This show is going to be amazing. On September 27th, Bon Iver will be performing at the Hollywood Forever cemetery in Los Angeles at sunrise (also known as right around 6am). Here’s the awesome part: doors are at midnight, leaving you plenty of time to get a good spot, be a little weirded out that you’re in a cemetery at night, get over it and then feel really good about Bon Iver waking the dead and also that you get a free breakfast included in the cost of the ticket. If we were in LA and more selfish, we would be waiting in line already with these tickets, but we’re not, so let us know how bad you want to go in the comments of this post (remember to use your actual email address) and we’ll pick a lucky winner. If you’re concerned about leaving it to chance you can always pre-order tickets here.
Contest: Win Tickets to See Bon Iver Perform in a Cemetery at Sunrise
POSTED August 20, 2009 12:15PM IN CONTESTS, MUSIC NEWS
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TAGS: Bon Iver, contest, psych/folk, rock
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I heard that at 6:05am the living dead will rise from their graves and dance along to Bon Iver tunes, Thriller Style. Then Woody Herman, who is buried there, will come out and lead the band in an orgy of instrumentation. For the encore Dee Dee and Johnny Ramone, also buried there, will play Blitzkreig Bop. I can’t possibly miss that. OK, so none of that is going to happen. What will really happen is that Bon Iver is going to be interrupted every 5 minutes by the screaming of some jittery, sleep deprived girl who has just been stepped on and thinks someone is reaching for her from beyond he grave. I still really, really want to go.
I really hope you consider me the lucky person to get these tickets. I saw these tickets a few weeks back when i was broke and i thought i would wait a week until i got my paycheck. Hah, that was the worst idea ever, tickets shot up 100 dollars more than i can afford. I would love to see Bon Iver. No matter if I don’t get to go to this show, my heart and soul will be there. I just wish my eyes and ears could be there also. Please give me this great opportunity to see this amazing beautiful soulful human being. I listened to Bon Iver the whole way throughout my Alaska trip, and he made every moment of it perfect. I want to recover that satisfaction I got from listening to him, but instead a live IN MY FACE satisfaction. I also turned my whole family on to him because I wouldn’t let them listen to anything else on the car drives. This would be very meaningful to me.
Thank you <3
The soft, but confident strums stream out of my speakers and wrap around my hand, guiding my brush to wisk paint across the canvas. The raw, but simple sound reminds me that there’s more than all the physical things we see. Listening helps me to cut down on the excess layers, and just paint what I feel and what I think. I’m not lonely when I paint. I am at home with my own thoughts. Bon Iver reminds me that an artist is never poor nor alone.
I got nothing special to offer, I just absolutely love Bon Iver.
I’ll dance on whatever grave you ask me to for those tickets.
Oh DEAR GOD…PLEASE pick me pick meeee!
“There is a pleasure in the pathless wood,
a rapture in the lonely shore.
I love not man the less, but nature more”-Lord Byron
This all I can think of when i think of Bon Iver. he is a mad genuis, an angel in his own right and i need to be there to see him play. i have panic disorder and i have a panic attack everytime i think of death. for my own personal therapy, i started listening to Bon Iver and my life has forever been changed. through the eerie music of bon iver and others like him, i’ve conquered my fear of death and obviously, a concert in a cemetary would completely cap off my “treatment”. i hope you see my genuine love of music, and hope to get better. please please please give me tickets
i’ll even do a happy dance
It is my birthday that weekend and I would like nothing more than to groove to the sweet music of Bon Iver at a cemetery. I found out about this concert right after it sold out and have been trying to buy tickets off of craigslist but no one is emailing me back
Justin Vernon’s voice and soothing melodies are truly moving! As an artist myself, Bon Iver is inspirational and I can only imagine all of the beauty that will come during this concert. I would love to dance around the cemetery, hold seances, and hang out with all of the other crazy Bon Iver fans! This concert will be mind blowing and I would love to be in the sea of fans. I would even help to clean up around the cemetery as I pranced around to keep the peace with the dead souls- hopefully some zombies come out to groove!
