Win A Pair Of Tickets To Coachella 2011, Play “Real Band Fake Band”









Filed Under:

post coachella2011 Win A Pair Of Tickets To Coachella 2011, Play Real Band Fake Band

UPDATE: If you have already entered this contest, you will be able to enter again. (You may enter once per week.)

We’re giving away tickets to the HOTTEST show this Spring. Over 100 bands, including some of the biggest acts in the world, will be performing at this 3-day event taking place at the Empire Polo Club in Indio on April 15-17, 2011.

Enter to win a pair of 3-day passes to Coachella 2011, where you’ll get to see bands like Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Jimmy Eat World and so many more. Play our game of Real Band Fake Band: Coachella Edition, where you’ll choose the real band name from  a list of not-so real band names. Guess correctly and you’ll get the secret link to enter the contest.

There’s nothing like Coachella, plain and simple. Experiencing Coachella is one of the responsibilities you have as a music lover to fulfill at some point in your life, and what better place than at one of the premiere music festivals in the world?

CLICK HERE TO ENTER

*

coachella11 600x800v38r1 Win A Pair Of Tickets To Coachella 2011, Play Real Band Fake Band

GET ALL THE FESTIVAL DETAILS HERE

141 Comments Below

print

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

maria
January 21, 2011 11:09 am

i wana go coachella 2011!

Lanee
January 21, 2011 2:17 pm

Pick ME!!

Valerie Ulloa
January 21, 2011 3:50 pm

pick me please!!!! ^.^
this’ll be my very first music festival!!!!

Miss Jessel
January 21, 2011 5:23 pm

Coachella saved my life..

Erika Escobedo
January 21, 2011 5:37 pm

My sister is going and being an aid at a school with children that have autism isn’t making much.
I need a break PLEASE pick me.

gloria
January 21, 2011 10:01 pm

I would love to go – it will be my first time going, if you pick my name….

india
January 22, 2011 1:07 pm

pleaasssseeeee!!! i neeeedd tooo gooooo!!!!!!!!!! i will love you forever i promise…. just…give…me…tickets….

Tara
January 22, 2011 1:32 pm

One thing on my list of things to do before I die, is to go to coachella. Im jobless ar the moment so its on the expensive side. I would love to attend Coachella 2011, pleaseeeeeeee choose me !!!! [:
Thankyou!

Vickie
January 22, 2011 2:41 pm

In desperate need of a musical adventure!!

jafet vallejos
January 22, 2011 4:53 pm

I WISH WE COULD ALL GO TO THE AWEMSOMENESS WORLD OF COACHELLA

Shera fennes
January 22, 2011 10:25 pm

Pick me so mother/daughter can rock it together!! Thank you so much!

wish
January 22, 2011 11:52 pm

wassup real x rated faded sick electric maann,,,triyinnnggg to electric fire the moon light glide the force of treess in the flesh of all people ..peace in the lips of the bird,,,,,coachella

Gene
January 23, 2011 12:26 pm

Crossing my fingers:)

sagnite
January 23, 2011 1:17 pm

pick me pick me pick me pick me pick me pick me pick me pick me pick me pick me pick me pick me pick me pick me pick me!!!!

please :)

Erick
January 23, 2011 5:49 pm

Pick me im going into the navy and this will be the last thing i will do before i die!

lucia
January 23, 2011 6:39 pm

I would loveeeeee to attend Coachella 2011! and because of health issues i wont be able to save up the money by April:/ Pleaseeeeeee pick me pleaseeeeee. I would cherish this experience forever!:)

brian
January 23, 2011 6:43 pm

Pick me i havnt gone to a concert in my life please PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!PICK ME!!!!

Liliana
January 23, 2011 6:45 pm

I don’t like my brother, but I really believe this would be a great way to bond….. Please please please…..He would just flip

ANGEL
January 23, 2011 6:46 pm

I WANA GO TO COACHELLA 2011 THIS WILL BE A GREAT EXPERIANC BEFORE I MOVE TO MEXICO

Maria Robles
January 23, 2011 6:47 pm

OMG…I NEED TO GO… JUST HAVE TO!! IM 18 AND THIS WILL BE MY FIRST CONCERT!!NEVER BEEN OUT FROM MY STATE….I HAVE TO ATTEND…PLEASE PICK ME…MARIA ROBLES..THIS WILL MAKE MY DREAMS COME TRUE..SO PLEASE PICK ME..!!

