SophieBee

Nothing for us sadly - hope it's not another five year gap before our next one. Congrats to everyone who got through - you'll have the best time.

More than fine. She's ALWAYS relied on a backing track because of the dance performance elements - I remember seeing her in 1990 and it was the same thing - but she sang enough live to convince me. Live to Tell was a proper moment.

I was there last night and had an absolute blast - minor setlist gripes aside (can't work out whether there were deliberate omissions or some were cut due to technical issues at the start), it was an incredible show. I'd love to see her at Glastonbury.

Ha! They’re getting cheeky now…

I've also got the leopard print one - obviously hoping it was an unnecessary (but sylish) extravagance. Mainly I don't want to use it because it took me ages to figure out how to get it back into its built-in pouch - can only imagine what a mess I'll make of it after a cider or several 😅

Perfect, thanks that’s super helpful!

We're getting the coach for the first time this year - NE from Victoria on Wednesday morning. There isn't much in the way of helpful guidance in terms of when to arrive - usually it recommends ariving 10 minutes before departure time, but I'm assuming that for festival departures that's cutting it way too fine. Does anyone regularly make this trip? How long before your departure do you usually arrive? Are there separate queues for each departure, or one big long mess of a queue? Our coach is at 10.30am, so we've got a half-formed plan of getting to the coach station for around 9.30am (trying to avoid getting on the super-busy commuter trains before 9am if poss) - does that sound about right? I've looked on Twitter for previous advice from NE and they rather unhelpfully suggest 'as early as you can', which doesn't really give much guidance. Grateful for anyone's experience of doing the coach trip from Victoria!

This looks great - really excited for Silver Hayes this year, not just a great line up, but some thought going into making the area interesting.

It doesn’t make a difference, but I’m pretty sure the Lebara esim isn’t available in the UK yet - I found the same page when I was looking, but when it came to making an order there was no esim available. As I say though, it doesn’t make a difference, you can choose which is the primary and secondary sim in the iPhone settings and it can bounce between them as needed when the primary has low coverage.

I don’t think Lebara do esims yet - at least I couldn’t find an esim option when I got mine. It was easy to convert my contract EE sim over to esim though.

We got standing at O2 - worked out at £65 each with all the various charges and fees

Excellent - can't wait for Kelis, that's my Friday night sorted. Much as I love Hot Chip, seen them loads and was looking for a good alternative!

I'm really happy with this first list. Loads there I want to see, and loads I know I probably won't see due to painful clashes - and this is just the start. Properly excited about Lizzo into GnR, which is not a sentence I ever thought I'd say...

Went to Daniel Avery's live show in London last night. Saw him at Primavera this year, so knew to expect great things, and it was indeed incredible. I think it's quite a limited tour run, but he'll surely be expanding it next year. Catch him when you can! Was also a chance to try the shiny new venue, Here at Outernet, which I've been watching them build for years as I work nearby. Was pleasantly surprised - expecting it to be a bit corporate and vibe-free, but was actually pretty good. And the sound system and lighting were superb. Nice to have a venue back on Denmark Street again.

Still can't quite believe it, but I got through and got our five tickets at 10:23 - well after the sold out message had gone through. First success since 2017 and over the flippin' moon! See you all on the farm!