Kaleidoscope 2019

Paddy2012

exilec wrote: »

Leaving it very late to announce anything . Strange set up considering they are aiming at families ??

If I was to guess id say the line up will mainly be the more family friendly acts from the Glasto lineup who are yet to play Ireland this year like The Killers, Kylie, Snow Patrol, Mikey Cyrus etc.

Furious-Red

Paddy2012 wrote: »

If I was to guess id say the line up will mainly be the more family friendly acts from the Glasto lineup who are yet to play Ireland this year like The Killers, Kylie, Snow Patrol, Mikey Cyrus etc.

Killers are playing Belsonic , Snow Patrol doing Dublin and Belfast already. Kylie is a good bet tho

Paddy2012

Furious-Red wrote: »

Killers are playing Belsonic

Which I think probably makes them more likely to do this too

Ricosruffneck

Paddy2012 wrote: »

Which I think probably makes them more likely to do this too

Am I right in saying this fest is 8000 cap? was that mentioned.

If so Killers are way too big.

corm500

Ricosruffneck wrote: »

Am I right in saying this fest is 8000 cap? was that mentioned.

If so Killers are way too big.

I wouldnt expect it to be the Killers, as you say, too big. I reckon the headliners will be of the Beatyard/ Groove festival level.

MadYaker

The Killers and Kylie Minogue headlining some tiny new fest that we know nothing about :pac: gotta love boards!

drunkmonkey

I wouldn't rule Kylie out, Leo would easily sell our souls for a few minutes with her.

Stillill42

Paddy2012 wrote: »

If I was to guess id say the line up will mainly be the more family friendly acts from the Glasto lineup who are yet to play Ireland this year like The Killers, Kylie, Snow Patrol, Mikey Cyrus etc.

God bless you Paddy, you're an optimistic soul. I think you need to lower the bar by several notches there. Although Mikey Cyrus might be a possibility.

bodhrandude

So what's the lineup for this.

corm500

bodhrandude wrote: »

So what's the lineup for this.

I was told it would be this week, not looking likely now. Leaving it till two months before the festival to announce lineup and ticket prices is a dangerous game. I hope they know what they are doing. It will either have to be a kick ass lineup up or cheap as chips ticket prices to sell it out at this stage.

Eod100

corm500 wrote: »

I was told it would be this week, not looking likely now. Leaving it till two months before the festival to announce lineup and ticket prices is a dangerous game. I hope they know what they are doing. It will either have to be a kick ass lineup up or cheap as chips ticket prices to sell it out at this stage.

Could still be tomorrow I guess

BullBlackNova

corm500 wrote: »

I was told it would be this week, not looking likely now. Leaving it till two months before the festival to announce lineup and ticket prices is a dangerous game. I hope they know what they are doing. It will either have to be a kick ass lineup up or cheap as chips ticket prices to sell it out at this stage.

Even then, I'd have my doubts now. It's clearly being aimed at families with kids and I'd say the vast majority of people with kids who are planning holidays for the summer already have them planned.

If this was a first time organiser, you'd have your doubts about the professionalism of it but for Festival Republic to be so casual and late is very surprising.

At a guess, I'd say they're not expecting a lot from this year and, instead, are focused on establishing the brand so that it's top of the list for people next year. But even at that, you'd imagine the line up was at least partly finalised months ago so to have no info at all is still very strange.

MJohnston

At this point you'd have to expect a very bargain basement lineup, with a tiny capacity, and a lot of day tickets.

bodhrandude

It must be Monday surely for this announcement now.

bigpink

Prob be full of bloggers and influencers lol i say

judeboy101

bigpink wrote: »

Prob be full of bloggers and influencers lol i say

What festival doesn't?

Paddy2012

Ricosruffneck wrote: »

Am I right in saying this fest is 8000 cap? was that mentioned.

If so Killers are way too big.

Sorry I didn't know that, guess it is a bit optimistic

Ricosruffneck

Paddy2012 wrote: »

Sorry I didn't know that, guess it is a bit optimistic

Would be great though. Sometimes optimism pays off. We're too pessimistic sometimes

drunkmonkey

Heard these aren't playing not sure how true the rumour is....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUb4-JD0epo

MJohnston

The guy behind a few 20 year old trance-pop tunes? That'd certainly be a particular choice.

