myself and a few other people here have a pipe dream of having a New England metal show outside.. with meat being cooked over flame, bands playing on a stage, people camping over night, and lots of booze. This kind of stuff doesn't happen to often around here.
this has been mentioned before.. and I am hoping it would happen sometime towards the end of summer - Aug, Sept.
There will be local black/heathen/pagan bands as well as any thrash and/or death band that wants to play it. The primary focus outside of the music will be the atmosphere - mainly the booze, food and being outdoors in nature.
There is a spot up in Berlin NH (way up) that could be a possible location for this. It is nestled between some mountains, in an open field surrounded by trees.
Perhaps a few national acts would be interested in playing it as well.
It's time we make this happen and start talking about it! We need location ideas, and band ideas.
true - but sometimes things work out unexpectedly. ultimate goal is to have it before it starts getting too cold out. if it doesn't happen this summer, then next spring. if it doesnt happen then, then next summer. if it doesn't happen then.. well its a failed project!
Would love to see this happen; following suggestions:
1) Don't be afraid to start small. It's more important to have 100 people show up than to have 20 bands play. Wacken started out with like 200 people, five bands, and a DJ.
2) Make sure that the landowner is cool with every aspect of the fest AND has a good relationship with local law enforcement. The last thing that you want is late-breaking venue change because the guy flakes, or the cops decide to shut it down. Coos Chaos Fest seemed to work, so this if this is the same place as implied in that other thread, this is probably under control.
3) If you do 2 days, do Friday and Saturday. This allows people to have a bang-up time on the last day, sleep over, and drive home in time to be ready for work Monday. It's better to have people straggle in Friday than to straggle out on Sunday to build good vibes if you want to do this again.
4) Similarly, you want to do two days, even if you can only rent/afford to power the PA for one day, so that people can get settled in for a decent day of music. Big fire + acoustic guitars if you want to do an 'event' the first night instead of people just hanging at their campfires, drinking, and playing their car stereos loud...which is going to be in the mix too regardless.
5) Be prepared and work with law enforcement and emergency services from the area going into the fest. If you're able to get a good turnout, something is *going* to go wrong, just from the law of large numbers: some 16-year-old kid will get alcohol poisoning, some idiot will set their tent on fire, somebody will trip over a rock going to piss and break a bone or something. Being prepared for this means that when they get called in, they'll be more inclined to see it as idiots hurting themselves rather than you enabling reckless behavior. Nobody wants cops walking around site to site checking IDs, but they also don't want the campground going up in flames because the fire truck can't get in.
6) Embrace shitty weather. Fest is on rain or shine. Have a tarp or something over the stage to keep the equipment dry in case it rains, and let the audience play in the mud.
Yea, man.. thanks for those suggestions. Those are things I was thinking about. The key to making something like this happen is to make sure the landowner is cool with it and the cops know about it.
Of course one must focus on the risks of having something like this. One person could ruin the whole fest and make a lot of people very unhappy.
Just letting you know, your proposed date is pretty much when New England Deathfest is happening. In an effort to keep your turnout high, I'd consider a date at least a month apart. Just a thought.
very good idea...and very good points so far....i would say wait till next year just because i would think finding an open field venue alone would take a long time
and i know we dont fit the vision of the type of band you would want on this but ill throw HYEO on the list of bands that would play this if youll have us
I would love to help in anyway I can to get this to work. I live in NH and have always wanted to do this on my own land here. I own over 30 acres of farm land and forest.
I would love to help in anyway I can to get this to work. I live in NH and have always wanted to do this on my own land here. I own over 30 acres of farm land and forest.
maybe finding an open field venue wille be easier than I thought....lol
well folks I'm glad to see i'm not the only one interested in pursuing this. the ideal situation would definitely be 2010 for a real "fest" , however if it is at all possible to have a smaller proto-fest type thing in September or next spring i'd be down for it as well.
I do know the place that that held (holds?) the Coos County Chaos fests (Eagles Field - West Milan Rd, Berlin NH) has a stage set up and is perfect for this kind of thing, although it is a drive for some.
