9/15/2011 7:51:13 PM

represent.

motherfuckers.

wayne coyne was sounding eerily like hunter s thompson.

9/15/2011 10:31:09 PM

Now I want a Love Language/Future Islands show.

9/16/2011 3:32:51 AM

omg they're at Taz's Tobacco and Wine

9/16/2011 9:19:11 AM

The one at the top looks like a pic from Girl Talk my friend took from the Disco Rodeo show.

[Edited on September 16, 2011 at 10:32 AM. Reason : k]

9/16/2011 10:08:29 AM

http://www.wral.com/entertainment/story/10144986/

17,000 reported as the # for Hopscotch. iirc, last year the number was around 12k, but i could be wrong. my memory/brain is still dazed from this years festival.

9/17/2011 9:53:24 AM

I had this crazy dream the other night where the first Hopscotch only had tickets for like 23 people. Lol.

9/17/2011 3:50:13 PM

my favorites were bombadil, grandchildren and future islands. worst: yelawolf. the shows at busy bee and white collar crime were kinda lame because of the crappy low stages. fletcher was great but it was out of the way so there were a few shows i didn't make it to.

next year i should totally bring a bike.

9/17/2011 4:17:59 PM

I want to bring a bike but I'll get a BUI

9/17/2011 4:53:47 PM

some of my photos:

9/17/2011 6:00:09 PM

one of my favorite moments from this year

9/17/2011 8:41:08 PM

Quote :

" the shows at busy bee and white collar crime were kinda lame because of the crappy low stages. "

i thought Old Bricks were great at white collar, but didn't make it to any of the busy bee shows.

agree about the stage set up, but for the draw of the bands there, it wasn't too bad.

9/17/2011 9:13:48 PM

i really enjoyed woodsman at the busy bee day party on friday.

9/17/2011 9:25:30 PM

that was pretty great as well

9/18/2011 2:54:17 AM

Still probably a little early but looking forward to all the insiders and know it alls discussing the details of the financial success/failure of hopscotch 2011 and the potential for growth in lineup and venues for 2012

9/18/2011 2:42:53 PM

they turned a profit this year

9/18/2011 2:49:00 PM

I'm fairly sure they turned a profit as well. Last year they only lost $30k, and this year they had more sponsors, sold more tickets at higher prices, and didn't have a Public Enemy-sized guarantee to pay.

Not sure there are any more venues that could be used, other than adding a side stage on Hargett or Davie. When you're using Busy Bee and White Collar as proper venues, you're using every stage in the city. I suppose Mosaic could get in the mix, but it'd have to be DJs-only and Five Star was pretty stretched and bizarre as it was with bands. A place like Humble Pie can host a band, but they do tons of business on the patio already and pull some festival crowds as it is, so I can't see the benefit for them.

9/18/2011 5:00:56 PM

Quote :