JESUS
January 23, 2011 6:50 pm

i wanna go to coachella 2011 it will be the first concert ive been to

Maria Robles
January 23, 2011 6:51 pm

COACHELLA!!! PICK ME!!! MARIA!! COACHELLA…COACHELLA…COACHELLA….COACHELLA..COACHELLA…

Glenn Soto
January 23, 2011 8:01 pm

ME, ME, ME,… this will be my first ever festival concert ever, this would be so awesome to attend and great artist will be there to

art
January 23, 2011 9:37 pm

why the only people that r begging for tikets r girls hek i want to go to so bad i live in orange county and i work close to coachela and i know the way perfectly >>>

Joanna Dorado
January 23, 2011 9:46 pm

Does any one know about how many 3- day passes this contest give away? Hope the odds are good!

    Joanna
    April 12, 2011 7:00 pm

    I’ve been calling too!! :( ( i got through but was not the right caller)

maggie
January 23, 2011 10:06 pm

my b-day weekend!

Josh
January 23, 2011 10:37 pm

Is there any way you could give out these tickets before April? I need more notice to give my job so I can get the days off.. Thanks!

Kristina
January 23, 2011 11:02 pm

Please pick me!!! A bunch of my friends from college are going, and I can’t afford it. This would be an AWESOME reunion!!!

Nadia Nino
January 24, 2011 3:09 pm

I VANNA VIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lostsoul86
January 24, 2011 5:50 pm

well i enterned the contest i tell ya if i go to coachella this year it would be my 5th year attending coachella so hopefully i go . i tell you every year i go its always the best weekend of my life i first went when rage got back together and have been going ever since

michelle
January 24, 2011 5:56 pm

It would make me the happiest person if you picked me! My biggest and only wish is to go to Coachella but I can’t afford it

chase callaghan
January 24, 2011 9:15 pm

I went for the RAGE reunion.. WOW… and this year is one month after I get off probation.. So I will be in desprate need for a vacation.. I would love some tickets!!!!

Ericka Patricia Sierra
January 24, 2011 9:43 pm

Please make it reality for me… :) It would be so AWESOME to be there… :)
Thanks!

Ericka P. Sierra

Ericka Patricia Sierra
January 24, 2011 9:44 pm

Please make it a reality for me… It would be soooooo AWESOME to be there…
thanks

Ericka

Kevin
January 24, 2011 9:56 pm

:) hope i get the tickets.
I will have a blast!

Albert Diaz
January 25, 2011 7:51 am

Coachella won’t save my life, but I please gimmie tickets anyway PLEAAASE!

marla
January 25, 2011 9:22 am

Pick us Please!!!!. My daughter has been wanting to go there for years now. She is a music major. Playing 5 instruments at the age of 14. Music is our passion.

Zeila
January 25, 2011 12:44 pm

Coachella Coachella Coachella!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
winning a pair of tickets would complete my life.
no kidding.

Arriane Balaguer
January 25, 2011 1:29 pm

I WANT TICKETS PLEASE!!!!!

Rich
January 25, 2011 4:48 pm

I will kill for PJ Harvey. I think she would kill me.

Rich
January 25, 2011 5:07 pm

Gogol Bordello, I will give my right testical!!

johanna
January 26, 2011 11:14 am

please please please please pretty please pick me :)
ive never had the fortune to go to coachella!

justice
January 26, 2011 4:08 pm

I was on my way home to go buy tickets and i heard on the radio that it was sold out. :( I think I may go into a state of depression if you do not pick me.

Jennifer
January 26, 2011 4:08 pm

Please pick me! I would love to take my baby who so happens to be eighteen years old. We would have such a blast enjoying our favorite bands. Not only that but who has a son who enjoys their mother’s company at the age of eighteen and respects me and my rules!!!!! “MY SON ROCKS”

andrew
January 26, 2011 4:43 pm

Man i want to go to coachella really bad. give me those tickets.

Katie Kettenring
January 26, 2011 5:27 pm

some site told me Coachella definitely wouldn’t sell out until March. FML. now I’m crying because I cant afford to pay $2000 for two tickets
this is my only chance to go, please make my dreams a reality!

