Titus Andronicus uses some damn fine Gibsons and Fenders.

haha! this is gonna be beautiful

11:58 River to river site already lagging. Fucking beautiful.

the r2r site is fucking dead.

it's the Melvins and Big Business... not "Bad Business"

B )

those goddamned cocksuckers. get some fucking bandwidth!

assholes.

dead dead dead

"it's the Melvins and Big Business... not "Bad Business""

ha. that's a funny one. thanks! fixed.

http://www.rivertorivernyc.com/july4.html

what a fuck fest!

Site is a disaster but I got mine. Click here directly, it might be a little better http://sjlkk933.blenderbox.com/

GOT MINES

Oh come on, the link they have doesn't work!

http://sjlkk933.blenderbox.com/

the site doesn't even tell you if you got tickets! it just blanks out! what the fuck.

what the hell is going on with the site

nice planning ahead, rivertoriver. idiots.

got mine - keep trying, you'll get there

keep trying, it took me a few tries... that blenderbox address is the one

Site's fucked but I managed to get mine.

Just got confirmation for my tix - Keep filling out the form and submitting until you get a conf screen.

keep plugging away, it'll work eventually. i got email confirmation of my reservation.

Got them. Just keep trying. Servers be crashin!

this is totally retarded. how does the redirect not work? r2r, you fucked us!

problem loading page. x1,000,000,000.

awesome.

I blame BrooklynVegan for reminding everyone of the distribution. Thanks a lot, BV, for informing the "fans." I wanted to be better than everyone else.

it's not working at all for me
its just saying problem loadin page over and over
this flipping suxs

yayyyyyy i win!

yeah mine keeps saying that it cannot find the server

http://sjlkk933.blenderbox.com/ticketform.php

So. Fucking. Lame.

i got mine! keep trying

THIS IS GOING TO FUCKIN ROCK BABY

Christ, only took about two hundred refreshes, but got mine.

what a disaster... but got mine.

i got as far as the entry form, and then when i hit "submit" it just shit the bed.

poop everywhere.

It wasn't working for me either but just keep trying, eventually the confirmation page will load.

took about a billion times hitting f5, but got em.

People have already said it, but KEEP TRYING. Hit the try again button over and over until it works

DO NOT REFRESH THE PAGE

DO NOT HIT THE BACK BUTTON

Go to http://sjlkk933.blenderbox.com/ and KEEP TRYING

The info fill in for is messed up too, so be vigilant!

that was awful...but keep trying and you will get em

got mine! and yeah, i had to hit refresh about 8.8billions times. but it worked and this show will rawwwkkkkk.

Yep. got carpal tunnel refreshing 1 billion times, but have them!

why do the pick-up locations have to suck so hard?

Yes, keep trying even though it sucks and you will succeed.

The real pain in the ass is going to be trying to pick up the tix at one of the three times in the next week!

Got mine at 12:10...

i'm psyched for this. i think i'm going to go "old school" and break out my trucker hat

It took ten minutes of entering and re-entering my info over and over again, but I got them!

thank fucking god. 20 minutes of anxious refreshing worked!

I got mine as well? this is very fucking weird, looks like too many people got theirs!

sonic youth was added to the sigur ros show at moma...pavement is opening the show.

guys somethings not right, if capacity is only 400 how can so many people get theirs? i know one thing, im going down to that first pick-up day asap.

it was a pain, but finally worked. it's going to be an amazing show!

that was literally the worst game ever. got tickets though

did i have to print the confirmation because i couldn't

did anyone NOT get them?

where did you get the 400 number from?

sold out!

400 i think was mentioned in connection to past shows there. might be less than 400 actually.

they are all reserved now it seems

um you can fit more than 400 people in the park i think

they are sold out and this is INSANE. i went back to try and get a pair for my sister and i got hit with the WE'RE SORRY! message.

I didn't get them. never got a confirmation. Steaming...

this is not in the park, this is inside that fort thing.

Where is the 400 number from?

