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Unlike measures are not merged and nothing is estimated.", "projects": [ { "slug": "free-press-summer-fest", "name": "Free Press Summer Fest", "locality": "Houston", "region": "Texas", "period": "2009–2017", "organizers": [ "Free Press Houston", "C3 Media (2016–2017)" ], "reviewed": "2026-08-24", "url": "https://liveindex.io/projects/free-press-summer-fest", "editions": [ { "year": 2009, "url": "https://liveindex.io/projects/free-press-summer-fest/2009", "startDate": "2009-08-08", "endDate": "2009-08-09", "days": 2, "venue": "Eleanor Tinsley Park", "locality": "Houston", "region": "Texas", "headliners": [ "Broken Social Scene", "Of Montreal", "Explosions in the Sky", "The Sword", "What Made Milwaukee Famous", "The Octopus Project" ], "lineup": [ { "label": "Announced performers", "sourceId": "fp-2009-announce", "artists": [ "Broken Social Scene", "Of Montreal", "Explosions in the Sky", "The Sword", "What Made Milwaukee Famous", "The Octopus Project" ] } ], "attendance": [ { "measureType": "reported-total-attendance", "value": "Up to 30,000 across the weekend", "attribution": "Houston Press estimate in same-week coverage", "sourceId": "hp-2009-crowd", "note": "A contemporaneous press estimate of total bodies, not a ticketing figure." } ], "economics": [ { "measureType": "ticket-price", "value": "$7 per day, advance", "attribution": "Free Press Houston announcement", "sourceId": "fp-2009-announce" } ], "roles": [ { "person": "omar-afra", "name": "Omar Afra", "role": "Festival producer; editor and publisher of Free Press Houston", "sourceIds": [ "hp-2009-aftermath" ] } ], "sources": [ { "id": "fp-2009-announce", "publisher": "Free Press Houston", "title": "Free Press Summer Fest announcement", "url": "https://freepresshouston.com/archive/2009/06/free-press-summer-fest-august-8th-and/", "tier": "primary", "supports": "2009 dates, venue, performer count, announced acts, beneficiary" }, { "id": "hp-2009-aftermath", "publisher": "Houston Press", "title": "Free Press Summer Fest: the aftermath", "url": "https://www.houstonpress.com/music/aftermath-free-press-summer-fest-at-eleanor-tinsley-park-6497412/", "tier": "independent", "supports": "Inaugural edition, organiser role, contemporaneous reception" }, { "id": "hp-2009-crowd", "publisher": "Houston Press", "title": "Free Press Summer Fest crowd report", "url": "https://www.houstonpress.com/music/aftermath-more-free-press-summer-fest-at-eleanor-tinsley-park-6780289/", "tier": "independent", "supports": "Reported total attendance estimate for the inaugural edition" }, { "id": "hp-ownership", "publisher": "Houston Press", "title": "Girl's death leads to revelation of FPSF ownership change", "url": "https://www.houstonpress.com/music/girls-death-leads-to-revelation-of-fpsf-ownership-change-8469705/", "tier": "independent", "supports": "Sale of the majority interest to C3 Media effective December 18, 2015; C3's ownership by Live Nation; 2016 relocation to NRG Park; founding partners" }, { "id": "houstonia-end", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "Free Press Summer Fest is over. In Bloom is next.", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2017/11/free-press-summer-fest-is-no-more", "tier": "independent", "supports": "2017 weather cancellation and the succession of the festival by In Bloom" }, { "id": "houstonia-2019", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "How to Kill a Music Festival", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2019/06/omar-afra-day-for-night-sexual-assault-allegations", "tier": "independent", "supports": "Retrospective accounting of attendance, sale price, production cost, repeated NRG Park relocations and the collapse of the businesses" } ] }, { "year": 