Stillill42

This is not the direction I expected.

bodhrandude

Giving up on this one now, it seems to be a lost cause for this year.

drunkmonkey

I'm off to the Algarve...it sounded like torture with the kids from the start.

Eod100

bodhrandude wrote: »

Giving up on this one now, it seems to be a lost cause for this year.

Has it announced anything yet? I won't be going with way but curious what line up will be

Homesick Alien

I'm also curious to see how it will pan out. Brought the kids to ATN last year and would definitely be on for this but we have a wedding the same weekend this year. Have to say I agree with other posters that it seems a bit shambolic to have no details but the name and date out at this stage.

PabloAndRoy

This is surely dead in the water.

corm500

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

This is surely dead in the water.

They posted on Facebook 2 days ago that the Lineup was coming VERY soon (Their capitalisation not mine)

2 months to sell a festival? they are braver souls than me.

endainoz

It'll be an interesting feat if they manage it, still though capacity isn't huge, could throw a couple reasonably popular Irish acts and one or two 80s type heritage acts and I reckon they would still have a good chance. Organization of this has been poor so far though. If they pull it off it'll be impressive!

drunkmonkey

Wouldn't worry about the time to show a good enough act will sell it out straight away. There's a little bit of spontaneous to it, kind like that in this premeditated world.

corm500

A cursory look through who is playing festivals in the UK around the end of June gives a list of possibilities for this festival.

Feeder
Texas
Keane
Black Eyed Peas
Josh Groban
Bryan Ferry
Tears For Fears
Mavericks
Billy Ocean
Belinda Carlisle
Kate Nash
Kooks
Paul Weller
Busted
Billy Bragg
Anne Marie
Fatboy Slim
Fontaines DC
Janet Jackson
Kylie
Lauren Hill
Lionel Richie
Orbital
Sheryl Crow

As its an unknown quantity, its highly probable that none of the above will appear, but I would say quite a few of these acts are within the paygrade of this festival, possible exceptions Kylie and Janet.

Stillill42

I predict EZ Feelin and the Joe Dolan experience.

bodhrandude

Would it be a musc festival lineup like the others though, maybe it will be celebrities that appeal to kids, if this is a fully fledged kids festival, we might be talking about boy bands and x factor type stuff, perhaps festival guests like child show presenters and the like. It certainly doesn't seem to be acting like the way of other festivals, more noticeable with its lack of announcements. This leads me to think its a different kind of billing altogether that doesn't require the urgency of all the other types of festivals.

ghostdancer

^^agreed. I'll be surprised if there's anyone on the music lineup that most of this forum would care about. I'm expecting someone on the level of Dermot Kennedy or whoever the new budget version of Picture This is, or maybe a pop-y act like Anne-Marie mentioned above.
Everything points more to it being a family fun day out, not a music festival.
Weather will probably make or break it, a sunny weekend and probably loads of last minute day tickets being bought.

PabloAndRoy

bodhrandude wrote: »

Would it be a musc festival lineup like the others though, maybe it will be celebrities that appeal to kids, if this is a fully fledged kids festival, we might be talking about boy bands and x factor type stuff, perhaps festival guests like child show presenters and the like. It certainly doesn't seem to be acting like the way of other festivals, more noticeable with its lack of announcements. This leads me to think its a different kind of billing altogether that doesn't require the urgency of all the other types of festivals.

If there is only kids' stuff, whats in it for the adults? No self respecting parent is going to take a weekend out of their (summer) life, lash out a couple of hundred quid to camp with their kids and watch their kids do kids stuff. I can't imagine many going to that.

IIRC it is pitching itself as a family festival rather than a kid's festival. You have to have stuff for all the family not just kids.

bodhrandude

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

If there is only kids' stuff, whats in it for the adults? No self respecting parent is going to take a weekend out of their (summer) life, lash out a couple of hundred quid to camp with their kids and watch their kids do kids stuff. I can't imagine many going to that.

IIRC it is pitching itself as a family festival rather than a kid's festival. You have to have stuff for all the family not just kids.

There could be audio visual stuff, science fairs, talks, all sorts of stuff as well, its obviously geared toward the start of the school holidays and you know, some parents live for their kids and love that kind of involvement too, like an extended Soul Kids festival. Sure you know yourself Pablo there's plenty of choice already out there, so maybe Kaleidoscope is aiming the other way, I don't know. I can imagine it closing at 10.30 - 11 PM unless there is the adult selection for the early hours.

