Sad times

[NickisGinger]

Ermok

https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/12-things-nobody-wanted-you-1207229

[luckysalt]

12 minutes ago, NickisGinger said:

Ermok

https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/12-things-nobody-wanted-you-1207229

Well I have to say, none of that is nothing new TBH. 

BTW awesome journalism, im really glad on the water part they put a picture of water being poured from a tap into a glass or I might have got mistaken.

Fucking rag.

 

[NickisGinger]

12 minutes ago, luckysalt said:

Well I have to say, none of that is nothing new TBH. 

BTW awesome journalism, im really glad on the water part they put a picture of water being poured from a tap into a glass or I might have got mistaken.

Fucking rag.

 

No I wanted to say it sounds worse than it probably is, but I didn’t know how well that would go down. There’s probably a hell of lot worse that goes down that’s under the radar. 

[Cjm]

I emailed Festival Republic last week:

When are you going to announce details of the new Festival to replace V Festival please? It’s now been over 3 months and no news at all. Thanks.

Their reply on Friday was:

Hi 

A date hasn't been confirmed for this announcement yet. 

Kind regards

Customer Services

[watsonjm]

10 hours ago, Cjm said:

I emailed Festival Republic last week:

When are you going to announce details of the new Festival to replace V Festival please? It’s now been over 3 months and no news at all. Thanks.

Their reply on Friday was:

Hi 

A date hasn't been confirmed for this announcement yet. 

Kind regards

Customer Services

Which suggests they will be announcing something.

[minxy21]

I am taking this as a positive !!!   

I am thinking either this week or next for the announcement. 

Tickets in the past have gone on sale beginning of March 

 

[watsonjm]

1 hour ago, minxy21 said:

I am taking this as a positive !!!   

I am thinking either this week or next for the announcement. 

Tickets in the past have gone on sale beginning of March 

 

Yep, if memory serves its normally around the 14th, so if its happening we should get hearing things soon

[NickisGinger]

I’m going for mid March.!

[festivalsaregood]

RiZE Festival looks to be the new V: 

 

[watsonjm]

Not looking great for Weston.

[Ives561]

Who do we all reckon is gonna be announced ? 

[NickisGinger]

Artic Monkeys? Liam G? Eminem? Justin Timberlake? Beyonce? Rita Ora? Robyn ? 

[eFestivals]

14 hours ago, Ives561 said:

Who do we all reckon is gonna be announced ? 

it's at 7pm on Monday.

[JBarbour]

11 hours ago, NickisGinger said:

Artic Monkeys? 

Doubt AM. 

FR boss, Melvin Benn from a recent interview when asked about not booking AM for R&L 

"... They've got their own plans.

You sort of know when someone's around and wanting to play, and it wasn't clear to us that they wanted to play, so we didn't push too hard." 

[minxy21]

On 2/23/2018 at 1:12 PM, watsonjm said:

Not looking great for Weston.

Oh - gutted 

[Cjm]

Me too, especially when the reports said it would continue at both venues this year. Weston Park was often forgotten about by the promoters, it was all about Chelmsford being near to London, and the celebs going there. Been to V Weston Park since 2006. Going to be strange this year.

[eFestivals]

18 minutes ago, Cjm said:

Me too, especially when the reports said it would continue at both venues this year. Weston Park was often forgotten about by the promoters, it was all about Chelmsford being near to London, and the celebs going there. Been to V Weston Park since 2006. Going to be strange this year.

it wasn't the promoters making those celebs go to Chelmsford. 

 

[Cjm]

I didn’t say it was, the majority of celebs are going to go to a Festival near London, than one in Staffordshire, I guess. However, why did the media often only refer to V Festival as being in Chelmsford, and why did they generally only ever show footage from Chelmsford, on the tele?

[eFestivals]

6 minutes ago, Cjm said:

I didn’t say it was, the majority of celebs are going to go to a Festival near London, than one in Staffordshire, I guess. However, why did the media often only refer to V Festival as being in Chelmsford, and why did they generally only ever show footage from Chelmsford, on the tele?

because London-based news teams don't travel unnecessarily?

it's the same with Reading/Leeds too. It's always hassle for efestivals to try to get photographer access at Reading, because it's chocked-out with tabloid snappers who might (just might) use one photo in their Sunday editions (while efests would give the stage full coverage if they'd let us). There's a lot of the media who've yet to wake up to a changed world.

Then again, the population nearby for Chelmsford (or Reading) is massively greater than close to Staffordshire (or Leeds). So from that angle, if they're covering just one, the one with the big population is the one they'll want.

[watsonjm]

Not sure the media coverage was the issue.  In my mind, they didn't sell enough tickets to carry on with two sites so there starting this new one as one site and see how it goes.

[Cjm]

Didn’t V sell more tickets for Weston Park than Chelmsford last year, and I believe I read somewhere Weston Park was actually the bigger venue of the two? Naturally, I’m cheesed off they appear to have binned Weston off, after the news reports stated the new Festival would continue at both venues. Still hoping something will be sorted for Weston