2020 Line-up Thread

[Wooderson]

1 hour ago, Mardy said:

Industry wide problem. I feel the same about gigs. It seems to be nearly impossible to find out what time the band are on stage. Just fucking tell me so I can plan my evening, and work out getting transport to and from the show. I'm baffled as to why everybody seems to just accept it

Certainly for festivals it keeps the clicks going.

[wolfamongwolves]

1 hour ago, carwynnen said:

For my money, chaps looking into Stereolab, Dots and Loops is a beautiful album. 

Long enough in the tooth to have seen Stereolab being supported by both Yo La Tengo and The Verve, and supporting Cocteau Twins! 

It's a classic 🙏🏼

[scatteredscreens]

So excited for my first EOTR now!

[Fat_Buddha]

5 minutes ago, copperbottom said:

Have the EOTR vets got any tips or advice for the first-timers among us? 😄

Wrap up warm

[idyllwild]

1 hour ago, Wooderson said:

Certainly for festivals it keeps the clicks going.

I doubt that the EotR team are sitting there holding off on announcing stagetimes in order to sneakily build a fortune from people clicking on their site.

They’ll be busy putting on the festival. If things are a bit different this year, and announcements are delayed while more important stuff - and no doubt unexpected last-minute hitches - are attended to, then we should all be grown up and accommodating enough to accept that.

We’d all love the stagetimes, and I’ve got my highlighter at the ready too. But it’s not that big a deal right now, and the organisers deserve a bit of slack right now rather than misplaced jaded cynicism, as if we’re all being hard done to here.

Edited August 30, 2021 by idyllwild

[Justiceforcedave]

Just now, idyllwild said:

I doubt that the EotR team are sitting there holding off on announcing stagetimes in order to sneakily build a fortune from people clicking on their site.

They’ll be busy putting on the festival. If things are a bit different this year, and announcements are delayed while more important stuff - and no doubt unexpected let-minute hitches - are attended to, then we should all be grown up and accomplish enough to accept that.

We’d all love the stagetimes, and I’ve got my highlighter at the ready too. But it’s not that big a deal right now, and the organisers deserve a bit of slack right now rather than misplaced jaded cynicism, as if we’re all being hard done to here.

But...but...but... I need to know if I can see Black Country New Road AND WH Lung!!! Don't they understand?!

[snipe]

You can see everyone if you run fast enough.

[Wooderson]

6 minutes ago, idyllwild said:

I doubt that the EotR team are sitting there holding off on announcing stagetimes in order to sneakily build a fortune from people clicking on their site.

They’ll be busy putting on the festival. If things are a bit different this year, and announcements are delayed while more important stuff - and no doubt unexpected let-minute hitches - are attended to, then we should all be grown up and accomplish enough to accept that.

We’d all love the stagetimes, and I’ve got my highlighter at the ready too. But it’s not that big a deal right now, and the organisers deserve a bit of slack right now rather than misplaced jaded cynicism, as if we’re all being hard done to here.

Great, thanks for the peptalk Grandad.

[The Nal]

Digging Jim Ghedis guitar work. Great guitar player. Should be a nice chilled Sunday avo gig on the Garden Stage with a booze.

[xxialac]

25 minutes ago, idyllwild said:

I doubt that the EotR team are sitting there holding off on announcing stagetimes in order to sneakily build a fortune from people clicking on their site.

They’ll be busy putting on the festival. If things are a bit different this year, and announcements are delayed while more important stuff - and no doubt unexpected last-minute hitches - are attended to, then we should all be grown up and accommodating enough to accept that.

We’d all love the stagetimes, and I’ve got my highlighter at the ready too. But it’s not that big a deal right now, and the organisers deserve a bit of slack right now rather than misplaced jaded cynicism, as if we’re all being hard done to here.

Don’t think people are being cynical generally.

It’s not a big job to put up the stage times is it though? Prob take one person an hour max.

In fact they’re welcome this year to just take a picture of the programme and bung that on twitter which would take minutes.

Not inconceivable we’ll get something today as obviously they’ll be working…

Edited August 30, 2021 by xxialac

[idyllwild]

3 minutes ago, xxialac said:

Don’ think people are being cynical generally.

It’s not a big job to put up the stage times is it though? Prob take one person an hour max.

In fact they’re welcome this year to just take a picture of the programme and bung that on twitter which would take minutes.

