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i am off to wizard this weekend
canna wait, I am so excited
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Got my ticket!
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I'm almost certainly getting tickets, but does anyone know when we're getting another announcement?
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Announcements for this year's festival coming soon also!
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Might go. It will depend on the lineup.
I am sooooo glad I never bought tickets early last year
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the Great Gig in the Sky
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Absolutely fantastic festy!
A great weekend was had by all.
I will definately be going again next year, Wizard is now one of my musts!
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i have indeed!
One sleep to go!
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bands that would make me weep with joy if announced for bella 2009
Doves
Elbow
Gogol Bordello
Editors
Easy Star All Stars
The Draytones
Happy Mondays
My Bloody Valentine
The Fall
Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Stranglers
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Yeti
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calm like a bomb - Rage
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bummer in the summer - Love
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paranoid android - the heid
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cant afford holidays with the money I spend on festivals
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I jist widna go on holiday
festys ARE my holidays
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dreadzone will be awesome
I canna wait!
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This line up is kicking Belladrums arse
Supergrass
Alabama 3
Dreadzone
Roddy Woomble
Proud Mary
etc
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You can now book tipis for Wizard. Check oot the website or their bebo or myspace pages for the details
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More bands added - Cold War Kids, Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit. I am happy.
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I have no idea why caravans arent allowed. probably summat to do with red tape and all that jazz
there might be tipis availible in the near future though, its summat they are working on.
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Very interesting article in Scotland on Sunday today............
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/lates...-the.4049171.jp
Festivals in battle of the bands
One night only: exclusivity deals are the norm for promoters, which means fans at smaller festivals may miss out on seeing top acts Photograph: Getty Images
Date: 04 May 2008
By Jeremy Watson
IT IS usually the bands who are squabbling, but the scramble to secure a slice of Scotland's booming rock festival business has sparked an angry row between up and coming festivals and the well established, hugely successful T in the Park.
Promoters of the smaller events have complained that T in the Park is signing deals with bands which prevent them playing any other outdoor festivals that summer.
Geoff Ellis, the promoter of T in the Park – which in its 15th year will boast REM, Kaiser Chiefs, Kings of Leon, Amy Winehouse and KT Tunstall – denied he was trying to put other events out of business.
Exclusivity deals are the norm and the best way for festivals to maintain their success, added Ellis, who runs DF Concerts and also promotes HydroConnect in August at Inveraray, featuring Franz Ferdinand.
Squaring up against Ellis is Joe Gibbs, who promotes August's Tartan Heart Festival at Belladrum, near Inverness, and has signed up Scouting for Girls, The Waterboys and Idlewild. He is backed by Robert Hicks, who has lured Fatboy Slim, The View and Razorlight to next month's RockNess on the shores of the famous loch.
Gibbs, who started Belladrum on his family estate five years ago, said: "It's been a long hard struggle because you are up against corporate giants, particularly DF, who put exclusion clauses on the tiniest bands and artists, and tell them they can't play our event.
"In the end, it is audiences and artists who will lose out if the small independents like Belladrum disappear."
Gibbs said he had held talks with 30 acts this year who said they were unable to play Belladrum because DF Concerts would not allow it. "If they were right up the top of the bill, it's understandable, but for smaller acts it's crazy. They range from high-profile acts down to small Scottish breaking acts who want a wider platform and have been denied it."
DF launched Connect in the grounds of Inveraray Castle last year with the help of a three-year £230,000 start-up grant from public funds. "With T in the Park in July and Connect in August, bands are being taken off the market for the whole of the summer," Gibbs said. "That has further put the screw on the smaller independents."
As well as RockNess, Hicks runs the smaller Loopallu festival in Ullapool. He said: "When it comes to acts low down on the bill that haven't even been announced when tickets have been sold out, then it is doing the bands and the gig-going public a disservice."
Ellis, when asked if it was his intention to put other festivals out of business, replied: "Absolutely not. We invested loads of money into T in the Park in the early days and that has created a marketplace for all these other festivals to exist.
"I'm not trying to stop them happening, but when I book a line-up and spend a lot of money, our audience spend their money on a great line-up.
Other promoters would be annoyed if they announced an act and then I booked it a week later. It would harm their ticket sales."
Ellis insisted agreements that prevented bands from playing other festivals, sometimes for up to a year, were an industry norm. "That's standard," he said.
Mark Mackie, who runs Regular Music, which promotes concerts mainly in the major Scottish cities, said such agreements were "fair enough" in relation to headline and breakthrough acts.
"Geoff isn't doing it to scupper other promoters," he said. "He's just protecting his own business."
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How Hi is a china man!!!!!!
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how long is soon?
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more announcements coming soon methink!
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