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From Rock Werchter website who also had the Foo Fighters, gives a bit of insight for this slot.

 

 

The situation: Dave Grohl breaks a leg on stage in Sweden. As a consequence, Foo Fighters are forced to cancel a number of shows, including their performance at Rock Werchter. They were set to headline on Thursday 25 June. How does a festival organiser deal with that?

A step-by-step walkthrough:

  1. Define your target: Rock Werchter chooses to spoil its festival goers with one – or, even better, two – names in a similar musical vein.
  2. Check tour schedules of bands who could be up to the task. Whoever already has a show on 25 June is off. Bands not currently on tour are off, too. If a band isn’t performing, a part of their crew often joins another band’s crew. No crew equals no performance. A big band often brings 20 to 120 people!
  3. Based on step 2, create a shortlist of available acts. Double check for solo projects of band members. Inform if there aren’t any promotional activities planned. If necessary, adjust your list accordingly.
  4. Contact international agents of the bands you’ve selected. Try and convince them to add an additional Rock Werchter show to their – often very packed – tour schedule. Not every band will be prepared to perform on their day off. A day of rest on tour is built in on a regular basis, to allow the band members’ voices and bodies to recover sufficiently, or to make sure long distances in between shows can be overcome with truckloads of equipment.
  5. The waiting game...
  6. Is it doable in terms of logistics and production? The festival crew are doing everything they can. For Faith No More, a Boeing is being chartered to get the band and their gear to Sweden in time for their next show on Friday 26 June.
  7. Confirmed! With Faith No More and Royal Blood, a double dose of rock ‘n roll can be added to the programme on Thursday 25 June. The time schedule are updates and press, media and festival goers are informed.
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I think this must mean set times are all the same and a sub is being fitted in

 

Didn't they say we were getting revised set times though? They already changed the headliner start time with Florence doing a shorter set. The gap seems massive unless the sub does get a headliner size set. Needs to be a bloody god sub to do that and go down well though. 

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Didn't they say we were getting revised set times though? They already changed the headliner start time with Florence doing a shorter set. The gap seems massive unless the sub does get a headliner size set. Needs to be a bloody god sub to do that and go down well though. 

 

im completely gueesing!

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really hope so! whether they have to have extra long gaps in between acts or give the sub a longer than usual set, any time re-jigging would fuck up my lovely Friday

 

take me through Friday please, im still struggling with going to see wolf alice then going back to another stage then back to the park for SFA!

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Didn't they say we were getting revised set times though? They already changed the headliner start time with Florence doing a shorter set. The gap seems massive unless the sub does get a headliner size set. Needs to be a bloody god sub to do that and go down well though. 

 

Yeah, unless they book two acts, it'll just be a big gap. You can't just say to acts booked earlier "can you do an extra 15 minutes" (you'd potentially need to renegotiate the contract) or even move the slot around (as they may have commitments before/after, not everyone wants to stay on site).

 

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From Rock Werchter website who also had the Foo Fighters, gives a bit of insight for this slot.

 

 

The situation: Dave Grohl breaks a leg on stage in Sweden. As a consequence, Foo Fighters are forced to cancel a number of shows, including their performance at Rock Werchter. They were set to headline on Thursday 25 June. How does a festival organiser deal with that?

A step-by-step walkthrough:

