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33 minutes ago, ilbeyene said:
Last year when I bought the ticket at the end of December flights from Rome were 140€, when I bought them in March I payed 60€.
Oh great, that gives hope to bluenova. £250 can be so much better spent on the festival itself
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dentalplan, ha, fair enough!
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There's a lot of debate on this and you're right the picture isn't clear.
Based on previous trips, I'd say for destinations you are travelling to in high season, it pays usually but not always to book as far in advance as possible.
Barcelona in school holidays...bank holiday weekend....almost Summer = gonna be high seasonarama and loads of demand (assuming coming from UK) so I'd take the pain soon.
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ha, thanks Neontiger
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Someone downvoted me for simply trying to be helpful and offer advice on whether to get ticket now: "If you want a full ticket, I wouldn't delay. And the flights will only go up in price too."
No hard feelings but I'm outta here.
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Double those numbers for pint calc
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Last year (if I remember!) it was 2 euros a small beer VIP, 3.5 euros non-VIP
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By pretty late, I mean 20-30 minutes before. I was only comparing this to Glastonbury for which you need much longer.
I've never disputed you can't "get very good places without VIP for every show" but it takes a **much** earlier arrival if you don't have VIP.
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At the moment the differential is 75 euros and the differentce in experience is easily worth 25 euros a day (including the alcohol savings.
No queue getting into site.
No queue getting into auditorium for auditorum gigs.
No queue for drinks in VIP area.
Huge number of gigs from Monday until a big closing night party on Sunday. Have a look at Clashfinder 2015 to see the pattern.
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6 minutes ago, rhg_99 said:
whats the difference between a normal and VIP ticket? Sorry if this is obvious but I've never even looked at VIP tickets whilst booking festivals
No need to queue for things for three days, cheaper beer (and I think spirits).
Dedicated areas for lounging around in.
Much better toilets.
Much better food.
Special book and bag on arrival.
And access to the front of gigs. I am sad they allow this to happen as it amounts to musical apartheid but it obviously is a major perk.
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Amazingly the full festival tickets gives you access to all the other gigs that run throughout the whole week. Some concerts (Weds nght and Friday& Saturday afternoon) are free for everyone in the city.
VIP is absolutely worth it, I am sad to say.
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If you want a full ticket, I wouldn't delay. And the flights will only go up in price too.
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I'd be very surprised if Brian Wilson makes it. PJ Harvey/Beach House/Sigur Ros/Air probably the headliners.
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Yes, the clashes are very painful but no more so than Glastonbury which has a huge array of things to do and see. If you're in London, it usually makes sense to attend Field Day and that really reduces your clash count.
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2 minutes ago, rhg_99 said:
thanks! those seem like very minor negatives to me so that's great!
As much as I respect Glastonbury which has a superb lineup always, camping is exhausting once you reach a certain ago, the weather is often atrocious unlike suny Barcelona and it takes a long time getting in and out of the site.
I could put up with all of that but what I can't is that distances are so massive you end up missing so much of what you'd like to see. Primavera, it's just over 10 mins at a brisk pace from one end to the other. Also at Primavera you can usually turn up pretty late on before for a gig and still get near enough the front.
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Thanks Stephen for clarification
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Honestly it's the best festival I've ever been to and by far. Negatives: accommodation not cheap (unless you share an apartment), drinks at the site not cheap, the placement of the main two stages means they are a little lacking in atmosphere, the food on site (unless you take your own in) is pretty average at best, there's the occasional soundbleed between two of the stages, you got some people (usually Spanish) talking during gigs, it's quite tiring to be standing on concrete for up to 10 hours. Positives: absolutely everything else, which is mindblowingly good.
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One small downpoint, assuming the list of 'Parc' bands is marked as Raval, it is a pretty poor lineup for these afternoon park gigs.
Also it seems that they have moved them away from the Parc de la Ciutadella, as that is not in Raval.
Back to Parc Juan Miro like a few years back maybe??
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Porto is sadly going to lose half of the headliners I fear.
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Just now, Zoo Music Girl said:
I don't have a ticket. And I have little hope of getting one.
Hope Latitude comes up trumps or something.
You only need two days (in fact once I managed to just tke the Friday off and arrived on Thursday at 9pm)
I'd be tempted to accidentally fall ill...
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No way someone could knock up a fake poster so quickly and would be even more pointless than faking the main poster.
I'd say it's 100% legit.
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Will also need a ticket for any second show that probably a band due to play on Saturday will do mid-afternoon on the Friday. Last year it was Interpol...
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You don't need a ticket for the Wednesday stuff in the Forum (including Suede and Goat) which is a massive space. If you want to see Suuns, Younghusband etc later on in other city venues, you will need a ticket.
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7 minutes ago, yaniv297 said:
Death Grips and Courtney Barnett could have been nice. Also Run The Jewels, I know they played last year but I chose to see Ride over them... not regretting it, but would love another chance to see them.
I know it is a very unpopular view but I find Courtney Barnett's songs pretty unremarkable melody-wise. She has a nice turn of phrase and I love Avant Gardener but everything else to me is pleasant but a bit meh.
Primavera Sound 2016
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You're right. Close enough to impact on flights all the same.