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BCNR might well be there, but I'm not seeing them as potential headliners.

Nah, not having this. It's only true if young people want to see the actual same bands you were watching decades ago. (And why would they want to do that?) There's plenty of great gigs going on with new interesting music at a whole range of venues for ten or twenty quid.

Thank you, that's very selfless of you.

Wish I'd realised that before I went back to the ticket selection page and started again. Accidentally bought double the amount I meant to. Oops.

I had been thinking Harvey might just about be within the upper end of EotR's range. But then I remembered how much I'm paying to see her on her own tour this month and I thought, maybe not. Be great, though.

Dull bloke in old band t-shirt here. Top ten sets (in chronological rather than any other order): Deerhoof, Fat Dog, Bodega, Yeule, Mabe Fratti, They Hate Change (though I only caught the end), The Courettes, Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul, Teke::Teke, Panic Shack.

I mean if you're gonna put the tin hat on then you probably at least want to know the difference between cashless payments and digital currency.

I'm on the lookout for something to do in addition to EotR. Ideally much earlier in the season to bookend the summer. (Wondered about Bearded Theory but I dunno.)

Superlative weekend as ever. The good - and this is worth stressing in light of the stick they got for it: the line-up. I was in the same boat as many others when it was first announced, in thinking that there was less than usual that I knew towards the top of the bill. But what we got when it came to it was the best, most interesting and most diverse line-up we've had in the ten years I've been going. It was tremendous, so many great acts in genres I don't listen to at home and that I'd never have discovered otherwise, so much of it international. Also worth reminding ourselves that they've added more stages since covid to increase the range further - as far as I know they were under no kind of pressure to do that and could instead have put that money higher up the bill to make more headlines. Can't give them enough credit for being willing (and evidently able) to do it that way despite the criticism and the commercial risk. Anyone who cares about music and musical diversity should be lauding them for that line-up regardless of how well it suited their own tastes. It'd be a real shame if they gave in to the naysayers and went back on it. I don't think they will. Bad and ugly: nothing worth mentioning.

I know I wasn't the only one looking forward to Ela Minus.

So Brigitte Calls Me Baby, Be Your Own Pet and Picture Parlour added to the line-up, with Ela Minus, Heartworms and Laundromat all out. Several names out from the comedy as well. But nothing yet on the Saturday mystery act.

Gravity's Rainbow is brilliant. But the only way I actually managed to read it in the end was to take it with me on a week long train journey.

Can't say that makes a lot of sense to me. Just had a look at tixel and can't see any tickets there anyway - did you mean twickets? They have a quite a few, and the blurb seems to tell you the tier full price originally paid, either upfront (unless stated otherwise) or combined total of deposit and balance. (What they're willing to accept is another thing entirely.)

I am excited. And also sending music suggestions to my sister and brother-in-law, who are coming for the first time. I know I'm going to have a pretty full-on five weeks at work between now and then, though, so I'm putting it to the back of my mind for the moment.

Yeah they're not particularly similar as bands. But they're not similar in terms of industry progression either. Wet Leg's publicity / hype was driven by the strength of the first song. TLDP feels very much the other way round.