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Nocturnal Festival - SoCal (200+ Photos)
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"Los Angeles, September 26, 2010 – A record-breaking 42,000 music fans braved the 100+ degree heat to gather at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California for Insomniac’s 15th annual Nocturnal Festival."
The Vibe... This was the first time I had a chance to cover an Insomniac Event. The sheer size of their events has always come off as being a little intimidating for me coming from the mid-west but the one thing I have learned about these large scale events is more people = more money. Insomniac clearly puts this back into their shows and it makes the ticket worth every penny you spend. The stunning production work and logistics it takes to put an event like nocturnal together is breathtaking. There really is nothing else like Insomniac events that I have been to.
The Music... The music is obviously the main draw for these events and this years roster didn't disappoint. The only complaint I have about this outstanding line-up would be how slowly it trickled out this year. It seemed like there were big name additions being made within a week before the event. The sound was also great. for having three of the stages lined up next to each other there was surprisingly very little bleed from one to the next which is probably due to the massive tent structures. The largest of which was the biggest ever seen on the West Coast. With a second story VIP area, black interior walls, 56 foot high ceilings and 78,000 square feet of space.
The Word...
Insomniac continues to impress with their continued high end production and their continued fascination with raising the bar, even if they raise it on themselves.
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Lightning in a Bottle Returns to SoCal
This year’s Lightning in a Bottle will be home to an astounding array of musical acts and live performances, art installations and live art creations, workshops and speaker panels, and can you believe it…even more to be announced!
The LIB team prides itself on filling three performance stages with a wide variety of live and electronic musical acts and vaudevillian performances, as well as deploying unique intersections of artistic form and sustainable function to create stages that double as large-scale art installations. Experience has taught us that top-level artistic and musical experiences are best enhanced by still more art!
Check back here often for updates on artists and acts, workshop details, images of past LIB revelry, and more surprises in the coming weeks. And if you just can’t wait and need personal, up-to-the-minute notifications on LIB news, sign up for our mailing list at the bottom of the page!