Cody
January 26, 2011 5:45 pm

I would be extremly greatful if you sent me to Coachella 2011!!!

the lineup is amazing and i love your radio station. im a fan of all the artists, djs and rappers

bekah
January 26, 2011 6:35 pm

Im so Devastated
today as i was typing in my bank info to buy a ticket then boom sold out, Im just a starving college student Now i cant afford the prices people are selling them for, been going to Coachella for years…D:

Jasmine Marie Esquivel
January 26, 2011 6:43 pm

Please pick me! This line up is incredible and i have never been to Coachella, this will be the ultimate birthday present!
Not to mention The Strokes are my favorite band everrrrr!
pick me
: )

Jordan
January 26, 2011 8:04 pm

This is what i save and look for word to all year!!!

lostsoul86
January 26, 2011 10:17 pm

im so sad i just heard the tickets are sold out i been going to this festival for years and its never sold out like this last time it sold out was for Rage in 07 hope i do win

Lupe Beas
January 26, 2011 10:37 pm

Please Please Please Pick Me this will be my very first time please even if I don’t win god bless you

Laurel
January 27, 2011 12:28 am

This afternoon I was driving home from a work meeting and heard KROQ announce that Coachella was sold out. I was in shock! Last year I was a Coachella virgin and bought my tickets within a matter of hours after they went on sale. I work for a magazine that just went to print and I don’t get paid until it’s printed. I was waiting for that next paycheck to seal the deal and by my ticket. Money in had it was my intention to go home and buy that ticket. Within a matter of minutes I parked my car at home and quickly gathered my stuff to go check the Coach status. No sooner had I done so then did a truck back up into my door and smash it in. Worst feeling ever. Fortunately I didn’t loose my leg, and am manifesting a chance to win and change my luck. Thank you KROQ for giving me hope!

Flavia
January 27, 2011 1:41 am

Omg pick me!!!!
I want to see sexy julian before I die!!!!
Please I beg u!!!!

Dylan
January 27, 2011 8:52 am

plz pick me i have gone to all ur concerts over the years (weenie roast, acoustic xmas) i would die if i got picked!!!

Alexandria Gibson
January 27, 2011 1:47 pm

I wanna go so badly, I took off work for thisss!! Ppplease pick mee!

yAiR
January 27, 2011 5:42 pm

THE STROKES IS MY FAVORITE BAND. I’VE NEVER GONE TO ANY OF THEIR SHOW AND THIS IS MY ONLY CHANCE to GO SEE ‘EM PLAY LIVE>>>>>… I’LL DO ANYTHING! ANYTHING!!! JUST TO GET SOME TICKETS!

Kayla
January 27, 2011 7:21 pm

Coachella is my soul mate.

All the music, drugs, and crazy people.
I CANT GET ENOUGH.

It’s the only thing I look forward to everyday of my life.
The only thing i think about and can talk about non stop without ever getting sick of.
I’m in love with the music & love the environment.

If I don’t end up winning these tickets, my broke ass is going to be selling what i can, and possibly do some gnar shit to try to buy them!
Hahahaha ;)

HAPPY COACHELLA.
See you in Indio motha fuckaaaaz.

Coachella or bust.

Maria Robles
January 27, 2011 8:07 pm

PICK ME IM LATINA SO THAT MAKES ME HOT….PICK THIS HOTTIE!!!!

Gisela Gonzalez
January 27, 2011 8:11 pm

Please! i have my ticket flight , so please please i need to go……… Por favor!!! bitte bitte!

Guillermo
January 28, 2011 9:03 am

Tickets sold out so fast! but it;s understandable with a great line up this year.

Chris
January 28, 2011 3:13 pm

All I Do is Party “HA HA HA”

ava
January 29, 2011 5:44 pm

plz choose me nevr been to one always wantd to go to one n my bday is coming tht would really be an awesome bday present ….plz plz plz pick me :) im gonna keep my fingers cross!!!!!!!!

Tuesday
January 29, 2011 8:31 pm

Pick me!
I just love Coachella so much!

thomas
January 29, 2011 8:45 pm

coachella rocks and i want to be their really badly this year.

Ernie Hernandez
January 30, 2011 2:29 pm

Do it! Do it! pick me! do it do it do it! do it do it……….

