BST - Hyde park 2016

[LondonTom]

Its not for me, but you'd imagine that lineup will work better. Seems a little less random with the acts this year than previous years when it seemed to be cobbled together with whoever they could get in.

[Mash011]

15 hours ago, retromoz said:

thanks to the uselessness of BST/AEG Live....we are all now waiting for cheap tickets, arnt we?

Yep, but of course they're counting on the masses who aren't 'in the know' to sell some face value tickets.

[CliffRichardsPissSack]

Is it me or is that a bit of an..odd undercard for Florence? 

[FloorFiller]

1 hour ago, CliffRichardsPissSack said:

Is it me or is that a bit of an..odd undercard for Florence? 

Odd in the best possible way - we were all expecting your standard issue indie acts to fill in the gaps and they go and knock it out of the park with this stellar lineup. How it'll go down with the Flo crowd I have no idea, but on paper it's fantastic 

[atomised]

Definitely. Flo irritates me but I'd be tempted by the undercard and an early train home

[Rose-Colored Boy]

On 30/11/2015, 12:15:38, TomViolence said:

Hopefully it puts Kendrick in the Glastonbury picture.

 

Hopefully although he had a gig in London the weekend after Glasters this year and wasn't booked so ...

[DarthSaul]

I really want to go to the Flo day, almost enough to pay full price but I paid full price for Arcade Fire 2014 and felt mugged, and managed to get Blur for a tenner last year off a girl on twitter so I don't know what to do

[thewayiam]

22 minutes ago, DarthSaul said:

I really want to go to the Flo day, almost enough to pay full price but I paid full price for Arcade Fire 2014 and felt mugged, and managed to get Blur for a tenner last year off a girl on twitter so I don't know what to do

Wait

[Muppetmark]

It could be the chemical brothers as they're saying they're doing a huge London date over summer. But it'll probably be sw4 

[luckysalt]

On 12/15/2015 at 8:49 PM, Tom Wells said:

Do we think that there'll be any more days, or just these 3? Not feeling enthusiastic about any of those!

Yup. The day before Flo. 

[dentalplan]

Anyone good?

[sp1at]

Can the insiders here check and see if GN'R are playing this festival?

[thewayiam]

On 18/12/2015 at 11:26 AM, Muppetmark said:

It could be the chemical brothers as they're saying they're doing a huge London date over summer. But it'll probably be sw4 

Sounds about spot on to me. Those are almost all the words Faithless used before doing it as well. No way it'll be BST.

[Muppetmark]

4 hours ago, thewayiam said:

Sounds about spot on to me. Those are almost all the words Faithless used before doing it as well. No way it'll be BST.

Not to mention example and deadnau5

[thewayiam]

53 minutes ago, Muppetmark said:

Not to mention example and deadnau5

I'll take your word for it, sounds like it's a SW4 slogan. Decent size for them to do as well. 

I'm intrigued to who the BST header is that luckysalt knows of the day before Flo and it must be an acts that needs to wait this long.

[sp1at]

39 minutes ago, thewayiam said:

I'll take your word for it, sounds like it's a SW4 slogan. Decent size for them to do as well. 

I'm intrigued to who the BST header is that luckysalt knows of the day before Flo and it must be an acts that needs to wait this long.

That is why I was thinking it was GN'R. I find it odd that three of the headliners were known and mentioned before they were announced, but there has been no mention of anyone else.

One would also presume a classic rock band of sorts will play given the previous festivals

[dentalplan]

38 minutes ago, sp1at said:

That is why I was thinking it was GN'R. I find it odd that three of the headliners were known and mentioned before they were announced, but there has been no mention of anyone else.

One would also presume a classic rock band of sorts will play given the previous festivals

You'll usually find with BST that a few of their events are hastily arranged in a week or two in Spring so it's quite likely that others weren't leaked because they weren't actually booked yet.

Teaconsumer has only mentioned a potential second Take That gig and discussions with Beyoncé and I imagine they're fairly clued in considering they knew all the others - but if GNR are reuniting then it has all been kept very much under wraps so far and possibly not everyone (including teaconsumer's source) knows about it so we will have to wait and see.

[thewayiam]

1 hour ago, sp1at said:

That is why I was thinking it was GN'R. I find it odd that three of the headliners were known and mentioned before they were announced, but there has been no mention of anyone else.

One would also presume a classic rock band of sorts will play given the previous festivals

It's a possible option. I feel that if Biffy Clyro were one of them we'd know already. The Scottish gig coming up won't a gig there and the band are clearly open to discussions as they are booked early on.

[thewayiam]

Fair to say a 25 date American run can be done and dusted by the time BST comes round.

[atomised]

Its fair to say it though im not convinced itll work out like that. They will drag the dates out across 3 or 4 months 

[sp1at]

If they are playing Las Vegas in April, they should be done by BST. 24 concerts in 60 days should be easy enough

I cannot see Reading paying out 5-6 million pound for GN'R so BST is their only option really, unless they do a standalone show

And, BST is run by AEG/Goldenvoice, the same as Coachella. I would imagine BST will start the Euro tour, then off to Slane in Ireland then whatever else.

It may turn out differently, but these options appear to make sense at the moment.

Edited December 30, 2015 by sp1at

[atomised]

Im just not convinced they will reach europe this year. Not sure why. Thing vegas will actually be in may because though the venue opens aprii 6th coachella will want the exclusive first shows back so vegas will follow rather than precede it. The killera are opening the vegas venue 

[thewayiam]

On 30/12/2015 at 11:39 PM, sp1at said:

If they are playing Las Vegas in April, they should be done by BST. 24 concerts in 60 days should be easy enough

I cannot see Reading paying out 5-6 million pound for GN'R so BST is their only option really, unless they do a standalone show

And, BST is run by AEG/Goldenvoice, the same as Coachella. I would imagine BST will start the Euro tour, then off to Slane in Ireland then whatever else.

It may turn out differently, but these options appear to make sense at the moment.

Reading would have to pay £4 million probably for 2 shows. BST is much more likely. It would be doubling their usual which I guess given who the co-headers likely are might be just doable given sales it could generate. BST is my shout though.

On 31/12/2015 at 8:35 AM, atomised said:

Im just not convinced they will reach europe this year. Not sure why. Thing vegas will actually be in may because though the venue opens aprii 6th coachella will want the exclusive first shows back so vegas will follow rather than precede it. The killera are opening the vegas venue 

Could they not play Vegas Arena before they do Coachella beings they will be one of the 1st acts?

[atomised]

Gettothefront suggest LCD Soundsystem could be in line for a hyde park show

[FloorFiller]

1 hour ago, atomised said:

Gettothefront suggest LCD Soundsystem could be in line for a hyde park show

would be a very weird one that i can't see happening - they're nowhere near the size to fill such a venue. i guess if i was their only UK show other than say Glastonbury, but even then it'd seem too much