonna be honest at all times with all people and I’m gonna try to do an act of kindness at least once a day no matter how big or small… can you promise me that boy? “ I said absolutely. Always yes sir. He said good. I’ll talk to you tomorrow. I got a call at work the next evening by my aunt saying I needed to get to the hospital. He died the day after he told me all that. Guess the point is if you perceive bad vibes you will make bad vibes a reality.
Thanks he was. At his funeral at least 68 people came up to me and said he was there best friend. A ton of people also told me he was the best man they ever knew. People of all races,socio economics,religions and political views. I had a lady tell me that he was the closest person that lived the way Jesus lived and taught.That made me feel better. My grandma took it hard and part of the grieving process is anger. One day she said “I can’t believe he just left me here like this!! Your damned paw wasn’t the saint people make him out. When we first got married he moved me into a tiny apartment in New York. I didn’t know a soul and was pregnant. I’d see him maybe 4 hours a day. I got proof he was drinking and I’m bout sure he bet on ponies and whore hopped!! You the only grandson that’ll come and sit with me and do anything for me. You the best grandson I have.You wasn’t always ya know. You was a damned lil devil as a baby. I’m sure glad your mama had sense to marry a white man. Only one of the girls that did!” I was drinking a Coke and spit it everywhere. I don’t know why it sounded so funny. It’s still funny though. He was a great man but not a perfect one. He for sure hit the bottle at least once when he was a young man and may or may not have gambled and whore hopped. 😂
I'm always looking at people's wristbands because I'm curious. I got way, way, way more unpleasant vibes from people wearing a platinum/931 combo than people with 1-day. TO BE CLEAR -- that doesn't mean everybody with that combo gave bad vibes. Doesn't even mean most. There were very few, of any stripe, all weekend. But of the people I encountered who weren't making the experience better, they tended much more to be plat/931 than 1-day.
And btw, I'm an old who does Moon Colony glamping and VIP, so this isn't an "anybody not in GA doesn't get it."
I didn't run into any of them. I met a VIP/931 at the Emo Superjam and he was a really nice guy. 60 year old judge there with his 19 year old daughter. Said he planned on doing a festival a month once he retires.
The only people who hassled me were clearly messing with me. They had backstage wristbands in the RHCP pit. They were clearly musicians. They wouldn't tell me their names at all. Told me I needed to tell them who they are. Still no idea. It was a pretty funny interaction. I'll figure it out one day when I see a picture of them.
Then, I turned and saw two people with artist wristbands and wondering how I was in a sea of artists, but those people introduced themselves. They are Crowe Boys and played that day on Who Stage.
Sounds super nice. No judgment here to be clear. I am likely going to Roo solo for a bit due to my friend group having various reasons not to go. Heat, young kids, don't like leaving the house.
Next year, I might be doing moon colony and coming in Thursday am. I took 17k steps on Wednesday and for what? It's not worth it to me anymore.
I like going with or meeting up with a group, even camping with them but love centeroo solo so I can do what I want. Too hot? Hit the fountain and chill there for a bit and not worry about getting back to the group, much less finding the group in the large crowd. I’m super social too but there’s an element of freedom when solo there I don’t get normally.
Excellent. Like I said, not all or even most. Just, of the very few that I saw, that was the most common thing. It was an extremely short list of people all weekend that I found bringing anything but beautiful positivity.
How? The camaraderie generally occurs in the campgrounds with the friends and neighbours you make and interact with. Are you really checking wristbands in the festival grounds and not vibing with folks on a one day pass?
If anything, the one day folks are probably less beaten down from so many days and nights of heat and are raising the level of energy and excitement (they're there for some specific great band(s)) for the rest of us who have slept 3 of the past 72 hours and are just trying to get from one drink station to the next without too much sun in between lol.
its like the bond between a sports team, or a military unit.
when everybody is there chasing the same goal, surviving camp in the heat for 4 days, it grows a certain camaraderie that is definitely broken up by fresh and energetic day passsers
So. Sports team. When said team throws in a fresh sub and that player has all the energy and pulls the team up. They don’t count? They don’t have value? C’mon man.
