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  1. All Points East Festival 2021

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    Posted

    4 hours ago, theesundayroast said:

    I'd love to see this, they had a fairly sizeable crowd when headlining Latitude a few years back. I think it would sell okay with a solid set of undercards but would still be one of the lower selling of the weekend (think Bon Iver last year).

    This is incorrect. I was there at Latitude. And the crowd was the smallest I have ever seen for a headliner. lucky if it was 8 deep from the front. VERY empty.

    Shame, as I like them. Course, if you were after a headliner who could play in a socially distant way.....

  2. Green Man 2020

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    Posted · Edited by retromoz

    On 6/19/2020 at 10:50 AM, lessthanwill1 said:

    Thought some people here might be interested in this if they’re Midlands based.

     

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    £22.50 for this looks blinding value! BUT....will it go ahead?

     

    ALSO....due to having a child who will start school next year, we cant go to EOTR next year. So, having got a refund, we were gonna buy tickets for this instead. 

    Anyone have any idea when (if?) tickets will be back on sale?

  3. 2020 Line-up Thread

    in End of the Road

    Posted

    15 hours ago, staffop said:

    I think it's inevitable it will be cancelled, but if the impossible happened, would you be happy to attend albeit with a much less popular line up? Personally, I'd be happy if they could muster up a UK only based festival of whoever they can find. I'd be happy to go regardless, I'm sure it would still be lovely.

    I would go, if I didnt have a child considered to be 'at risk'. 

  4. 2020 Line-up Thread

    in End of the Road

    Posted

    We will have to check to see. It depends on term times for our kid's first school year. If it was just a normal end of summer break, we would take her out of school to go. First school year?!? She will have to go, wont she?

    If we cant go next year, I wonder if we can 'rollover' our tickets till 2022....IF not, we will use that refund and invest in Green Man or another independent festival.

    Gutting.

  5. 2020 Line-up Thread

    in End of the Road

    Posted

    yeah...its worrying.....best thing, I guess, is to keep tickets for next year (so no need for tickets refunds), whilst having a bit of understanding when line ups arnt QUITE as 'great' and there isnt as much other offerings as they used to be for a few years while they recover costs etc.

    We (me and clan) dont think we can make it next year, due to child starting school. IF it was just a start of a new school year in the same school, we would be there in an instant. But.....new school.....its different, innit.

    Bloody kids.

  7. Green Man 2020

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    Posted

    2 hours ago, rug568 said:

    Green man Instagram advertised a charity auction for two tickets. 

    I doubt they would do this if they weren't at least planning on the festival going ahead. 

    I'm not clutching at straws, you are 

    I dont suppose you can put a link up, could you? please?

    (Im not on any (anti)social networks....)

  8. 2020 Line-up Thread

    in End of the Road

    Posted

    36 minutes ago, SweepingTheNation said:

    There's currently no festival rescue package or charity fund as there is for venues.

    This is a VERY good point! For a lot of us, festivals are just as important to the cultural fabric of the country as venues are. I havent heard of any company (Festival Republic, Live Nation etc) or the  independents asking for help etc. They might be, but the media (BBC, Guardian, specialist music sites) I read arn't highlighting it if they are....Maybe they should. Because, with a tiny few exceptions, I would NOT want the festival 'scene' to disappear because of this nastiness....

    I will write to my MP. He's a tory, so wont know his arse from his elbow, but its something.....

  9. 2020 Line-up Thread

    in End of the Road

    Posted

    9 hours ago, xxialac said:

    12 month income - £0

    12 month expenses - unknown (but far from £0, core staff salaries and some suppliers already paid e.g. ticketing, marketing)

    The problem is evident...

    I don't agree that they need the the same lineup.  End Of The Road has a very loyal support base sells out every year and therefore could potentially have a cheaper lineup than normal (that helps plug some of the financial gap) and yet still sells out. People will be keener than ever for festivals post recovery after a year without.

    In any case they don't need to pre-announce who will play next year to get people to roll their tickets over. Most festivals aren't doing so...  

