New Small/Medium Festival in Hampshire! Who Would You Like to See?

[ParasolPromotions]

We are in the preliminary stages of organising a new small/medium-sized festival in the Hampshire area for 2015!

We are reaching out to you to co-ordinate some market research and gauge which acts you would like to play

If you could fill in this survey we would appreciate it greatly

Thanks!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CRBQTMB

[TenInchToenaiIs]

Macklemore & Jake Bugg

[Andre91]

Slayer.

[Gucci Piggy]

Tool

[rafflesia]

"Do you feel disillusioned with Reading and Leeds Festivals?"

That's an interesting question.

[kaosmark2]

I think at the size you're looking at you need to find another niche away from the bands you've listed in that. This isn't to say they aren't good bands, but a LOT of them have appeared at 2000Trees in the last couple of years. I think a lot of people who would consider your festival would be more likely to go to an already established one of similar size - particularly as it isn't that far, and has ties/deals with other festivals (Y-Not and Arctangent). There's lots of other festivals around of similar size that have overlap as well (Truck and EOTR come to mind), and I think you'll really struggle to break into that market.

Good luck with it, but I think most people who are disillusioned with R+L will either be looking at small festivals that have been going a few years, or want to see the sort of established acts that R+L has moved away from booking, but you wouldn't really get at festivals sub 15k. The sort of size festival the likes of Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins would headline, maybe Franz Ferdinand.

And I fully appreciate that getting a new festival around 20k capacity is a lot harder an ask than trying for 5k. It's just that's where I see the biggest gap in the market and the best way to try away former R+L regulars.

[ParasolPromotions]

I completely understand where you're coming from, however we are considering a few headline acts who are outside of that 2KTrees/Truck/Y-Not pool to counteract that impression

Also we're looking at curating the fest a bit differently to those ones, focusing on new music from top to bottom instead of bands that are a little past their prime that always pop up on mid-sized festival bills (don't want to name names)

[kaosmark2]

Fair enough. It's just the list I saw there looked to have a fair overlap, particularly the ones who seemed to be more possible for R+L in recent years (possibly not this year).

Filled it out though, and good luck.

[mentalmat]

Yeah I 2nd that good luck

Although will you sell the amount of tickets you want to having new bands top to bottom? I love the old* acts at festivals and they seem to go down a lot better than new bands when everyone is just waiting for the song or 2 they've heard before.

*Old is the wrong word I mean more albums/been around longer.

For me the best album of last year was franz Ferdinand's - but because they've 'had their time' it didnt get as noticed as it should of and that's wrong. New doesnt necessarily mean better

[The Placid Casual]

Tool, Daft Punk, The Libertines & Weezer

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