Get Together 2022

[Huckleberry Finn]

Anyone heading to this in Sheffield next weekend?

Fairly solid line-up, venues close together, beer festival on site, £33 all in and Sheffield is a decent place for breweries and the like. Can't wait to get back into the festival routine.

[Kim Wrong-Un]

Yes we're driving over from Manchester. Especially looking forward to Squid but lots besides including She Drew the Gun, Sinead O'Brien, English Teacher and Honeyglaze.

Like Newdad and Goat Girl as well but recently seen Newdad and will be seeing Goat Girl in a couple of months. Will stay on for Confidence Man if we're still going strong.

Alas I'm on driving duty so won't be able to partake much in the beer festival.

[cdm22]

We really enjoyed it last year and it was great that all of the stages were all close together. Just a shame they reduced it to a one day festival this year as it isn't really worth going up from Cambridge for the day.

[ciderbus]

Really looking forward to it. 

Timetable is spot on for me and the food and drink offering looks good too.

Should be an excellent value day out.

[Huckleberry Finn]

Some late changes to the line-up, with Sinead O'Brien, Peaness (who have Covid) and Nothingheads pulling out. Wet Man and Wesley Gonzalez have stepped in late doors. Disappointing, but these things happen.

[gregory]

On 4/30/2022 at 3:49 PM, Huckleberry Finn said:

Some late changes to the line-up, with Sinead O'Brien, Peaness (who have Covid) and Nothingheads pulling out. Wet Man and Wesley Gonzalez have stepped in late doors. Disappointing, but these things happen.

Wesley Gonzalez is good, check him!

[Huckleberry Finn]

Had some time to collect my thoughts on this. Overall, a really stunning day. It was a really good line-up with acts given proper slots and able to showcase the full range of their material. Most of those that were given 30 minutes (that I saw) it suited well, and that continued as the day progressed as the slots got longer, and the acts more established.

I won’t go into too much detail on the individual artists but a word for Confidence Man who are not my sort of thing but absolutely smashed it with awesome energy and an engaging performance, and Etta Marcus who played Firth Hall in front of 40-odd people with her mum keeping tabs on time. It was that kind of event.

Drinks were well priced and there seemed a really welcoming, warm atmosphere among everyone who attended and worked the fest. No venue was ever packed out or uncomfortable (perhaps because it didn’t sell out) but that was well handled.

I only had two minor issues. Drinks not being able to be taken from the free stage, into the public/communal area was a tad over the top. The security occupying the threshold between the two we’re loving every second of stopping people, which didn’t help.

And, by my reckoning, the food stalls available were all closed and sold out by 7pm. Indeed, the dedicated vegan place (which was excellent) were down three of their offerings by 2:30pm. This probably needs looking at going forward. I suspect Co-op and others nearby made a killing.

Returning would be largely line-up dependent as I am not local, but I’d have no hesitation is recommending it. As a day festival goes for £33 there is little I can fault.