Bearded Theory 2025

[Paul ™]

Acts pulling out of a schedule can sadly happen for so many reasons.

 

Contractual, personal/family reasons, logistics, getting a better offer to name a few.

[Brummy hippy]

Hi Paul, are you and Sadie doing the same again this year at Bearded?

[Jon F]

17 hours ago, CanWeRest said:

 

You'd think they'd know that though, wouldn't you? But you're probably right. It's a testament to CMAT that this is such a huge loss though. Her stock is so high at the moment ⤴️

Tour tickets were fairly easy to grab this morning - we got Newcastle ones to make up for her not being at the festival

[CanWeRest]

1 hour ago, Jon F said:

Tour tickets were fairly easy to grab this morning - we got Newcastle ones to make up for her not being at the festival

 

Good idea. I'd like to see her, I've just got to persuade someone to join me.

[Paul ™]

2 hours ago, Brummy hippy said:

Hi Paul, are you and Sadie doing the same again this year at Bearded?

Yes, on site from the 11th, just over 5 weeks to go! 

[The life of Pablo]

2 hours ago, Jon F said:

Tour tickets were fairly easy to grab this morning - we got Newcastle ones to make up for her not being at the festival

Seen her Cluny 2 3 years ago. 

 

I hope she keeps on smashing it! 

[Brummy hippy]

I will more than likely bump into you both.

Mind you, we both have distinctive voices 😄 

[Paul ™]

Cycle to Bearded Theory with Zig Zag, along a fantastically scenic 50km route with pub lunch stops and accompanied by your fellow festival-goers. Drop your bags off in advance and they’ll be transported to the festival for you, leaving you to enjoy the thrill of the journey with support along the way. We’re offering free secure cycling parking plus, to show our gratitude for your individual commitment to event sustainability we’ll be providing “Dinner On Us” and some drinks to anyone who cycles to the festival.

Cycle-to-Bearded-Theory-with-ZigZag.pdf

[CanWeRest]

I'm glad they've done this. A really interesting move and adds a nice new dimension to the festival.

[ciderbus]

Finally confirmed that we can make this so picked up tickets yesterday. Still able to split the cost in half which helped.

Time to get excited and start exploring some of the unknown names further down the bill.

[Paul ™]

On 04/04/2025 at 19:28, Brummy hippy said:

I will more than likely bump into you both.

Mind you, we both have distinctive voices 😄 

Look out for me 😉

[Chrisp1986]

On 27/03/2025 at 10:55, Paul ™ said:

Are you holding off for any reason? Hoping to get a late cheap deal?

Mainly to make sure it isn't going to be a washout again....

[CanWeRest]

Rain seems to hit harder at Bearded.

[incident]

1 hour ago, CanWeRest said:

Rain seems to hit harder at Bearded.

 

Absolutely disagree with this.

 

Given the sheer volume of rain that fell last year, in a relatively short space of time, I was amazed at how well the site held up. I've been to plenty festivals that have had less rain cause worse ground conditions. Glastonbury being a prime example.

 

It's made me pretty confident going forward that as the site can (just about) cope with freak amounts of rain like that, then any "normal" year will be perfectly fine.

[Gnomicide]

Coincidentally, I'd dug out this pic earlier for a discussion elsewhere.

 

 

To be fair, it had been a long time since I'd been at a really wet festival and the fear of them had built up as memories faded. But this was a reminder that you can cope and still have a good time.

 

I've got a little video clip I filmed while walking through the mud on Wednesday night, and you can hear my son say "Where would you rather be?" and he had a point.

[Paul ™]

3 hours ago, Chrisp1986 said:

Mainly to make sure it isn't going to be a washout again....

 

Good luck with that, for the reasons already stated.

 

2 hours ago, CanWeRest said:

Rain seems to hit harder at Bearded.

 

Nonsense, plus since being on that site since 2014, it's only got really muddy twice... 2014 & 2024

 

1 hour ago, incident said:

 

Absolutely disagree with this.

 

Given the sheer volume of rain that fell last year, in a relatively short space of time, I was amazed at how well the site held up. I've been to plenty festivals that have had less rain cause worse ground conditions. Glastonbury being a prime example.

 

It's made me pretty confident going forward that as the site can (just about) cope with freak amounts of rain like that, then any "normal" year will be perfectly fine.

 

This ^^

 

1 hour ago, Nobody Interesting said:

LOLing so hard it hurts

 

Last years rain was not forecast til a couple of hours before and was totally unprescidented with previous records less than half the rainfall on ground soaked by the wettest winter on record.

To get the ground to that state we need rain every day for  a month, and lots of it, and then we need 100mm in one hour as people arrive.

Just buy a ticket FFS

 

 And This ^^

[CanWeRest]

16 hours ago, incident said:

 

Absolutely disagree with this.

 

Given the sheer volume of rain that fell last year, in a relatively short space of time, I was amazed at how well the site held up. I've been to plenty festivals that have had less rain cause worse ground conditions. Glastonbury being a prime example.

 

It's made me pretty confident going forward that as the site can (just about) cope with freak amounts of rain like that, then any "normal" year will be perfectly fine.

 

I wasn't talking about the ground/site. I was talking about how it feels on the person. 

 

But people don't need much of a reason to strongly disagree with you on here 😹

[CanWeRest]

14 hours ago, Paul ™ said:

 

Nonsense, plus since being on that site since 2014, it's only got really muddy twice... 2014 & 2024

 

Oh, and another one! 😹😹😹

[Paul ™]

2 hours ago, CanWeRest said:

 

I wasn't talking about the ground/site. I was talking about how it feels on the person. 

 

But people don't need much of a reason to strongly disagree with you on here 😹

 

2 hours ago, CanWeRest said:

 

Oh, and another one! 😹😹😹

Maybe you should just have been clearer on what you meant 😏

[Brummy hippy]

anyway, fingers crossed and all that jazz 😉

 

[sadimmock]

Any thoughts on when the day splits are likely to appear? Quite excited about digging into the undercard and finding some smaller bands for when I have gaps! 

[incident]

23 minutes ago, sadimmock said:

Any thoughts on when the day splits are likely to appear? Quite excited about digging into the undercard and finding some smaller bands for when I have gaps! 

 

Sometime towards the end of the month - so a couple weeks from now at best.

[Brummy hippy]

Transformer?

Robots in disguise?

[Brummy hippy]

oh right, they were quite good (from what I remember)

Velvet Underground set?

[Jon F]

34 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:

Transformer is Shonan Knife performing songs of The Ramones.

Sounds good to me 🙂

This has made my day - one of my favourite albums and they rarely trot stuff out from it live.