I was going to fake my own death and have myself buried in Hollywood Forever before week’s end so I could dig myself out in time for the show, so winning these tickets would save me a whole lot of trouble.
So I fell in love at the Hollywood forever cemetery four years ago with this girl that I had know for years. We saw Lolita there on a hot September night, it was a pivotal moment in our lives. I would like to go to the show and invite her again, and hopefully have the same feelings again. we have drifted apart. I found out about the show to late, its a week away and sold out. Thanks for giving one last chance to us that found out too late.
Please, oh please, please, please, please, pretty pretty please, please and thank you, please, please, please, again please, and once again please give me the tickets to see Bon Iver!!! I need them, so I can listen to “Skinny Love,” while watching the big fireball in the sky appear before my tiny eyes. What I would do if I could go… thank the Lord, kiss a homeless person, give money to a homeless person… whatever it is, I’ll do it (I swear). Can’t wait! I hope I win!!
must. go. no strength to write. only tickets will revive me… must…
i heard about this show a few weeks ago, at which point tickets were not offered online. now that i hear it’s sold out, i truly want to cry.
but i’m at work… and crying would be slightly unprofessional.
BON IVER + HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY = to die for!!! (pun definitely intended)
sign me up! please and thanks!
I need this like my bowel movements need ex-lax. I’m emotionally constipated and need these tickets for revival!
my fave musicman + THE CEMETERY! + the sunrise + early breakfast, my favorite meal = best 6 hours of my life? yes, please.
Ever since I started listening to Bon Iver a few years back they have become my escape. I just stumbled on this website by chance and found out about this amazing performance that I would be honored to go to. “What might have been lost” will not be lost to me.
I was hipped to Bon Iver by a good friend and fellow lover of dark and mysterious things. My birthday is coming up and I’d love to take her. Plus, its been a fucker of a year. The plan is to slough it off, bury it in a quite place, and for god’s sake birth something new. What better metaphor for resurrection than a sunrise concert in a cemetery… and tickets are sold out. My only other option is to dig a whole under the fence and that will most assuredly be a gnarly experience given the, well, you know, dead people.
I hope these tickets are still available. This concert seems like an amazing experience. I tried to buy tickets tonight and they’re sold out. The jerk-offs on Craigslist and StubHub are asking over $100 per ticket.
please please please let me get what i want
God I hope the winners will be picked at random! After reading so many posts I am starting to feel like a selfish jerk for even making an attempt. Good luck to us all!
I really wanted to suprise my wife but waited to long to purchase tickets, and now, as you know, they are sold out. Please send us to see Bon Iver at sunrise!
THIS WILL BE THE MOST EPIC SHOW OF THE MILLENNIUM. period. i must be there.
I was staying with my mom in Northern California this summer. The computer is in the room where I sleep, and I woke up at 7 a.m. on my first Saturday home, to my mom, leaning over the keyboard and staring at a tiny, fuzzy youtube video. “What’s happening?” I asked. “This person, this Bon Iver, the first thing I’ve heard in decades that I like. I wanted to hear him first thing in the morning.”
We went out and bought an album that day. She turns 67 this week. Please let me take my incredibly awesome, beautiful, folk-singing mother to hear Bon Iver, the first person who really made her take notice since Bob Dylan. It would so totally excellent.
PLEASE pick me!!!! this sounds like a one time in a life experience….
Dear friend,
I have had the hardest year of my life. I am 29 years old. I moved here to LA from Pennsylvania just about a year ago to be with the man I thought I would marry. I had never been so far from my family before, and when he left me I almost unraveled completely. I lost love. I lost both of my cats that I had moved out here with me, and who I dearly loved. I lost my cool. I lost my job. I lost hope for a long while. I am so broke that I still haven’t managed to pay September rent in full. It is now September 22, and the landlord is threatening to give a 3 day notice if I don’t somehow manage to come up with the rest of my rent money. I am in the process of declaring bankruptcy, and I can’t come up with the money to pay my lawyer. I am hanging on by a thread.
