2012 Bonnaroo Music Festival
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The 2012 Bonnaroo Music Festival was held June 7–10, 2012 in Manchester, Tennessee, United States, and marked the 11th time the festival has been held since its inception in 2002.[1][2]
On March 12, six more artists were added to the line up. Danzig Legacy (featuring music by Danzig, Samhain and Danzig/Doyle performing The Misfits), The Temper Trap, Santigold, Puscifer, fun. and The Cave Singers.[3]
The Festival announced on April 11 that four more artists would be added to the lineup: Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A., the Sam Bush Band, Michael Kiwanuka and Black Box Revelation. Phish also played a second full set.[4][5] Attendance at the 2012 festival surpassed 100,000, a record for Bonnaroo.
Line-up
Thursday, June 7
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(artists listed from earliest to latest set times)
- This Tent:
- The Dirty Guv'nahs
- The Lonely Forest
- Danny Brown
- Yelawolf
- Kendrick Lamar
- Alabama Shakes
- That Tent:
- K.Flay
- Mariachi El Bronx
- Orgone
- Moon Taxi
- SOJA
- Big Gigantic
- The Other Tent:
- EMA
- The Cave Singers
- Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
- White Denim
- Phantogram
- MiMosa
- The Bonnaroo Comedy Theatre:
- CC: Stand-Up: The Bonnaroo Experience (2 sets)
- Brian Posehn, Pete Holmes, Kyle Kinane & Ali Wong (2 sets)
- The Chris Gethard Show
- The Great Taste Lounge Brewed by Miller Lite
- Fort Atlantic
- Rollin' In The Hay
- Water Knot
- The Casey Driessen Singularity
- Hudost
- MonstrO
- Marina Orchestra
- Glossary
- Cherub
- The Solar Stage:
- The Apple Butter Express
- Breakdancing
- Rubblebucket
- The Flavor Savers: Beard & Mustache Contest
- The Dirty Guv'nahs
- Ogya
- The Carnivalesque Cabaret- Burlesque, Bellydance & Sideshow
- Cinema Tent:
- Bad Brains: Band in DC
- Green Screens Presented by Rock The Earth: Chasing Ice - Q&A with director Jeff Orlowski
- SF Sketchfest Presents: The Doug Benson Movie Interruption of Crank: High Voltage – Doug Benson & Friends
- [adult swim] presents: things you've never seen
- NBA East Finals Game 6
- Laurel & Hardy Shorts – Live Score Performed by Steven Bernstein’s MTO
- God Bless America - Q&A with director/screenwriter Bobcat Goldthwait
- Trapped in the Closet Sing-Along! – Hosted by Henri Mazza
- The Silent Disco powered by Philips Citiscape Collection
- DJ XSV
- K-Flay (DJ Set)
- DJ Equal
- Jared Dietch / Quickie Mart
Friday, June 8
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- What Stage:
- Which Stage:
- The Kooks
- Needtobreathe
- AfroCubism
- Feist
- Foster the People
- This Tent:
- That Tent:
- Michael Kiwanuka
- Ben Howard
- Laura Marling
- Fitz and the Tantrums
- St. Vincent
- Black Star
- Flying Lotus
- The Other Tent:
- Steven Bernstein's MTO Plays SLY
- The Infamous Stringdusters
- Sam Bush
- Trampled By Turtles
- Dawes
- The Word (John Medeski, Robert Randolph, North Mississippi Allstars)
- Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk
- Big Freedia
- The Bonnaroo Comedy Theatre:
- Colin Hay, Garfunkel & Oates, Mike O'Connell
- Marc Maron, World Champion Judah Friedlander, & Amy Schumer
- Aziz Ansari & Rory Scovel (2 sets)
- CC: Stand-Up: The Bonnaroo Experience
- Café Where:
- Paladino
- Claire and the Reasons
- Chappo
- The Deep Dark Woods
- The Great Taste Lounge Brewed by Miller Lite:
- Shahidah Omar
- Trixie Whitley
- Katie Herzig
- Caitlin Rose
- Hey Rosetta!
- Oberhofer
- Sara Watkins
- Pujol
- Rubblebucket
- Valient Thorr
- Sonic Stage:
- The Solar Stage:
- Dub Kartel
- Katie Herzig:RtE Interview / Performance
- SOJA: RtE Interview / Performance
- RtE Panel Discussion re: NOLA Ivan Neville, etc.
