Festivals 2015 - which ones are you doing?

Mince Pie

Seeing as we're all in a post EP and summer slump thought maybe some suggestions of which festivals you plan on doing next year, which you won't be doing and why?

Looking for inspiration on where to spend me cash and look for early bird tickets.

I'll go first

Already got tickets for EP
No nails left from anticipation about ticket day for Glastonbury. :O
Deffo doing Knockanstockan after missing it this year.

Won't be doing
Longitude - scobe central this year and left early on two evenings and miss the camping part of the festival.
Parklife in Manchester. Absolute scumbag of a festival run really badly for maximum profit. Never again.

Looking for a different one to do to replace the two I won't be going to.

bodhrandude

Mince Pie wrote: »

Seeing as we're all in a post EP and summer slump thought maybe some suggestions of which festivals you plan on doing next year, which you won't be doing and why?

Looking for inspiration on where to spend me cash and look for early bird tickets.

I'll go first

Already got tickets for EP
No nails left from anticipation about ticket day for Glastonbury. :O
Deffo doing Knockanstockan after missing it this year.

Won't be doing
Longitude - scobe central this year and left early on two evenings and miss the camping part of the festival.
Parklife in Manchester. Absolute scumbag of a festival run really badly for maximum profit. Never again.

Looking for a different one to do to replace the two I won't be going to.

Body & Soul festival without a doubt, very little scobes, loads of cool stoners including the crew, some pretentious hipsters too but there you go, loads of incandescent installations sprinkled throughout the fairy forest, you will not regret it.

Mince Pie

bodhrandude wrote: »

Body & Soul festival without a doubt, very little scobes, loads of cool stoners including the crew, some pretentious hipsters too but there you go, loads of incandescent installations sprinkled throughout the fairy forest, you will not regret it.

B&S is my back up in case of missing Glastonbury tickets as its way too close to do both.

JJ

Depending on the lineups, I might do Forbidden Fruit and/or Longitude. I might be more inclined toward Forbidden Fruit as it's closer to home and there's generally a nice crowd.

ghostdancer

May - Life Festival

June Bank Holiday - probably Forbidden Fruit, might try to get to Primavera Sound in Barcelona instead though.

June - Sonar in Barcelona, and Glastonbury the weekend after. will do B&S if friends can't/won't go to those.

July - Longitude depending on lineup

August - Castlepalooza maybe.

August/September - going to try get to Outlook/Dimensions/Unknown in Croatia depending on dates. will be picking up an EP ticket as a backup in case friends are too unorganised to go to Croatia, which is likely.

scruff monkey

EP ticket booked and paid for, half thinking of Glastonbury, maybe B&S or that one out Mayo way if the weathers nice.
Don't really care who winds up headlining EP, there's more than enough to do at it.

Arne_Saknussem

bodhrandude wrote: »

Body & Soul festival without a doubt, very little scobes, loads of cool stoners including the crew, some pretentious hipsters too but there you go, loads of incandescent installations sprinkled throughout the fairy forest, you will not regret it.

The free flow of Alcohol at Body & Soul last year made for the most chilled out atmosphere i've experienced at a festival in a long time also.

Hope it's the same next year

Think I'm over EP now tbh.

Sziget would be nice. I'll say tomorrowland but I know I won't make it, as usual :P

Mince Pie

Deleted User wrote: »

Think I'm over EP now tbh.

Sziget would be nice. I'll say tomorrowland but I know I won't make it, as usual :P

Sziget has properly piqued my interest.

Birneybau

Primavera all the way!

JackMcA

Benicassim and EP. same as this year

Mince Pie

Primavera??

Could I cordially request as per the OP that peeps give a quick reason as to their choices, just that half the point of the thread is to give inspiration for others looking to test out new festivals. Ta.

alastair

Will try for Glastonbury tickets again. Reason? It's the daddy, nothing comes close.
Meant to go to Vantastival last year, and might make it this year. Reason? Believe it's very good humoured, and I like their BYO approach to booze. Old VW's are cool too.
EP. Reason? It's back in form after a couple of dicey years.

