The people behind Coachella have some sort of big announcement planned for this evening, and word around the virtual campfire is that they’re going to announce a Coachella-themed cruise.
According to the Los Angeles Times, sources say that the cruise will start out in Florida, and that it could very well launch as soon as December. If that’s true, the cruise in question would join an increasing number of music-themed cruises, some of which look seriously fun. There’s no word on prices yet, though it’s probably safe to assume that this will be an expensive ticket. There’s also no news on a lineup, which raises the question: Who would you pay serious amounts of money to see on a Coachella cruise?
UPDATE: It’s on! Here’s the lineup.
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SUFJAN!
Why did you say Sufjan? Is there a chance Sufjan Stevens is playing at Coachella? Oh man, I would sell my girfriend’s cat if it meant that I could see Sufjan Stevens again.
PLEASE
Oh god yes. If his live shows from now on are anything like the Age of Adz tour, I’d see him again in a heartbeat.
Just going to sit here with a cup of coffee and watch this comments section unfold.
We’re all tea drinkers here, Mickey.
Cruisechella seems like a good way to break the inevitable staleness of major destination festivals after about a solid decade of them being a regular thing. I’m down.
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And yet, you leave us hanging as to which bands you will send to a watery death!?!
nah, music taste is so subjective, i’d just get a bunch of downvotes. as opposed to, say, my original comment.
Hmm. This raises a question which would be a bit of an elephant in the room no one will mention: HOW will people get their “candy” onto a cruise ship that travels in international waters? Never been on a cruise, but my understanding is that they have security measures not that different from the TSA.
Of course, I am sure everyone here is too mature and responsible to worry about these sort of things…..
a festival without candy is no festival at all.
I’ve gone through both security checks on a international cruise and at Coachella, Coachellas is stricter.
Sounds like we should all just wait for Bonnacruise then.
See, I heard Bonnaroo is stricter than Coachella, but if that is the case, and if it is to be believed that Coachella is more strict than a cruise, then international cruises are VERY lax with their searches, cause anyone who’s been to the ‘roo in recent times will tell you that the candy store is open and well-stocked.
guys… why are we whispering?
Because it’s impolite to talk about Viagra in public.
ARE YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT DRUGS?! LOL
NO!
(Hey, what’s the emoticon for a big winking smile?)
trapt
I guess the only tickets available for this cruise would be for… COACH-ella?
Great, except cruise ships produce tons of waste to the oceans and the air and their anchors damage coral reefs.
newsflash brah, music festivals are not eco-friendly writ large
In the past, Coachella has promoted carpooling and recycling programs at it’s festivals to try and reduce it’s carbon footprint
I know the festivals make an effort, but I’m just saying I don’t think your average cruise is damaging marine ecosystems as much as, say, Bonnaroo damages the ecosystem surrounding the farm
Yeah, but, music!
WHY THE CORPORATE FAT CATS GOTTA STEAL 311′S CRUISE THUNDER LIKE THIS
YOU ARE OVERREACTING, SIR
Coachella Music & Arts Festival, names after the beautiful Coachella valley in Indio, CA.
Coachella Cruise, named after the… Post in Florida? Where we will be leaving? To go on the Coachella Ocean? And party on the Coachella islands?
You know whatever. Maybe a Cruise Festival will finally awaken David Bowie from hibernation? I mean, we are flinging rumors, correct?
THIS JUST IN:
BOWIE TO HEADLINE COACHELLA CRUISE, PERFORM ALL OF EVERY ALBUM FRONT TO BACK, IN ORDER, WHILE THROWING HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS INTO THE AUDIENCE
While aboard the Coachella Cruise I would want to hear Gordon Lightfoot’s “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” Celine Dion’s “My Heart WIll Go On,” and basically any other song about a boat sinking.
My dad knew a guy who died on the Edmund Fitzgerald. True story.
hmmm.. could it possibly have something to do about the rumor that there would also be a coachella in Brazil?
This is clearly being done in the interest of getting more Kickball Katy boobage.
…which I fully support.
Fuckin TITTIES!!!
You, sir, are a poet.
Celine Dion. lol
hmmm. I have a hard time believing any cruise company will pack their decks with people who think they can fly… seems like fun rumor though!
Because nothing spells fun like being overcrowded in a small tin capsule in the middle of the ocean, hours away from any sort of land!
I’d be interested if it was styld.by Mayer Hawthorne!
Frank oc-
Ahh nevermind, that ones a given.
Hologram of Kurt Cobain
I just realized I could make an awesome ocean pun, being that it’s a cruise and all.
Coachella Cruise is actually happening:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/18/arts/music/coachella-festival-will-go-to-sea-on-cruise-ship-in-december.html?_r=2
As cool as this sounds, being stuck on a boat for a week with the Coachella crowd would be tough.
Tom and Katie are back together?? And they’re having a kid named Coachella?!?!