    According to the filings in Companies house, their last accounts filing (ending Oct 2018) stated that they had £375,330 of equity. With a smallish festival, Im SURE that would cover a year of not having  a festival on. Costs will be substantially down, do to not hiring all the infrastructure needed, artists not being paid etc. They seem to run their festival VERY well, so Im SURE they would be one of the events with will continue to thrive in 2021 and beyond, not matter what the line up is next year (if it gets cancelled).

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  10. 2020 Line-up Thread

    in End of the Road

    Posted

    21 minutes ago, xxialac said:

    I’m a big optimist myself but what potential drastic change could allow it to go ahead? There doesn’t seem to be anything possible that fits the ‘bail us all out’ category. Sorry for being a crap optimist...

    I don't have the answer either. Maybe....this trial for a vaccine goes super well and our manufacturing capabilities are suitable enough to vaccinate at least those most vunerable, so we can be let out to play etc.

     

    Looking at the evidence, I obviously don't think that WILL happen (it requires a belief in anything Matt Hancock spews out of his lying mouth which borders on the insane). But.....again, the way this thing escalated was so quick that.....I just wonder..... could it be reversed just as quick, for an as yet undefined reason?

     

    I figure not. But....I need SOMETHING to look forward to, lest my brain explodes from frustration and worry etc...

     

     

  11. 2020 Line-up Thread

    in End of the Road

    Posted

    I dunno....I read all the reports and analysis, and it all seems certain that nowt is going on this summer. And yet....and yet.....

     

    Well......our lives have changed completely in such a short space of time. In 6 weeks, society has turned on its head. Why can't something drastic happen in a short space of time again? And, in 6 weeks time, everything might possibly return to some sort of normal, where festival's can happen again?!? 

     

    I realise that this is HIGHLY unlikely. And with this rotten government in charge, I won't be surprised if it's like this for a few years yet (or worse, if all our medical staff die off because those in charge are incapable of buying anything to protect them. Etc.). However......I'm trying to have a glimmer of optimism. You know?!?

     

    Expect the worst but hope for the best. X

  13. Latitude 2020

    in Latitude

    Posted

    Who knows....all the restrictions were only put in a few weeks ago.....one could possibly envisage the cancelling of those restrictions just as speedily (if they were feeling very optimistic, that is). Course, when it is safe to do that is anyones guess.....

     

    So......yeah. it's a case of expect the worst but hope for the best....

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  14. EOTR quiz

    in End of the Road

    Posted · Edited by retromoz

     

    11 hours ago, Sean1234321 said:

    Personally I just didn't know any of them :lol:

    Thanks for your efforts...I think a lot of people have probably just stopped checking these forums for the time being as it's just bad news after bad news.

    Apart from the hardcore few of us. Who are like someone with a toothache who can't stop poking at it.....

  16. Green Man 2020

    in other UK festivals

    Posted

    I think it's also how this palaver is in other countries too. I'm not sure what percentage of international acts there is, but I assume it's a fair amount. Who know how, for example, the us are gonna be like on their timeline....

     

    I fear that anything in 2020 will be cancelled.

     

    Bugger.

  23. My Chemical Romance - Stadium MK - 20th June

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    Posted

    53 minutes ago, charlierc said:

    stadium mk is also currently scheduled to be in use as a host venue for the Women's Euros in July/August next year, although I'm aware there's talk UEFA may reschedule that to 2022 due to the risk having the men's tournament now playing in summer 2021 will overshadow the women's version.

    The venues doing the afterparties are currently doing crowd-funding. A lot of UK venues will be doing this as well tbf.

    I'm happy to get involved - I live near MK, have been to both venues, even played them a few times. I like them and I appreciate its difficult but I'm happy to do something to help out.

    Apologies for being so MK centric. But.... maybe, if yr have a few spare pounds, donate to this?

     

    https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/keep-craufurd-alive

     

    Thanks. X

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  24. Green Man 2020

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    Posted

    I'd assume it wouldnt need as MUCH of an infrastructure putting in place that the behemoth of glasters. Other than that......I keep reading conflicting reports that this will end in June. Or October. Then begin again in November. Or June 2021. There wont be a vaccine till then. Or March 2021. Or, according to the EU, maybe Autumn this year!

    Basically, no one knows. Prepare for the worst but hope for the best, i guess.

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