This festival kicks off tomorrow in a secret location known only to ticket holders.
; it’s permitted by the Forest Service, has insurance, and the exact location is only revealed to ticket holders, since festival co-founder David O’Donnell doesn’t want it to “turn into a Woodstock, where people are rolling around in mud and human shit.”, which sees the gathering as a necessity for a music scene that is dominated by touring acts. Ploom drummer Matt McKenzie says, “Basically, no one's gonna put you on from the venues.
The success of Burning Ban made Ploom realize that there was potential for a more expansive festival. In 2021, the band expanded the concept into Psych’s Peak. The 2021 festival included performances by Ploom, Los Toms, Honey Blazer, Moonlight Bloom, the Crooked Rugs and King Crawdad. Because it was an unpermitted event, the group wasn't able to charge admission and it was pretty bare-bones, with only one stage. But even though it was just a word-of-mouth day festival, 250 people showed up.
Psych’s Peak is about as DIY as it gets, relying on the community and clever upcycling in order to retrofit its campground in the National Forest. “For the stages, we have the world's lowest budget, so we're building it all. Our bandmate works at an industrial sign company, so we were able to get some materials from there, as well as from the scrapyard," O'Donnell says."We have two pretty big drum risers, and they're going to have, like, canopies...
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