I've never been to Mountain Park before, but this summer I'm going twice in less than a month. For two of my favorite bands!
As you may know from an older post, The Flaming Lips are going to be there July 24, and that's pretty incredible because they never come around this area.
And now it gets better - MGMT is going to be there August 11!
That's a Wednesday night at 7 p.m. at Mountain Park, which is located off Mountain Park Access Road on Route 5 in Holyoke, MA. Tickets are $30 plus fees and can be purchased here: http://www.nbotickets.com/auto_choose_ga.asp?area=241.
And here's how the Mountain Park website describes the band:
MGMT is blowing up. Their new album “Congratulations” debuted at #2 on last week’s Billboard Top 200 Album Chart. They appeared on Saturday Night Live this past weekend and are booked for Letterman on May 11th. The electro-pop duo (Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden) and their band from Brooklyn (though drummer Will Berman is a Northampton native) rapidly rose from college-radio mainstay to Grammy-nominated international sensation, blowing up huge after the release of their 2007 major debut, "Oracular Spectacular, " named by Rolling Stone as the 18th best album of the decade, and best album of 2008 by NME magazine.
And we're seeing them for $30? Wow! I have a feeling this might sell out because the only other performances MGMT had planned for my area were Bamboozle, which was this weekend, and a festival in Burlington, VT for Aug. 12. (Both are pretty far and part of festivals, and that has a different feel.)
Check out the rest of Mountain Park's show schedule here: http://www.iheg.com/mountain_park_main.asp
Also, if you bought "Congratulations" and still aren't sure about scratching off the cover, I had a post on that too: MGMT Congratulations - It's OK to scratch off the cover!
(Photo from boston.com)
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