I wished Imagine Dragons to WH 2017

So I have a confession to make…

 

I think I’m the reason Imagine Dragons is playing at WH this year.

 

During my younger and more creative years I took festival wish lists pretty seriously. I’m not otherwise superstitious, but I definitely believed putting these wish lists to paper increased my chances of getting to see those artists. I was recently looking back and discovered 2 of those wish lists I prepared for Bonnaroo, one of them from over 4 years ago.

 

My 2013 / 2014 Bonnaroo Wish Lists

 

There are 65 individual artists on these 2 lists and looking back from 2017 I’m amazed I’ve now seen, or will get to see 77% of my wished upon artists by the end of this summer.

 

Artists I’ve seen at WH in the past

Alt-J - Foals - Kendrick Lamar - M83 - Matt & Kim - Metric - Modest Mouse - Neil Young - SHAD - Sheepdogs

Artists I’ll see at WH in 2017

Death from Above 1979 - Foster the People - Frank Ocean - Imagine Dragons

Artists I’ve seen at a festival in the past

Alabama Shakes - Araabmuzik - Artic Monkeys - AWOLNATION - Cake - Capital Cities - Deadmau5 - Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - FUN. - Jack White - Japandroids - Lorde - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Mumford & Sons - Of Monsters and Men - Outkast - Passion Pit - Phoenix - Portugal. The Man - Purity Ring - Pusha T - Tame Impala - The Avett Brothers - The Black Keys - The Lumineers - The Roots - The XX - Vampire Weekend - Young the Giant

Artists I’ve seen elsewhere in the past

Dave Matthews Band - Kings of Leon - Matisyahu - Pearl Jam - Regina Spektor

Artists that have eluded me so far

Alex Clare - Bastille - Bruno Mars - Coldplay - Drake - Gotye - Jay-Z - Kid Cudi - K-Os - MGMT - MIA - Muse - Queens of the Stone Age - Tenacious D - The Rolling Stones

 

So there you have it. Definitive proof that getting baked and finding your coloured pencils can actually influence the booking habits of your favorite summer festivals! Also, props to WH for knocking 22% of these names off a list that I created before WH even existed!

WH, you made me a, you made me a believer, believer!