- Rubblebucket: RtE Interview / Performance
- The Infamous Stringdusters: RtE Interview & Performance
- The Flavor Savers: Beard & Mustache Contest
- DJ TableSaw
- Robert Ellit
- Hula Hoopers LED
- Breakdancing
- The Carnivalesque Cabaret- Burlesque, Bellydance & Sideshow
- Cinema Tent:
- Green Screens Presented by Rock The Earth: The Big Fix - Intro by Ivan Neville of Dumpstaphunk
- Special Advance Screening: Hit and Run – Q&A with Dax Shepard & Kristen Bell
- SF Sketchfest Presents The Doug Benson Movie Interruption of Rambo (2008 version) - Doug Benson & Friends Live
- Buster Keaton Shorts - Live Score Performed by Tune-Yards and Ava Mendoza
- Green Screens Presented by Rock The Earth: The Island President - Intro by Bob Ferguson of Oxfam America
- [adult swim] presents: things you've never seen
- Marley
- Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
- The Silent Disco powered by Philips Citiscape Collection
- K-Flay (DJ set)
- DJ XSV
- Mark Foster of Foster the People
- DJ Equal / Quickie Mart
- Jared Dietch / Wyllys
Saturday, June 9
- What Stage:
- Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires
- The Temper Trap
- Santigold
- The Roots
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Which Stage:
- The Devil Makes Three
- Blind Pilot
- Punch Brothers
- Childish Gambino
- Dispatch
- Skrillex
- This Tent:
- Darondo
- Das Racist
- Battles
- SBTRKT
- Mogwai
- Superjam ft. ?uestlove and very special guests
- GZA performing "Liquid Swords" backed by Grupo Fantasma
- That Tent:
- Pelican
- Bad Brains
- Flogging Molly
- Puscifer
- DANZIG LEGACY - featuring music by Danzig, Samhain and Danzig/Doyle performing The Misfits
- Alice Cooper
- Unchained "The Mighty Van Halen Tribute"
- The Other Tent:
- Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang
- Debo Band
- Khaira Arby & Her Band
- La-33
- Red Baraat
- Spectrum Road ( Cindy Blackman Santana, Jack Bruce, John Medeski, and Vernon Reid)
- Pedrito Martinez Group
- The Bonnaroo Comedy Theatre:
- Café Where:
- The Great Taste Lounge Brewed by Miller Lite:
- The Main Squeeze
- Cosmic Suckerpunch
- Wild Cub
- LP
- Tauk
- Chuck Mead
- Robert Ellis
- The Stooges Brass Band
- WE ARE AUGUSTINES
- Art vs. Science
- Sonic Stage:
- The Casey Dreissen Singularity
- Trixie Whitley
- Dawes
- Hey Rosetta!
- Trampled by Turtles
- Oberhofer
- North Mississippi Allstars Duo
- Gary Clark Jr.
- Art vs. Science
- The Stooges Brass Band
- The Solar Stage:
- Breakdancing
- Dennis Casey & Bob Schmidt (Flogging Molly) -- RtE Interview
- Chad Stokes(Dispatch), Matt Wilhelm (Calling All Crows) RtE interview/performance
- ALO — RtE Interview & Performance
- Red Baraat: RtE Interview & Performance
- Hey Rosetta! RtE Interview & Performance
- Andrea Bellanger
- Mawre
- Marina Orchestra
- DJ TableSaw
- Matt Sucich
- The Carnivalesque Cabaret- Burlesque, Bellydance & Sideshow
- Cinema Tent:
- American Splendor - Q&A with actor Judah Friedlander
- #ReGENERATION - Q&A with director Philip Montgomery and producer Matt DeRoss
- Charles Bradley: Soul of America with Introduction by documentary subject Charles Bradley
- Thugs, The Musical
- When Groucho Met Alice: Duck Soup - Introduction by Alice Cooper
- SF Sketchfest Presents: Freak Dance – Q&A with Matt Besser
- [adult swim] presents: things you've never seen
- SF Sketchfest Presents Reggie Watts + Surprise Silent Film - Live Score Performed by Reggie Watts
- Girl Walk//All Day
- The Silent Disco powered by Philips Citiscape Collection:
- Wyllys
- Penguin Prison / Body Language (DJ Set)
- Brenton Duvall
Sunday, June 10
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- What Stage:
- Gary Clark Jr.
- The Beach Boys (Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks)
- Bon Iver
- Phish
- Which Stage:
- This Tent:
- ALO
- Grouplove
- The War on Drugs
- The Joy Formidable
- Young the Giant
- That Tent:
- Black Box Revelation
- Fruit Bats
- Here We Go Magic
- The Antlers
- Kurt Vile and the Violators
- fun.
- The Other Tent:
- The Bonnaroo Comedy Theater:
- Rhys Darby & Reggie Watts (2 sets)
- Steven Wright & Glenn Wool
- Café Where:
- Matt Sucich
- Robert Francis
- Machines Are People Too
- The Great Taste Lounge Brewed by Miller Lite:
- Fly Golden Eagle
- Honey Island Swamp Band
- By Lightning!
- The Silent Comedy
- Yuna
- The Staves
- Bethesda
- Sonic Stage:
- Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds
- Red Baarat
- Blind Pilot
- WE ARE AUGUSTINES
- ALO
- Kathleen Edwards
- Here We Go Magic
- Chappo
- The Silent Comedy
- Brownout
- The Solar Stage:
- Bhakti: RtE Interview & Performance
- Stooges Brass Band RtE Interview & Performance
- Honey Island Swamp Band: RtE Interview & Performance
- Blind Pilot: RtE Interview & Performance
- The Deep Dark Woods — RtE Interview & Performance
- The Flavor Savers- Beard & Mustache Contest
- Breakdancing
- Andrea Bellanger
- Cinema Tent:
- Green Screens presented by Rock the Earth: Last Call at the Oasis – Q&A with Lindsay Guetschow and David Whiteside
- SF Sketchfest Presents the Best of Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy hosted by Matt Besser
- Finding North – Intro by the Civil Wars, and Lindsay Guetschow of Participant Media
- Weird Science
- Advance Screening: Beasts of the Southern Wild
- The Silent Disco powered by Philips Citiscape Collection:
- Body Language (DJ set)
References
- ^ "Bonnaroo 2012 dates, ticket presales announced". TicketNews. 2011-06-16. Archived from the original on 2015-02-12. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
- ^ Roffman, Michael (2011-06-15). "Bonnaroo announces 2012 dates". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
- ^ "More Artists Just Announced!". Bonnaroo. Archived from the original on March 16, 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- ^ "More artists announced!". Bonnaroo. Archived from the original on April 13, 2012. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
- ^ "Phish to perform two sets at Bonnaroo 2012". Bonnaroo. Archived from the original on April 13, 2012. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
External links
- Official website
- Bonnaroo 2012 Technorati