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Set times for those who might not have seen it yet. Takne from nme website. The stage times for My Chemical Romance's trio of shows in Milton Keynes later this month have been announced! On all three nights, the reunited headliners will perform for an hour-and-a-half, from 8:55pm to 10:25pm. Before that, main support Placebo have an hour-long set each day from 7:20pm to 8:20pm. On Thursday, May 19, Witch Fever will kick things off from 5:30pm to 5:55pm, before LostAlone take to the stage from 6:20pm to 6:50pm. Over the weekend, on Saturday, May 21 Cassyette will open proceedings from 5:30pm to 5:55pm, followed by Barns Courtney between 6:20pm and 6:50pm. On the final night at the Stadium MK, on Sunday, May 22 Charlotte Sands will start at 5:30pm to 5:55pm, and then Starcrawler will perform between 6:20pm and 6:50pm.

A few pre-festival show's by APE. My partner bought us Self Esteem pre-sale tickets at £12.45 a ticket. She bought our APE tickets this year and so got the pre-sale. I have not idea what the other events are charging.

Saw it today on the news, It looks pretty plush. Think its going to be a good one.

I'm not sure if anyone will have any tips as I understand its had a major build/refit. I used to go regularly back in the day to Peach nights at the Camden Palace and a few gigs at Koko. However, I think the new update will be radically different to previous times. I have tickets for tommorow and as well as looking forward to seeing Arcade Fire, I am keen to see what they have done with the place. From pictures I saw after the fire, it looked like they completly gutted it.

The Smile & Crowded House.

Would love Crown of Love but what ever they choose its going to be class. One of those bands don't have filler tracks on their albums.

Both me and my partner are working from home and both tried at the same time. She got through and bagged tickets and I failed. I feel very lucky as we managed to get tickets a few years back when they played York Hall. Fingers crossed we seem lucky at the moment with bagging Tickets for smaller shows like George Ezra, Florence, (Placebo via Twickets) and last night got tickets on O2 priority for Blossoms at Islington. So was expecting our luck to run out this morning for Arcade. Good luck to everyone trying again at 12.

My first thought was who? Maybe it's just me but doubt that many people would even notice if they left them on the poster or tokk them off.

That would be nice and yes when I saw the Koko advert they did come to mind. I guess nnow when any headliners pull out at any festival they will be name that gets bandied about.

We might be getting on with life but sick leave is going to be an issue for quiet some time and I think most companies have resolved themselves to that issue. The flight industry has the additional problem that there are so many staff groups who can throw a spanner in the works. Flight crews, engineers, baggage handlers, ticket staff, border force, air traffic control, security staff etc. It only takes one group to be short and it has a knock on effect. Plus planes stuck at the wrong destinations etc if/when flight crews are not available. Also, the demand for holidays/trips is so high. We might have missed gigs/festivals during the pandemic but for most people with disposable income, the one thing they all missed was going abroad for holidays. So, I think when things go wrong it wil not be so easy to put you on another flight. It would also be easier if so many airlines did not overbook flights but thats not going to change when they expect a few passenegers to cancel with covid. Flight disruption is just another part of living with covid.

At the moment, I am more worried about flights then line-up changes that are going to end up happening at all festivals to some degree. At least when I had to change the initial flights when it got cancelled, I decided to re-book and go to Madrid for a few extra days before the start of the festival. That is starting to look like a good decision. Pre-pandamic I would often fly abroad on the day or day before a gig. These days, I cant say I have that much confidence in flights going as planned. For that reason, this is the only oversea festival I have booked and thats only because its a rollover. Until the logistics of travel get much better, I doubt I will be doing many gigs abroad.

I am sure you are in for a treat at Bearded. I will be seeing them at MRC, Madcool & have tickets for the tour later in the year so would be good if they mix their sets up a bit.

Saw Placebo tonight at Islington Assembly Hall as bagged tickets from twickets today. Mainly the new album and a few songs from the last few albums. Nice to see them in such a small venue and liked the fact that phones not allowed. Some real good tracks on the new album but would have loved a few of the old bangers from early albums but I think a lot of those songs are behind them now or put away for a few years. Played Blind from Meds, love that track. Seeing them again a few times this year. It will be interesting to see if tonights set will be the one played at festivals and their tour towards the end of the year.

After loads of seeticket emails today, my tickets have arrived. Really looking frward to it now.

Placebo, thats fantastic.

Very happy with Bombay, Metronomy & Embrace. If Friday is just the one stage thats a crazy good line-up of acts that would normally headline mid level festivals.

At the moment when I book festival tickets I am going with the view that the names on the poster may well not be the acts I end up seeing. With things opening up much more, I expect even more changes to line-ups this year then last as cases will go up. Cancelations, drop outs,changes etc for one reason or another is going to be the norm going forward for the foreseable future. So, I would expect to see plenty of changes to the lineup nearer the time. I am more worried about the venue changing then the acts as their is still plenty for me even without FNM & QOTSA.

It seems very hard to track down any meaningful information on this. It's very poor that so near the festival they can still not give us a 100% guarantee of the location. Just saying its at the current location for now does not really cut it. I would have thought they should now by now thee actual site.

Good work.

Sure he said some where that he was playing festivals. Can't say, I have seen anyone advertising him. It might be a case of the first few to book him take some flack and no one wnats to go first.

Community tickets bought, considering the lineup £102.25 for a pair of tickets including all fees is a steal.

A very strong lineup.

I would have thought they are to big but a verygood shout to headline a day of their own if we endupwith 2 weekends of shows.

Wolf Alice in Europe then. Thought they might have been as at Madcool around then. So, do we think the date is correct?

If its legit, a bit annnoying it will clash with Madcool but always likely to happen in what is becoming a very crowded year. Was hoping for it to be the weekend after Fender/Ezra.