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BurtMacklin · 27-05-2016 09:34AM

Is it okay to throw a quick ticketing question here?

Our group was offered two tickets and camping in pink moon. Some of us have tickets others missed out. So it was €200 each a ticket and €250 for pink moon. If plans changed could we sell on the pink moon camping at a later date? Is it transferable? I presume it is, as the seller said he'd transfer it over to one of our name etc. I've always just done basic camping so not overly clued up on pink moon. I've checked Pink Moon FAQ's and it isn't there so I said I'd try the knowledgeable folk on here. Thanks.

scruff monkey · 27-05-2016 09:43AM

best approach is to e-mail Pink Moon, they're pretty quick at responding

BurtMacklin · 27-05-2016 09:51AM

Yeah, sent an email there asking them. Thanks.

scruff monkey · 27-05-2016 10:01AM

If we do get the radiohead lads, good review of what they're up to gig wise
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/27/radiohead-review-roundhouse-london-thom-yorke

Look at that setlist, ooooh my jesus it's epic

sadie06 · 27-05-2016 11:00AM

scruff monkey wrote: »

Look at that setlist, ooooh my jesus it's epic

I need this to happen.

Blackie_IRL · 27-05-2016 12:42PM

Another day goes by no announcement I've never known the 2nd line-up announcement to be delayed this late. It's looking like June at this rate.

scruff monkey · 27-05-2016 01:01PM

Think some one posted previously that it has been june before.

declanleo · 27-05-2016 01:49PM

BullBlackNova wrote: »

They'd have to be a possibility wouldn't they?

I saw them listed in Consequence of Sound's '25 tours to catch this summer' and had the same thought...

Also see Brian Wilson on their list. Just one free night the weekend of Picnic. He's in Denmark on Thursday, free Friday, England Saturday and Scotland Sunday. Can he do 4 gigs in 4 days?

No chance

Blackie_IRL · 27-05-2016 01:52PM

scruff monkey wrote: »

Think some one posted previously that it has been june before.

Possibly but it's been a few years if that's the case, the 2nd announcement is generally sometime in May. Doesn't matter at this stage.

declanleo · 27-05-2016 02:00PM

PabloAndRoy wrote: »

earlier Example .. now this .. I think I am in the wrong thread..

Just waiting for someone to mention that pox macklemore

scruff monkey · 27-05-2016 02:02PM

I quite like Macklemore

BlaaEater · 27-05-2016 03:43PM

declanleo wrote: »

Just waiting for someone to mention that pox macklemore

That pox Macklemore.

BullBlackNova · 27-05-2016 03:45PM

scruff monkey wrote: »

I quite like Macklemore

Is this not a bannable offence?

AdMMM · 27-05-2016 04:35PM

Blackie_IRL wrote: »

Another day goes by no announcement I've never known the 2nd line-up announcement to be delayed this late. It's looking like June at this rate.

There's obviously crossover between Forbidden Fruit and Longitude.

drunkmonkey · 27-05-2016 05:08PM

AdMMM wrote: »

There's obviously crossover between Forbidden Fruit and Longitude.

Underworld
Leftfield
Kormac
Groove Armada

tbh all those should be at EP

Ferris_Bueller · 27-05-2016 05:27PM

Bestival & EP usually share a good few acts every year but this year the only 3 that I can see are Animal Collective, Wolf Alice and Years & Years. They still have one headliner left to announce, I wonder could this be someone we could see at EP too? Clutching at straws at this stage but compared to previous years there is very little crossover so far..

Just for comparison:
2015: Underworld, Tame Impala, Jurassic 5, Roisin Murphy, Future Islands, Ponds, Fat White Family, Lapsley, Shura
2014: Outkast, Foals, Chic, Beck, London Grammar, SBTRKT, Clean Bandit, Wild Beasts, Laura Mvula, The 2 Bears, Annie Mac, Bicep
2013: Franz Ferdinand, The Knife, Disclosure, Johnny Marr, Jagwar Ma, Cyril Hahn, Lulu James

27-05-2016 05:33PM

Blackie_IRL wrote: »

scruff monkey wrote: »

Think some one posted previously that it has been june before.

