Terrible festivals - 2018 edition

[1986_and_all_that]

Sum 41 are THE thing.

[Shoebox1976uk]

TBF, Mark Morriss is great fun live. Proper nice and funny bloke, a great mix of classic Bluetones, solo stuff and covers. I’ve seen him a few times and will always check him out if he’s playing locally.

[IAN9000]

Going to see The Beatles in December m8

[urbanfox]

Didn’t know he’d done anything aside from Return of the Mack

[Yesiamaduck]

End of The Road will be fine simply because the people go once tend to go every year, that’s what a well run and thought out festival does, it creates a sense of loyalty and community among it’s festival goers and word of mouth spreads and in theory the number should then stay pretty consistent and only grow from then on. Put on a couple of bands that’d attract a younger audience to start the cycle a new every year and it should be self sustaining.

[Yesiamaduck]

But most festivals aren’t well thought out and are rarely anything more than ‘competently’ ran so people will go, have fun, but no real desire to return.They’ll check that festival off of their list and then go to a different one next year, eventually the pool of people that would be interested in your festival dwindles and you’re kinda dickd. Then you have the endless festivals with the same line ups which feel like they’ve come off of a conveyor belt, the success of those events is purely down to two things. Location and Price. If either are even slightly wrong they will fail.

Or they will try to expand too fast a la Truck and ATP and either alienate their core audience or not have enough customers to sustain. ATP was particularly awful for this because they oversaturated a market they essentially had a monopoly overl

[I_LIKE_CATS]

I was talking to someone on here about Geneva. They were actually a good band. So I suppose for getting to see a band you didn’t the first time round…(well apart from the disclaimer under the band name)

[KillingMoon]

I liked Geneva a lot. I bought all the singles from ‘Further’ at the time…‘No One Speaks’, ‘Into The Blue’, ‘Tranquilizer’ & ‘Best Regrets’.

[iaminterested]

This is a piece on the current overcrowded festival market in Chicago but covers a lot of the stuff we’ve been talking about in this thread

Does Chicago have too many music festivals?

[roastthemonaspit]

Just winced thinking what “hip hop karaoke” would be like at this

[Avery]

Not read that yet, but happened to notice they were streaming Lollapalooza on youtube so looked at the clashfinder and as with a lot of this year’s festvals, there was very little i knew. That’s not to say there wasn’t loads of great stuff. I’d never really listened to Borns before but saw his set and now have someone to watch a bit of after La Dispute at Reading. The problem is that if someone with a pretty broad taste in music, who listens to an over 100 tracks per day doesn’t recognise massive chunks of line ups, they will struggle to sell out. They did have Carly Rae Jepsen though so, they should have sold out on that alone.

[silentcommand]

Went to the Great British Beer Festival at Olympia last week. I’d say the attendance was two thirds of what it was a couple of years ago.

There was a bloke on his own playing acoustic Oasis covers, but he was roundly ignored.

[bokonon]

I was tentatively pencilled in to work this one but my boss said it had all the hallmarks of failure from Day 1.
Pretty relieved tbh.

[urbanfox]

As baffling as it is that The Courteeners can sell out arenas, the fact a tribute band to them exists is even more mind blowing.

[iaminterested]

I’d say this probably has something to do with the hundreds of (pretty great) local beer/craft ale festivals that have popped up over the past couple of years. It makes the prospect of doing the same thing in a massive shed in London pretty depressing in comparison.

[thesewoodenideas]

[thesewoodenideas]

I thought that’s why they had a Primal Scream tribute but they just about qualify for Madchester because of Mani and that.
Reckon it’s an excuse for a bunch of pissed up ‘lads’ to fulfill their lifelong dream of beating up Blur.

[jimmyhuntspill]

Has this weekend’s Cool Britannia Festival STILL not been cancelled?

I am watching that one closely, let me tell you.

At the very least I am looking forward to it turning out to be in a tent, in the Knebworth car park.

[grievoustim]

this article unearths a new kind of terrible festival

“Then there’s last month’s House festival, on Hampstead Heath, which has partnered with, among others, Rupert Murdoch’s News UK and Freuds, the PR firm run by Matthew Freud (who was considered part of Cameron’s Chipping Norton set and married to Elisabeth Murdoch). The festival is primarily for members of the Soho House group of private members’ clubs. Members who already pay more than £1,500 a year to join the club can chuck a further £150 on tickets, to see Nile Rodgers, the Manic Street Preachers and Rita Ora, while eating unlimited lobster. If that’s not a Tory Glastonbury, I don’t know what is.”

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[jordan_229]

Disappointed that its not a Clint Boon tribute act