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scruff monkey

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

Its like nostalgia .. its just not what it used to be

Love it.

phuckphace

scruff monkey wrote: »

Would agree on the physical sales thing totally but like all bands they would be looking to maximise digital downloads/streaming and the publicity wouldn't hurt unless they've got another batch of videos ready in the pipeline.
(I'd love to see them but the line up is pretty good looking to me as it is)



aaaah, Sr. Jenny, her set was way too short (cos she was late getting going), and then the bint decided to go climbing on us wasting even more time.

Her and Malkmus one after the other, thought I might just get one bloody Rilo Kiley or Pavement song between the two of them. Festival crowd and all that.

Left Lewis to see the end of Ham Sandwich in the EA and they were unreal. Seen them a hundred times but the massive full tent really suited them.

BullBlackNova

phuckphace wrote: »

Her and Malkmus one after the other, thought I might just get one bloody Rilo Kiley or Pavement song between the two of them. Festival crowd and all that.

Left Lewis to see the end of Ham Sandwich in the EA and they were unreal. Seen them a hundred times but the massive full tent really suited them.

I think Malkmus was so drunk he wouldnt even realise he was in Pavement if you had mentioned it.

My overwhelming memory...

"This one is for the Hull City Tigers! They're from England - your ENEMIES!"

Before launching into 'Chartjunk'.

Bonkers.

schemingbohemia

scruff monkey wrote: »

aaaah, Sr. Jenny, her set was way too short (cos she was late getting going), and then the bint decided to go climbing on us wasting even more time.

https://c5.staticflickr.com/6/5590/14935303020_3364a9809f_z.jpg

I thought she was brilliant that day, would've loved a longer set but still a cracking show.

Easy Rod

The crowd here at forbidden fruit is making me yearn for electric picnic!

scruff monkey

Do tell?

Ferris_Bueller

Blackie_IRL wrote: »

I heard it will be a disco/funk stage they are running this year. They are lining up some big name DJ's.

Yeah I heard it would be funk/soul on the stage although I questioned it as it sounds very similar to the Casa Bacardi stage. We shall see I personally would love to see some kind of stage for that type of music, but it would seem strange if it was a stage solely dedicated to that.

Agree that I would be worried about 3 running the stage in the woods but I only went down for about a total of 1 hour last year, if it keeps the session moths and shuffler crowd down there at night time then I don't care what they play! As we have discussed before something similar to Reckless in Love at B&S would be the dream, where local collectives run a night each.

PabloAndRoy

Easy Rod wrote: »

The crowd here at forbidden fruit is making me yearn for electric picnic!

Ah don't say that... I'm going up tomorrow mainly for the mighty Battles and Kiasmos...

Easy Rod

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

Ah don't say that... I'm going up tomorrow mainly for the mighty Battles and Kiasmos...

Ah no knackery just the impetuousness of youth flying about...and arse cheeks. Arse cheeks everywhere.

PabloAndRoy

Easy Rod wrote: »

Ah no knackery just the impetuousness of youth flying about...and arse cheeks. Arse cheeks everywhere.

Grand so... sure just like last year's picnic so. ;-)

By the way very impressed you can spell impetuousness at this time of an Friday evening at such an event. Fair play.

scruff monkey

Easy Rod wrote: »

arse cheeks. Arse cheeks everywhere.

Female I hope?

PabloAndRoy

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

Easy Rod wrote: »

The crowd here at forbidden fruit is making me yearn for electric picnic!

Ah don't say that... I'm going up tomorrow mainly for the mighty Battles and Kiasmos...

Battles looked fantastic on the Primavera Sound stream. Repeated at 11.50 GMT.

Oasis_Dublin

Thundercats Ho wrote: »

Didn't take too long.....

What's wrong with using 'Noely G?!' He's a man of the people, man. He would like it this way! :cool:

Furious-Red

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Battles looked fantastic on the Primavera Sound stream. Repeated at 11.50 GMT.

Missed them at EP last year but delighted they are at Pukkelpop

Furious-Red

Furious-Red wrote: »

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Battles looked fantastic on the Primavera Sound stream. Repeated at 11.50 GMT.

Missed them at EP last year but delighted they are at Pukkelpop

Seen them a few times. Always open air before EP last year and that seemed to work better. Immense set in Rankin Woods. They're on form going by PS also.

Easy Rod

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

Grand so... sure just like last year's picnic so. ;-)

By the way very impressed you can spell impetuousness at this time of an Friday evening at such an event. Fair play.

Thanks Pablo, it honestly took me about 6 restarts before I got it!

I only stayed to watch young fathers and then bailed...will be back again tomorrow though! Enjoy.

declanleo

Seathrun66 wrote: »

The album hits the shops on 17 June. I believe that if Radiohead (not a band to miss a trick) are playing they will have an agreement with EP to announce that week to boost sales. I also think it's a possibility that they're playing Bestival and/or Rock en Seine and will align the announcements. Their website alluded to more dates to be announced and the three week gap between Summer Sonic Tokyo and Lollapaloza Berlin is a lengthy one. It could be the band taking a break but I think not. Add in the Festival Republic link to Berlin, the similar sized festival shows they're doing, the gap I see in the EP lineup (disputed by many I accept) and I expect them to play. Mid-June is late, but it'll still leave 11 weeks before the festival. I would be very surprised if Berlin is a standalone gig in the six weeks between Japanese and US festivals. And we always get three announcements.