Every person I spoke to was awesome, the bleachers however can burn lol, 1-2 day passes didn’t seem to affect much of anything from my POV, not sure how much of a role they played in the Alison Wonderland fiasco though.
More than that. We had to get on the road so we went for part of it, and planned to leave after about half an hour. When we went to leave, we could not. People were massed outside trying to get in, AND massed inside trying to get out. And they would not allow any of it. Very, very frightening, it could have turned EXTREMELY bad.
The only one-day people I met (who I knew were one-day, as I spoke to them; I didn't check their wrists...) were fun and energetic, and super enthusiastic about the acts they came to see, specifically. I had fun with them, and totally understand not wanting to suffer in the heat all weekend/having work obligations, etc.
I did 4 days in 2012 and 2013. I just don’t have that in me anymore. But damn I wanted to see Parcels so bad so I stayed up past by usual bedtime on a 1-day pass so I could jam out with them and I’m so glad I did. Didn’t even realize there was a 1-day pass stigma until I logged into Reddit after.
I can’t imagine how lame it would be for a 1 day pass attendee so excited to be there get negative energy because they only bought a one day pass.
Love everyone. No qualifying.
Fuck no.
Absolutely not.
Nonono
No no no and no. Splitting it is a horrible idea.
I can’t get 2 full weeks off work😂
This question is an absolutely hard NO.
Nope I answered the survey as such.
No ty. Bonnaroo is a marathon and i doubt anyone could handle a second weekend. Especially with how the water from the mushroom got everyone sick this year ?! Imagine the second weekend when everyones got diarrhea 😂
I said NO
This question sounds like Live Nation's continuing attempt to ruin so much of what makes Bonaroo unique. For the love of God don't make it 2 weekends!
Absolutely the fuck not
I didn’t get this question but fuck that
I live in Nashville (the closest major city) and went to college in Murfreesboro (also super close) and I’ve always camped. Two weekends would just mean all that camping hooplah TWICE plus next level exhaustion. No thankbu
If they ever do this we riot hell na
They should just make a rotating single genre festival in a cooler time of the year (spring /fall) and have it focus on the subgenres within. So a 2/3 day jam festival with folk/jam/electro jam/bluegrass etc then the next year a rock fest with all those subgenres, then the next year a pop festival with all those subgenres etc... so they hit all the fanbases, urilize the farm more, give it time to breathe and restore, and it doesn't get repetative. Far better than trying to do 2 roos b2b in one small window of the year.. and yes im aware of maximizing target audience available.. but it doesnt have to be a roo 2.0.. id rather have a smaller 30k person jam fest in the fall without all of outroo staffed and operating imo. Bring it back to the roots..
I said no too like wtf lol
I'm really scared to see what live nation does. Some of those questions got me nervous like acting if we want two weekends and less acts 😭 There's always things that could be changed that would help everyone and those ideas are not it!
Lots of festivals do this and it works fine. It’s two separate festivals functionally and you just pick which weekend has the acts you like
They also asked if it needs to be 4 days so they are just as likely to shorten it and that’s what worried me
Can you link the survey? I didn’t see this on the Bonnaroo survey they sent out
So you get two bonnaroos a year instead of one? Well duh. Of course everyone wants that
If one was in October, maybe 😂
Honestly, as much as I love Bonnaroo and all the people there, this year felt like such a money grab that it bummed me out the entire time. The arch was closed to GA for at least day one, the stands in the center of the crowd for the What stage were totally wack, and the volunteers (with all due respect) didn’t seem to have a clue what the were doing. I had 2 walkie talkies taken away by security to centeroo (not against the rules) and saw at least 3 people pass out (hopefully from dehydration and not ODs) and it took med at least 10-15 mins to send help. We were lucky there was a random EMT guy nearby for the 1st incident. It was a mess this year. They were definitely catering to anyone above GA.
