Primavera Sound - 2013

jesus, im still recovering from primavera 12!

Buying via Seetickets is meant to get you hardcopy tickets sent to you but I've known them to drag their heals on sending to Ireland and sometimes just plain not bother and switch you to pick up so don't count on that.

In previous years people were able to transfer the tickets that were bought from the promoters directly (the paypal option on the site) by contacting them with transfer information. They weren't the fastest in doing this but they did get it done and I know at least one person who did this without issue.

For the other resellers (ticketmaster, See etc.) in the past they accepted a photocopy of the buyers passport, a letter saying you transfer the ownership of the ticket and a photocopy of your passport (note all 3 required) to allow someone else pick up the tickets.

Whether this is still the case you should confirm with whichever of the providers you plan on buying the tickets off but my understanding is that the anti-tout no resell thing is only for VIP tickets which are no longer available.

I think that is the price of the VAT on the tickets. They made a bit of a noise about getting the tickets before a certain time because of an increase in VAT that Spain was introducing to pay off some of their debt.

Really happy with the lineup. My only gripe is that I was hoping Bjork might be on there after she had to cancel last year :pac:. I can't complain though, it's still an amazing lineup!

Usually a couple of weeks which is pretty standard. Expect lots of clashes.

Hey guys, any idea what the best way to book tickets for this are? Can you get them just through Ticketmaster etc? I see on their site that you can pay in 3 installments, but it doesnt give much info for anything else...

nomoreindie wrote: »

Has anyone else had a look at what Jim Carroll wrote about the line up in his Irish Times blog?
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2013/01/24/the-future-of-the-music-festival-is-1993/

He seems to want only bands on their first album or maybe first demo to be headlining.

He has a valid point that the headliner pool is small and getting smaller but it is mixed in with an odd sort of negativity for negativities-sake vibe. That he chose Primavera as the festival to make this point about appears to be partially because four of the acts once toured together but mostly to poke at something popular just because it is popular (among his audience anyway). Shame it is probably the worst festival to use to make this particular point.

I don't find it surprising we're still listening to 90's headliners considering the conditions that existed in the 80's. We had entire new genres (punk, rap, new wave, dance, metal etc), the rise of the cover tape, pirate radio, home taping etc. This gave us new acts but ones that after being born in that environment would eventually move into the production, promotion and distribution chains controlled by the music industry. This is where their rise to headliner status happened.

This just doesn't happen anymore. Since then we've had the rise of the Internet and the inexpensive home recording studio and explosion in the number of bands we are exposed to. The industry doesn't bother trying to find and grow acts to headliner status unless they are safe (aka boring). This is because people no longer have the attention span to really sit in with an album and wait the 2 years for the follow up. They move onto another band after a week and forget the first one because it is very simple to do this. Now instead of there being a few mega bands with die hard followings there are thousands of smaller bands that people kinda know. This is what killed the headliner and I can't see things ever going back to the way they were.

I have a feeling that in the future more festivals will eventually give up on having BIG names on the poster and concentrate on having the most names, something I think Primavera is leading on, however it is going to take time to deprogram people from the concept of there being a headliner and as long as some of them are still around we'll keep seeing them showing up on lineups.

Toast wrote: »

He has a valid point that the headliner pool is small and getting smaller but it is mixed in with an odd sort of negativity for negativities-sake vibe. That he chose Primavera as the festival to make this point about appears to be partially because four of the acts once toured together but mostly to poke at something popular just because it is popular (among his audience anyway). Shame it is probably the worst festival to use to make this particular point.

I don't find it surprising we're still listening to 90's headliners considering the conditions that existed in the 80's. We had entire new genres (punk, rap, new wave, dance, metal etc), the rise of the cover tape, pirate radio, home taping etc. This gave us new acts but ones that after being born in that environment would eventually move into the production, promotion and distribution chains controlled by the music industry. This is where their rise to headliner status happened.

This just doesn't happen anymore. Since then we've had the rise of the Internet and the inexpensive home recording studio and explosion in the number of bands we are exposed to. The industry doesn't bother trying to find and grow acts to headliner status unless they are safe (aka boring). This is because people no longer have the attention span to really sit in with an album and wait the 2 years for the follow up. They move onto another band after a week and forget the first one because it is very simple to do this. Now instead of there being a few mega bands with die hard followings there are thousands of smaller bands that people kinda know. This is what killed the headliner and I can't see things ever going back to the way they were.

I have a feeling that in the future more festivals will eventually give up on having BIG names on the poster and concentrate on having the most names, something I think Primavera is leading on, however it is going to take time to deprogram people from the concept of there being a headliner and as long as some of them are still around we'll keep seeing them showing up on lineups.

great post.

so you are you saying the lack of headliners is a bad thing? i think modern music is fantastic, it's never been so easy to make or release music so there's so much stuff out there to listen to.

Just put down first installment.

Cannot wait!