PeterQuaife
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 | | 19 Feb 2008 8:20 AM |
| MBV confirmed.
Anyone know of anyone else? Any good-sourced-rumours?
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Quint
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| | 19 Feb 2008 10:32 AM |
| Tindersticks, Elbow and Richard Hawley, for starters.
Possibly Portishead, Mogwai, Massive Attack.
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Ally
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| | 20 Feb 2008 2:12 AM |
| i've now come to the conclusion that electric picnic fluked a good lineup in 2007 because MCD deliberately tried to sabotage them... hence EP had to look to the sidelines for some acts and it worked...
...all they are trying to do is snare the same crowd pulling acts as everyone else... | | | |
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UnaRocks
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| | 20 Feb 2008 7:09 AM |
| | IT'S FEBRUARY | | | |
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starbelgrade
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| | 20 Feb 2008 7:19 AM |
| Posted By UnaRocks on 20 Feb 2008 7:09 AM
IT'S FEBRUARY
.. and will be for the rest of the month!
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Ally
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| | 20 Feb 2008 7:24 AM |
| Posted By UnaRocks on 20 Feb 2008 7:09 AM
IT'S FEBRUARY
is it too early to discuss ireland's premier festival experience, una?
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Quint
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| | 20 Feb 2008 8:11 AM |
| Well, it IS six months away but then again line-ups are usually announced in March, so whatever.
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UnaRocks
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| | 20 Feb 2008 8:14 AM |
| Posted By Ally on 20 Feb 2008 7:24 AM Posted By UnaRocks on 20 Feb 2008 7:09 AM
IT'S FEBRUARY is it too early to discuss ireland's premier festival experience, una?
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Ally
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| | 20 Feb 2008 8:27 AM |
| Posted By UnaRocks on 20 Feb 2008 8:14 AM Posted By Ally on 20 Feb 2008 7:24 AM Posted By UnaRocks on 20 Feb 2008 7:09 AM
IT'S FEBRUARY is it too early to discuss ireland's premier festival experience, una? yes, imo
but i want to slate the lineup for being middle of the road as soon as i see the names...
...you spoil my fun...
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floodzer
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| | 20 Feb 2008 8:32 AM |
| | what does imo mean? | | | |
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starbelgrade
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| | 20 Feb 2008 8:38 AM |
| Posted By floodzer on 20 Feb 2008 8:32 AM
what does imo mean?
In My Opinion (or International Money Order - I suspect she was using the 1st reference though). | | | |
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starbelgrade
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| | 20 Feb 2008 8:41 AM |
| Posted By Ally on 20 Feb 2008 8:27 AM Posted By UnaRocks on 20 Feb 2008 8:14 AM Posted By Ally on 20 Feb 2008 7:24 AM Posted By UnaRocks on 20 Feb 2008 7:09 AM
IT'S FEBRUARY is it too early to discuss ireland's premier festival experience, una? yes, imo but i want to slate the lineup for being middle of the road as soon as i see the names... ...you spoil my fun...
What the hell's middle of the road about the (rumoured) line-up?
Portishead, Mogwai, Massive Attack, Tindersticks, Elbow, MBV.... some popular names there alright, but hardly M.O.R.
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starbelgrade
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| | 20 Feb 2008 8:44 AM |
| | Ally - why don't you organise your own "obscure / left wing" 1 day festival? Just you, a couple of other miserable anoraks & a s**t load of unheard of bands. I'm sure it would be an absolute financial disaster, but you'd have a great time at it, rubbing your chin & saying "hmm, such interesting use of tambalas on the middle 8th". | | | |
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Ally
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| | 20 Feb 2008 8:51 AM |
| and there we have it in one...
successful festival = financial success
doesn't appear to be anything about music in that equation... | | | |
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Binokular
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| | 20 Feb 2008 9:07 AM |
| Posted By floodzer on 20 Feb 2008 8:32 AM
what does imo mean?
Like emo, but thinner.
It is also an organisation for Irish Musicians who don't record.
Ally - music festivals are there to make money, I think thats pretty clear, it's not the 60s. It would be nice to see someone organising a festival for the love of it, but that doesn't happen much and takes a LOT of work, so full respect to anyone willing to give it a try. | | | |
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starbelgrade
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| | 20 Feb 2008 9:09 AM |
| Posted By Ally on 20 Feb 2008 8:51 AM
and there we have it in one...
successful festival = financial success
doesn't appear to be anything about music in that equation...