But if this thing is done correctly, it'd be a killer time and would perhaps open the door for more!
I would love to help in anyway I can to get this to work. I live in NH and have always wanted to do this on my own land here. I own over 30 acres of farm land and forest.
maybe finding an open field venue wille be easier than I thought....lol
Yeah, honestly I am not too comfortable with this just yet. The land is still used for agriculteral purposes during the summer, and having a bunch of drunken metal heads trampling all over everything wouldn't work out. In a few years when I can do what ever I want with the fields though.... maybe even 2010, who knows? An established place that has had a fest or event before would be preferable. Like coos county or whatever
I'm not sure my town would even allow it. I also still have neighbors. OLD neighbors. BUT I'm going to look into some things and see what I can find out. This town only has 1 cop and hes friends with my dad... so I'll see. I live in far far western NH though. Not really the best place. Could attract some VT or maybe even some NY peeps though.
30 acres isn't really a lot of land when you look at it. it just sounds like a lot. I also don't think that a bm fest would be considered "current use"
The coos took a lot of effort from locals to get through.
30 acres is way more land needed for a small thing like this.
anything under 10 should work fine. we're not hosting wacken here or anything.
haha, I don't think anyone likes mosquitoes, but they are part of being outdoors. get used to it!
personally, I hate ticks even more. those fucking things..
best thing is when you pick them off of your pet and they're all huge and brown. burning them in that stage is almost as fun as putting salt on some slugs
you need a buffer zone so neighboring farms don't have drunken assholes fucking their cows, drunken sluts passing out and choking on their own vomit on their land, and lastly noise.
I was thinking excluding neighbors. of course they'd hear it if people lived there. I used to practice in my parents barn back in the day, and it was about 3 acres back near the woods. complaints.
my dad's got 48 acres and if the concert was set up at the bottom of the hill maybe. but that's 15-20 acres deep into the woods with 150+ behind it and 400+ to the right of it of all trees.
That place in Berlin was where the Mountain Mayhem Metal Fest was last year, Eagle's Field I believe. We (We Met Aliens) went up for that one and had an awesome time. Not exactly what we expected but it was a great day and everyone had a good time. You could hit up the Mountain Metal Mayhem guy and try to get some info from him about what it took to set that up. He had a few national acts on that show.
That place in Berlin was where the Mountain Mayhem Metal Fest was last year, Eagle's Field I believe. We (We Met Aliens) went up for that one and had an awesome time. Not exactly what we expected but it was a great day and everyone had a good time. You could hit up the Mountain Metal Mayhem guy and try to get some info from him about what it took to set that up. He had a few national acts on that show.
i would play this, i would bring meat, fire, spirits, people, drugs, wood, effigies of aril...but i wouldn't want to actually have any responsiblity for booking it. so far i've done a good job
Betrayed by Prophecy would be down to play this. Talk to the guys in Sunken Ships or Jack's Broken Jaw, they put on an outdoor music fest this past summer in New Hampshire.
post by KENNY LANNING W/ 30 RACK OF NATTY ICE at Mar 28,2012 10:09am
HEY GUYS LETS MAKE THIS HAPPEN I COULD GET SKULLTOBOGGAN AND VITAL REMAINS TO PLAY
Has DYA ever told you the stories about Dave-a-palooza or dave stock?
I am not familiar with these events, only Queefstock.
Protip: Even if there is a band called "The Fiddlin' Niggers" playing the show, you probably shouldn't flyer every telephone pole in every town in a 50-mile radius about it.
I might be able to make this happen. My friend owns some land in Coventry, on this land there is a natural amphitheatre that were clearing out in the spring if it all goes well we might be able to have a show there by August.
