Win free VIP tickets to Outside Lands in SF!

David Pescovitz 11:18 am Thu Jul 11, 2013

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On August 9-11, San Francisco's Golden Gate Park erupts with the Outside Lands music festival, featuring more than 75 performances by an insanely-eclectic lineup of artists. This year's headliners are Paul McCartney, Nine Inch Nails, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. I'm most excited to see The Head and the Heart, The National, D'Angelo, and Thao & The Get Down Stay Down (video above)!

Want to attend? Our friends at Outside Lands provided us with a pair of 3-Day VIP tickets, a $1090 value, to give away! Two runners-up will receive Boing Boing t-shirts! Here's how to win:

1. Come up with one Tweetable haiku (5/7/5) about why you want to attend Outside Lands! (Single Tweet only.)
2. Tweet your haiku before 11:59pm, Sunday, July 14, @boingboing and @sfoutsidelands.
3. Wait patiently until Monday when we will announce the winner and runners-up here and on Twitter!

Good luck!

Above: Thao & The Get Down Stay Down's "Holy Roller" from their album We The Common.

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