One more sleep till tickets go on sale.
In fairness to them they generally do seem to address when there have been issues so hopefully the same again. I mainly said about enforcing the over 21s rule and that I didn't want it to turn into electric picnic.
For acts you'd like to see play, last year I stuck down Future Islands and we got them, the year before I said Caribou and they turned up! Stuck down The War on Drugs, New Order and Arcade Fire this year hoping the streak continues :)
That would be quite the streak, if you got all those 3!
Don't forget to mention the importance of keeping free flow.
I put Spiritualized / The Jesus & Mary Chain and Goat. The first two i put down on every festival questionaire with no luck so far!
On the debut acts, i opted for Osees, Moon Duo and Chris Liberator. Also unlikely to happen.
Stressed the importance of freeflow amongst a bunch of other stuff.
lol I put Moon Duo as well haha
Had Slowdive down last year, so hoping one of Pulp, War on Drugs or Spiritualized turns up next year.
Pearl Jam, Queens of the Stone Age and Slipknot are coming next year lads !!!
That was my 3 ..
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Tame Impala, King Gizzard again please, and Phoenix. Lcd would be wonderful.
I would love to see Tame Impala although their stage setup may be a little too big for ATN.
Super massive lighting rig
Yeah sadly Tame impala beyond ATN now from financial side let alone staging aspects
orbital, Billy Scurry and …Squeeze
Also emphasised keep free flow or I won’t be back!
I beg you….please…
With two mentions each it's obvious that Spiritualized and Moon Duo are coming so could someone please mention The Bug in their suggestions? If i got those three i'd be delighted.
They should have an electronic act/dj's section on that questionnaire. Don't they realise people can like guitars and dance music too?
"Don't they realise people can like guitars and dance music too?"
Due to the very limited selection every year of guitar /rock music, its obvious that the emphasis is on the easy book-easy set up - djs are the main priority.
Sad but True (as metallica said) ….. 🤨
This was the year to get Goat, I feel. New album incoming and a small UK/EU tour. They hardly ever tour so just missed out.
gave them a nice few lines on free flow being the best thing ever™️, hopefully they listen. as for next year - little simz (before glasto give her a headline slot in '27) , lcd or bicep. not asking for much🤭
Also put Little Simz - have been dying to see her live again after EP 2022
I'm not in the camp of "tribute acts are a bad idea and not for ATN". I am a little confused at the idea that were any significant gaps where "nothing" was on. Were we at the same festival? I barely got half of the acts I wanted to see, running around like an eejit.
I'll accept my tastes are not for everyone so yeah, if you dont like dance music you'll not have much after midnight, but is this not the case at many major festivals?
Like I said, not against tribute acts, glasshouse, rte concert orchestra, singalong and the lads doing talking heads this year have been great fun, but I can't agree that theres some gaping hole in the ATN schedule crying out for a Pearl Jam tribute that would save an otherwise dour weekend and pull in the punters from far and wide. The weekend I was at was wall to wall fun and good times with the (very small and occasional) gaps generally filled with happy folks, food, booze and the cambium club.
ATN is, for my money, a very well curated festival and if it continues as is I will be attending for as long as my body and my wife will tolerate it.
New Order is a great shout.
I put Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, The Rubberbandits (Won't happen) and Stiff Little Fingers.
I went with New Order / David Holmes / Jon Hopkins. I also mentioned that free flow has to stay, it's what makes ATN so unique.
Unfortunately id be sceptical about free flow next year. I really do hope I'm wrong, but if it is the case of a change of policy, then it should be clearly stated and no mixed messages like we had this year.
it was a blip of text written on an app. It was corrected straight away. Acting like they didn’t immediately respond on social media about it and were clear that it was an error. There was about 2 hours of confusion on it.
But the app and website were live long before the text was added. So it looked like it was added deliberately. Why would they add it at all if no intention to introduce it?
Where did I say I was acting like they didn't respond? I said there was mixed messages which there were. Even though it was fixed and clarified, it was still typed out, your naiive to think that it was a random error.
100% agree - feels far more likely that freeflow is on borrowed time as a result of that "error" - it didn't happen by accident. My guess was it just ended up on the site pre-festival instead of post-festival.
And if they are going to change this policy, surely they need to communicate that before the loyalty tickets go on sale at the end of the month.
it was a random error as know people involved. Someone paraphrased a sentence wrong whilst typing it up. Not the end of the world. It was the week of the festival and an overworked staff made a simply error and social team quickly answered it on Instagram etc. errors happen.
Sure keep telling yourself that. I do genuinely hope you're correct though.
Not only am I pretty keen to believe this, it makes sense IMO. The infrastructure needed to perform checks and manage queues of people waiting for entry would be an issue for ATN, not just in terms of customer experience but in safety and organisation. Keeping fingers crossed, but optimistic on this. That said, if/when they announce a 10k increase in attendance I'll be worried.
It would almost singlehandedly change the whole vibe of the festival. Aside from the casual strolling around with a can of your favourite beer, it would make it a chore to get in and out of the main arena quickly. I know at EP I generally avoid leaving at specific times if I know there's going to be a queue to get back in. ATN feels far more relaxed by the ability to nip back to the tent quickly and not worry about queues to re-enter. Same with moving in and out to peripheral stages outside the main arena.
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