Possible Boards Festival 2020!

endainoz · 02-04-2019 6:22pm #1

Well folks, I had been meaning to start a thread like this for a while now. Especially when people keep making comments about when we can do our own festival.

I think most of ye know where I stand on this, happy to provide the venue and would love to be involved in the running of an event too.

I'd like some feedback from the knowledgeable people on here, between us we would have a huge amount of events attended and would know what we would like. So I have decided to open up this thread for a bit of an open conversation about it, I want to hear the mad ideas that people have, I want you to tell me if I'm wasting my time even trying, every opinion is welcome.

At the very least, it could be a few of us in a field drinking cans listening to a bluetooth speaker (which would still be fun for me anyways) or it could be the start of something truly unique. Something built from the ground up.

So there ye have it, I have done nothing in the way of funding or anything mad like that. At this stage all I'm looking for is some ideas and to see what might work. Thanks for reading through my rambling.

Stillill42 · 02-04-2019 6:26pm

Fair play. I await developments.

Arghus · 02-04-2019 6:46pm

Build it and they will come.

exilec · 02-04-2019 8:39pm

Bring Pearl Jam over . They love Ireland

johnnyskeleton · 02-04-2019 11:15pm

Avoid the August and June bank holidays (and EP weekend, obviously).

Its getting annoying that there are so many festivals wedged into those weekends!

corm500 · 02-04-2019 11:28pm

Can I start a Radiohead rumour for this? It works for every other festival &#55357;&#56835;

bodhrandude · 02-04-2019 11:54pm

corm500 wrote: »

Can I start a Radiohead rumour for this? It works for every other festival ��

Aphex Twin and James too.

Zwillinge · 03-04-2019 9:00am

What a wonderful idea and would 100% want to be involved!

Needs a catchy, sexy name! :cool:
And a good rumour - AC/DC, Pearl Jam and G'n'R - g'way

Guess just make sure there's adequate facilities - a good toilet team to make sure there's decent flow

Of people and sewerage.
I wonder if you could find a toilet paper company to sponsor it?!?

A great thing in Rock im Park is everyone gets a bin bag and if they fill it up at the end of the weekend you get a tenner back :pac:

Would you want people camping and pissing in your field?
Separate camps so that I won't have a similar EP experience where a 19ish year old told me that he would slash, destroy and ruin my tent/stuff because he and his friends didn't know me

(bunch of ....)

Buses to and from the main cities. Encourage carpooling with offer of beer tokens or something for everyone in a car with 4+ people (I know, drink driving - woohoo :rolleyes:)

Maybe have a charity partner or two also which would encourage volunteers and maybe a band or two may donate their time.

Maybe don't use Ticket Bastard to limit touts?

everlast75 · 03-04-2019 9:57am

bodhrandude wrote: »

Aphex Twin and James too.

*cough*

Daft Punk!

phunkadelic · 03-04-2019 10:12am

Gap in the market for an Easter music festival. Just when it's starting to warm up and the evenings are longer. And most people have a 4 day weekend.

Downside is the date changes every year though.

phunkadelic · 03-04-2019 10:14am

endainoz wrote: »

happy to provide the venue

Location is important too, where is your venue?

roll · 03-04-2019 10:19am

can we bring more than 24 cans of beer?!

johnnyskeleton · 03-04-2019 10:19am

If youre serious about it, maybe contact the people who run one of the smaller festivals like vantastival, ALS, Knocanstockan etc to see what the costs are.

For a start, there will be the following expenses before a band is even booked:
Stages, equipment and rigging hire
Lights and electricity generators
Security and fencing
Toilets and sanitation
First aid station
Permits licence and garda permission
Soil checking reinforcement & pathways
Insurance
Ticket agent
Marketing
Art installations
Etc

All these expenses add up and you could easily be taking 10s of thousands or more just for this. You might also need a booking agent or promoter to book the bands so that they know youre serious.

endainoz · 03-04-2019 10:19am

phunkadelic wrote:

Gap in the market for an Easter music festival. Just when it's starting to warm up and the evenings are longer. And most people have a 4 day weekend.

phunkadelic wrote:

Downside is the date changes every year though.

phunkadelic wrote:

Location is important too, where is your venue?

Seen as the location is the West of Ireland a couple of miles from the sea, I think Easter would be a no go due to ground conditions, would have to be in around mid July I reckon.

johnnyskeleton · 03-04-2019 10:20am

phunkadelic wrote: »

Gap in the market for an Easter music festival. Just when it's starting to warm up and the evenings are longer. And most people have a 4 day weekend.

