The Roots, Hall & Oates on The Great GoogaMooga Music Line-Up

The Great GoogaMooga has been piecemailing us deets on the two-day music, food and drink fest going down in Prospect Park on May 19th and 20th. They finally released the music line-up, which is as follows:

• Daryl Hall & John Oates (Sun)
• The Roots (Sat)
• Fitz & the Tantrums (Sun)
• Holy Ghost! (Sat)
• Preservation Hall Jazz Band (Sat)
• Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires (Sun)
• The Pedrito Martinez Group (Sat)
• Escort (Sun)
• Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens (Sat)
• Bear Hands (Sat)
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra (Sat)
• Lez Zeppelin (Sun)
• Peelander-Z (Sun)
• Unchained "the Mighty Van Halen Tribute"  (Sat)
• Fort Lean (Sat)
• Lucius (Sun)

FiPS writer Amanda Tweeted her thoughts about the line-up, which I'm sure was a shared experience among many of us:

"For everyone that reads their email too quickly, Led Zeppelin is not playing at @Googamooga. LEZ ZEPPELIN is playing. What a let down."

I'm still pretty stoked for The Roots...

The Great GoogaMooga Will Feature a Coffee and Urbarn (get it?) Experience

If you were lucky enough to get your hands on a Great GoogaMooga ticket after the not-so-great Googa Mooga ticket debacle, congratu-fuckin-lations. New details about the GGM have emerged, and if my theories about them are correct, we'll all be spending the two-day event hopped up on caffeine and slaughtering live animals.

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THE GOOGAMOOGA SAGA CONTINUES

Say that four times fast: Googamooga saga, Googamooga saga, Googamooga saga...oh, forget it.

So after the dust has settled from the disaster of this afternoon's online registration for Googamooga, I got a personal email from the Kevin Hartz, CEO of EventBrite, taking full blame for all of the problems people had with registering.   

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THE NOT-SO-GREAT GOOGAMOOGA

All right: did any of you dbags get Googamooga tickets? 

Some background: Googamooga is a new festival created by the folks at Bonnaroo that's happening right in our backyards in Prospect Park in May.  It fell flat on its face this afternoon when they tried to give away free tickets online via EventBrite.  As everyone was waiting in online lines to register for tickets, some were allowed to "register," only to have the site crash or serve up an error message.  An hour and a half before they opened up the registration at 12pm, they're saying tickets are sold out.  

Hey, here's an idea.  If you're going to call yourself "Great" in your event's title, you might want to make sure you've got everything covered before you launch.  Just a little suggestion between me and you, Googs.

Of course, everyone on Twitter is pissed and Googamooga and EventBrite are feebly doing damage control, but the system is only currently offering up waitlist spots.    

We've reached out to Googamooga to get the scoop, so we'll keep you posted. 

Personally, I've drawn two conclusions from this:

1. Googamooga's ticketing system is as stupid as its name.

2. You can go to Prospect Park anytime you want, except May 19 and 20. 

Did anyone actually get tickets to this thing, or what?