Greg Kot is reporting that the 2007 Intonation Fest has been called off, even though no information had been officially released yet.
Among the headliners that Intonation had pursued were PJ Harvey, Public Enemy and MIA. Jon Brion had been approached about curating the festival, but the heavy competition for talent raised the price of many of the artists beyond Intonation’s ability to pay.
I’m not too surprised by this given the five million bands they usually book for Lollapalooza and the Pitchfork Music Festival being way ahead on their lineup announcement. They’re going to be putting on some shows this year under the Intonation moniker and plans for future years are obviously way up in the air at this point.
As a music festival evangelist, I am quite saddened to see one of the Chicago festivals that had been successful in prior years (at least in my eyes) all of a sudden announcing that they don’t really have anything ready to go for this year. I’d hope to they work like hell to return and give us music fans something else to latch onto next summer. We’ll have to just wait and see…
(via Gapers Block)
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Chicago needs another kick-ass music festival like Amsterdam needs another coffee shop (so, yeah, it’s debatable). DC/B’more and the mid-Atlantic in general needs to get a bit more festival love, in my very geographically-biased opinion!
this blows! intonation was my last chicago hope seeing that i am not at all interested in pitchfork’s lineup and lollapalooza is outrageously expensive and typically not my thing.
god bless BONNAROO! woot!
Yeah Nicholas — I’d probably agree with you there. It’s not like I can really complain.
It’s true that this festival probably would have booked a bunch of bands that would not otherwise be playing Lolla or Pfork. Unfortunately we’ll now miss that…
Kari,
In march every year so far, a limeted ammount of $60 dollar three day passes were sold thru the Lollapalooza website.
I do not agree with you that $20 dollars per day is outrageously expensive.
It is only expensive for people unwilling to purchase tickets until the lineup is announced.
Next year take a chance and buy the passes cheap without a linup, this is my third year in a row doing this and I spend more on drinks in a day than the three day pass cost.
um, yah….because while sitting in calculus class it was easy for me to access the internet and purchase those $60 tickets. do you really think i am that ignorant that i do not know of those tickets? i was a proud owner of a $45 early bird ticket last year. i only saw four bands there last year because that was all i was interested in. also, it isn’t like everyone gets the opportunity to get those early bird tickets. they go on sale randomly, and i am in school…so, you have no idea who you are preaching to.
Intonation was basically Pitchfork in the past but then they opted for the “trendier” Vice Records to host it as opposed to having Pitchfork do it. As completely untalented as Vice is, its no surprise they have to cancel this year as they’re having to sleep in the bed they made. They should have stayed wiht pitchfork because they seem to be doing A-Ok on their own.
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