2010, "url": "https://liveindex.io/projects/free-press-summer-fest/2010", "startDate": "2010-06-05", "endDate": "2010-06-06", "days": 2, "venue": "Eleanor Tinsley Park", "locality": "Houston", "region": "Texas", "headliners": [], "lineup": [ { "label": "Compiled performer list", "sourceId": "ca-2010", "artists": [ "The Flaming Lips", "Medeski Martin & Wood", "Girl Talk", "Dead Prez", "Mix Master Mike", "Municipal Waste", "Cro-Mags", "Ra Ra Riot", "The Detroit Cobras", "Saviours", "The Entrance Band", "Givers", "Uh Huh Her", "Lucero", "Slim Thug", "Kid Sister", "The Growlers", "Buxton", "Lymbyc Systym", "Yppah", "Sugar & Gold", "Wild Moccasins", "Young Mammals", "The Eastern Sea", "Sharks and Sailors", "listenlisten", "American Fangs", "30 Foot Fall", "The Manichean", "Rusted Shut", "Hollywood Floss", "Chase Hamblin", "Ceeplus Bad Knives", "Giant Princess", "Elaine Greer", "Female Demand", "Leg Sweeper", "Hell City Kings", "B L A C K I E", "Guerilla Foco Clan", "The Small Sounds", "Prince Klassen", "Dayta", "The Mahas", "Fredster", "Spain Colored Orange", "Grandfather Child", "Sideshow Tramps", "The Watermarks", "Muhammad Ali", "Gold Sounds", "Shina Rae", "Grrrl Parts", "Somosuno", "perseph one", "Dissent", "DJ Jester The Filipino Fist", "Damon Allen", "Energy", "DJ Czech One", "I Am Mesmer", "The Saviors" ] } ], "attendance": [], "economics": [], "roles": [], "sources": [ { "id": "ca-2010", "publisher": "Concert Archives", "title": "Free Press Summer Fest 2010 concert record", "url": "https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/free-press-summer-fest-2010", "tier": "tertiary", "supports": "2010 dates, venue and compiled performer list" }, { "id": "hp-ownership", "publisher": "Houston Press", "title": "Girl's death leads to revelation of FPSF ownership change", "url": "https://www.houstonpress.com/music/girls-death-leads-to-revelation-of-fpsf-ownership-change-8469705/", "tier": "independent", "supports": "Sale of the majority interest to C3 Media effective December 18, 2015; C3's ownership by Live Nation; 2016 relocation to NRG Park; founding partners" }, { "id": "houstonia-end", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "Free Press Summer Fest is over. In Bloom is next.", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2017/11/free-press-summer-fest-is-no-more", "tier": "independent", "supports": "2017 weather cancellation and the succession of the festival by In Bloom" }, { "id": "houstonia-2019", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "How to Kill a Music Festival", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2019/06/omar-afra-day-for-night-sexual-assault-allegations", "tier": "independent", "supports": "Retrospective accounting of attendance, sale price, production cost, repeated NRG Park relocations and the collapse of the businesses" } ] }, { "year": 2011, "url": "https://liveindex.io/projects/free-press-summer-fest/2011", "startDate": "2011-06-04", "endDate": "2011-06-05", "days": 2, "venue": "Eleanor Tinsley Park", "locality": "Houston", "region": "Texas", "headliners": [ "Weezer", "Ween", "Cut Copy", "Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings", "Yeasayer", "Bun B", "MF Doom", "Z-Ro" ], "lineup": [ { "label": "Announced lineup", "sourceId": "hp-2011-lineup", "artists": [ "Weezer", "Ween", "Cut Copy", "Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings", "Yeasayer", "Bun B", "MF Doom", "Z-Ro", "The Black Angels", "HEALTH", "Lower Dens", "Fucked Up", "The Black Dahlia Murder", "Junior Brown", "Tobacco", "Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears", "Bigbang", "Kylesa", "Eternal Summers", "Thavius Beck", "Protomen", "The Memorials", "Those Darlins", "The Roller", "Iron Age", "Undergang", "Acephalix", "Amplified Heat", "Fresh Millions", "Zeale", "Black Leather Jesus", "Featherface", "The