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  1. UK festivals cancelled in 2024

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    Posted · Edited by pedrogooch

    1 hour ago, cinnamoncola said:

    I just happened to see that Pennfest announced today that they're cancelling their 2024 edition. I personally never went to this festival, but I thought it would be interesting to talk about the state of smaller festivals in general. Any insights into other festivals who are struggling as well? Are there just too many festivals these days and more are bound to call it a day?

     

    Here's the festival's official statement, they want to come back next year:

     

    “We’re very sorry to announce that we are no longer able to run the 2024 edition of Pennfest . This is so we can take a year off and regroup for the 2025 event.

    We know many of our regular attendees were very excited about the 2024 edition but over the past few months it has become more and more apparent that with challenging trading conditions coupled with significantly increasing costs in a very challenging economic climate has made it impossible to deliver the event to the standard our customers have become accustomed to, despite looking at all available options.

    This is not a decision we have taken lightly and the whole team is devastated by this after all their hard work over the past 12 years since the festival’s inception.

    It saddens us even further that unfortunately this situation does not only apply to us with a significant number of festivals like ours in the UK and internationally already cancelling or postponing their events for the same reasons. 

    For us it’s important to prioritize the wellbeing and the long-term sustainability of the festival and by regrouping in this way we can deliver on our commitment to further high-quality experiences in the future.

    Ticket holders will be contacted in the next 48 hours to outline their options.

    You will be able to request a refund however tickets will automatically rollover to 2025 and we are asking you to keep hold of yours for then, allowing you to go to next year’s event at this year’s price.

    In the meantime, we will be working on our plans for a revitalized festival in 2025 and we are aiming to announce our plans during the 2nd half of this summer.

    We’d like to thank the whole Pennfest family of festival goers, artists and supplier for supporting the event over the years and very much hope we’ll see you all in 2025.”

     

    https://pennfest.net/

     

    Here's a breakdown of all the UK music festivals that have postponed or cancelled their 2024 edition, or are hosting their final year (as of 15/3/2024):

     

    110 Above Festival - Postponed

    Barn On The 

     

    Wild Fields has already returned. Just announced. 

  9. Crystal Palace Events 2024

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    Posted · Edited by pedrogooch

    14 hours ago, charlierc said:

    And The Mysterines and Connie Constance.

    It is a good line-up imo - Silent Alarm is a great album, plus Hives and Friendly Fires are cool. However, I have seen Bloc Party do Silent Alarm top to bottom before, plus I have no idea how to get from Euston (where trains I get to London come into) to Crystal Palace or if I'd get back in time for the late trains back.

    There's lots of ways down from Euston to Crystal Palace and back. Crystal Palace runs various train routes and is on the Overground.

    Easiest route is probably get the Northern Line from Euston to London Bridge, which is 6 stops/12 minutes. Then a train direct from London Bridge to Crystal Palace every 30 minutes. That train takes 22 minutes.

    There's a few other ways too, so if you missed the train you'd have options.

  10. Boardmasters 2025

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    14 hours ago, Properbigfan said:

    I’d say AM is perfectly reasonable given the growth of the festival and size of headliners in recent years.(gorillaz, ezra, LG, stormzy)

    No chance. They're in another stratosphere in terms of tickets sales compared all those listed.

  11. Rock n Roll Circus Sheffield

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    On 11/27/2023 at 1:53 PM, thatTFBguy said:

    Becky Hill is massively bigger than Self Esteem. Even just Spotify listeners you're looking at 150k vs 16.4m. No idea if her day sells out but Hill is on a whole other level. 

    Spotify isn't a great indicator, but you're right - Becky Hill plays arenas, Self Esteem doesn't. It should do a bit better, although it is surprising a Self Esteem hometown show didn't do very well.

  13. Wide Awake festival 2024

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    20 hours ago, BoogiemanCam said:

    Really hoping that there’s a SLIFT reappearance off the back of their new album.

    One of the best sets I’ve seen at Wide Awake.

    I have high faith in the bookers for a good lineup though, always great consistency and King Gizz is a cracking start.

    SLIFT feels likely now they've signed to Sub Pop and have a bigger profile. They were amazing at WA.

  15. Lana Del Rey Curfew

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    On 6/25/2023 at 11:02 AM, Barry Fish said:

    So you don't know what it was but you know it wasn't hair 😜 

    she comes across as a typical self important insta generation type.  Oh they will wait for me...  I'm that important....

    reality check for Lana 

    Still, the gurdian gave her 5 out of 5...

    insta generation type? She's nearly 40!

  17. Wide Awake 2023

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    27 minutes ago, Shaka Hislop said:

    Sound for Tirzah was laughably bad.

    It was awful. We left early on because of it. Wasn't much better for Oneohtrix either. Just too quiet and flat.

    It's a nice festival. It felt a little busier than previous years, which isn't great as a punter, but it's a positive sign for the festival.

    Queues to get in were daft around 2pm. Security guy said Dice barcodes weren't scanning and stuck their customers in some sort of festival prison while they got that sorted, then they couldn't let anyone in until some ambulances arrived.

    Decent food and beer choices, and the fact I only live 10-15 minutes away makes it a more pleasant experience. Lineup was a bit disappointing for me personally, but that's the way it goes sometimes.

  18. Wide Awake 2023

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    Posted · Edited by pedrogooch

    3 minutes ago, collectivisedfarming said:

    Gretel Hanlyn and a load of djs added in today's announcement. Looks weaker than any of the previous three wide awake events. 

    Yeah, Oneohtrix, Los Bitchos and Osees aside, really doesn't have much else jumping out this year. Probably going to take a pass for the first year so far. I think RALLY looks more exciting this year.

  20. RALLY

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    Posted · Edited by pedrogooch

    Thought this looked quite similar to Wide Awake? Quite like the idea of loads of smaller bands and a few mid-size acts "headlining" all in one place in London.

    Squid, Princess Nokia, caroline, Kelly Lee Owens, Wu-Lu, Leon Vynehall, Obongjayar. Not bad for £20. Especially if a few more names turn up.

    I think that £20 price is for pre-sale only, then it's £25. Can sign-up here...

    https://rallyrallyrally.co.uk/signup

    Brand New Day Festival RALLY Is Launching This August

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  22. Deer Shed 2023

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    9 hours ago, AtomsForPizza said:

    Few more names announced for this yesterday, including James Yorkston & Nina Persson, English Teacher, Steve Davis & Kavus Torabi, Divorce. 

    May just be my personal taste but the lineup seems way weaker than previous years. I know old lineups can look good in hindsight when artists have blown up since, but last year's lineup looks about twice as good as this year's. Bit disappointed as I was hoping to be persuaded to go this year, but I'm just not feeling it based on the lineup

    It doesn't feel like a "big" lineup, but I really like it. I think it's just more signs of bookers struggling a bit this year.

    Divorce are fantastic though. A bit like Big Thief, but with bigger choruses. 

  24. All Points East 2023

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    59 minutes ago, pryce said:

    im so far out of the loop

     

    so if Jungle announced a tour they would be playing NIA, MEN, Hydro etc? 

     

    the fact i still call them that probably shows how much out of the loop i am! 

    I reckon in London they'd do 8-10k and outside London they'd 5k-6k. They'd maybe do those arenas, but with seating tarped off. 

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