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What a beautiful night

They need to try something radical, like not being shit.

Well looks like I'm going to be a granddad again lol

Surely to keep everyone happy, Billie should just make more good songs.

You say that, but it's a long time to go without stepping foot in either of those areas. I was sceptical at Latitude but after about two minutes it was as though Covid never happened. Personally the entry requirements are good enough for me not to worry too much about it once inside the festival, but of course each to their own as you said go with what you're comfortable with.

I wonder what happened to Spider Man after 2018? 😅

Q1, come on Michael, hows about a few tickets for the e fest resale crew?

Judging from the 80 odd live sets I've seen since 19th July, I very much doubt more than 5-10 % of people will stick to masks in the Big Top / Tipi (even with an EotR crowd). They'll both be better for ventilation though than most indoor venues. It's not ideal if the bands you want to see are tented, but at least there are enough outdoor stages with great music if tents feel too much of a risk. They are very safe. The biggest covid risk then is likely toilet cubicles, but waving the door a few times will recycle the air (and have other benefits!). It'll all feel fine once we're inside. I hope everybody finds their personal balance between risk and enjoyment 😊.

Yay just had my dispatch email 🙂 must have been reading fb posts 🙂 whoop whoop hope yours has come too

Arcade Fire at Reading 2010 will always be my favourite gig of all time. Couldn’t have been more obsessed with a band at that point and those first three albums were pretty much perfect. Spent the whole Saturday on the barrier waiting for their set. The way they merged Rebellion (Lies) into Neighbourhood #3 was spine tingling! Sorry for digressing!

Ran 22mi this morning and I'm flipping flapjacked now.

Promising announcement for the NZ Government this morning. As long as the vaccine holds and the situation in the UK doesn’t deteriorate, travel should be possible without quarantine by June next year. Perhaps we actually will get there! Still a number of variables at play though, I can’t imagine it’s going to feel likely until around March next year.

Forecast looks good. Occasional shower. This place is lush. Just sat having dinner

Ok guess I'll count them. Just to say, some entries were discounted because of the rules but I don't think they'd have changed anything. 3rd place: Snapped Ankles - Forest of Your Problems It's a great time to be alive for the psych goons in ghillie suits, completing the top three. Tied 1st: Dave - We're All Alone In This Together Voice of a generation and national hero Santan Dave triumphs with the follow-up to his unfollowupable debut, and takes a shared top spot. Tied 1st: Inhaler - It Won't Always Be Like This Bono's son and friends also release album. Some of you liked it and it is joint 1st. --- Albums of the month of the year so far, and contenders for the end of year thing: Inhaler - It Won't Always Be Like This Dave - We're All Alone In This Together Snapped Ankles - Forest of Your Problems Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend Sault - 9 Lucy Dacus - Home Video Iceage - Seek Shelter Squid - Bright Green Field St. Vincent - Daddy's Home Royal Blood - Typhoons Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg The Coral - Coral Island Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark Bicep - Isles Black Country, New Road - For the First Time Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - Carnage Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over the Country Club For Those I Love - For Those I Love Mogwai - As the Love Continues Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams Shame - Drunk Tank Pink

New Cribs. Releasing a new single each month for the remainder of the year:

Can't think of a time i've purchased through them and things have gone smoothly. Tried to load up my tickets today and the request wouldn't go through due to busy servers, can't imagine what it's going to be like on the day when everyone is trying to load them. Hopefully saving them to the wallet on my phone will prevent any issue with accessing them whilst in the queue

it's more like a sine wave.

Too right! sure they’ll be here on time 🤞

Will do mate, got an automated reply saying it could take seven days for a response but I'll post the proper reply here. Wouldn't surprise me if Reading are just trialling it ahead of a full rollout next year

Still waIting for my tickets. Sherlock’s way to small to headline. If that’s the only replacement they can get, then surely they will slot them in the lineup further down and bump someone else up to headline. Would be a nice addition but headline! The James Heritage Live even has them in small writing with FEEDER, MAXIMO PARK & THE SNUTS above.

ViP does not look worth it to me, depends what you want though. You have free basic camping, which is your normal festival camping. Never done that at sziget. Then you can pay for different types of camping upgrades, which have a different feel to them. You have VIP camping which has a pool, did that the 1st year I went but never again. It's right next to the all night dance tests, which ok for the 1st night but after 7 or 8 days with no sleep. You then have a selection of upgraded campsite, I use the upgrade xamosites as it saves me taking a tent and it's erected when you get there. Always think about hotels, just be careful on distanc from the festival.