Back Pockets", "Gorealah Soul", "Wicked Poseur", "Vincent Priceless", "The Grass Skirts", "Tha Phoundation", "Female Demand", "Arthur Yoria", "Defending the Kingdom", "Leg Sweeper", "Romulus Ate", "B L A C K I E", "Dead Revolt", "Muhammidali", "Nosaprise", "Rusted Shut", "Cop Warmth", "Organ Failure", "Giant Princess", "Poopy Lungstuffing", "The Annoysters", "Co-Pilot", "The Watermarks", "LIMB", "Giant Battle Monster", "Eyes Burn Electric" ] } ], "attendance": [], "economics": [], "roles": [ { "person": "omar-afra", "name": "Omar Afra", "role": "Festival co-creator, with Jagi Katial", "sourceIds": [ "hp-2011-lineup" ] } ], "sources": [ { "id": "hp-2011-lineup", "publisher": "Houston Press", "title": "Free Press Summer Fest 2011 lineup", "url": "https://www.houstonpress.com/music/weezer-ween-sharon-jones-bun-b-head-summer-fest-lineup-6767291/", "tier": "independent", "supports": "2011 dates, venue, founders and full announced lineup" }, { "id": "hp-ownership", "publisher": "Houston Press", "title": "Girl's death leads to revelation of FPSF ownership change", "url": "https://www.houstonpress.com/music/girls-death-leads-to-revelation-of-fpsf-ownership-change-8469705/", "tier": "independent", "supports": "Sale of the majority interest to C3 Media effective December 18, 2015; C3's ownership by Live Nation; 2016 relocation to NRG Park; founding partners" }, { "id": "houstonia-end", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "Free Press Summer Fest is over. In Bloom is next.", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2017/11/free-press-summer-fest-is-no-more", "tier": "independent", "supports": "2017 weather cancellation and the succession of the festival by In Bloom" }, { "id": "houstonia-2019", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "How to Kill a Music Festival", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2019/06/omar-afra-day-for-night-sexual-assault-allegations", "tier": "independent", "supports": "Retrospective accounting of attendance, sale price, production cost, repeated NRG Park relocations and the collapse of the businesses" } ] }, { "year": 2012, "url": "https://liveindex.io/projects/free-press-summer-fest/2012", "startDate": "2012-06-02", "endDate": "2012-06-03", "days": 2, "venue": "Eleanor Tinsley Park", "locality": "Houston", "region": "Texas", "headliners": [ "The Avett Brothers", "Snoop Dogg", "Willie Nelson", "Afrojack", "Primus", "The Flaming Lips" ], "lineup": [ { "label": "Announced lineup", "sourceId": "hp-2012-lineup", "artists": [ "The Avett Brothers", "Snoop Dogg", "Willie Nelson", "Afrojack", "Primus", "The Flaming Lips (performing Dark Side of the Moon)", "Descendents", "Major Lazer", "Young the Giant", "Portugal. The Man", "Z-Ro", "Morris Day and The Time", "Best Coast", "Wavves", "Diplo", "Two Door Cinema Club", "Shabazz Palaces", "STRFKR", "Danny Brown", "Jeff the Brotherhood", "Wallpaper", "Turquoise Jeep", "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah", "Maps and Atlases", "Fatal Flying Guilloteens", "Valient Thorr", "Big Freedia", "Touche Amore", "Ume", "Quintron & Ms. Pussycat", "Ancient Wisdom", "Robert Ellis", "Girl In a Coma", "What Made Milwaukee Famous", "Electric Touch", "Quiet Corral", "Ponderosa", "Quintino", "Shermanology", "Bad Veins", "Fat Tony", "MC Buda Love", "Grandfather Child", "The Riff Tiffs", "Venemous Maximus", "Papermoons", "The Tontons", "The Freakouts", "Wild Moccasins", "Featherface", "Glasnost", "Suraj K", "Harts of Oak", "Second Lovers", "The Sour Notes", "Journey Agents", "Suite 709", "CeePlus Bad Knives", "Square and Compass", "DJ Ebonix", "A SEA ES", "Brains for Dinner", "Tyagaraja", "Espantapajaros", "Love Horse", "Sideshow Tramps", "Ashes of Babylon", "Small Sounds", "Last Place You Look", "Electric Primadonnas", "Roky Moon