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  1. Hoping for a couple of Foo Fighters, MCR, BMTH or MGK. Olivia Rodrigo would be a superb pick too.

    Looking forward to next year reverting to traditional size main stage subs rather than “six headliners” and FR hoping we don’t notice.

  2. 1 hour ago, Trnsmt12311 said:

    Looks like leeds will be the first show back for catfish 😃

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    They’ve announced a mid-July Cardiff gig now as well as an Edinburgh date, can only imagine it means they’ll kick on after R&L. Give me some arena dates

  3. 18 hours ago, Sam Y said:

    posters up around Manchester near gorilla with 22nd Feb on so I guess an intimate gig there

    Think it’ll be a mini tour of venues like the Ritz, academies, Ally Pally etc, but hopefully they do a good few dates.

    Sets them up nicely for an arena run in November/December.

  4. 3 minutes ago, Benj said:

    TDCC won’t clash with Gerry

    the sh*t poster suggests that may happen, this is a better view of what I assume it will be

    If like previous years, the bigger stage headliners will all be playing at the same time.  The FR/ Pit/ 1 Xtra has closed pre final Headliner before

     

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    Cheers, the proper poster is ridiculous.

    This edited poster shows just how stupid the day splits are, Blink vs Prodigy, Fred Again vs Sonny Fedora. There’d be proper rock, dance and indie days if Fred/Lana swapped with LG/CATB

  5. 31 minutes ago, Hart Attack said:

    Are we thinking Main and Chevron will alternate like East and West? Really don't want Blink and Prodigy to clash.

    Predicting the Blink, Prodigy, Gerry and TDCC clashes is going to haunt me right until the week of

  6. 16 minutes ago, Will b said:

    Who was the person who leaked the first few names bcs they looked at the coding for the website or something like that? Would like them to give that another go pls it worked a treat last time 😂

    I’m on the case in the background at work, no news yet 😂

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  7. 1 minute ago, wro_lap said:

    The Last Dinner Party are not an industry plant. They're a band who did a lot of work behind the scenes before they played, perfected their live show rapidly, got quickly picked up by a label who have rightfully pushed them hard, because they're great and the album is gonna make the label a lot of money. There's clips of them playing online from before they were picked up by a label.

     

    Unless that *is* what an industry plant is, in which case, why is it remotely worth talking about?

    Funnily enough in one of the interviews I read (BBC I think) they were talking about how they were playing a South London pub with 30 people in the crowd and a videographer with an indie YouTube channel was randomly there filming. He did a video on them and it helped them grow and get signed. I do like stories like that in all fairness

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  8. Just now, wro_lap said:

    Just think it's important to point out these two are not mutually exclusive. Sometimes artists get a big push BECAUSE they're good (i.e., The Last Dinner Party)

    Unlike Wet Leg who got the push because people at The Guardian and their local vegan cafe thought they were cool

  9. 19 minutes ago, SomeoneListeningIn said:

    So what does the term 'industry plant' actually mean to you then. I understand having a problem with big labels and their marketing tactics, but industry plant sounds way more sinister and orchestrated than that.

    If you actually took time to look up The Last Dinner Party and their story you'd see that they became pretty prolific and talked about in the London indie scene over 2022/2023 because of their live show. Obviously they got signed as a result, released their first single which got more of a push than most artists are as lucky to have, but a song doesn't become that instantly popular without it actually being good.

    They obviously have a sound that's struck a chord with people, as is evident from their notoriety on the scene before they were signed and the success/popularity of the singles released after they were signed. They wrote those songs and curated their live show themselves. They've had a great push from their label to get them where they currently are, yeah, but not all music has to be the most ground breaking thing in the world to be considered good.

    It’s purely the marketing for me, personal opinion of course but musically I think TLDP and Wet Leg are two of hundreds of bands with a similar(ish) sound. Not saying TLDP haven’t put the work in but they’ll probably be announced in a 4pm main stage slot at R&L tomorrow having played 300 cap venues last year. It’s a big rise and they’ve obviously got something going for them but it’s been an inflated rise. I’d not heard of them before their recent round of interviews off the back of the Brit Award Rising Star award

  10. 3 minutes ago, SomeoneListeningIn said:

    But do you really think Wet Leg (for example, because you named them before) have a team of songwriters sat in a room orchestrating the perfect indie hit? Or do you think it's possible that they wrote their songs organically themselves (albeit jumping on a sound that is popular and is pretty replicable) and then got picked up by a label and benefitted from a big marketing push?

    It’s the marketing I have a problem with. Indie’s always been popular but Wet Leg are as bang average as any other indie band. Benj’s point at The Last Dinner Party is a good example, not identical musically but in 2023 they were playing clubs, all of a sudden they’re playing every academy in the country at £35 a go this year and are getting decent airtime, interviews and other promotion. By no means the first band to make the jump but there’s nothing groundbreaking about them. At least Wet Leg will get cast aside now with them coming through

  11. 2 minutes ago, charlierc said:

    Same. Mainly as it gives the music industry too much credit that it knows what's gonna be a bona fide hit when half the time, especially now, it seems like a series of guesses and punts.

    There’s so many generic, samey artists around that it’d be a huge coincidence if it wasn’t formulaic. Once a genre is tried and tested it’d be easy to do

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  12. 2 minutes ago, Benj said:

     

    She quit her label due to the fact they were forcing her down a creative path she didn’t want to take.

    At least that’s what she banged on about between every song when I saw her

    She did not get properly big until she went independent, suggesting algorithms etc or not, that she’s not exactly a label plant…

    This is some of the background I was after, cheers! After Wet Leg I look at artists who blow up overnight with a very sceptical eye. Or maybe I’m just getting old, I’d never heard of Raye until about a week before the first announcement

  13. 18 hours ago, charlierc said:

    I thought there was a consensus after their '22 MSW headline slot where quite a few people felt they outshone Arctic Monkeys on the MSE meant they could be a viable option to top the whole thing.

    It looked like one band wanted to be there and the other didn’t in 2022. Arctics were shocking. BMTH‘s staging is also insane.

  14. 6 hours ago, foolee said:

    The thing is Oli has stopped encouraging it and the crowd is younger than it used to be and not as experienced. The BMTH crowds used to get much bigger pits and more mental crowds. Not sure whether that’s the youngsters that aren’t as keen or that Oli isn’t telling everyone to push it back, saying wider or calling everyone pussies anymore. Who knows? Something has changed though. BMTH still as good as ever though and ready to take over the world! 

    It’s a good point, he didn’t encouraged pits as much as he used to on Friday. I wonder if that’s because they’ve had to pause gigs on this tour a few times due to injuries, according to setlist.fm.

    Although, my other half says he did egg on the crowd but sounded like he wasn’t supposed to.

    Side note, just remembered I saw a lad in the Sheffield pit with his arm in a sling, still going for it. Proper made me laugh

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