They last announcement is always filler bands. It's not going to happen. If Radiohead were booked, they would have been announced from day one to sell tickets. "Lads, I know you've 50000 tickets to sell but any chance you could hold 3 months to announce us"? I don't think so. Build a bridge lad

declanleo

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

Grand so... sure just like last year's picnic so. ;-)

By the way very impressed you can spell impetuousness at this time of an Friday evening at such an event. Fair play.

Predictive text lol

declanleo

Seathrun66 wrote: »

EP has far more money due to the increased capacity and I think they've spent it in booking some more big acts we'll hear about soon. If not I'm going to get deservedly slaughtered on this site.

EP has massive debts for the last 4-5 years. They are most certainly clawing some of it back

declanleo

Sfa and chemical Bros friday
Mr.gallagher and I'm assuming LCD Saturday as
LDR and new order are sunday

Furious-Red

Bandsintown have Catfish down for friday

former total

declanleo wrote: »

They last announcement is always filler bands. It's not going to happen. If Radiohead were booked, they would have been announced from day one to sell tickets. "Lads, I know you've 50000 tickets to sell but any chance you could hold 3 months to announce us"? I don't think so.

Yeah I can't see any logic at this stage for thinking Radiohead will be added. They've announced their standalone gigs, they've announced festivals. Why would they be holding off on EP?

This is one of those instances in which I'll be delighted to be wrong but can't see it happening.

declanleo

declanleo wrote: »

Seathrun66 wrote: »

EP has far more money due to the increased capacity and I think they've spent it in booking some more big acts we'll hear about soon. If not I'm going to get deservedly slaughtered on this site.

EP has massive debts for the last 4-5 years. They are most certainly clawing some of it back

Then why book Blur last year? Surely took a big chunk out of the profits when they were going to sell out anyway. 20,000 increase in capacity since 2013 and they'll want to sell out 2017 so more big acts for this year will help. They also posted big profits for the past three years and 2016 will undoubtedly continue that run. If no more decent acts to come then I'll happily accept being wrong, but let's see what happens in the next few weeks.

declanleo

declanleo wrote: »

Seathrun66 wrote: »

The album hits the shops on 17 June. I believe that if Radiohead (not a band to miss a trick) are playing they will have an agreement with EP to announce that week to boost sales. I also think it's a possibility that they're playing Bestival and/or Rock en Seine and will align the announcements. Their website alluded to more dates to be announced and the three week gap between Summer Sonic Tokyo and Lollapaloza Berlin is a lengthy one. It could be the band taking a break but I think not. Add in the Festival Republic link to Berlin, the similar sized festival shows they're doing, the gap I see in the EP lineup (disputed by many I accept) and I expect them to play. Mid-June is late, but it'll still leave 11 weeks before the festival. I would be very surprised if Berlin is a standalone gig in the six weeks between Japanese and US festivals. And we always get three announcements.

They last announcement is always filler bands. It's not going to happen. If Radiohead were booked, they would have been announced from day one to sell tickets. "Lads, I know you've 50000 tickets to sell but any chance you could hold 3 months to announce us"? I don't think so. Build a bridge lad

Legal contracts is the answer. Radiohead would have been the party setting conditions, not EP. The third announcement has usually been minor, but things change. For last year's fest Belle & Sebastian and Roisin Murphy were announced 9 months beforehand and then dribs and drabs. The schedule ain't set in stone. Let's see what happens this month.

former total

former total wrote: »

declanleo wrote: »

They last announcement is always filler bands. It's not going to happen. If Radiohead were booked, they would have been announced from day one to sell tickets. "Lads, I know you've 50000 tickets to sell but any chance you could hold 3 months to announce us"? I don't think so.

Yeah I can't see any logic at this stage for thinking Radiohead will be added. They've announced their standalone gigs, they've announced festivals. Why would they be holding off on EP?

This is one of those instances in which I'll be delighted to be wrong but can't see it happening.

Six week gap between Japanese & US festivals, with one Berlin fest bang in the middle. Not inconceivable that they'll announce other fests as their press release said when they revealed the other dates.

Reggie noble

Ah Lord Jaysus , give the radiohead pony a break

declanleo

Reggie noble wrote: »

Ah Lord Jaysus , give the radiohead pony a break

Totally agree

Fatfrog

Nightmare stuff at Rock AM in Germany!!

scruff monkey

Fatfrog wrote: »

Nightmare stuff at Rock AM in Germany!!

Weather/riots/rampaging Visigoths?

Fatfrog

scruff monkey wrote: »

Weather/riots/rampaging Visigoths?

Torrential storms and rain! 70 ppl struck by lightning!! Festival cancelled

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dozens-hospitalised-after-lightning-strikes-at-germanys-rock-am-ring-festival-for-second-year-in-a-a7065191.html