The marketing started before the festival even ended and that’s now been and gone. Can’t find much else to do in the next year other than to get excited about PS20.
I’m hoping so much they continue the New Normal concept. It made the festival so much more enjoyable in lots of ways.
There’s the addition of LA, and unannounced location and Benidorm in 2019 to the 20th anniversary celebrations. I hope they all succeed. Bit dubious, but we’ll see, so long as Barcelona is as fun as this year, I’m fine with it.
Wish wish wish Pavement weren’t headlining. I like them fine but what do they have to add after the last reunion? It frustrates me that they’ll take up the indie rock headline slot. And after some of the crazy spectacle of this year, they feel like a slightly safe, maybe even boringly out of step choice.
I know I’m basically alone on this but I just don’t get it (beyond that it’s a nice pay day for them of course - and that’s fine).
The LA version is really going to have to pull something out of the bag, and likewise London, if they’re looking to do mid/large scale events for them. Both cities have had struggling festival sales the past couple of years (LA in particular has actually had a few cancelled) and I don’t see why the branding of Primavera would make people shell out money if they didn’t do for All Points East, for example.
I have extremely low expectations of this and I really hope they’re not over-stretching themselves.
Feels like they’re stretching themselves too thin - hard not to get atp vibes.
Also really hope they keep the new normal but as I mentioned in the other thread I think they might struggle around the midcard if they do (as in, giving the headliners, midcard and smaller acts a 50/50 split as they did this year).
From what people have said I wouldn’t mind them making the festival smaller this year, but I guess that will never happen.
What will be more interesting about the London one(if it is London) is where in buggery are they going to have it. Jabberwocky was meant to be in the Olympic Park?
Hopefully they’ve ringfenced off the cash so if this fails it doesn’t impact Barcelona and Porto
This is it, there’s hardly anywhere that would be able to run all night in London so wouldn’t feel like Primavera anyway. It would more likely be like All Points East with a different name.
I’ve a very strong suspicion they’ll either do the London version at this place, or Alexandra Palace, and it seems about the right size for a spinoff event.
I just can’t see them doing it in any parks purely because of the amount of ballache other festivals have gone through sorting expensive licenses these past couple of years.
They haven’t fully confirmed it’s going to be A Big Festival though – and I have my doubts it will be because the Brit contingent at the Barcelona version still makes up a huge portion of the tickets sold. Might just be a few spin-off alldayers or something.
Who knows, either way I hope they don’t fuck it up.
My selfish friend has decided to get married on the Friday of Primavera Barcelona so it looks like I’ll only be able go to the Saturday and then road trip it to Porto, to do that edition for the first time ever
My all time favourite band, and when they reformed last time I went to Primavera (the only time I’ve been), Amsterdam, and ATP. Was so exciting. This time it’s totally flat for me, and I can’t really put my finger on why.
I am happy for them to have the cash, but seems a shame the only thing they are doing is putting their name to the attempt by Primavera to sell very early tickets to pay off the mega-tax bill. That and announcing loads of other things, to sell tickets to them for the same reason is just a bit icky somehow.
But I am old, over bands reforming, and thought Privavera was great because it was in Barcelona more than anything else - so have just been back there six times since, outside of festival times.
Given the sales of All Points East this year, I assumed that Primavera would be taking over or partnering up for one of the two APE weekends in Victoria Park.
I can’t see any other location being suitable for their crowd - If they go to Drumsheds that’d surely be the end of Field Day there.
One possibility might be Wanstead Flats - the Corporation of London have been trying to get a large festival on there for the past few years, but have never really found a promoter who was suitable.
As for the festival in general, this year’s Barcelona lineup looked just about perfect for me, but we couldn’t make that weekend (and didn’t fancy Porto when it would be full of England supporters).
If they can find the same calibre of artists next year, then I’d certainly be interested in going, but I think that they may have hit a sweetspot this year in terms of the great artists who were at the right point of the touring/promotion cycle.
Pavement don’t really interest me at all - I saw their last reunion show (so-so) and went to ATP (probably the ATP with the worst crowd, imho), and the they just don’t excite me in 2019.
