Common People Festival

[rawaudioinput]

New festival from the team behind Bestival at Southampton Common!

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/11655650.World_s_top_stars_to_play_new_Hampshire_festival/

Exclusive pre-sale sign up here:

http://commonpeople.net/

[LondonTom]

Could be an intresting!

An easier to get to Bestival type affair would be ace! But at 25 quid and no camping, will be something similar to Field Day I guess. (Which is nice enough for a one day festival in a park really!)

[cdm22]

£25 for a day festival is a bit of a bargain! Shame I live nowhere near.

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

Interesting. Hopefully the line up will be decent.

[A Guy Called Matt]

Same weekend as Bearded Theory else would be very interested.

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

If he books Nile bleeding Rodgers again though I'm not interested.

[marcwilson87]

I'm buzzing about this. Southampton often gets left out with decent bands - they just play London instead. The city has been crying out for something like this, The Common is perfect for it. We used to have a shitty one day festival run by a local radio station, but not had anything on down there for years.

Can't wait to see who he manages to get! It'll be bigger than Victorious fest in Portsmouth and they have just got Basement Jaxx.

P.S. The Common is renowned for dogging (if that's your sort of thing).

[rawaudioinput]

If Victorious have Basement Jaxx then I can see this festival being very promising! It'll definitely need to have some big acts if they're announcing in the new year, they won't have much more than four months to shift tickets

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

Just realised this is the same weekend as Liverpool Sound City festival which is headlined by the Flaming Lips & Belle & Sebastian...

[rawaudioinput]

OH GOD. That has given me a lot of hope

Edited December 10, 2014 by rawaudioinput

[the wonderwhy]

Yeah it'll be interesting to see how this compares to Victorious. I notice it's at the other end of the summer to avoid competition (although I guess that's more do with Bestival)

Victorious already has one up on it though, as its in Portsmouth...

[LondonTom]

Victorious already has one up on it though, as its in Portsmouth...

Not true, being in Southampton its a lot more feasible to stay in Bournemouth and ignore being in either City

[the wonderwhy]

Not true, being in Southampton its a lot more feasible to stay in Bournemouth and ignore being in either City

Ah, well, with Portsmouth you can stay in Brighton which is better than all of the above.

[eFestivals]

I've lived in both, i much preferred Soton.

[Matt - Ed Banger Records]

My friend is having a Glastonbury themed wedding a few weeks after this, this weekend has been earmarked as the stag do so we are now having to decide between this, Glastonbudget and Simple Things in Bristol - will be interested to see what the line up is like once it has been announced.

[LondonTom]

Ah, well, with Portsmouth you can stay in Brighton which is better than all of the above.

Brighton is just a shit London but by the Sea

[Staff_Sav]

Nice local do for me. Just hope that it doesn't attract the dickheads that have flocked to day events around here in the past. For that reason, its probably better that it doesn't go on until the early hours. I didn't go to Victorious this year but heard it was a lot better on its new site (the year before left it a bit limited). Hope it pulls a decent line-up

[dentalplan]

Does anyone think the name is woeful? I like the Pulp song and all that but what?

[JC-Mo'Fucka]

i could see this being exactly the same as love saves the day; mainly dj's with some electronic live acts. the fact it's the same weekend also indicates they'll share a load of the acts.

i'd take a guess at caribou headlining one of the days

[Memory Man]

They've seen the success of field day, parklife and love saves the day and are just trying to get in on that arent they.

Admittedly this one could be better than the lot as rob and crew's track record with production, ideas and site decoration far surpass any other event not named glastonbury

Love saves in bristol same weekend so they will share some acts

The success of these events are all on the lineup and if they can get the sound levels higher than a murmur which has always plagued these events

Edited December 11, 2014 by Memory Man

[Staff_Sav]

Does anyone think the name is woeful? I like the Pulp song and all that but what?

Its a bit cheesy but since its going to be held on an area called Southampton Common it kind of makes sense

The success of these events are all on the lineup and if they can get the sound levels higher than a murmur which has always plagued these events

They had some 80's festival on the same site this year, but I didn't go to it so can't comment as to what the sound was like. A lot of stuff in Southampton tends to finish quite early, and there is a bit of residential nearby, so wouldn't be surprised if the sound isn't as good as it should be. That being said, loud doesn't mean best (had my eardrum blown out at glastonbury this year)

[dentalplan]

Its a bit cheesy but since its going to be held on an area called Southampton Common it kind of makes sense

Ohh I hadn't put two and two together there. I think the name's quite clever now I know that.

[Ringo_Spar]

Maybe the idea came about with the intention of putting on Pulp.

[5co77ie]

Maybe the idea came about with the intention of putting on Pulp.

No!!!! You don't thunk?

[LondonTom]

Thats surely to obvious!

Jarvis has been writing this year though