I reckon that zoo based one.
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T in the Park, the Carling Weekends and Glastonbury
Strong guess.
V.strong.
Definitely not Reading/Leeds
Didn't they both sell out in minutes/hours? Glasto's a likely contender though.
Errrrr
Ummmmmmm
No, cant be bothered.
yeah, but they're going to cancel.
In fact, i think EVERY festival will be cancelled.
your
having a laugh mate!! Glasto and Carling, come on!! T maybe... i reckon Zoo or possibly that shite on clapham common, dont know how they have the budget for iggy and the stooges, they never ever sell out and its based in the arse-end of the world that is clapham... bottom line is, that there are too many 3 day fests now, at 150 beans a time, not many folk can afford to do more than one and who can be arsed going for one day.
Yeah
He's probably having a laugh.
*is definately.
:'D
Bonus points for usage of 'you're having a laugh mate' and multiple exclamation marks.
Bravo.
I dunno
It's relatively priced and the line up's not bad. Bit out of the way though
Connect.
Probably. Or Glasto.
Camp Bestival?
It's only a month or so apart from Bestival proper and the market for middle class metropolitan families who want to take the 4x4 somewhere vaguely muddy for the first time is already well served by Secret Garden Party, Big Chill, etc etc
Everyone seems to say this
but it's had enough publicity just for what it is.
What's that one Bjork's playing? That seems to have been publicised only in passing.
Wish there was a place that told you
ticket sales numbers.
How do you reckon Green Man is fairing?
That seems a bit quiet too.
I reckon Green Man/Truck/EotR
have got enough cache amongst people who really are there primarily for the music to weather any storm.
It's the raft of new 'Art Brut, someone who used to DJ for Goldie and a hot dog van in a field, that'll be 60 quid' types who need to watch out.
Yeah you are probably right
and certainly Greenman and EotR would seem to have their cost to quality of bands to capacity size right.
Maybe Wild in the Country?
Siiick line-up, but just TOO. MANY. FESTIVALS.
^this
although it's getting pretty close now so would have thought they'd cancel it by now
Which one is that?
Never heard of it.
It's in Knebworth
Really decent line up this year- Bjork, Battles, Foals, Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, Richie Hawtin, Audion, Hercules And Love Affair...not bad for £60, and it goes on for 18 hours.
Oh that
Yeah I would be all over that if I wasnt on holiday.
One of the best line ups of the summer
I'm trying to round up some people to join me but I'm having no luck.
There's just too much stuff on really, and with the prices surely people can only afford 1, maybe 2 at a push, a year.
Green Man
ain't greedy.
Wild in the Country.
There are only something like 50 confirmed guests on Last.Fm, i know that that doesn't give a real idea of how many tickets have been sold... but that's where i heard about it.
I'm planning to go, so fingers crossed it doesn't get canceled, the line up is swish.
Zonino 3.5
Whoops.
^ reads up
damn damn damn
i have tickets for that. the last two festivals i bought tickets for got cancelled, too...
It's not actually been cancelled
i know
but JimmyHuntspill has just added to my suspicions that it will be.
The Zoo one has been my number one choice for ages!
Don't know why but it just seemed a money loser.
I don't want to be the voice of doom though so if the line up appeals BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW!!!!!!!
Who's Zooing?
I look at the line up and I really can't imagine who's going to this festival
DEFO
ZOO! festival in a ssfari park, not sure about that! too many 3 day festivals... whoever said glasto is a smackhead!
Not really
There's shedloads of tickets left, in recent years it would have been sold out months ago by this stage. Obviously it'd be a great shame but I can see it happening sooner or later.
I cant
ever see it happening to be honest... but you never know i suppose. Would much prefer a few more of the samey small ones t drop.. get loaded, etc..
that Mighty Boosh one day thing
definately
Yes ^^
that definitely.
God that would suck - a field full of comedy fans. Cant think of anything worse.
So i go on holiday for a week
and come back to discover that some of you have won a prize and correctly predicted that Bjork one. Not sure if anyone predicted Tapestry, but if you did you too can claim a prize.
This one in Austria off too....
http://www.transmissionfestival.com/
(although this could get lengthy if we are including foreign ones.
O2 wireless
they've already cancelled the leeds one.
I can never see them cancelling Glasto, theres just too many people who love it.
Errrm
Might be an idea to not predict festivals that have already happened.
oh
i thought you meant cancel for good.
