Three dollars and 63 cents Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 It seems to me that there's a lot more advertising for Solid Sound this year. This week alone, I've seen ads on Paste and last.fm. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wise Enough Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 WTF?? New email just says NEIL Finn?? Oh they are killing me! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Preferred B Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Betcha it's a typo... not that I wouldn't be thrilled with Neil. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wise Enough Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Could be Neil. It says new project, and I'm pretty sure he's doing a new project with his wife, called pajama party. Wilco and Neil are my two favs. I loved the festival last year, spewing I can't go this year. Unfortunately having s difficult pregnancy in another country REALLY rules that out. Instead Im on bed rest being taunted with emails about the line up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Preferred B Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Well, I'll keep my hopes up, then! And good luck with your bed rest. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lost highway Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 I got an email saying there will be the first dBM records release at Solid Sound. I predict a new 7 inch single from the Wilcos. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wallflower77 Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 I hope there are tickets by the time I have the $$$ - I would love to see Neil! WTF?? New email just says NEIL Finn?? Oh they are killing me! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
realrival Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Hey everyone!!! Are any New York City Wilco fans going to this? Is there an easy way to get there train-wise? The directions off their website seem too complicated. Thanks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Heart full of holes Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 (edited) Hey everyone!!! Are any New York City Wilco fans going to this? Is there an easy way to get there train-wise? The directions off their website seem too complicated. Thanks! I took the train last year. The closest Amtrak station is Albany-Rensselaer, about 40 miles west of MassMOCA. You can take a cab across the river and rent a car in town. There's supposed to be a car rental agency at the Amtrak station, but they have limited hours and seemed deserted last year. Correction: The Pittsfield Amtrak station is closer to North Adams, but it's a 7 hour trip from NYC to Pittsfield via Amtrak. NYC to Albany is only about 2 1/2. Edited March 23, 2011 by Heart full of holes Quote Link to post Share on other sites
realrival Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Thank you! I took the train last year. The closest Amtrak station is Albany-Rensselaer, about 40 miles west of MassMOCA. You can take a cab across the river and rent a car in town. There's supposed to be a car rental agency at the Amtrak station, but they have limited hours and seemed deserted last year. Correction: The Pittsfield Amtrak station is closer to North Adams, but it's a 7 hour trip from NYC to Pittsfield via Amtrak. NYC to Albany is only about 2 1/2. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wise Enough Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Just got announced from the Finn side, it is Pajama Party, Neils project with his wife Sharon. It will be quite the Finn family affair, with Liam also playing at the festival and I think his brother is his drummer (who was actually roadie for the National in Auckland - small world). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wendy Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 I could not be happier about this Neil Finn news. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 i was hoping that the Neil was Young, not Finn. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
paulcalypse Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 i was hoping that the Neil was Young, not Finn.If that was true, these ticket prices would be a steal considering what it costs to see Neil Young play these days...crying shame if you ask me. "Cough up the bucks, cough up the bucks!" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magnetized Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Got my tickets in the mail today, by the way, and my friend did too. Sweet! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Three dollars and 63 cents Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Thanks for the head's up. I've been getting a lot of junk mail lately. With my luck, I would've ripped my ticket in half! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magnetized Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 By the way, they were in a small, thank you note sized envelope with FGT as the return address. Kind of inconspicuous and, come to think of it, easy to overlook. Beware! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
u2roolz Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 "Singer Jeff Tweedy and his Wilco bandmates stage their second Solid Sound Festival 2.0 at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts in North Adams, June 24-26. Among the 18 acts are former The Band leader Levon Helm, soul singer Syl Johnson, Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore and jazz trumpeter Dave Douglas."We always talked about how much fun it would be if we could play together with all of these other entities," says Tweedy, who adds that the festival is small enough that fans don't have to worry about musical sets overlapping." USA Today link The article goes on to mention other band curated festivals including Dave Matthews, Phish, Disco Biscuits and The Roots. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magnetized Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 Wilco has just posted two videos on YouTube. One announces a story writing contest (for kids) for the Story Pirates to perform at Solid Sound this year. I don't think the video is posted yet at the Solid sound website, but you can go to YouTube and search for videos uploaded by Wilco. The other is Monday, taken from the Ashes DVD. I guess that was just a playful little nod to the day of the week. Nice Wilco! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Turnips Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 early bird pricing for Solid Sound today until noon tomorrow http://solidsound.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?c=1&lid=50974&eid=58598 use promo code "wilco" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
