2014!

[andy85]

He said they had found a rather special aircraft hanger and disused airfield ,

[jamj]

someone asked about dates on the fb and the reply was that they were thinking 1st weekend in Aug

[ramragon]

That would be canny, wickerman have announced the same weekend as this year so it puts them 1 week apart again.

[Flaminglippy]

That would bollocks me up completely...no chance of getting that weekend off work. That said, despite the fact I've been there 21 years in Nov missing Kendal would mean I would get a job elsewhere.

[Flaminglippy]

I reckon 'Complete Stone Roses' for a slot next year, based on the huge number of Roses t-shirts. Reckon that would be an incredible sing-a-long (like the real thing was)

[tomfun]

2014 ................ Is all about Barrow calling

[LOCHLAND5]

I really hope this is a joke - I think the festival needs to be kept in Cumbria, Barrow is the arse end of no where and a pain to get to (and it's not really Cumbria). The festival has found it's home in Lowther, the setting is brilliant and the potential to grow is there, this year has set the bar! roll on next year!

[ramragon]

I reckon 'Complete Stone Roses' for a slot next year, based on the huge number of Roses t-shirts. Reckon that would be an incredible sing-a-long (like the real thing was)

[Comfy Bean]

Any further news on dates. I`m not on the face book. Think I owe a few beers after my useless 2013 predictions. Double or quits anyone ? Was singing the praises of KC to a few mates at Wickerman and I know a few would consider the double.

Edited August 3, 2013 by comfortablynumb1910

[viberunner]

This festival needs more Alabama 3.

[ramragon]

Agreed, Alabama 3 would be great. Seen them a few times and they put on a good show

[viberunner]

Aye. I like it that they're a big fish in a small pond - coz there are not many other Revolutionary Communist Acid Country & Western outfits out there at the moment.

Edited August 3, 2013 by viberunner

[ramragon]

Any further news on dates. I`m not on the face book. Think I owe a few beers after my useless 2013 predictions. Double or quits anyone ? Was singing the praises of KC to a few mates at Wickerman and I know a few would consider the double.

[ramragon]

Aye. I like it that they're a big fish in a small pond - coz there are not many other Revolutionary Communist Acid Country & Western outfits out there at the moment.

[Comfy Bean]

Latest I heard it seemed as though it'd be wickerman around 25th July and then KC theweekend after at the start of august. The double is definately the thinking over here, enjoyed it last time and we'll be staying 15 miles from wickerman at the mother in laws cottage around that time

[LOCHLAND5]

might just come up to wickerman for the saturday night, i gotta try that stuff ..... in England we call it shit in a stale bap! in scotland its called stovies apparently.

i cant see the date changing with kc .......... far to close to the country fair!

[viberunner]

Stovies are not bapable. And I ate some stovies at a Wickerman a few years back and they were foul. On the other hand I had a pulled pork sarnie at Kendal and it was fantastic.

Wickerman, like Rockness and T-in the-Park, is not a festival. It's a pretty good for a soulless, corporate, shyster gig-in-a-field. But it is not a festival.

It might have changed, but Wickerman used to prevent people having access to clean, fresh, drinking water in the festival. The result (as obsreved when a friend went to A&E with a sprained ankle) was the local A&E wards full of teenagers on E with severe dehydration.

So yeah. Crap stovies are the least of Wickerman's problems.

[LJS]

This festival needs more Alabama 3.

[Comfy Bean]

Stovies are not bapable. And I ate some stovies at a Wickerman a few years back and they were foul. On the other hand I had a pulled pork sarnie at Kendal and it was fantastic.

Wickerman, like Rockness and T-in the-Park, is not a festival. It's a pretty good for a soulless, corporate, shyster gig-in-a-field. But it is not a festival.

It might have changed, but Wickerman used to prevent people having access to clean, fresh, drinking water in the festival. The result (as obsreved when a friend went to A&E with a sprained ankle) was the local A&E wards full of teenagers on E with severe dehydration.

So yeah. Crap stovies are the least of Wickerman's problems.

[viberunner]

You have me wrong, when I was there (I gate-crashed twice and performed once) there was water in the camping site. That's fine.

There were no taps in the "Festival" itself.

That's dangerous. As in "as dangerous to the lives of young people as the Green Rolex dealers" type dangerous. And they do it because they want the bottled water bar fees. Scum. Utter scum. If they've changed taps policy, great. Fantastic. I can put that bugbear to bed. I was there a year almost as warm as this one and it was causing actual harm to young people - as in harm that could easily have been fatal. Harm that was completely invisible to everyone else at Wickerman but came to my attention due to the A&E event. That has made a big impact on me, as you can see.

Again, don't get me wrong. I enjoyed Wickerman, but I enjoyed it as a Gig/Rave not a Festival. It's a party in a field. It's a pretty fucking good party in a field. But a Festival has lots of weird and wonderful things to see and do, oddities left and right. KC overwhelms at this. Wickerman has some tents and some bars and nothing else (unless it has changed). And that's fine for me as I loved the gigs and raved till stupid-o-clock. But I didn't ever feel Festivalised.

Well, okay, they have a huge straw dude they light on fire which I admit is Very Festival.

For almost an hour.

As for lineup, this year is the only year KC has pipped WM. For me, WM has previously been better for acts - and more of them. If it wasn't for their (seemingly unique) policy on the disabled I'd have been there the last two years and this year too if it didn't have a KC clash - so I'm not completely against WM. More of a love/hate with plenty to feed each. The hate I've explained. I've seen some fucking class acts there though, had some fantastic dances, met some great people, met some great women, including a pilled-up horny ex replete with her own supply of old-school poppers. So, as parties go, it's not the worst party in the world... ;-)

I'm glad they have some kids stuff though, obviously that'll make a big difference to you. Probably made it feel more like an Actual Festival.

Edited August 4, 2013 by viberunner

[Comfy Bean]

Fair enough VR. As I said, each to their own. I can assure you 100% that they were giving away bottles of water - the big 2 litre jobs free - and from memory they always do this - in the arena. Pallets of the stuff. In my earlier post I maybe got the wrong end of the stick when I was talking about taps that are all over the camping areas as you know.

Still not getting how you think it is a corporate whore in line with T and Rockness. I`d agree with you on those 2.

[viberunner]

Corporate? Well. Okay. Not corporate. But still, no leftfield stuff. Just tents and tunes. (Unless it has changed?)

Glad they were giving away lots of water this year. If that extended to the wee hours and the dance tents

then things have changed for the better.

[LOCHLAND5]

Lets get back on topic ................. Stovies is well shit !

[viberunner]

Stovies is shit if you try to make it as a meal.

Stovies is amazing if you have a large Sunday family roast (the dinner not the sex act) and have leftover meat & potatoes, because it's nothing more than meat & potatoes leftovers in gravy (and we can all agree leftovers are great, right?).

If it ain't leftovers, it ain't stovies.

Edited August 5, 2013 by viberunner

[ramragon]

So back to a hypothetical question that was asked at some point earlier this year then, what's everyone's opinions of how the festival should move forward, would you be happier to keep the festival the size it is and get similar acts to this year or would you increase capacity by 2 to 3k considering they have a licence for 20k plus on site and try to attract bigger acts with the extra ticket sales revenue ? Considering how empty the quiet and family field was there's always that option plus you never know if there's adjacent field they could use as well for tents.