Body & Soul Festival 2019

Still no Sunday headliner, it must be hard to find someone at this short of notice.

I created a B&S playlist too seeing that I don't have Spotify can't seem to stop these ads in the middle though, enjoy.

B&S Festival 2019

egghead1234 wrote: »

Hi guys, got two body & soul tickets on an installment plan and the second payment was due out on Tuesday but nothing has been taken out of my account. I've emailed ticketbooth about 6 times since Tuesday about it but haven't got a response back. Just wondering if anyone else had similar issues with an installment plan payment?

Give B&S a shout on their fb our other social media pages. They're pretty good with getting back to people having problems with tickets etc

grudgehugger wrote: »

I’ve been telling my mates how weak this line-up is for a while now.

Last night I sat down and actually did some listening - and suddenly am all p1ssed off cos I’ll miss lots of good stuff while keeping the kids entertained.

Now have at least 20 acts I’d like to check out and that’s not even counting things like Mother or the chanting yoke I’ve signed myself up for...

Confidence Man sound like they will be immense fun live. Hopefully they get some kind of decent crowd - always a concern for non-DJs at this festival.

Video playlist of some of my new favourite acts, only listened to Modeselektor before really: BnS 19 playlist

I am loving the line up, Confidence Man, Proper Micro NV and Coley a few that spring to mind..


A nugget of newish info over on Nialler9 this morning...https://nialler9.com/hennessy-sound-lounge-lineup-revealed-for-bodysoul-jafaris-added-to-lineup/

** also looking fwd to Meltybrains? and Baikal

Worth noting the Hennessy sound lodge will have this DJ lineup for the evenings:

DJ sets from Fish Go Deep, Mr Saturday Night, Sassy J, Vic Creezée, Colm K aka Sunday Times, Donna Leake, Sim Simma Soundsystem, Move Slow Records, Aoife O’Neill, Mathman, Hang Dai Soundsystem, Cian Murphy, Eddie Otchere, and Sally Cinnamon & pals.

That's an almost perfectly built lineup for my tastes!

Dunno. I think we're all assuming it is.

bodhrandude wrote:

' Hi Jack. We are working on it currently feverishly but can’t confirm until the new acts we approached confirms with us. On it though. '

I'd hate to see them on "slow"! Still have sneaking suspicion they are pocketing the savings. Will be happy to be proved wrong.

johnnyskeleton wrote:

I get the general impression that ticket sales are lacklustre this year and this might be the last year

I suspect so. Funny thing is I suspect 2 midsize acts would have got them a bigger crowd.

I know on the body & soul website FAQs it says that you are not permitted to pitch tents beside a campervan in the campervan field. Do they police this rule? I remember my friends were in a campervan a few years ago at B&S and had 2 tents outside belonging to their friends. We are staying in the campervan section this year for the first time and were wondering if a few more of our buddies could get away with pitching beside us? Whats everyones experience of this??

Well lads weather's been crap and no sign of a Santigold replacement. How do we think this year is going to shape up?

The weather was ****e last year too just before it unfurled like a beautiful butterfly over the B+S weekend.

AdamD wrote: »

One would hope the weather will have picked up in two weeks time

Please god. Good few of my friends who'd be regulars are having their doubts this year which is sad.

run_Forrest_run wrote: »

I remember last year waking up on Friday morning to blue skies and the start of a long heatwave, the wellies & poncho stayed in the car. I don't think we'll be as lucky this year.

Well Accuweather is forecasting it fairly nice for that weekend

hernie wrote: »

Is Jape going to be at B&S? Don't see anything on the site. Would love to see him live

He'll be there in Richie Egan form doing what sounds a bit like Desert Island Discs at the Hennessy Sound Lounge.

I'm 100% sure sales are down on previous years, because we're getting to the point of festival overload again. All Together Now will have sponged off a lot of previous Body and Soulers too (although imo ATN isn't anywhere near the same kind of thing).

That said, aside from the missing headliner, the lineup in general is about as numerous with acts as it ever is. We'll probably get minor stage lineups in the last couple of weeks, and comedy acts etc.

The lineup at B&S is a funny old thing. I don't think I've ever once gone because of it, and I am not sure I've seen more than a handful of acts on any of the stages that I planned in advance. Last year, for example, I thought the main lineup was absolute turd, but I had an amazing year, hanging out at Arbutus Yarns, dancing in the sun, seeing my 2 year old enjoy the Soul Kids area (his birthday coincides with B&S, so he'll be having his 3rd birthday there this year!)