JayA5

tbf I can see Hozier going down decently well with the usual R&L crowd, saw him on tour last year and most people were probably 16-25 ish. Also seems to have quite a few loyal fans, think if he's not doing too much in the UK it would shift some day tickets too.

Yeah, I was referencing Corella playing key club and Crawlers too (think James Marriott was also meant to be on so did a gig in the centre and they offered to be support)

100% Hoping they do bring back the lock-up or something similar but that's probably me being selfish with my music taste ha. similar sort of thing with the Wunderhorse introducing set at Leeds and Chevron being too loud, but tbh not much they can do with the sound cause one stage is much bigger than the other and you're not really going to be 10 or more rows back from the introducing unless it is a secret set.

Feel like this year was so much closer to getting the festival back to what people on here want... Pros Chevron stage looked great, not my sort of music but was visually good (i agree with the point of having it more multi-genre for the right acts because Wombats were class being on there) The one main stage just works so much better than the 2 stage format Done well to work around the stage closures at Leeds - the acts I wanted to see managed to reschedule bar 2 that ended up doing gigs in the City Centre (which we couldn't make but it was a nice touch) Cons Silent disco was a disaster, what happened to cheesy/indie music and the 2 channel system? hopefully they look at the feedback and fix that for next year because its usually one of the best parts. Between that and no TPD at Piccadilly the Thursday at Leeds was a little dead this year, every place we went was just playing dance music (unless we went to the festival republic but we didn't want to have to watch Bilk pretend to be musicians) For the chevron, I'd be interested to see them go for a more Creamfields / Coachella approach and have the lighting display inside a hangar type of structure (think this would make the daytime acts look better). Overall Think they done well this year and seemed to please a wide range of people which is what it's all about. Would've loved to got to see a couple of acts on the R1 stage, but nothing they could do about that sadly. They've definitely got enough now to work with and build on, personally think the introduction of Chevron and (sort of) re-introduction of R1 tent is things they are going to grow and currently just testing the waters to see how they'll be able to make them better and even more appealing in coming years.

prediction poster from October, made before any announcements but some are looking likely to make an appearance now