Kaleidoscope 2019

corm500 · 08-03-2019 1:53pm #1

Got an invite to the launch on Wednesday, interestingly it states "Line up for Electric Picnic 2019 revealed PLUS a brand new summer festival!!!

"Festival Director Melvin Benn of Festival Republic will be on hand for soundbytes and questions. With Electric Picnic now fully sold out he will also announce initial details of a brand new festival taking place this summer. The stunning location of this new festival – brought to you by the Electric Picnic family - has never before been used and will provide the perfect backdrop to a new event on the summer festival calendar."

Ricosruffneck · 08-03-2019 1:56pm

corm500 wrote: »

Got an invite to the launch on Wednesday, interestingly it states "Line up for Electric Picnic 2019 revealed PLUS a brand new summer festival!!!

That's a scoop and a half.

Were they not promoting a smaller folk/comedy fest last year or 2017 or am I mistaken?

Did it have the Lost Brothers involved?

Eod100 · 08-03-2019 1:58pm

corm500 wrote: »

Got an invite to the launch on Wednesday, interestingly it states "Line up for Electric Picnic 2019 revealed PLUS a brand new summer festival!!!

Interesting, wonder will they be going for the gap in the market for an Oxegen style festival with a new festival. Or set up a new smaller festival to rival All Together Now.

Furious-Red · 08-03-2019 1:58pm

corm500 wrote: »

Got an invite to the launch on Wednesday, interestingly it states "Line up for Electric Picnic 2019 revealed PLUS a brand new summer festival!!!

"Festival Director Melvin Benn of Festival Republic will be on hand for soundbytes and questions. With Electric Picnic now fully sold out he will also announce initial details of a brand new festival taking place this summer. The stunning location of this new festival – brought to you by the Electric Picnic family - has never before been used and will provide the perfect backdrop to a new event on the summer festival calendar."

Interesting , wonder would they do like Reading/Leeds style with two EP's but in different parts of the country?

Ricosruffneck · 08-03-2019 2:01pm

Furious-Red wrote: »

Interesting , wonder would they do like Reading/Leeds style with two EP's but in different parts of the country?

i'd say more than likely a sister festival to Latitude UK around July.

Longitude was this before they strayed far from the origanal genres.

Eod100 · 08-03-2019 2:03pm

Seems ambitious to get a festival up and running by the summer but may have been in the works for a while. Will be interesting to see what it i and where it's gonna be

Furious-Red · 08-03-2019 2:04pm

Eod100 wrote: »

Seems ambitious to get a festival up and running by the summer but may have been in the works for a while. Will be interesting to see what it i and where it's gonna be

Id say they will announce the new festival with a full line up in order to get to the tickets sold

Eod100 · 08-03-2019 2:07pm

Furious-Red wrote: »

Id say they will announce the new festival with a full line up in order to get to the tickets sold

Yeah guess they see demand with EP sold out since December. And ATN now lately.

maximoose · 08-03-2019 2:15pm

Very interesting

Furious-Red · 08-03-2019 2:16pm

Eod100 wrote: »

Yeah guess they see demand with EP sold out since December. And ATN now lately.

Just wonder what weekend will they do in the summer or what location? I was gonna say Dun Laoighaire since Madness announced a gig there(via a poster but no ticket info) but the fact Beatyard already have that location.

Seathrun66 · 08-03-2019 2:30pm

corm500 wrote: »

Got an invite to the launch on Wednesday, interestingly it states "Line up for Electric Picnic 2019 revealed PLUS a brand new summer festival!!!

"Festival Director Melvin Benn of Festival Republic will be on hand for soundbytes and questions. With Electric Picnic now fully sold out he will also announce initial details of a brand new festival taking place this summer. The stunning location of this new festival – brought to you by the Electric Picnic family - has never before been used and will provide the perfect backdrop to a new event on the summer festival calendar."

Something to screw ATN.

corm500 · 08-03-2019 2:31pm

Furious-Red wrote: »

Just wonder what weekend will they do in the summer or what location? I was gonna say Dun Laoighaire since Madness announced a gig there(via a poster but no ticket info) but the fact Beatyard already have that location.