I listen to For Emma, Forever Ago nonstop. Particularly Re: Stacks. “It’s the sound of the unlocking and the lift away..”
I long for the lift away. I am working so hard to get my life into a rhythm that I can sustain. I have overcome the hardest parts of this struggle, I think. I would love to catch a break. I heard about this show, and knew that I needed to be there. I don’t have any money for tickets though. I did a random search for the show, just to check in on it, and low and behold I came across this contest. It seems too good to be true. I only need one ticket. Please make my year, and choose me. Give the other ticket to someone else. I would be more than happy to go to this show all by myself. It almost makes sense that I should.
I’ll be saying little prayers….
I am turning 17 on September 28. Seeing Bon Iver work his magic would be the most perfect gift. Unfortunately, the tickets sold out even before I heard about the concert. It would mean a lot for me to see him live. I was looking up Craigslist too but the prices are ridiculously high!
His music inspires me to keep up with struggle. I listen to his songs when I am calm, depressed, or contemplative. One of the best summer memories I had was staring at a starlit sky while listening to Blindsided. It was so chill it gave me goosebumps! The best thing was the right at the climax of the song ashooting star passed by. His songs might be simple but they got power. They struck a big blow to my head. They tell me to be patient and thankful when I’m down. Really they do. Even if I can’t understand his lyrics, his tone brings this deep touching feeling. They really inspire me to make music. I even made a cover of Flume
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CknKIjDDN4
And honestly, when I’m having problems and have no one to talk to, I dig up my iPod for music to lighten me up. It always end up to be Bon Iver. I think the reason why his music is so good is because you could feel the songs. He pours out his emotion. Even if you don’t understand what he’s saying, you get the feeling he’s projecting. I’d like to be that kind of musician someday.
Bon Iver in a cemetery is like a glass of water in the desert. So insanely epic!!!!!.. great folk music at dawn+camping in a cemetery all night= YES!!
I’m willing to check into Hollywood Forever forever to see this show. Also, I’m the guy who bought the spot next to Marilyn Monroe.
I want for:
“In the morning I’ll be with you, but it will be a different kind”
I know you are:
“…holding all the tickets” and I am “owning all the fines”
“everything will change from now on” if this happens.
A Bon Iver Show:
Worth the cost of admission.
Either way, I’m game.
What can I say? Sunrise with Bon Iver on my 30th b-day couldn’t get any better………….
Is it weird if this won’t be the first time I’ve stayed over night in a cemetery? It’ll be nice to have music this time, though. Bon Iver will be a huge added bonus.
I’m not one for female objectification, but I’ll break the feminist rules for this one. Let’s just say there may be an HJ or two in store for the dude or lady or picks me.
Plus, I’ll blog about how radical Fader is and I might just get one of those crappy car magnets that reads “The Fader is the shit” and slap it on the side of my car.
well out of 134 comments I think my chances of winning are pretty slim, so does anyone have a ticket for sale???
i would really enjoy a ticket to the bon iver show, my friends all have tickets, but i was just too late in trying to buy one. also, my sister will kill me if i don’t go because she doesn’t live in la and wants at least one of us to go. thanks for the chance!!
…It’s not my birthday on that day, his music hasn’t stopped me from committing suicide, and I won’t give you a handjob for the tickets, so I realize I’m lagging here, but I’d still like to put in a good word for myself on how much I would absolutely love to be at this show! Gratzie.
Please.