Mince Pie

alastair wrote: »

Will try for Glastonbury tickets again.
Meant to go to Vantastival last year, and might make it this year.
EP.

Whats Vantastival like? its only down the road from me but always looks cold!

aka accounts 2010

Current plan:

1. Glastonbury
2. Reading
3. EP

Hoping for some quality one day gigs at Marlay Park/Phoenix Park/Slane etc.

Will probably grab day ticket for Forbidden Fruit and Longitude if line up is tempting!

bodhrandude

Wouldn't mind trying out Wickerman in Scotland which occurs at the end of July, a similar buzz to Body&Soul, the idea coming out of the film set for the original movie shot in the early 70s, the festival site is the actual area the film was shot and a huge wickerman gets burned at the end of the festival. Theres a main stage with fairly good acts and about 5 or 6 others, a dedicated reggae area like Port Royal at B&S and Trenchtown at EP, 3 dance tents, installations and all sorts happening.

http://www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickerman_Festival

UsedToWait

Mince Pie wrote: »

Whats Vantastival like? its only down the road from me but always looks cold!

Vantastival's great - perfect start to festival season - good lineups of mostly Irish acts, lovely site, nice people..

I look forward to it every year - roll on 2015

I recommend looking into Roskilde. It's awesome.

Ferris_Bueller

Body & Soul and Electric Picnic would be the only two definites for me next summer. First time attending body & soul this year and it was absolutely fantastic, great crowd and atmosphere, weather helped too undoubtedly. Forbidden fruit was great this year too but it would depend on the line up.

Think I will give castlepalooza and longitude a miss next year. Life is on the fence, a great line up would attract me and had great fun at it this year but there was an uncomfortable crowd at it and can only see it getting worse unfortunately.

There are a lot of festivals abroad that look very appealing but I don't think I would enjoy them as much as the ones here, I think Irish crowds are what make some of our festivals so enjoyable, for me personally anyway.

Birneybau

To answer Mince Pie's cordial request, Primavera because the line up is always amazing for the alternative minded, there's no grass and no fecking campsite.

No queues for beer, a very well behaved crowd and well, its in Barcelona.

Pingi

Download next year, already booked travelodge non refundable so I'm P. locked in before even an announcement.

Skipped it this year in favor of Altfest which was canceled and haven't refunded my money (I know I need to raise chargeback but effort)

Useful.Idiot

Will give my two cents on those I went to during my festival year if it helps anyone This year I went to:

Barn Dance - One dayer in Glendalough House on Good Friday, pretty good lineup and lovely location and setup and BYOB. return buses from Dublin, got to Dublin shortly before 4am. very young mostly Dublin crowd.

Vantastival - Just down the road from my hometown. Have been the last 4 years even though I don't know a thing about campervans. An absolute gem of an Irish festival overlooked by the forested Cooley Mountains. Mostly Irish line-up with some big-ish Irish names and usually one or two big-ish international acts from the UK or elsewhere. Ridiculously friendly hippie kind of crowd, gets (slightly) bigger and better every year, all the different stages and areas are so well done. The 'Melomania' area tucked away in the forest this year with late night chill out areas and DJs was amazing. Like a smaller scale EP in vibe. Highly recommended! More than worth the small cost and an hour north of Dublin.

Life - I really enjoyed Life this (my first) year. Definitely more for electronic heads. Beautiful location. Seems to be a mix of fest buzzer types and scobey types. Didn't encounter any trouble. Would head again if the line-up was as ridiculously good as this year and the weather was good.

Hellfest - For anyone who is heavy metal inclined. Hot weather in the arse end of nowhere in the west of France. The setup and line-up was amazing though same weekend as Body and Soul so might give B&S the preference next year.

Primavera - Probably the best festival line-up I had seen in years. Was staying with about 10-11 friends in an apartment in central Barcelona and with such a large group I felt we didn't do the festival justice; arriving late in the evening to the festival, getting split up and losing people and missing bands etc. Though it did feel more like a holiday because of this! Was an amazing setup though and the weather was fantastic. Drinking beforehand in Barcelona was ridiculously cheap and music went on till 4am.