Possibly but it's been a few years if that's the case, the 2nd announcement is generally sometime in May. Doesn't matter at this stage.

The only time I remember such late announcements was in the midst of the Reynolds/Festival Republic dispute where there was doubt about EP going ahead. It's frustrating but there will have to be acts listed by mid-June and there are a lot of decent bands playing at other fests so we're sure to see several of them in Stradbally. The wait will have been worth it. EP is the best tease in town.

drunkmonkey · 27-05-2016 05:37PM

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

They still have one headliner left to announce

That's debatable....:pac::pac::pac:

27-05-2016 05:42PM

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Bestival & EP usually share a good few acts every year but this year the only 3 that I can see are Animal Collective, Wolf Alice and Years & Years. They still have one headliner left to announce, I wonder could this be someone we could see at EP too? Clutching at straws at this stage but compared to previous years there is very little crossover so far..

At the risk of repetition I'd say there's a big chance that Radiohead are doing both and it'll be announced in mid-June before the physical version of their album comes out.

I'd also like Damian Marley, Leftfield & Ghostpoet from that Bestival lineup.

Ferris_Bueller · 27-05-2016 05:47PM

Seathrun66 wrote: »

At the risk of repetition I'd say there's a big chance that Radiohead are doing both and it'll be announced in mid-June before the physical version of their album comes out.

I'd also like Damian Marley, Leftfield & Ghostpoet from that Bestival lineup.

Radiohead crossed my mind too but after having a quick glance through one of the Bestival forums it looks like it is the Sunday headliner that is yet to be announced and that Radiohead are playing Lollapalooza in Berlin that night. That's what they are saying on efestivals anyway.

What have we come to, the speculation is unbelievable, put us out of our misery and give us an announcement EP :pac:

27-05-2016 08:12PM

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Seathrun66 wrote: »

At the risk of repetition I'd say there's a big chance that Radiohead are doing both and it'll be announced in mid-June before the physical version of their album comes out.

I'd also like Damian Marley, Leftfield & Ghostpoet from that Bestival lineup.

Radiohead crossed my mind too but after having a quick glance through one of the Bestival forums it looks like it is the Sunday headliner that is yet to be announced and that Radiohead are playing Lollapalooza in Berlin that night. That's what they are saying on efestivals anyway.

What have we come to, the speculation is unbelievable, put us out of our misery and give us an announcement EP :pac:

Bestival is now a huge festival, about 80k attendees. Are either Major Lazer or Hot Chip big enough to headline that? That should mean two possible days for Radiohead. I've no idea whether they will but it'd be odd for them to do worldwide fests and leave out a UK fest (assuming they won't do a secret set at Glasto - hope not as I want to catch them there next year). I'd be more confident though of Radiohead heading to Stradbally than the Isle of Wight.

bodhrandude · 27-05-2016 08:47PM

Maybe the Picnic is doing the Winning Streak thing, whoever wins the lotto next week gets to choose the line up for the second announcement, should be interesting.

bodhrandude · 27-05-2016 08:59PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Underworld
Leftfield
Kormac
Groove Armada

tbh all those should be at EP

Are Leftfield not already playing two Irish festivals this year, Underworld played EP last year and Groove Armada are no longer a group do they not play under the Red Light Groove Armada DJ set who are playing Forbidden Fruit anyway. After their dire performance at Life festival a few years back I won't be rushing to the stage to see them. Kormac is always welcome and Iv'e no doubt they will play the Picnic, the ultimate electro swing Irish act, if we can't get the Avalanches, Kormac will do.

scruff monkey · 27-05-2016 09:01PM

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Bestival is now a huge festival, about 80k attendees. Are either Major Lazer or Hot Chip big enough to headline

With that sort of crowd, it's not really a great line up (excluding the cure), they must have something cool in their full lineup

bodhrandude · 27-05-2016 09:17PM

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Bestival is now a huge festival, about 80k attendees. Are either Major Lazer or Hot Chip big enough to headline that? That should mean two possible days for Radiohead. I've no idea whether they will but it'd be odd for them to do worldwide fests and leave out a UK fest (assuming they won't do a secret set at Glasto - hope not as I want to catch them there next year). I'd be more confident though of Radiohead heading to Stradbally than the Isle of Wight.