FUCK. NO.
Just no
Fall and spring Roo would be lit though
NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOO
‘THE OTHER ‘ MUSIC FEST 2025
Asking for a friend. You know, the ATF.
Never ever. Next.
No. No no no. NO!
Nope nope nope. We love a one weekend festival.
I thought everybody collectively agreed on hating day pass members. Doesn’t this kinda fall into that category.
Is this an actual survey from someone who has the ability to make it a two weekend event?
This is from the census that bonaroo posted on their ig and fb. [Bonaroo Census](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeD3WuJpfziD3JONXgZ4M8VvJyUNn9iFqwh_ynAA5cBwe_xEQ/viewform?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR19sZeW0q7KdBaIjW0pYwTWRf1EIJFqw1gHP4y54_ZIs4-IWq6licoklKQ_aem_gMdNVj2tNx3In3VoRExniw)
Hell no!!! Most of us can barely scrape up the money to go one weekend annually. We’re not that Coachella crowd that LiveNation wished we were. There’s travel, most besides the wealthy,retired or still living with parents have got to get time off work way in advance,many need to find somebody to take care of our pets. Nine Times out of 10 I have to pay $50 a day to board my dog and that’s cheap,lots of people have to find trust worthy child care so they can go enjoy it without fear about who is going to take care of their kids for 5 days or whatever. Two GA passes are 1 thousand 1 hundred and 80 dollars after fees. Primitive camping ⛺️ costs $150 plus $15 in shipping. I’d put the cost of going to back to back Bonnaroos around 5k at least. There’s food, gas or airline tickets or both. I am sorry that I’m not very wealthy Live Nation I really am but even if I were there’d be no way in hell I’d travel to back to back 2 day Bonnaroos. Here’s an idea and it might sound insane how bout if you go ahead and book Bonnaroo as a 7 day feastival and not raise prices. Hire 7 nights of headliners and give people the option of leaving after 4 days but have the extra 3 tacked on just in case anyone is up for it.
I mean, I would do a whole week of bonaroo non stop. Like if it started mom/ Tuesday and kept going til wendsday, but this is an event in some field in Manchester TN, idk if they could get that kinda pull for two weekends without some major headliners. Also it fucks the consumer, the whole point of going to a festival is to experience all the artists not just one good one the second week
Would you be ok if Bonnaroo turned into Coachella? Answer that question and you will have the knowledge you seek.
no no no no no no no no no no no no n-
No no no no no no
I feel like they ask this every post Roo survey. More festivals were doing it pre COVID but most have dropped that format. I can't see them implementing now especially since most have dropped it (Electric Forest in particular).
How about more fucking shade and not having child groomers be at the other stage
Hate this.
I… I don’t remember this question on the survey!!!! 😫
Terrible idea
As a middle Tennessean, I don’t think Manchester would be open to that at all. They have enough of Roo as is
https://preview.redd.it/ctt0o05yj08d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87f9a9d75c4921e68a3e48d37746380e9a05d99d From the Owl Gods themselves 🦉
i didn’t even have this question when i did the survey 🤔
how is vacation time supposed to happen and who can save almost a year or 2 just for survival for 2 weeks hell na
No ty
you’re not ACL or Coachella for the love of everything 🙃🙃
Not a fan (if I was rich I would love this😭)
The list of artists on the survey can’t be on accident right? Has to be people they’re scouting
I love bonnaroo but who would say yes to this honestly? It’s hard enough to make it there for one weekend!
I would riot. I hate that about ACL already.
How do I get invited to take a survey. I bought the tickets through front gate 🤔
This is how Sasquatch at The Gorge died. They tried to do two weekends with different line ups. One weekend was obviously way better and on the original 3 day weekend. So no one bought tickets to the second weekend and they had to cancel it entirely. Even with the first weekend selling out they never really recovered. 2 years later they had their last event and it was sort of sad to see how bad it got so quick, place was empty and plagued with high winds that year, final nail in the coffin. RIP Sasquatch.
