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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: Crazy_Joe on March 18, 2008, 02:27:39 PM
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Now that bands have been/started to be announced for most festivals, do any of you know which festival you wish to go to this year if any?
Wacken is sold out and it's in Germany so i doubt I'll be heading there, Downloads lineup is absolute balls with the exception of Kiss and some others and Bloodstock has some nice fairly unheard of metal bands but nothing really big going on.
Reading's has their announcement on 31st March and tickets go on sale then too, Rage against the Machine, The Killers and Metallica are the rumored headliners which is sweet but i'm working on that Monday so the tickets will be sold out by the time i get back probably :(
I'm holding out for Download to announce some better bands (HA!) because at the moment that's the only fest i'm probably likely to go to this year.
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If any, it would be Download, near enough to me, well guess Reading isn't too far, but it always seems more pop rocky.
Exams and all that stuff though, and should probably sort out a job etc.
Will go to download maybe next year though, just for the experience again, was pretty fun in 2006
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i dislike festivals... sorry guys
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This year, I'll be off to:
Tapestry - it's a London based music night that has a festival once a year near Port Talbot - best festival I've ever been to, well laid back with 2 awesome beer tents and the best hog roast ever. The missus walked within yards of a stag and didn't notice (it was dark), she got a bit of a shock when she turned round. :lol:
Green Man - Week after Tapestry, so plan is to mill about in Wales for a bit
Napton - Go for my birthday, it's like a village fate gone wrong. Great fun, got soooooo drunk last year.
Generally, I'm plumping for the little festivals from now on, who cares about the music, lets all get drunk in a field type of things.
It was intended that this year, me and the missus would try to go to as many little ones as we could afford and have a last summer blow out before thinking baout sprogs. Unfortunealy though, my brother decided to give us about 4 months notice that he was getting married in Gozo, so there goes all our money :evil:
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I want to go to Reading because RATM are meant to be playing, but its pretty far away and I dont know if I can be bothered to make my way up there.
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if any it would be reading this year but i have some friends getting married the same weekend... i am really hoping RATM do a tour
last year i went to glasto for free - only had to do 3 hours of activities each morning in the kids field, much better than the deal the oxam stewards get.. that was pretty sweet but felt a bit drowned by the end
this weekend i am heading down to the gower for 'sounds of the sands'. Nothing official but about 20 of us from burton and london head down to the camp site in wales with loads of wood for a fire in the sand dunes and someone takes a set of decks and disco lights hooked up to a few car batteries. by the end of the night last year we had quadrupled our numbers just with people who hear some music and stop by... not really a festival i know but its kind of become an ultimate chill out weekend
a few other small things i might make it to like play festival (small juggling, poi, general weird stuff kind of festival - saw a great ska band there a couple of years ago)
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Cambridge Folk Festival for me.
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I'll be heading off to Supersonic (http://www.capsule.org.uk/Coming_Up/209.aspx) once again; last year was smashing and the line-up this year doesn't disappoint.
I wouldn't mind Bloodstock but it's far too difficult for me to get somewhere like that as I don't drive and none of my automotive mates would be interested. Wacken would rule. I may sneak off to the Whitby Gothic Weekend in October if I have some spare cash (to buy eyeliner and white greasepaint).
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If the lineup is as expected, then Leeds/Reading.
If not, Brownload.
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I don't like festivals. There's always only one or two bands I like and couldn't care less about the rest.
I'm going to see Stray Cats!
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Hellfest, Bloodstock and Damnation.
The Hellfest lineup is superb, Bloodstock is a laugh though it'll still be half full of atrocious power metal shitee and Damnation is dynamite every year, plus my pals organise it.
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Hellfest, Bloodstock and Damnation.
The Hellfest lineup is superb, Bloodstock is a laugh though it'll still be half full of atrocious power metal shitee and Damnation is dynamite every year, plus my pals organise it.
I'd absolutely LOVE to go to Hellfest.
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Hellfest, Bloodstock and Damnation.
The Hellfest lineup is superb, Bloodstock is a laugh though it'll still be half full of atrocious power metal shitee and Damnation is dynamite every year, plus my pals organise it.
I'd absolutely LOVE to go to Hellfest.
Go then :P
It's really not at all expensive.
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None - I am dead sick of festivals.
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Metal Camp
best festival you can be at. Wacken used to be top, but they're slipping. it's all about location, location, location!
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this one was really good last year, but the acts seem a bit thin on the ground this year... http://www.fieldsofrock.nl/programma.asp?id=115
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Metal Camp
best festival you can be at. Wacken used to be top, but they're slipping. it's all about location, location, location!
I have to say that location looks seriously good!
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Metal Camp
best festival you can be at. Wacken used to be top, but they're slipping. it's all about location, location, location!
