Lightning In A Bottle Secures 2019 Location, Unveils Lineup Featuring Flying Lotus, Big Gigantic

Andrew Jorgensen / JORG Photo – Lightning In A Bottle
The Pagoda and Dragonfly structures at a Lightning In a Bottle festival.

After postponing its onsale because of a late-in-the-game venue change, Lightning In A Bottle has announced its new location and lineup for 2019.

The shindig will be held May 8-13 at Buena Vista Lake in San Joaquin Valley, Calif. Big names on the ticket include Flying Lotus, Big Gigantic, Toro y Moi, Gramatik, G Jones, Khruangbin and more.

Tickets go on sale Feb. 16 at 10 a.m. PST. Individuals who purchased tickets for the Super Earlybird Sale will still have their tickets honored at the new venue.

The announcement is no doubt a relief for the legions of underground music fans that throng to producer The Do Lab’s flagship event. LIB was left temporarily without a home after Monterey County Parks Commission’s decision to no longer allow camping on the grounds eliminated the site as a possible location for the event.

Monterey County Resource Management Agency director Carl Holm told the Monterey County Herald last month the Board of Supervisors decided to terminate its contract with The Do Lab in August because last year’s festival exceeded the attendance cap of 20,000 persons. The paper cites attendance estimates of 35,000- to- 37,500, though organizers did not submit Box Office reports to Pollstar.

Do Lab responded to statements made by county officials in that article by stating: “In early September our multi-year agreement was discontinued by the county of Monterey. For several months after that we were in negotiations to continue using lake San Antonio on an annual permit, as we have done in the past. While we were trying to resolve our collective issues, we determined it was in the festival’s and our attendees’ best interest to look for other festival locations due to the many uncertainties we were facing and the length of time it was taking to reach an agreement.”

Do Lab president and music director Jesse Flemming previously talked to Pollstar about growing the company’s flagship event from a birthday party into a “part Burning Man, part Coachella” shindig. Over the years the company has also put on Woogie Weekend and Dirty Bird Campout.

The full lineup for this year’s LIB is posted below:

LIGHTNING STAGE
Disclosure
Flying Lotus
Big Gigantic
Santigold
Gramatik
Toro y Moi
Elohim
Masego
Khruangbin
Cautious Clay
Jan Blomvquist
Rising Appalachia
Channel Tres
Frameworks
ÌFÉ

WOOGIE STAGE
Dj Koze
Recondite
Lane 8
Bedouin
Luttrell
Rampue
Shiba San
Holmar
Escapade (W&R + Ardalan)
Nico Stojan
Damian Lazarus
OMNOM
Gorje & Izhevski
VNSSA
Doc Martin
Zach Walker
Ben Annand
Anton Tumas
Rachel Torro

THUNDER STAGE
The Polish Ambassador
G Jones
CloZee
Dimond Saints
SHADES
OPIUO
Soulection
1788-L
Spectrasoul
CharlestheFirst
Anna Morgan
Desert Dwellers
Manatee Commune
kLL sMTH
Jade Cicada
ill-esha
Axel Theslef