Next Anouncement?

[pancake70]

I no it's unlikely but we might get one tonight I presume Jim and his team would have been working hard last night to finalise everything.

Edited April 1, 2011 by pancake70

[parkylad]

Feels like the Deadmau5 gig cancellation all over again, with shite information.

Luckily I didn't go to that gig, and thankfully I have no financial steak in RockNess this year (yet).

[parkylad]

rockness group on facebook said "Sorry about the announcement not happening, was given wrong info."

....c**tz..

[skateboardc]

To skateboardc - I think your way off the mark there mate.. it will come soon

[pipper]

Sounds like someone cancelled late on.

Shambolic organisation.

[rexclark]

Well as per usual it's a shambles. I'm not fussed about the lack of an anouncement, it's more the lack of communication. With mediums like Facebook and Twitter information should almost be instant yet we get none until it's too late. Fair enough if they don't have any info but they could at least say that and apologise instead of ignoring the problem and hoping it will go away.

I still can't wait for Rockness and i know i will have an amazing weekend but if the festival wants to be a big player then the organisers need to pull the finger out as some aspects are at best a shambles

[adustlandfairytale]

Wait no announcement?

[pancake70]

Wait no announcement?

[theampersanddevil]

I have to agree with a lot that has already been said.

The problem isn't so much that there has been no announcement, although given how late its getting it is becoming more of an issue, for me the problem is that people are expecting one and been led to expect one from rockness and not got it or any new information.

Now, i fully understand that this stuff happens and I understand a lot of the reasons for it. I believe that it is the issues that are always the issues that are responsible for the lack of an announcement. But, from where I'm sitting it seems people are thinking its the boy who cried wolf. This (announcements not arriving when promised) appears to be a perennial problem with rockness, but due to this people start to see reasons other than those that are used to explain the problems. Again, I understand that it is unprofessional for rockness to talk about bookings but it shouldn't be left to Paul TM to explain the issues on this message board.

The solution for me, which they actually did to an extent last year with the vampire weekend announcement and this year with the subclub, is to release the information that they have that will be a talking point.

People don't need to have a massive release all the time but tbh, at the moment 11 acts announced for a saturday with 10 weeks to go, if they could even put 3 confirmed out by now, it might make it look a bit better.

[adustlandfairytale]

I have to agree with a lot that has already been said.

The problem isn't so much that there has been no announcement, although given how late its getting it is becoming more of an issue, for me the problem is that people are expecting one and been led to expect one from rockness and not got it or any new information.

Now, i fully understand that this stuff happens and I understand a lot of the reasons for it. I believe that it is the issues that are always the issues that are responsible for the lack of an announcement. But, from where I'm sitting it seems people are thinking its the boy who cried wolf. This (announcements not arriving when promised) appears to be a perennial problem with rockness, but due to this people start to see reasons other than those that are used to explain the problems. Again, I understand that it is unprofessional for rockness to talk about bookings but it shouldn't be left to Paul TM to explain the issues on this message board.

The solution for me, which they actually did to an extent last year with the vampire weekend announcement and this year with the subclub, is to release the information that they have that will be a talking point.

People don't need to have a massive release all the time but tbh, at the moment 11 acts announced for a saturday with 10 weeks to go, if they could even put 3 confirmed out by now, it might make it look a bit better.

[ampersand]

tardy unproffesional c**ts. if this was T, christ, we'd be hearing about it.

say what you see folkd. this year is bollocks!

[Paul ™]

Is this holding back your ticket purchase Ben?

[rachbon]

i see all the usual moaners are getting their knickers in a twist.

it is a wee bit annoying hearing stuff about announcements being made and then it doesn't happen. but it's always been like this and we all expect it.

it's just over 2 months away now anyway so we'll have the full line up soon enough.

[smutchie]

Quite right Rachel!

[merago]

Has there actually been anything official stating that there was supposed to be an announcement last week? The Rockness Facebook thing may have mentioned it, but I don't think that's the official Facebook page, rather it's just someone's vehicle for putting out those irritating student discount codes (although I could be wrong on that?). I know that there are people who mentioned on here that they had heard that the announcement was going to be on this day or that day, but that's no the same as an official proclamation. Whilst I don't doubt that the folks here who mentioned what they had heard were telling the truth, an "I heard from a contact close to the Rockness team that it's going to be on x-day" isn't the same as Jim King or someone else from Rockness coming out and publicly declaring that it'll be on a given day.

I agree with what some folks have suggested though, it would probably have been better to release confirmation of acts as and when the deals were done and dusted, rather than, as is probably happening now, holding off on making a big collective announcement because the agents of one or two of the acts are dragging their heels on letting them get the news out.

[Paul ™]

Official Rockness Facebook which is administerd by Rosie (who also posts here) is where the Q&A session that Jim King done back at the end of February. During that, he stated that the next announcement would be out before the end of March and stage by stage not long after.

Also they announced on the Facebook page that it was coming last week..

They should just announce that its' been delayed, and why.. and give people an idea of when it is likely to be.. either that or not say anything and just have everyone asking when it is anyway

[Poleski]

Surely tomorrow now though. Agents can't hold stuff up that much. Even if they are they may announce a few acts to cover their backs for a few weeks.

Edited April 3, 2011 by Poleski

[emos]

Official Rockness Facebook which is administerd by Rosie (who also posts here) is where the Q&A session that Jim King done back at the end of February. During that, he stated that the next announcement would be out before the end of March and stage by stage not long after.

Also they announced on the Facebook page that it was coming last week..

They should just announce that its' been delayed, and why.. and give people an idea of when it is likely to be.. either that or not say anything and just have everyone asking when it is anyway

[rexclark]

Official Rockness Facebook which is administerd by Rosie (who also posts here) is where the Q&A session that Jim King done back at the end of February. During that, he stated that the next announcement would be out before the end of March and stage by stage not long after.

Also they announced on the Facebook page that it was coming last week..

They should just announce that its' been delayed, and why.. and give people an idea of when it is likely to be.. either that or not say anything and just have everyone asking when it is anyway

[mildo]

being f**ked about is extremely frustrating.

[pancake70]

Didn't relize Beardyman was playing? Sorry for anyone who has already mentioned it. On his myspace says he is playing Sunday.

Edited April 3, 2011 by pancake70

[rory_oh]

Didn't relize Beardyman was playing? Sorry for anyone who has already mentioned it. On his myspace says he is playing Sunday.

[festkid]

Beardyman is quite an entertainer.. Seen him a few times before, I still can't get over his ridiculous talents! haha. Check out his set/show at the festival in Edinburgh a few years ago:

[theampersanddevil]

Heard a rumour that JK had a dream the other night involving Jim Morrison and a half naked indian.

Apparentlty, if you book them they will come!

(sorry watched that film the other night and couldn't resist)

[pancake70]

Anyone heard anything?

Edited April 5, 2011 by pancake70