Comments on: Langerado: Gone without so much as a goodbye

By: johnnie

johnnie — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 03:29:28 +0000

The 06 show with wilco and Black Crowes was the best show i’ve ever seen….the vibe was amazing. Langerado will be missed forever! Bring it back, man!

By: shaun L

shaun L — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:23:29 +0000

Tully, Answer me this…

Do you really think that a festival of that lineup and superiority over any other type of music would honestly survive here in South…”urban” Florida? You’d think yes…

But
Examples : Hannah Montana…Success.. To many kids here
Damien Marley….Success… To urbanized
Chili Cookoff… Last remaining “Country” festival and luckily that is in Davie or else that wouldn’t succeed.

You could call me and I could inform you of 100 reasons Langerado Needed to move out of this state prior to it’s failure.

First …we don’t have enough room, no venues or LAND!

Second…was NOT promoted well to the “right” people… I know where to go…

Third… People from the north are not willing to drive past what they know about Florida… “Orlando”

Not knocking anything to do with this festival… These are my types of music… “Bonnaroo / Voodoo / ETC.” These festivals are what I look forward to.

Lately I’ve been thinking it’s time to move on out of Florida and buy up my piece of land…

If it’s not International …. or Full of urban flair it’s not going to succeed past the border of Broward / Palm Beach….

Nothing in Broward is successful… for long

For Langerado to fail in a state with this much population.. is a huge failure ….I wouldn’t come back…. That to me is a failure on the states part to make it EQUAL instead of completely ONE SIDED.

Sunfest is something … No one goes to

and Yes … there are hundreds of mom’s who want to see 311 … They aren’t new at all and many were not mom’s during the time they were “really” popular. 311 is a band that MANY people liked…loved and still do…. Like … DMB but the two are NOT COMPARED to each other at all…

that was Florida’s Woodstock and because the cops worry so much about “green” and not what the Ports are bringing in daily and what the corner dealers are dealing…they shut down the most controlled environments first and think they make big arrests and are stopping a bigger problem with in fact they make matters worse when they take away all the fun….

I gotta get outta this landlocked tourist trap, short beach, overpopulated, multilingual, Open Port , Open Citizenship State…

Wet Foot Dry Foot??? Really ? I’d say more but this is a family article…

By: Jonathan Tully

Jonathan Tully — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:15:10 +0000

Usually, SunFest doesn’t announce until March, about halfway through.

By: Jonathan Tully

Jonathan Tully — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:14:40 +0000

Hi Cathy! Thanks!

Don’t get me started about what I call the “Atlanta turn”, where you check out your favorite band’s tour dates, get excited when they start getting closer (Charlotte… Atlanta…) and then take a right, rather than getting into our state (New Orleans! Aw man!!)

By: John

John — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:55:01 +0000

I think they kind of overeached by choosing Big Cypress as the location in 08. It was a good fest and demand seemed solid, but would have probably survived many more years had they kept it smaller.

By: freakerdude

freakerdude — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:53:22 +0000

Sunfest hasn’t even announced their line up and it’s 2.5 months away. I smell something lame coming for Sunfest 2010.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:11:50 +0000

Great article! I loved Langerado when I went in 2006. Clap Your Hands were fantastic. The Flaming Lips were unreal. We discovered Drive By Truckers, and are still huge fans. I loved that it was so close (we live in PBC), but we weren’t into camping so we stayed at a hotel. There is definitely a market for good music in South Florida. Too bad there are too few venues. Also, it seems that most acts aren’t willing to take a jaunt down the peninsula as they’re touring the south.

By: Jonathan Tully

Jonathan Tully — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:45:48 +0000

Someone’s MOM wants to see 311?! You hang out with a different class of mom, dude.

That Rick James show sounds similar to the Pepper show last May, when that band basically swore through the entire set. Again, soccer moms reeled.

The thing about SunFest is: You pick your spots and you’ll have a decent time. It’s a family fest instead of a proper music fest, like Langerado, but you can still make it work for you.

But yeah, Langerado was incredible — and I was at that !!! show too. Mindblowing.

By: dw

dw — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:21:19 +0000

Sun Fest? Seriously? Sun Fest has never been about music. It has always existed to sell overpriced carnival food to the undiscerning family crowd. It’s Garlic Fest with fewer Dead cover bands. While they occasionally get a decent band, most are ones somebody’s mother wants to see. You know, like 311. Langerado was in a completely different class. It was a proper music festival – in my one day at the 2008 festival, I saw G. Love, The Roots, the Beastie Boys and highlight of the evening, !!!.

That said, I’ll always have fond memories of the time I saw Rick James at Sun Fest. He showed up on stage 45 minutes late and greeted the crowd by saying, “WHAT’S UP YOU MOTHER——S!” The soccer moms never knew what hit ‘em…