Matt42 Posted April 20, 2021 Report Share Posted April 20, 2021 Melvin sounding like he has cold feet isn’t great. Pretty sure he’d say the festival is still going ahead until the very end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dentalplan Posted April 20, 2021 Report Share Posted April 20, 2021 45 minutes ago, Matt42 said: Melvin sounding like he has cold feet isn’t great. Pretty sure he’d say the festival is still going ahead until the very end. Timing of Latitude isn't great though. Naturally he'd be more sheepish about that one. As you can tell I'm pretty confident R+L will go ahead but Latitude I'm less convinced of. It certainly hinges more on the success of the trial, and a successful trial will go some way to convincing people that Latitude will go ahead as planned and encourage sales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wghennessy Posted April 20, 2021 Report Share Posted April 20, 2021 7 hours ago, dentalplan said: They are an events company. They risk losing money all the time. They have sold almost 200k tickets so the reward’s pretty high and they’re gauging the risk right now. The insurance Boomtown wanted will not happen. R+L will be working to mitigate the risk with the pilot and feeling out testing so it can proceed without it. The risk’s always gonna be there but R+L can manage a lot more of it than an independent fest like Boomtown. I fully understand that but ultimate they are still a business and that will come first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dentalplan Posted April 20, 2021 Report Share Posted April 20, 2021 1 hour ago, wghennessy said: I fully understand that but ultimate they are still a business and that will come first. I’m not getting the impression you do understand. Businesses risk money to make more money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CG31 Posted April 21, 2021 Report Share Posted April 21, 2021 Should I set up a Hurt/Heal for R1 headliners? Think we’re all getting a bit bored, might be a good thing to do 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benj Posted April 21, 2021 Report Share Posted April 21, 2021 17 hours ago, wghennessy said: I fully understand that but ultimate they are still a business and that will come first. Ultimately yes, they will have a risk threshold, there is no evidence as yet that these events won’t be able to go ahead as planned though, or that this threshold is close to being tested. The government plan is in place, numbers are being hit (at this stage), so that will be a big green tick in that box. These pilot events will be another hurdle, they go well and they’re on to the next step, they go badly and they will no doubt reassess things. Meanwhile they’ll also be learning loads, find out what’s working what won’t and how to scale things up to Reading There is no point commiting to contracts, lineups etc when they don’t have to. Every festival cancelling in the meantime strengthens their hand on this point. ‘Oh look Boomtowns headliners 👀 are suddenly free’. There’s really no point in speculating about anything until after the pilot event and the next opening milestone numbers are looking good we should be positive right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nathanh Posted April 21, 2021 Report Share Posted April 21, 2021 good NME article about international acts from Melvin here https://www.nme.com/news/music/reading-leeds-2021-line-up-can-us-international-bands-play-covid-2924952?amp&__twitter_impression=true basically saying what weve been thinking on here for months Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quorn Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 Tomorrow we ride Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathanh Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 EFESTIVALS U SEEING THIS 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathanh Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 Just now, Quorn said: Tomorrow we ride ITS GO TIME 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CG31 Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 Modern Glitch turned 10 today, would love to see that in full come August seeing as they only really play Tokyo and Techno Fan from that album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CG31 Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 Just now, nathanh said: EFESTIVALS U SEEING THIS Fuck it, just as the forum was calming down. Joking, buzzing, expecting a morning announcement? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quorn Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 1 minute ago, Gerard the Fab said: Modern Glitch turned 10 today, would love to see that in full come August seeing as they only really play Tokyo and Techno Fan from that album. Hold that thought, we have an announcement to hype up 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathanh Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 2 minutes ago, Gerard the Fab said: Fuck it, just as the forum was calming down. Joking, buzzing, expecting a morning announcement? Yeah i think so- if it was an evening they would of put it on R1 but theres no time on the tweet so i dont think its that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSmurphy Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 BOOM! Buzzing. The waiting is almost over! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathanh Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 Ok. Name predictions. I know two days ago we decided to stop. But now its a whole new story. So final guesses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quorn Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 For the sake of my exams I’ll leave this forum alone until the announcement, here we go lads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre91 Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOO 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CG31 Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 2 minutes ago, nathanh said: Ok. Name predictions. I know two days ago we decided to stop. But now its a whole new story. So final guesses. There will be an R1, so Fender and Rex. Plus Wolf Alice, Architects, YMA6 and Pale Waves. Then a few smaller acts like Vistas, the Magic Gang etc. And, a bit of a wild guess this one, Tom Grennan anyone? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathanh Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 1 minute ago, Quorn said: For the sake of my exams I’ll leave this forum alone until the announcement, here we go lads See you tomorrow then mate. Tonights only bound to be a load of speculation anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CG31 Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 1 minute ago, Quorn said: For the sake of my exams I’ll leave this forum alone until the announcement, here we go lads A Levels? Coz yh should really do the same, just answered 1 of 7 questions on my Integration topic test Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre91 Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 Enter Shikari. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K2001 Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 Finally, an answer to the question that comes up every two pages, is the radio 1 stage being get rid of Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathanh Posted April 22, 2021 Report Share Posted April 22, 2021 1 minute ago, Gerard the Fab said: And, a bit of a wild guess this one, Tom Grennan anyone? Omg that would be a MASSIVE shock!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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