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59 minutes ago, found home in 2009 said:

also a fair point as I've never heard of Show Of Hands - though according to their wikipedia page they've played and sold out the Royal Albert Hall 😮

I think they're like some old folk legends or something. My partner's parents love them and have seen them loads but I had never heard of them either before we met! 

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15 minutes ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

I think they're like some old folk legends or something. My partner's parents love them and have seen them loads but I had never heard of them either before we met! 

We need some way of demonstrating how many people have heard of Show of Hands... 

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1 hour ago, found home in 2009 said:

also a fair point as I've never heard of Show Of Hands - though according to their wikipedia page they've played and sold out the Royal Albert Hall 😮

 

31 minutes ago, Zoo Music Girl said:

I think they're like some old folk legends or something. My partner's parents love them and have seen them loads but I had never heard of them either before we met! 

I love Show of Hands 😂 whenever they play at Glasto, I'm there - bringing the median age in the crowd down by a few decades.

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2 hours ago, Fish Bulb said:

Fair points, but I think by almost any metric they're bigger than Show Of Hands.

Honestly, they're really not - and that's from someone who loves The Big Moon, indeed they were my last gig before this all started. Actually, I looked at the poster and was proud to see TBM being billed equal to Show of Hands especially when you consider the BDs demographic.

 

1 hour ago, found home in 2009 said:

also a fair point as I've never heard of Show Of Hands - though according to their wikipedia page they've played and sold out the Royal Albert Hall 😮

Multiple times, I believe.

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1 hour ago, incident said:

Honestly, they're really not - and that's from someone who loves The Big Moon, indeed they were my last gig before this all started. Actually, I looked at the poster and was proud to see TBM being billed equal to Show of Hands especially when you consider the BDs demographic.

 

Multiple times, I believe.

Fair enough, happy to admit I was wrong on this. By "almost any metric" I basically meant Spotify plays so, in retrospect I probably should have said "by the one specific metric I've looked at".

However, having now given Show Of Hands a bit of a spin today I have to say, they're not for me.

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16 minutes ago, thewayiam said:

This tells us a lot about where data results have taken them so far given how much MB has supposedly been putting it for their events.

This week is crutial for many events.

Longitude is in Ireland, not even part of the ERP. 

They are on a totally different roadmap to the UK.

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30 minutes ago, thewayiam said:

This tells us a lot about where data results have taken them so far given how much MB has supposedly been putting it for their events.

This week is crutial for many events.

Getting it mixed up with Latitude I think! 

I did get a scare this morning when I saw a headline about an outbreak in the Sefton area...turns out from a bit of googling that sefton park is actually nowhere near sefton Council area (so not in it as I'd assume) in relative Liverpool geographical terms so won't affect the event results! 

 

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19 minutes ago, Paul ™ said:

Longitude is in Ireland, not even part of the ERP. 

They are on a totally different roadmap to the UK.

Worth remembering that the Irish government are completely afraid of their own shadow when it comes to covid. Their CMO wouldn’t look out of place on fake SAGE. 

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6 minutes ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

Worth remembering that the Irish government are completely afraid of their own shadow when it comes to covid. Their CMO wouldn’t look out of place on fake SAGE. 

I believe they are not even looking at discussing mass gatherings till the end of June, so no way Longitude was going ahead this year, surprised it's took them this long to cancel.... oh wait FR so let's sell the tickets anyway 😉 

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20 minutes ago, Paul ™ said:

I believe they are not even looking at discussing mass gatherings till the end of June, so no way Longitude was going ahead this year, surprised it's took them this long to cancel.... oh wait FR so let's sell the tickets anyway 😉 

Pretty embarrassing for the people in Ireland that every single European government that was due to hold Euro 2020 fixtures said they’d allow fans apart from one... the Irish 

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52 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

Getting it mixed up with Latitude I think! 

I did get a scare this morning when I saw a headline about an outbreak in the Sefton area...turns out from a bit of googling that sefton park is actually nowhere near sefton Council area (so not in it as I'd assume) in relative Liverpool geographical terms so won't affect the event results! 

 

Haha yes. Though one is early July, one is middle July. I personally can't see either happening. Too early for festivals that big. 

Longitude have a fair few decent sponsors. Visa, Heineken, Redbull and especially Coca Cola are huge. And they have decided that those aren't enough financially for the risk. Two weeks later and generally July will be no different.

I think they will be sweating on Reading now a bit and they prob have 3 weeks at the very max to make that decision.

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32 minutes ago, thewayiam said:

Longitude have a fair few decent sponsors. Visa, Heineken, Redbull and especially Coca Cola are huge. And they have decided that those aren't enough financially for the risk. Two weeks later and generally July will be no different.

 

What are you talking about?

Did you not understand the part that the Irish government aren't even going to discuss a plan for allowing mass gatherings until late June, with Longitude the first weekend in July, there was never a chance it was going ahead ever since they announced that roadmap.

It's got fuck all to do with sponsors but everything to do with being in a different country.

Reading will be going ahead, and even if they do pull it this year, it won't be till end of June in my opinion.

Latitude am still undecided, but planning continues for now 

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A number of higher-risk activities will be considered at the end of June for later in the year including:

  • indoor hospitality (restaurants, bars, nightclubs, casinos)
  • indoor team/group sports including matches, training and exercise classes
  • mass gatherings/events (including spectators) indoors and outdoors
  • international travel

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