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Like this, but bright and outdoors
After weeks of speculation and some recent drama, Lupe Fiasco will be performing at Bacchanal, as Spectrum released before the 12 am embargo on the information and as the Bacchanal statement reads below.
Get ready to pregame early (but not as early as last year), as Bacchanal is slated to start at 1 pm. Expect Flaxo and the Chainsmokers to open, as we reported earlier.
The theme this year is #throwbacchanal—a pun which we give a hearty B minus. This announcement comes after the annual Battle of the Bands ceremony was abruptly cancelled due to issues with holding the event in the Beta house. Instead, students are able to vote in Lerner for the band they want to open. Links to the contending groups’ music are included on the Facebook event page as well as in a Bwog article from earlier this week.
As with every year, please rejoice/bitch in the comments.
Dear Columbia Student Body,
The Bacchanal executive board, along with Airbnb, is pleased to announce the performers for this year’s Spring Concert, #THROWBACCHANAL. Get excited for a lineup that includes Grammy-award winning rapper Lupe Fiasco, #SELFIE kings The Chainsmokers, and Campus DJ’s first-ever “Top College DJ” Flaxo, as well as an as-yet-to-be-determined student opener.
In addition to the performers, #THROWBACCHANAL will also feature food trucks and water fountains. The concert will take place on Low Steps on Saturday, April 12, 2014 and doors are tentatively scheduled to open at 1:00 PM. As usual, attendance to the Spring Concert is limited to Columbia affiliates only and there will be security measures announced closer to the date.
Get ready to #THROWBACCHANAL!
The Bacchanal Executive Board
Co-President: Joe Girton
Co-President: Anaïs Ross
Concert Chair: Chloe Cassens
Concert Chair: Benjamin Kornick
Publicity Chair: Michael Cuby
Secretary: Meredith Venerus
Treasurer: Gil Feig
Fundraising Chair: Charles Yolen
Lupe via Wikimedia
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@PC Fatigue Do we really have to turn everything into an activist cause? Why cant we just focus on having a good headliner and charge a few dollars if necessary instead of sacrificing quality in order ensure that it’s free/gender representative?
@Anonymous Welcome to Columbia where quality of life doesn’t matter as long as someone gets to assert their PC agenda
@Anonymous Flaxo > Chainsmokers > Lupe
Flaxo is so hot right now
@Transfer Student So how easy is it to get non-columbia students into the event? Do they check ID or how is it usually handled?
@Why can't we Just pay 10 bucks each and recruit an artist who is actually RELEVANT?
I mean, we could make it so that the students who can’t afford the tickets still can get access (all students under financial aid, for example). I dont think anyone would mind paying a small fee to get a marginally better artist…
@ITT Everyone forgets about Chainsmokers and Flaxo, two huge up and coming artists will almost definitely “tear $h*t up” on Bacchanal.
@If you are what you say you are A SUPERSTAR
@Dead Horse Oh man, Lupe is so 4 years ago, right guys?
@Wahhhh Poo
@cc15 One thing brown has that Columbia has never had in recent history: a FEMALE HEADLINER- WTF Bachannal committee. You guys are pretty lame and definitely not radical: let’s pay one -big- man $100,000?!??. Um, no thanks, not necessary. Spread your money somewhere else in the music industry where it matters. Like to the WOMEN, or much more authentic and maybe lesser known performers so you can share the wealth. It’s a privilege we get all this money, so why not put a little more thought into the intentions behind it? Lupe would seem to be a joke and I can’t believe Columbia is content with paying him all that money. Disgusting! We need a new Bachannal committee ASAP.
@Chloe Cassens Hey CC15, just wanted to respond and say that this was definitely something that I, as well as Ben, wanted to change about Bacchanal this year; in fact, many of the performers we contacted are women – but unfortunately, most of them were already booked for Coachella, even way back in August/September when we started this process. However, look at it this way: the person getting a huge commission cut from Lupe’s booking fee is a woman – so the wealth isn’t squarely set in the bank accounts of men.