I have to say that location looks seriously good!
+100
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Reading tickets bought - But what an awful experience that was.
Ended up buying my tickets at midnight, being forced to get coach bundles regardless of the fact I've been sat at home spamming phone calls and refresh.
What an awful experience.
That being said - RAGE ARE PLAYING!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et2914h1E98&feature=related - CHECK OUT THAT CROWD!
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Reading seems to have an allright lineup
(http://www.readingfestival.co.uk/images/poster.jpg)
I guess all the tickets are sold out or going for ridiculous prices now though :( I'd like to go for RATM, Pendulum, QOTSA and Metallica but theres also a lot of indie shite on that lineup.
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I got my ticket for Leeds last night! I'm from Liverpool but have gone to Reading for the last 4 years because most of my mates are down south and so we have a yearly congregation down there but none of them are attending this year so me and my missus and some mates from up here are keeping it Norvern and staying in Leeds.
Might see some of you bumholes there... if you pass a place called "Camp Jew", that's me. :)
And I cannot believe I am going to see Rage. I shat myself when the actual confirmation came out. I mean, we all knew it was gonna happen but to have it 100% certain was amazing.
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I'm pissed i got denied by the ticket thingy 4 times when i pressed the final buy button after putting in my card details and all that, it just said it's too busy and shite.
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I'm pissed i got denied by the ticket thingy 4 times when i pressed the final buy button after putting in my card details and all that, it just said it's too busy and shitee.
Same- ended up getting em from an ebay tout 3 minutes later, at a £40 markup :evil:
Anyway, reading it is, £205 out of pocket or no :D
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So I got back from Hellfest late Monday night.
Flat out, the best festival I've ever been to, completely different to how it was last year according to the pals that went who attended both, fantastic lineup, everything ran bang on time from early afternoon to the 2.00am odd finishes insofar as I remember, cheap as chips weekend all in (by festival standards)...
I saw a shedload of bands and with the exception of very few (Mayhem, Opeth) none were disappointing (and Opeth are always a bit bland live), At The Gates and Carcass were marvelous which is just as well or I'd have been reet in the huff.
Will be going again next year without a shadow of a doubt. Wacken can get humped (although to be fair, next year, I'll go to that too).
Additionally, Carcass have just been announced for Damnation Festival in Leeds this year, so I get to see them twice on their little reunion jaunt and probably at their last ever gig. 8)
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I have banned myself from festivals after I got forced to watch Amy Winehouse play a tent at V before she was famous. To numb the pain I ended up drinking 4 pints of Budweiser and a litre of gin; that was at 3pm. The Chilli Peppers were headlining at about 10pm. I woke up half way through their set in the disabled viewing area wearing someone elses clothing.
Anyone else got any amusing festival anecdotes?
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I did once became a desciple to a tripping guy who was in the river at reading trying to baptise people because he thought he was Jesus.
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Bloodstock for me, Iced Earth and At The Gates being their sealed it for me, plus Opeth, Dimmu, Eluveite, Communic, and a fair few others I will definitely watch.
Also considering Damnation based upon line up, probably will anyway due to Carcass signing up for it, just interested to see if there will be enough good bands to make a hotel stay out of it, or just drive up and drive back if theres only a couple of decent bands playing.
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I did once become a desciple to a tripping guy who was in the river at reading trying to baptise people because he though he was Jesus.
Phew... for a minute I thought I was the only one that over does it
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^ :lol:
I'm going to Hard Rock Calling in Hyde Park tomorrow (Sunday)
Only cos The Stranglers are on the line up and I've still not seen them.
The rest of it is The Police and loads I've never even heard of. It was an impulse buy.
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Voodoo in New Orleans... 10 th anniv. And with the exception of NIN it is so far the lamest....! I bought tickets long before they gave up the headliners. Every year has been great..except this one. They are still adding acts. Lill Wayne!!!!
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I am not a fan of festivals these days.Did all that when I was younger. I might go to the local primary schools harvest festival but thats about it for me.
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I might go to the local primary schools harvest festival but thats about it for me.
ROCK and ROLL!
You got Competition, Matt. :lol:
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Bloodstock for me, Iced Earth and At The Gates being their sealed it for me, plus Opeth, Dimmu, Eluveite, Communic, and a fair few others I will definitely watch.
Also considering Damnation based upon line up, probably will anyway due to Carcass signing up for it, just interested to see if there will be enough good bands to make a hotel stay out of it, or just drive up and drive back if theres only a couple of decent bands playing.
I'd always be at Damnation anyway since the organisers are all good pals of mine, but Carcass and Sigh's first UK shows in a decade and a half, probably Carcass' last ever show...It's not to be missed.
Plenty more corkers to be announced too.