and BOLT!", "Eastern Sea", "Limb", "The Watermarks", "Quiet Company", "Eyes Burn Electric", "Zlam Dunk", "Caddywhompus", "Zorche", "Dry The River" ] } ], "attendance": [ { "measureType": "study-attendance", "value": "81,000", "attribution": "Total attendance figure used in the University of Houston impact analysis, as reported by the Houston Press", "sourceId": "hp-2012-economic-study", "note": "This is the attendance input to the study, not a separately audited gate count." }, { "measureType": "paid-attendance", "value": "Nearly 100,000 paying guests", "attribution": "Houstonia retrospective, 2019", "sourceId": "houstonia-2019", "note": "A later account that does not agree with the 81,000 figure used in the 2012 study. 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In Bloom is next.", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2017/11/free-press-summer-fest-is-no-more", "tier": "independent", "supports": "2017 weather cancellation and the succession of the festival by In Bloom" } ] }, { "year": 2013, "url": "https://liveindex.io/projects/free-press-summer-fest/2013", "startDate": "2013-06-01", "endDate": "2013-06-02", "days": 2, "venue": "Eleanor Tinsley Park", "locality": "Houston", "region": "Texas", "headliners": [ "The Postal Service", "Iggy and the Stooges", "Calvin Harris", "Bassnectar", "Macklemore and Ryan Lewis", "Of Monsters and Men" ], "lineup": [ { "label": "Published schedule", "sourceId": "hp-2013-schedule", "artists": [ "G. Wizz", "Trvp Lords feat. 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In Bloom is next.", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2017/11/free-press-summer-fest-is-no-more", "tier": "independent", "supports": "2017 weather cancellation and the succession of the festival by In Bloom" }, { "id": "houstonia-2019", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "How to Kill a Music Festival", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2019/06/omar-afra-day-for-night-sexual-assault-allegations", "tier": "independent", "supports": "Retrospective accounting of attendance, sale price, production cost, repeated NRG Park relocations and the collapse of the businesses" } ] }, { "year": 2014, "url": "https://liveindex.io/projects/free-press-summer-fest/2014", "startDate": "2014-05-31", "endDate": "2014-06-01", "days": 2, "venue": "Eleanor Tinsley Park", "locality": "Houston", "region": "Texas", "headliners": [ "Jack White", "Vampire Weekend", "Wu-Tang Clan", "Zedd", "Lauryn Hill", "Above & Beyond", "Childish Gambino", "Deftones" ], "lineup": [ { "label": "Announced headline acts", "sourceId": "hp-2014-lineup", "artists": [ "Jack White", "Vampire Weekend", "Wu-Tang Clan", "Zedd", "Lauryn Hill", "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros", "Above & Beyond", "Childish Gambino", "Dwight Yoakam", "Deftones", "DMX", "Ying Yang Twins", "Adventure Club", "Flosstradamus" ] } ], "attendance": [], "economics": [ { "measureType": "ticket-price", "value": "$140 two-day pass, as cited by a critic", "attribution": "Houston Press critics' roundtable", "sourceId": "hp-2014-lineup" } ], "roles": [], "sources": [ { "id": "hp-2014-lineup", "publisher": "Houston Press", "title": "Free Press Summer Fest 2014 lineup reaction", "url": "https://www.houstonpress.com/music/a-summer-place-6600764/", "tier": "independent", "supports": "2014 headliners, ticket-price criticism and mixed critical reception" }, { "id": "houstonia-2019", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "How to Kill a Music Festival", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2019/06/omar-afra-day-for-night-sexual-assault-allegations", "tier": "independent", "supports": "Retrospective accounting of attendance, sale price, production cost, repeated NRG Park relocations and the collapse of the