Mad Cool 2018

[SonicSleuth]

Is anybody renting a room/series of rooms that could use another person to defray costs?

I'm coming in for Rock Werchter and traveling down for Mad Cool, but I haven't nailed down anyplace to stay just yet and I'm wondering if other non-local Pearl Jam/etc fans might want to combine forces. I'm a solo American who has never been to Madrid, but I plan on attending the entire festival!

[kagey]

It is done, a mental fortnight looms
Have booked for
David Byrne on the 10th
Madcool 12-14th
Fly home 18th
Bluedot 19-22
 

anyone else doing David Byrne ?

[Dom Wall]

I've got graduation on the 10th, fly out 12th AM, hoping to catch Arctic Monkeys the following week whilst doing a little interrailing.

[clasher]

I have almost three weeks of interrail planned, doing Mad Cool and catching King Crimson and The Cat Empire in Germany at the start of the month. Oh, and a ton of interesting stuff in between

[amfest12]

1 hour ago, kagey said:

It is done, a mental fortnight looms
Have booked for
David Byrne on the 10th
Madcool 12-14th
Fly home 18th
Bluedot 19-22
 

anyone else doing David Byrne ?

I am! got a standing ticket and for now seems like I'm going by myself

[AndrewSmith]

25 VIP tickets left for Pearl Jam day

[JSmurphy]

Pearl Jam's first gig of their 2018 tour last night. I can't wait!

[the wonderwhy]

That's not an encore that's a second set 

[Yelo, the Parmiggiana]

36 minutes ago, JSmurphy said:

Pearl Jam's first gig of their 2018 tour last night. I can't wait!

 

30 songs! Holy!

(and I dont know half of them, shame on me lol)

[Nicklord]

25 minutes ago, Yelo, the Parmiggiana said:

30 songs! Holy!

(and I dont know half of them, shame on me lol)

That's a tad bit short actually. Full set is 33 34 songs

[Tremousse]

They played 3 hours and 1 minute! 

[e2p2]

3 hours ago, JSmurphy said:

Pearl Jam's first gig of their 2018 tour last night. I can't wait!

Great set list! At least 1 song from each album, including some songs they dont play much like Around The Bend and songs that were left out during their latest European tour like the Fixer and Love Boat Captain. I'd like to hear everyone of them.

New song sounds good live (well, at least as good as a poor quality video on Youtube  can be) with the energy we can expect from them:

 

[amfest12]

we need to see the set in lollapalooza since few years ago I saw they did around 28 songs in festivals and around 35 in their own shows.

that still a lot of songs and some of them are really good but I do hope they'll play state of love & trust, Jeremy, elderly woman and rearviewmirror  

[Wooderson]

"Barcode tag" on the wristband is an unusual one.

[Ovechkin]

On 2018-03-09 at 7:50 PM, LaurentExpos said:

I chose the eTicket for Delivery method for the 3 single day VIP tickets (not a 3 day pass as they were sold-out).  I'm not sure if regular mail was option. I got the etickets by email about one hour after the purchase. I suspect they will give me a wristband on each day when I present the eticket. We will see....

I did that too but still paid several euros for "fuera peninsula" which I assume is the postage fee from the iberico peninsula?

[clasher]

Just now, Ovechkin said:

I did that too but still paid several euros for "fuera peninsula" which I assume is the postage fee from the iberico peninsula?

Me too (bought three day tickets), e-tickets were sent by e-mail right away, still waiting for the wristbands though...

[with_tired_eyes]

50 minutes ago, Ovechkin said:

I did that too but still paid several euros for "fuera peninsula" which I assume is the postage fee from the iberico peninsula?

I think so. Had the same option and my wristband is on his way to germany. 

[evilduck]

2 hours ago, Ovechkin said:

I did that too but still paid several euros for "fuera peninsula" which I assume is the postage fee from the iberico peninsula?

Yes, mine have fuera península on the confirmation and I got sent etickets straight away, and I received my wristbands in the post last week.

[Gucci Piggy]

Pearl Jam setlist needs more Signals.

[Ovechkin]

On 2018-03-15 at 3:25 PM, clasher said:

Me too (bought three day tickets), e-tickets were sent by e-mail right away, still waiting for the wristbands though...

 

On 2018-03-15 at 4:14 PM, with_tired_eyes said:

I think so. Had the same option and my wristband is on his way to germany. 

 

On 2018-03-15 at 5:53 PM, evilduck said:

Yes, mine have fuera península on the confirmation and I got sent etickets straight away, and I received my wristbands in the post last week.

So they´re definitely posting the wristbrands, I havn't recieved an email yet. Maybe they have not reached the letter S yet as in Sweden and Slovenia , Glastonbury/See tickets does some similar thing I think, some people get their tickets weeks before others. I'll give them march before contacting them

[with_tired_eyes]

1 hour ago, Ovechkin said:

 

 

So they´re definitely posting the wristbrands, I havn't recieved an email yet. Maybe they have not reached the letter S yet as in Sweden and Slovenia , Glastonbury/See tickets does some similar thing I think, some people get their tickets weeks before others. I'll give them march before contacting them

Got mine today. I think they send it step by step from the moment you purchased your ticket. I bought mine on the first day. My friends who are attending (and bought later) didn't get anthing until now.

[Yelo, the Parmiggiana]

Guys, I bought 3 single day-ticket. Should I expect any wristband?

[Joshua Homme]

An interview to Mad Cool's director, in spanish.

http://www.europapress.es/cultura/musica-00129/noticia-mad-cool-tercera-duplicando-tamano-asi-monta-festival-mas-grande-espana-20180318075655.html

No big news, besides the final dimensions of the grounds: 120.000m2 of free space for the public, twice as big as last year's location.

Edited March 18, 2018 by Joshua Homme

[bluenova]

1 hour ago, Joshua Homme said:

An interview to Mad Cool's director, in spanish.

http://www.europapress.es/cultura/musica-00129/noticia-mad-cool-tercera-duplicando-tamano-asi-monta-festival-mas-grande-espana-20180318075655.html

No big news, besides the final dimensions of the grounds: 120.000m2 of free space for the public, twice as big as last year's location.

Wasn't there something about not upping the capacity to 80k, even though they could, because they wanted to make sure things ran well at the new site? I thought 65k was mentioned, but it was a while back so maybe mistaken.

[Joshua Homme]

3 hours ago, bluenova said:

Wasn't there something about not upping the capacity to 80k, even though they could, because they wanted to make sure things ran well at the new site? I thought 65k was mentioned, but it was a while back so maybe mistaken.

Yes. But then they ended up enlarging their area, meaning they could potentially end up having over 65k ppl.

Anyway, one thing is the legal capacity, which is still 80k, and a different one the final crowd numbers. The article only mentions its capacity.

Edited March 18, 2018 by Joshua Homme