Lilith Fair

Lilith Fair was a an idea ahead of its time, and I'm surprised it only lasted two years (1997-1999).

Did you go to Lilith Fair?

Sarah McLachlan seemed overwhelmed as the spokesperson.

Sarah McLachlan had a spiritual sounding voice and songs. I remember an interview in Spin or something around the time she was promoting Lilith Fair. Somehow the interview turned into a conversation about swallowing cum. Sarah talked about how she liked to swallow her husband. It's the ultimate TMI, and an image I didn't need to have.

Lilith Fair would be relaunched for the summer of 2010, with a two-week tour of Europe to follow.

The tour was plagued with financial problems from the beginning. The first seven shows were sparsely attended and the eighth show was the first to be cancelled. Initially Sarah McLachlan claimed (in an interview posted on the Arizona Republic website on July 9) that the July 8 Phoenix show was canceled in protest of Arizona Senate Bill 1070, which she strongly opposes.

The tour fell apart on the road as headliners Carly Simon, Norah Jones, Kelly Clarkson, The Go-Go's, and Queen Latifah dropped out of the tour, fearing that they would not be paid for their performances.

Due to poor ticket sales, 13 shows (about one-third of the tour) were scratched, (two announced on June 25,)ten more on July 1, one additional on July 2, and one reassigned to a smaller venue.

Did anybody good ever perform?

I heard The Stinkfish were the highlight of the festival.

Main stage artists Sarah McLachlan Sheryl Crow Tracy Chapman Jewel Paula Cole Suzanne Vega Mary Chapin Carpenter Fiona Apple Joan Osborne The Cardigans Emmylou Harris Lisa Loeb Indigo Girls Shawn Colvin Meredith Brooks Tracy Bonham India Arie Natalie Merchant

R7 wasn’t Abra Moore there? Or was she only there for the last year? I fucking loved her and her breathy, shaky, junky voice. She looked so cool in her weird-waifish way. ‘Sugarite’ is still one of my favorite hippie-strumalong songs.

Fiona Apple & Joan Osbourne were darkly funny and whipsmart, but the rest of that lineup was very ‘Dawson’s Creek’.

I’d have gone if Tabitha Johansson performed “Oil Spill”.

My gay women friends took me both years and I really liked it. Sit on the lawn with friends, get high, drink beer, good music, what’s not to like?

I had no idea that the revival tour was such a flop.

I didn't expect the next wave after Lilith Fair, Alanis Morissette and all of her copycats, would include Las Vegas stripper types Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and lingerie model Beyonce.

No vagina capes, no cheese balls, and most importantly, NO FUCKING NUT LOAF!!!!

I am wounded, my sisters!

There. I have stated my boundaries! Do NOT make me state them again!

Second stage: K's Choice, Mono, Sister 7, Heather Nova, Morcheeba, Rebekah, Lucinda Williams, Victoria Williams, Abra Moore, Neneh Cherry, Elise Knoll, Mary Lou Lord, The Tuesdays, Billie Myers, N'Dea Davenport, Martina McBride, Litany, Paris Hampton, Davina, Beth Orton, Holly Cole, Diana King, Chantal Kreviazuk, Eden aka, Wild Strawberries, Patty Griffin, Lhasa de Sela, Angélique Kidjo, Imani Coppola, Lucy Gamelon, Kacy Crowley, Holly McNarland, Ebba Forsberg, Catie Curtis, Letters to Cleo, Neko Case, Fisher

OP can’t count. 1997, 1998, and 1999 = 3 years.

I went to a Lilith Fair show (the second year?) at The Gorge in Washington, because Sinéad O'Connor was on the bill, and I had a friend in the area. I saw K's Choice at that show. I had never heard of them, but my friend had lived in Netherlands and was familiar, and played me their CD the night before. I don't remember anyone else who performed, but the venue was the most amazing place I have ever seen a concert.

I received free tickets from a co-worker and took my straight male friend because he loved Sheryl Crow. It was us and 15,000 lesbians. They played the Stones "Under My Thumb" as part of the pre-concert music. Priceless.

Fiddler’s Green, Englewood, CO, in 1998. All I remember is Sarah McLachlan giving an excellent performance and Natalie Merchant seeming mentally ill.

No, R15. I was a gay twentysomething

Natalie Merchant is indeed mentally ill.

R22 how was the set? I always thought K’s Choice looked and sounded so cool.

WHET Sarah Bettens? And why doesn’t she play Rockwerchter or other such Belgian festos?

Did the venues smell after, like unwashed cooch?

Lilith Fair was the best festival experience I've ever had. Indigo Girls, Jewel, Natalie Merchant, Sarah. All favorites of mine at the time. Today's music sucks.

It couldn’t survive. It was too pure.

The music industry could use more Liliths and fewer Eves...

I feel like there was a lot of white women

The touring never should have stopped. If they've kept going, I probably could have been like Lollapalooza.

It was better than Bonnaroo, and should have outlasted it.

Were Joan O. and Fiona A. ever a thing?

Black women did not want to see too many white female artists at a show like Lilith Fair. Black women wanted to see artists like Whitney Houston, Destiny's Child, En Vogue, SWV, etc.

R39 Global spokesperson for all black women

If I remember correctly, k.d. lang said in an interview that she was never asked to perform the first go-round. She seemed puzzled she wasn't asked but I bet it was because they knew she would blow everyone away with her performance.