Michael Maldonado
January 31, 2011 10:21 am

Please pick me! I’ve been missing all these years of Coachella Fest, and I live here in Coachella Fest but I’ve never had the chance to go. It would be totally awesome if you pick me because Music is life to me and it would be amazing If I go to Coachella Fest 2011 to see all these amazing musicians and to experience Coachella Fest. Please pick me, thank you. :)

Stephanie Rodriguez
February 1, 2011 12:55 pm

Pick ME never been.

Raquel
February 1, 2011 3:09 pm

i would looooove to go!!!!!

Michelle Rodriguez
February 4, 2011 10:35 pm

I’d love to attend coachella!!!! I’ve never been to a concert and not even to a festival concert please it’ll be the best!!! Which really sucks is that my prom is right after coachella it’ll be a win-win for me my biggest goals in life(well this year)is graduating and attending coachella this year. So pretty please pick me!!!! :)

Jordan
February 5, 2011 5:41 pm

I just want to thank for the mere hope you have provided me for attending Coachella this year. KROQ, you guys are doing a noble deed here, and whether I win these tickets or not, your generosity is greatly appreciated. Coachella would be a life-changing experience indeed for whoever is lucky enough to win these sacred tickets. Keep up the good work guys. Couldn’t be happier with you.

lauren arce
February 7, 2011 6:36 pm

Send me to coachella this would be thee best hands down birthday gift ever!!!!! This would be a birthday I would not ever forget!!!(:

Juliette
February 7, 2011 7:38 pm

I sincerely hope whoever is chosen makes the best of it, and has a pure thought for everyone who were as eager as them to go. It’s just an event, and we will all have a chance of knowing musical adventures like the one coachella brings. So don’t fret. But congrats to the winner! Be great and have fun!

Rny
February 8, 2011 12:25 am

Boyfriend and I have been their ever since we’ve met 6 years ago. Was a day late to purchase them this year. Wanted to surprise for valentine’s day. Please help

casey Oliver
February 10, 2011 12:13 pm

I have been every year since I was 16. Coachella means everything to me and I was devestated when they sold out! this is my heaven my camp my world!!!! help me go!

minele
February 11, 2011 8:13 am

I LIKE TURTLES!

:) pick me.

Jessica Merlos
February 14, 2011 10:39 pm

I have to get my ticket for coachella, please! I made the mistake of renting a house just a few blocks away from the festival way in advanced thinking I was brilliant. I was so excited thinking it was going to be the best weekend ever, full of music and a kick ass house. Then I lost my job… Once I gathered the money for my ticket I realized the festival was sold out. I have 4 other friends going who have all purchased their tickets I am the only who didn’t. The house rental is under my name I’d hate to have to go and stay in the house the whole weekend while my friends have the time of their lives at one of the most amazing festivals of all time. I am desperate… PLEASE PLEASE help me out…

Andrew
February 21, 2011 8:16 am

pick me cuz i’m awesome:D

cielo guzman
February 28, 2011 7:57 pm

i woud be in heaven

Ruby Hernandez
March 7, 2011 1:35 pm

I wanna go sooo soooo baddddd!!! u would make my dreams come true , and my 21st b.day the best i ever had!!! pleaseee pick meeeeee!!! this would make my 2011 year

Carlos
March 16, 2011 8:05 am

Give me my Coachella tickets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jen
March 16, 2011 4:57 pm

Dear KROQ,
I usually consider offering sexual favors in exchange for tickets to be incredibly beneath my standards. This is not one of those times.

Pick me?

xo,
jen

Steph
March 20, 2011 12:52 am

COACHELLA is totally for everybody….but I think tickets should be reserved for loyal SO CAL people! I am extremely bummed that tickets were sold out so soon……PLEASE….help a girl out!
;D

TBall
March 21, 2011 1:07 am

I have to go!! I already got the time off of work!!

Kayla Neujahr
April 4, 2011 10:56 am

KROQ, I would love to mob through the air conditioned air of your tent once again this year & coachilllllll with y’all.
Your my only hope!
With your help I’ll see you at Coacheelllaaaa! :)

I don’t want to be like all these beggerz and say ‘pick me’.. But shit box, it’s Coachella on the line.
So PickMe!! Haha

Peace!

Coachelllaaaaizlove.

