Quorn
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For the sake of my exams I’ll leave this forum alone until the announcement, here we go lads
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1 minute ago, Gerard the Fab said:
Modern Glitch turned 10 today, would love to see that in full come August seeing as they only really play Tokyo and Techno Fan from that album.
Hold that thought, we have an announcement to hype up
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Tomorrow we ride
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6 minutes ago, thewayiam said:
I have no problem with anyone having hope but it's also a pain when it comes to holiday booking at work.
I do think that’s a bit of a petty reason to put everyone else down, don’t you?
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1 hour ago, thewayiam said:
No Reading will survive due to it's large brand and backing etc etc. If the council etc don't see the info they want to then it won't. And as I said, we are hosting a major sporting event on June 26th and only allowing 22k fans in.
Okay that’s my misunderstanding there, I thought you meant the Reading area. But even so, my point still stands that the council will do everything they can to work with FR to get the festival to go ahead, simply because of the money it brings into the area. Obviously they won’t put people at risk for it, but they’ll be working hard to get safety precautions implemented
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5 hours ago, thewayiam said:
If that's what you choose to take from that then fill your boots.
You said Reading will survive as if that meant the area wouldn’t do everything possible to get the festival to go ahead? If you take a compelling argument from that then fill your boots mate😂
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Realistically none of us know which way this is going to go and every bit of information coming out about it swings it in a different direction, still got my fingers crossed though
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12 hours ago, thewayiam said:
Everywhere missed out on massive income. But Reading will survive.
And that means they don’t care about making money anymore?😂
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48 minutes ago, jonnyisRFC said:
Brian Fallon has just also cancelled his November/December European tour and rescheduled it for Summer 2022. Reading/Leeds won’t happen unfortunately. I can’t talk for Leeds but I know Reading still doesn’t have permission to take place this summer from the local council.
The area missed out on massive income last year when the festival was cancelled. If there’s any way for it to go ahead, the council will approve it
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11 minutes ago, nathanh said:
Considering they announced in August and we havent seen much more since you can understand why people are getting impatient.
Very unusual to get anything as early as August though, so can’t expect normal timings between announcements
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11 hours ago, Jonathan Jonathan said:
Hasn’t Tom Grennan self confirmed like three times now?
Think that makes it twice officially haha
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2 hours ago, Ives562 said:
Where has he self confirmed I can't find it anywhere?
Happy hour podcast I believe
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2 minutes ago, Tom Connolly said:
give us the lineup announcement now, look what’s going on man
for the record i agree
It’ll only get worse until the next announcement
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2 hours ago, thewayiam said:
You are checked and have drugs taken of you if found, not the same with alcohol. I consume 4 bottles of alcohol I'll be fine. I consume 4 pills and I won't be.
Fair point that any psychoactive substance that isn’t caffeine, alcohol or nicotine is illegal. However, the fact that you group all of them together shows a lack of understanding, as does the generalisation of all alcohol. 4 bottles of beer, you’ll be fine, 4 bottles of absinthe and you’ll be in a very bad state. It’s exactly the same with pills as how many you can handle will depend on their strength and what’s actually in them. I think the main argument is that if alcohol and nicotine are legal and arguably more harmful than many illegal drugs, then people should have a right to consume those other drugs. Testing is only necessary because the government refuses to legalise them and implement their own regulations (which would probably be a good idea since they could tax them, but whatever).
Regardless of their legal and illegal status, arguing that illegal drugs are inherently more dangerous is ignorant and inhibits progress towards a life with more freedoms, which seems to be something you’re trying to do anyway by creating a panic based on nothing but pessimism.
Not sure how that came from the covid conversation but there we go
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Really can’t be arsed to cover all of the points that have been discussed since I was last on, but having read through all of them I’m still the most confident I’ve been so far that it’ll go ahead, especially with this J&J vaccine being introduced with a one shot immunity
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7 minutes ago, Jack.194 said:
I’m in a pretty sound position as I’ve had my first dose (I’m a teacher) and I’m driving down with only 1 other person. But, I can see this causing a lot of problems.
