Bonnaroooooo! (say it, come on… it’s fun)
no, it’s not a cutesy nickname for our favorite eco-shidiot, Bono, it’s a four-day music festival in Manchester, Tennessee. It was put together by SuperFly Productions and AC Entertainment and every year becomes greater and greater with a wide array of music genres, ranging from Electronica (Tiesto) to Reggae (Steel Pulse) to Standup (this year had Janeane Garofalo- ps. Jeneane, thanks for doing ‘The Truth About Cats and Dogs’ I thoroughly enjoy your attempts at romantic comedies).

Anyway, this years line up was a good one, all the little scene kids, hipsters, hessians, bboi’s, tokers, and ravers alike were all very anxious for the festival. But let’s spotlight it on Kanye for a sec. Yes, his shutter sunglasses have become a fave amongst drunk kids throwing up peace signs in Myspace defaults and kids who think they’re retro by putting a ghetto blaster and some dunks on, but what’s below the surface of this flashin’ man?

The man was supposed to appear on stage at 2:45am, you figure- if they put him on that late they know that kids who think they’re black will wait around that damn long to see him, but when the message came on the jumbotron that he wouldn’t appear until 3:15am, kids started getting ancy in their pantsies. Then, 3:30. Then to no avail, he didn’t come on until 4:25am. Yeah, five minutes after 4:20, noted.

Apparently, the delay was due to flashin’ lights lights lights lights problems where there was supposed to be some crazy wicked interplanetary (Beastie Boys shoutout!) landscape set up. Let’s also note that Kanye was reported as the only one who was delayed. Now, don’t get me wrong… I dig what Kanye does… his music is the bomb dot com, but seriously… two hours later for a scheduled slot in a huge festival that boasts bigger stars than himself (yeah, I said it… and I don’t mean Janeane).

The stage was flooded with empty glowsticks (ha!) and chants of “Kanye sucks” was resonating through good ol’ Manchester. What can I say, they should stick to bluegrass. Kanye’s a divo. He was probably sitting in the green room bitching about having brown m&m’s in his candy bowl, he only wants blue and red! Who knows. Certainly not I, but what I do know is that the man is officially GREY listed for being an all out schmuck.