Rock En Seine 2023

[payneruk]

OK thanks. I don't suppose you're aware of any non-UK, European festivals in August where you can take a campervan?

[adequate8]

5 hours ago, payneruk said:

OK thanks. I don't suppose you're aware of any non-UK, European festivals in August where you can take a campervan?

Sziget maybe?
 

[payneruk]

Thanks

[gigi21]

8 hours ago, payneruk said:

OK thanks. I don't suppose you're aware of any non-UK, European festivals in August where you can take a campervan?

It's a small one, definitely more underground, but you can stay at the camping with your car or campervan at Haldern Pop Festival in Germany, I've been there last year.

I'm almost sure there's a camper camping at Lowlands, in Netherlands.

[payneruk]

2 hours ago, gigi21 said:

It's a small one, definitely more underground, but you can stay at the camping with your car or campervan at Haldern Pop Festival in Germany, I've been there last year.

I'm almost sure there's a camper camping at Lowlands, in Netherlands.

Thanks I'll check them out.

[MichaelsBeard]

Anyone know where I’d be able to source Sunday tickets. Booked to go over and it’s sold out atm 

[gigi21]

On 7/23/2023 at 1:48 PM, MichaelsBeard said:

Anyone know where I’d be able to source Sunday tickets. Booked to go over and it’s sold out atm 

The only 2 things I can tell you:
- On the website there's a specific FAQ about ticket resale. It doesn't say very much but there's a specific mail address for infos about that.
- Last year an official ticket resale platform was opened on July 29 but I don't know if someone here used it: https://www.rockenseine.com/en/mag/the-ticket-resale-platform-is-open/

I hope someone else can tell you more

[gigi21]

On 7/23/2023 at 1:48 PM, MichaelsBeard said:

Anyone know where I’d be able to source Sunday tickets. Booked to go over and it’s sold out atm 

official resale opened yesterday. I think it's the only way (if you don't know someone who bought a ticket but cannot attend anymore).

[BOBBY_FIRMINO]

Anybody attend last year? Was wondering what it was like picking wristbands up on the first day. Also, how were the queues for the bars?

[gigi21]

2 hours ago, BOBBY_FIRMINO said:

how were the queues for the bars?

I noticed a "cashless" section in the app but it's still not working. Maybe there will be a very quick payment method like a QR code to be announced during the next days (already used it last year at Haldern Pop in Germany and it worked very well).

[Float]

Florence + The Machine are out. 

Cypress Hill replacing.

[gigi21]

22 minutes ago, Float said:

Florence + The Machine are out. 

Cypress Hill replacing.

Strange but funny replacement.

Nothing changed in the schedule: Cypress Hill will have the 70 minutes Florence's spot on the main stage.

[LFC_1892]

43 minutes ago, Float said:

Florence + The Machine are out. 

Cypress Hill replacing.

This is shite but at least they've got somebody in to replace them. Went to Primavera last summer: The Strokes dropped out a few days prior and were replaced by nobody, just bumped some Spanish act who I'd never heard of up the list.

 

 

 

Cypress Hill aren't really my thing, would have preferred any middle of the road indie band to be honest but that's just personal taste. Sure I'll have drank enough to enjoy it either way

[DDave]

24 minutes ago, LFC_1892 said:

This is shite but at least they've got somebody in to replace them. Went to Primavera last summer: The Strokes dropped out a few days prior and were replaced by nobody, just bumped some Spanish act who I'd never heard of up the list.

Caribou played the Strokes slot and Mogwai were added to the line up. Neither of them are Spanish.

[gigi21]

Back home from Paris, enjoyed a lot this one. Beautiful park, very easy to reach, a lot of choices in food and beverage including some nice beers. Very good audio at any stage, except a couple of electricity problems during Fever Ray and The Strokes' shows.
Weather has been warm but not hot, with only 10 minutes of rain during Wet Leg / Young Fathers.

My cons:
- The stages are disposed on a vertical line and they're not really close to each other (it takes a 20 minutes walk, more or less, to reach the Grand Scene from the Scene Bosquet and a 10 minutes one from the Scene Cascade). There's always a lot of people during the night shows at Grande Scene and shows start suddenly as the ones on the other stages end, so, if you want to get quite close to the main stage, you have to miss the previous concerts on other stages. On the contrary, leaving the Grande Scene during the last song by Foals to reach Cascade for Bonobo has been quite easy because most of the people stayed there for The Strokes.
The festival started early afternoon every day and ended at 00.30 on Friday and Saturday and 11.30 pm on Sunday (with only The Strokes playing in the entire festival area from 10 to 11.30 pm), so every day you better choose the 3-4 concerts you want to attend to. It's difficult to do more, unless you don't want to see half concerts. Florence cancellation let us attend full sets by Dry Cleaning and Yeah Yeah Yeahs (skipping Cypress Hill) + The Chems kinda far from the stage (but amazing anyways). With Florence instead of Cypress we'd have to make one more choice.
- Most of the people left the festival around midnight on Sunday, so the underground was overcrowded, but there's a train every few minutes, so the waiting hasn't been long (we walked 800 metres to the second stop and catched the first train, to be honest).

My highlights: The Chemical Brothers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Christine And The Queens, Fever Ray, Bonobo, The Murder Capital (all incredible imho). Also enjoyed Foals, Viagra Boys, Dry Cleaning, Altin Gun, Placebo, Turnstile, Gaz Coombes, Wet Leg.
I'm reading many conflicting comments on RES social pages regarding The Strokes set. Basically, from what I read, Strokes fans loved it, the rest of the crowd didn't. I'm honestly not a fan. They weren't as sh*tty as many people say in the comments, but it's been the show I liked the less.

Definitely worth it and worth a trip to Paris with my girlfriend.

Edited August 29, 2023 by gigi21

[WFD]

We just got back last night having done this in a road trip combined with Pukkelpop, and agree with the above.  It was a long hike between stages and found I had to change some plans to take it into account (for example went to see julie instead of Snail Mail as I was up at that end before and after julie's set so it made sense to stay up there rather than do two long walks just to see half of Snail Mail's set).  Liked the beer selection, and nice to get a half litre option rather than the 300 ml that other European festivals seem to prefer (wasn't tempted into the one litre pitcher option though!).  Didn't eat anything inside, although daughter got a couple of things when the queues weren't so bad.  Great setting, and easy to get a decent spot for most sets apart from the headliners.  Most of the big acts didn't have much in the way of alternatives against them on other stages so there were some huge crowds, and due to the narrow configuration the crowds went a long way back.

YYYs and Fever Ray were the major highlights for me, and was happy with the line up overall.  Sound was decent, we left The Strokes about an hour into their set as we'd felt we'd done enough for the weekend, and could still hear them all the way up to Bosquet.  Bit weird to be seeing them starting to take the other stages apart while the main stage headliner was still playing though!