Jun 7–10 2012
BonnarooMusic & ArtsFestival2012
Radiohead · Red Hot Chili Peppers · Two Door Cinema Club · tUnE-yArDs
Great Stage Park
FestivalRemembered
June 7, 2012 to June 10, 2012
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival 2012
Great Stage Park Manchester, TN
Day by day
Thursday, June 7
Attendance unknownThe record only establishes Fri and Sat. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. and Moon Taxi also played Fri, so Tal picking them does not place Tal on site Thursday.
- Alabama Shakes
- Kendrick Lamar
- Yelawolf
- Danny Brown
- The Lonely Forest
- The Dirty Guv'nahs
- Big Gigantic
- SOJA
- Moon Taxi
- Orgone
- Mariachi El Bronx
- K.Flay
- MiMosa
- Phantogram
- White Denim
- Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
- The Cave Singers
- EMA
- Cherub
- Glossary
- Marina Orchestra
- MonstrO
- Hudost
- The Casey Driessen Singularity
- Water Knot
- Rollin' In The Hay
- Fort Atlantic
- Jared Dietch
- Quickie Mart
- DJ Equal
- K-Flay (DJ set)
- DJ XSV
Friday, June 8
Tal was hereTal picked Radiohead, Electric Guest, tUnE-yArDs and Two Door Cinema Club, all of which the record notes place on Fri Jun 8 only.
- Radiohead
- Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A.
- The Avett Brothers
- Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
- The Soul Rebels
- Foster the People
- Feist
- AfroCubism
- Needtobreathe
- The Kooks
- Umphrey's McGee
- Major Lazer
- Ludacris
- Little Dragon
- Two Door Cinema Club
- tUnE-yArDs
- Electric Guest
- Flying Lotus
- Black Star
- St. Vincent
- Fitz and the Tantrums
- Laura Marling
- Ben Howard
- Michael Kiwanuka
- Big Freedia
- Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk
- The Word
- Dawes
- Trampled by Turtles
- Sam Bush
- The Infamous Stringdusters
- Steven Bernstein's MTO Plays SLY
- The Deep Dark Woods
- Chappo
- Claire and the Reasons
- Paladino
- Valient Thorr
- Rubblebucket
- Pujol
- Sara Watkins
- Oberhofer
- Hey Rosetta!
- Caitlin Rose
- Katie Herzig
- Trixie Whitley
- Shahidah Omar
- Punch Brothers
- Colin Hay
- Moon Taxi
- The Dirty Guv'nahs
- Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
- Jared Dietch
- Wyllys
- DJ Equal
- Quickie Mart
- Mark Foster of Foster the People
- DJ XSV
- K-Flay (DJ set)
Saturday, June 9
Tal was hereTal saw Art vs. Science at the Great Taste Lounge and recalls Flogging Molly (attendee sources); Tal also picked Red Hot Chili Peppers. The record notes place all three on Sat Jun 9.
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- The Roots
- Santigold
- The Temper Trap
- Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires
- Skrillex
- Dispatch
- Childish Gambino
- Punch Brothers
- Blind Pilot
- The Devil Makes Three
- GZA performing "Liquid Swords" backed by Grupo Fantasma
- Superjam ft. ?uestlove and very special guests
- Mogwai
- SBTRKT
- Battles
- Das Racist
- Darondo
- Unchained "The Mighty Van Halen Tribute"
- Alice Cooper
- Danzig Legacy
- Puscifer
- Flogging Molly
- Bad Brains
- Pelican
- Pedrito Martinez Group
- Spectrum Road
- Red Baraat
- La-33
- Khaira Arby & Her Band
- Debo Band
- Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang
- James Wallace & the Naked Light
- Jukebox the Ghost
- Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds
- Bhi Bhiman
- Art vs. Science
- We Are Augustines
- The Stooges Brass Band
- Robert Ellis
- Chuck Mead
- Tauk
- LP
- Wild Cub
- Cosmic Suckerpunch
- The Main Squeeze
- Gary Clark Jr.
- North Mississippi Allstars Duo
- Oberhofer
- Trampled by Turtles
- Hey Rosetta!
- Dawes
- Trixie Whitley
- The Casey Driessen Singularity
- Brenton Duvall
- Penguin Prison (DJ set)
- Body Language (DJ set)
- Wyllys
Sunday, June 10
Attendance unknownNotes say Tal left before Phish closed Sunday night, but the source is a Jun 6 email written before the festival and no act places Tal on site Sunday: Chappo also played Fri, and Tal does not think they saw Grouplove.
- Phish
- Bon Iver
- The Beach Boys
- Gary Clark Jr.
- The Shins
- Ben Folds Five
- Mac Miller
- The Black Lips
- Delta Spirit
- Young the Giant
- The Joy Formidable
- The War on Drugs
- Grouplove
- ALO
- fun.
- Kurt Vile and the Violators
- The Antlers
- Here We Go Magic
- Fruit Bats
- Black Box Revelation
- The Civil Wars
- Kenny Rogers
- City and Colour
- Kathleen Edwards
- Sarah Jarosz
- Machines Are People Too
- Robert Francis
- Matt Sucich
- Bethesda
- The Staves
- Yuna
- The Silent Comedy
- By Lightning!
- Honey Island Swamp Band
- Fly Golden Eagle
- Brownout
- Chappo
- We Are Augustines
- Blind Pilot
- Red Baraat
- Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds
- Body Language (DJ set)
Music stages only (What, Which, the three tents, Café Where, Great Taste Lounge, Sonic Stage, Silent Disco). Comedy, Cinema Tent and Solar Stage programming is excluded.
How this night is known
Remembered Attendee confirmed
Festival ran Jun 7-10, 2012. Tal bought a resale wristband on Jun 4 and drove down, leaving before Phish closed Sunday night. Dated to Sat Jun 9, when Art vs. Science played a 30-minute afternoon set on the Sonic Stage and a midnight set at the Great Taste Lounge; Tal saw the Great Taste Lounge set. Flogging Molly played That Tent the same day. Days of the other acts Tal picked: Radiohead, Electric Guest, tUnE-yArDs and Two Door Cinema Club Fri Jun 8; Red Hot Chili Peppers Sat Jun 9; Oberhofer Fri Jun 8 (Great Taste Lounge) and Sat Jun 9 (Sonic Stage); Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. and Moon Taxi Thu Jun 7 (tents) and Fri Jun 8 (Sonic Stage), so Tal was there Fri and Sat at least. Chappo played Cafe Where Fri Jun 8 and the Sonic Stage Sun Jun 10. Tal does not think they saw Grouplove (Sun). Other billed artists are not treated as individually seen.
- TalTal confirmed seeing Art vs. Science
Tal remembers seeing Art vs. Science at Bonnaroo, at the Great Taste Lounge set rather than the Sonic Stage one, as well as at Governors Ball and Brooklyn Bowl. Confirmed 2026-11-07
- TalTal recalls seeing Flogging Molly
Tal recalls Flogging Molly at Bonnaroo 2012 (That Tent, Saturday Jun 9). Confirmed 2026-11-07
- TalTal picked more acts from the 2012 lineup
From the 2012 lineup Tal thinks they saw Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Moon Taxi, Radiohead, Electric Guest, tUnE-yArDs, Two Door Cinema Club, Oberhofer and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Tal does not think they saw Grouplove there. Confirmed 2026-11-07
- TalTal thinks they saw Chappo
Tal thinks they saw Chappo at Bonnaroo 2012. Confirmed 2026-11-07
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