businesses" }, { "id": "hp-ownership", "publisher": "Houston Press", "title": "Girl's death leads to revelation of FPSF ownership change", "url": "https://www.houstonpress.com/music/girls-death-leads-to-revelation-of-fpsf-ownership-change-8469705/", "tier": "independent", "supports": "Sale of the majority interest to C3 Media effective December 18, 2015; C3's ownership by Live Nation; 2016 relocation to NRG Park; founding partners" }, { "id": "houstonia-end", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "Free Press Summer Fest is over. In Bloom is next.", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2017/11/free-press-summer-fest-is-no-more", "tier": "independent", "supports": "2017 weather cancellation and the succession of the festival by In Bloom" } ] }, { "year": 2015, "url": "https://liveindex.io/projects/free-press-summer-fest/2015", "startDate": "2015-06-06", "endDate": "2015-06-07", "days": 2, "venue": "Eleanor Tinsley Park", "locality": "Houston", "region": "Texas", "headliners": [ "Skrillex", "R. Kelly", "Weezer", "Steve Angello", "Major Lazer", "St. Vincent", "Chance the Rapper" ], "lineup": [ { "label": "Announced headliners", "sourceId": "hp-2015-lineup", "artists": [ "Skrillex", "R. Kelly", "Weezer", "Steve Angello", "Major Lazer", "Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals", "St. Vincent", "The Decemberists", "Flume", "Belle and Sebastian", "Mastodon", "Chance the Rapper", "Tears For Fears", "Band of Horses" ] }, { "label": "Welcome to Houston reprise", "sourceId": "hp-2015-lineup", "artists": [ "Slim Thug", "Paul Wall", "Scarface", "Lil Flip" ] } ], "attendance": [], "economics": [], "roles": [ { "person": "omar-afra", "name": "Omar Afra", "role": "Festival co-founder and producer through this edition", "sourceIds": [ "hp-ownership" ] } ], "sources": [ { "id": "hp-2015-lineup", "publisher": "Houston Press", "title": "Free Press Summer Fest 2015 lineup", "url": "https://www.houstonpress.com/music/the-fpsf-2015-lineup-is-right-here-6776167/", "tier": "independent", "supports": "2015 dates, venue and announced headliners" }, { "id": "hp-ownership", "publisher": "Houston Press", "title": "Girl's death leads to revelation of FPSF ownership change", "url": "https://www.houstonpress.com/music/girls-death-leads-to-revelation-of-fpsf-ownership-change-8469705/", "tier": "independent", "supports": "Sale of the majority interest to C3 Media effective December 18, 2015; C3's ownership by Live Nation; 2016 relocation to NRG Park; founding partners" }, { "id": "houstonia-end", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "Free Press Summer Fest is over. In Bloom is next.", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2017/11/free-press-summer-fest-is-no-more", "tier": "independent", "supports": "2017 weather cancellation and the succession of the festival by In Bloom" }, { "id": "houstonia-2019", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "How to Kill a Music Festival", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2019/06/omar-afra-day-for-night-sexual-assault-allegations", "tier": "independent", "supports": "Retrospective accounting of attendance, sale price, production cost, repeated NRG Park relocations and the collapse of the businesses" } ] }, { "year": 2016, "url": "https://liveindex.io/projects/free-press-summer-fest/2016", "startDate": "2016-06-04", "endDate": "2016-06-05", "days": 2, "venue": "NRG Park (relocated from Eleanor Tinsley Park)", "locality": "Houston", "region": "Texas", "headliners": [ "deadmau5", "Modest Mouse", "The National", "The Chainsmokers", "Leon Bridges", "Jamie xx" ], "lineup": [ { "label": "Announced headline acts", "sourceId": "hp-2016-lineup", "artists": [ "deadmau5", "Modest Mouse", "The National", "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros", "The