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2 hours ago, Stillill42 said:
Cheers Robith. Yeah, I think a couple of cold ones onsite will have to do. What time do the bars close? I see there's a bit of late night activity. Are they still serving after midnight?
yeah, there's stuff on till like 3am? I'm a hound for the sesh and I've never thought "damn, I can't get a drink"
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Taxi from Salisbury station was about £60 from memory and that's 21 miles. Soton airport is 38 so I'd expect it to be chunky. I'd find one in Southampton and pre book it.
Click and collect a good idea above, but also surely those cans are gonna be wretched hot, no? Why not exploit the UK leaving the EU and get some duty free hard liquour and get some cold beers on site? I appreciate that's not taking into account cost
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I will say, whilst not on the scale of Glastonbury, over the time I've been going (since 2018) the late night offering has improved immeasurably. Wondering around the woods is a delight, there's late night cinema screenings, the disco ship, the tipi, later DJs in the Big Top, the cider bus - they even have the odd person playing dance music later at night now too. It's not a full on rave, but you can keep yourself well amused until around 3am I find
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4 hours ago, Riverneck said:
Ooh potentially exciting news that, re. Gabriels
Yeah that would be a real treat
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4 hours ago, SweepingTheNation said:
Depends on your definition of "late night stuff" but there's usually (often) more electronic acts and DJs in the Big Top after the main headliner, DJs in the woods and secret sets in the Tipi until 2-2.30am.
The Saturday in 2021 was a highlight for this - absolutely danced my feet into dust at the Romare/Auntie Flo double header in the Big Top. But last year was good too with Battles/Ross from Friends with Djs I forget on afterwards. Really like that as a vibe
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Never been to any of the Literature stuff, but I always find it very reassuring that it's there
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34 minutes ago, Thruxton Appleby said:
I completely own what I said, and stand by every word. I won’t own what your twisted logic turned it into. To state, as you have, that I ever said there were “too many women at the festival” is an out-and-out lie. Which makes you a liar.
You take something someone has said, twist, strip out any nuance, distort, exaggerate and falsify, then accuse that person of saying what you have turned it into so you can finger-point and vilify. It’s clearly a thing you do, you did it to noisenoise recently. What you do is transparent, but what I don’t understand is why? What do you get out of it? Why do you feel the need to place yourself on some spurious moral high ground by misrepresenting other people’s views so you can set yourself in righteous opposition to something that was never said in the first place? Are you so desperate for validation? Are there not enough real battles to fight without making up your own to make yourself look like the good guy? Is your self-esteem that low? Often the case with liars. Now there’s a case for therapy.
(Apologies to bystanders btw. If this response seems a bit strong it’s because I very much mind being called a misogynist. And I'm not a fan of liars.)
This is a concerning reaction to a post on an internet forum like 5 years ago. This is not a court of law, but a sharing of people's opinions, no one tried to cancel you brother, they gave their opinion on yours - I feel this is a really disproportionate reaction. I'm sorry that you feel there is some malevolent intent to destroy you - I gave my honest POV on what you said. I am allowed to elaborate and expand and interpret. I don't think there would be much discussion if everyone just had to repeat what others have literally posted.
You said the line up was weak because they were enforcing women headliners. I gave my opinion back that there was internalised misogyny in that statement, because whilst not what you literally said, you heavily insinuated that the line up was inherently weaker because women were at the top and this was a gender quota being enforced by the festival ie not on merit. And you lack of reflection on that being pointed out rather entrenched my view. And I was not the only one to feel the same, though I voiced it most vociferously - though I at least wrote full sentences, I think someone else just told you to "fuck off". I feel you've tried to retcon this argument personally. But I am open to critique of myself so to have inspired such fury and ad hominem insults across nearly half a decade, perhaps I go too hard and I'll adjust my posting style
Likewise with noisenosie, I just gave my POV. I feel slightly saddened that they've decided to shape their posts here around that, but if I've put them off posting I apologise. I did actually agree with their recent post that it's a bit mean to mock bands for not selling out venues fwiw.
Personally I don't recognise that characterisation of me - because I'm not a good guy, nowhere near perfect and always capable of improvement. But I would say that I guess. I don't really know what you want from me because I'm not going to change my position on what you said, so feel free to keep calling me names I suppose. But it's not good for you to harbour a grudge against someone you've never met for so long. It's just a forum to post about a festival we like brother. I might even learn more about you if you posted about anything other than that argument. Hell, I'll even buy you a beer or tea (deep cut for the secret set group there) at the festival if you want.
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48 minutes ago, TheMerryPig said:
So KGLW vs Ezra is my first confirmed clash. We must be getting closer. Exciting times.
Savage clash but reckon Ezra wins out
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1 hour ago, Thruxton Appleby said:
I wouldn't worry about robith mate. He likes to accuse people of saying things they never said. He thinks it makes him look good. It doesn't.
You need therapy bruv. 18 posts, all of them about an argument on an internet forum five year ago. And you said what you said, own it.
