wow. thanks a billion for posting this.

and nice job scooping the official (and quite awful) site.

I'm not going.

Play Sation Central?

right...

"Hey Mom, can I have $85 to go play video games in the sweltering heat?"

where's the shakedown?

Wow, the VIP fucking sucks...

will uber new york literary type craig finn be in attendance?

yeah. they really shook some extra dollars out of the vip suckers. do they get really anything bonus?

they can get their playstation freak on!

that's something, right?

weak last time looking at the stage you were looking at manhattan (and the twin towers) inthe background....

eh. thank god radiohead is going to be there. just another field day...

i am not one to complain...we'll see. animal collective in the day time should be interesting :)

thanks for posting the map!
any thoughts on what is a better way to get to APW?
ferry is $25.00 but appears closer to venue. light rail is cheaper but seems to be a super far hike to liberty state park.
hmm. any ideas or suggestions?

http://www.libertystatepark.com/directio.htm

http://www.njskc.com/Images/LSP5InchesWide.jpg

yeah, who wants to look at the rest of new jersey?

Where are the tents that matter? Where are the tents for information the public needs to hear about? Where are the 9/11 Truth tents? The viruses in the vaccines tents?

Google "Operation Northwoods."

http://911trutheddie.blogspot.com/

i live right there and ride my bike there all the time. the light rail is REALLY far :)

(i just don't want it to be crowded)

took you suckers long enough to find this site. i swear half of you are govt plants intended to distract from the real bullshit that happened after 9/11 (anthrax,etc.)

uhh, smoking lounges? Please don't tell me you can't smoke freely at an outdoor festival? Won't stop me from going (not that much of an addict) but wtf is that about?

APW tickets: $65 dollars

Ticketmaster fees: $12 dollars

Ferry to get there and back in a reasonable amount of time: $20 dollars

Being forced to walk through mountains of merchandise and corporate advertising in order to reach the stage upon which the bands you want to see are playing: priceless.

wow it's worse than i could ever have imagined. it's going to be a long day. i'm afraid security is going to be unlike anything we've ever seen.

enjoy your all points west, kids.

i really doubt it's going to happen again.

can we call this what it really is -- a radiohead concert in liberty state park put on by aeg live with a full day of corporate garbage and a few other decent bands.

and let me add that the only thing worse than people who went to washington to protest the war in afghanistan in 2001 is people who rant and rave about 9/11 conspiracies. go listen to rage against the machine, morons.
i would still like to see the deleted chapter of the 9/11 report, the one about saudi arabia. informed skepticism...

its sad that radiohead needs corporate sponsorship to go on tour now that they ditched emi. it was nice last time at liberty state park, and years ago at randall's island when they played in the daytime.

HAZEL PARK, MI—In a statement made to reporters earlier this afternoon, local idiot Brandon Mylenek, 26, announced that at approximately 2:30 a.m. tonight, he plans to post an idiotic comment beneath a video on an Internet website.
Enlarge Image Local Idiot

Mylenek, a moron, prepares to publicly address the "dumbest shiz [he's] evr seen!!!1!"

"Later this evening, I intend to watch the video in question, click the 'reply' link above the box reserved for user comments, and draft a response, being careful to put as little thought into it as possible, while making sure to use all capital letters and incorrect punctuation," Mylenek said. "Although I do not yet know exactly what my comment will entail, I can say with a great degree of certainty that it will be incredibly stupid."

Mylenek, who rarely in his life has been capable of formulating an idea or opinion worth the amount of oxygen required to express it, went on to guarantee that the text of his comment would be misspelled to the point of incomprehension, that it would defy the laws of both logic and grammar, and that it would allege that several elements of the video are homosexual in nature.

"The result will be an astonishing combination of ignorance, offensiveness, and sheer idiocy," Mylenek said.

According to the idiot, he will become incensed at the quality and sentiment of the comments already posted below the video—which will include such replies as "not great, nice try tho," "FIRSTIES!!!" and "wtf?? lol so random." At this point, Mylenek said, he will feel a deep, unwavering desire to offer a dissenting opinion, which he has hinted will include the words "gay" and "reatrd" [sic].

"It is my moral obligation to alert the Internet community to the fact that this video is totally gay, and furthermore, that the individual who made it is a fag," Mylenek said.

Pressed for further details regarding his intended post, Mylenek, who will comment under the Internet pseudonym "xblingdaddy2005x," revealed that there is a strong possibility he will inadvertently post the comment twice.

"After clicking the 'submit' button, I will immediately refresh the page so that I can view my own comment. I will then notice that my comment has not appeared because the server has not yet processed my request, become angry and confused, and re-post the same comment with unintentional variations on the original wording and misspellings, creating two slightly different yet equally moronic comments," he said. "It is my hope that this will illustrate both my childlike level of impatience and my inability to replicate a simple string of letters and symbols 30 seconds after having composed it."

