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On 4/19/2021 at 11:04 AM, Mackem said:
Some interesting use of language in this statement.
Particularly the bit about "the Prime Minister's roadmap of June 21st when he is promising that we will be able to open."
I don't think the Prime Minister has ever promised that publicly has he?
The government has said that the date will be June 21st earliest (rather than actual) and that they hope to be in a position to remove all social contact (rather than will) and hope to ease the restrictions on large events (rather than will - and even then they are only talking about easing restrictions, so there still could and more than likely will be some restrictions in pace). So lots of caveats.
So I think Melvin is twisting things a little here.
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11 hours ago, TheHungryMoomin said:
Hopefully some more women for a start.
This.
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It’s definitely the line up. I spoke to someone today who works at the place the leak came from. The official announcement is on Monday.
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26 minutes ago, RustySpanner said:
What are the venues (other than the Wedge/Edge)?
Vaults, The Loft (which is above the Kings pub across the road from Vaults) and LJRs. All within a few metres stroll of each other. None of this 15 minutes walk between venues stuff you get at some multi venue gigs. The timetable is being announced next week ?
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Supergrass and Kasabian are definite possibles next year I’d say.
Also with the ‘Capaldi effect’ I wonder if they’ll look at trying to bring in a few more younger bigger names next year (although to be honest at the time they probably booked Capaldi he wasn’t as popular as he has become)
Agree with pretty much everything everyone says here. Re: chatting / less engaged audience members. We found if we went near the front (relatively easy to do for most acts if you turned up 15 mins early) this wasn’t a problem.
Next in Portsmouth is Dials on Oct 5, it’s new music-discovery event - 5 venues all on one street so really easy to do. I’ve put a separate thread up about this.
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4th year of the relatively under the radar Dials Festival in Portsmouth - 5 venues. 3 venues basically next to each other, the other 2 5 mins walk up the road in the same building. You can't get an easier multi venue event than this. Plus it's not for profit with any money made given to a mental health charity and the event is run by volunteers. It's all new music and this year there's The Blinders, Another Sky, Porridge Radio, Walt Disco, Saltwater Sun, Talk Show and more. Only £20.
Oct 5th - anyone going?
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Decent first day I thought. Weather was great. All the bands I saw sounded good but thought some of them were just going through the motions.
The Victorious crowd is an odd one though - they seem less invested in the festival than others I go to?
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Weather looking excellent for this weekend.
I've put a few more site pics up on my Twitter thread for this festival (@BMWavesBlog)
also...just noticed that it's not just no re-entry past 8pm but no entry!
I'll be there all day but anyone who is just wandering in for a headliner could get caught out if they enforce this.
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https://twitter.com/BMWavesBlog/status/1163157369888608257
That link should take you to my video of the site build as of Sunday for anyone that is interested in such things
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Surprised Capaldi is on the Castle Stage rather than Common - but then these bookings would have been made a long time ago.
I'll probably be one of the few that isn't bothered about seeing him (I'm going to see AK Patterson and Alice Jemima on the acoustic instead)
Also I see Brighton's LibraLibra are playing - I missed them during announcements - they've drawn the 'nobody will be there' slot on Sunday first thing which is a shame - they have the most amazing vocalist.
They played Dials Festival in Portsmouth last year and are playing that again alongside The Blinders, Another Sky, Talk Show, Walt Disco etc in October this year.
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Looks like a mac is definitely gonna be required at some points.
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From a new music perspective
1. Another Sky (if you like Radiohead meets London Grammar)
2. The Murder Capital (if you like intense post punk with Joy Division references)
3. Celeste (If you like jazzy soulful music with hints of Amy Winehouse)
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14 minutes ago, Chapple12345 said:
Not fussed as I'm seeing Primal Scream but why is George Ezra only on for 70 minutes? Seems odd having him as one of the acts of the moment but on got the shortest time as headliner
With only 2 albums and the 2nd only being 37 mins long he’d struggle to do a set longer than that.
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Phew. Absolutely no clashes for any of my must sees. That doesn’t happen often.
