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  2. Primavera Sound 2024

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    3 hours ago, Quadrophobia said:

     

    This makes little sense. The Lana Day performing well was foreseeable. They did not have to "shift capacity" to Friday by cutting down weekend passes, they closed the sales on friday early to encourage people to buy them quickly and also sell some Weekend passes to those that came too late and then reopened them  a while later which creates even more incentive in people who "missed out".

    Its a common sales strategy nowadays and PS has employed it before. Its basically done with every bigger act now, splitting tickets into tranches over different time slots or through a bazillion different pre-sales. Creates a contant impression of shortage of tickets so people are bullied into buying.

    Also, you simply would not need to "shift capacity, modern booking systems will optimize that by themselves using projected sales, if one of your days heavily outsold the weekend passes.

     

    This rests on a false logic. New Order (or any other late addition) were never booked as a reaction to sales-performance, but the contracts had been closed way before the line-up announcement, as with all other bigger acts (these are sometimes done 2-3 years in advance!). It was simply held back for marketing reasons on the bands side. Late additions also hardly ever boost sales, the majority of tickets to be sold has already been sold by this time (with the exception of some day tickets) and many people typically will have made other plans already. Also the cost of spontaneously visiting a fest (unless you're a local) is much more expensive than booking stuff in November. Festivals thus avoid big bands they can only announce late because of the bad cost/benefit ratio. In the case of PS however, adding a band like New Order fortifies their status as a unique fest and pleases the audience that already bought tickets. Thats why significant late additions are the exception, not the rule.

    Overall it has to be sad that its impressive that PS was able to sell out anything, giving how horrible the state of the industry is.

    This is one of the most lucid messages I've read in a while. A breeze of fresh air between endless Slowdive and The National comments tbh. Congratulations and thank you.

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  4. Primavera Sound 2024

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    On 2/1/2024 at 4:05 PM, diancieprince said:

    When can we expect the boiler room lineup ??? we already sense the comeback of this stage but after the PS Radio Q&A broadcasted some days ago it’s 100% confirmed. Otherwise we all can not expect any other full dj-club electronic stage rip Pull&Bear 

    Probably not before May

  5. Primavera Sound 2024

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    18 hours ago, Whos3000_ said:

    Assuming the album will manage to top his 2 most recent ones in terms of critical acclaim and popularity. I would not take that for granted. I like Tyler but I don’t see him necessarily reaching GOAT status such as Kendrick. He has been in the game for years and, despite a slow but steady growth, I doubt he can drastically reinvent himself. 
    A new album cycle would be more than enough for coachella though. You convinced me on that 

    He was the first artist on the 2020 lineup video and it's hard to think he won't be bigger in 2025 so unless they get Bad Bunny or Radiohead he's #1 again. Funny enough, the second artist on that video was Lana del Rey and she's the only one I can think of that would be ahead today.

  6. Primavera Sound 2024

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    Tyler set will be closer to Kendrick's headlining set (debuting a new album cycle) rather than Tame Impala's although doubt that he will release the album that very Friday as Kendrick. He has been releasing an album every two years since 2011 so seems pretty obvious that he skipped his next one to 2024 to secure a headlining spot at Coachella and decided to release a deluxe version of CMIYGL plus a victory lap with no new songs on his own fest (which is organized by Goldenvoice too). Counting on him as the biggest name on the 2025 line-up.

  7. Primavera Sound 2024

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    The Beth Gibbons - Vampire Weekend is one of the obvious clashes of this year. She cannot play at the Auditori for several reasons: there would be some kind of hint on her description/Gabi would have said sth about it, plus she already did that when the festival was way smaller and she has a prominent placement on the poster and putting her there would generate a logistics problem. For me, the obvious spot is the infamous sunset slot at Ray-Ban but this year they moved it a bit early I think and with the new Amazon-main-stage next to it she could either be playing there. Anyway, 9:30-10:30ish.

     

    Now, Mordor has two possible iterations: Justice or some combination of Peggy Gou - Justice are closing Mordor. Pulp will be playing right before them, so they're starting at 11pm (New Order) or 12am (Halsey, Fred again). That leaves 10pm or 11pm for Vampire Weekend clashing directly with Beth Gibbons.

     

    My two cents: somehow they got lucky this year not clashing big acts playing Ray-Ban/Amazon with similar acts playing Mordor (see Depeche Mode vs Four Tet, The War on Drugs vs St. Vincent + Caroline Polachek, NxWorries + New Order vs Rema + Perfume). These are logical clashes so the most logical clash for me would be Deftones - Beth Gibbons and one of them ends up playing Mordor and the other one Ray-Ban or Amazon.

  16. Cala Mijas 2023

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    Last year's Caleta line-up was insane, didn't make sense of how good it was. There was no way they could pull something similar off this year but most of the sets I catched there were okay, good or even very good (Prosumer and Cormac probably the weakest of the weekend). And couldn't see I. Jordan but not even Helena played techno as she usually does so not sure why bringing up the term.

  25. Primavera Sound Barcelona 2023 + Primavera Sound Madrid 2023

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    Funny, I think we're getting the schedule earlier than ever. Looking at how many posts and social media content they are uploading I guess they want to bring attention to the line-up, the acts and eventually to the tickets to shift as many as possible. Releasing the schedule earlier than previous years could generate more content and also help the undecided folks since they'll be able to check what artists they will actually see. I'm thinking early May but it's just a thought.

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