The ONLY reason I’d say yes is going over fathers day is rough
Honestly man. Id love to see them move the date a week back
It's kind of crazy seeing the no's in this thread. Adding a second weekend with the same lineup hurts your experience in zero ways no matter the weekend you pick. Hell, it might help with getting a bigger Croo if they struggle with the usual slot. Meet up the next time. No one is forcing you to go to both weekends. If LN is trying to go the ACL route then both weekends will have the same headliners. If they did do this, it's pretty understood that the second weekend is for "real" fans of \[insert two weekend fest here\]. Like everyone saying no to this is creating a boogeyman that doesn't exist. Or, for some idiotic reason, trying to shit on Coachella when their tickets were the same. (Side note: whether you want to believe it or not, Coachella has similar vibes to Roo. It's just the plot to camp at is weird.)
There are some questions including this one that were not on the survey I took. I did the survey monkey if that’s a difference.
This would ruin the spirit of ROO
I hope to everything that every single one of you put no on that survey. kinda icky imo
No. It takes me a month to recover from one weekend. They don’t understand that the partying that goes on at Roo can’t be sustained for more than 4 days.
lmao are they gonna split the cost of a ticket in half?
Would I attend both weekends? No. Would I still attend if it had 2 weekends? Absolutely.
I saw two diff surveys, but I questioned this ones legitimacy
NooooOooOoo this is what did Sasquatch in 😭😭😭 and that was a truly magical fest up at the Gorge
The campgrounds would be absolutely fucked by Thursday of the next week
So like camp, go back home, and come back to camp? Lmao. No
Wack
Solid no here from my croo
This would ruin bonnaroo
Nope. I’d they do something like Stagecoach & Coachella. Different weekends. 2 separate lineups.
They would really have to have some MAJOR acts each year to pull this off. Only so many people would make the trip . So they need to get a huge crowd from Nashville and locals to help fill the 2 weeks. They would need to have expansive shuttle service from Nashville. Still don’t see it happening
Grass would only be nice for one day, two max. Second weekend would be disgusting unless they had one in the fall and one in the spring, but then you have cold weather and rain. So nope one weekend is good.
It's gonna happen eventually.
O yea let me just take a whole fucking month off of work while I'm at it lol dumbest shit ever I stg
I'd probably end up choosing one weekend over the other.
I didn’t even know what Bonnaroo was until a week ago
NO!
Hell no
I have a job that i have to do in order to survive. I can’t just fuck off to Bonnaroo 2 weekends in a row lol
Getting flashbacks of when they raised prices when I asked how much the CEO of LiveNation makes they deleted my comment lol
Dear god no.. please no.
You know how when you get there weds/thurs and the grass is nice and soft and green. Imagine the next week when shit’s still dry dusty and brown.
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Absolutely not it's hard enough getting one weekend off of work
Fuck no this is not Coachella
From being to both fests back back to back years I don’t plan on going back to ACL this year. I already started my payment for next years Roo. Fuck. That.
what the fawk
N O.
Hate that ACL does, either do the Coachella model or keep it to one weekend.
As much as I love Roo 2 weekends makes no sense, I’m completely exhausted after 1 weekend and I just honestly can’t keep enough gas in my tank to do it back-to-back.
It’d be different if it wasn’t in the middle of buttfuck tennessee and we weren’t cosplaying skid row in 100 degree temperatures😭
Absolutely fuck not.
Just think of how bad the vibes are now, if they moved to a Coachella type situation it would be that much worse 😓
lol what? The vibes were immaculate this year. But vibes are always about what you give. That being said yes, this would destroy the communal aspect that makes Roo special.
I was more or less piggybacking off what other people were saying,,, vibes were good… the heat not so good… But every year yall complain about bonnaroo catering towards the bass heads and how it’s just another festival for them to cross off,, so adding to that if they took a two weekend approach it would add to that? Idk sorry maybe I didn’t word it right.
