Where are the older bands?!

[jump]

This is a "Who are going to book Garbage now?" thread.

[Justiceforcedave]

Someone missed a trick.

[eFestivals]

in days gone by, this thread was called "where are the metal bands".

[AcademicPistol]

Same thing really because there aren't any (widely popular) 'new' metal bands

[kaosmark2]

in days gone by, this thread was called "where are the metal bands".

[cheeseisamazing]

Yey revision distraction

i can see WHY Festival Republic hasn't booked that many Old Bands, as they do try and attract a younger audience But the more i think about it the more i think you have a DAM fine point. People, including a younger audience, like old bands, the older bands kicked arse!

to be perfectly fucking honest i didn't hear any backlash in 2010 when they booked Limb Bizket, Cypress Hill & Weezer, 2010

Nor did i when they booked Pulp, Madness, The streets or the offspring last year

If anything these Bands helped sell out the festival. I can even remember all these bands having BIG crowds (Reading)...

[Joe-]

Because half of R&L goers don't know music older than You Me At Six.

[jump]

Yey revision distraction

i can see WHY Festival Republic hasn't booked that many Old Bands, as they do try and attract a younger audience But the more i think about it the more i think you have a DAM fine point. People, including a younger audience, like old bands, the older bands kicked arse!

to be perfectly fucking honest i didn't hear any backlash in 2010 when they booked Limb Bizket, Cypress Hill & Weezer, 2010

Nor did i when they booked Pulp, Madness, The streets or the offspring last year

If anything these Bands helped sell out the festival. I can even remember all these bands having BIG crowds (Reading)...

[mrtourette]

Nor did i when they booked Pulp, Madness, The streets or the offspring last year

If anything these Bands helped sell out the festival. I can even remember all these bands having BIG crowds (Reading)...

[kaosmark2]

Last year was heavy on older bands or bands that appeal to older people (The Strokes, Pulp, The National, Muse, Elbow, Interpol, The Offspring, Deftones, Beady Eye, Jane's Addiction) in prime positions and it didn't sell out or as quickly as previously, which might explain the change of approach this year.

[mrtourette]

Where it's sold even worse

[kaosmark2]

Well we don't know that, but if it is true then I guess it's back to the drawing board.

[mrtourette]

Yeah even though there are other factors involved I'm sure they'll be playing around with the line-up to see if they can limit any damage done by the recession, competition, etc.

[thetime]

It's certainly not gone back to the days of quick sellout.

I don't think the lineup is the key factor in that, but it can't have helped.

[mrtourette]

For all we know ticket sales could actually be up on last year and they could be saying to themselves "well done people, concentrating on the kids throughout the undercard has done a great job counteracting the downturn in ticket sales".

[jump]

Them times have gone for the time being, dont think you can blame the lineup on that.

and remember its uks biggest festival by far this year.

[thetime]

Not a 100% but I'm pretty sure it's not, in terms of single sites Download & TITP are bigger and I think the V sites combined are also bigger.

[Yellow_Fellow]

Them times have gone for the time being, dont think you can blame the lineup on that.

and remember its uks biggest festival by far this year.

[thetime]

20,000 smaller than download

[Yellow_Fellow]

oh definitely!

[thetime]

oh definitely!

[cheeseisamazing]

Them times have gone for the time being, dont think you can blame the lineup on that.

and remember its uks biggest festival by far this year.

[thetime]

ahm.. WRONG

Reading and Leeds= 90,000 Reading80,000 Leeds. Combined = 170,000

V festival=90,000 V chemslford 90,000 Sataffordshire. Combined = 180,000

Information From www.efestivals.com

(i also assume your ignoring Glastonbury )

[Dan R]

Yep already agreed that I got wrong with v.

But no glastonbury is about 120,000 paying customers, so glastonbury is not bigger by tickets sales..

Edited April 18, 2012 by Dan R

[thetime]

Apparently Glastonbury is 135,000 paying customers, and the total capacity is 177,000