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[fitzyp]

has anyone been to porto? whats the night life like? do you think the bands will be on late into the evening like barcelona?

[paulomas]

i'm looking into this - anyone got any links/recommendations into villas/apartments in the surrounding area?

[fitzyp]

i used www.only-apartments.com good prices for that weekend, i dont think they've realised there's a festival on. kinda booked this all on a whim. ive been wanting to go to primavera for ages, but had already booked sonar. so i booked the porto one instead.

[roadrunner66]

fitzyp, on 13 January 2012 - 07:51 PM, said:

has anyone been to porto? whats the night life like? do you think the bands will be on late into the evening like barcelona?

I think so, there's no curfew. If you want to spend a good time in the night of Porto then you sould go to Galerias, an area with streets full of bars, people usually stay outside socializing and drinking...it has a great vibe. In the summer it looks like this:
http://www.gallery-h...65_galerias.jpg

[fitzyp]

nightmare, the cure have been added to the barcelona one. i hope this gamble pays off.

[paulomas]

just booked tickets for this. is this the first year its been in portugal? whats the nearest airport and stuff? hoping it's gonna be an amazing weekend. staying for a week in an apartment. cant believe the festival is only £75 for the 4 days

[paulomas]

for anyone looking into flights for this, i just got a return from gatwick to the airport near the festival for £95 on lastminute.com leaving/departing in the afternoon. bargain!

[Uncle Liam]

I do wonder if the lineup is complete... no new announcements for a while.

[paulomas]

Uncle Liam, on 24 January 2012 - 10:01 AM, said:

I do wonder if the lineup is complete... no new announcements for a while.

i hope not! if it's a 4 day festival, that surely can't be enough bands to cover the 4 days? i'm hoping for a few big other bands. who are the headliners so far?

[Uncle Liam]

Its only really three days. There is a fourth day but i'm not sure its a proper day of the festival.

For 75E surely Bjork and Death Cab can be headliners? And Primavera isnt really a festival that has had 'headliners' anyway?

[duncan123]

The line up is most definitely not complete! There's going to be a press conference in the next couple of days/weeks where the rest of it will be confirmed.

[paulomas]

duncan123, on 29 January 2012 - 07:30 PM, said:

The line up is most definitely not complete! There's going to be a press conference in the next couple of days/weeks where the rest of it will be confirmed.

they've just announced a shit load of bands on twitter but i can't work out whether they are playing barcelona and/or porto too

[duncan123]

All those bands are just for Barca atm, however in the Porto press conference, I'm hoping some are announced to be playing both!

[fitzyp]

I'm hoping the rapture, erol alkan, the field, aeroplane and refused get added to Porto then it'd be a good gamble that paid off. UNLIKE fucking sonar, who haven't even released anything yet and I bought my ticket ages ago. Anybody know when the Porto press conference will be? Nothing has been advertised and they made a big deal out of the Barcelona one.

[duncan123]

They said in a couple of days earlier this week, but I saw another post saying it will be in around 2 weeks. Kinda frustrating really! They've said they'll post on twitter/fb when it's gonna be so it's probably worth getting them on there so you can keep up to date.

[Hesse]

More announcements next week

[duncan123]

Press conference is on Wednesday (15th)

Edited by duncan123, 09 February 2012 - 07:50 PM.

[paulomas]

FLAMING LIPS YEAH

[paulomas]

http://a2.sphotos.ak...234054695_n.jpg

[Olivedal 1904]

Pretty good anouncement! I'm especially looking forward to Atlas Sound, I Break Horses, Flaming Lips and Wolves in the Throne Room.