benali

I'm excited by the possibility of OSees being at EOTR and GM. Will be like 2016 all over again, please let it happen.

Went to see Keg last night for the 7th time. One of the most fun live bands you can see. Really great show. Bleach Lab tonight and Warmduscher with Opus Kink tomorrow. This time of year is just rammed, even outside of the largest cities. Love it.

Very excited by this. Also at that festival are Crack Cloud, and I know they only played GM in 2021 but I saw them last night and they were absolutely incredible so I would love to see them on the line up for next year.

Crack Cloud at Chalk in Brighton. One of the best live bands on the planet. Half the fun of going to see Crack Cloud is not knowing how many of them will be there. It can be anything between 6 and 16. Tonight it was 7 and they were incredible. There was a mid point of 3 songs in the set which was one of the best segments of a gig I have seen. Support from the wonderful Aga Ujma who then played with Crack Cloud. She's beautiful, a harpist channeling a mix of Bjork and Kate Bush.

PVA supported by O at the Joiners tonight. Very good once they'd sorted out the sound gremlins. O make some interesting music for a two piece band consisting of a saxophonist and a drummer.

My local small venues are Heartbreakers and Joiners in Southampton. Heartbreakers average price is usually £8, sometimes cheaper, sometimes a bit more. Joiners normally £8-£15 depending. Pints are a fiver. It's really not that expensive to go to these types of gig and you get to see a lot of the bands that eventually end up charging punters £80 for the right to see them from a different postcode. Also, like other small businesses, these venues are struggling and need support because without them there's nowhere for people like Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, 1975 etc to start off (all used as examples because they have played the Joiners.)

Most gigs are about £10 aren't they? I go to a few a week and rarely pay above £20 for anything.

Saw a band called Memory of Speke who were 3rd on the bill at the Porridge Radio gig last night. They'd go down a storm on Rising. There's very little of them online but they seem like one of those bands going places. Also have funny social media which helps.

Can't say I've noticed this to be honest, shouting random shit happens but not chanting that I've heard. I'm mainly replying to say how fucking good your new album is. Congratulations. Hope the tour has gone well.

New album is very good. I admire a band that makes different styles of music rather than spaff out the same record over and over.

Porridge Radio were excellent at 1865 in Southampton tonight. Going to see PVA on Monday and Crack Cloud on Tuesday. Fun times.

Totally deserved winner for once. It was the best album on the list by an absolute mile.

Was the support band called Pretty Sick? I know they were doing some of the dates. They look interesting live, if not a slightly strange support booking for that tour. Just wondered how they went down?

Got on the guest list last night to watch Fat Dog support Sports Team. 3rd time I've seen them and they are just something else. Not really sure how to describe them, and there's no music online other than YouTube vids. They are kind of terrible but also amazing. And definitely one of the most entertaining things you can see. Left halfway through Sports Team because they are just a bit meh.

Reminds me of the 2017 gig in Brighton at Concorde 2 when the crowd carried Stu out and put him in the sea.

Went to 3 in a row this week. Regressive Left and Welly on Wednesday, Projector on Thursday and Plaid last night. All different types of music, all very enjoyable and cost less than £35 for all 3 tickets.

I saw L'Objectif a couple of weeks ago, they were ok but I wasn't that fussed. New songs sounded better though. Ben from Lazarus Kane is in Vegas Water Taxi. Panic Shack will surely play. Would happily have Caroline and also Shovel Dance Collective.

Confirmed first announcement is good enough for me already. Osees on their own are worth the ticket price, and then there's already a load of other good stuff along with them.

This has to be the year Osees headline the Far Out and blitz through the greatest set the festival has ever seen. Some stuff I'd love to see: HTRK, Joanne Robertson, Maxine Funke, Gia Margaret, Dummy, Pretty Sick, Slift. Smaller band predictions: Projector, Cowboyy, Gently Tender, Heartworms, Queens Head, Famous, Regressive Left, Welly, Bleach Lab, Sheafs, Katie Anne Malco, Splint, Heavy Lungs, Candy's Room, Mui Zyu, Tummyache, Krush Puppies, Public Body, Bishopskin, For Breakfast.

I guess I'm middle class now but I certainly wasn't when I started going to festivals in 1992 and have never stopped. Definitely was way more younger people at festivals back then, although if a lot of them grow older and become more affluent due to jobs and then carry on going to festivals the demographic of crowd will naturally change. Also festivals are so expensive now you have to have a fair amount of disposable income to go. Wilderness and Camp Bestival are undoubtedly more middle class than GM. Camp Bestival even had a Boden stall ffs!

Please can we not have Idles headlining. I'd rather not have the place full of AF Gang wandering around wearing a different Idles t-shirt every day.

Interesting to see what they do next now. Find a bigger site to cater for increased demand is one option. Hopefully Fiona will remember what happened to Big Chill when they moved from Larmer Tree and it totally ruined the festival. Sacking off Ticketline is another, it's a crap website and has horrendous booking fees. Releasing tickets in batches like EOTR could work. Seen a lot of people who have been going for years getting upset because they failed to get tickets today and I really feel for them. I would have been mortified if I didn't get mine. It would never happen but I'd potentially be in favour of some kind of loyalty scheme to reward the longer term attendees. It's just mad how it's gone in a few years when you used to be able to get tickets months after they went on sale with no problem. It's not like the festival has got loads better in the last 5 years, it's largely the same. So why are there now so many people fighting over tickets? Is it because festivals in general are getting more popular, or maybe a lot of regular Glastonbury punters suddenly realising that it's maybe not that great now and looking for an alternative? Whatever the reasons I hope they find a solution.

I had to buy 4 tickets on the day before pay day. Ouch.

That's harsh. Ticketline is the worst.

I had 2 devices going, the mobile was already signed in to ticketline and seemed to work better than the one going through the laptop to the Green Man ticket page. When the laptop got through I was refreshing that and noticed that it wasn't trying to access the site until the 30 seconds had elapsed so presumed that refreshing was putting me back to a 30 second wait every time. BCNR tickets were much easier thankfully!