We're also talking about having the black metal solstice show there next December so if you know how to control a couple or if you want to help pay for the stage & generator please get at me. tomgsly@gmail.com
I never been a city queer... I am proud of that... Cuz no matter what those city folks say... City ain't heathen ... City is not a heathen or a pagan or a country thing... Heathens ain't from the city ... Bottom line... They ain't... Paganism and heathenry comes from the countryside...
post by Burnsy at Feb 14,2013 2:36pm edited Feb 14,2013 2:36pm
Sister-fucking and cow-fucking also come from the countryside. Just sayin.
post by ELLIPSES POLICE at Feb 14,2013 3:30pm
HALT... PULL OVER, CITIZEN... PLACE THE ELLIPSES ON THE CAR...
In all seriousness I would come out of metal retirement to reveal my shitty secret project for something like this. The couple two three Coos Chaos feasts we did were probably the most fun shows I've ever played. Would dig doing something like that again. I mean where else can you almost collide with a moose on the way home and have your singer unsuccessfully try to fight most of a small town?
In all seriousness I would come out of metal retirement to reveal my shitty secret project for something like this. The couple two three Coos Chaos feasts we did were probably the most fun shows I've ever played. Would dig doing something like that again. I mean where else can you almost collide with a moose on the way home and have your singer unsuccessfully try to fight most of a small town?
In all seriousness I would come out of metal retirement to reveal my shitty secret project for something like this. The couple two three Coos Chaos feasts we did were probably the most fun shows I've ever played. Would dig doing something like that again. I mean where else can you almost collide with a moose on the way home and have your singer unsuccessfully try to fight most of a small town?
Putting in a request for vacation time at Lids to support the Legion outside.
post by AndrewBastard NLI at May 15,2013 6:20pm
I found the raddest place in lynn mass nea dungeon rock that's like made for an outdoor music fest...stage set up, picnic tables/fire pits everywhere...but houses are way too close :/
.. but if it does, i will bring an army of fire spinners
Please don't, this could be cool. We don't need to dork it up with hippie performance art.
post by BobNOMAAMRooney nli at May 21,2013 9:12am
If the fire spinners are allowed on Never Gonna Happen Fest I certainly hope the weeks prior are very dry and a forest fire kills everyone there.
post by DYA is NOPE at May 21,2013 9:15am
In charge of fire safety for New England Attention and Thursdays Fest: Great White's pyro guy.
post by DYA is NOPE at May 21,2013 9:21am
I will be in attendance, performing live heathen spin art, and distributing Satanic inverted un-friendship bracelets. I don't have to headline, you can give me the slot just before.
post by KEVORD at May 21,2013 9:33am edited May 21,2013 10:02am
How will the cops find the fest to break it up if there isn't flaming signals lighting up the sky?DIY 911 guys.
post by BobNOMAAMRooney nli at May 21,2013 9:34am
Can I have a stall where I can make gimp bracelets? Sorry, I meant serpentine bindings.
.. but if it does, i will bring an army of fire spinners
Please don't, this could be cool. We don't need to dork it up with hippie performance art.
That awkward moment when you realize the rest of the world isn't like the venue you run where you can do a fire breathing show whenever you want.
oh, i'm keenly aware of how hard it is to find places to do fire. but i maintain that an outdoor metal fest is more worthy than the hippie techno raves that usually have it.
post by SUCCESSFUL HIPPIE TECHNO RAVE PROMOTER at May 21,2013 2:40pm
.. but if it does, i will bring an army of fire spinners
Please don't, this could be cool. We don't need to dork it up with hippie performance art.
That awkward moment when you realize the rest of the world isn't like the venue you run where you can do a fire breathing show whenever you want.
oh, i'm keenly aware of how hard it is to find places to do fire. but i maintain that an outdoor metal fest is more worthy than the hippie techno raves that usually have it.
As of last weekend, the stage floor was completed. We're doing more work tomorrow taking stumps out from the back to make room to finish about 150 cars worth of parking/camping area.
If a stage is built in the woods, does a heathen metal fest ever get booked there?
post by Pro Tip: at Jun 16,2014 11:07am
if this is a legit event that is actually going to happen ..then you should probably post a new thread that does not contain all the extra bullshit from previous failed attempts/outlandish plans.