Yeah, I’ll definitely be wearing one in the tents too. Good stuff from Simon etc, clear guidance and making it as easy as possible for everyone. Can’t wait to get back there, 3 weeks today! Feels like it’s been forever.

Maybe they will reduce numbers inside instead then. I for one will be avoiding them anyway. It's a shame, but there will be plenty on elsewhere and you have to go with your comfort level at the moment. Besides which, those places are stuffy enough in normal times, let alone with a mask on.

Yep - you can pick up free LFT test packs at most pharmacies. As soon as you've done it report the result here (assuming it's negative!) and you'll get a text and an email with confirmation after a few minutes.

Welcome! 🙂

Collect for free at any chemist (including most supermarkets) in England on the way to the festival.

Prob in minority but I have no problem wearing a mask if I go in the tipi which is a small enclosed space after all. After a while I forget I’m even wearing it.

Emailing confimring entry is - COVID pass - 48 hour lateral flow - Natural immunity cert In order to make the weekend as safe as possible for everybody involved, we will be requiring all attendees to abide by new Covid-19 protocols in order to gain access to End of The Road Festival 2021. All ticket holders aged 11 and over (those under 11 are exempt) will need to demonstrate their Covid-19 Status by providing either: • Proof of full vaccination – both doses received (with the second at least 14 days prior to the festival) or; • Proof of a negative NHS Lateral Flow Test or PCR Test taken within 48 hours prior to arrival at the festival (please note that it can take up to two hours for your test result to show up on the NHS App) or; • Proof of natural immunity based upon a positive PCR test within 180 days of the festival (including 10 days self-isolation following the result). You will find a full list of FAQs regarding Covid-19 on our website.

Coming up with a friend tomorrow afternoon after a bit of work in the morning. Would be great to meet up with some people for a drink if people are about!

I got a hangover.. 314

JPT: The Go! Team 55 Bright Eyes 70 Hot Chip 74 The Gossip 51 The Cribs 34 Biffy Clyro 50 The National 30 (-10) Doves 52 Jarvis Cocker 50 Echo & the Bunnymen 50 Groove Armada 60 Jamie T 41 Ash 60 DJ Shadow 40 Glasvegas 60 The Streets 60 Hurts 50 Phoenix 65 Kaiser Chiefs 30 MGMT 60 London Grammar 92 Suede 55 FFS (Franz Ferdinand and Sparks) 50 Sigur Ros 80 M83 61 Interpol 60 Jazzworld/West Holts: Roy Ayers 55 Baaba Maal 50 Femi Kuti 50 Damien Marley 50 Rodrigo y Gabriela 65 Jimmy Cliff 50 Ethiopiques 50 Manu Chao 50 Q-Tip 50 Playing For Change 40 George Clinton with Parliament/Funkadelic 63 Big Boi 50 Kool and the Gang 80 Chic ft. Nile Rodgers 85 Public Enemy 50 Bobby Womack 50 MIA 50 The Mothership Returns (George Clinton, Parliament, Funkadelic and The Family Stone) 80 Flying Lotus 50 Underworld 91 Earth, Wind and Fire 80 Dizzee Rascal 43 The Jacksons 51 Justice 222 Janelle Monae 90 The Park: CSS 51 My Morning Jacket 50 Animal Collective 50 Bon Ivor 110 Seun Kuti 50 The XX 52 Gruff Rhys 50 The Horrors 50 Fuck Buttons 50 Metronomy 60 Mogwai 50 James Blake 51 Super Furry Animals 50 Jon Hopkins 50 Richard Hawley 60 Philip Glass' Heroes Symphony 40 Grimes 61 The Flaming Lips 50 Warpaint 50 Kano 61