Longitude - Great lineup, great setup. Everyone was complaining about the crowd this year but I didn't mind it. The Heineken tent area and the places in the forest were way more chilled out than the main stage area. Would definitely hit again depending on the lineup!

Indiependence - Weather was great this year, nice indie line-up and the Cork-craic atmosphere made this a great weekend! Definitely recommended though it was more of a bands and craic in a field as opposed to something like the artsy Castlepalooza which was on the same weekend (where it rained torrentially).

EP - Best EP I've had so far, need I say more? Ireland's Glastonbury - you'll never get to see everything.

Hoping to hit Samhain at the end of next month too. Not sure about next year yet. Would love to hit Body and Soul next year as I have missed it every year and all my friends said it was the greatest but I was at Hellfest. Also some mates are moving over to California for a grad visa and meeting up with them and hitting Burning Man is a strong possibility!

dmm82

Have my EP ticket sorted

Will more than likely head to at least one of the days of Forbidden Fruit and am also going to try get to Life, Body & Soul and Castlepalooza, all depends on funds!

Saruwatari

Defo goin to B&S and FF again, loved those this year! EP can get fecked, I'mma check out Primavera instead

sadie06

Have my EP tickets, but seriously thinking about checking out Vantastival. I know the line-up isn't a massive draw, but I hate going a full year without the feel-good festival atmosphere.

Useful.Idiot

sadie06 wrote: »

Have my EP tickets, but seriously thinking about checking out Vantastival. I know the line-up isn't a massive draw, but I hate going a full year without the feel-good festival atmosphere.

And Vantastival is one of the best examples of that atmosphere! Music-wise it's the kind of festival where you just wander around the stages and end up discovering some deadly Irish bands you've never heard before. God Is An Astronaut and And So I Watch You From Afar headlined in recent years, both amazing bands! discovered the mighty Booka Brass Band first at Vantastival this year too.

sydthebeat

absolutely loved 'groove' this year, great line up too.. hopefully onward and upwards next year !!

Danger Fourpence

Body & Soul, Indiependance and Electric Picnic

JamieHP

Thinking of doing Reading, line up depending

MeetReality

Dekmantel & OFF Sonar are on my list. Anyone been to either before? Tips?

SteelyDanJalapeno

Primavera hands down, the best festival I've ever been to, and I've made a lot of the European ones.

The no camping made it better for me, myself and 7 others got an apartment for 5 nights in Barcelona and partied in the sun all day the went to the festival in the evenings until sunrise, the known acts dont even start appearing till about 10PM.

Dibble

Vantastival in May
Electric Picnic in Sept (tickets bought )

lc180

I'm kinda thinking of going to SXSW in 2015, has any boardies been before?

I've been to Austin a few years ago and loved the place so looking for a good excuse to go back there. I know its not a music festival in the typical sense but just wondering it is good craic or is it just an over-hyped hipster gathering?

ghostdancer

i looked into it before and i remember the tickets being ridiculously expensive. most of the people i know/know of who have gone have had it paid for by work, or gone for work-related reasons.

e: http://sxsw.com/attend - currently $695 (€544) for a music-only ticket. goes up $30 in 4 days....

symbolic

Yeah I have to agree with Primavera. It's my favourite one. Great city and weather. Best line up for my tastes. Going to do http://www.optimusprimaverasound.com/?lang=en instead next year though.

Also Sziget is a great set up, really relaxed. And quick train from Budapest so no need for camping if you don't want to.

And the Berlin Festival. http://www.berlinfestival.de/en/live.html Gigs go on into the night in clubs around Berlin and your in Berlin anyway so lots to do in that space!

Think its definitely worth making the trip to Europe instead of the Irish ones. Pretty much guaranteed the weather and Primavera is great as it starts so late and goes on into the night. No crazy queues for drink. And they have a couple of events in a park in Barcelona too where you can chill out with some 1Eur cans of beer in the sun. For me its the best thing ever!

Fugs!!

We were planning on glasto but no joy on tickets and I'm not waiting until April so bbk in bilbao instead.

lc180

ghostdancer wrote: »

i looked into it before and i remember the tickets being ridiculously expensive. most of the people i know/know of who have gone have had it paid for by work, or gone for work-related reasons.

e: http://sxsw.com/attend - currently $695 (€544) for a music-only ticket. goes up $30 in 4 days....

