Aeroplane Over the Sea

Weirdly despite the rain being fairly regular (though 2018-2022 were all quite dry), the ground conditions last year were the worst since an atrocious 2012. I assume the timing and extent of the rain we got on the Friday evening was just an absolute killer for the site, but we’ve definitely had wetter overall years without having the same impact on the ground

If anyone is interested we’ve put out a new episode of our podcast talking about our favourite green man rumours ahead of the release tomorrow - it’s how to build a festival episode 8

Dammit… I thought it had been several now!! When they released the first lineup in January did they do a second one on March 1st?

Indeed, if there was a green man thingy, it would say there is indeed a pattern and the pattern for the last few years has been to release the lineup on st David’s day. So it is bang on time

Offering a free ticket for rolling over your ticket is literally the equivalent of a payday loan

And to be fair, I think they can have an impact by making ‘more effort’ without threatening their core business model. 50/50 split is always a bit arbitrary for me in any case; some of these festivals appear to make ‘no effort at all’ and that’s where I just think it’s quite lazy. The ones getting BBC money in my opinion should be made to make ‘a real effort’ to get more diversity on their lineups

This is a self fulfilling problem though. Suggest they could’ve done more; here’sa few that appear likely to be around at about the same time this year for example that I’ve just worked out whilst sitting on the loo CMAT Camera obscura Etta Marcus the Big Moon Prima Queen Dehd Liz Lawrence

Left field one maybe, but I could see the Big Moon for Thursday night headliner. Big festival relationship and they’ve not played for a while

Makes sense I guess as the festival hadn’t been on the previous year

Thanks! They must’ve been carefully managing that balance sheet as their turnover must be multiples of that

Any idea why they don’t have to publish a p&l?

I have some enormous blisters!

Woodsies - excellent band, they come off as really nice people and they have some absolutely terrific songs. Truly divisive in my group though so I’ll be there, but I think it’ll be just me plus one other!

Is there any like for like replacement at all this year? Chameleon was a great failsafe for our group if there was nothing else happening

Thanks so much, v helpful!

Can anyone help me; if you’re not the lead booker in a group at worthy view - how does it work making sure you’ve got the appropriate ticket? same question for car parking I guess

If he’s there anyway, do we think Swell Season could be in play? Touring just after Glastonbury

Considering how busy it was for Metronomy last year it’s hard to imagine they could go back to not having the main stage open on Thursday again

Excellent work. Do we have any slots in there that we’re confident of already?

But haven’t they already been ruled out by the festival? Would imagine we’ll see a few of those others on that lineup though - CLH is good, Primal Scream would be ace of course on the mountain

Oh I fully agree; I’d just prefer if they were really pushing the boat out for them to do it for those than for Bjork. also see Decemberists, Phoebe Bridgers, Flaming Lips etc

Was hoping that meant The National or Bon Iver personally!

This is definitely solvable. Frankly the likes of Tiny Rebel, Gipsy Hill, signature etc are reasonable operations now. Two tribes do a great job at end of the road; they could easily give areas over to some of these smaller breweries and split it up a bit. Would be a great approach

Chai wallahs used to be an awful lot better than now - they’ve clearly had budget cuts, they seemed to barely strong a lineup together this year and they were largely the same bands as last year. My wife enjoys it but I’d quite like to see something more interesting in that space. Something different though, not just more of the same green man fare. round the twist has potential but this year was a joke, it was basically playing the same late night music as was in the far out and walled garden and during the day was boring as hell. Get some secret sets in there and something fun later on

Reminded me of the old Green Man ‘all night disco ruined my weekend’ thread on their forum