Theoretically you are correct but number of tickets to punters is still 55,000 so there is 25,000 additional staff, security and artists make up the rest of the capacity. The Picnic could be very well the same in that regard as there is 55,000 tickets available to the general public, but if you take in health and safety, security, staff, traders, police there easily is another at least 10,000 to 15,000 extra at EP too.

http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/71578

scruff monkey · 27-05-2016 09:29PM

Ha, there's no way there's 10-15k addional bodies on site for EP, That's a standard Irish festival population in its own right

The 55k are not the number of tickets on sale, there's about 3k "guests" and freebies and a few thousand worker bees and volunteers

alastair · 27-05-2016 10:38PM

bodhrandude wrote: »

Are Leftfield not already playing two Irish festivals this year, Underworld played EP last year and Groove Armada are no longer a group do they not play under the Red Light Groove Armada DJ set who are playing Forbidden Fruit anyway. After their dire performance at Life festival a few years back I won't be rushing to the stage to see them. Kormac is always welcome and Iv'e no doubt they will play the Picnic, the ultimate electro swing Irish act, if we can't get the Avalanches, Kormac will do.

On the 'electro swing' front - I'd love to see The Correspondents play EP. They made a woeful Galway Mumford gig (the missus wanted to see them) tolerable for me, with their truncated post headline set .

27-05-2016 11:04PM

bodhrandude wrote: »

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Bestival is now a huge festival, about 80k attendees. Are either Major Lazer or Hot Chip big enough to headline that? That should mean two possible days for Radiohead. I've no idea whether they will but it'd be odd for them to do worldwide fests and leave out a UK fest (assuming they won't do a secret set at Glasto - hope not as I want to catch them there next year). I'd be more confident though of Radiohead heading to Stradbally than the Isle of Wight.

Theoretically you are correct but number of tickets to punters is still 55,000 so there is 25,000 additional staff, security and artists make up the rest of the capacity. The Picnic could be very well the same in that regard as there is 55,000 tickets available to the general public, but if you take in health and safety, security, staff, traders, police there easily is another at least 10,000 to 15,000 extra at EP too.

http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/71578

Ah, ok, 55,000 actually makes more sense, though it's still referred to in efestivals and everywhere else as 80,000. They don't usually include staff, artists and guests in their numbers and 25,000 is an enormous number of passes to hand out. 55,000 would make it the equal of the Picnic and yet EP yearly gets a far better lineup. Gotta give the bookers kudos for that.

Ferris_Bueller · 28-05-2016 09:17AM

Seathrun66 wrote: »

Bestival is now a huge festival, about 80k attendees. Are either Major Lazer or Hot Chip big enough to headline that? That should mean two possible days for Radiohead. I've no idea whether they will but it'd be odd for them to do worldwide fests and leave out a UK fest (assuming they won't do a secret set at Glasto - hope not as I want to catch them there next year). I'd be more confident though of Radiohead heading to Stradbally than the Isle of Wight.

I read that Hot Chip will headline the Thursday night, Major Lazer on Friday and The Cure on Saturday. Doesn't rule out Radiohead for EP but I would think whoever they have lined up could be a contender for EP too considering we usually share at least one headliner! Agree that the Bestival line up is very poor considering the size of the festival and the acts they usually get, surely they something else up their sleeve.

declanleo · 28-05-2016 09:59AM

I fully expect Richard Ashcroft to be announced,Not a huge fan of all his solo stuff but The Verve tunes......

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