No, I don't think you did the first time but I see your point. The biggest issue I see here is that with the bass heads so many are still going to skip Weekend two of Roo for Electric Forest, so there still isn't any win for Roo sales if they did add a lot more bass artists to make it span two weekends. I also think they'd do a 2× 3 days like ACL and I like the Thursday-Sunday more. I know it's a drive but after spending several days in the heat I'd rather pack up and go to electric forest too for the second weekend.
Absolutely terrible, terrible idea. This would be the death of Roo as we know it
HATE IT DELETE
Hell no, does our community look like Coachella or ACL to you?
Honestly, by the end of the weekend the grass is dust and the toilets all clogged I fear the second weekend wouldn’t make it
I think a lot of times people overreact when saying “I’d never go back” but in this instance I think it would ruin it 100%
Grounds aren’t built for two weekends, the other is dust by Friday night
Fuck Live Nation, everybody buy puts
If it made roo less crowded I would
I’m local and I highly doubt the locals would let that happen. Now a fall roo and a summer one maybe. Or even different kinds festivals like a exit 111 spread out sure! Just no back to back weekends.
I don’t think I’m necessarily as opposed to it as many people seem to be… I would personally LOVE to have double the roo. I think the chances of them going for a double weekend are slim to none though.
And would you be happy paying $1100 for most of the lineup to overlap between the weekends? Because that is what the other live nation festivals are like
Hell to the nawnaw
No that would ruin everything
Hard pass
No way. Americans don’t have the type of PTO needed for that. I already had to book five days off for this one, I can’t spare more.
This survey was horrifying for the future of this festival
Downvotes will happen. But single day tickets, questions of 2 weekend festival. Granted im prolly 10years older than the average person on this sub. But I do think roo lost touch with its roots long ago. I gotta go next year for a wedding and I am looking forward to it. But goddamn if it’s 2 weekends that will be so incredibly lame. They’re tryna radiate financially. They’ll shoot themselves in the foot if they go thru with this.
More proof they wanna turn it into another Coachella
More like Jazz Fest. It would give me a better opportunity to go, as there just happens to ALWAYS be an event that I have to work when Bonnaroo takes place.
If they made each weekend half the price, otherwise no.
Hell no. It’s currently 5 days post Bonnaroo weekend and I’m still sick with the Roo flu. My body would never make it.
Waaaack. Money hungry fucks
Absolutely not.
I would probably stop going entirely if they did two weekends. It completely takes away from the essence of the farm.
I get FOMO over the weekend while I’m there. Can’t imagine it if the cool shit happened the weekend I didn’t pick. This is an awful idea.
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As a local I probably wouldn’t love it. I love Bonnaroo, but traffic the Monday to Thursday makes going to work a pain in the ass. Can’t imagine what it would be like if it was two weekends. I wish they’d do something like Exit 111 again instead. It was fun, I loved getting to see more of a rock festival vibe and it honestly felt pretty full. Don’t know why they didn’t end up doing it again.
i just wish roo boasted a more diverse lineup. its pretty diverse as is but so heavily stilted towards edm. two edm headliners for a multi-genre fest is nuts, esp when your “legacy act” is rhcp. also… barely any legacies on the undercard? *sigh* i want firefly back (love roo energy and vibes ofc but livenation is a different story) ETA: Ik firefly isn’t independently owned either but their lineups tended to be more diverse.
ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT. The most out of touch question ever.
Maybe if it was two different times of year like spring/fall. A local fest in my town used to do a spring and fall fest and the same people would show up to both and it became a great community. Still would probly way too much money for me to do two roos in a year though.
ACL?
Austin City Limits
As a person who has done both festivals more than once, I would hate to see the two weekend split. It hurt my heart to see that question. Being from Austin I wish the two festivals were comparable but the vibes are completely different. ACL feels very commercial and on the farm we are one.