@Vending Machine I also heard that Coachella had already booked all the women
@Anonymous top 40, grammys *gag* worthy..
this is shhhhhhhirt
@Anonymous oh well there’s always WBAR-B-Q
@Goddamn it we live in NYC and we couldn’t find s/o else? Christ.
@maybe.. we should vote for bacchanal committee every year. What ever happened to the days when we could get Kanye West & John Legend in the same year? Grizzly Bear & The National? It’s been more and more disappointing each year. Although I’ll probably end up getting shit-faced and having a great time, it’s disheartening to see other schools with much more impressive lineups.
@ppl annoy me Kanye dropped his debut in like 1 month before Bacchanal in 2004 and was a nobody then… We had Macklemore just as he was getting big. Fortunate timing has nothing to do with the Bacchanal Committee.
Does it dishearten you that Columbia doesn’t charge for Bacchanal so everyone can attend rather than have students priced out and excluded?
Would you rather pay like EVERY OTHER IVY so you can go to a better concert and maybe some friends of yours would have to miss it because they couldn’t afford it? Is that heartening?
If so, please convince the vast majority of the student body to sign a petition and I’m sure the school will make that happen.
@fair points.. but I think the problem is that we’ve shifted our approach.
It’s no longer trying to find people before they get big (i.e. Kanye, John Legend, Vampire Weekend, etc.). Now, we just try and find people that have already peaked (Lupe, Snoop [whatever], etc.), or straight-up randos (Big Gigantic?) because they are in our price range.
And Macklemore was different because he was on an independent label so he didn’t charge as much, and he was doing a nationwide college tour so he was easily available.
To be honest, I’d rather pay a little more to get a quality performer. Especially if we had an elected committee that had the interests of the student body in mind. This year has already been shaky with the battle of the bands …fiasco… so I’m having a tough time believing that the committee is on top of their shit, and they should have more pressure from the student body to get the job done.
@Ughhh Have u heard of the chainsmokers….
@Anonymous No, no one has
@maybe DIY? instead of voting for it next year, MAYBE you should do it yourself and see how easy it is! MAYBE it’ll be easier than complaining like a child. grow up and fix the problem instead of waiting for a diaper change.
@Anonymous “Omg I have a sack full of money and so much pressure to impress my friends. What if they hate m3? Omg I have to pick up the phone and call all these booking agents who R really nice n stuff nd take me out to free lunches to discuss the prospects of playing @ columbz which I have all the power in deciding. I feel so important, yet, Y IS LYFE SO HARD?”
@. That is not how booking works.
@Anonymous THEY HAD GRIZZLY BEAR/THE NATIONAL ONE YEAR?! this makes lupe even more disappointing.
@Grow up. Spoiled shits. Lupe’s gonna be great.
@brm Not as much of a fiasco as Bwog’s April Fools font
@y'all just got pranked. its april fools HELLO
@Anonymous I hope so…
@I love you.
@This was meant for Anonymous above.
@Anonymous Honestly, until today the only Lupe Fiasco I’d heard of was when Buster Bluth was caught in bed with the maid.
@Anonymous Best comment ever.
@N. Bluth pls favorite this, Bwog!
@Arsene Wenger /Bacchanal/ edition Am I too late for the annual tradition of complaining about Bacchanal, only then getting fucked up, going and realizing enjoying oneself anyway?
@CC '15 GS why are you even here
@GS '16 Because we work hard to stay here instead of waiting for our trust funds to mature.
@GS '13 Why am I here? Didn’t you see The Varsity Show last year? COLUMBIA LET’S CONNECT THROUGH ANONYMOUS SNARKING WHILE THE WEATHER MACHINE IS ACTING UP FOR THE FOURTH MONTH IN A ROW
@CC 2015 HEY SCOTT BACON! WE MISS YOU!
@GS '13 go to sleep
@youre funny, GS 13 I like you
@GS 2016 Because of the good ol’ GI bill (do ya need a reminder on how to earn that genius?) Or Olympic careers, or music & dance careers, or families that we took care of rather than took care of us.
