Primavera Sound 2019

[diogozsz]

3 minutes ago, Gucci Piggy said:

They're clearly not going to skip out on Kendrick because they're aiming for a 50/50 split. He'd probably be top of their list of acts to book. If any male acts are missing out because of a 50/50 split it'll be ones who are less of a priority to book and instead of them they'll have female acts who are just as good.

Ok but are we going to ignore the fact that Gabi said "the first time we had Kendrick.." (he played the festival only once) and he corrected himself right after to something in the lines of "ups, THE time when he played the festival"?

[Mash011]

women are making way better music than men these days tbh. just book only women.

Edited December 3, 2018 by Mash011

[young_contra]

1 minute ago, diogozsz said:

Ok but are we going to ignore the fact that Gabi said "the first time we had Kendrick.." (he played the festival only once) and he corrected himself right after to something in the lines of "ups, THE time when he played the festival"?

Wouldn't make much out of it tbh

[Albinoss]

1 minute ago, young_contra said:

They play every year

Yeah, yeah I know, I never miss them. I didn't hear the radio and I was wondering if they really mentioned them 

[diogozsz]

1 minute ago, Mash011 said:

women are making way better music than men these days tbh. just book only women.

I can easily see Carly Rae Jepsen (Gabi LOVES her), St. Vincent, Janelle Monáe, Christine and the Queen's, Robyn, Yaeji, Rina Sawayama or Charli XCX getting booked. They're all making great music.

[young_contra]

Just now, Albinoss said:

Yeah, yeah I know, I never miss them. I didn't hear the radio and I was wondering if they really mentioned them 

Oh! They totally did, they played one of their songs too

[dentalplan]

16 minutes ago, Chaarlie said:

TLDR - Female acts are good but there's not enough big artists in the industry right now to run a large and non-stale 50:50 festival, but we should be working towards it.

This applies to 2000trees because that is a festival where there are quite few women in the type of bands that are suitable for booking there.

At Primavera, a festival with 50% of the acts being or containing women could easily happen and not 'sacrifice quality' or anything. If you look at the top reviewed stuff in, say, Pitchfork or other publications that would appeal to PS goers; it's about half and half. I think that I listen to about the same stuff as a Primavera Sound goer and most of the better stuff contains women.

[gregory]

2 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

This applies to 2000trees because that is a festival where there are quite few women in the type of bands that are suitable for booking there.

At Primavera, a festival with 50% of the acts being or containing women could easily happen and not 'sacrifice quality' or anything. If you look at the top reviewed stuff in, say, Pitchfork or other publications that would appeal to PS goers; it's about half and half. I think that I listen to about the same stuff as a Primavera Sound goer and most of the better stuff contains women.

I agree you could have a great year of 50/50, but is it sustainable year after year? There's just not an equal amount of women to men in the indie/rock/alt/rap/etc. scenes.  

[Mash011]

1 minute ago, gregory said:

I agree you could have a great year of 50/50, but is it sustainable year after year? There's just not an equal amount of women to men in the indie/rock/alt/rap/etc. scenes.  

Yeah the secret to it is that you just book women.

[gregory]

3 minutes ago, Mash011 said:

Yeah the secret to it is that you just book women.

List the 260 female acts who are touring next summer that you would book for Primavera then  

Edited December 3, 2018 by gregory

[Mash011]

Just now, gregory said:

List the 150+ female acts who are touring next summer that you would book for Primavera then  

How fucking bored do you think I am christ

[riseupandkill]

i'm quite bored

[the wonderwhy]

5 minutes ago, gregory said:

I agree you could have a great year of 50/50, but is it sustainable year after year? There's just not an equal amount of women to men in the indie/rock/alt/rap/etc. scenes.  

The idea is if you start making a point of it women get the attention* they deserve, thus making it sustainable. 

Its really not that hard to work out. 

(*theres a better word here I just can't think of it rn) 

[Chaarlie]

In an ideal world you don't care about the gender of anyone you book you just get the best music. Primavera strikes me as a very diverse festival already, if anything them doing this can prove a point to festivals like wireless in the UK to improve.

9 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

This applies to 2000trees because that is a festival where there are quite few women in the type of bands that are suitable for booking there.

Not sure I agree with that there seems to be a massive amount more male led bands than female, the female led ones are just as good as the male ones, there's just far fewer.

[Guy Incognito]

surely all this reggaeton stuff isnt gonna take over the line up? I'm just expecting a few acts in high places.

[Albinoss]

17 minutes ago, young_contra said:

Oh! They totally did, they played one of their songs too

Oh, ok, cool. It wouldn't be the same festival for me without them playing ?

[n=Nowheretohide]

be prepared for the worst..... this new normal politically correct  gender fluid reggeaton hip hip yelling  bullshit of festivalfor this year

[Albinoss]

20 minutes ago, diogozsz said:

I can easily see Carly Rae Jepsen (Gabi LOVES her), St. Vincent, Janelle Monáe, Christine and the Queen's, Robyn, Yaeji, Rina Sawayama or Charli XCX getting booked. They're all making great music.

I would love Shannon Wright, Cocaine Piss, Motherf×cker, Uzeda, Buke and Gase, Allison Crutchfield, Downtown Boys 

[Chaarlie]

to be honest if they made it 50:50 without saying anything then I'm not sure anyone would notice so the whole argument is pretty pointless. If they can handle it in the right way, not make it a gimick, not sacrifice acts for the sake of equality and keep things fresh with the theme of the festival theres no problem. Not saying they cant do all that I'm just pointing out potential problems, hoping they tackle them all.

[diogozsz]

6 minutes ago, Albinoss said:

I would love Shannon Wright, Cocaine Piss, Motherf×cker, Uzeda, Buke and Gase, Allison Crutchfield, Downtown Boys 

Cocaine Piss would be awesome

[Mash011]

15 minutes ago, n=Nowheretohide said:

be prepared for the worst..... this new normal politically correct  gender fluid reggeaton hip hip yelling  bullshit of festivalfor this year

Hope it makes you miserable pal

[puckno]

I don't see a problem at all with +/- 50% of acts booked to '... feature a central female member... ' There are festivals doing this already. It should have been the normal for years. 

Edited December 3, 2018 by puckno

[Gucci Piggy]

17 minutes ago, n=Nowheretohide said:

be prepared for the worst..... this new normal politically correct  gender fluid reggeaton hip hip yelling  bullshit of festivalfor this year

Weird bloke aren't you

[n=Nowheretohide]

Im only here for minuses ♥

[festivalguy97]

Is there any list of confirmed artists and strong rumours like last year?