Chainsmokers", "Leon Bridges", "Young the Giant", "Zeds Dead", "Jamie xx", "Big Gigantic", "Gogol Bordello", "Matt and Kim", "Big Grams", "Logic" ] } ], "attendance": [], "economics": [], "roles": [], "sources": [ { "id": "hp-2016-lineup", "publisher": "Houston Press", "title": "Free Press Summer Fest 2016 lineup", "url": "https://www.houstonpress.com/music/the-free-press-summer-fest-2016-lineup-is-here-8205933/", "tier": "independent", "supports": "2016 announced dates, venue and headliners" }, { "id": "hp-ownership", "publisher": "Houston Press", "title": "Girl's death leads to revelation of FPSF ownership change", "url": "https://www.houstonpress.com/music/girls-death-leads-to-revelation-of-fpsf-ownership-change-8469705/", "tier": "independent", "supports": "Sale of the majority interest to C3 Media effective December 18, 2015; C3's ownership by Live Nation; 2016 relocation to NRG Park; founding partners" }, { "id": "houstonia-2019", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "How to Kill a Music Festival", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2019/06/omar-afra-day-for-night-sexual-assault-allegations", "tier": "independent", "supports": "Retrospective accounting of attendance, sale price, production cost, repeated NRG Park relocations and the collapse of the businesses" }, { "id": "houstonia-end", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "Free Press Summer Fest is over. 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founder's denial of the allegations" }, { "id": "houstonia-2019", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "How to Kill a Music Festival", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2019/06/omar-afra-day-for-night-sexual-assault-allegations", "published": "2019-06", "tier": "independent", "supports": "Reported production cost, unprofitability across all three editions, a secondary reference to a $20 million impact study, and the outcome of the foreclosure sale" }, { "id": "kiffer-archive", "publisher": "Kiffer Keegan", "title": "Day For Night — design and motion archive", "url": "https://kifferkeegan.com/day-for-night", "tier": "primary", "supports": "Festival design, motion work and documentary photography credits" } ] }, { "year": 2016, "url": "https://liveindex.io/projects/day-for-night/2016", "startDate": "2016-12-17", "endDate": "2016-12-18", "days": 2, "venue": "Former Barbara Jordan Post Office, 401 Franklin Street", "locality": "Houston", "region": "Texas", "headliners": [ "Aphex Twin", "Björk", "ODESZA", "Travis Scott", "Run the Jewels" ], "lineup": [ { "label": "Music", "sourceId": "abc13-2016", "artists": [ "Aphex Twin", "ODESZA", "Travis Scott", "Kaskade", "Björk", "Run the Jewels", "RZA + Stone Mecca Rider", "Nick Murphy (Chet Faker)", "Butthole Surfers", "Blood Orange", "Little Dragon", "The Jesus and Mary Chain", "Squarepusher", "Blonde Redhead", "Thundercat", "Kamasi Washington", "Unknown Mortal Orchestra", "John Carpenter", "Washed Out", "Ariel Pink", "Lightning Bolt", "Arca", "DJ Windows 98", "Oneohtrix Point Never", "Liars", "Lower Dens", "S U R V I V E", "Matmos", "Clams Casino", "Mykki Blanco", "Marcel Khalife", "Chelsea Wolfe", "Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats", "Welcome to Houston", "SG Lewis", "SOPHIE", "Tobacco", "Nothing", "Soulection", "Mary Lattimore and Jeff Zeigler", "Fat Tony", "Jock Club", "Wild Moccasins", "Buoyant Spirit", "Vacation Eyes", "Limb", "Hevin", "-Us.", "Jerk", "MNYNMS", "Maramuresh", "Pfaff", "Splendid Emblem", "Kult Dizney", "DIVISION", "Night Drive", "Josh Dupont", "From Beyond", "Futurelix" ] }, { "label": "Light and installation", "sourceId": "abc13-2016", "artists": [ "United Visual Artists", "Björk Digital", "Golan Levin", "NONOTAK", "Shoplifter", "Tundra", "Robert Seidel", "Damien