Julieta
April 5, 2011 8:34 pm

<3

angel
April 6, 2011 9:17 pm

I like dirt

naida
April 6, 2011 10:10 pm

can i please have the tickets??? :)

naida
April 7, 2011 1:22 am

can i please have the tickets, i want them for my little sisters, im gonna be working those days, but i know they would love to be there.

kristy
April 7, 2011 2:38 am

I flew all the way to NYC to see kings Of Leon they are my favorite! can u please get me tickets just for Friday please!

Jahmila
April 7, 2011 6:32 am

Death from above 1979 is my favorite band and seeing them live has been on my list of things to do before i die…but they broke up years ago :( now they are having a reunion on the even of my 23rd bday (4/20) it would be the greatest bday present I’d ever gotten in my LIFE!

gino
April 7, 2011 7:26 am

it should be me who wins these tix . . . .

Tanya
April 7, 2011 12:12 pm

Ok so I am going to be 48 in august .. dont let the age fool you .. I would love to go to this concert.. I know your thinking what would a 48 yr old woman be doing at Coachella.. well I have a 16 yr old and a 20 yr old and they are the reason I feel so young… I take them to concerts all the time… SO this one is one I would love to see,,, So why not pick me… grin!
From a mom whos 48 but feels 29… smiles

Kayla Neujahr
April 8, 2011 2:48 pm

KROQ, let’s jam with Mumford & sons togethaaaaa.
Yeah?
Yeeeaaahhh~
:)

Kayla Neujahr
April 9, 2011 9:02 pm

I muuuuust see Foster the People! Oh, and Lauryn Hill.. And Ellie Goulding, and The Strokes, City & Colour, and Duran Duran!!!! And ohmahgawd, The Black Keys and Cold War Kids and Crystal Castles..!!! AH. 

I’m a desperate music junky, and I wanna get funky, maybe a lil drunky, at Coachelllaaaa!! 
I’m crossin’ my fingerzzzz. 
& bombarding you with posts.. 
BUT, I need Coachella. 
I need some Fuhreedom! 
& some crazy goOod vibez. <3 
To keep mah soul alive! 
Please please please, reunite me with the rage of Coachella. 

siera
April 10, 2011 8:20 pm

i plan on going, because i am going to have caleb followill’s baby.
Just kidding but no seriously that man is pure sex

raffneedstix2coachella
April 11, 2011 9:27 am

i really want a pair of tix, my first coachella was last year. i was only able to afford saturday, and being there to see TIESTO was amzing. coachella was the radest thing i did all last year !!!

Bobb
April 11, 2011 10:57 am

CAIFANES is going to rock the house cabrones!!
Can’t wait for Friday night!

Sydney Ferry
April 11, 2011 11:32 am

PLESE PICK ME!!!
All my friends are going! It will be my first time at Coachella and I will pee my pants if I can see The Black Keys live! I love them!

Paulo
April 11, 2011 11:33 am

Dude!! I’m about to get back to my country… i came here in 2007 to spend 3 months and the coachella made me stay until now. I need to feel that vibration once again!!!! Please!!!! I am the biggest Brazilian Coachella loverrrr ever !!!!!! pick meeeeee

April varela
April 11, 2011 12:38 pm

Omg I turn 21 three days before coachella and it would be the best birfday present in the world to go and have an experience of a life time. Please oh please send me!!!! Pick me pick me please oh please!!! ^___^ love me and send me please!!!

Katherine Cruzz
April 11, 2011 2:09 pm

clickk her .Right here!

manuel nelson
April 11, 2011 2:54 pm

music is all that i am. all i can do is hope that you pick my name !!!

jorge teran
April 11, 2011 2:57 pm

i neeeed to go to coachelllla 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

moriah
April 11, 2011 4:59 pm

Pick ME!!!! OC Irish Girl wants to have some fun!!!

Alyssia
April 11, 2011 4:59 pm

PICK ME!!! Coachella is so AMAZING!!!! I LOVE COACHELLA

Austin
April 11, 2011 5:13 pm

PICK ME PLEASE! This would be my first concert and what Better to be my first than COACHELLA

blubooschmooschmoo
April 11, 2011 5:25 pm

yeah yeah

Rebecca
April 11, 2011 6:10 pm

You will pick me…wont you?