I think that space can hold a lot more than 400 if they are setting it up the same way they did last year...

They give out about 1000 reservations, figuring a bunch of people wont pick them up, and then that a bunch who do won't show up anyway. If 600 of the 1000 people who reserve on-line actually show up at the concert, that's a pretty good percentage. may be a few who have reservations/tickets who don't get in.

it holds like 5,000....

this is fucked.

you can easily go to the show and stand outside the park fence. i've been to the past 2 july 4th shows there (the new pornographers, belle & sebastian).

fuck! didn't get them even though i was trying for ten minutes... fuckers fuckers

12:18 -- why are you assuming it's in the fort?! all 7/4 shows in the past four years (ylt and malkmus, belle & sebastian, new pornos) have taken place in battery park itself, which accommodates much more than 400. more like a couple of thousand.

Or you can easliy get the free tickets online and stand INSIDE the park fence!

Awesome give-away!

Thanks as always BKVeg!

xo

thats why i said im picking up the tickets on that 1st day.

What are most of you idiots like 12? or did you just move to Williamsburg from bumfuck nowhere
Just so fucking dumb

Here is some info

The show is not at the fort. It is in the park which holds way more than 400 and it never gets so filled up for July 4th

They secure a certain amount of reserved tickets and then after the pickup they give away more plus the day of the show there is always guards down there giving away more tickets.
Relax if you want to go you can get in and there is plenty of room to move around.

If you did not print out that screen it is ok they will also send it in an email

Hopefully some of you will stop having a heart attack now.

The 4th shows are not in castle clinton. They are outside on the lawn and can hold way more than 400 people.

12:20 - i stood outside the fence for the malkmus show three years ago (that's before they required tickets - you were just supposed to show up) - and it was horrible. could hardly see anything because of the fucking trees, and the sound was almost non-existent back there. so not recommended at all.

and you can always get the scalps from craigslist
cheer up

it's on the lawn on battery park. thousands of people...

12:22 - i was trying to make the people who didn't get tickets feel a bit better. i'll see you inside the fence, punk.

The show is actually in the Castle Clinton supply closet. Holds about 17 people total (including the band)

the show is in lee ranaldo's tight ass

got tutus, sonic youth and melvins tix all in one day. not bad

wilco>melvins is going to be epic.

It's true the view from outside can be better then inside. It's a huge field. The only problem is when the Parks Dept. holds up the line at half capacity to do "crowd control".

titus*

oh, ok, nvm then. my mistake.

last year (new pornos), lots of people were just walking in the day of (w/ tickets distributed by the security guards). then again, that was the lame new pornos, not sonic youth. but more tickets will almost definitely become available.

but in the meantime... didn't get my tickets... fucking fuckedup fuckers... fuck that shit.

the feelies are reuniting, which the college radio crowd must appreciate

kim gordon's ass is shitting tickets right now outside north 7th and bedford. get there fast!

I fear the half hour I just spent refreshing my browser is just the start of a long gauntlet of standing in lines to get a ticket, and then lines to get into the park on the day of the show.

The ticketing free shows thing is a pretty humane idea if they don't blow it. That website was infuriating until it worked.

The show will actually be held in the Battery Park Starbucks right up the block from Castle Clinton and the Park itself.

Last year was raining all day for the New Pornos show - so a relatively low turnout.

If the weather is nice this year + free in NYC = Mob Scene.

Glad I'm seeing the Feelies at Maxwells.

i'm 12, just ran away from home and moved to williamsburg, bedford L. i have a freakin huge loft off wythe and i love sonic youth.

i am also a graphic designer, a hedge fun manager, an artist and am from the midwest.

michigan?

you should also mention you love daft deacon

"got tutus, sonic youth and melvins tix all in one day. not bad

wilco>melvins is going to be epic.

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 12:28 PM

WHy would you get Titus tickets when they are playing for free all over the fucking city in the next month or so?