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11 hours ago, Memory Man said:
Balance payments creeping up on us - by 5pm on Weds 3rd May
feels quite early to have to be paid up in full still almost 4 months prior
wish i hadnt bought as theres bound to be cheaper tickets closer to the time, but someone has to pay to keep it going 🙂
yeah weirdly nervy about paying up cos if I can't go I reckon I'll be lucky to get a ton back for it
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Parents love to put their kids in those giant trolleys, take them inside the big top which is pitch black, and stop directly in front of the entrances. Genuinely every year I'm tripped up by one of them, it's a miracle I haven't crushed a child yet.
Joking aside, think it depends on the kid? There's stuff to do but you can't just plant your kid in front of it. I think 12 is quite a nice age for it though and I'll think they'll really vibe on it. The crowd is nice almost to a fault
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On 4/3/2023 at 6:04 PM, Thruxton Appleby said:
I took it the way I think you meant it, that it's quiet music likely to be talked over by the garden-dwellers. But my experience of this forum is that if you say anything remotely controversial there's always someone ready to translate it into whatever they think you meant and throw it back at you as if you said something completely different. Careful, now.
Wow, you got criticised for saying there were too many women playing like 5 years ago and are still going on about it. Could we get a prescription of copium over here, stat
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19 minutes ago, noisenoiseandmorenoise said:
There is a lot going on in your imagination to get from what I said to where you ended up.
I would counter that of all the critiques you could choose of said band, you choosing "they're music for posers who don't care about music" is a fairly childish one, and indicative of a reductive and infantile elitism that permeates this board. Just my humble opinion.
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On 3/31/2023 at 6:21 PM, noisenoiseandmorenoise said:
I don't mean this disparagingly (well okay maybe a bit) but it is perfect music for those who want to sit on the grass and talk to friends, not really listening to the music.
Honest to god, always enjoy this forum and getting hyped about the festival, but some of the fart sniffing that goes on about how incredible one's subjective experience of music is makes it a hard read at times
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Kinda mad that as much as I like MUNA and Ethel CaIN, the US are getting Queen of our Hearts CRJ and Broken Social Scene to support
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Loved the PB/Sb album so happy with that
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12 hours ago, Guy Incognito said:
They got a pretty decent slot in 2021 so may be unlikely to be back so soon.
And were in the second announcement last year too, so ti would be 3 in a row, which isn't really EOTR's MO
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1 hour ago, SweepingTheNation said:
Well, by the same token, some people have become so wound up that they now seem to think the festival has set out to deliberately cheat people out of their money and undermine itself for some reason. It's not like we haven't had this on these festivals before - people got really irate about Metronomy headlining in 2019 for some reason, even though that was the same year Beirut were top billed a decade after they did anything of interest - but some of the accusatory (and as we've seen factually misguided/unproveable in places) tone seems new. If we've still got six months of this ahead...
it's literally some n00b with like 18 posts, you could always just let it slide and it would probably evaporate
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As I've said previously, people have got to let go of other people not being happy with the line up. If you think you'll enjoy it, good for you, but telling other people they're wrong cos they're not as interesting as you is a road to a lot of boring circular discussions
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Mainly gutted cos impagine Les Savy Fav in the Big Top, or god forbid, late night tipi? Aubergine emoji stuff
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Felt better at first look on the Green Man line up...but it just keeps going. It's so deep. Stellar stuff, attendees will have a huge time
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On 2/19/2023 at 12:42 PM, Mungochatney said:
I've wanted to go to EOTR for years but previously been unable to. As the line up is consistently really good I've bought tickets for my family to attend before the line up announcement. I'm really disappointed so far with the line up - nowhere near previous years in my opinion. The line up is the "first wave" of announcements. Is there usually much additional music announced after this first wave?? Really hoping this is the case?
imho I don't think the additional announcements will add too much if you look at what has come in previous years. I feel there's a danger of people getting their hopes up. Just my belief, but if you're disappointed in it, I suspect that's not going to alter much
And just my take, but people have to get over people complaining. If you like it, great, but people are just as entitled to say it's underwhelming. Now, I can afford to go to a festival line up that's left me a bit cold just to vibe because I have no common sense. I'll have a lovely time cos it's a lovely place and my number one favourite activity these days is sitting down.
But I think people are allowed to feel unexcited in a time they're making cost/benefit judgements. I expect that it won't sell out myself
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1 hour ago, Memory Man said:
If you wanted to go as a punter i expect there will be cheap resale tickets available a week before, if you are willing to hold out that long
from a workers perspective it must be one of the best ones to do as everyone seems so friendly!
Yeah and the bar is usually chilled and organised - some festivals I've been to you couldn't pay me a million pounds to work behind. At EOTR your biggest risk is some cask beer head getting mad about the head on their pint of Bumfluff Ecstasy
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43 minutes ago, SweepingTheNation said:
Likely, but then it's odd that having been in Europe for at least two weeks already they'd book those exact dates for the UK leg (if they aren't at Green Man) Also it would fit with the idea of a potential draw they couldn't name last week who isn't headlining.
I guess - the "draw they couldn't name" is conjecture right? AFAIK there isn't any proof of that being the case and I worry people are building themselves up for disappointment
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All Points East 2023
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Yeah, I'm thinking about going, but atm with 8 bands announced as someone going for the YYYs not the Strokes it's not great value