BBC6 Music Festival 2019

[TomViolence]

Sweet, cheers! 

[zeppelin]

No problem. I'm at a stag do that weekend so gutted I can't go. 

The lineup is pretty spot on though! 

[CJTM]

Idles are low down given their demand, and Fonts DC above Jungle? some odd placings there

 

Edit: alphabetical, d'oh

Edited February 26, 2019 by CJTM

[DDave]

5 minutes ago, CJTM said:

Idles are low down given their demand, and Fonts DC above Jungle? some odd placings there

 

Edit: alphabetical, d'oh

Idles are playing first on the bill on their night. Doesn't mean much tbh, Future Islands opened their night in Glasgow. 

 

[dentalplan]

Looks like it’d be nice but way too expensive imo. Almost £40 for an evening headlined by Ex:Re? Is that right?

[stereodista]

1 hour ago, dentalplan said:

Looks like it’d be nice but way too expensive imo. Almost £40 for an evening headlined by Ex:Re? Is that right?

That’s a Mountford Hall show with Bill Ryder-Jones and Marika Hackman, so almost certainly won’t be £40...

[dentalplan]

20 minutes ago, stereodista said:

That’s a Mountford Hall show with Bill Ryder-Jones and Marika Hackman, so almost certainly won’t be £40...

That’s what it says on the website. Friday Olympia and all Mountford Hall shows listed as £35+£2.65, and Sat/Sun Olympia £38+£2.85. Late and Day events seem to be £18+£1.80.

Even if the Ex:Re show price isn’t correct, that was just a particularly mad example but it doesn’t seem like good value across the board.

[Rico_Pliskin]

Go see Villagers everyone!

Great live act and great collection of songs. 

 

[stereodista]

8 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

That’s what it says on the website. Friday Olympia and all Mountford Hall shows listed as £35+£2.65, and Sat/Sun Olympia £38+£2.85. Late and Day events seem to be £18+£1.80.

Even if the Ex:Re show price isn’t correct, that was just a particularly mad example but it doesn’t seem like good value across the board.

Christ, that’s crazy! 

My apologies.

[jyoung]

Not impressed.

[dentalplan]

2 minutes ago, stereodista said:

Christ, that’s crazy! 

My apologies.

Don’t blame you for not believing me.

[FloorFiller]

13 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

That’s what it says on the website. Friday Olympia and all Mountford Hall shows listed as £35+£2.65, and Sat/Sun Olympia £38+£2.85. Late and Day events seem to be £18+£1.80.

Even if the Ex:Re show price isn’t correct, that was just a particularly mad example but it doesn’t seem like good value across the board.

Yeah I’m probably gonna go to one or two ‘cause they’re just down the road from me but can’t say I’m too enthused about the prices. Had always assumed these kind a of things would be slightly cheaper than usual shows - not more.

[aidenlangan95]

The Saturday Night events (Jon Hopkins and The Good The Bad + The Queen) and the Hot Chip night would be worth the money for me but the other events seem really overpriced.

But it's annoying that it's not like Big Weekend with subsided tickets.

Edited February 26, 2019 by aidenlangan95

[stylishkids]

Not impressed with the line up or price. I’d love to see Idles but since they’re first on, they’ll probably end up with a half hour set which just isn’t worth the £40 for. I went in 2015 when the War on Drugs were first on and they played 4 songs. Thankfully Interpol and Sleater Kinney were on that night so it wasn’t too bad. But since I’ve very little interest in the other 3 acts that night, it’s not worth the hassle. If they were on with Hot Chip I probably would have lumped in but alas they’re not

The day line up with the Coral seems reasonable and decent for 20 quid. Probably not decent enough to tempt me but there looks to be a few things there that I’d go along and see

[xxialac]

The lineup is very good as a whole, yet there isn't one day good enough for the price to justify going.

[Dan R]

1 hour ago, xxialac said:

The lineup is very good as a whole, yet there isn't one day good enough for the price to justify going.

I'm surprised there isn't some whole day access tickets of some kind, there's about 7 or 8 band's I'd really like to see but looks like it would cost almost £200 and several clash anyway. Might go to the Saturday Olympia as I live nearby but otherwise just gonna check out the fringe festival.

[SighMo]

Gigs will probably be good but over priced. It all came back to me how massively annoying the way they over-hype this once announced... Mary Anne Hobbs was unbearable after a few minutes this morning. 

[DDave]

2 hours ago, stylishkids said:

Not impressed with the line up or price. I’d love to see Idles but since they’re first on, they’ll probably end up with a half hour set which just isn’t worth the £40 for. I went in 2015 when the War on Drugs were first on and they played 4 songs. Thankfully Interpol and Sleater Kinney were on that night so it wasn’t too bad. But since I’ve very little interest in the other 3 acts that night, it’s not worth the hassle. If they were on with Hot Chip I probably would have lumped in but alas they’re not

The day line up with the Coral seems reasonable and decent for 20 quid. Probably not decent enough to tempt me but there looks to be a few things there that I’d go along and see

Idles won't be on for half an hour. Future Islands, Sparks and Goldfrapp all had at least an hour 2 years ago on the same night. 

[stylishkids]

6 hours ago, DDave said:

Idles won't be on for half an hour. Future Islands, Sparks and Goldfrapp all had at least an hour 2 years ago on the same night. 

That’s good to hear then and pretty good for an opening act. Listened to the latest the good, the bad and the queen album today and it sounds half decent so may still pick up a ticket for it yet then

[adequate8]

Hot Chip for us, seeing as though gorilla will sell out in a millisecond ?

[TomViolence]

15 hours ago, xxialac said:

The lineup is very good as a whole, yet there isn't one day good enough for the price to justify going.

Aye, this is exactly my view. Frustrating as I was really up for going when I heard it was in Liverpool!

[Johndenis]

I went to the first one at Victoria Warehouse in Manchester where there were some dreadful clashes.  The solution appears to have been to turn it into a multi-venue event. 

I think it's a bit played out now and an excuse for the 6 music folk to have a weekend away and party. 

I've always been intrigued - who books these shows?  And do local promoters not get annoyed that the BBC is on their turf?

[DDave]

Got tickets for the Saturday afternoon which is fine for us. Ticketweb's a bit shit at saying what's sold out/available.

[FloorFiller]

Got tickets for Jon Hopkins and the Sunday daytime for Julia Jacklin and Pigs x7. Are these usually instant sell outs? Cause there seems to still be tickets for a lot (if not all) of them left, probably due to the lineup/splits being pretty iffy I imagine.

[aidenlangan95]

Seen a story which says that Ryan Adams was meant to play but the accusations that have occurred recently meant he was removed from the line up.

Edited March 1, 2019 by aidenlangan95