The blurb says a stunning location never before used. Somewhere on the west coast maybe?

Furious-Red · 08-03-2019 2:33pm

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Something to screw ATN.

If that is true they would have been better announcing it before ATN did their line up announcement or wait to launch it for next year.

Id love to see something more on the rockier side (not Download style) where the we get the likes of Strokes,Weezer,Franz Ferdinand etc

corm500 · 08-03-2019 2:35pm

Furious-Red wrote: »

If that is true they would have been better announcing it before ATN did their line up announcement or wait to launch it for next year.

Id love to see something more on the rockier side (not Download style) where the we get the likes of Strokes,Weezer,Franz Ferdinand etc

There is definitely room for a more guitar based festival. Fingers crossed.

Furious-Red · 08-03-2019 2:36pm

corm500 wrote: »

There is definitely room for a more guitar based festival. Fingers crossed.

Sadly im not gonna get my hopes up . I wonder would they go up against Forbidden Fruit on the Bank Hol weekend?

ghostdancer · 08-03-2019 2:37pm

there's probably a market for a commercial dance festival later in the summer, given that Life festival is pretty popular and happens in May (and isn't quite fully mainstream pop dance).
Creamfields UK is mid/late August, so maybe paired with that?

something like Download would be great too, always loads of heavier acts touring Europe every summer that are at Download/R&L/etc that never make it over here.

Eod100 · 08-03-2019 2:39pm

Furious-Red wrote: »

Just wonder what weekend will they do in the summer or what location? I was gonna say Dun Laoighaire since Madness announced a gig there(via a poster but no ticket info) but the fact Beatyard already have that location.

Yeah curious about that too.

New venue sounds like it has never been used before. Not sure about when maybe July to avoid clashing with BandS in June and ATN/Beatyard in August?

Gonna be a relatively quick turnaround from announcement to date anyways it seems

Furious-Red · 08-03-2019 2:39pm

ghostdancer wrote: »

there's probably a market for a commercial dance festival later in the summer, given that Life festival is pretty popular and happens in May (and isn't quite fully mainstream pop dance).
Creamfields UK is mid/late August, so maybe paired with that?

Thats what im afraid it will be .

Ricosruffneck · 08-03-2019 2:45pm

Eod100 wrote: »

Yeah curious about that too.

New venue sounds like it has never been used before. Not sure about when maybe July to avoid clashing with BandS in June and ATN/Beatyard in August?

Gonna be a relatively quick turnaround from announcement to date anyways it seems

I predict early July to tie in with Glasto/start of euro fest touring season.

Or late july to tie in with Latitude.

I'm going to guess it's going to be no more than 45min away from the capital.

Furious-Red · 08-03-2019 2:47pm

Ricosruffneck wrote: »

I predict early July to tie in with Glasto/start of euro fest touring season.

Or late july to tie in with Latitude.

I'm going to guess it's going to be no more than 45min away from the capital.

Lets split up all the counties and check to see if planning permission has been sent it for any events ha

Rigor Mortis · 08-03-2019 2:53pm

Oxygen Classical

Ricosruffneck · 08-03-2019 2:55pm

Furious-Red wrote: »

Lets split up all the counties and check to see if planning permission has been sent it for any events ha

That's a good idea.

Would they have that in place more than a year out?

I'm assuming this is for a summer fest in 2020?

edit : Just read it's this summer, wow

Eod100 · 08-03-2019 2:58pm

Ricosruffneck wrote: »

I predict early July to tie in with Glasto/start of euro fest touring season.

Or late july to tie in with Latitude.

I'm going to guess it's going to be no more than 45min away from the capital.

Could very well be.

Think it has to be something more than an empty field if they're selling it as a ''stunning location/'' Thinking it will be something like ATN's location but can't think of where tbh

Furious-Red · 08-03-2019 2:59pm

Eod100 wrote: »

Could very well be.

Think it has to be something more than an empty field if they're selling it as a ''stunning location/'' Thinking it will be something like ATN's location but can't think of where tbh

True , so will probably be an estate or castle somewhere?

bodhrandude · 08-03-2019 3:00pm

Corm said somewhere in the west coast, so it would have to be narrowed down to the counties Galway, Roscommon and Mayo.