That's only because your apparent inability to associate any band that's had any financial success with anything other that middle of the road.
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UnaRocks
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| | 20 Feb 2008 9:09 AM |
| Posted By Ally on 20 Feb 2008 8:27 AM Posted By UnaRocks on 20 Feb 2008 8:14 AM Posted By Ally on 20 Feb 2008 7:24 AM Posted By UnaRocks on 20 Feb 2008 7:09 AM
IT'S FEBRUARY is it too early to discuss ireland's premier festival experience, una? yes, imo but i want to slate the lineup for being middle of the road as soon as i see the names... ...you spoil my fun...
heh heh
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Ally
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| | 20 Feb 2008 9:21 AM |
| Posted By starbelgrade on 20 Feb 2008 9:09 AM Posted By Ally on 20 Feb 2008 8:51 AM
and there we have it in one...
successful festival = financial success
doesn't appear to be anything about music in that equation... That's only because your apparent inability to associate any band that's had any financial success with anything other that middle of the road.
i don't mean to be awkward... i'll try and be clearer... let's take this left-field / obscure nonsense out of the equation... what i really don't want to see is "safe"...
take EP 2005 for example... let's take 3 bands... No.1, the bookers managed to see an incredible rising star in 'arcade fire' (partly luck i guess that they were on the crest by that september)... No.2, they pulled a massive coup with 'Kraftwerk'... No.3, they mnaged to trap some very cool names e.g. 'Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds'... In addition to that, they played across genres a little better and variety was more in abundance... now take those three bands (and they're just examples)... all three of them were booked when they had very few other appearances in festival lineups that year... they were not doing the "festival circuit"... that is the essence of what i have a problem with...
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starbelgrade
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| | 20 Feb 2008 9:51 AM |
| Posted By Ally on 20 Feb 2008 9:21 AM Posted By starbelgrade on 20 Feb 2008 9:09 AM Posted By Ally on 20 Feb 2008 8:51 AM
and there we have it in one...
successful festival = financial success
doesn't appear to be anything about music in that equation... That's only because your apparent inability to associate any band that's had any financial success with anything other that middle of the road. i don't mean to be awkward... i'll try and be clearer... let's take this left-field / obscure nonsense out of the equation... what i really don't want to see is "safe"... take EP 2005 for example... let's take 3 bands... No.1, the bookers managed to see an incredible rising star in 'arcade fire' (partly luck i guess that they were on the crest by that september)... No.2, they pulled a massive coup with 'Kraftwerk'... No.3, they mnaged to trap some very cool names e.g. 'Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds'... In addition to that, they played across genres a little better and variety was more in abundance... now take those three bands (and they're just examples)... all three of them were booked when they had very few other appearances in festival lineups that year... they were not doing the "festival circuit"... that is the essence of what i have a problem with...
That's a bit like saying a brilliant band with a s**t name can't make good music. If the line-up's good, the festival will be good, regardless of whether the bands are on the festival circuit or not. | | | |
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Ally
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| | 20 Feb 2008 9:57 AM |
| Posted By starbelgrade on 20 Feb 2008 9:51 AM Posted By Ally on 20 Feb 2008 9:21 AM Posted By starbelgrade on 20 Feb 2008 9:09 AM Posted By Ally on 20 Feb 2008 8:51 AM
and there we have it in one...
successful festival = financial success
doesn't appear to be anything about music in that equation... That's only because your apparent inability to associate any band that's had any financial success with anything other that middle of the road. i don't mean to be awkward... i'll try and be clearer... let's take this left-field / obscure nonsense out of the equation... what i really don't want to see is "safe"... take EP 2005 for example... let's take 3 bands... No.1, the bookers managed to see an incredible rising star in 'arcade fire' (partly luck i guess that they were on the crest by that september)... No.2, they pulled a massive coup with 'Kraftwerk'... No.3, they mnaged to trap some very cool names e.g. 'Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds'... In addition to that, they played across genres a little better and variety was more in abundance... now take those three bands (and they're just examples)... all three of them were booked when they had very few other appearances in festival lineups that year... they were not doing the "festival circuit"... that is the essence of what i have a problem with... That's a bit like saying a brilliant band with a s**t name can't make good music. If the line-up's good, the festival will be good, regardless of whether the bands are on the festival circuit or not.
you win... well done... i retract everything i've said to date...
variety and surprise... that's what i want... go ahead, go and tell me why that's not what i want...
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