@CC 2015 Plenty of CC students take care of their families too. They just get to do it at a younger age while still in school and don’t sleep.
@CC16 Please don’t engage GSers. Comments that retaliate with insults about all of us make students feel further from you. Obviously this kid is a fucking idiot…
@Mmmm... That’sgoodschoolunity……
I feel so included.
(another GS16)
@Anonymous spec dun n fuked up good, y’hear?
@Anonymous Yeah, they shouldn’t have published all that spec-ulation before Bacchanal
@Anonymous FUCK this shit. UPenn has DAVID GUETTA.
@GS '13 I read you loud and clear: “FUCK UP DAVID GUETTA”
@open knowledge David Guetta is horrible live. Seen him twice at festivals and both were snoozefests. He’s the dadcore Eurotrash of house.
@cool but isn’t airbnb technically illegal
lol
@Anonymous I like that song Battle Scars at least
@GS '13 Ugh, Lupe was popular the FIRST time I dropped out of college
@nice one and that kid’s first tour of Afghanistan too!
@Anonymous someone plz tell me what songs he’ll probably play so i can act like i know his music?
@Don't Vote. Lupe told me not to. So happy that’s the message our headliner is sending to our student body. So happy.
@Anonymous Hurt Me Soul!
@cc15 honestly. i look at brown’s spring weekend, and then I look at this. and i….i…
:((((
it is just SO WEAK ON EVERY LEVEL WHYYYYYYYYYY
@Anonymous brown received 300k to book artists. I heard we only get 60k to book artists.
@cc15 why? why do we get so much less funding?
@apples&oranges Columbia does not charge for Bacchanal. If you want more money to get ‘dope’ acts, convince the entire student body to PAY FOR TICKETS. Imagine the backlash if the tradition of a FREE CONCERT OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS (aka there is no discrimination against those who may not be able to afford tickets) becomes a PAID EVENT WITH that has all the dopeness you can imagine!!!!! WAHOO!
Arm yourselves with the knowledge and the facts before you complain about anything in life. Let alone a free concert open to all.
@SEAS'14 i would have paid a few dollars to have a good lineup. lupe’s fine – like i’m still going to go to bacchanal – but i’m not excited anymore.
@ole Well actually bacchanal gets $100,000 but for some reason they decide to only spend $45k on the headliner and the rest on associated acts and the shitty music festival they hold.
@Ben Kornick Thats not true. Im usually against bwog comments, but false information annoys me. Anyone can email me or the eboard if they want to know more information as to how to get involved with our organization and better understand the decisions we make.
@Anonymous this lineup is not a fifth as good as brown’s
@IT'S FREE we’re the ONLY IVY that makes the spring concert FREE, so we have less money.
I thought we were supposed to be good at math…
@rich bitch i’d be willing to pay $10 if it meant they could get a better act tbh
@Anonymous And I wouldn’t be willing to pay shit for our venue. So yeah.
@nah We get around $100,000. Small budget compared to all the other schools, but it’s no chicken change.
@wishful drinkin' pls april foolz plsss
@Anonymous can’t wait to try out the water fountains
@now i get it it’s #throwbacchanal because it’s a throwback to when Lupe was relevant
@Anonymous #shotsfired
@Vending Machine #Crimea
@CC'14 Lupe Fiasco is a joke, even hip hop heads have been lupewarm towards him in recent years. What a waste of money and time.
@why so serious? i’m a senior too, and honestly it doesn’t matter who it is–get shit faced, and it will be glorious. enjoy it without a sourpuss attitude. the show goes on.
@Anonymous I know Lupe’s not the dopest headliner right (and definitely not the dopest MC right now) but I’ve seen him live and he throws a good show. And not naming names, but a few other rappers were suggested and Public Safety may or may not have shut those options down for reasons like “potential gun violence”… Wish I could make that up.
@Anonymous Who were these other rappers?
Flocka?
@Anonymous #wakaflockanal must happen in my lifetime
@Anonymous lupewarm … i see what you did there
@Anonymous first