Contest: Win Tickets to FYF Fest
- story THE FADER
Sometimes we take a look at a festival lineup and get bummed because there are only like six bands in three days that we want to see. Not so for FYF Fest, which, in addition to raising awareness about the closure of many, many state parks, also offers a full day of awesome bands. Want to see Wavves? Kurt Vile? Lightning Bolt? Tim & Eric? Dios? No Age? Woods? Cold Cave? They’re all there. The full lineup is crazy, and tickets are only 20 bones, so there really is no reason not to go. If you’re hard up for cash, or just like winning stuff, we’ve got a handful of VIP tickets to give away so you can catch your favorite band from the exclusive misting tent (caution: this may not exist). As usual, hit us in the comments and tell us why you want to go, make sure to use a real email address so we can actually get in touch and let you know if you won. Full flyer after the jump.
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- posted on Aug 28, 2009 in CONTESTS, MUSIC NEWS
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August 28th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Hi, it’s my girlfriends birthday that weekend and I would love to take her(Student=negative money)…would appreciate that opportunity to take her.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
My grandma is having her 82nd birthday party that weekend. I really don’t want to go because her house smells funny and she always calls me Eric and asks me about school, when I graduated six years ago. I would like a sweet excuse.
August 28th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Because I recently moved to LA and I’m not convinced this city knows how to rock.
August 28th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
FYF Fest was pretty amazing last year and I would love to experience all the mosh pitting, crowd surfing, beer drinking, titty flashing, crowd chanting, drunk texting, random makeouts, speaker popping, fuck yeah festing again, but this time in a big ass park.
August 28th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Because the lineup is RAD. CONVERGE?! Black lips? and Also I want a good reason to call in sick to my crap job. Last year was great, and would love to do it all again.
August 28th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
I want to go because this line up is insane… such a good refreshing festival, and I don’t want to miss peanut butter wolf’s 999 set.. I just LOVE music, and don’t want to miss this…
August 28th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
I should win these because i’ve been supporting FYF Fest since it was actually called “F#%K YEAH FEST.”
I still remember going in 2006, when it was at The Echo & the Rec Center in Echo Park. I think this was before the Echoplex was even built.
This is when Sea Level was still open as well. Such good memories.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
I’m not gonna lie and tell you that I’m dying or it’s my grandma’s 100th birthday. For one it’s not true. And two, who’s grandma listens to Wavves?
Here it is:
I’m only seventeen, and when Wavves, No Age, Times New Viking, Black Lips, Woods, and Crystal Antlers play in LA, it’ll inevitably be a 21+ show. Yeah, maybe No Age plays all-ages at weekend. In my very own backyard.
Adding insult to injury, I do not work a job and cannot shell out the $65 for VIP tickets. It’s even gonna be a stretch to pay for gas (I’m about an hour north of the park). Then again that’s partially my fault. Whatever money I can pull together pretty much is immediately spent on big, black, 7″/12″ analogue music disks.
Then again, that’s why I should go. I love music.
August 28th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
There’s nothing like rocking out to a good cause. Makes the beats all the more rewarding.
August 28th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
I would love to go because I’ve been dying to see No Age, Wavves, Black Lips, and a slew of other greats on this lineup.
August 29th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Living in Salt Lake City, this festival is filled with favorites that I rarely if ever get a chance to see. Wavves, No Age, Telepathe, Cold Cave, Mika Miko, Times New Viking, Black Lips… + more? This lineup is lo-fi heaven! I’ll be visiting LA next week from July 2-7. Winning VIP tickets to see these bands would make this trip so memorable.
August 29th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
I want VIP tickets for FYF because I’ve never been before, although it’s been a fantasy for me since I couldn’t go last year because I had to go back to the Shitty Midwest to start my senior year in college that same week. My boyfriend, who I left in LA, went to FYF and told me how awesome it was when we talked on the phone, making me feel super bummed out, missing him and feeling cheated out of seeing all those awesome bands and having so much fun in LA, and instead, being trapped finishing school in the Shitty Midwest. If I won the tickets for this year, it would help me fulfill my dream of going with my boyfriend to FYF and seeing all of the amazing bands- so many of which are making LA such a vibrant community for interesting music. If I won, I promise I would take lots of sweet pictures and post them to my blog, in addition to cherishing the memory forever and always. thanks for helping support independent music and california state parks!!
August 30th, 2009 at 12:17 am
I want to rock out on the lands where the original indigenous Angelinos first settled in Los Angeles.
August 31st, 2009 at 6:39 pm
FYF tix because I’m a college grad with no job and don’t have anything of responsibility to do. Why not booze and what not listening to music in the summer sun?
September 1st, 2009 at 2:37 pm
I am frothing at the mouth, titillated, jazzed, inTOXicated by the list of acts you’ve got there. I love it. And I want to go so badly, with my lovely girlfriend.
But, here are the Top Five Reasons We Can’t Go Unless Ushered by the Generosity of The Fader:
5. Hard up For Cash
4. As Poor as a Church Mouse
3. Without Two Pennies to Rub Together
2. Moneyless
1. Stone Broke
in order to win free tickets from another contest (www.TinyURL.com/governator666), I considered writing a letter to Governor Schwarzenegger (ha-ha) regaling fond memories of time spent in Californy’s state parks and how terrible it is that he’s axed their budget so. But I would have been lying, because I just moved to this state two months ago and have only walked through Plummer Park a couple of times. And those times, I can only remember seeing about twenty pairs of old Russian Jews playing chess and trying to avoid being followed by a woman with with a dingy burlap sack and a creaking, stray Trader Joe’s shopping cart.
But damn, do I love parks in general. Crazy about the things – every one I’ve ever been to.
Even more than I love parks, though, I love Black Lips, Tim & Eric, Dan Deacon, The Thermals, and all the rest of those fine, fine, fine acts you’ve got lined up for this FYF.
Please – pick me, pick me!
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:24 am
i’ve got the day off, can wait in line for friday’s conan show watch tim and eric the next, and maybe impress a girl i know.
September 5th, 2009 at 12:09 am
School has taken all my money and I have none left to go to this fest. Please please please pick me. I’ve been going for the past 3 years and would not want to miss out this year.
October 3rd, 2009 at 1:50 pm
OH DEAR GOD!