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[Hotcider]

So why hasn't the best small festival with the best toilets been nominated for any awards this year ?

[perfectpassion]

Somebody do something....Thats outrageous!! The toilets were lovely this year too...well as festival toilets go.......

[Infinite Jest]

sssh! If EOTR wins awards, more people will want to come, and it's full up already ;-)

[Paul ™]

Hotcider, on Oct 8 2009, 04:46 PM, said:

So why hasn't the best small festival with the best toilets been nominated for any awards this year ?

They need to 'nominate' themselves

[Insomaniac]

Infinite Jest, on Oct 9 2009, 01:31 PM, said:

sssh! If EOTR wins awards, more people will want to come, and it's full up already ;-)

You beat me to it. The festival doesn't need to win awards while it continues to sell out. Only if they want to up the capacity (which they don't) would an award de worth winning.

Who really cares about these awards anyway? Surely they're as meaningless as the Brits/NME/MTV/Nobel Peace Prize etc etc.

[perfectpassion]

Bugger there I was looking forward to The Penny Drops playing at said ceremony...would make up for me missing Donny Osmonds secret set in the woods

[Fat_Buddha]

Christ, do not go publicising this festival.

[MattL80]

Agree. Let's keep it to ourselves.

[Hotcider]

Insomaniac, on Oct 9 2009, 02:46 PM, said:

You beat me to it. The festival doesn't need to win awards while it continues to sell out. Only if they want to up the capacity (which they don't) would an award de worth winning.

Who really cares about these awards anyway? Surely they're as meaningless as the Brits/NME/MTV/Nobel Peace Prize etc etc.

I'm sure the organisers don't think its meaningless otherwise why would they use the fact they won in 2006 in their advertising and why would they send round emails last year asking for us to vote for them.

I agree its not the be all and end all but I bet the organisers like to be recognised and it might help with getting bands to paly in future.

[Infinite Jest]

Good point Hotcider. I'll be off to vote.

[eFestivals]

Insomaniac, on Oct 9 2009, 02:46 PM, said:

Who really cares about these awards anyway? Surely they're as meaningless as the Brits/NME/MTV/Nobel Peace Prize etc etc.

Oh, not - they're far more meaningless than those awards.

Taking the Brits as an example: it's very likely that just about anyone voting has heard the music of both the acts they vote for and the acts they vote against.

With these festival awards, how can you make a meaningful vote for say 'best toilets' unless you've been to every festival to know which has the best toilets?

It's for reasons such as this that eFestivals didn't start doing any similar festival awards long before others thought of it, and why eFestivals ignores them as a meaningless irrelevance.

[Insomaniac]

Hotcider, on Oct 15 2009, 10:03 AM, said:

I'm sure the organisers don't think its meaningless otherwise why would they use the fact they won in 2006 in their advertising and why would they send round emails last year asking for us to vote for them.

I agree its not the be all and end all but I bet the organisers like to be recognised and it might help with getting bands to paly in future.

Fair enough they may be useful for marketing purposes, but as Neil (efestivals) points out above they are actually meaningless, however as you so rightly demonstrate most people don't realise that, so therefore they are meaningful to some people.

Edited by Insomaniac, 15 October 2009 - 02:28 PM.

[Paul ™]

They are a popularity poll.

[Sipperana]

I voted for EOTR cos they deserve it. I agree though that it's only about who puts themselves forward. After all, the best festival toilets are the composting loos at Latitude, but they didn't get a mention.

[Insomaniac]

Paul ™, on Oct 15 2009, 03:52 PM, said:

They are a popularity poll.

Do you know if they are calculated based on the size of the festival, as surely the bigger festivals will have more respondents. Obviously Glastonbury with around 140,000 punters can get more votes than EOTR so I presume the organisers of these awards must try and weight them accordingly.

[geofelgie]

I voted anyway, I like meaningless things

[Infinite Jest]

Insomaniac, on Oct 15 2009, 05:04 PM, said:

Do you know if they are calculated based on the size of the festival, as surely the bigger festivals will have more respondents. Obviously Glastonbury with around 140,000 punters can get more votes than EOTR so I presume the organisers of these awards must try and weight them accordingly.

There are different categories: large, medium, small, grassroots, urban - a few others.

[cessy5]

i tried to vote but was thrown out of the site

[sadwitch]

Well Boomtown is nominated for best new festival and it was the worst thing ive experienced in 11 years of festivals

[M.G.Frogworthy]

perfectpassion, on Oct 8 2009, 06:15 PM, said:

Somebody do something....Thats outrageous!! The toilets were lovely this year too...well as festival toilets go.......

You're right . . . .I actually nodded off in one this year. . . .( and no! . . .'nodded off' is not a euphemism! )