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I wonder if the vinyl will turn up tomorrow, I'm not even sure which one I have ordered

I'm liking the sound of this.

I'm waiting until 5am tomorrow.

Lover is almost becoming the forgotten album now, which is a shame as there are some absolute bangers on there. I really want to see The Archer, DBATC, Cornelia Street and Daylight live. So if midnights is in that vibe I am very cool with it

Bizarrely I have to say I enjoyed last year's festival as much as any since my debut in 2009. That said, this was in part because I just accepted the reality of not being able to run across site to see everyone on my list so I cut my itinerary to a more manageable one. I was able to pretty much have an experience during the Friday-Sun that was not impeded by some of the overcrowding I experienced on the Thursday. For me the main issues were William's Green Thursday. Clearly a victim of it's own success, there needs to be rethink of the programming or spreading it out elsewhere, maybe something running over in Silver Hayes at BBC Introducing for instance. Maybe the Cabaret tent could open on Thursday? Next up The Park. It's a place that can easily get overrun as bands booked ages ago find themselves more popular at the time of the performance. This would not necessarily be a huge problem if the sound was better so that people further away could hear the stage. my problem at Wet Leg was not being unable to see the stage, but not being able to hear it from within The Park itself. Then you have the Park/Arcadia situation, not one I had a problem with but this seemed to be the most serious problem from the accounts on here. I'd like to think that the organisers have really looked at this in terms of signage and crowd control, maybe a SE Corner style oneway system could help resolve this issue. Personally I had a great festival, and to be honest once I had figured out what was realistic for me I was not really inconvenienced by overcrowding. However I think the festival has to take seriously the accounts of festival goers who did have serious issues.

Interesting that song lengths for midnights have been released. The album is a fairly brisk 44 minutes which indicates that the tour will be a midnights album tour. It looks likes the album itself will only occupy 50-60 minutes of the set (have to allow for the chat and the classic Swifty applause milking). This will leave just over an hour to give us folklore/evermore/Lover/rest of the catalogue. The excitement for the tour announcement is really ramping up now!

I am still planning on going should I get a ticket. I am fortunate enough to be able to afford it and I always make sure I have the money set aside. FWIW I still feel the price is great value for what you get in return, it's my main holiday for the year and I think the expense is worth it. That said I think this increase will unfortunately reduce the accessibility of the festival to those on lower incomes.

That may well put some people off, although the deposit scheme does allow people to budget for the ticket over a number of months. No getting away from it though, that is a substantial increase. Given the increase in energy costs, the lost revenue of covid and I suspect some Brexit related red tape, this is not an unexpected rise.

Worked for me so far most times!

I start F5ing around 15minutes prior to going live. Nothing frantic but I hope that I just get lucky as the clock strikes the hour.

Totally agree and it is possible to do so. I find it infuriating that on many occasions you have no idea how much the ticket is until you actually get to the payment page. It seems ridiculous to me. If you only allowed face value secondary sales you would take away the incentive for touts to hoover up the tickets in the first minute of sales.

Next album I'm going to wait. I've already got the vinyl and the Tee for this one. You can now pre-save on Apple Music too

Saw Watain at Bloodstock a couple of years back, absolutely spectacular live. Not the easiest band for the organisers to work with but the payoff was a flame fuelled end to the festival. Excellent band.

I got a signed Red CD, and I have already pre-ordered the vinyl and the new T-shirt so I shall resist the impulse to get the signed print for now. Although for the next album I may not order the vinyl the minute the pre-orders are set up and wait for the signed version to become available.

I'll be going for the coach from Brighton, and should both I and my Sunday sale gang get lucky I'll be getting a lift home afterwards, I have done this a few times. The return coaches can quite often be under occupied I have to say this thread has really amped up my excitement and fear for T Day now. The rollercoaster is now dragging the cars to the top of that first drop!

Good point well made.

Robbie would be a good choice. It could usher in a new age range for the legend/heritage slot. An hour or so of hits that pretty much everyone knows whether you like him or not, perfect Sunday crowd fodder. I personally wouldn’t be at this slot if Robbie did get it, but I think he would go down a storm

Yes name and reg numbers. Used to be postcode too IIRC but I think reg numbers are sufficient

Went to see Peaness at The Green Door Store in Brighton last night. Just a delightful band would love to see them at the Farm, early JP, Park or Greenpeace would be good fits for them.

Def Leppard have been killing it with their stadium tour in the states, and their new album much to my surprise is an absolute banger. Would love to see them on the farm.

This thread prompted me to visit the store. The T-shirt is excellent and I have bought it.

If that is a serious comment you clearly haven’t seen them. They are amazing live I have already cried to Love of my life at the O2 this year then Brian did it again on Saturday I was in bits. What an incredible day it was 6 hours flew past in an instant. I feel privileged to have been there

On my home now. Simply astonishing. So much emotion, how Dave and the band got through it is a mystery to me. Will take a while to process that. An unforgettable night

That is a cracking setlist, and yet there so so so many songs left out. That said I would lose my sh*t to this and that encore especially

I think the demographic has broadened the more Taylor has developed as an artist. Taking those younger fans from the early tours who have now grown up with her and then people like myself (in my 50s now) who belatedly crashed the party once we discovered a little of our own story in her songs. The youngsters are still there but the older demographic is growing, I have many friends who are 40+ who are huge Taylor fans.