Ricosruffneck · 08-03-2019 3:04pm

bodhrandude wrote: »

Corm said somewhere in the west coast, so it would have to be narrowed down to the counties Galway, Roscommon and Mayo.

He speculated, nothing concrete to date.

Ferris_Bueller · 08-03-2019 3:40pm

Wow that is interesting news, has potential to be exciting or the exact opposite! Longitude seems to have the hip-hop market pretty sewn up. Probably will either be an all out dance music festival or a more indie/rock based festival considering EP and Longitude have had less of that music in recent years. Wonder what weekend it would be, surely end of summer if they haven't announced it yet.

corm500 · 08-03-2019 3:40pm

Could this be it?

An application has been received on Thursday, 28th February 2019 in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the holding of an outdoor event at Dún Laoghaire Pier, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin

The application is for a proposed series of concerts to be held on Friday, 31st May 2019, Saturday, 1st June and Sunday 2nd June 2019

Ricosruffneck · 08-03-2019 3:48pm

corm500 wrote: »

Could this be it?

An application has been received on Thursday, 28th February 2019 in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the holding of an outdoor event at Dún Laoghaire Pier, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin

The application is for a proposed series of concerts to be held on Friday, 31st May 2019, Saturday, 1st June and Sunday 2nd June 2019

Is that when Madness are playing?

edit : http://www.madness.co.uk/2019/02/20/day-races-places/

Eod100 · 08-03-2019 3:50pm

Ricosruffneck wrote: »

Is that when Madness are playing?

Playing Limerick the 31st and Waterford 2nd June so possibly. Don't think it's been officially announced yet if they are

MJohnston · 08-03-2019 3:51pm

corm500 wrote: »

Could this be it?

An application has been received on Thursday, 28th February 2019 in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the holding of an outdoor event at Dún Laoghaire Pier, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin

The application is for a proposed series of concerts to be held on Friday, 31st May 2019, Saturday, 1st June and Sunday 2nd June 2019

Couldn't be:

"The stunning location of this new festival has never before been used"

Whereas Dun Laoghaire harbour definitely has been. Unless they're being really sneaky and meaning the East or West piers, but then I can't even imagine how they'd fit anything worthwhile onto either of those (and not have it be a health and safety nightmare).

corm500 · 08-03-2019 3:55pm

That is the same weekend as all points east festival in Victoria Park London. Lineup includes the strokes, chemical brothers, bon ivor and Christina and the Queen

Eod100 · 08-03-2019 3:59pm

corm500 wrote: »

That is the same weekend as all points east festival in Victoria Park London. Lineup includes the strokes, chemical brothers, bon ivor and Christina and the Queen

That's over a few weekends afaik. Think only Bon Iver playing June bank hol weekend. https://www.allpointseastfestival.com/

Yeah was wondering was there gonna an overlap here with APE gigs but doesn't look to be really. Think promoters like to split up acts to get better bang for their buck.

Wooderson · 08-03-2019 4:05pm

Young Melv really sees gold in them there green hills dunnee.

Ricosruffneck · 08-03-2019 4:21pm

As we're 3 months out possibly,

I'm going to guess it's a non camping fest which will also have day tickets.

I reckon it'll be 2 day.

Something on the scale of 1 main stage with one smaller stage for smaller acts. Similar to their community festival/live at finsbury gigs.

Dublin

Furious-Red · 08-03-2019 4:24pm

Ricosruffneck wrote: »

As we're 3 months out possibly,

I'm going to guess it's a non camping fest which will also have day tickets.

I reckon it'll be 2 day.

Something on the scale of 1 main stage with one smaller stage for smaller acts. Similar to their community festival/live at finsbury gigs.

Dublin

Yea maybe on the lines TRNSMT festival

Eod100 · 08-03-2019 4:27pm

Ricosruffneck wrote: »

As we're 3 months out possibly,

I'm going to guess it's a non camping fest which will also have day tickets.

I reckon it'll be 2 day.

Something on the scale of 1 main stage with one smaller stage for smaller acts. Similar to their community festival/live at finsbury gigs.

