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For those who worship at the church of St Vincent...
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On 4/5/2024 at 10:36 AM, Muppetmark said:
One of the best selling days surprisingly
It's certainly the one that most people I follow on Instagram were saying they got tickets for.
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On 3/27/2024 at 8:17 AM, GrumpyRaver said:
They’ll announce them when they think they need a ticket buying boost, so differs on a case by case basis.
Sure. I guess they'll be announced eventually, but closer to the date.
I'm less sure on how many they might add, mind.
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7 hours ago, Kaboom Boxer said:
So I’ve done both playlists now and from the 42 tracks (minus seven repeats, so 35) I hearted 26 on Spotify which is an unprecedented hit rate for me. You’ve found yourselves a convert guys, now I just have to spend the next eleven and a bit weeks struggling with the probable Justice clash.
They are doing a whole week of UK shows after Glastonbury if that is an option.
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36 minutes ago, thetime said:
It was more to do with Liverpool woeful strikers to be honest.
Especially as utd were on there 5th and 6th choice centre backs, plus 4th choice left back.
The extraordinary goal that brought Man United level did help with the mood swing. Quansah's pass was far too lax but I don't think anyone thought Bruno Fernandes would just welly it in. And irony is that if Kelleher did touch it, which he was an inch or two from doing, he would've been sent off for saving outside the box.
But yeah. Liverpool were extremely wasteful, particularly given that like us at Newcastle or Luton or Brentford or Brighton or f**k knows who else, Man United are having injury trouble, made worse by it being hyper-concentrated especially on the one area. Might be why a Coventry City fan I know is suddenly getting more excited about the upcoming semi.
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On 4/5/2024 at 7:33 PM, thetime said:
137 shots conceded last 5 games.
Would be united to beat the scousers Sunday though.
Given how awful Man United were in the first half, they did very well to be nearly do it.
Also means Klopp is 0/3 for games at Old Trafford against ten Hag. Which is quite something given some of the teams EtH's Man United have lost to or indeed how ridiculous they were in losing to Chelsea on Thursday.
Though given Chelsea drew at Sheffield United, maybe it was a mirage from them as well.
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On 4/1/2024 at 7:44 PM, nickkkw said:
Yeah much closer. Actually posted this prediction for Glastonbury a couple of pages ago - taken into account it'll be a shorter set than their own headline shows:
Once Upon a Poolside
Eucalyptus
Tropic Morning News
System Only Dreams
Bloodbuzz
I Need My Girl
Graceless
Space Invader
Alien
Day I Die
England
Fake Empire
Terrible Love
Mr November
About Today
VanderlyleI'd swap Alien & Day I Die for Smoke Detector.
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18 hours ago, gfa said:
Perhaps - but reading never really has been until this lana booking been fighting much for that demographic.
Seems fests aimed at young people across the board are struggling a bit - even like Parklife which has very much kept costs down hasn't sold out for instance. Seems superstruct ones are doing decent
Feels like a problem for the industry as a whole to get people still going in through the gates, especially given the number of festivals here that have opted against returning for 2024. Seems like a global thing as well with several big-name US festivals being slow-sellers and talk that the market in Australia is also having bother.
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15 hours ago, Benj said:
They deffo hadn’t yesterday 🤣 just my luck
…or maybe I didn’t click far enough
Impressive then, esp if it’s the two nights, although it will no doubt dent Reading demand, it certainly very much proves remaining relevance.
Certainly, for all the derision they get, Catfish seem to attract a wider fanbase than they get credit for.
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15 hours ago, thetime said:
137 shots conceded last 5 games.
Would be united to beat the scousers Sunday though.
Well, that FA Cup win the other week was unexpected and they did win the equivalent fixture at the start of last season. So much as Liverpool are favourites, it isn't out of the realms of possibility for Manchester United to pull a fast one on them.
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1 hour ago, gfa said:
TBH I think the lineup is 100% there
the issue is the price. my first one it was £250 ish now its close to £400. obviously a lot of people get the money from parents but its got to the point where its a lot to even ask off parents, especially when everyone is holding back on spending.
for the young people with saturday jobs etc its like a whole months wage basically. they need to find a way to reign in the cost, its more than Glastonbury this year even!! (probably for the first time ever?)
Feels like that issue is being seen with gigs across the board, and certainly with the younger generation, Taylor Swift's 8 nights at Wembley (many of which are also in August) presumably has crossover with a demographic that might once have spent the top dollar on going R&L way.
Reading being more than Glastonbury is pretty wild, mind.
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4 hours ago, thetime said:
Amount of shots utd concede is crazy.
Even so, to lose when 3-2 up with 97 minutes on the clock is concerning, and probably not what ETH needs for his job security. This on the back of being lucky to draw at Brentford after they missed 30+ chances does hint that this chaosball is too open to trouble.
I know that they, much like us at Newcastle or what feels like most of the Premier League, are having their arses kicked by injury, with particular issues in defence, but feels like teams still find a way to see such games out.
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8 hours ago, On The Blend said:
In fairness this is also because their later stuff is absolute dross...
