Dukey Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 Feel like this is the start of US bands pulling out - Yungblud (lives in LA) and KennyHoopla are in the UK so they’re good to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VCK Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 Bit late but I see that the FR stage is almost entirely female artists. Where's the diversity Skating Polly, guys? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWaters Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 That introducing stage is proper quality this year isn’t it? STONE, Yard Act, Alfie Indra, Bonnie Kemplay, Calva Louise and Berwyn all really great acts. Really hoping for minimal clashes for Stone, Yard Act and Alfie Indra especially, have accepted with Calva Louise and Berwyn being headliners and subs respectively i’ll probably be elsewhere. Can’t recommend Stone and Yard Act enough if you’re into your new wave post punk semi-spoken word style stuff 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewayiam Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 7 minutes ago, Dukey said: Feel like this is the start of US bands pulling out - Yungblud (lives in LA) and KennyHoopla are in the UK so they’re good to go It was always going to happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivalschools.price Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 2 hours ago, rivalschools.price said: Noooooo! ive only got 9 bands that I really want to see all weekend and now that’s reduced to 8 (unless they get a decent replacement) Bollocks! Ho99o9 gone too. Im down to 7 for the weekend (would’ve been 6 after QOTSA pulled out but happy with Biffy) Fingers and everything else is crossed that the replacements are good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre91 Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 They should move KennyHoopla to The Pit and add a heavy British band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivalschools.price Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 (edited) 56 minutes ago, Dukey said: Feel like this is the start of US bands pulling out - Yungblud (lives in LA) and KennyHoopla are in the UK so they’re good to go What’s annoying is that the festival aren’t even keeping us up to date. The fact Spiritbox have pulled out was discovered because someone spotted it on their instagram and Ho99o9 have been removed from the poster without comment. Fair play to Bloodstock who have kept us up to date every time there is a line up change. Edited August 9, 2021 by rivalschools.price 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewayiam Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 33 minutes ago, rivalschools.price said: What’s annoying is that the festival aren’t even keeping us up to date. The fact Spiritbox have pulled out was discovered because someone spotted it on their instagram and Ho99o9 have been removed from the poster without comment. Fair play to Bloodstock who have kept us up to date every time there is a line up change. It's sold out, they don't care anymore to be honest. 30k people could turn up but 90k tickets sold is what matters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivalschools.price Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 2 minutes ago, thewayiam said: It's sold out, they don't care anymore to be honest. 30k people could turn up but 90k tickets sold is what matters. I get that but most other businesses would still need to look after their potential future customers by treating them well.Thatobviously doesn’t apply in Reading/Leeds case as there’ll still be a queue of new people wanting tickets next year regardless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyrhodes24 Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 9 minutes ago, rivalschools.price said: I get that but most other businesses would still need to look after their potential future customers by treating them well.Thatobviously doesn’t apply in Reading/Leeds case as there’ll still be a queue of new people wanting tickets next year regardless. I imagine they’ll be saving them up for an announcement next week or when the app/set times are out but it’s still not great. It’d be less embarrassing for them to derail all the changes at once than post every time an act pulls out. It’ll have to be officially announced soon, you’d be fuming if it got down to set times coming out only to find your favourite band had pulled out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlyRevolutions Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 1 hour ago, TheWaters said: That introducing stage is proper quality this year isn’t it? STONE, Yard Act, Alfie Indra, Bonnie Kemplay, Calva Louise and Berwyn all really great acts. Really hoping for minimal clashes for Stone, Yard Act and Alfie Indra especially, have accepted with Calva Louise and Berwyn being headliners and subs respectively i’ll probably be elsewhere. Can’t recommend Stone and Yard Act enough if you’re into your new wave post punk semi-spoken word style stuff STONE are great, so glad that they've made it to R+L as there's been some great artists and bands play on the Introducing and then go on to much bigger things, i'm hoping for the same for them. Liverpools music scene at the moment is buzzing and definitely should be on everyones radar. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWaters Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 32 minutes ago, OnlyRevolutions said: STONE are great, so glad that they've made it to R+L as there's been some great artists and bands play on the Introducing and then go on to much bigger things, i'm hoping for the same for them. Liverpools music scene at the moment is buzzing and definitely should be on everyones radar. Agreed. Big up Courting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benj Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 5 hours ago, efcfanwirral said: Bar and toilet queues too... I think those will actually be lessened as they were always heaving post and act on main stage finishing (the bogs anyway, the bars are never too bad but are at peak then). People will have to go why bands are on, so it should be more spread out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeddingatReading Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 1 hour ago, Benj said: I think those will actually be lessened as they were always heaving post and act on main stage finishing (the bogs anyway, the bars are never too bad but are at peak then). People will have to go why bands are on, so it should be more spread out So basically even more piss showers in cups Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r55N Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) 9 hours ago, rivalschools.price said: What’s annoying is that the festival aren’t even keeping us up to date. The fact Spiritbox have pulled out was discovered because someone spotted it on their instagram and Ho99o9 have been removed from the poster without comment. Fair play to Bloodstock who have kept us up to date every time there is a line up change. Unfortunately, this is not something new for RandL. In 2014 we bought tix mainly because of Chino Moreno's Crosses pretty much Europe exclusive gig in the Pit. The Band was removed from the poster without any explanation a month before the festival:/ I guess such things are inevitable when you're organizing a festival with 200+ bands. With the COVID situation, things are obviously worse... I don't know if Daniel P Carter still curates the Pit. I'm sure (if possible) he'll come up with some quality replacements. Let's see Edited August 10, 2021 by r55N Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foolee Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 Watched Lauran Hibberd at a local festival this weekend who is playing the introducing stage, well worth a watch. Good front woman and pretty catchy punky vibes is what I was getting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m4tt Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 58 minutes ago, r55N said: I don't know if Daniel P Carter still curates the Pit. I'm sure (if possible) he'll come up with some quality replacements. Let's see Pretty much any band from the Download Pilot would fit the bill, and that was all put together at short notice. Also, Slam Dunk is the weekend after, so lots of bands on that bill should be ready with very little notice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Winstone Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 May move Kennyhoopla into the pit as the replacement maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FakeEmpire Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 2 minutes ago, Alex Winstone said: May move Kennyhoopla into the pit as the replacement maybe? Hope not, clash free where he is now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TownNation Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 12 hours ago, Dukey said: Feel like this is the start of US bands pulling out - Yungblud (lives in LA) and KennyHoopla are in the UK so they’re good to go Yeah I got a sneaky suspicion this is the start of a few that’s gonna pull out - there were a lot last time but had a feeling we weren’t done just hope they can get some suitable replacements in time - you can’t change the circumstances of them been pulled, but hopefully the replacements more than make up for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyrhodes24 Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 12 hours ago, Andre91 said: Malevolence. Really hoping that City Morgue don’t pull but I can also see it coming. City Morgue have got the app notification saying "unfortunately City Morgue are no longer able to perform" written all over them. Really hope it's not the case, R&L, a warm up in London and two gigs in Poland a couple of days after are all they have in Europe though, plus they have a gig in Chicago in the 21st Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efcfanwirral Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 1 hour ago, foolee said: Watched Lauran Hibberd at a local festival this weekend who is playing the introducing stage, well worth a watch. Good front woman and pretty catchy punky vibes is what I was getting. She's brilliant- saw her at a couple of small festivals in 2019 and she's released some even better music since. Holly Humberstone is also good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivalschools.price Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 2 hours ago, r55N said: Unfortunately, this is not something new for RandL. In 2014 we bought tix mainly because of Chino Moreno's Crosses pretty much Europe exclusive gig in the Pit. The Band was removed from the poster without any explanation a month before the festival:/ I guess such things are inevitable when you're organizing a festival with 200+ bands. With the COVID situation, things are obviously worse... I don't know if Daniel P Carter still curates the Pit. I'm sure (if possible) he'll come up with some quality replacements. Let's see Yeah, I remember that. Trouble is I didn’t notice until a day or so before that they weren’t playing and was not happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Winstone Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 Can see Scarlxrd and Loathe being the pit replacements Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivalschools.price Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 4 minutes ago, Alex Winstone said: Can see Scarlxrd and Loathe being the pit replacements Yeah, I thought Loathe as well. Hadn’t thought of Scarlxrd though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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