Mylenek confirmed rumors that he will be momentarily sidetracked by another inane task while drafting his comment. The distraction is scheduled to come at 2:25 a.m. in the form of a "related video" link featuring a man being sodomized by a horse, which Mylenek will re-watch seven times and laugh obnoxiously at with his friend and fellow idiot, Steve Blanchette, 28.

"Once this minor diversion is complete, I will finish posting my comment, then sit there like the worthless human being I am and wait for other commenters to respond," he added. "Because, as I mentioned before, I have nothing better to do with my life."

Mylenek said he fully expects that his comment will spawn a series of replies from other idiots around the world, who will either agree with his stance, disagree with his stance, or call Mylenek himself a "d0uche" and post an irrelevant link to a separate video that they will claim to be "way funnier." According to Mylenek, this is all part of the plan.

"We are blessed to be living in an age when we have a global communications network in which idiots, assholes, and total and complete wastes of fucking human life alike can come together to give instant feedback in an unfettered and unmonitored online environment," Mylenek said. "What better way to take advantage of this incredible technology than to log onto the Internet and insult a complete stranger?"

According to media critic Judy Turner, this type of behavior is not uncommon among idiots.

"Brandon's comments in particular contain a degree of unoriginality and stupidity that you only see in the most muttonheaded and imbecilic Internet commenters," Turner said. "In fact, I've seen him use at least a dozen variations of the word 'gay.' Suffice it to say, Brandon Mylenek is a truly stupid, stupid idiot."

Mylenek concluded his press conference with a solemn vow to uphold the awful, unintelligible, anger-inducing quality of his past Internet comments.

"I promise everyone that this post will be exactly what you have come to expect from an idiot like myself," he said, "and that I will check my comment regularly so that I can call everyone who says it's stupid a fag."

Hehe...there's a lot of Brandon Myleneks that post on this site regularly.

Brandon Mylenek for Obama's VP!

They never updated the info for people who want to bike to the show. This might be a dumb question, but are there bike racks? Is biking from the Exchange Place or the Grove Street PATH stations an okay plan?

I can't find much info about biking in Jersey City via google.

they never updated anything that's "coming soon" on the website. this whole thing is a quick money grab.

are bikes allowed on the PATH?

From the PATH website:

"You may not enter a PATH station with a bicycle on weekdays between 6:30 am and 9:30 am and between 3:30 pm and 6:30 pm. No more than two bicycles are permitted on a PATH car and bicycles are not permitted in the first railcar of a train."

I can deal with that timeframe, thought I'm worried that they might not let me back on the PATH at the end of the night, if the mass exodus of people from APW makes it too crowded.

"they never updated anything that's "coming soon" on the website. this whole thing is a quick money grab."

OH SHIT! they just updated it!

...by removing the "more info coming soon" bit. Now that's classy.

Are you assholes trying to judge how a festival will be by reading the cartoon map?

Stay home. I'm going to have a great time and the weather report is stellar for this weekend.

"Are you assholes trying to judge how a festival will be by reading the cartoon map?"

Given the vibe of most of the comments here recently, I'm not surprised in the least.

Personally, I plan on having a great time Fri and Sat. If the rest of you want to bitch and moan all weekend, be my guest.

The capacity for the 2001 shows was 17000. All Points West is 40-50000. These shows will be NOTHING like 7 years ago.

"I'm going to have a great time and the weather report is stellar for this weekend."

Huh? They are calling for thunderstorms on both Fri and Sat. They will most likely be quick summer storms, but the report is far from stellar.

i'm not attending this thing, but LSP is a great piece of land. Radiohead is the best live band most of us will ever see. You all that are going will have an amazing time.

VIP BATHROOMS!!!

After they took off the "more info coming soon" thing, they finally added this piece of information:

"There will be bike racks at the main festival gate, all you need to do is bring your own lock! "

Thank you, All Points West, for answering my question. Kind of creepy, but thanks.

Get there early Friday for the Pawnshop Roses at 1pm!

gonna be great. just not looking forward to the crowds.

and please remember, to all, if you have a fro, please be courteous enough to gel it down before going. it blocks others' views.
and again, no big purses or murses. keep that shit at home.

guys, it's gonna be a blast.

How much of a shit show do we think the ferry situation is going to be? Oy.

"

From the PATH website:

"You may not enter a PATH station with a bicycle on weekdays between 6:30 am and 9:30 am and between 3:30 pm and 6:30 pm. No more than two bicycles are permitted on a PATH car and bicycles are not permitted in the first railcar of a train."

I can deal with that timeframe, thought I'm worried that they might not let me back on the PATH at the end of the night, if the mass exodus of people from APW makes it too crowded.
"

that's cool.
question for the PATH riders... given that I'm going all three days... what are y'all's thoughts about taking my bike to NJ on Friday and leaving it there for the festival duration... basically using it as my own shuttle to and from the PATH to the festival? are the bike racks outside the station safe enough to leave a beater bike?

