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Do the Bloom ticket buyers who bought the reduced entry tickets get there ticket money back or a free ticket?
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sorry.
it should have been Bearded Theory and Sunrise.
Confusing my BT's and BD's again
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This should upset a few of you. Playing on the campfire stage on the Sunday ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7AFZXgjrgg...feature=related
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I've just put online an interview with the AIF's vice chair Ben Turner, who alongside lots of toher things talks about Big Chill
http://www.efestivals.co.uk/misc/interview...aif091001.shtml
He also says that he believes Big Chill won't be the only festival to hand over the keys to the corporates in the next 12 months or so.
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If the weather is anything like this year, I would suggest you bring your kites - good weather for it.
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Interesting replies, thanks. I hadn't heard of Blissfields, but it sounds like one to add to next year's list - it's quite local for me too which is a bonus. How small is it?
Is Alchemy really only 500? Looking at the listings Bearded Theory was 500 capacity in 2008 then "slightly increased" (!) to 1500 this year. Can you really have a festival with only 500 people? Isn't that a fete?
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Is there a problem with the official forum?
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So will some classic trance some obscure hard house be allowed then!
I will get me tracks sorted!
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YAY!! Alchemy is officially 'this week'!!
Just gotta bottle the homebrew and I'm ready!!
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Around 5 miles, there may be cars going back and forth, can ring on day to find out if youy wish 07912 371296
Please make sure you have all printed out your tickets! If you hear of anyone that has not please ask them to get in touch by email, - alchemy.festival@live.com
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It was a toast, Alpen & banana kind of hangover for me!
Cheers for a great evening & thank you once again for my picture
See you at Alchemy! I can't believe it's only a week away, hope everyone's got their tickets sorted.
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Hope you din't feel too rough this morning!
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Go on, spill the beans
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Cant wait for this, affraid I have to leave Saturday night as I am going on holiday on the Sunday.
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We try to release the names before people part with cash, so they know who they will be getting.
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We are releasing a few names before the tickets go on general sale next week.
Headliners will be announced very soon (Sunday will have 2 headliners) and a load more brilliant bands,DJs/comedians accross 5 stages. All I can say is next years line up will be amazing.
Inner Terrestrials
The Men They Couldn’t Hang
Little Johnny England
Blyth Power
True Decievers
Goldblade
Tragic Roundabout
Rev Hammer
David Gibb & his band
Eskimo Fires
Back to the Planet
Pronghorn
Robinson
Sam Draisy
Boot Hill All Stars
Subgiant
New York Anxiety Attack
Heron
Doctor and The Medics
Hobo Jones & The Junk Yard Dogs
Dodgy
Kilnaboy
AS03
Site Improvements for 2010
Include seating areas, large under cover area at the back of the arena - facing main stage, improved disabled facilities, vast amount more roadway, village shop, site art team, comedy tent, chill out tent and quite a bit more is being worked on.
See you next year
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Hawkwind was definitely a goodie, because of their 'hardcore' (god I hate that word) fans as well as them not constantly touring the UK.
However there's other bands with similar hardcore followings that won't prove to be such a draw, as they play all around the UK all the time as well as appearing a quite a lot of festivals. As such, you perhaps need to be a little careful going this route as you won't get to capture those hardcore fans quite as easily.
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I'd disagree with that - while you might consider the bands at some of the cancelled fests as 'big', I think that often they're only big with the press they get, and the actual interest in them is far far lower.
From experience, I'm now getting pretty good at looking at a line-up and thinking "that's not going to sell" - and I'd guess that I'm right 80%+ of the time.
The right line-up will always sell - the likes of Reading/Leeds, V, and T in the Park prove this year on year. The difficulties for the smaller fests is that they can't get many of the bands that are on the bill of those larger fests (due to exclusivity clauses), and are mostly left with bands from the same pool as every other small fest is choosing from, which then makes it difficult to stand out from those other fests.
Ultimately, for a smaller fest to be successful, it needs more than just bands from that standard pool everyone is choosing from. That means either going out on a limb with a more unusual band or line-up, or creating an appeal with something other than just the bands. It can be done and done very well, as some fests get to prove.
But at the same time, you're definitely right about putting work into getting the sales - far too many fests think that their work is over (aside from the site production) once the bands are booked. With so many small fests out there with so many of the same bands it's unlikely that a particular one is going to particularly jump out at enough people to create all of the necessary sales without it being pushed into people's faces at least a little bit.
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I'm sure this is sometimes true, but in my experience, a last minute surge in ticket sales is the festival world's equivalent of a mythical beast. We all think it exists, we all pin our hopes on it existing, and yet very few people have actually seen one.
I think the simple truth is that less people are buying tickets full stop and citing bad weather as a factor. Rhythm Festival had fantastic weekend weather, yet we only sold around 10% of our tickets in the last week, and had a very low walk-up. As with most other "boutique" events, our attendance was slightly down this year, mainly on day tickets, but (luckily for us) not disastrously so. Fortunately we had budgeted for the recession - swine flu and the weather were added bonuses!
Sadly, I think that organisers who hope and pray for a last minute rush in ticket sales, are probably kidding themselves. I know I was guilty of it. The key seems to be to capitalise on satisfied customers buying Early Bird tickets and spreading the word organically throughout the year. I have come to the conclusion that the crucial time is 6 weeks to 2 months before the event... the ticket sales you have then are the best indicator of how you're going to do.
Discuss?
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Neil is totally right and I can see where you point is.
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I think regulations will be implemented due to the amount of festivals going under and people not being offered refunds. If regulations are implemented where by all the ticket capital is held with an agent until the end of the festival it will see quite a few smaller festivals go under. Sad but I think this will happen to safeguard the public.
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We were not allowed cars parked on the road and Police were very strong on this point, despite the road being a rural farm road. They informed us should we have traffic management issues we might have to consider a road closure for the following year. On the whole the Police were very supportive and were fantastic with us.
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I drove straight after work on Friday to the lovely Endorset, unfortunately I could only stay for the night as had to get back on Saturday to work on the dreaded HSE.
But what a brilliant festival - small enough to care and big enough to cope were my thoughts.
Everything seemed perfectly balanced, coped amazingly with the mud and after what I read from last year I thought the security were brilliant - very polite and kept it low key. The surrounding area is literally stunning and the festival had so much space available.
I loved the smaller stages and the close proximity of everything, basically Endorset is what festivals should be like!! non of this pretentious bollocks of big back stage areas and over priced booze and burgers, which is even creeping into some of the more hippy festivals.
Top notch and you will certainly take some beating this year, well done to all involved.
Will be making sure I am free for the whole weekend next year.
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Just to let you know there are 5 caravan/camper van tickets left and I am not sure I will be able to find space for any more! If I can find space they may be further away and may cost more.
Bearded Theory Festival 2010
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We are happy to announce that Dreadzone will close Bearded Theory on the Sunday night.
Dreadzone Sound System were there at start of Bearded Theory, when playing in a gazebo on the side of a small pub in Derbyshire and again in 2009 when Bearded Theory took a massive step forward and played in the brilliant new dance tent at the 2009 festival. Having the full band play was the most natural choice we could have made and we are ecstatic that Dreadzone will go down in a bit of Bearded history – again!!!!!!!
Dreadzone will join a fully completed Main Stage Sunday line up with Pama International, Back to the Planet, Neville Staple, Tragic Roundabout, Hobo Jones & The Junk Yard Dogs Kilnaboy and New York Anxiety Attack.