  1. Define your target: Rock Werchter chooses to spoil its festival goers with one – or, even better, two – names in a similar musical vein.
  2. Check tour schedules of bands who could be up to the task. Whoever already has a show on 25 June is off. Bands not currently on tour are off, too. If a band isn’t performing, a part of their crew often joins another band’s crew. No crew equals no performance. A big band often brings 20 to 120 people!
  3. Based on step 2, create a shortlist of available acts. Double check for solo projects of band members. Inform if there aren’t any promotional activities planned. If necessary, adjust your list accordingly.
  4. Contact international agents of the bands you’ve selected. Try and convince them to add an additional Rock Werchter show to their – often very packed – tour schedule. Not every band will be prepared to perform on their day off. A day of rest on tour is built in on a regular basis, to allow the band members’ voices and bodies to recover sufficiently, or to make sure long distances in between shows can be overcome with truckloads of equipment.
  5. The waiting game...
  6. Is it doable in terms of logistics and production? The festival crew are doing everything they can. For Faith No More, a Boeing is being chartered to get the band and their gear to Sweden in time for their next show on Friday 26 June.
  7. Confirmed! With Faith No More and Royal Blood, a double dose of rock ‘n roll can be added to the programme on Thursday 25 June. The time schedule are updates and press, media and festival goers are informed.

 

 

With the first couple of points; the difference is with RW and Glasto is that RW have people that have bought day tickets essentially to see the Foo Fighters so they might not be best pleased if it wasn't a similar fare however if you've bought a Glastonbury ticket then (unless you're stoopid) you're not buying for a particular act.

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From Rock Werchter website who also had the Foo Fighters, gives a bit of insight for this slot.

 

 

The situation: Dave Grohl breaks a leg on stage in Sweden. As a consequence, Foo Fighters are forced to cancel a number of shows, including their performance at Rock Werchter. They were set to headline on Thursday 25 June. How does a festival organiser deal with that?

A step-by-step walkthrough:

  1. Define your target: Rock Werchter chooses to spoil its festival goers with one – or, even better, two – names in a similar musical vein.
  2. Check tour schedules of bands who could be up to the task. Whoever already has a show on 25 June is off. Bands not currently on tour are off, too. If a band isn’t performing, a part of their crew often joins another band’s crew. No crew equals no performance. A big band often brings 20 to 120 people!
  3. Based on step 2, create a shortlist of available acts. Double check for solo projects of band members. Inform if there aren’t any promotional activities planned. If necessary, adjust your list accordingly.
  4. Contact international agents of the bands you’ve selected. Try and convince them to add an additional Rock Werchter show to their – often very packed – tour schedule. Not every band will be prepared to perform on their day off. A day of rest on tour is built in on a regular basis, to allow the band members’ voices and bodies to recover sufficiently, or to make sure long distances in between shows can be overcome with truckloads of equipment.
  5. The waiting game...
  6. Is it doable in terms of logistics and production? The festival crew are doing everything they can. For Faith No More, a Boeing is being chartered to get the band and their gear to Sweden in time for their next show on Friday 26 June.
  7. Confirmed! With Faith No More and Royal Blood, a double dose of rock ‘n roll can be added to the programme on Thursday 25 June. The time schedule are updates and press, media and festival goers are informed.

 

must be the first time FNM have been on a chartered plane since that tour with Gn'R in 1992.

 

i bet they jumped at the chance.

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With the first couple of points; the difference is with RW and Glasto is that RW have people that have bought day tickets essentially to see the Foo Fighters so they might not be best pleased if it wasn't a similar fare however if you've bought a Glastonbury ticket then (unless you're stoopid) you're not buying for a particular act.

Makes a good point about how just because the four/five blokes in the band are free it doesn't mean their crews are. There is lot more to this than just picking a name and saying they'll do.

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Makes a good point about how just because the four/five blokes in the band are free it doesn't mean their crews are. There is lot more to this than just picking a name and saying they'll do.

 

Yep. Kinda why I'm surprised that Emily said immediately that they're replacing with a band from off the lineup.

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FNM would be just lost at Glastonbury most people won't even know who they are and just won't get them which is a shame (and I'm a huge fan of them) Leeds 2009 was a pitiful crowd against KOL but it was amazing set :)

I heard that about their 2009 slot at R+L. I feel as though they are a band that should be a helluva lot bigger than they are. If the average Glastonbury gower was aware of them (outside if Epic and Midlife Crisis) I'm sure they would love them!

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