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On 5/22/2019 at 5:10 PM, michaelsft said:
. I really like poppy punky guitar music, usually with a female vocalist like The Beths, Doe, Fresh, Alvvays etc and
In that case, of newer acts, try
Lauran Hibberd (BBC INTRODUCING + GREENPEACE STAGES)
Sunflower Bean (WILLIAMS GREEN)
Amyl & The Sniffers (WILLIAMS GREEN)
Pip Blom (JOHN PEEL AND WILLIAMS GREEN)
Madonnatron (WILLIAMS GREEN)
Pale Waves (JOHN PEEL)
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Does anyone know - is this in the Crow’s Nest again?
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I’m a big new music fan and the Lake Stage line up is excellent.
Another Sky are top notch live - sort of early Radiohead meets Sigur Ros meets London Grammar meets an indie band.
Also Squid, Self Esteem, Art School Girlfriend, Easy Life, Chappaaqua Wrestling, She Drew The Gun....
basically pretty much everything on that stage I’m happy about.
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I’ve always wondered how they keep it so cheap. I wonder if Butlins basically let them have the site for virtually nothing as it’s a time when nobody else would want it and Butlins make their money through food and drink sales? A lot of the bands on the bill each year are relatively ‘small’ and probably come very cheap. I book a small multi venue festival in Portsmouth called Dials and we have had a couple of the smaller bands that have done Rockaway and their fees were less than £200 or thereabouts. Obviously the headliners would be a lot more but even now someone like Fontaines DC being relatively new won’t be too expensive. Jesus & The Mary Chain would be somewhat different. Also as they only have 1 stage running with live music at any one time they put on far less bands than most festivals. So assuming they are getting the venue cheap I can see how it could possibly work economically.
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41 minutes ago, Rich s said:
Wonder if the slow readers club will be added.seems like they have a good following in Portsmouth and just sold out a gig there.are there any more bands to be added?
Assuming organisers stick with the same format there will be loads of localish acts announced at some point for the smaller stages.
RE Slow Readers Club - they did a couple of sets there a few years ago and played Portsmouth last night. At the gig they mentioned Victorious and said they hoped someone would ask them back, which implies they're not booked for 2019
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Of the new additions I’mvery pleased with Plastic Mermaids and Alice Jemima, and that announcement generally fleshes it out well - something for everyone (well maybe not quite everyone)
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3 hours ago, Smeble said:
Depends on peoples definition of equality. The key is equality of opportunity which people seem to miss, equality of opportunity does not mean a 50/50 split between sexes, it just means everyone has exactly the same opportunity. People see more men headlining than women and just assume it must be down to sexism.
I fundamentally disagree with your belief that the pool of headliners must have a 50/50 split, why? What has gender got to do with anything?
I agree with your point about equal opportunity, that’s why I mentioned it in my original post.
To answer your question......
Gender doesn’t have anything to do with who headlines a festival if it can be demonstrated that opportunity is equal - but there are countless stories in the music industry from women of how opportunities are not equal and the evidence across festival headliners shows that to be the case. If the split was 50/50 that would be evidence to suggest equal opportunity was in place (unless of course you think that men are inherently better at making music than women, then perhaps if there was equal opportunity men would be more numerous)
However fair play to Latitude - they are doing better than certain other festivals.
Where is the evidence that shows that equal opportunity is available? There’s certainly more evidence to suggest it isn’t.
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Value is a difficult one isn’t it?
There are so many factors to take into account, one (that I don’t think has been mentioned yet as is central to how Victorious works) is audience size.
For example is it better value to see, for example, Paul Weller in front of 30,000 people at a festival for £40 or 200 people in a club for £100?
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I'm 99% certain this lot are going to be on the bill somewhere (possibly Sunrise Arena or Lake Stage??) based on a couple of things I've heard....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utsyj8bIbBk
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RE: The discussion above, Latitude's main booker is I believe a woman - it would be really interesting to hear her take on this subject.
Also the most important thing moving forward to gain equality (and surely most people would agree that equality is important?) is that in terms of gender, at a grass roots level women are given equal opportunity to perform music as men and are given equal opportunity for their careers to grow - so that in the future the pool of potential available headliners is split 50/50. Emily Eavis at Glastonbury has talked about this and has said that right now the situation is that there are more potential male headliners than female - but that can change given time.
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Sorry I meant "The government has said that the date will be June 21st earliest (rather than actual( and that they hope to be in a position to remove all legal limits on social contact....."