Lauren Schantz
April 11, 2011 6:20 pm

I just called 135 times to try to win tix at 6. Im not losing hope yet!!!! please please please send me!!!!

claudia z
April 11, 2011 9:14 pm

letsss hope we get some ticketsss

Ryan
April 12, 2011 2:02 am

i so wanna go!!! i can’t wait!!!

gino
April 12, 2011 8:39 am

been listening to kroq since it’s inception in a basement in pasadena . . .so I deserve to win

winning ,winning winning

Melina Delatorre
April 12, 2011 11:38 am

I want to gooo!!

Ashley
April 12, 2011 5:29 pm

My must watch list for 2011

Friday
The Black Keys
Interpol
The Chemical Brothers
Lauren Hill
Crystal Castles
Cee Lo Green
Cold War Kids
Sleigh Bells
Warpaint
Ozomatli
Tame Impala
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
!!!
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Marina and the Diamonds
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Here We Go Magic
The Honeybears
The Aquabats

Saturday
Arcade Fire
Bright Eyes
Empire of the Sun
One Day as a Lion
The Kills
Broken Social Scene
Erykah Badu
The New Pornographers
Gogol Bordello
Cage the Elephant
Swell Season
Delta Spirit
Two Door Cinema
Jenny and Johnny
Foals
Tallest Man on Earth
Raphael Saadiq
Yacht
The Joy Formidable
The Love Lanuage
Gayngs
The Henry Clay People

Sunday
Kanye West
The Strokes
Duran Duran
The National
PJ Harvey
DFM 1979
Ratatat
Nas & Damian Marley
Best Coast
She Wants Revenge
Jack’s Mannequin
City and Colour
Foster the People
Angus and Julia Stone
Yelle
Delorean
Phantogram

Tatiana
April 12, 2011 6:10 pm

<3 Pick Me<3 It sold out right when I clicked "add to cart"

michael magdaleno
April 12, 2011 7:30 pm

ill eat horse sh*t for a pair of coachella tickets. these tickets well and help me get laid!. soo not trying to sound desperate but i want these tickets!!!!!

Rene
April 12, 2011 7:45 pm

I would go….its not like I have anything else going this weekend….beside work witch could totally be blown off………..ahh I really want to go…

Deanna
April 12, 2011 9:26 pm

I have been calling since 9 a.m. This is crazy
Why is the line always busy!!!!
I NEED THE TICKETS!
The line up this year is amazing, to go would be my dream. I have never been to a concert before and this would be the perfect first one for me.

priscilla
April 12, 2011 10:08 pm

would be nice to finally win something :)
early birthday gift! <3 my hubby and i are in need for a trip! pick me!

maria
April 13, 2011 9:03 am

pick me i wanna go… :) first time im eighteen n want to experince it….

Claudia Garcia Trejo
April 13, 2011 9:40 am

Please let me introduce myself, my name is Claudia, and dare I say I am an avid Coachella fan. This will be my 9th sojourn into the desert, battling the elements, traffic and hoards of people all to arrive at that amazing gathering called Coachella.

Over the years as the concert has transformed, so has my experience at Coachella. I have gone from just a pure music fan in the audience in a far away place both physically and culturally from where I grew up in the San Fernando Valley. To the subsequent years where my role has morphed into instigator and organizer, motivating my groups of friends to go and have their world thrown open like mine was. Next step, I was a member of the press and a photographer. And now the latest incarnation of my experience in Coachella, as an artist myself, more so a performance artist then a singer because I’m still working on my vocals skills. But I think my contribution though small in scale helps contribute to the synergistic energy and effort that is fomented over the weekend.

My oeuvre is a bit of a throwback to the more carefree days of Three-martini lunches, Eisenhower, and BMOC Frat parties. The ultimate symbol of someone having a great time and letting loose at a party back then was exemplified by wearing a lampshade on their head. At first it was rather a spontaneous act, and I borrowed a lampshade from the place we were lodging. It was returned. The 2nd year I went a bit more commercial and just bought one. Then the 3rd year I took it one step further and painted a Coachella landscape on the lampshade. In my 4th year as the lampshade I experimented with multiple scenes from Coachella highlights such as sun, moon, windmills, palm trees and of course… MUSIC. The medium was mixed and acrylic. As I was doing this each year I realized that though in times past it might be a symbol of a ‘good time’, I also realized that this metaphor could be transformed to have a more significant meaning, ” Life is Illuminating.” I think this is an apt description of my life and times at Coachella; my life has been enlightened and illuminated throughout the years of attendance. I would love for this to catch on and for others to express their illuminating thoughts and feelings.