The majority of people going will be young, so won’t be vaccinated. Also, a lot of people will be driving with 3/4 other people, so of the driver tests positive the rest will have no way of getting back from the festival, and if a passenger tests positive they’ll be stuck at the festival from when they arrive.
Not only that but I can see people kicking off if they test positive and so have to leave.
I wouldn’t see on-the-door testing being the only measure though. Since testing kits will be free anyway, I think it would be required to submit a negative test within 24 hours of arrival and then produce a negative test with the rapid tests. That would mean people are unlikely to slip through if they lie about the first test but also means it’s down the the individual if they decide to show up after testing positive
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7 minutes ago, thewayiam said:
It's a mix of people that will have purchased tickets.
So you've got the majority crowd age sorted. What about the people between 21 and 31 and plus that have purchased tickets for acts/or in fact they are going due to age etc of people they are taking? Do they just lose their money because they don't have the required information that is needed. It's not just about making sure the most risk free 16-19 year olds are okay to go.
Why would they lose their money? Not sure where the issue lies if everyone has been tested/vaccinated before going
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1 minute ago, Creasin said:
Yeah there's so much confusion around it - it won't be an issue with the younger demographic who won't of been offered a vaccine as those still in school/college have already been taking regular covid tests and uploading them to the NHS database
Plus testing kits will be offered for free to everyone from the 9th April. I see no reason for the festival not to go ahead with the amount of testing possible
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5 minutes ago, thewayiam said:
The festival can say what they want, just like they sold their festival out knowing the demand and also the risk was still there. The Reading Council have not passed the go ahead of this festival....they made that very clear shortly after. All that's essentially been done is that based on the measures of preliminary dates set out they would be going ahead.
If the government decides that everyone needs to be fully vaccined and vaccine passports are needed to attend and that is passed. Then what the festival have said means nothing.
I really don’t understand where everyone has got the idea that the vaccine passport means you have to be vaccinated? I get that the name is misleading but the passport shows whether you are vaccinated OR have natural immunity OR have had a negative test. Not only will it not be a problem for younger attendees since it likely won’t be rolled out until everyone has been offered the vaccine, but it won’t be a problem for people even if they refuse the vaccine because you can just test negative and be good to go
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9 minutes ago, nathanh said:
How do you think the main stages will be set up? Facing each other? Next to each other?
There’s a whole thread of this if you go back to the general R&L page
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17 minutes ago, Dim Sum said:
Yeah tbh this forum has completely died out in recent weeks everyone’s just given up
I don’t think anybody’s given up, just exhausted all of the discussions that are to be had. Let’s just wait for an announcement and then we can talk about it again
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5 hours ago, Leah crowshaw said:
I accidentally brought early entry to Leeds instead of ready does that matter will I still be able to use it at reading?
Unfortunately not
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6 minutes ago, Newjem said:
The recent confirmations of Sports Team and KSI playing on main stage makes me think that the stage splits on poster are right, at least for the Main Stage East. Neck Deep has already headlined The Pit so maybe it's time for them to show up on a big stage. MK is a weid one but there's been DJ sets on Radio 1 Stage in the past so why not on main stage? After all, it's not that much different from Major Lazer who played there in 2017 and maybe they are trying to be more like Parklife or SW4 (where DJs play on main stages all the time) with the new concept.
Solardo said they’re in the dance tent, so I don’t think the stage splits on the poster are right, at least not 100%
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1 minute ago, nathanh said:
Megan Thee Stallion, Enter Shikari, Rex Orange County or Sam Fender ?
I think megan is too big, especially in a year with two main stages. If the R1 remains at all, I expect it'll be a budget version. The others sound possible though
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Yeah mate, 3 weeks until final exams haha. Looks like I didn’t make it until the announcement though