Sweet Jesus, I was not expecting that! Cheers for the info.

Beaner1

Bloc.

Sitting in a tent in **** weather is for *****.

pervertedcoffee

I did a LOAD this year. Possibly too many. I'm feeling the festival fatigue BIG TIME. I nearly feel like I need to take a sabbatical from work to recover.

I follow my favourite bands around so it really depends on the line ups...but will definately be going to ArcTanGent and not as a volunteer either!

Also almost definitely doing Knockan Stockan. Considering keeping all my holidays and going down beforehand to do art work on it as that's what I really love to do.

On that note...I always felt like the Boards festie folk should have had a lift sharing thread...what do ye think? Environmentally friendly and all that jazz.

TheGoldenAges

Since I missed out on Glastonbury I think I'll wait till the returned ticket sale and try again. If not I'll probably head to Reading.

melekalikimaka

ep, leeds, glasto, latitude, boomtown fair, and possibly if line up is goond kubana for an adventure

Mrcher

I'm deffo going to Sziget again. Been to Primavera and Sziget this year and I enjoyed the latter one so much more. Although the line-up was good at Primavera, I found it severely lacking of festival atmosphere. No camping, nothing to do besides watching concerts, expensive food and beer, no party vibe at all... I guess it's just not my kind of festival. Barcelona was nice though, but so is Budapest

Lucifer31

Bloodstock for me and the missus (Derbyshire, UK).

HausOfTony

Body & Soul and Electric Picnic without a doubt. First time at B&S this year and absolutely loved it. So relaxed and it's just a wonderful environment.

Hoping to go travelling in July but if not I probably will go to Knockanstockan again. Super friendly crowd and it's the perfect size. Would definitely go to Longitude if the line up was as good as this year.

Would love to check out Life, have never been! And I can't see myself going to Forbidden Fruit or Samhain again

Wrongway1985

Lucifer31 wrote: »

Bloodstock for me and the missus (Derbyshire, UK).

Tempted, line-up shaping up nicely even though I'm surprised at Within Temptation headlining

Easy Rod

After Sunday's gig I will be going to whatever festival manages to get Future Islands back over here.

Anyone any idea where they could end up? I know they were promoted by Harmonic/Foggy notions so does that mean Forbidden Fruit or maybe an Iveagh gardens show? Hopefully one of those and then headline a tent at electric picnic and i'm a happy man.

BetterThanThou

Rock Werchter is something that's a possibility, myself and some of my friends are planning a holiday around that time, myself and one of them feel like the others are going to drop out on the plans, so, we've agreed if that happens, we're going to go to Rock Werchter, as he has a relative that lives in Brussels, so we'll have free accommodation for the remainder of the week. Longitude is another one that's a possibility, I wasn't pushed at all on the line ups the last two years, and I doubt that'll change next year, but I'll happily go if my friends want to, just for the festival experience and an excuse to have a 3 day bender.

Bowlardo

Mrcher wrote: »

I'm deffo going to Sziget again. Been to Primavera and Sziget

are the Hungarians good craic?
who did you fly with ?
Did you stay on site or go with any apartment?
Would you recommend going for the week?

Mushy

Tempted by the new German ones, or Austria ones. Green Hell/Rockaaria/Rock in Ienna

grudgehugger

Nailed on:
EP for the 7th time - tix already bought
Body and Soul - been the last 3 years, no reason not to go again, love it...

After that, contenders are...

Life (never been before, may go if line-up is as good as last year)
Primavera (maybe the Portugal one, been to Barca once before)
Wilderness in UK (never been before, they have babysitters!!!)
Would love to go to one Irish festival I haven't been to before so if I don't go to Life than maybe Castlepalooza or something like that...
Also, have never made it to any BeatYard events - would like to have a crack at doing that in May assuming it's on again

Twigehh

My plan as of now is:

Life Festival
Balaton Sound - Hungary
Audio river - Poland
Ozora - Hungary
Lost Theory - Croatia
B.My.Lake - Hungary
Dimensions - Croatia
Electric Picnic