PabloAndRoy

FB:

April 2nd: Line-up, Ticket & Camping Information coming Very Soon!! We can't wait to share it with you all...

April 9th: First KALEIDOSCOPE 2019 music line-up announcements coming VERY soon. We cannot wait to share them

April 11th ... ?

Ricosruffneck

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

FB:

April 2nd: Line-up, Ticket & Camping Information coming Very Soon!! We can't wait to share it with you all...

April 9th: First KALEIDOSCOPE 2019 music line-up announcements coming VERY soon. We cannot wait to share them

April 11th ... ?

I guess they can wait.

bodhrandude

A children's festival with a small garden for the adults called Soul Adults :eek:

scruff monkey

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

FB:

April 2nd: Line-up, Ticket & Camping Information coming Very Soon!! We can't wait to share it with you all...

April 9th: First KALEIDOSCOPE 2019 music line-up announcements coming VERY soon. We cannot wait to share them

April 11th ... ?

Very Electric Picnic of them, super excitable oh my god statement followed for 6 months by crickets...

Eod100

If it's not out by tomorrow or next Friday it'd be bit mad

PabloAndRoy

scruff monkey wrote: »

Very Electric Picnic of them, super excitable oh my god statement followed for 6 months by crickets...

If someone in my work place said "I will have that deliverable very soon", they would get a very "what are you talking about?" look.

Very soon means "I don't know exactly when, I am still working on it"

Homesick Alien

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

If there is only kids' stuff, whats in it for the adults? No self respecting parent is going to take a weekend out of their (summer) life, lash out a couple of hundred quid to camp with their kids and watch their kids do kids stuff. I can't imagine many going to that.

IIRC it is pitching itself as a family festival rather than a kid's festival. You have to have stuff for all the family not just kids.

Do you have kids? I am a self respecting parent and I would happily go camping with my kids at something like this. The camping is the bit they would be most excited about tbh. However I dont think it's gonna be 100% kids stuff. It'll prob be more of a 50:50 split unlike standard festivals which are 90:10 in favour of adult entertainment.

PabloAndRoy

Homesick Alien wrote: »

Do you have kids? I am a self respecting parent and I would happily go camping with my kids at something like this. The camping is the bit they would be most excited about tbh. However I dont think it's gonna be 100% kids stuff. It'll prob be more of a 50:50 split unlike standard festivals which are 90:10 in favour of adult entertainment.

I do have a child. My point was you need something for the adults also, which I also suspect they will have. Maybe I didn't make myself clear.

blackwhite

Homesick Alien wrote: »

Do you have kids? I am a self respecting parent and I would happily go camping with my kids at something like this. The camping is the bit they would be most excited about tbh. However I dont think it's gonna be 100% kids stuff. It'll prob be more of a 50:50 split unlike standard festivals which are 90:10 in favour of adult entertainment.

If the camping is what they are excited about, why not just do that instead of paying €200+ Per person for the privilege

That way you and the OH can use the savings to go to electric picnic or ATN!

Eod100

Some of the bands just out. https://twitter.com/TodayFM/status/1116598260372606976?s=19

dragonfly!

Eod100 wrote: »

Some of the bands just out. https://twitter.com/TodayFM/status/1116598260372606976?s=19

I entered the comp to win tickets but sadly my luck wasnt in....
Does anyone know if there will be day tickets for this?

judeboy101

Eod100 wrote: »

Some of the bands just out. https://twitter.com/TodayFM/status/1116598260372606976?s=19

Bell X1, well there's your legacy act and Irish act all rolled into one .

Eod100

judeboy101 wrote: »

Bell X1, well there's your legacy act and Irish act all rolled into one .

Not sure they would qualify as legacy tbf

PabloAndRoy

judeboy101 wrote: »

Bell X1, well there's your legacy act and Irish act all rolled into one .

I suppose Bell X1 headlining is about what we expected for this.

BaZmO*

BaZmO* wrote: »

I’d be shocked if it’s anything other than a load of Irish acts and maybe one well known “heritage “ act.

Told ya! :pac:

Tbf though, the early bird ticket of €105 for a family of 4 is not that bad. Wouldn't be a million miles away from the cost of paying into a regular pitched camping site for the weekend.