All downsizing should be so benign. Everyone knows the fourth installment is a bitch to get right. Witness Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. Or Batman and Robin. Or The Phantom Menace. Or Thunderball. We could go on. (Virgin Mobile Festival and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, anyone? No?) But faced with an economy gazing into the abyss and a steady attrition of big-name talent to other, more established summer festivals, Virgin Group Chairman…
Wale by Shamigo This year’s Virgin Mobile Festival’s plan to give out tickets for free worked like a charm. The concert’s organizers say 35,000 free tickets were gobbled up in minutes when they went on “sale” this weekend. If you had your heart set on seeing Public Enemy, Girl Talk, Wale, The National and St. Vincent on August 30 at Merriweather Post Pavilion, but didn’t get a ticket in time, there’s still a way…
We’d heard the rumors and speculated ourselves, and today the folks behind the Virgin Mobile Festival announced that its shortened schedule and new venue this year will have one pretty great thing going for it: it’s going to be totally free. The 2009 Virgin Mobile Festival will take place on Sunday, August 30 at Merriweather Post Pavilion, and will be, for real, entirely free. Why free? Virgin Mobile just wants to be nice, they…
After weeks of speculation and much too much time spent obsessively reloading the 9:30 Club Forum, Post Rock and even the Baltimore Buisiness Journal, we finally have confirmation. There will be a Virgin Mobile Festival this year. Now we just need to know the where, the when, the who and the how much. With that in mind let’s take a look at the latest internet chatter: The Where: With Pimlico ownership Magna Entertainment Corp….
Via the Upstate Life, the Baltimore Sun says that the Virgin Mobile Festival will return for a fourth year, though the venue is uncertain at this time. With the owner of Pimlico Race Track in bankruptcy proceedings, the weekend-long event may be forced to relocate. Merriweather Post Pavillion is named as another option, while the stadium lots near the respective homes of the Ravens and Orioles are each ruled as probably-nots. So get excited! Only…
More star wattage, more choice, more tough choices. V-Mo Fest V. 3, Part II offered more of the same, and in this case, that’s a very good thing. In addition to the words and visuals you saw yesterday, today we’ve also got audio of several on-the-spot interviews Chris conducted at the festival. Copious sound + vision follows! 8/10/08 5:04 PM -Michelle Stafford of Headcount – Chris Klimek Ace photographer DCist Kyle kicks it off: I…
Whether you’re a little bit Iggy or a little bit Moby; whether you breathlessly await each L’il Wayne mixtape or whether pop music ceased to interest you the year the Beatles stopped touring and Dylan went electric (in which case, congratulations on figuring out this old Internet), there was something to your taste at the third edition of the Virgin Mobile Festival this weekend. Not just something, actually: A lot. With a big assist from…
Photo from the 2007 Virgin Mobile Festival by firegal Virgin Mobile Festival is like the two-party system, except you can vote in the other party’s primary and even change your vote mid-set. (I’m dismissing the Dance Tent the way most people dismiss third parties.) Herewith follows (with apologies to DCist Cinephile-in-Chief Ian Buckwalter) a wholly arbitrary, hardly comprehensive, but probably alphabetical listing of the acts I’m keenest to see. Chuck Berry and the Silver…
Ah, summer festival season. In years past, those of us in the D.C./Baltimore region had to either consider an expensive trip to a faraway locale or jealously eye the lineups of Coachella, Sasquatch, Lollapalooza, Intonation, Pitchfork, Bumbershoot and countless other fests, hoping that the festival gods would someday smile upon our little patch of the Mid-Atlantic. Luckily, that all changed with the introduction of Virgin Fest in 2006 (now known as the Virgin Mobile Festival)…
It seems like just yesterday we were scratching our heads and wondering what this mythical “v fest” creature we’d heard of could possibly be. A large-scale music festival that doesn’t require a plane ticket? Our brain grapes were smashed at the thought! The first year (a one day event headlined by The Who and the Flaming Lips) went over well, and last year’s bigger, better and greener approach was another notch in Richard Branson’s belt….