Hi, my name is Aidan and Im 17, and hand in hand with this I am just a wee bit lacking on the whole 125$ thing…So I discovered Bon Iver just a month ago and since then have downloaded every album he has ever made (legally of course…) The music is very uplifting yet it has a bittersweet ache to it that reminds me of my own humanity and the frailness of life. Also my Calculus teacher is going to this concert and I think it would be a little bit interesting to chill with him (he goes to concerts all the time…he’s kind of a legend. I am young and havn’t been to many concerts and it would be a really amazing experience for me. My life isnt that difficult (besides a few failed relationships) I really cant complain about anything, I always have friends to support me, I do well in school, and unlike many people above me I do not cry myself to sleep while listening to Bon Iver; I just like it a lot and would really enjoy this (and the food will probably be scrumptious..and thats Definitely good.
Your beautiful….
If i am not able to obtain these tickets somehow I might have to find another way to get into the show.
When I was a kid, I would always run away from home to practice my acoustic guitar at the cemetery, which was couple of blocks away from my house. When I grew up, I started listening to Bon Iver, and absolutely loved it. The combination of two is the definition of happiness.
i don’t know what else to say, but these tickets would mean the world… i’ve been searching in all corners for these tix at a reasonable price, but no luck. hopefully i’ll be luckier here. thanks for the chance!
If my brother and I get tickets, theFader.com will get gorgeous photographs of the show. Here is some of the stuff my brother does http://www.redbubble.com/people/alexermakov/art
I don’t have anything on my side to win….pretty low on the comment food chain.I LOVE cemetaries and Bon Iver like everyone else who has entered. However I will just say pretty please. I will owe you. xo-Kristal
MY WIFE AND I NEED TO GO TO THIS SHOW. I’ve tried to contrive the right words to explain the depth of this need. So …. here we go;
going and hearing justin and the rest of the band in a cemetery would, hands down be the most memorable experiences of a lifetime. Justin music awakes depths i’ve never know, not to mention the inspiration that comes just from listening to the album. To hear it live? My heart leaps. As I said, this would be a chance of a lifetime, One i know would never be forgotten. We need to go because of the connection it brings to my wife and I. We need to go to receive inspiration to continue this journey know as life. I see justin as a fellow traveler along the way, offering his wisdom, struggles, joys, and frustrations. Tools to navigate this journey. I know this will be life changing. We need to go so our life may be changed for the good. We need to go to this event because of the symbolism. Bringing life and waking the dead. I long to be woken. I long for my marriage to be woken. I believe this could only achieve that. We need a unforgettable, lifechanging experience. We NEED to go. Please pick us.
Time awaits for no one, time is as lifeless as we allow it to be, we can sit and allow time to pass us by going through the actions and daily routines day after day and just let the days fly by, or we can embrace time, down to the essence of every second, don’t let a second pass by that each breath doesn’t have a purpose, that we hold onto the time that we have and live or lives with a passion and desire that allows are light to shine for all to see. Not only shine’ but glow, be a light in this dark world, that we catch fire, that we spread our light like wild fire and that our light would spark a curiosity in the world, turn heads and have them wanting whatever it is that we all hold true in our hearts. Bon iver has people turning heads, finally opening there hearts and listening. this concert is more than just a concert to me and i would love to be able to finally open my heart and listen to a true and pure man perform in a time and place that will seem as if time has stopped and all the worries of the world have been ripped from existence. simply enough i need to go
I would love to go to bon iver and had planned on buying tickets before they were sold out! And im not going to tell you my sob story, about how i couldnt buy the tickets because i had to fix my brakes and didnt get paid til yesterday, because frankly i have everyone and everything i need in my life except ofcourse seeing bon iver live. And this would make my life to be able to go!
P.S. if i get to hear skinny love live, i might possible faint!
I would be in Awe at Winning tickets to this show, it would probably make me cry ! My husband and I are only going to be in LA for one day, and after a long hard year we REALLY need to spend time enjoying eachother! What better way than drive all night, camp out in a cemetery, and see Bon Iver at Sunrise!! Our anniversary just passed, and this is the 2nd year we didn’t even celebrate. I don’t know what else to say, except winning these would mean alot !!
2 hearts~each in our own words~See both our postings~#144 & #147! For the record…Blood Bank is one of the most healing songs, it touches my soul every time I hear it.
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