I don’t get the vehement opposition to this. You would go to one weekend, you could do both but most would do one. It would most likely increase overall attendance across 2 weekends but decrease the amount of people on the grounds each weekend. Is this likely with the type of festival Bonnaroo is? No. Are there potential problems with weather and campgrounds they would need to figure out? Yes. If they figured out a way to make the logistics work and work well would I welcome it? Absolutely.
omg @the downvotes- ppl are angy at you for sharing thoughts on the survey question like op asked for lol I hadn’t considered smaller crowds but I feel like the farm’s plumbing can only handle a week of use ! my theory is that they put the question on there just to have hard data to have an excuse to put down the concept whenever it gets shared in a planning meeting or proposed by other bigger stakeholders
Bonnaroo is a celebration of life that we go through together for 4 days. It’s a coming together, a reflection on the previous year, and a start to the next. It’s a beautiful ritual that starts on Thursday, whereby folks are transformed by Sunday. Turning it into 2 weekends a la Coachella or ACL will cheapen it and destroy what makes it special.
I just disagree that it would destroy what makes it special. It would open it up to people that couldn’t make it on one of the weekends. I think day tickets, gigantic platinum pits, and bleachers do more to cheapen the experience than something like this would.
So not feasible and then people have to try and choose. Sounds like a horrible idea.
Nah this ain’t Coachella
Coachella doesn't change the sets across weekends though. They just do the whole thing twice. Artists guests tend to change but thats on them.
Live nation sure does want it to be
Big NO! Don’t let them do this to us
This survey was created by a 16 year old at best.
Nooooo wtf nooo
Wtfffffff I took the survey Monday and didn’t see this question
This one is linked in the owls insta and on twitter
there are a few surveys.
Absolutely not. This would take away the magic and be the final spew of capitalism on the Farm that’d make me not wanna go.😔
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Now is the time for a collective no so they don’t turn this idea into a reality
They think we wanna eat shit apparently! 😂
Anything from the owl about 1 day tickets next year? They sucked the camaraderie out of the crowd.
i was a day pass holder. it was my first roo and i wanted to test the waters before i committed to a 4 day thing. i see what you mean by sucking the life out of it — lots of ppl were just rlly mean (and like cliquey??? mean girls???) it was weird. Everyone that was there to actually be there was nice as FUCK and gave me all sorts of roo gifts it was amazing 😭 so inclusive and inviting and very much welcoming i LOVED IT srsly considering buying my 4 day roo tix rn
I could be 100% wrong. I’ve only been to Roo last year and this. But I feel like the weather/heat and the line up really determine the crowd. There was WAY more theft this year at camp and the crowd was definitely not the target market for Roo. We met some awesome people at camp but the general crowd seemed to be way younger or older that the artists’ demographic. AKA teenagers for some artists and 50+ for other artists. No disrespect if you can be down with the vibe but I saw plenty of belligerent kids and judgy “adults”
I mean my long term too friends were able to go this way for two days, couldn't do all four this year so I liked it?
the fact u even noticed people had one day wristbands on says a lot about what you were focused on. i legit saw maybe 2 other than my dad
Single and two-day tickets are an expected reality now. More and more people want the weekend experience, not the entire week experience. They're leaving money on the table if they don't offer flexible ticket offerings
I have a lot of friends who in previous years would buy week passes and come to roo after work on Friday, stay Saturday and leave mid day Sunday…. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to take off of work on the weekdays haha
I was wondering why the camaraderie felt off in past years... it's because your friends didn't come on Thursday!
Most of my friends are usually all in by noon on Wednesday lol it’s actually better if there are 1 day passes bc then I am more likely to get to see more of my weekend warrior friends on the farm as well :)
Haha exactly! Maybe I have a different perspective because I have done the full 4+ day battle royale many times before... but I'm a zombie on the struggle bus by Sunday. Seeing the fresh folks raging for Chappell on Sunday helped me try and get my energy up!