JPT: The Go! Team 55 Bright Eyes 70 Hot Chip 74 The Gossip 51 The Cribs 34 Biffy Clyro 50 The National 40 -10 Doves 52 Jarvis Cocker 50 Echo & the Bunnymen 50 Groove Armada 60 Jamie T 41 Ash 60 DJ Shadow 40 Glasvegas 60 The Streets 60 Hurts 50 Phoenix 65 Kaiser Chiefs 30 MGMT 60 London Grammar 92 Suede 55 FFS (Franz Ferdinand and Sparks) 50 Sigur Ros 80 M83 61 Interpol 60 Jazzworld/West Holts: Roy Ayers 55 Baaba Maal 50 Femi Kuti 50 Damien Marley 50 Rodrigo y Gabriela 65 Jimmy Cliff 50 Ethiopiques 50 Manu Chao 50 Q-Tip 50 Playing For Change 40 George Clinton with Parliament/Funkadelic 63 Big Boi 50 Kool and the Gang 80 Chic ft. Nile Rodgers 85 Public Enemy 50 Bobby Womack 50 MIA 50 The Mothership Returns (George Clinton, Parliament, Funkadelic and The Family Stone) 80 Flying Lotus 50 Underworld 91 Earth, Wind and Fire 80 Dizzee Rascal 43 The Jacksons 51 Justice 222 Janelle Monae 90 The Park: CSS 51 My Morning Jacket 50 Animal Collective 50 Bon Ivor 110 Seun Kuti 50 The XX 52 Gruff Rhys 50 The Horrors 50 Fuck Buttons 50 Metronomy 60 Mogwai 50 James Blake 51 Super Furry Animals 50 Jon Hopkins 50 Richard Hawley 60 Philip Glass' Heroes Symphony 40 Grimes 61 The Flaming Lips 50 Warpaint 50 Kano 61

It's quite possible.

If there’s a main stage secret set surely The Vaccines are taking that?

Do you guys want to get a room?

Calling it now... she's going to roll out in one of those balls like Wayne Coyne in The Flaming Lips.

I'd recommend the fish and chip stall, although things got a bit ragged with them later at night so have it early evening. The guys at the pasta place are really friendly and happy to hold stuff back for late arrivals, adjust recipes. If you want to do any of the games in the charities field, do it before the site gets busy on the weekend.

I think i read somewhere they have a sunday market as well!! Looks soo good!!!

I really like Queens of the Stone Age and I've been lucky enough to see them live, but if it were them Sunday's headliners I would be disappointed because I really hope RW for the greatness of the festival.

New tent bought. No turning back now. This is really going to happen, eh? Going to get stuck into the playlist today

I stayed at the Holiday Inn Express in 2019 for a few nights prior to the festival, it's a decent place. Close enough to the Subway too.

Happy Birth-D

Happy birthday @dondohope you have a great day and a lovely weekend 😁 @Losing my hairall the best for the weekend ahead, hope you enjoy it.

I am excited for this festival because it will feel fresh, new, amazing and superb.It’ll be like my first….. Bands, staging, lights, lasers, smoke machines, telly, bars, drummers, poets, cinema, portaloos, tent pegs, camping gas, stewards, marshals, security, first aiders, disabled access teams, welfare, artist liaison, bin empties, loo cleaners, traders, charities, water taps, sun cream manufacturing companies, people that dress up, people that don’t, naked people, wellie people when it’s too hot, trainer people when it’s muddy, people that have flown in, bog roll, marques, picnic tables, picnic blankets, festival trollies, fairy lights, fairy wings, face paints glittery faces, light up umbrellas, buskers, kids collecting cups, fish finger sandwiches, Goan Fish Curries, Fish and Chips, bars and their amazingly beautiful bar staff, tips jars and cash is king bars, ice on the bars for your mocktails and cocktails. cash points, information points, festival maps, clash finders, Gil Scott Heron!, talent spotters, artist bookers, artist transport, artist liaison, agents, hair, make up, keys, horns, lead guitar and rhythm guitars, drums, percussion, bass, can I get a little bit more vocal in the monitors please, strings, flutes, pipes, MC’s, DJ’s, superstars with mullets, eFests, web sites, Twickets, map makers, land owners, farm owners, woodland management folk, weirdos, freaks, misfits, volunteers, managers, build crew, tatters, breakdown team, scaffolders, builders, plumbers, sparky, chippies, painters, fire safety crew, hospitality, licence holders, publicans, food hygiene inspectors, food deliveries, generators, overhead lighting, sign writers, police, fencing teams, decor crew, dancers, BV’s prancers, peacocks and mermaids, writers, comedians, circus performers, jugglers, kids crew, tea makers, proper baristas, guitar techs, roadies, sound engineers, FOH, monitor engineers, light riggers, house lights, stage lights, fireworks and pyrotechnics, all the glittery clockwork fairies that make the place work because they know how it works. And of course you, me and the rest of the fest.

One of my favourite Kanye tracks from the G.O.O.D. Friday releases

Tix arrived today!

My tickets have been delivered! 😄

This is what the website says "Rest Of The World: anyone entering the country will obviously need to provide documentation to the airline proving their status. We will accept all foreign certification in line with the airlines and UK customs." https://www.slamdunkfestival.com/info If you're still unsure it's probably best off emailing them. Can they even log a LFT without being registered with the NHS?

Here's why