After a long, careful study of that map, I'm 90% certain of where Lucky's hidden pot of gold is.

who is that talkin about pawnshop, zil?

Just my luck i'm going on friday and missin pawnshop, sorry guys.

who is that talkin about pawnshop, zil?

Just my luck i'm going on saturday and missin pawnshop, sorry guys.

Actually playstation central will will be fun. I'll be playing LittleBigPlanet while waiting for underworld to come on.

if APW is like Coachella (which the DoLab kinda indicates that it will be) they will demo Little Big Planet, but not let you play it unless you are a VIP with the right badge/wrist band. bummer.

so...security? can i bring my drugs in? how tight will security be?

drugs? are you two? christ...

757 - what a douche. hahaha. ive gone to tons of festivals, all of which my gear has made it in...but there are 'strict' festivals, where they're pretty serious about patting you down (ie a coachella) and those that dont really care. go fck yourself, seriously.

Regarding biking there:
You can bike from grove street by going south on Grove, then right on Grand and left on Jersey. It looks like you're going to a dead end, but there's a small pedestrian bridge that connects downtown to the park. The bridge will probably be packed full of people, but still easier than going on roads.

Not so sure about leaving your bike at the PATH station. Jersey City may not be NYC, but it's definitely not the 'burbs. If you want to do that, you might be better off going to Exchange Place - it's a bit nicer area and has security, and is maybe 5 minutes (if that) further on bike.

Hm...it feels strange to post on BV without making a snarky comment......I'll make up for it next time.

"The capacity for the 2001 shows was 17000. All Points West is 40-50000. These shows will be NOTHING like 7 years ago."

Approximately 20,000 people are expected to attend the festival tomorrow, 30,000 Saturday and 11,000 Sunday, officials said.

it's really unfortunate that we won't have the manhattan backdrop like last time. the band will have that view this time.

how many people plan on showing up just for radiohead?

exchange place to park from looking at the map looks like about a half hour walk? is that accurate? Im just saying if there's lot at the train station might make better sense just to walk to the park?

also you can take Path from WTC station to Jersey City/Exhange station?

how is everyone gonna fit in that little space they left for the main stage? - bad use of the land

anyone know anything about a footbridge via jersey avenue to get to liberty state park quicker? if so details please. thanks.

Mu girlfriend made "special" cookies for this one...god I love her.

Although smuggling cookies might be difficult here.

I'll tell em' I'm diabetic I guess.

Bring a pancho and have some fun.

"how is everyone gonna fit in that little space they left for the main stage? - bad use of the land"

Seriously, if the map is to scale it looks like the concert is going to take place within an inch by 4 inch square. What is this... a concert for very small people?

midgits fromt he wixard of oz!!! hahaha

Hey Anon 8:28am, thanks for the info for how to bike there, it helps a lot! Hopefully the guy who asked about the footbridge after you wrote that will read your comment too... I looked at googlemaps and you can see the footbridge from the satellite photo.

(And thanks for the lack of snark.)

I heard there's a secret tunnel from Red Hook to the park. They don't allow bikes, though.

Thanks Anon 4:44, do you mean this tunnel?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Harbor_Rail_Tunnel

It's a bit too far out of my way.

Getting home from this after the show will probably take longer than a flight home from Chicago. That's just a wild guess...

^^^ agreed. im scared its going to be like the titantic with a good 30,000 attempting to leave the island at like 1035 when radiohead is over.

no less than 20% of you are getting robbed this weekend in JC

email me about cheap used bikes for sale

Please, people...don't take the ferry. it's a ripoff. take the liberty state water taxi from lower manhattan. it's only 7 bucks each way. Also, if you save your ticket stub you'll get $10 off per person on any sailing charter for the rest of the year.
check it out: www.sailthehudson.com and hit the directions page.

Save your ticket or receipt from the concert and for the rest of the season save $10 per guest off our sailing charters.

Take the Liberty Landing Marina Water taxi it is only $7 each way as opposed to the Concerts Waterway ferry which is $50 round trip.

Visit www.sailthehudson.com for info and directions.
Have fun and don't let them take so much of your money.

wish i'd known water taxi first...but now that i have the APW ferry tickets, the APW website says it leaves from Pier 11, with a link to a googlemap showing Pier 11 at West St and Battery Pl near Castle Clinton. But just below that, the APW site also has a hopstop planner that shows the ferry leaving from corner of South St and Gouverneur Ln...

Anyone know which it is for sure??

APW here I come! Just picked up tickets for $20 on Craigslist. I can't believe are still trying to sell tickets for face value. Get real!

There is only one Pier 11 and it is on the East River near Gouveneur Lane.

does the water taxi run late though.?\\
http://www.libertylandingmarina.com/watertaxi/index.php