I hope you enjoy the pictures. The lampshades at Coachella have been in such publications as the China Daily in 2007, The OC Register in 2009 and Coachella.com’s photo galleries. Last year, I shot in film for the first time and the photos were magical! Here are some notable lampshade pictures and important links. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed living my dream.

Thank you for your time and have an amazing Coachella!

Claudia Garcia Trejo
coachella.com/forum/member.php?u=11121
http://www.myspace.com/lampshadesociety
http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/20437-claudia-garcia-trejo
lampshadesociety.com coming soon

OC Register 2009
http://soundcheck.freedomblogging.com/2009/04/17/coachella-09-the-aggrolites-and-a-lampshade-girl/6177/

China Daily 2007
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/photo/2007-04/29/content_863851.htm

The Lampshade on the Radio
http://coopertalk.podbean.com/2011/01/31/claudia-garcia-trejo/

The Lampshade at Manifest Equality
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150121782200454&set=a.10150308694035454.546831.846800453&type=1&theater

The Lampshade on “Life’s A Beash”
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13944455

Claudia Garcia Trejo
April 13, 2011 10:34 am

Please help the lampshade illuminate the festival, I can’t afford tickets! I’ll paint you a lampshade for a hat!!! And join the Lampshade Society of Coachella! Happy Coachella everyone!

America
April 13, 2011 11:47 am

I HAVE NO SELF ESTEEM!!! so you get an idea of what my life is like! maybe if I had some coachella tickets I would bounce back and one day be the president of this country!!

Claudia Garcia Trejo
April 13, 2011 1:11 pm

Did I mention I’m a starving artist!!! Help bring the Lampshade back to COACHELLA!!!!

vivian
April 13, 2011 3:16 pm

i wanna rock out with my c*ck out, tear sh*t up, rage n cage, fight for my right to party, get wasted, get high, i must be picked i dont want to miss my four year! coachella!!

vivian
April 13, 2011 3:54 pm

leaving to the army april 29 i wanna rock

Jonathan Monroy
April 13, 2011 6:12 pm

hello i would like you to give me those tickets because im so broke please.

olivia felix
April 13, 2011 6:53 pm

i wish

RH
April 13, 2011 7:05 pm

Why do you have to be 18
CHECK-IN INFO: • Winner/Guest MUST be 18+, with a government issued valid ID. NO EXCEPTIONS.

Kristi
April 13, 2011 9:17 pm

would love to attend! it would be my first <3

$ydney!!!!!!!!!
April 13, 2011 10:02 pm

PICK ME I LOOOOOOOOOVE EVERY BAND THERE
mumford and sons, crystal castle, arcade fire, BRANDON FLOWERS, skrillex the whole bamooozle ;)

michael
April 14, 2011 9:18 am

im pretty sure saying PICK MEEEE! on this thread isnt how anybody is going to get tix

Shelle
April 14, 2011 10:44 am

WILL SCREW FOR COACHELLA!!!!

lostsoul86
April 14, 2011 11:21 am

can i have tickets !!!! i havent missed coachella since 2007 its my christmas im literally crying cause i wont be able to go this year

Sydney
April 14, 2011 11:56 am

PLEASE PICK ME!!!!
The Black Keys, Arcade Fire, Crystal Castles, Cold War Kids, EVERYONE I want to see!!! Everyone is going :) PICK MEEEE PICK MEEEE. Its not my birthday and I don’t have a lame excuse to why my life is so awful. I just realllllly want to go to coachella! :D

eva sadaka
June 22, 2011 4:31 pm

I am so looking forwd to get ticket .i wark 6 days no day off so please that will be awsome if I win thank so very much eva…

Kiers
January 9, 2012 11:36 pm

I want to go so badly! I’ve never been to a music festival (I didn’t grow up in America I grew up in a tiny island in the caribbean) and I LOVE this years line up.

darcy corgan
January 13, 2012 11:08 am

All of my friends from high school got week one months ago, and im dying to reunite with them! Please pick me! Im with he dead baby crew!

Teeener
February 21, 2012 11:05 am

You guys rock so hard they hada put a Q!

Its up to you if I go or not but I’ll

LOVE you long time!