Hfstival is (perhaps) back. (2024)

HFstival, a festival launched by the alternative Rockstation WHFS in 1990, was Washington's largest concert in the year in 1990s and early 2000 - an opportunity to see all the bands you heard on the radio on MTV in a beautiful, moist, in a beautiful, humid, deafening day.

For Gen Xers and older millennia that grew up in D.C. The social media post, which appeared in the X account of the club from 9.30 am on Wednesday, served a powerful nostalgia bomb, such as receiving a message from your long -lost friend in high school.The memories of that flood back.

For local teenagers, HFstival meant an epic day with your friends, surrounded by tens of thousands of people and them Friends.It came with the shock by stepping out of the metro at the Armori stage on a swelling summer morning that accompanies itself by a sea of ​​strangers that Pearl Marble and Cure and Lollapalooza T-shirts along the Bootleg Merch suppliers to Trek Stream is promised landis, RFK Stadium.For the stage.It felt like the whole world jumped up and down to the "connected" of the stereo MCS.

Who could forget to see the violent women for the first time and sing every word with "blisters in the sun" and "kisses", all of whom knew every word?Every day on the way to or school.or seeJewel gets wrong with a frisbeeMidden -Song?

In the weeks before HFS happened, there would be continuous speculation - for lunch, in the shopping center, in the park where you hung around after school - and listened to the radio in the hope of instructions about who played.To be on the phone with a High School -friend When HFS published the 1993 concert announcement, the first at RFK and Chiming Guitar Riff of Velocity Girl's "Audrey's Eyes" heard, and revealed that one of my favorite local bands was the first in the bill.)

The date on which tickets would go into sale was circled on calendars in countless local bedrooms, about beds of teenagers planning with friends (via wireless house telephones) to meet each other in the pre-double hours of outdoor points of sale, such as tower registrations in Rockville, such as tower registrations in Rockville or Jcpenney's in Ballston.Tickets sold out in less than two hours.

For all the memories poured out on social media in the last day, we still have no idea what a reconstituated HFstival could look like - who would play, how many phases, how many flashes reminds of the 1990s. "The organizers' answerWas when it was sent by a Washington Post editor.)

But no traffic in rock nostalgia such as i.M.P., the parent company of the club 9: 30.de spent 2023Celebrating Atlantis's opening, A new location "Inspired by" the original 9:30, with the feverish demand for intimate shows with a number of HFstival veterans, including Foo Fighters, Violent Women, X, Barenaked Ladies, Third Eye Blind and Bush.And i.M.P established new life HFSTIVALS at Merriweather Post Pavilion in 2010 and 2011 themLeaned heavily on line -ups from the 90s..

In the middle of this fresh round with HFS speculation, we know for sure that happy memories almost always come from a very specific time and place.

The high water brand of HFstival took place because music was much more a common listening experience when the audience found new bands on radio set up by friends.There was an element of trust: HFstival attracted huge crowds to a mix of regular actions and local bands, but had sufficient underground credit to the fact that music lovers would go to the smaller "street step" for a glimpse of up-and-comers such as Interpol, yes yes yes or girls against boys before these groups were Very popular.

And crowds who came?

A shame we can never go back.Or can we?