Camp Bisco 2009

[wng-]

Camp Bisco is an outdoor music festival held at the beautiful Indian Lookout Country Club, a world-class property located near Albany, NY. Camp Bisco is a 3 day rain-or-shine event with camping. Attendees may arrive beginning at 8am on Thursday morning July 16th. Camp Bisco 8 will feature 3 days and nights of music on 3 stages, including a late afternoon DJ TENT and a late night DANCE TENT featuring top international Dance acts! This event is not to be missed! Join us at Indian Lookout Country club for our 3rd anniversary. You know what they say; 3 times is a CHARM!

Advance Tickets - $145
Gate Tickets - $165
Saturday Only - $75
VIP Early Bird - $225 (limited allotment)
VIP - $250 (while supplies last – capacity will be decreased from 2008)

The Disco Biscuits – All 3 Nights
Nas & Damian Marley
STS9 (2 nights)
Tractorbeam vs. The Perfume
Chromeo
The Orb
DFA Disco Tent
Twisted Records All Star Tent
Shpongle Dj set x2 (Simon Posford vs. Raja Ram)
Younger Brother Live
Special Disco Version (featuring James Murphy and Pat Mahoney of LCD SS)
Dr. Dog
Asher Roth
Kid Cudi
Pnuma Trio
Dr. Fameus vs. DJ Drizno
BLVD
Two Fresh
Brothers Past
Bonobo Live
K'naan
John Brown's Body
Flying Lotus
Holy Ghost!
Prometheus
Ott
Pretty Lights
Eoto
Kill the Noise
Martyn
Fort Knox Five
Biodiesel featuring KJ Sawka
Starkey
AC Slater
Telepath
Boombox
Mixed Bag's Superjam
Bluetech
Orchard Lounge
Joe Nice
Scotty B and the Chavy Boys of London
Phantogram
Indobox
Tuphace
Roots of Creation
Chronicles of the Landsquid
Mo2
Dj Haitian
Otherwise
Synewave
Dirty Paris


Tractorbeam vs. The Perfume should be interesting. Tractorbeam is when the Disco Biscuits play their songs without lyrics, and The Perfume are the Disco Biscuits playing their songs in a different style than they usually play, for example they play Techno versions of rock songs, etc.


They also do "Color Wars" which is like a traditional summer camp competition, anyone can play, and it's a pretty cool twist on the normal festival experience. From volleyball, tetherball, and tug-o-war to scavenger hunts, chess and the annual spelling bee, the annual Camp Bisco Color War will once again make the Olympics looks like a geriatric game of musical chairs played to slow polka music.

[jesusfish]

I'll be there.

[Pinkfloyd]

Boombox.

[BigKluck]

just got off work, can't wait for this shit.

[wng-]

So, did anyone run into the glowing circus on Saturday night? We were about 40 strong on the right side of the main stage, a little bit behind the soundboard. We had a glowing pinwheel on a pole marking our spot. That was my crew.

You also may have encountered us playing pied piper with a few didgeridoos and Djembes at all hours of the night. We'd start with about 5 people and wind up with a parade of up to a hundred.

Best camp ever.

[chubzilla]

I was there and I agree with you. Didn't see your glowing circus, mainly because I had glowsticks in my shutter-shades. What did you think the best act was? I loved the first night dance tent, with Promethius OTT and Shpongle. The post-rain mud floor made that candy flip so much better :)

[slayed]

how were the bikers?

[chubzilla]

Haha. The Hells Angels were relatively cool. I mean, at least our car search didn't end in any confiscation. But then again, I only had an oz of headies. They were pretty hardcore about the "no cans" when you went through the main stage though. I'd definitely recommend Bisco to everyone nearby for next year.

[jesusfish]

Camp was amazing.

I saw you guys, you were a few rows over from me waiting in line. My girlfriend and I were one of the very glowing people wandering around at night.

The staff was wicked chill. It's very beneficial to be friendly with them. During the check in before camp I told security I had a knife which I was allowed to take into camp and our car was never searched.

I never had my bag searched by any staff - including the time my girlfriend and I left the property for a while and walked back in through the main entrance. They were patting down and searching every one else.

The first day my camp found a girl in very bad shape. The bikers were there but they didn't know what they were doing. We took over - having emt training and better equipment than the first aid shack - and saved the girl's life. My girlfriend and I later met with the EMTs and staff and taught them a bit about pill reports, bad pills that were going around, some questions they should be asking, and what they can do in future situations.

Saturday night one of the staff came up to me and asked me what some pills were he had confiscated. He showed me a bag with a few red stars shaped rolls in them. I told him that they were ecstasy and that that particular pill was high in mdma with either some caffeine or some vitamin b depending on how early of a press it was (we are very familiar with those). We talked for a bit about the effects of ecstasy and after a while the biker decided he didn't want to take them and gave them to me.