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  2. First Time

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    24 minutes ago, paulwa said:

    I would say yes. In our early years we used to drive out to top up with supplies at the supermarkets. No queues on the way back in and fairly easy to find a parking space. Since we've been able to borrow a campervan (the last 5 years), we've stayed put though, so maybe there's someone with a more recent view. The site population hasn't changed in that time though.

    We’ve stayed in an air bnb the last two years, easy to get out and easy enough to get back in. You’ll end parking a long way away. One thing we learned is to have summat noticeable poking up off the car making it easier to find.

    our now adult nippers still camp. Last year we were taking one back to Bristol and made the poor bugger meet us at 7 am. Security wouldn’t let us in. And they were pretty unpleasant and aggressive about it too.

     

  3. Threads

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    I gave up om twitter a few months back and in doing so got rid of loads of good tips for bands to see upcoming tours, records to listen to, all that. There were some great people with great recommendations. Can’t remember any of ‘em.

    so, any recommendations for good music related threaders?

  4. 2023 line up thread

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    The beauty of this festival is the sheer range and number of high quality acts on all stages, right from the off, every day, many of whom you’d have no chance of seeing otherwise. Not to mention the ambience and all the peripheral stuff.

    It’s a bloody bargain.

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  5. 2023 line up thread

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    I’m never bothered with the headliners, a.though it will be nice to see Wilco sober. Me, not them.

    Nothing wrong with the Green Man line up but it’s very safe. EOTR is much more interesting. The more I listen to the many bands I’m unfamiliar with, the more I’m looking forward to the festival. Simply, Simon has done it again.

  7. The good, the bad and the ugly

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    Typo

    2 hours ago, SweepingTheNation said:

    And it was, because he's written a review of it which features some very odd descriptions (and some bands he's obviously very excited and verbose about, in fairness) https://joyzine.org/2022/09/08/end-of-the-road-festival-1st-to-4th-september-2022-larmer-tree-gardens-wiltshire/

     Cracking review that, apart from the dissing of country music

  8. 2023 Wishlist

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    40 minutes ago, SweepingTheNation said:

    I don't think there'd be anything stopping SVE coming over if Olsen would, but I also get the feeling that of the two still to play from the 2020 headliners Big Thief are the more likely to be over. Bridgers is probably too big for Green Man now, let alone EOTR. Marling is a good shout, she's due a new album and it's kind of surprising she hasn't headlined before (I know she headlined GM in 2016)

    Hasn't played live since 2017 and I think everyone would be surprised if she had something new out so soon.

     

    Spoon are overdue a visit, maybe also Death Cab For Cutie. First Aid Kit's new album launch feels a little muted but they might be headliner level by now. Wet Leg, who might have a second album out between then and now, headlining the Thursday back where it all started?

    Throwing some other names in: The WAEVE (just announced album in February), the Delgados, The Mountain Goats, Julia Jacklin, Daniel Rossen, The Beths, Stella Donnelly, Illuminati Hotties, Indigo Sparke, Algiers, Jesse Tabish (from Other Lives), Cheekface, Kate Davis, Hamish Hawk, Melin Melyn, Panic Shack

    Marling, headlined the Garden a few years ago, with a pashmina wrapped around her bonce. Looked like a Nigella Lawson garden party.

  9. 2023 Wishlist

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    1 hour ago, RustySpanner said:

    Would love to see the return of Mogwai for the first time since 2011. They've had some cracking albums since then so plenty for a whole different set.

    Other potential headliners - Mitski, Big Thief, Laura Marling, Phoebe Bridgers (surely too big now), SVE (doubt she'll be over next year though), Angel Olsen especially as booked for 2020.

    Potential returnees - Julia Jacklin, BCNR, Pom poko, snail mail, Stella Donnelly

    Others - Bess Atwell, Honeyglaze, Low Hummer, Working Mens Club

    Stella Donnelly was great last time, funny as hell, and her new record is getting universally good reviews

  13. The good, the bad and the ugly

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     THE GOOD

    The bogs, dunno if I was lucky but every one I used was clean or cleanish and in full working order.

    The new stall doing spuds.

    The beer

    The bands. All the bands. I don’t know how or where I would be able to see such a crazily eclectic range of high quality performers, all day, every day.

    Low dickhead count.

    THE BAD

    Fella we sold a ticket to for 100 quid on Thursday not coughing up was disappointing. Still, hope he had a nice time. We all deserve a nice time.

    Security kid at car park at about half seven who decided to play silly buggers and not let us in to pick our nipper up. EOTR steward sorted it out amicably enough though. Hot tip…..the pick up point you see in the second field isn’t in operation on  Monday morning. Also, if returning to site to pick offspring up, don’t bother before 8, which was when the nice stewards turned up.

    THE UGLY

    There wasn’t any ugly.

     

     

  15. Day Split Thread

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    15 hours ago, noisenoiseandmorenoise said:

    More Visions Festival follow-up. 

    Fat Dog were indeed a blast while being actually a bit naff and limited musically but naff in a very fun way. Can see why the kids would go crazy for them.

    On the other hand-Automation. Son of one of the Gallaghers and serving up pretty much what you'd expect. Not sure why they are appearing on these kinds of festivals. I suppose if you stick 'motorik'in your press release then these days it does enough of a job. That said, queue around the block so maybe it is just me.

     

    O. do a lot with very little. It was too hot to see The Golden Dregs but based on the records I'd imagine Magnetic Fields fans would dig them.

    Unrelated note-Jesus I forgot how annoying London crowds can be. Talking so loud even the band needs to ask them to keep it down a little (rant over). Only had that experience a couple of times at EoTR.

    Golden Dregs we’re a highlight last year. As for chatterboxes, plenty of em at EOTR, and more prevalent every year

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  16. 2021 - How was it for you ?

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    9 minutes ago, The Nal said:

    The ones round the back of the Cider Bus were fine all weekend. Clean and lots of bog roll. They stayed open on Monday too.

    The first bog I went to in the camping field on Thursday afternoon had a huge turd clinging to the side. I was only there to put tents up for others so don’t know what they were like after that.

    Around the stages they were OK, plenty of urinals for the chaps, and queues for cubicles no worse than usual. The cubicles by the Garden were cleaned Sunday afternoon, there was an amusing disagreement between a bog chap and a steward over how they should exit when the job was done.

    Sanitiser and bog rolls would have been an issue if you didn’t take your own

     

     

     

     

     

  20. 2021 - How was it for you ?

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    On Thursday I had misgivings as the queues for food were massive and the bogs were shitholes, as it were, but it all improved after that. Lucky for us males that there were plenty of urinals.

    we only go for the music, not the partying so this time we stayed in an Airbnb about a ten minute drive away, through some narrow and quite hairy country lanes. It worked for us, and we’ll be doing it again next year.

    no bands blew me away as the likes of Eliot Brood, Duke and the King, The Growlers, Phosphorescent, Low Anthem and dozens of others have in the past……but I was still spoilt for choice on who to see and saw some great and greatly enjoyable sets. Sunday was exceptional on every stage, but we stuck mostly to the garden.

    Being old, with an underlying condition, we didn’t brave the tents, although sat outside the Big Top with a beer and loved hearing if not seeing All We Are and WH Lung.

    apart from a largeish group of middle aged tossers that congregated on left side of Garden, crowds seemed more like the old days in showing respect to the artists and fellow attendees by keeping quiet.

    only downside was I cracked my knee very hard an a bollard on an unlit and crowded path. Can’t bend the bastard now.

    All in all great festie, one of the best given the circumstances and much better than I thought it was going to be without the Americans, Canadians Australians and Africans

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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