Posted by dave on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 02:57
The Summer of Love
About a year ago we were looking forward to a summertime of not one but two local music festivals. The staple diet of Zebra was supposed to be supplemented by something far more exotic, The Big Love Festival in Mianyang, with names like Jeff Mills and John Tejada whetting the appetite. Well as it turned out Big Love was a big disappointment with the festival being cancelled. This year, however, looks far more promising.
Big Love is back and it looks to be aiming even higher than before. The festival will be held in Chengdu at the Intangible Heritage Park just outside the 3rd Ring Road in the North West of the city from June 21st until June 24th. From what we hear washed-up British pop stars BLUE will be one of the major acts but to be honest we'd rather hammer rusty nails into our ears than suffer their dire music. Just like last year The Big E electronic stage has caught our attention with some interesting names. BPitch Control record label boss Ellen Allien has been confirmed. The Berlin based star's official website and facebook fan page have Big Love listed in the upcoming gig sections. Big trance acts Cosmic Gate, Blank & Jones and vocalist Emma Hewitt have also confirmed their scheduled appearance. We're also excited to hear that Ken Ishii is on the line up, although we haven't been able to independently confirm that. Chinese techno heavyweights Ben Huang and Dave K top up an already stacked bill.
A press conference has been scheduled for April 17th where organizers are expected to announce the full line up. Stay tuned for more reports.
Comments
andy
Sun, 04/15/2012 - 19:42UPDATE - Brit-pop band Ash & American rock band Extreme are also billed to appear.
andy
Mon, 04/16/2012 - 11:52Looks like Big Love will have 4 stages. Electronic, Chengdu, Rock and Pop Stages.
Local Bands Mosaic, 48v, Sound Toy, Ashura, The Trouble & Mr Turtle all to play on the Chengdu Stage.
dave
Sun, 05/20/2012 - 18:55Suede to headline day 3. Full line up here
Bobby B
Wed, 05/23/2012 - 10:20It's a decent line up but 800 kuai for a 4 day ticket or 300 a day is very expensive. Yes it's true that this is cheaper than any European festival and you do need to pay for quality, however, I think the price may kill this festival.
They finally sort out a stage for local Chengdu bands but then price the ticket way out of the range of most of their fans, young students.
If you go to the Douban page you see almost every comment is 太贵去不起 白白！(too expensive can't afford to go)
The type of people that can afford 800 kuai in Chengdu are not the people that make music festivals fun.
Alas
dave
Wed, 05/23/2012 - 15:09agree with the above, wonder how much the tout tickets ll be going for. 50 yuan at zebra i hear
Bobby B
Wed, 05/23/2012 - 16:55Yeah that is a tough one, the tickets are 240 before the 15th or 298 on the day. Probably can do better than 240 from the touts?
It says camping with four day pass, I'm going to ring them later and see if you can camp with just two days tickets. I can't make 4 days.
andy
Thu, 05/24/2012 - 13:48oooft. Had no idea tickets were that expensive.
I agree with Bobby B, lots of people won't be able to afford that. I think most people will end up just going there for one day.
Nathan
Sun, 06/03/2012 - 21:39"but to be honest we'd rather hammer rusty nails into our ears than suffer their dire music." hahaha... C'mon guys, "One Love" was a banger and you know it.
Shenaya
Tue, 06/19/2012 - 20:52I used to say that music is always good to listen. Because the rhythm which can be loved by everyone is music. Everything else is just noise. If you love to hammer nails in your ears then just avoid this because it even can hurt your psychology. I remember one of the cute love quotes from http://lovequotes1.com about music by June Masters Bacher- Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.