Downside is the date changes every year though.

Or May bank holiday perhaps?

03-04-2019 10:25am

There's a festival on nearly every weekend in Amsterdam.
I say we all go over for a weekend or two, for learning purposes ðŸ˜

endainoz · 03-04-2019 10:32am

johnnyskeleton wrote:

Or May bank holiday perhaps?

Same issue, ground would probably be not ready for it

Rigor Mortis · 03-04-2019 10:36am

The team that operate Bloodstock in the Uk were a group of people who met through Donnington. They decided to run their own festival and it has grown to be a very welll established Metal festival.

Sabre0001 · 03-04-2019 11:06am

Ireland's very own Fyre festival

lc180 · 03-04-2019 11:18am

endainoz wrote: »

Seen as the location is the West of Ireland a couple of miles from the sea.

Nile Rogers has been spotted in Galway, bass guitar in hand, asking locals for directions to your festival .

bodhrandude · 03-04-2019 11:58am

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

If youre serious about it, maybe contact the people who run one of the smaller festivals like vantastival, ALS, Knocanstockan etc to see what the costs are.

For a start, there will be the following expenses before a band is even booked:
Stages, equipment and rigging hire
Lights and electricity generators
Security and fencing
Toilets and sanitation
First aid station
Permits licence and garda permission
Soil checking reinforcement & pathways
Insurance
Ticket agent
Marketing
Art installations
Etc

All these expenses add up and you could easily be taking 10s of thousands or more just for this. You might also need a booking agent or promoter to book the bands so that they know youre serious.

And most importantly, that 'dance licence'

:D

Stillill42 · 03-04-2019 12:36pm

Gathering momentum. Keep at it, lads.

SoundOfSilence · 03-04-2019 12:50pm

Middle of August there seems to be a lull in gigs/festivals, in between alltogether now and EP. Could be a good time for the site too.

kg703 · 03-04-2019 3:04pm

Is this a mess?

Unless it’s a few of your mates playing in your garden the crew you would need on board is massive.

I run events as my job and a whole festival, while it seems easy is certainly anything but.

Then you have all your licenses etc

But if I’m playing along, if you could get M83 to play the entire hurry up we’re dreaming album with an indoor tent full of space visuals, that’d be great thanks

Stillill42 · 03-04-2019 3:28pm

Nice one. Events manager on board. Fair play, Kg.

endainoz · 03-04-2019 3:46pm

No not quite, though I did leave it fairly open for people to throw out wacky ideas and also to tell me I'm wasting my time.

In fairness it's a pretty big garden

Great! It's people like yourself that would be great to give advice.

I've already been in contact with a small event company based on the recommendation of a member here, sur lookit we'll see how it goes.

johnnyskeleton · 03-04-2019 4:42pm

There might be a few boardsies who are in bands or know people who are in bands who might be able to give you a rough estimate of what they would charge to play.

Some festivals ask some bands/singers to play for no fee and just the exposure or a free ticket, but I'm sure Boarfest wants to look after the emerging arists with at least a few hundred quid and a bottle of buckfast

Stillill42 · 03-04-2019 5:11pm

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

There might be a few boardsies who are in bands or know people who are in bands who might be able to give you a rough estimate of what they would charge to play.

Some festivals ask some bands/singers to play for no fee and just the exposure or a free ticket, but I'm sure Boarfest wants to look after the emerging arists with at least a few hundred quid and a bottle of buckfast

Bore fest? An inauspicious moniker, Johnny. Back to the drawing board.

Rfrip · 03-04-2019 5:31pm

lc180 wrote: »

Nile Rogers has been spotted in Galway, bass guitar in hand, asking locals for directions to your festival .

My favourite post so far this year!!!

Muahahaha · 03-04-2019 6:01pm

Great idea if it can be pulled off. But as said organising something on this scale is a lot of work so you really need a com-mittee of 8 or 10 people with each of them taking responsibility for an individual section to put the festival together. Theres just so much to organise you really would need a good team of people to do it, everything from booking bands to staging and lighting, security, insurance, St.Johns Ambulance, portaloos, the list goes on and on. Its a massive undertaking for the first year but if it is a success then you have all the ground work laid for subsequent years.

You'd also need to get a really firm idea of costs and a budget. You'd have to find out whats the minimum amount of tickets that need to be sold to break even and then make a judgement call if you can sell that amount. No point putting on a great gig but then it all falls apart when there isnt enough money to pay bands and other outside contractors.

Anyway OP I hear Daft Punk havent toured in a while....

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