And if you are planning on Wilco to Melvins on the same night you are cutting it close there. May have to leave Wilco early to catch Melvins. Better bet was to get the Bowery Show

"The only problem is when the Parks Dept. holds up the line at half capacity to do "crowd control".

Posted by Anonymous | June 12, 2008 12:29 PM"

Oh stop with bullshit. They dont stop people from going in, Anyone who has a ticket gets in. The lines are long but it never takes too much time to get in. It moves quick. Just dont show up right at 3:30 when the show starts and you will get in with enough time to relax and chill before the band comes on.

And dont buy tickets from scalpers, it doesnt matter that this is Sonic Youth and not New Pornos. Even if you dont get tickets before the day of show there will be plenty of them being given away by the guards at the show.

anyone wanna trade 1 to sigur ros for 1 to SY? cool people only.

Wait, so if you have a reservation, you are guaranteed tix right? even if you show up on the 2nd day of distribution?

well at least we wont have a repeat of 77 drummers. knock on wood.

"Wait, so if you have a reservation, you are guaranteed tix right? even if you show up on the 2nd day of distribution?

Posted by reservation holder | June 12, 2008 12:46 PM

YES, even if you show up the 3rd day of distribution.
By the way, did anyone get the confirmation email yet?

it's true. i am shitting remaining tickets right now in williamsburg. i'll be shitting more tickets in washington square park later this afternoon.

"Glad I'm seeing the Feelies at Maxwells."

Glad I'm seeing the Feelies at Maxwell's AND at Battery Park.

June 12, 2008 12:25 PM:

Oh jesus, you guys take everything so serious on here, hahaha!!!!!

I've got a pair of these, anyone want to trade some sigur ros moma tix for sonic youth plus some financial lubricant, willing to negotiate. lusydo (at) gmail

while all you jerks were writing "OMG THE SITE DOESN'T WORK!" in the BKV comments section, i got tickets for me and all my friends.

back in the early 2000's you could just walk up for these concerts. billy bragg one year and emmylou harris another year. great shows.

^^^ that sounds like old people music. Bill Bragg? Is that, like, country?

dude. sonic youth is old people music.

whoa...early 2000s! yr old!

i dont get why you losers complain so much. i got tix to sigur ros, i got tix to sonic youth, i got tix for feelies...shit is solid yo.

you should spend yr summer trying to learn how to use the interweb.

Did anybody who did get a confirmation, still not recieve their confirmation email? 'Cause I still haven't received mine and I've checked a bunch of times.

I'm an idiot and didn't print screen because I was counting on the email.

well i got to say getting tix to this makes up for the disappointement of not getting Sigur Ros MoMA tix.

anyone know what time the shows are over on july 4? i wa thinking of going to another show at 8 pm that day.

"back in the early 2000's you could just walk up for these concerts. billy bragg one year and emmylou harris another year. great shows."

Back in the early 1990's you could just walk up for Sonic Youth at Summerstage. great show.

back in the early 1980's, i'd just walk up to thurston w/ a guitar and we'd start jamming.

Back in the early 70s, I'd walk up to Dee Dee Ramone with 5 bucks and get a blowjob.

my confirmation email came immediately.

"Back in the early 70s, I'd walk up to Dee Dee Ramone with 5 bucks and get a blowjob."

Taking inflation into account, you paid far, far too much.

there really is no point to rsvp'ing and then picking up tickets. there will be a TON of tickets at the gate, the day of the show.

the ticket system is simply a crowd control measure to make sure it doesnt became a mob scene, but it's not really meant to deny anyone entry.

I will trade one Coldplay @ MSG ticket for one SY on 7/4 ticket. E-mail me: obama@m.i.a.com

unless it actually starts out as a mob scene, in which case having an advance ticket will matter.

You'd be able to make an 8PM show after Sonic Youth.

In R2R's defense, why should they pay to pump up their bandwidth for something they need once or twice a year? I'm sure a non-profit putting on free concerts is just rolling in extra dough....