Echols", "AV&C + Vincent Houzé", "Michael Fullman (VT Pro Design)", "Ezra Miller", "Jesse Kanda", "Alex Czetwertynski", "Herman Kolgen" ] } ], "attendance": [], "economics": [ { "measureType": "ticket-price", "value": "General admission from $150; GA plus Friday party from $250; VIP from $700", "attribution": "On-sale prices announced by the organisers, reported by ABC13", "sourceId": "abc13-2016" }, { "measureType": "economic-output", "value": "Nearly $20 million reported for the city", "attribution": "A study referred to in a later Houstonia retrospective", "sourceId": "houstonia-2019", "note": "Recorded as a secondary reference. The underlying study has not been retrieved and its method, sponsor and boundary are unknown; it should not be compared with the University of Houston analysis of Free Press Summer Fest." } ], "roles": [], "sources": [ { "id": "abc13-2016", "publisher": "ABC13 (KTRK)", "title": "Day for Night festival lineup revealed; Bjork, Butthole Surfers and Aphex Twin to perform", "url": "https://abc13.com/post/day-for-night-festival-lineup-revealed/1511126/", "tier": "independent", "supports": "2016 dates, venue, sound and light rosters, ticket tiers and prices" }, { "id": "jambase-2016", "publisher": "JamBase", "title": "Day For Night 2016", "url": "https://www.jambase.com/festival/day-for-night-music-art-festival-2016", "tier": "tertiary", "supports": "2016 dates and edition record" }, { "id": "houstonia-2019", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "How to Kill a Music Festival", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2019/06/omar-afra-day-for-night-sexual-assault-allegations", "published": "2019-06", "tier": "independent", "supports": "Reported production cost, unprofitability across all three editions, a secondary reference to a $20 million impact study, and the outcome of the foreclosure sale" }, { "id": "houstonia-2018-removal", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "Amid allegations, Day For Night festival removes founder", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2018/08/omar-afra-day-for-night", "published": "2018-08", "tier": "independent", "supports": "August 2018 publication of affidavits alleging sexual assault, and the creditors' statement removing the founder from ownership and involvement" }, { "id": "houstonia-2018-sale", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "Day for Night is done (for now, at least)", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2018/11/day-for-night-free-press-houston-sold", "published": "2018-11", "tier": "independent", "supports": "November 2018 public foreclosure sale of the entity holding the festival and Free Press Houston; founder's denial of the allegations" }, { "id": "kiffer-archive", "publisher": "Kiffer Keegan", "title": "Day For Night — design and motion archive", "url": "https://kifferkeegan.com/day-for-night", "tier": "primary", "supports": "Festival design, motion work and documentary photography credits" } ] }, { "year": 2017, "url": "https://liveindex.io/projects/day-for-night/2017", "startDate": "2017-12-15", "endDate": "2017-12-17", "days": 3, "venue": "PostHTX (former Barbara Jordan Post Office), 401 Franklin Street", "locality": "Houston", "region": "Texas", "headliners": [ "Nine Inch Nails", "Thom Yorke", "Solange", "St. Vincent", "Justice", "Godspeed You! Black Emperor" ], "lineup": [ { "label": "Music", "sourceId": "jambase-2017", "artists": [ "Nine Inch Nails", "Thom Yorke", "Solange", "St. Vincent", "Justice", "Godspeed You! Black Emperor", "Tyler, the Creator", "James Blake", "Jamie xx", "Kaytranada", "Earl Sweatshirt", "Pretty Lights", "Phantogram", "Nina Kraviz", "Cashmere Cat", "Cardi B", "Perfume Genius", "Sky Ferreira", "Jenny Hval", "Boots", "Saul Williams", "GAS", "Lil B", "of