Dublin

Yeah think that would make sense. Have a feeling it's not a camping festival.

Clever he's using sold-out EP line-up to get buzz going for new festival

Ricosruffneck · 08-03-2019 4:33pm

It's going to be nice to have two different lineups to fawn over on wens.

reckon The Black Keys may be on the lineup.

Stillill42 · 08-03-2019 4:36pm

We must be heading for festival saturation at this stage, no?

Ricosruffneck · 08-03-2019 4:59pm

Stillill42 wrote: »

We must be heading for festival saturation at this stage, no?

I would hope that it leads to fests becoming more creative with lineups and also changing up their arenas more often.

I see some nice lineups in the UK.

Could also help bring down the price of tickets too with fests being competetitive.

Eod100 · 08-03-2019 5:04pm

Stillill42 wrote: »

We must be heading for festival saturation at this stage, no?

Guess not if they see a demand! EP has expanded over the years but Oxegen gone. There's probably more smaller festivals alright. I'd say this will be a 10,000 or thereabouts yoke

endainoz · 08-03-2019 5:06pm

I may or may not have some insider info on this one. AMP are looking to do a festival in Ireland this summer and was approached about hosting it on my farm last September.

Ultimately they didn't go any further with me unfortunately, but they had two other venues in mind, one was Ennis and the other was Westport.

This may not be related at all but it could be!

Furious-Red · 08-03-2019 5:14pm

Ricosruffneck wrote: »

I would hope that it leads to fests becoming more creative with lineups and also changing up their arenas more often.

I see some nice lineups in the UK.

Could also help bring down the price of tickets too with fests being competetitive.

Yea the UK have some decent smaller festivals that we could copy from who aim for the rock/indie/alternative

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Poorside · 08-03-2019 5:20pm

endainoz wrote: »

I may or may not have some insider info on this one. AMP are looking to do a festival in Ireland this summer and was approached about hosting it on my farm last September.

Ultimately they didn't go any further with me unfortunately, but they had two other venues in mind, one was Ennis and the other was Westport.

This may not be related at all but it could be!

Ennis would be dead handy for me, around Dromoland castle would be brilliant.

Stillill42 · 08-03-2019 5:25pm

Good to know that when we finally get round to organising our own festival, endainoz has the venue sorted.

Furious-Red · 08-03-2019 5:28pm

MODS: Do ye want to maybe break this into a new thread instead of taking over the EP one?

endainoz · 08-03-2019 5:29pm

Stillill42 wrote:

Good to know that when we finally get round to organising our own festival, endainoz has the venue sorted.

Just tell me when guys!!

Seathrun66 · 08-03-2019 5:42pm

Stillill42 wrote: »

We must be heading for festival saturation at this stage, no?

For east coast/Leinster definitely. For the west coast we’ve only got the smallish Sea Sessions & Fever Pitch.
Far less populated but surely a festival on the Atlantic in the vein of Lisdoonvarna could draw crowds from everywhere?

I still expect it to be in the east.

Anyway it seems pretty late to announce a new Summer fest. They’ve obviously got some decent acts booked and an All Points East tie-in makes sense.

lc180 · 08-03-2019 5:50pm

endainoz wrote: »

I may or may not have some insider info on this one. AMP are looking to do a festival in Ireland this summer and was approached about hosting it on my farm last September.

Who are AMP?

endainoz · 08-03-2019 5:58pm

lc180 wrote:

Who are AMP?

Annie Mac presents, already do a fest in Malta each year

endainoz · 08-03-2019 6:04pm

Seathrun66 wrote:

For east coast/Leinster definitely. For the west coast weâ€™ve only got the smallish Sea Sessions & Fever Pitch. Far less populated but surely a festival on the Atlantic in the vein of Lisdoonvarna could draw crowds from everywhere?

Absolutely! We need more in this side of the country. Funny how you mentioned Lisdoonvarna actually, that was the reason I got on to AMP originally. It was held on our farm for all except the very first year.

Unfortunately I think the higher population areas with always get more festivals though. Who knows, maybe a few heads here could get together and talk seriously about doing something.

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