Zoo Thousand seems to be going well
http://www.facebook.com/wall.php?id=7698035946
ouch
sounds fucking awful.
*makes mental note to never to go to a festival in its first year*
*only year
I like the spokesman's new definition of "no other problems": http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kol08/article/default.asp?article_id=44357
Jesus that sounds dire
Sound slike they had a decent sized crowd though which surpirses me.
^ This
Real shame.
The line-up was actually pretty decent, if I was in my teens I imagine this would have been right up my street, shame the organisation appears to have been utterly piss poor.
Much like the property market the UK 'Festival Season' is utterly overheated, far too many opportunists, chancers, cads, amateurs and de facto con artists have got in on the act. A lot of people are going to have significantly less disposable income this time next year, other than the well established and properly resourced events I can't see many start-up festivals happening.
The number of festivals next year will probably be
about a third of this year. All these were conceived in a prosperous time and as you so rightly say, everyone thought they could do it too.
I am expecting more cancellantions. I see Field Day are advertising like hell and have nothing else in the canon to announce to try and shift tickets. Anyone know how th sales are going for that?
Compared to last year
the Field Day lineup is pretty dire.
no way
this years pisses all over last years
^
are you aware this is a music website?
Yes, they must be spending a fortune on advertising
as are Camp Bestival.
I'm hoping against hope that Field Day does survive, although after last year's debacle all bets are off.
I'm desperate to see Les Savy Fav.
I hope they dont cancel it
I am booked in at the Hilton and want my breakfast buffet!
What?
....something about 'boutique' festivals!
:D
i snuck into zoo thousand
it was really really easy. my friends who paid were pretty pissed off, as a-i-c says, for a bunch of teenagers its a pretty good line-up, but tbh if they arent even confirmed then its not really a proper line-up is it. organisation generally sucked total balls. the amount of stuff that got fucked up was pretty incredible, im just glad i didnt have to queue for hours for it. A LOT of unsavoury characters there as well, which im pretty sure i can attribute to the drum and bass day.
oh and it has absolutely NOTHING to do with the zoo
seriously. nothing. its over the road and basically not connected in any way.
Breakbeats
do turn people into machete wielding robbers.
Oh my word
And I thought last year's Field Day was bad. Looks like festival standards are rapidly declining.
Who
cancelled then?
Dizzee Rascal
And loads others by the sound of it
I really do hope next year sees alot less festivals taking place.
Too right
Less quantity, more quality.
one step forward, two steps back....
my job is listing gigs/festivals etc for a database used by Metro, Guardian Guide, Daily Mirror, AOL loads of others.
This year I have been mainly adding festivals - and then removing festivals.
I think perhaps festival organizers should have organized a few regular gigs before they try and deal with an onslaught of humans who want to...Drink! Use The Toilet! Go To Sleep Without Being Robbed!
See Decent Bands Who Don't Cancel Cos They've Not Been Paid!
Anyway. yeah lot less next year I reckon for sure.
\
Just for the record
This is eFestivals' list of all the festivals this weekend:
Puravida Long Weekend (some sort of meditation/dance event in Dorset)
Wireless Festival
Boogie Woogie Festival
Coventry Godiva Festival
Glasson Festival
Glastonwick
GuilFest
Lowender Festival
National Forest Folk Festival
Beat-Herder
Thornborough Festival
Two Rivers Folk Festival
Wakestock Abersoch (North Wales)
Wittfest
Workhouse Festival
Zoo Thousand Music Festival
Birmingham International Jazz Festival
Frome Festival
Cheltenham Music Festival
Cornbury Music Festival
Brass 08
Gillingham Festival
Ipswich Music Day
The Hop Farm Festival
The Boosh Festival
And that's with Blissfields, Kelburn Garden Party and WyeFayre cancelled. Now, obviously not all of those have been put to Lightspeed Champion's booking agent, and indeed several of them may have been burned down for all we'll ever know - it's probable they've migrated to this week because there's no Glasto, T, V or Reading to go against. But that's a shitload of festivals for one not always that warm weekend, isn't it?
And they say its an overcrowded market
what would they know?
As long as Lounge in the farm doesn't cancel, I'm alright. Pull up the ladder, etc.
Boosh was this weekend gone?
Did that happen then?
^ ignore
just seen the thread.
Have they had
that festival with him off Hefner playing on a steam train yet? Surely that can't work.
Outside
also
indietracks is in its 2nd or 3rd year and has a dedicated niche audience who love trains and cardigans. so they'll probably do ok.