2012 Bonnaroo Music Festival
The 2012 Bonnaroo Music Festival was held June 7–10, 2012 in Manchester, Tennessee, United States, and marked the 11th time the festival has been held since its inception in 2002.[1][2]
On March 12, six more artists were added to the line up. Danzig Legacy (featuring music by Danzig, Samhain and Danzig/Doyle performing The Misfits), The Temper Trap, Santigold, Puscifer, fun. and The Cave Singers.[3]
The Festival announced on April 11 that four more artists would be added to the lineup: Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A., the Sam Bush Band, Michael Kiwanuka and Black Box Revelation. Phish also played a second full set.[4][5] Attendance at the 2012 festival surpassed 100,000, a record for Bonnaroo.
Line-up
Thursday, June 7
(artists listed from earliest to latest set times)
- This Tent:
- That Tent:
- The Other Tent:
- The Bonnaroo Comedy Theatre:
- CC: Stand-Up: The Bonnaroo Experience (2 sets)
- Brian Posehn, Pete Holmes, Kyle Kinane & Ali Wong (2 sets)
- The Chris Gethard Show
- The Great Taste Lounge Brewed by Miller Lite
- Fort Atlantic
- Rollin' in the Hay
- Water Knot
- The Casey Driessen Singularity
- Hudost
- MonstrO
- Marina Orchestra
- Glossary
- Cherub
- The Solar Stage:
- The Apple Butter Express
- Breakdancing
- Rubblebucket
- The Flavor Savers: Beard & Mustache Contest
- The Dirty Guv'nahs
- Ogya
- The Carnivalesque Cabaret- Burlesque, Bellydance & Sideshow
- Cinema Tent:
- Bad Brains: Band in DC
- Green Screens Presented by Rock The Earth: Chasing Ice - Q&A with director Jeff Orlowski
- SF Sketchfest Presents: The Doug Benson Movie Interruption of Crank: High Voltage – Doug Benson & Friends
- [adult swim] presents: things you've never seen
- NBA East Finals Game 6
- Laurel & Hardy Shorts – Live Score Performed by Steven Bernstein’s MTO
- God Bless America - Q&A with director/screenwriter Bobcat Goldthwait
- Trapped in the Closet Sing-Along! – Hosted by Henri Mazza
- The Silent Disco powered by Philips Citiscape Collection
- DJ XSV
- K-Flay (DJ Set)
- DJ Equal
- Jared Dietch / Quickie Mart
Friday, June 8
- What Stage:
- Which Stage:
- The Kooks
- Needtobreathe
- AfroCubism
- Feist
- Foster the People
- This Tent:
- That Tent:
- The Other Tent:
- The Bonnaroo Comedy Theatre:
- Colin Hay, Garfunkel & Oates, Mike O'Connell
- Marc Maron, World Champion Judah Friedlander, & Amy Schumer
- Aziz Ansari & Rory Scovel (2 sets)
- CC: Stand-Up: The Bonnaroo Experience
- Café Where:
- Paladino
- Claire and the Reasons
- Chappo
- The Deep Dark Woods
- The Great Taste Lounge Brewed by Miller Lite:
- Shahidah Omar
- Trixie Whitley
- Katie Herzig
- Caitlin Rose
- Hey Rosetta!
- Oberhofer
- Sara Watkins
- Pujol
- Rubblebucket
- Valient Thorr
- Sonic Stage:
- The Solar Stage:
- Dub Kartel
- Katie Herzig:RtE Interview / Performance
- SOJA: RtE Interview / Performance
- RtE Panel Discussion re: NOLA Ivan Neville, etc.