Montreal", "Venetian Snares", "Daniel Lanois", "Princess Nokia", "Forest Swords", "Roni Size", "G Jones", "Andy Stott", "Jlin", "Bjarki", "Demdike Stare", "Faten Kanaan", "The Jesus Lizard", "Rezz", "En Vogue", "Kimbra", "Mount Kimbie", "Corbin", "Shlohmo", "The Album Leaf", "DJ Tennis", "Tim Hecker", "Babyfather", "Shabazz Palaces", "Jessy Lanza", "Priests", "Saro", "Rabit", "House of Kenzo", "Marcus Marr", "B L A C K I E" ] }, { "label": "Installation and performance art", "sourceId": "abc13-2017", "artists": [ "Ryoji Ikeda", "Matthew Schreiber" ] }, { "label": "Friday summit speakers", "sourceId": "pitchfork-2017", "artists": [ "Chelsea Manning", "Laurie Anderson", "Nadya Tolokonnikova (Pussy Riot)", "Lauren McCarthy" ] } ], "attendance": [], "economics": [ { "measureType": "production-cost", "value": "$6 million to $7 million per edition", "attribution": "Figure given by the festival's founder in a later Houstonia interview", "sourceId": "houstonia-2019", "note": "His account, not an audited figure. The same account states that none of the three editions was profitable." } ], "roles": [ { "person": "omar-afra", "name": "Omar Afra", "role": "Executive producer and co-founder", "sourceIds": [ "abc13-2017" ] } ], "sources": [ { "id": "jambase-2017", "publisher": "JamBase", "title": "Day For Night 2017", "url": "https://www.jambase.com/festival/day-for-night-music-art-festival-2017", "tier": "tertiary", "supports": "2017 dates and full announced music lineup" }, { "id": "abc13-2017", "publisher": "ABC13 (KTRK)", "title": "Day for Night: lineup includes Nine Inch Nails, Solange and Thom Yorke", "url": "https://abc13.com/post/day-for-night-lineup-includes-nine-inch-nails-solange/2435691/", "tier": "independent", "supports": "2017 dates, PostHTX venue and floor area, 18 art installations, four stages, Hurricane Harvey relief donation" }, { "id": "pitchfork-2017", "publisher": "Pitchfork", "title": "Thom Yorke, St. Vincent, Nine Inch Nails and more playing Day for Night 2017", "url": "https://pitchfork.com/news/thom-yorke-st-vincent-nine-inch-nails-more-playing-day-for-night-2017/", "tier": "independent", "supports": "2017 headliners, the Friday summit programme and installation count" }, { "id": "houstonia-2019", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "How to Kill a Music Festival", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2019/06/omar-afra-day-for-night-sexual-assault-allegations", "published": "2019-06", "tier": "independent", "supports": "Reported production cost, unprofitability across all three editions, a secondary reference to a $20 million impact study, and the outcome of the foreclosure sale" }, { "id": "houstonia-2018-removal", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "Amid allegations, Day For Night festival removes founder", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2018/08/omar-afra-day-for-night", "published": "2018-08", "tier": "independent", "supports": "August 2018 publication of affidavits alleging sexual assault, and the creditors' statement removing the founder from ownership and involvement" }, { "id": "houstonia-2018-sale", "publisher": "Houstonia", "title": "Day for Night is done (for now, at least)", "url": "https://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-culture/2018/11/day-for-night-free-press-houston-sold", "published": "2018-11", "tier": "independent", "supports": "November 2018 public foreclosure sale of the entity holding the festival and Free Press Houston; founder's denial of the allegations" }, { "id": "kiffer-archive", "publisher": "Kiffer Keegan", "title": "Day For Night — design and motion archive", "url": "https://kifferkeegan.com/day-for-night", "tier": "primary", "supports": "Festival design, motion work and documentary photography credits" } ] } ] } ] }