They’ve got two UFO stages? Unreal
At Electric Castle in Cluj.
Chvrches- fucking amazing
Limp Bizkit - Utter gash. They did more covers than their own songs. Romanians went wild for it though.
Zed's Dead - Good mix of Dubstep and DnB
Florence and the Machine - Not my kinda sound but that voice fucking hell
Sigma - Good, if poppy, DnB mixed with some house and dubstep
Boys Noize - Best thing I've heard in years. Dark, minimalist techno ramped into some DnB then industrial hardcore right at the end.
Plus some other smaller acts I've heard bits of. Great fucking festival but the transport to get there is 4th world. Three hour queue for a two hour bus ride there in 30 degree heat with no air con.
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BN is great fun. Guaranteed to get you sweating.
He did a tribute to Keith Flint and rolled three Prodigy remixes back to back. Whole place was rammed and went ballistic.
Nice. Had a lot of that at Glastonbury this year too. Long may it continue.
Survived Dek. Pretty much everything I saw was ace, but main highlights was probably Parrish Smith and then straight over to Orpheu the Wizard. Was completely buzzing after that.
Also, Palms Trax dropping this this year again was one of the most euphoric crowd moments I've seen, just smiles all around:
Has his remix of Feist - My Moon My Man survived his move towards more techno oriented sets? I saw him in a tiny little room in The Arches about fifteen years ago then a few years later as the headline act in the dance tent at Rockness and both times that tune took the sides off the place as an encore track. &Down remains the best of his stuff I've heard, but MMMM will always stir something in me.
I can't remember anything that downtempo being played. He started with some dark as all fuck Techno then had me losing my shit when he played borderline speedcore for the last couple tracks.
Bellahouston Park holding up well to the piddling 'festival' they've had there today.
Whoever okayed having that at the bottom of a fairly big hill is an idiot.
Gonna try for coaches as well this year since it's bound to be much harder to get a ticket for the 50th. I'm confident I'll be there no matter what, but it'd be nice to have it sorted in good time. I ended up convincing my mum to go after this year, so she's banded together a crew of four, who I've chucked two of my mates in with to make a six. If they're the only group that get tickets it'll be a bit of a weird one.
I had completely forgotten it was tonight. Nice one.
No luck, but coach isn't ideal for me anyway.
Huge relief. Now for nine months of excitement.
Five attempts, five Glastos. See you there in 2020.
I've only got through once, and that was coach tickets for a friend the only year I didn't get tickets in the main sale (2017). Fortunately I've got a couple of friends with the magic touch. I'm at a point where I'd quite like to work before/after now just to go to the staff parties.
Dek 2020:
Lots of shit there I have no clue of whatsoever, but the 10 hour Theo Parrish-thing could be really great.
https://re-textured.com/#section_lineup
Trying to drum up some interest in this. Might just go on my own if I fail.
That Saturday at Tobacco Docks is amazing. I was thinking about it but I'll probably be back in Jersey.
Sonars electronic line-up is pretty
Despacio, The Chemical Brothers, Arca, Joy Orbison, Prydz, Lindstrřm etc.
I fancy Primavera again. Mostly because Pavement are playing tbh.
That’s the first one I’ve heard of anything off. Bernankes one looks like you let a toddler loose on a keyboard.
Some people at Dour were raving about Sonar so I'd like to go one year, but it's proximity to Glastonbury means it'll have to wait till a fallow year. I'd struggle to get anyone to go too. Some mates are interested in Primavera but it seems a bit soulless.
Glasto looks off given a thread on eFests that the admin has taken seriously to the point he tweeted a sad face.
Trying not to get excited, but tickets are flying about for all sorts of events. If R&L can go ahead, that means Boomtown probably can, but it still all feels far too ambitious.
27% of us are vaccinated. Mostly from within the most vulnerable to the disease. As long as the goalposts stay where they are there's no reason we shouldn't be completely back to normal by June. Buy all the tickets.
Break down a list of the finest so I can impulsively spend a wedge on tickets, please.
I heard talk of European ones and am a little more apprehensive on those but I am very close to being tempted to book Worldwide.
I can't even remember who's playing where from the main festivals, but I'd love to get back to Dour and Boomtown over anything else.
All restrictions are lifted in June so book away. I'd guess Europe will open up at some point in summer and the RoW via vaccine passports late autumn.
Tickets for Printworks reopening went on pre-sale at 12. I clicked link at 12:03 and just scraped one of the final release tickets. This is fucking madness.
I can't festivals happening tbh. I really hope they do but I'm not going to book anything. I'll just overpay on the day if I really want it.
Just bought a ticket for Dour. Think mid-July before all the major fests kick off in August is probably the safest. Worth the risk to be at the Elektropedia in the Belgian sun.
The world is at your mercy and you've picked Belgium?
I went to Rock Werchter in Belgium a few years ago and it was awesome
Yeah, Belgian festivals are great. I did Rock Werchter 2011 and from speaking to people there I was put onto Dour and now this will be my fourth time. The sound quality is amazing, it covers the best genres, its stupidly sunny (too hot if anything) and quite cheap compared to UK fests.
Just managed to get a Boomtown ticket at cost too. This summer will either be brilliant or tragic.
I've got Warm-Up [as it came through my inbox first and was on my doorstep] and a load of 1 day-ers, the highlight being Cross The Tracks.
Anyone trying for Primavera -22 tickets tomorrow?
Yeah. Will do Thursday to Thursday or something.
Last time I went we fluked our way into a four star hotel a ten minute walk from the festival and I simply refuse to do it any other way now. Obviously all the good accomodation within a few miles is already booked out so I'm just going to set booking.com as my homepage and hope for a cancellation.
Hotels probably haven't even opened their bookings 13 months out, I'm sure if you check once every two weeks or so you'll find something.
I'm probably doing second weekend and then staying over Sónar. Apparently the club gigs are kinda impossible to get into if you don't have dual weekend tickets, so might turn up on the 8th or something.
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That makes more sense lol. I'm just used to all of the primo hotels being booked out well in advance and ending up a half an hour cab ride away.
Got tickets for first weekend, bummed to have missed out on VIP though.
Got the second weekend ones, whew.
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The A La Ciutat stuff is apparently prioritised to double weekend ticket holders. That's a bit of a bollocks.
Yep, and single weekend VIP aren't prioritised either. I have zero hope in seeing the PC Music thing (Razz 2 has like 900 capacity), or Jamie XX as well as Talabots label night (both are playing at Laut with 230 people capacity). There's bound to be that amount of dual weekend ticket holders gunning for all of those.
Yeah the PC Music thing was one of the main draws. Quite tempted to snag a dual weekend now lol.
I'm not sure I've ever got into an indoor thing at primavera, they're always just chaos.
Prima W1 sounds like it's a shitshow.
Massively oversold and understaffed.
I had to sell my ticket so I'm a little relieved to hear that. The bars are always a bit of a nightmare so I can't imagine what it's like with more punters and fewer staff. Sneaking miniature vodkas in basically mandatory.
I like Billie Eilish, but what's the point in being half a mile back in the crowd while she sings along to a backing track? She's nowhere near actually big enough to get the crowd engagement.
Run of ballads now, mass exodus on the cards imo.
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