u2roolz Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 I found these the other night at my Newbury Comics. I'm assuming a lot of local "indie" record stores should have these over the next month. They even had a nice poster on the front door. It's a nice cardboard glossy material. It's pretty big, so much so that some of it got clipped off. Pardon my white t-shirt (it's May). It's tough to get light here, since we haven't had any sun for well over a week. At the bottom is a pic of Jeff in The Dunk Booth, Glenn doing his exhibit, and Nels doing his. I also like the lineup and the blurbs about each act on the back. It's pretty nice and a welcome surprise. I didn't see anything like this last year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
u2roolz Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 I came across the following press release for the festival while looking for info on the film shorts being presented. I was surprised to find this .PDF file via google search and nowhere on the Solid Sound official site. In it is some nice information about 7 New exhibits and other stuff that may not be known that I will highlight. *(update: OK. The exhibits are listed on the site, but not much info is given unlike in this press release.) Solid Sound Press Release PDF May 22, 2011 SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL NEWS: SINGLE DAY TICKETS, CHARTER BUS TRANSPORTATION, PLUS WILCO PRESENTS SEVEN NEW EXHIBITS The Solid Sound Festival is now offering single-day tickets for the fastapproaching three-day gathering of music, art, comedy and community in the scenic Berkshire mountains. (Three day all-festival passes are also still available.) Solid Sound takes place June 24 – June 26 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA and features two headlining concerts by Wilco, plus 18 bands including Levon Helm, Thurston Moore, Syl Johnston, Dave Douglas, Neil Finn, Liam Finn, Jamie Lidell, Wilco side projects, special pop-up performances and more, plus a comedy cabaret hosted by John Hodgman and featuring Wyatt Cenac, Eugene Mirman and Morgan Murphy. In addition to full three-day festival passes ($124.50), Friday and Sunday single-day tickets are $65.00 and Saturday single-day tickets are $78.00 (including all fees). All tickets and complete daily schedules are available through solidsoundfestival.com. The Solid Sound Festival has teamed up with Peter Pan Bus Lines to offer transportation services directly to and from the festival from New York City and Boston. NYC bus will depart from midtown Manhattan and Boston bus will depart from the Woburn Park & Ride on Friday afternoon and go directly to the festival grounds. Buses will return to New York City and Boston on Sunday evening. Full details on pricing, reservations and ticketing are available by clicking the “Getting There” tab on the solidsoundfestival.com homepage. Members of Wilco, acting as curators, will present seven new exhibits for this year’s festival including The Impossible Exhibition, a project that utilizes the last remaining Polaroid film to reinvent instant film. Select festival-goers and musicians including Wilco’s Pat Sansone will create a growing exhibit utilizing the reinvented film. Other Wilcopresented exhibits include Fly On The Wall: Sounds from the making of Wilco LP 08 and Gunnar Schonbeck’s Wonderments and the inGLENNtions, an exhibition of oversized but workable instruments with new instrument creations by Wilco’s Glenn Kotche and Darin Gray of On Fillmore. Solid Sound also features live Falconry with Chris Davis of New England Falconry, Solid Sound Radio courtesy of The Numero Group, a short film series with films selected by MASS MoCA, Wilco and Toronto’s Smiley Guy Studios, a Euclid Records pop-up, an updated Wilco poster retrospective, an onsite screen-printing demonstration, Story Pirates, Lava, the Bureau for Open Culture, local food, a dunk tank for charity and much more. The Solid Sound Festival is envisioned by Wilco and presented in collaboration with MASS MoCA, America’s largest contemporary art museum. Festival attendees have full access to the entire, sprawling museum campus, which incorporates 150,000 square feet of galleries and includes Kidspace, a museum within the museum, designed especially for children and families. This year Kidspace will feature expanded hours throughout the Solid Sound Festival weekend. With the exception of the long-running milestone retrospective of Sol LeWitt, all MASS MoCA exhibitions change every year: for a complete listing of this year’s new shows, see www.massmoca.org. Admission for children 6 & under is free at Solid Sound. Weekend festival passes for kids ages 7-10 are $50 and ONLY AVAILABLE at the Solid Sound Box Office, starting Friday, June 24. They will be available throughout the entire weekend. For more information please visit solidsoundfestival.com,massmoca.org, wilcoworld.net or contact Deb Bernardini at413.529.2830 or deb@dbmpr.com. ~~~~~~~Smiley Guy Studios mostly deals with animation and it looks pretty damn amazing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magnetized Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 I came across the following press release for the festival while looking for info on the film shorts being presented. I was surprised to find this .PDF file via google search and nowhere on the Solid Sound official