Eh. I think there's some decent songs scattered around TBHC & The Car, and stuff from the latter went down better than I thought it would when I saw them in Middlesbrough last summer.
I mean, naturally, the singles from the first 2 albums and AM got the biggest reactions, but that was to be expected.
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9 hours ago, gfa said:
Its strange acts like Franz and Razorlight never returned. Oversight really - I guess its cheaper to get acts that are 'blowing up' - something which happens much quicker now maybe?
Razorlight not so much but an act like Franz who have a bit more going on i.e. acclaim etc (bloc party also come to mind) have more choices and a lot of fests are after them. Franz could play almost any mid-large festival in the uk and wouldn't look out of place i think
Franz Ferdinand seemed to lose momentum in the gap between their second and third albums, which seemed to have some kind of overlong development issues through 2007 and 2008. But I also wonder if the band themselves have kinda preferred just being able to make a career out of music at a solid level rather than moonshot for stadium headliners, not that there's anything wrong with that. Certainly, they've done Truck and I could see them also doing a job at something like Y Not.
They still have some reputation tbf. Saw them at Mad Cool in 2018 as a post-headliner course after Arctics leading into the "until 4am" dance stuff and they were very good, plus a decent crowd was there for them at Ally Pally two years ago.
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2 hours ago, thetime said:
Fa cup?
Can't see the remaining sides coming close to them to be honest.
That's the one I'm most confident about them reclaiming. Premier League is a genuine toss-up, while Real Madrid in the next round of the Champions League now have Bellingham and those who remember getting mauled at the Etihad in the semis last year are going to want revenge.
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1 hour ago, thetime said:
They are still doing well though, could quite easily win the treble again.
True. I think they are FA Cup favourites and they have the potential to triumph in the Champions League after all.
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On 4/2/2024 at 4:14 AM, Neil said:
how come, pep is the best manager ever, just a great manager who can't improve players.
They lost Gundogan and Mahrez in the summer and brought in inferior replacements in Nunes and Kovacic. Some suggest that players need a year to "bed in" to the way Guardiola does things, but in this situation, it makes it more awkward, to say nothing of the error that was Kalvin Phillips.
It must also be said that selling Cole Palmer to Chelsea has been a terrible piece of business given that Palmer has pretty much been Chelsea's only real consistently good player of late and arguably had more to offer than Doku, who seems to have been very inconsistent.
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14 hours ago, DareToDibble said:
But that Conference league spot has serious competition, depending on how teams do there are 7 that could potentially get it. Boring as it would be I think it might be Chelsea.
I don't. Chelsea look so erratic and dropping points at home to 10 man Burnley was a terrible look.
I'd fancy our chances more as a Mag if we could stop with the injuries. We had 11 players out last night which lead to us resorting to using Paul Dummett, who duly gave away a ridiculous penalty.
Though as noted, 8th might be good enough for Conference League. I guess we'll see what happens with the UEFA coefficient thing.
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3 hours ago, WhoOdyssey said:
Foals confirmed for El Pointo
Maybe a Foals/Biffy co-headline.
... I'd actually like that ngl. Might be more of a Reading thing though.
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2 hours ago, kaosmark2 said:
I'd have thought Burn will play centrally and Ritchie/Murphy will rotate into fullback positions? It's tough though. Our defence hasn't been settled all season and it shows.
Wasn't Manquillo sold? To be honest I don't think he was ever any good, just not quite bad enough to ship out with a thin squad.
How long is Trippier out for?
Trippier may be fit enough for the bench for Everton tomorrow. Initial instinct was Burn back at CB, where he was in his first 6/7 months, and Hall at left-back, though if all of Trippier, Krafth and Livramento are injured, it's a job to know who gets the right-back role. Murphy out of position was played there but he may be the only RW option as well, even moreso if Almiron is also out.
It's turning into a thing where you fix problem only for another to appear. So it's being tricky to figure out.
Presumably Everton may yet see our depleted ranks as a good chance to end their winless run. Either that or they'll just continue to be terrible goalscorers as they have been all season.
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1 hour ago, thetime said:
It is the best festival I've been to though, bit ropey line up wise now though.
I've met people who made it sound amazing. But yeah, my interest in it was higher in the days where the line-ups were more to my taste. Same with Werchter.
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22 hours ago, The Other Steve said:
About Today for me is something very special but people will probably know it more for it's movie placements particularly at the end of The Warrior which is just a great use of the song. Hardly any talking, just the music to end the film.
If you not watched the movie do not watch this spoiler.
It was quite something to listen to the recorded version, which is quite sparse and folksy, then they regularly play live this version which is very intense.
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Guess nobody is willing to do a lame April Fool's gag saying that somebody totally random and weird will be doing the 2025 headline slot.
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On 3/30/2024 at 3:00 PM, Daniel Ferreira said:
Main names never play at the same time.
I thought that would be the case tbf as I imagine plenty of people would be trying to see most of the big names at once, not least in the case of Pulp & The National.
I guess the hesitation is more that I don't really know any of the undercard on their day.
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