Maurice Mecca
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Over the past half a dozen festivals we’ve had to get people tickets in the resale and I don’t recall us ever being unsuccessful.
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Happy new year you wonderful people. Make it special.
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It is of course tragic. I’ve been to Brixton Academy scores of times as well as many other venues in London and I would say the potential for situations like this is possible at every single one of them. I am not sure you can completely make any venue 100% safe. Same with sports arenas, Boxing Day sales openings at large stores etc.
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I volunteered last year working the bars for Shelter. I can wholeheartedly recommend it. Yeah it's hard work at time (3 x 8 hour shifts during the event) and you WILL miss stuff you might want to see but I had a blast. Made friends, got fed everyday, hot showers everyday and you get to use the crew only bars!
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16 minutes ago, MEGATRONICMEATWAGON said:
Eat for Eight?
Nosh for Nine?
Tucker for a Tenner
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Dynamic pricing is a terrible development. Imagine going to the supermarket and let's say they were nearly down to their last block of cheese and ramped the price up on it. Or you go to McDonalds and their Big Macs were selling like mad so they upped the price on them. Unfortunately unless bands decide to boycott them and fans stop paying the prices it will continue to be a thing (also any idea what impact these dynamic prices have on the various spurios fees TM charges on tickets already? Do they increase in line?)
The other element is what happens to the likes of Twickets, how can they police face value resale for anyone honest enough just to want to sell to another fan when the pricing will be so random.
It's driving me to stop going to the larger gigs/venues and back to supporting upcoming/lesser known artists with appropriately priced gigs (whcih may not be a bad thing).
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Power Banks 75 +1
Hats/Hats 65 -4
Pillows 36 -5
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3 hours ago, Alvoram said:
Absolutely, not all older homes will be suitable. But we absolutely shouldn’t be laying a single brick in this country unless the building has solar designed in!
The current legislation doesn’t go far enough, and can be gotten around too easily.
Simply put, every single new building built in this country should be designed to have at least 40% of it’s roof space (or 80% of it’s south facing roof) covered in integrated solar panels.
Buildings, especially homes, are usually shaped such that they ‘could’ be designed to always have a south facing roof!
Just like the boom of satellite dishes in the 80s / 90s we should consider adding a small wind turbine to the roofline of each new build too. A hybrid system is absolutely perfect in the UK!
Doesn’t address older builds, obviously, but the fact we’re not already mandating these things on new builds is telling!
This ^
Why on earth isn't every new home or property built to be at least carbon neutral, where possible carbon positive, using sustainable materials, fitted with heat pumps instead of boilers etc. etc. NOW! Change the legislation right now if you are serious about this. Of course we know why, big businesses and their government cronies protecting their slice of the pie. Haven't heard a single thing from the Tory leadership contenders on climate.
Unfortunately the human race will never do enough to combat climate change and sadly the least affluent will suffer the most but as Mrs Mecca has said maybe this is what is meant to be for us (and sadly a lot of other species cuaght in the crossfire).
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Walking Boots 90
Fresh and black tent 85 +5 (those one or two extra hours without blistering heat in the morning are important for...)
Power Bank 89
Lenor Bottle 49
Air bed 45 +5 (...a comfy sleep to energise you for the next day)
She Wee 21
Hats/Hat 82
Pillow 69 -
7 minutes ago, kalifire said:
Holy craparonny, the latest BCS fucking DELIVERS.
yep excellent episode, agony to wait another 7 days to see how it pans out
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Walking Boots 95
Fresh and Black tent 90
Power Bank 69
Camp Shower 40
Kettle / stove 9 -10
Lenor Bottles 69
Airbeds 69
Torches 40
She Wee 35
Hat/Hats 69
Camping Chairs 15
Pillows 69
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Walking Boots 89
Fresh and Black tent 89
Power Bank 75
Camp Shower 40
Kettle / stove 29
Lenor Bottle 69 (-10) i'm with StuartBert proper uriwell way better
Torch 40
She Wee 40
Hat/Hats 69
Camping Chair 45
Pillow 69
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Walking Boots 85
Fresh and Black tent 90
Power Bank 70
Camp Shower 40
kettle/stove 30
Lenor Bottle 65
Torch 55 -10 (Use your mobile phone)
Flannel 30
She Wee 40
Hat/Hats 75
Camping Chair 45
Pillow 70
Airbed 70
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Walking Boots 80
Fresh and Black tent 80
Power Bank 65
Camp Shower 40
Kettle/ stove 40
Lenor Bottle 55
Torch 65
Paper Soap 30
Wet Wipes 20 (-10)
Flannel 45
She Wee 40
Hat/Hats 70
Camping Chair 55
Pillow 50
Airbed 60 -
Wellies 25
Walking Boots 65 (+5)
Fresh and Black tent 70 (+5)
Power Bank 60
Camp Shower 50
Kettle 50
Lenor Bottle 50
Torch 50
Paper Soap 50
Wet wipes 40
Flannel 50
She We 50
Hat/Hats 60
Camping Chair 50
Pillow 50
Airbed 60
Travel John 50
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Even the thread is suffering in this heat!
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5 minutes ago, gigpusher said:
I personally will never understand why someone who clearly has no interest in the busiest act of the weekend wouldn't just say I'll meet you after DiRo when it's less busy. I'll sit in a bar or go to some music I do like during that time instead of turning up and making it so hard for others to enjoy. I've been to acts that I don't know that well but if I wasn't enjoying them to the extent that I would rather chat with my friends then I'd leave and go sit somewhere with my friends and chat rather than ruin the experience for other people around me.
perfectly put. totally agree
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This was my first time using by F&B and have to say it’s a game changer. Managed to sleep in until nearly 10am one morning. Never at any stage did I get in the tent and think I was stepping into a furnace. Brilliant investment.
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Me and 3 friends have all tested positive since returning. Thankfully it feels like the general fatigue you get after 5 heavy days but sleep doesn’t fix it. Yet.
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I have called into work on Monday. As I am volunteering I am heading to Bristol Monday night so I will going into the office in London fully laden with rucksack, tent, chair, bed, booze the works. Definitely not how I planned it!
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working with shelter this year. First time volunteering am excited to do the festival in a different way. Anyway got a question, how strict are they in crew camping about the size of your tent? Lots of comments in the online training and also in the newsletter about not bringing a 6 man tent for two people. Spending 6 nights in a tent I don’t want to be squeezed in a small tent or willing to go and buy another tent to make this work. Would a 3/4 man tent for one be acceptable? Where do they draw the line or do they even check?
Also does crew camping get very crowded too due to limited space?
Thanks
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This has hit me for six. I’m speechless
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just re-subscribed. Thanks @Neil and to everyone on this forum thanks for keeping it alive and a joyful place to visit.
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5 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:
I’m doing something similar but have more of a top gear style cool wall spreadsheet arrangement where I can move artists anywhere on the chart from “unmissable” to “avoid “and vice versa. Will make sorting out potential clashes easier once the full line up is out.
someone needs to create like an old Shoot! magazine league ladder table for bands and stages like this...
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What telly progs are you bingeing on?
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I can definitely recommend ‘Fight the Power: How Hip Hop changed the World’. Four part documentary on BBC iPlayer now.