site. In it is some nice information about 7 New exhibits and other stuff that may not be known that I will highlight. *(update: OK. The exhibits are listed on the site, but not much info is given unlike in this press release.) Solid Sound Press Release PDF May 22, 2011 SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL NEWS: SINGLE DAY TICKETS, CHARTER BUS TRANSPORTATION, PLUS WILCO PRESENTS SEVEN NEW EXHIBITS The Solid Sound Festival is now offering single-day tickets for the fastapproaching three-day gathering of music, art, comedy and community in the scenic Berkshire mountains. (Three day all-festival passes are also still available.) Solid Sound takes place June 24 – June 26 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA and features two headlining concerts by Wilco, plus 18 bands including Levon Helm, Thurston Moore, Syl Johnston, Dave Douglas, Neil Finn, Liam Finn, Jamie Lidell, Wilco side projects, special pop-up performances and more, plus a comedy cabaret hosted by John Hodgman and featuring Wyatt Cenac, Eugene Mirman and Morgan Murphy. In addition to full three-day festival passes ($124.50), Friday and Sunday single-day tickets are $65.00 and Saturday single-day tickets are $78.00 (including all fees). All tickets and complete daily schedules are available through solidsoundfestival.com. The Solid Sound Festival has teamed up with Peter Pan Bus Lines to offer transportation services directly to and from the festival from New York City and Boston. NYC bus will depart from midtown Manhattan and Boston bus will depart from the Woburn Park & Ride on Friday afternoon and go directly to the festival grounds. Buses will return to New York City and Boston on Sunday evening. Full details on pricing, reservations and ticketing are available by clicking the “Getting There” tab on the solidsoundfestival.com homepage. Members of Wilco, acting as curators, will present seven new exhibits for this year’s festival including The Impossible Exhibition, a project that utilizes the last remaining Polaroid film to reinvent instant film. Select festival-goers and musicians including Wilco’s Pat Sansone will create a growing exhibit utilizing the reinvented film. Other Wilcopresented exhibits include Fly On The Wall: Sounds from the making of Wilco LP 08 and Gunnar Schonbeck’s Wonderments and the inGLENNtions, an exhibition of oversized but workable instruments with new instrument creations by Wilco’s Glenn Kotche and Darin Gray of On Fillmore. Solid Sound also features live Falconry with Chris Davis of New England Falconry, Solid Sound Radio courtesy of The Numero Group, a short film series with films selected by MASS MoCA, Wilco and Toronto’s Smiley Guy Studios, a Euclid Records pop-up, an updated Wilco poster retrospective, an onsite screen-printing demonstration, Story Pirates, Lava, the Bureau for Open Culture, local food, a dunk tank for charity and much more. The Solid Sound Festival is envisioned by Wilco and presented in collaboration with MASS MoCA, America’s largest contemporary art museum. Festival attendees have full access to the entire, sprawling museum campus, which incorporates 150,000 square feet of galleries and includes Kidspace, a museum within the museum, designed especially for children and families. This year Kidspace will feature expanded hours throughout the Solid Sound Festival weekend. With the exception of the long-running milestone retrospective of Sol LeWitt, all MASS MoCA exhibitions change every year: for a complete listing of this year’s new shows, see www.massmoca.org. Admission for children 6 & under is free at Solid Sound. Weekend festival passes for kids ages 7-10 are $50 and ONLY AVAILABLE at the Solid Sound Box Office, starting Friday, June 24. They will be available throughout the entire weekend. For more information please visit solidsoundfestival.com,massmoca.org, wilcoworld.net or contact Deb Bernardini at413.529.2830 or deb@dbmpr.com. ~~~~~~~Smiley Guy Studios mostly deals with animation and it looks pretty damn amazing.This is pretty interesting stuff. Personally, I wasn't all that into the Numero Group's contribution last year, but I remember hearing lots of people who were sorry to see they wouldn't be participating this year. From this, it appears they will. Also, it sounds like there will be some version of the kinds of demos that Glenn and Nels did last year. I thought Glenn's guided tour of his drum exhibit was fascinating, and the Nels exhibit was also good (though hard to see because of the logistics). Hopefully they'll do something creatively interactive like that again this year. I am definitely getting psyched for this festival! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nalafej Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Fly on the Wall sounds awesome. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
saluqi Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Solid Sound also features live Falconry with Chris Davis of New England Falconry, Solid Sound Radio courtesy of The Numero Group, a short film series with films selected by MASS MoCA, Wilco and Toronto’s Smiley Guy Studios, a Euclid Records pop-up, an updated Wilco poster retrospective, an onsite screen-printing demonstration, Story Pirates, Lava, the Bureau for Open Culture, local food, a dunk tank for charity and much more. Besides being a Wilco fanatic I am also a falconer, who if you know any, are also a seriously fanatical lot. I'm friends with Chris Davis and will be helping him with his birds on Sunday (the only day he's there). I'm not exactly sure what he has planned, but he may do a person to person flight demo where he gets volunteers from the crowd and the bird flies between a half dozen folks landing on their gauntlet (which Chris will supply). Don't hold me to it, but if that's what he's going to do it's a blast and shouldn't be missed. Stop by and say hello at least, Chris has some beautiful Harris hawks and they are very social birds, and the photo ops will be great. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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