- Rubblebucket: RtE Interview / Performance
- The Infamous Stringdusters: RtE Interview & Performance
- The Flavor Savers: Beard & Mustache Contest
- DJ TableSaw
- Robert Ellit
- Hula Hoopers LED
- Breakdancing
- The Carnivalesque Cabaret- Burlesque, Bellydance & Sideshow
- Cinema Tent:
- Green Screens Presented by Rock The Earth: The Big Fix - Intro by Ivan Neville of Dumpstaphunk
- Special Advance Screening: Hit and Run – Q&A with Dax Shepard & Kristen Bell
- SF Sketchfest Presents The Doug Benson Movie Interruption of Rambo (2008 version) - Doug Benson & Friends Live
- Buster Keaton Shorts - Live Score Performed by Tune-Yards and Ava Mendoza
- Green Screens Presented by Rock The Earth: The Island President - Intro by Bob Ferguson of Oxfam America
- [adult swim] presents: things you've never seen
- Marley
- Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
- The Silent Disco powered by Philips Citiscape Collection
- K-Flay (DJ set)
- DJ XSV
- Mark Foster of Foster the People
- DJ Equal / Quickie Mart
- Jared Dietch / Wyllys
Saturday, June 9
- What Stage:
- Which Stage:
- This Tent:
- Darondo
- Das Racist
- Battles
- SBTRKT
- Mogwai
- Superjam ft. ?uestlove and very special guests
- GZA performing "Liquid Swords" backed by Grupo Fantasma
- That Tent:
- Pelican
- Bad Brains
- Flogging Molly
- Puscifer
- DANZIG LEGACY - featuring music by Danzig, Samhain and Danzig/Doyle performing The Misfits
- Alice Cooper
- Unchained "The Mighty Van Halen Tribute"
- The Other Tent:
- Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang
- Debo Band
- Khaira Arby & Her Band
- La-33
- Red Baraat
- Spectrum Road ( Cindy Blackman Santana, Jack Bruce, John Medeski, and Vernon Reid)
- Pedrito Martinez Group
- The Bonnaroo Comedy Theatre:
- Café Where:
- The Great Taste Lounge Brewed by Miller Lite:
- The Main Squeeze
- Cosmic Suckerpunch
- Wild Cub
- LP
- Tauk
- Chuck Mead
- Robert Ellis
- The Stooges Brass Band
- WE ARE AUGUSTINES
- Art vs. Science
- Sonic Stage:
- The Solar Stage:
- Breakdancing
- Dennis Casey & Bob Schmidt (Flogging Molly) -- RtE Interview
- Chad Stokes(Dispatch), Matt Wilhelm (Calling All Crows) RtE interview/performance
- ALO — RtE Interview & Performance
- Red Baraat: RtE Interview & Performance
- Hey Rosetta! RtE Interview & Performance
- Andrea Bellanger
- Mawre
- Marina Orchestra
- DJ TableSaw
- Matt Sucich
- The Carnivalesque Cabaret- Burlesque, Bellydance & Sideshow
- Cinema Tent:
- American Splendor - Q&A with actor Judah Friedlander
- #ReGENERATION - Q&A with director Philip Montgomery and producer Matt DeRoss
- Charles Bradley: Soul of America with Introduction by documentary subject Charles Bradley
- Thugs, The Musical
- When Groucho Met Alice: Duck Soup - Introduction by Alice Cooper
- SF Sketchfest Presents: Freak Dance – Q&A with Matt Besser
- [adult swim] presents: things you've never seen
- SF Sketchfest Presents Reggie Watts + Surprise Silent Film - Live Score Performed by Reggie Watts
- Girl Walk//All Day
- The Silent Disco powered by Philips Citiscape Collection:
- Wyllys
- Penguin Prison / Body Language (DJ Set)
- Brenton Duvall
Sunday, June 10
- What Stage:
- Which Stage:
- This Tent:
- That Tent:
- The Other Tent:
- The Bonnaroo Comedy Theater:
- Rhys Darby & Reggie Watts (2 sets)
- Steven Wright & Glenn Wool
- Café Where:
- Matt Sucich
- Robert Francis
- Machines Are People Too
- The Great Taste Lounge Brewed by Miller Lite:
- Fly Golden Eagle
- Honey Island Swamp Band
- By Lightning!
- The Silent Comedy
- Yuna
- The Staves
- Bethesda
- Sonic Stage:
- The Solar Stage:
- Bhakti: RtE Interview & Performance
- Stooges Brass Band RtE Interview & Performance
- Honey Island Swamp Band: RtE Interview & Performance
- Blind Pilot: RtE Interview & Performance
- The Deep Dark Woods — RtE Interview & Performance
- The Flavor Savers- Beard & Mustache Contest
- Breakdancing
- Andrea Bellanger
- Cinema Tent:
- Green Screens presented by Rock the Earth: Last Call at the Oasis – Q&A with Lindsay Guetschow and David Whiteside
- SF Sketchfest Presents the Best of Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy hosted by Matt Besser
- Finding North – Intro by the Civil Wars, and Lindsay Guetschow of Participant Media
- Weird Science
- Advance Screening: Beasts of the Southern Wild
- The Silent Disco powered by Philips Citiscape Collection:
- Body Language (DJ set)
References
- "Bonnaroo 2012 dates, ticket presales announced". TicketNews. 2011-06-16. Archived from the original on 2015-02-12. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
- Roffman, Michael (2011-06-15). "Bonnaroo announces 2012 dates". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
- "More Artists Just Announced!". Bonnaroo. Archived from the original on March 16, 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- "More artists announced!". Bonnaroo. Archived from the original on April 13, 2012. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
- "Phish to perform two sets at Bonnaroo 2012". Bonnaroo. Archived from the original on April 13, 2012. Retrieved April 12, 2012.