Primavera Sound 2016

[Isco]

I'll give them 2 a blast when I get home from work, cheers for the tips ! Any others from anyone else welcome !

[DDave]

10 minutes ago, Isco said:

I'll give them 2 a blast when I get home from work, cheers for the tips ! Any others from anyone else welcome !

Empress Of is the favourite artist I've discovered from the line up so far.

[thooomash]

Lol, -2 because saying I weren't able to buy saturday-tickets?

I really appreciated your help @calaix , unless it didn't work out, thanks! 

[Tuna]

Anyone got any good tips for travel on the Saturday? Direct flights are silly prices for me. Was considering flying into Madrid (about £30!) and getting the train, but that's about £70 itself.#

Edit: Just to add, I've looked at connecting flights to places like Geneva, Madrid, Lyon.. all much more in the ballpark but the times are rubbish. Don't think a 45 minute changeover at Lyon (with different airlines) is a good idea either, unfortunately

Edited March 1, 2016 by Tuna

[DDave]

33 minutes ago, Tuna said:

Anyone got any good tips for travel on the Saturday? Direct flights are silly prices for me. Was considering flying into Madrid (about £30!) and getting the train, but that's about £70 itself.#

Edit: Just to add, I've looked at connecting flights to places like Geneva, Madrid, Lyon.. all much more in the ballpark but the times are rubbish. Don't think a 45 minute changeover at Lyon (with different airlines) is a good idea either, unfortunately

From what area? You only doing the one day?

[Tuna]

1 minute ago, DiscothequeDave said:

From what area? You only doing the one day?

Oh sorry, from London. I'm staying in Spain for a bit after and have my return stuff sorted. Accommodation booked from Weds-Mon so need to turn up on the Weds.

 

[DDave]

4 minutes ago, Tuna said:

Oh sorry, from London. I'm staying in Spain for a bit after and have my return stuff sorted. Accommodation booked from Weds-Mon so need to turn up on the Weds.

 

Eh? So why ask about the Saturday?

I'm Confused!

[Tuna]

21 minutes ago, DiscothequeDave said:

Eh? So why ask about the Saturday?

I'm Confused!

Hahahaha I'm so sorry, I'm all over the place today. I meant the Wednesday. Crikey. Long day

 

[calaix]

Good tips, keem 'em coming!

[calaix]

Surprised the times are 'rubbish' for a possible Madrid-Barca flight leg - there are lots of flight each day, no?

What do you mean by rubbish times?

[Tuna]

2 minutes ago, calaix said:

Surprised the times are 'rubbish' for a possible Madrid-Barca flight leg - there are lots of flight each day, no?

What do you mean by rubbish times?

Because I'm a massive cheapskate, the lower tier prices require like a 6 hour layover in Madrid.

[Tuna]

Basically, if anyone has booked any cheap flights from London -> Barcelona on the Wednesday, with a stopover, lemme know

[calaix]

Oh, cool. I'm also a cheapskate! (well, I tell myself it gives me more reckless spending money at the fest)

Try kayak and skyscanner but I'm guessing you've done that already

[Tuna]

Yeah, they're not very good at finding connecting flights. Easier to look for them yourself but it's just knowing which airports to look at.

[Bort]

My flight from LA ended up being over a thousand.

[Isco]

We're going from Valencia. Staying there Monday to Weds then getting the train to Barcelona.

[calaix]

Does anyone have any thoughts on timings for Friday main stages?

9.45 Beach House,

11.00 Last Shadow Puppets

12.30 Radiohead

This the likely order/times? Who might play after Radiohead in the late spot?

[calaix]

Really? Downvoting me for nigh every comment, month after month after month?

There are no words...

[ZXCVBNM]

Unless that weird Avalanches rumour turns out to be true, I would think Animal Collective would probably be the band on after Radiohead?

[calaix]

That would be great ZXCVBNM. Here's hoping...

I can see a lot of people camped out in the same spot for five hours+ on Friday. Gonna be a stamina test.

[smwatson]

Yeah, I would guess Animal Collective as the post-Radiohead slot. But they'll need to have someone big on another stage at the same time as Radiohead to pull some people away, or it's going to get very very busy. 

I'm fairly relaxed about being near the front for Radiohead, but they are going to draw an enormous crowd and there will be loads there for most of the day waiting. 

[calaix]

I agree with you about surely wanting to offer an attractive alternative to limit overcrowding but think that would mean putting one of the headliners on the Rayban at the same time, as no one from the subs that day is a big draw. 

Last Shadow Puppets would make the most sense if they go for this strategy.

[yaniv297]

LSP will almost certainly be on the main stage. Beach House --> LSP --> Radiohead is almost guaranteed (wish LSP and Beach House would switch around, but sadly they won't). If you look at the 2015 poster, in all days the top 3 billed names played one after the other in the main stage (and one of the second tier - Blake, Sleater-Kinney, Foxygen).

I can actually see Animal Collective playing RayBan or ATP at the same time for Radiohead, to take some crowd off Radiohead, with Dinosaur Jr headlining the other one.

The problem is, this leaves no fitting band for the 'post-headliner' slot. Usually it's an electronic act, so AC do make sense, and they've already played that spot in 2013 after Phoenix. If not them, maybe Tortoise or Jay Rock? I find it hard to believe.

[yaniv297]

Alright if I'm at it, and not much to do at work atm, I'll just try to guess how the stages would be...

The early main stages slots are pretty much impossible to predict, can be any of the smaller acts (like Childhood or Baxter Dury last year) so I'll mostly skip those:

Thursday, main stages:

Air --> Tame Impala --> LCD --> John Carpenter

Rayban: Vince Staples

ATP: Explosions in the Sky

Suede in auditori.

 

Friday, main stages:

Beach House --> LSP --> Radiohead --> Animal Collective

Rayban: Jay Rock, Beirut

(I can see Beirut and AC the other way around too)

ATP: Dinosaur Jr.

 

Saturday, main stages:

Richard Hawley --> Brian Wilson --> Sigur Ros --> PJ Harvey --> Moderat (?)

Rayban: Pusha T --> Action Bronson

ATP: Ty Segall --> Drive Like Jehu

(this is purely guesses... I can also see Moderat doing late night Rayban slot, with maybe Action Bronson closing RayBan... or Richard Hawley can be at ATP... also have no idea in which order Sigur Ros and PJ will play)

Edited March 6, 2016 by yaniv297

[calaix]

Hi @Yaniv297. Good work and pretty much agree with your guesses.

That's what I can't figure out either. Will they put AC on at the same time to relieve what might otherwise be a dangerous crowd situation (and that's why I don't think you can read too much into what happened last couple of years)?

Will it annoy AC to play to a small crowd (compared to if they play after Radiohead)?

Won't find out til May!