Can I get an Amen for SY playing some new tunes? Or at least not leaning so heavily on Rather Ripped? I've seen RR stuff a healthy 4 times already, 0 of which times they played anything from Washing Machine through Sonic Nurse.

"Did anybody who did get a confirmation, still not recieve their confirmation email? "

I didn't. I think a lot of people are still waiting for them.

June 12, 2008 12:43 PM
"They dont stop people from going in, Anyone who has a ticket gets in. The lines are long but it never takes too much time to get in."

Anyone who got stuck outside, or stuck in line at the Yo La Tengo/Malkmus show would tell you otherwise. The Park & Rec cut off entrance to the park and were doing a first in first out routine. People were stuck in a snaking line that never moved for the majority of the show.

Same with all popular Summerstage shows where they hold the door periodically, and create large lines that barely move.

It doesn't matter how early you get there if the park isn't open yet, and they're requiring you to line up.

Have they issued tix for battery park shows before? We don't know what to expect, but the sound and sight lines outside the fence can be better then inside the park honestly.

yo la tengo/malkmus wasn't a ticketed event.

the belle and sebastian, and new pornographer shows were, and it was hardly a mob scene. most people who didnt have tickets didnt bother showing up, but those who did, ended up getting tickets at the door anyway.

afterparty at the starbucks on manhattan ave, when this show gets moved to studio b rooftop.

yeah but like someone mentioned before, last year it rained all afternoon, thats why people didnt bother showing up. if 4,500 people paid 40 bucks to see them at the pool last year, how many people you think want to see them for free? 40 thousand? anyway, im just happy i got my ticket.

and btw, received my confirmation e-mail about 1 hour ago.

My confirmation email just came now.

>>0 of which times they played anything from Washing Machine through Sonic Nurse.

As long as I never have to hear anything from NYC Ghosts & Flowers again I'm ok with that

listen, not everyone can go to every show
ok?

I don't know why everyone is bitching so much, Jesus. I got tickets for 4 different people no problem.

"I don't know why everyone is bitching so much, Jesus"

It's just the hipster way man...the hipster way.

"Anyone who got stuck outside, or stuck in line at the Yo La Tengo/Malkmus show would tell you otherwise. The Park & Rec cut off entrance to the park and were doing a first in first out routine. People were stuck in a snaking line that never moved for the majority of the show.

Same with all popular Summerstage shows where they hold the door periodically, and create large lines that barely move.

It doesn't matter how early you get there if the park isn't open yet, and they're requiring you to line up."

As someone said before Mr anon nitwit, those shows you used as an example were not ticketed shows so of course you were not def getting in. Stupid. If you have a ticket for THIS event you most def will get in 100 percent. If you show up at the start of the show it may take you a little bit of time to get in and you may not see the start of the show but you will get in for sure. And there will be tons of tickets being given away the day of by the guards. This is not going to be a mob scene and last years crowd or lack of had nothing to do with the fact that it rained.It did not rain till well into the show and it was light at best It is July 4th. Many of those "4500 people paying 40 to see them last year" are doing something else that day.

>As long as I never have to hear anything from NYC Ghosts & Flowers again I'm ok with that

FUCK + YOU = you

do you take everything the fucks at 'fork say to be the word of god? jezus. just because that album didn't sound like 'teenage...' doesn't mean it's not a great record. get a life.

I read these threads out loud to myself in cartoon voices

Anon 4:27, you're so silly. I'm sorry that I happen to think it's by far their worst album. Did I reference it not sounding like anything else anywhere? Nope, didn't think so. I've got a pretty broad appreciation of their work from noisier side to the poppier stuff but that album doesn't cut it. I had hoped that it would translate better live but alas, it was just as disappointing. Their other albums in the era the other poster mentioned do have redeeming qualities but NYC Ghosts & Flowers doesn't.

Help me understand, if I happen to agree with Pitchfork I'm clearly a mindless drone but if I disagree with them I'm just a hater, right?

I didn't read any of this thread nor care but I didn't want to feel left out of one with so goddamn many posts.