Not inconceivable we’ll get something today as obviously they’ll be working…

Obviously it's not a big deal to hit "Send", but I guess it depends on who needs to do what and if they're busy doing other stuff. Maybe they're manually putting inserts into the programme because the printed stagetimes are no longer accurate. 😄

I want the stagetimes out as much as anyone else, the sooner the better. I just don't see why people seem to be getting properly upset about it, as if Simon etc are taking the piss out of them.

[SweepingTheNation]

2 hours ago, The Nal said:

Its perfectly reasonable to assume that there'll be changes up until the last minute. All of these bands, crew staff etc all still have restrictions to go through before they play. Getting gear into the country, get swabs, passenger locator forms, close contacts, flights change (as mine did for EOTR- 1 cancelled and 1 delayed) etc etc. 

That isn't the reason. By my count there's seven acts from outside the British Isles playing and at least two, maybe three are already over here. There's a chance they could all come over safely and ready to go but Alexis/Jason/Archie/Laetitia then test positive. They'll do what literally every other festival does - put out the stage times and then later if necessary let it be known that x has had to pull out but (hopefully) y is replacing them in the same slot.

Edited August 30, 2021 by SweepingTheNation

[Wooderson]

9 minutes ago, xxialac said:

Don’ think people are being cynical generally.

It’s not a big job to put up the stage times is it though? Prob take one person an hour max.

In fact they’re welcome this year to just take a picture of the programme and bung that on twitter which would take minutes.

Not inconceivable we’ll get something today as obviously they’ll be working…

The forelock tuggers won't like this one dude. Think of the festival willya? 😃

[xxialac]

2 minutes ago, idyllwild said:

Obviously it's not a big deal to hit "Send", but I guess it depends on who needs to do what and if they're busy doing other stuff. Maybe they're manually putting inserts into the programme because the printed stagetimes are no longer accurate. 😄

I want the stagetimes out as much as anyone else, the sooner the better. I just don't see why people seem to be getting properly upset about it, as if Simon etc are taking the piss out of them.

I don't think people are "properly upset"

Just pointing out that with less than 3 days to go, they obviously have the programme in place and set times drawn up...so why not take a picture of the times that they can describe as provisional, post it on twitter and keep punters happy?

[Losing my hair]

To be honest I'm not too fussed about the set times, any plans I make now will change when I'm there anyway.

I've marked my clashfinder with who I want to see and where there are clashes I'll go where the mood takes me - it's a festival, I can't see everybody I'd like to and rushing around trying to ruins the day.

[Wooderson]

So the peeps that chose to mooch around oblivious all weekend - super. Nothing unusual in that. A noble festival persuit.

Some of us would like the info 3 days beforehand however.. If thats not for you, ace. To suggest we're "properly upset" or that us asking somehow irks you - take a couple hours off.

[Justiceforcedave]

5 minutes ago, Wooderson said:

So the peeps that chose to mooch around oblivious all weekend - super. Nothing unusual in that. A noble festival persuit.

Some of us would like the info 3 days beforehand however.. If thats not for you, ace. To suggest we're "properly upset" or that us asking somehow irks you - take a couple hours off.

Speak for yourself... I'm properly upset x 10. I DEMAND STAGE TIMES!

[SweepingTheNation]

On 8/18/2021 at 5:13 PM, RedRockRick said:

So if no Rough Trade, no EOTR 2021 compilation I assume.

 

[Guy Incognito]

3 minutes ago, copperbottom said:

Anyone know if you can take your own cans into the arena? 

Yeah you can 

[goldengirl]

So could this be the programme? If so no excuse to not give us the official times 🙂

[majormajormajor]

Any dramas bringing in something to smoke? Presume it's pretty lax?

[The Nal]

37 minutes ago, majormajormajor said:

Any dramas bringing in something to smoke? Presume it's pretty lax?

They vaguely check every 500th bag for a couple of seconds. As long as you dont have weapons grade plutonium or a severed head packed at the top you'll be ok.

[Copperface]

3 hours ago, xxialac said:

I don't think people are "properly upset"

Just pointing out that with less than 3 days to go, they obviously have the programme in place and set times drawn up...so why not take a picture of the times that they can describe as provisional, post it on twitter and keep punters happy?

Didn't Green Man do the same though?

One mate was a bit grumpy that they had to buy a program to get any stage times.

 

[snipe]

Flying out tomorrow so all packed now.  Hopefully haven't forgotten too much.

[Vamagus]

Green Man always do that (which is why people are always trying to get the settlers to photo the programme the week before). 
 

EOTR usually publish the set times the week before - for example in 2019 they were published on 23/08 for a 29/08 start. 
 

so late this year hence the anxiety raising amongst those of us who like to plan out the whole weekend