"Hopscotch, so fast by Steve Schewel, President, Independent Weekly Hopscotch I was our party. Hopscotch II was your party. It is true that the Indy "owns" Hopscotch, but what began two years ago as a fantasy in the minds of Indy staffers Greg Lowenhagen and Grayson Currin has now become an annual collective fantasy. You embraced the festival, and then everybody started inventing things: the Hoopscotch basketball game, the Hopscotch Hepcat bike race, Posterscotch and Shopscotch, Hopscotch jeans patches and T-shirts, day parties and after-parties, all-night jams, all-day blog posts. You have made Hopscotch your own. Hallelujah. But there was nothing inevitable about this weekend of dreams fulfilled all across downtown Raleigh. All I could think about the week before the festival was the weather. Remember the Tuesday night before Hopscotch? Rain and wind and lightning like something out of King Lear. Weather to blow down the stage and chase away the fans, to bring down our fledgling music festival and maybe the Independent along with it. It cost a half-million dollars to throw Hopscotch this year. That's a huge risk for a little alt-weekly like the Indy. But by the grace of the Music Gods we dodged earthquake and hurricane, and the moon rose fat and full over City Plaza. And we'll even make a small profit this year. Hopscotch has its bleary-eyed heroes. By day they are freelance writers and kitchen managers and legal assistants. By night they are the small cadre of fanatics who produce Hopscotch for everybody else. Gretchen Gaskill is already a Hopscotch legend as the coordinator of 200 volunteers. Ashley Melzer worked to smooth the way for 600 musicians in 150 bands. Megan Cain led the recycling effort. Taylor McAdams coordinated the City Plaza stage crew. Will Goodyear managed our work in the clubs. Candice Jones publicized the festival. Jonathan Graban coordinated hospitality, and Miranda Volborth and Courtney White did the same for the headliners in City Plaza. Mouse Mock and William Dodge served as our beer gurus. Every member of the Independent staff pitched in mightily. Skillet Gilmore, Sioux Watson, Gloria Mock and Susan Harper filled in every gap, made sure every tedious, thankless job got done. The resident geniuses of Hopscotch are director Greg Lowenhagen and curator Grayson Currin. Together they created and embodied this extravagant music bash, worked and thought and cared about every detail, and gave it to you and to fans everywhere. Because next year, these fans are coming to Raleigh from everywhere. When I read the raves about the first Hopscotch in the national press, I wasn't quite convinced. "But dudes," I wanted to say, "we've only done this thing once." Now we've done it a second time, much better, and I'm starting to believe the hype. Greg told me his favorite moment of the weekend, and if you were there, you remember it. Right in the middle of the Flaming Lips' show came the huge multicolored balloons bouncing from the stage across the cheering crowd. Arms reached high to punch the colored globes up toward the skyscraper walls and then down Fayetteville Street toward the State Capitol. "I'm so thankful," said Greg, "that the community has come together around Hopscotch." Schewel is president of the Independent Weekly."

9/18/2011 5:05:51 PM

LOL. You were clearly inspired by the official poster for this one:

9/18/2011 6:23:53 PM

did anyone else see apple juice kid @ tir na nog? i was surprised how much i enjoyed it, i usually don't listen to that kind of music.

9/18/2011 6:26:03 PM

I heard they think they made $65k this year

9/18/2011 7:51:43 PM

^^^

haha

I just like shooting shoes ok

9/19/2011 1:37:00 AM

That poster fucking sucks. Everyone was out-padded by the Wilmington/Gravity Records crew. You should be ashamed of yourselves. In my opinion, Steve from Spider Bags had the best of the lot, but clearly Internet/smartphone-wielding dweebs didn't agree.

Anyway, I had an idea for a poster but it was too elaborate for the time I had, but I'll certainly start earlier and get it through next year.

...

9/19/2011 1:40:13 AM

which was his

i was told one of the guys from amplified art was ;supposed to win but there was some sort of glitchiness. idk which poster it was

[Edited on September 19, 2011 at 3:04 AM. Reason : .]

9/19/2011 3:03:39 AM

i had no clue Steve Shelley was playing with Disappears

i popped into the Pour House and caught the last song by Braids and then bailed

little did i know i could have stuck around a few minutes and i would have seen the drummer from one of my favorite bands of all time

fuck me

9/25/2011 5:50:06 PM

^The VIP contest where you had all those clues/answers to fill in alluded to this.

9/25/2011 5:59:46 PM

Quote :

"which was his"

I believe his was the skyline made out of the band names.

Also, the dude is a pretty nice fellow. I voted for his; definitely shoulda won.

9/25/2011 6:02:54 PM

I think I shot him:

9/25/2011 6:09:31 PM

Yep, that's him.

Also, Spider Bags is playing tomorrow with Human Eye and Whatever Brains, for anyone interested.

9/25/2011 6:10:44 PM

Where?

9/25/2011 10:14:42 PM

Pinhook

aka Old Kings Jr.

9/25/2011 10:25:51 PM

Old Kings Jr More Lesbians.com

9/26/2011 1:19:40 AM

Quote :

"As a show of appreciation for the fans who helped make our first two years so successful and fun, we will offer wristbands to previous ticket buyers 24 hours in advance. If you bought a wristband in 2010 or 2011, you will receive an e-mail soon with details about the Nov. 30th sale. Details about these wristbands follow."

looks like those of us who have gone the past two years are going to get some perks for next year. curious to see what the details are of this pre-sale.

http://hopscotchmusicfest.com/news/post/hopscotch-tickets-on-sale-december-1/

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10/31/2011 8:27:02 PM

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