I live like 15 minutes from there. I always go for free!
im going there this year from North Carolina
How?? When I was living in Nashville my buddy and I agreed drunkenly to go every year for three years. Now that I came up to Notre Dame, he's going.
I went there for free a few years ago (worked for the local paper in Nashville). Some good fun, but I stayed in an RV behind the main stages and STILL thought it was too hot and dirty. Maybe if I was mentally prepared to camp out my thoughts would be different...
As for the lineup: Local Natives + Tom Petty + Kendrick Lamar + Passion Pit + The XX = Gonna lament missing it.
Lol it's pretty much put together by small towns around it, so they usually get tickets with their money. I know a guy who runs the rental shop that helps build some of the smaller stages, as well as the fabric store owner that gives the materials for the stage curtains, and I'm friends with a kid who's dad runs a scrap yard that does business with them too somehow. There are generally tickets to be gotten in the Tullahoma/Manchester area.
Nod. Great deal! I was there in 2010 for that concert too. Stevie Wonder was a great show. Watched it from those bleachers they have for like, second-string VIP folks, on the main stage. I was watching Deadmau5 that year from the very back though, pretty drunk, amazed at his little cube set-up he had.
Video by someone probably standing next to me and a reporter haha: Deadmau5 at Bonnaroo 2010: Ghosts N' Stuff - YouTube
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I just wish Wacklemore and Mumford & Sons weren't going to be there.