Going, trying to figure out if I am going with my wife or mom now. I think I would rather go with Mom, lol. Took the wife to Dallas last time she is sick of seeing them. I bought 3 day tickets but will probably waste or try to sell the other days, hotel cost for 4 nights is why I hate festivals.
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Last edited by bryan_NIN65; 05-12-2017 at 05:11 PM.
I'm already wanting to do a meetup with everyone from here that is going. We can hit up a bar or something before/after the show?
finally a thread for this show, i just reserved my rental car for this today too.
im down for a meetup for sure. ets smokeout!
any idea when single day passes go onsale? how close to the show have they done it in the past?
edit: ministry is playing friday too, correct?
For informational purposes:
Riot Fest is now held at Douglas Park in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood.
It used to be held at Humboldt Park in Chicago's West Town neighborhood.
Neither are what people are used to with Lollapalooza in Grant Park; Grant Park is downtown (Chicago's "Loop" neighborhood) with many hotels and restaurants and tourist attractions nearby. North Lawndale is not any of those things.
See this regarding North Lawndale.
And this.
Stats here.
I'm not saying be afraid: Just, use street smarts and be careful.
Last edited by allegro; 05-13-2017 at 12:43 PM.
We did 3-day GA last year, as well as this year. Considered doing VIP this year, but decided it wasn't worth it. My buddy that lives in Chicago gets free VIP passes from his work every year, so last year when we went to RF for the first time we got some insight into the VIP from him and his girlfriend. What you're paying for with VIP really just seems to be the bathrooms and drink tickets. My husband and I aren't big drinkers to begin with so the drinks would almost be wasted on us, and I would appreciate the private bathrooms - I definitely did at Panorama, and don't regret buying VIP one bit for that festival - but again, at almost twice the price for VIP as they were for GA, it just didn't seem worth it. If there were prime viewing places set up for VIP I would have grabbed them in a heartbeat, but you don't get that unless you're splurging on those damn Deluxe VIP. The VIP area last year was setup away from all of the stages, and I'd assume will be the same this year. Just my two cents! We are also doing a lot of traveling this year, and I had already splurged on VIP when we went to Panorama, so the need to save a little was more important to me in this instance. Hope this helps!
I went GA mainly because the single day VIP ticket doesn't include drink tickets. I don't know if it's because I'm getting older, but I certainly appreciated the decent restroom and shorter food/drink lines at panorama for VIP, so hopefully I won't regret going GA. Unfortunately the deluxe VIP option is sold out. Thanks for all the info!
Hmm, as I was reading these articles I almost second guessed wanting to go here, Chicago basically being the murder capital of the USA and all.
Until I remembered I used to live in Winnipeg, basically the murder capital of Canada. It's basically been deemed "Canada's Chicago"
I think I can handle it.
Winnipeg? Murder capital you say?
Yep. Local t-shirt shop even capitalized on the hype and made Hoody's and t-shirts lol
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1021250/
I'm from Detroit, we have shirts that say "Detroit, where the weak are killed and eaten."
Anyway, Chicago is not the murder capital of the U.S.; and only certain Chicago neighborhoods have all those gang-related murders and the violence and crime (Chicago is a city of many neighborhoods); one of the neighborhoods on our nightly news all the time is North Lawndale.
Comparing to Winnipeg with a murder rate of 2.5 per 100,000 -- in 2017, Chicago's was 27.9 killings per 100,000 residents, half that of St. Louis with 59.3 homicides per 100,000 people.
Homicides per 100,000 people:
Anyway, the point is: The fest isn't in an area full of bars and restaurants; I would never even dream of parking my car there. Uber it or cab it, then stay on the festival grounds, don't wander around, do meet-ups in a better area. Then everything should be just fine.
Last edited by allegro; 05-14-2017 at 02:11 AM.
Holy smokes. These are some INCREDIBLE stats! These stats make Canadian homicide stats a joke. 59.3 is insane!!
Back on topic:
Do you think it's safe to tell boarder guards when flying into the US you are attending a music festival called "Riot fest" when entering their country lol?
If I end up attending this show, I probably want to avoid using the word "riot" when trying to cross the boarder.
I should probably just stick to saying "Going to see Nine Inch Nails" hopefully they don't question anymore than that. Am I being over-paranoid even thinking of this?
Last edited by ManBurning; 05-14-2017 at 01:56 AM.
I think you're onto something. Just say you're seeing Nine Inch Nails.
Hey, it's not a lie.
Last edited by allegro; 05-14-2017 at 02:13 AM.
Moved our trip to Curacao around a bit, so I'll be there Friday with the missus now. Doubt I'll go the rest of the weekend unless some seriously dope shit is happening one of the other days.
Finally going to eat here on this trip:
https://kumascorner.com/
Would be nice to finally catch some Ministry. Play the hits Al, play the hits.
Last edited by SM Rollinger; 05-14-2017 at 08:55 PM.
Is anyone that is not from Chicago and thinking of going to this show going to base it on the setlist for FYF or would you rather just take the gamble and NOT look at the setlist before hand.
There are nearly 6 weeks in between shows, it'll be hard to not look at the setlist from either FYF or Panorama for that long, but at the same time, if attending one of these shows, the surprise element is always nice as well.
Im taking a gamble to see what the lighting and set list is like, and possibly if it goes overboard on the political side (I personally don't think it will go "overboard") in that order. I'm also on the fence since it's a festival and can't stand the festival crowds.
If it was in a proper venue I wouldn't even think twice about buying tickets. According to the internet Riot Fest allows about 50,000/day in attendance so getting tickets shouldn't be an issue at all. Also helps that I'm less than an hour and a half drive from it, not including traffic.
I always look at setlists, and plan on it again this time. I wont listen to live audio though, that way the new EP stuff/ new arrangements, etc sound fresh.
Rollinger, I'd love it as much as you, but I severely doubt Trent & Al will be doing Supernaut. Trent can't sing like that anymore, and doing that track out of the blue would require a decent amount of rehearsing that it doesn't seem likely either party will be able to do together prior.
when does normally start the single day sale? thnx
Well, last year the single-day & two-day passes went on sale on June 28th, but RiotFest was also almost two weeks earlier in September, so you can probably just assume (though they're the only ones that know for sure, of course) that they'll go on sale in early July, if that helps.
Eh? Last year Riot Fest was Sept 16/17/18. This year it's Sept 15/16/17. Call me crazy, but that seems to be the same weekend? I would wager the single day tickets go on sale around the very same time as they did last year, and everyone should stop worrying about it. There'll be plenty of notice about it, and there will be plenty of tickets!