The Bus

http://fireflyfestival.com/

July 20–22
Dover, Delaware

$200 gets you:

Allen Stone
AWOLNATION
Bassnectar
Blind Pilot
Bombay Bicycle Club
Cake
Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires
Chiddy Bang
Cold War Kids
Cults
Death Cab For Cutie
Fitz and the Tantrums
Girl Talk
Graffiti6
Grouplove
Heartless Bastards
Imagine Dragons
J Roddy Walston and the Business
Jack White
John Legend
Kids These Days
lower case blues
Lupe Fiasco
Mariachi El Bronx
Matt Costa
Mayer Hawthorne & The County
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Moon Taxi
OK Go
Passion Pit
Penguin Prison
Polica
Ra Ra Riot
Reptar
Silversun Pickups
The Black Keys
The Felice Brothers
The Flaming Lips
The Head and the Heart
The Killers
The Knocks
The Wallflowers
Tinie Tempah
Trampled By Turtles
Turf War
Walk the Moon
Young the Giant

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Sure. After I move away, they have a cool concert in Delaware. Bastards.

SoSpacey

I bolded a few you missed

Pretty sure this isnt the first year.

printerati

You still missed Bombay Bicycle Club and The Head and the Heart.

Spiderbite

It looks like XM's Alt Nation station threw up and created a concert. (That's not a bad thing.)

I'd be there in a heartbeat if I was anywhere near there.

SoSpacey

I agree on the former, I was bored to tears seeing the Head and the Heart live.

SoSpacey

i also missed Allen Stone. The dude's voice is sick.

cdollaz

Pricey.

Mike86

If I was anywhere near Delaware I'd definitely try and make it. I saw the lineup for this a while back and it's pretty damn great. Would easily be worth the price of admission for Cake, Jack White, The Black Keys, and The Killers alone.

EEz28

I really, really, really wanna buy a plane ticket and rental car and go to this.

Giles

for that much, I'd expect a dance tent

cungar

Sorry to hear that. What does he have?

The Bus

I think there's good deals from IAH to PHL/BWI, both of which are close enough.

I don't think there was a festival in 2011.

The Bus

For me, this seems like the world's greatest deal. Australian concert prices are also insane. $50 for Best Coast, $100 for Black Keys. Paying retail to see all these acts would run easily $2000 here.

Mike86

Honestly it doesn't seem that pricey to me at all really. Considering if you went to the bigger names on the list you'd probably pay at least $50 a piece. I'd love to have a festival with names like that close to where I live for that price.

GuessWho

It is. My dad works for the company producing the event. They're best known for their Warrior Dash races.

GreenVulture

"Or imagine being magically swept away to...Delaware. Hi. I'm in...Delaware."

bluetoast

Heartless Bastards: I remember we approached random people outside a bar to sign my friend for a scavenger hunt and it happened to be these guys. One of the guys was not pleased, and didn't want to do it at first. Must have had a bad show. Haven't really heard of them since.

SoSpacey

So let me know if anyone is going to this. I will be covering this for Rolling Stone and would love to meet up with any DVD Talkers if anyone goes.

Moopher

Damn, wish I lived there. Would love to see Trampled by Turtles!

SoSpacey

I am guessing no one here attended since I think someone would have posted by now.

This festival was AMAZING. The vibe was as good as I can imagine. It didn't feel "corporate" or that the only objective was to get you to spend more money once you got there.

The people were great, the staff was great and the acts all put on great shows, except for Modest Mouse.

Even speaking with the acts, they LOVED Firefly and thought it was one of the best festivals they have played at.

Free old-school arcade. Hot air balloon rides. Brewery and winery on site. The stages were all super easy to get to.

My photos up on Rolling Stone's web site if anyone is interested:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pi...tival-20120723

Not a ton in there as they only do a recap, but my site has more and more are coming.

They already announced Firefly 2013 and I really suggest you go if you can.

dvduser6

The Bus

Look forward to going. Have to say not looking forward to the hotel options in Delaware.

(Dover Downs might be nice)

SoSpacey

I honestly think Red Frog events books up all the rooms in Dover before announcing the festival. I was lucky to get a room in Dover but that was only because I checked every other day. Rooms were sold out well in advance. Even for next year's festival rooms are basically sold out throughout Dover already.

Giles

love the pics, good crowd shot during the Flaming Lips set. How many people do you guess attended?

DaveyJoe

I did not attend, but I did cover it for work, and had some friends that went. I'm pretty pleased that an event like this came to Delmarva, because there's usually nothing to do around here. It was the first year, but it was a great success. I believe tickets are already on sale for next year's event.