Considering 1 day has been around for many year's now I don't see it going anywhere soon plus add in Roo's ticket sale struggle's in more recent year's I just don't see it changing (as much as I'd like it to)
I am absolutely not denying that this was your experience and I'm sorry to hear that it was. With that said, it was very much not my experience. I thought the vibe was stellar all weekend and I didn't see any noticeable difference in how people were interacting/approaching/engaging based on whether they had one-day or four-day passes.
I heard alot of people came just for RHCP or post Malone and they got rowdy. Don’t have proof or any personal experience but I can def see that.
I feel like that was a huge factor. I was deep in the center crowd for Post and had 6 teenagers slamming shots behind me, getting sloppy drunk, and jumping/pushing into me the entire time. Met a bunch of 50+ y/o that were only there for RHCP. I got no problem with problem coming to see one band (I didn’t know many this year) but be respectful.
I can understand where you’re coming from but it’s a concert/festival, people are there to have fun & let loose. Move away next time so it doesn’t ruin your fun as well. There’s plenty of different vibes in the crowd, just gotta find them. ✌️😎
I’m all for the party. Got no problem with that. Just didn’t like being pushed around the entire time and literally could not get out of the crowd. PLUR.
I encountered one day pass holder. She seemed like a sweet person. Invited me to hang out with her and her friend. Villainizing day pass holders is a weird thing some people in this subreddit like to do.
I met one of the nicest dudes ever that was a 2 day pass holder. WTF does it matter? So if you have a 1 day pass your an asshole and fucking up vibes? My gramps was a black man in the south who wasn’t far from being born during slavery.He’d call me and say” ya know ya cousins got in trouble again? Told em not to call me. They in jail crying that they’re there cause they’re black. Nope. They in there cause they criminals. Life’s what you make it. You can sit and cry that all your troubles is cause of your color, where you was born,how much money your daddy had and boo hoo all day. If you got the attitude that you’re treated badly over the color of your skin, the kinda clothes ya wear, what part of town you grew up then you’ll manifest it and make it your reality. I love you. I might live 15 more years or die a week from now.. Will you promise me something son ? I want you to wake up each day and say I’m going to do whatever I have to do to earn an honest dollar,I’m gonna treat everyone with kindness and respect till they give me a reason not to. I’m gonna be honest at all times with all people and I’m gonna try to do an act of kindness at least once a day no matter how big or small… can you promise me that boy? “ I said absolutely. Always yes sir. He said good. I’ll talk to you tomorrow. I got a call at work the next evening by my aunt saying I needed to get to the hospital. He died the day after he told me all that. Guess the point is if you perceive bad vibes you will make bad vibes a reality.
Gramps sounds like he was a real one. RIP ❤️
Thanks he was. At his funeral at least 68 people came up to me and said he was there best friend. A ton of people also told me he was the best man they ever knew. People of all races,socio economics,religions and political views. I had a lady tell me that he was the closest person that lived the way Jesus lived and taught.That made me feel better. My grandma took it hard and part of the grieving process is anger. One day she said “I can’t believe he just left me here like this!! Your damned paw wasn’t the saint people make him out. When we first got married he moved me into a tiny apartment in New York. I didn’t know a soul and was pregnant. I’d see him maybe 4 hours a day. I got proof he was drinking and I’m bout sure he bet on ponies and whore hopped!! You the only grandson that’ll come and sit with me and do anything for me. You the best grandson I have.You wasn’t always ya know. You was a damned lil devil as a baby. I’m sure glad your mama had sense to marry a white man. Only one of the girls that did!” I was drinking a Coke and spit it everywhere. I don’t know why it sounded so funny. It’s still funny though. He was a great man but not a perfect one. He for sure hit the bottle at least once when he was a young man and may or may not have gambled and whore hopped. 😂
RIP Gramps
Gatekeeping is Reddit’s specialty
I'm always looking at people's wristbands because I'm curious. I got way, way, way more unpleasant vibes from people wearing a platinum/931 combo than people with 1-day. TO BE CLEAR -- that doesn't mean everybody with that combo gave bad vibes. Doesn't even mean most. There were very few, of any stripe, all weekend. But of the people I encountered who weren't making the experience better, they tended much more to be plat/931 than 1-day. And btw, I'm an old who does Moon Colony glamping and VIP, so this isn't an "anybody not in GA doesn't get it."
