2023 Festival

[FrogLobster]

30 minutes ago, SomeoneListeningIn said:

 

Marketing team pulling a fast one by advertising this as a 'Surprise' after yesterday's no-show. 😅

Edited August 26, 2023 by FrogLobster

[Newjem]

2 minutes ago, FrogLobster said:

Marketing team pulling a fast one by advertising this as a 'Surprise' after yesterday's no-show. 😅

Hopefully, he and his team will keep their phones fully charged so they can reach them 😅

[FrogLobster]

Did Rina cover Korn and Limp Bizkit again? 🤩

[VCK]

When the crowd can't even get up for an R&L staple like Frank Turner, you know the festival isn't what it used to be. Like night and day compared to his 2013 set.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, VCK said:

When the crowd can't even get up for an R&L staple like Frank Turner, you know the festival isn't what it used to be. Like night and day compared to his 2013 set.

I bet the first acts on in 2013 had similar if not smaller crowds than Frank got yesterday. Obviously he's gonna have a bigger crowd when he's playing at 5pm and at the height of his career.

[Andre91]

22 minutes ago, VCK said:

When the crowd can't even get up for an R&L staple like Frank Turner, you know the festival isn't what it used to be. Like night and day compared to his 2013 set.

The crowd for him was good by about halfway through. And I’ve seen countless bands over the years play to hardly anyone when they’re first on. He had a pretty good crowd for the slot he had. 

[Andre91]

27 minutes ago, SomeoneListeningIn said:

I bet the first acts on in 2013 had similar if not smaller crowds than Frank got yesterday. Obviously he's gonna have a bigger crowd when he's playing at 5pm and at the height of his career.

Ahh, 2013. Bury Tomorrow and While She Sleeps both opening days on the Main Stage when they were two of the most exciting new bands in the country. What a year.

Edited August 26, 2023 by Andre91

[thatTFBguy]

Seeing lots of positive takes on Fender last night. 5 stars in NME and plenty of buzz on Twitter. Just to balance out the grumbling on here. 

[Jack.194]

Is there any space for a secret set in that slot on the BBC introducing stage at Leeds tomorrow?

[cam__sh]

1 hour ago, Jack.194 said:

Is there any space for a secret set in that slot on the BBC introducing stage at Leeds tomorrow?

Some of these have been spotted around Reading! Apparently big Catfish comeback. This would be huge if legit 

[thatTFBguy]

2 minutes ago, cam__sh said:

Some of these have been spotted around Reading! Apparently big Catfish comeback. This would be huge if legit 

Nothing screams legit like a hand-written A4 sign taped to a post. 

[VCK]

4 hours ago, SomeoneListeningIn said:

I bet the first acts on in 2013 had similar if not smaller crowds than Frank got yesterday. Obviously he's gonna have a bigger crowd when he's playing at 5pm and at the height of his career.

True, but he also opened the Main Stage in 2016 and his crowd seemed a little better then.
 

3 hours ago, thatTFBguy said:

Seeing lots of positive takes on Fender last night. 5 stars in NME and plenty of buzz on Twitter. Just to balance out the grumbling on here. 

Sam Fender could spent 90 minutes reading the Wikipedia entry for 'beige' and the NME and Twitter would hail it as groundbreaking.

[VCK]

What on earth is Chase Atlantic? They sound like a combination of all the worst music trends of the past 10 years.

[TumbleBean94]

1 hour ago, cam__sh said:

Some of these have been spotted around Reading! Apparently big Catfish comeback. This would be huge if legit 

Mae Stephens is on at that time…

[Andre91]

19 minutes ago, VCK said:

What on earth is Chase Atlantic? They sound like a combination of all the worst music trends of the past 10 years.

They’re shite and their big song comes from TikTok even though it came out about 5 years ago. 

[thatTFBguy]

54 minutes ago, VCK said:

Sam Fender could spent 90 minutes reading the Wikipedia entry for 'beige' and the NME and Twitter would hail it as groundbreaking.

Well, yeah. An artist coming on stage and performing a Wikipedia reading instead of their numerous hit songs would be pretty groundbreaking. 

[Guest]

Knucks sounding pretty good

[wghennessy]

5 hours ago, thatTFBguy said:

Seeing lots of positive takes on Fender last night. 5 stars in NME and plenty of buzz on Twitter. Just to balance out the grumbling on here. 

Its an opinion, just because you dont agree with it doesnt make it grumbling. He was boring...his performance vocally was fine but it itself was as dull as they come.

[thatTFBguy]

1 hour ago, wghennessy said:

Its an opinion, just because you dont agree with it doesnt make it grumbling. He was boring...his performance vocally was fine but it itself was as dull as they come.

I didn't think that anybody would take "grumbling" as an insult, to be honest 😂

[FrogLobster]

Headline band Foals deserve better than this. 😞

 

 

Edited August 26, 2023 by FrogLobster

[VCK]

2 minutes ago, FrogLobster said:

Headline band Foals deserve better than this. 😞

 

 

Are the BBC actually going to upload their set?

[Andre91]

Who said the casuals might not be into this 1975 album!? 
 

WHAT A BAND. 

[wghennessy]

6 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Who said the casuals might not be into this 1975 album!? 
 

WHAT A BAND. 

He's on top form.

[Andre91]

9 minutes ago, wghennessy said:

He's on top form.

I don’t want to be that guy but I heard them in late 2012 and was all in and then watched them play the FR tent in 2013 about ten people deep outside the tent and now I’ve just seen them go from strength to strength to strength. To see this material now, half of which I didn’t expect to hear again, is absolutely amazing. 
 

GOD BLESS THE 1975

[VCK]

Never been a fan, always found them a bit too "bubblegum" for my liking, but he sure does ooze charisma.