I think it all started with Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill.

She should have been on the bill every year.

If they rebooted the tour, I could see singers like Lady Gaga, Vanessa Carlton, Michelle Branch, Kelly Clarkson, Adele all being there.

I don't think that would happen, r43.

It was good music.

The fans were largely lesbians and some gay and “sensitive” straight men.

Sarah McLachlan was criticized almost immediately for the show being “too white” and not diverse enough.

I think she became overwhelmed with trying to manage it and bring in other types of acts.

It had its place in the late 90s, but would never have survived in today’s world.

[quote] I think it all started with Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill.

Was Alanis ever Lilith Fair though? I remember her being her own separate thing.

I thought Alanis Morissette turned down Lilith Fair, and she and Tori Amos did their own tour.

Ani DiFranco also turned it down.

I went all three years, and here's what I remember:

1. McLachlan was good, but pretty much did the same damn show every year.

2. Missy Elliott was on the bill the second year and killed. She has just hit it pretty big with the first album, and wore the expanding black ball outfit from The Rain video. Unfortunately, the crown (pretty much all white LUGS) wasn't interested at all.

3. I was never a big Indigo Girls fan until I saw them live. They put on a great show. Sheryl Crow, Liz Phair (always amazing), Jewel, McLachlan and Shawn Colvin joined them on stage for "Closer to Fine" and it was pretty amazing.

4. The third year, The Pretenders played (despite, I think, Chrissie Hynde mocking the concept earlier) and they were fantastic. Probably the best live show I have ever seen.

5. Susanna Hoffs played the second stage, and I remember feeling bad for her because there were maybe a dozen people there . She did a nice job. Sand stuff from her self-titled solo record (All I want, Beekeepers Blues etc.) which should have been hits. It almost felt like we happened upon her singing in a park or something. Nice memory.

People made it a punchline at the time, but they were all really great shows. If they can still belch out Lollapaloozas every few years, they could pull off a few one-off Lilith Fairs on occasion.

Lilith Fair....the very name makes me barf.

The year Liz Phair appeared on the second Lilith Fair tour in 1998. Liz Phair was nervous as heck. She hadn't performed in a few years at that point.

Lilith Fair 2018 would be stages of women with filler, botox, huge fake boobs and injected blowjob lips.

[quote]I feel like there was a lot of white women

Sing out, syster!!

Goddess-sized womyn here, eager to report for garbage detail if a DART a CPAP and a sustainable wood cane are provided. Free of charge. In exchange for tickets. And food.

[quote]Black women wanted to see artists like Whitney Houston, Destiny's Child, En Vogue, SWV, etc.

Those ladies wouldn't be caught dead at a white lezzie camping site.

[quote]Lilith Fair 2018 would be stages of women with filler, botox, huge fake boobs and injected blowjob lips.

It would also feature a lot of hoodrats like Cardi B, and plenty of “sexual assault victims” like Kesha.

The place would be full of womyn rewriting herstory.

hated that sound especially Indigo girls

Lilith Fair went to shit after they added all the black artists in year 3.

The white lesbian fans didn’t want to hear all that.

Paula Cole - Where Have All The Cowboys Gone (TNT Live)

Sarah Mclachlan - Elsewhere with Paula Cole (live)

R63, I love that performance of “Elsewhere” featuring Paula Cole. I think it was originally from Sarah’s episode of VH1 Storytellers on TV.

However, Paula really should have rethought that awful Pocohantas get-up along with the pigtails.

Fiona Apple - Lilith Fair interview 1997

Meredith Brooks ( Live) Lilith Fair- Bitch 1997.

It didn’t last because Wendy & Lisa weren’t involved.

lesbians have terrible taste in everything

I always assumed Sarah McLachlan and Paula Cole dyked out at some point.

Any tea?

I'm sure Ingrid Casares was backstage on many occasions injesting various discharge.

The boys coming in to perve our fish tanks felt terrible. They wanted SEX all the time. They ruined the scene like spiteful little bitches.

Paula Cole is headlining this thread about the 90s right here on DL!

Word association: Lilith Fair...Muff diving, unfettered access to bearded clams. Fur burgers, tuna tacos, and hair pie at the food vendors. And music, of course. Natalie Merchant wailing about being a wonder.

The pop/rock scene was very different back then; it was largely driven by the alternative rock/college radio and we all listened to a lot of female artists. It wasn't meant to be the soundtrack to a drunken night out for suburban douchebros and weekend hookers (i.e. their girlfriends)

Is Natalie Merchant a lesbian or does she just hate men?

The first tour was pretty underwhelming until the Golden Girls arrived and started boosting up morale among the artists. By the end it was a love fest among everyone.

I remember wanting to go, but the tour never came anywhere very close to me. I was just finishing college and then beginning my career those three years, so I was too poor to travel. Loved many of those artists. Would have killed to have seen the second year, with Liz Phair and Missy Elliot, two of my favorites.

I’m glad Sarah McLachlan ditched that short lesbianish hairstyle and went back to her longer roots.

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Poor Susanna Hoffs was drowning in mud when we witnessed her on the afterthought stage in Camden. Even Jill Sobule, who kissed a girl first, got better treatment than Soccer Mom Susanna.

I think the Lesbyterian church has a booth there

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