931/GA were having fun. Primo camping, fully in the crowd for sets.
I didn't run into any of them. I met a VIP/931 at the Emo Superjam and he was a really nice guy. 60 year old judge there with his 19 year old daughter. Said he planned on doing a festival a month once he retires. The only people who hassled me were clearly messing with me. They had backstage wristbands in the RHCP pit. They were clearly musicians. They wouldn't tell me their names at all. Told me I needed to tell them who they are. Still no idea. It was a pretty funny interaction. I'll figure it out one day when I see a picture of them. Then, I turned and saw two people with artist wristbands and wondering how I was in a sea of artists, but those people introduced themselves. They are Crowe Boys and played that day on Who Stage.
I’m a 931 and ga attendant, and I don’t make much money. 931 is expensive but doable if you split it 4 ways imo
Sounds super nice. No judgment here to be clear. I am likely going to Roo solo for a bit due to my friend group having various reasons not to go. Heat, young kids, don't like leaving the house. Next year, I might be doing moon colony and coming in Thursday am. I took 17k steps on Wednesday and for what? It's not worth it to me anymore.
I like going with or meeting up with a group, even camping with them but love centeroo solo so I can do what I want. Too hot? Hit the fountain and chill there for a bit and not worry about getting back to the group, much less finding the group in the large crowd. I’m super social too but there’s an element of freedom when solo there I don’t get normally.
Excellent. Like I said, not all or even most. Just, of the very few that I saw, that was the most common thing. It was an extremely short list of people all weekend that I found bringing anything but beautiful positivity.
How? The camaraderie generally occurs in the campgrounds with the friends and neighbours you make and interact with. Are you really checking wristbands in the festival grounds and not vibing with folks on a one day pass? If anything, the one day folks are probably less beaten down from so many days and nights of heat and are raising the level of energy and excitement (they're there for some specific great band(s)) for the rest of us who have slept 3 of the past 72 hours and are just trying to get from one drink station to the next without too much sun in between lol.
We had a one day passer meet us on Saturday and he had a blast and yes he was definitely more energized and brought a good vibe.
its like the bond between a sports team, or a military unit. when everybody is there chasing the same goal, surviving camp in the heat for 4 days, it grows a certain camaraderie that is definitely broken up by fresh and energetic day passsers
So. Sports team. When said team throws in a fresh sub and that player has all the energy and pulls the team up. They don’t count? They don’t have value? C’mon man.
You keep telling yourself that bud
Every person I spoke to was awesome, the bleachers however can burn lol, 1-2 day passes didn’t seem to affect much of anything from my POV, not sure how much of a role they played in the Alison Wonderland fiasco though.
Just curious; What was the fiasco?
I think they’re referring to how it filled up and they started turning people away
More than that. We had to get on the road so we went for part of it, and planned to leave after about half an hour. When we went to leave, we could not. People were massed outside trying to get in, AND massed inside trying to get out. And they would not allow any of it. Very, very frightening, it could have turned EXTREMELY bad.
The only one-day people I met (who I knew were one-day, as I spoke to them; I didn't check their wrists...) were fun and energetic, and super enthusiastic about the acts they came to see, specifically. I had fun with them, and totally understand not wanting to suffer in the heat all weekend/having work obligations, etc.
I did 4 days in 2012 and 2013. I just don’t have that in me anymore. But damn I wanted to see Parcels so bad so I stayed up past by usual bedtime on a 1-day pass so I could jam out with them and I’m so glad I did. Didn’t even realize there was a 1-day pass stigma until I logged into Reddit after.
I can’t imagine how lame it would be for a 1 day pass attendee so excited to be there get negative energy because they only bought a one day pass. Love everyone. No qualifying.
So true, fellow "Own\_" 👋
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