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[AcademicPistol]

jump, on 03 April 2012 - 02:05 PM, said:

Example has been talking about why fests are struggling this year...

http://www.gigwise.c...make-sense'

"A lot were promoted badly, had bad security, were in bad locations or the line-ups hadn't been programmed well, so they didn't make sense," he said.
Adding: "Some of them had a great theme, a great location and great line-up and the people running them knew what they were doing. And there were other ones which seemed to me were really amateur.
Discussing the future of festivals in the UK, Example went on to say that he suspects only the big ones will surivive along with those who cater to a niche. "Reading and Leeds struggled last year. I think maybe that's because guitar music's not as big as electronic music at the moment.
"But festivals, to survive, just really need to think about their theme, who their market is and book the suitable acts to sell it out.

We all know what happend last time you shared an article that you read NO ONE MENTION VAT!

[jump]

AcademicPistol, on 03 April 2012 - 02:19 PM, said:

We all know what happend last time you shared an article that you read NO ONE MENTION VAT!

Fine no VAT then, I can still mention taxes tho right?

[eFestivals]

I think it's Example who doesn't make sense, not festivals.

[biffoire]

Festival ticket prices go up by £10 or £20 and I've wondered the last few years when sales would slow. I understand the money goes towards making a better festival. However, I think there is a ceiling to what people will pay (and that seems to be now being hit) and people will be comparing past line ups with past prices. I remember one of my first readings being about £100 and now its double that give or take.

[AcademicPistol]

Not even taxes! We don't wanna start VAT Wars II.

And the economy has changed a lot 10 years Biff.

[t8yman]

Shows how much example knows, guitar music not as popular as electronic music? What a crock of shite.

Skilled to headline Glastonbury next year then?

[biffoire]

AcademicPistol, on 03 April 2012 - 03:35 PM, said:

And the economy has changed a lot 10 years Biff.

Indeed it has. For a while now, people have said how expensive festivals are and how you can go abroad for the same kind of money and I guess thats never been more true than recent years.

Problem is, all the VAT.

[SteveHarley]

t8yman, on 03 April 2012 - 06:42 PM, said:

Shows how much example knows, guitar music not as popular as electronic music? What a crock of shite.

Skilled to headline Glastonbury next year then?

I think he has a point, Guitar music certainly isn't as popular now as it was a few years ago. Kids that might of used to be in to bands are now into pop acts/R&B/dance. Take a look at the charts, you have to go down to the high twenties before you get to a guitar based track.

[jump]

SteveHarley, on 03 April 2012 - 08:29 PM, said:

I think he has a point, Guitar music certainly isn't as popular now as it was a few years ago. Kids that might of used to be in to bands are now into pop acts/R&B/dance. Take a look at the charts, you have to go down to the high twenties before you get to a guitar based track.

On the same basis look at the biggest tours/gigs at the mo, the majority of them are all guitar based. I'm not disagreeing and saying guitars rule music but more the charts is full of shit and always has been so is no the best indicator.

[mrtourette]

I think it's a good indication of how much guitar music infiltrates the mainstream. It will always have it's followers but it wasn't until it was popular in the mainstream that it could sustain such a large amount of festivals that all sold out. I think now we're finding that guitar music is falling out of favour with mainstream and therefore cannot generate enough interest to sell as many ticket sales as it could at the back end of the last decade.

[AcademicPistol]

Jazz festivals got replaced by Rock/Punk festivals.

Rock/Punk festivals are now slowly getting replaced for Dance/Pop festivals.

[jump]

How's Soni France doing? That was a line up even worse than the UK one and I'm just curious if that's going to axed soon too.

[kipper64]

It's cheap though, and has FNM so I think it's probably doing alright. Last I heard they never commited to still going ahead though - I'm sure they said a week ago, more info soon. I heard they were meant to have a press conference on Tuesday as well, but not heard if that actually happened.