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Interesting year for headliners that. Everything from stinky to questionable to "good but uninteresting". Easy year to skip and save money. Curious whether I could make something out of it so... Thur: Gaslight >Hives > Parkway > Slowdive > PH Harvey > eat during GVF > Jane's Addiction > The Streets Fri: Visit Belgium all day > Bad Omens > Archive > Tom Morello > Snow Patrol maybe > early night Sat: Noname > Jessie Ware > NBT / Janelle > Avril > The Blaze > Marc Rebillet > another early night Sun: Brutus > Scowl > Idles > Loyle Carner > Michael Kiwanuka > Foos Yeah, bit of a rough year for what RW usually has.

Still put on a good live show too, or did when I caught them a few years back.

They did a ballot though - touts can't hoover up in a ballot. Only problem was they massively overcharged even with a ballot.

Sure, but something's gone horribly, horribly wrong when I saw Beyoncé at Spurs 8 months ago for £105 standing and now f**king Pearl Jam are trying to charge me nearly a third more for an arena show. They're not Beyoncé.

Looking at their official forums it seems like tickets aren't exactly flying. PJ doing a Manchester arena show should be an instant sellout but standing is still there after an hour, clearly lots of ballot winners put off at that price point. Barcelona hasn't moved at all. Best case scenario they scrap the entire thing and try again at sane prices. They're never selling out shows where nosebleeds cost £150.

That was them. As well as now banging on about "giving normal fans access to tickets" via the ballot they're also proponents of "all in pricing", where what you see is what you pay... except apparently that didn't translate here, because Jenko's screenshots don't seem to include the added fees that take the tickets to £170. Arseholes.

Grumpy this morning realising that the Pearl Jam £170 standing price wasn't an elaborate prank. Manchester isn't even a stadium ffs. Band's so incredibly out of touch if they think this is what "normal fans" (their words talking about a ballot system) can afford, they're on my shitlist.

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Warmongering Nazi Middle East Destabilisation stage looking pretty sweet.

Yeah, catch me having an argument with some absolute weapon about it on the official forums 🤣 stark reminder of why I got away from there and here

Insane that after subbing Yung Lean on the 4th stage at L&R less than 6 months ago, Sleep Token have just shifted about 70,000 UK arena tickets. Mental booking.

Blink Prodigy clash would be the funniest (saddest) thing ever. "Two main stages sucks! Bring back the old system, bring back the choice and the clashes!" "NOT LIKE THAT NOT LIKE THAT"

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Definitely will be eyeing up last minute resales for Blink / Prodigy day if I think we can afford it by the time it rolls around. Two still on the bucket list. Gerry who?

YO, they got Prodigy subbing? f**king hell, that Gerry Cinnamon free cash really making waves