Mad Cool 2018

[birchtree29]

1 hour ago, charlierc said:

I have a day ticket for AM/Jack White day, but dunno what to do for the bus. My hotel is a 10-20 minute walk from Atocha station, so in a way it makes more sense for me to get a Cercanias to Valdebebas, but I'm wondering if its easier to get the bus both ways as there's no train back to Atocha until after 4/5am.

The shuttle bus ticket is only from the festival to Plaza de Colon at night. Everyone will use public transportation or uber/taxi to come to the festival during the day. To Atocha area,  the best option will be to buy the bus ticket since the uber rates are 25 euros without any surcharge and the night metro is not confirmed yet https://madcoolfestival.es/en/news/ya-disponibles-los-tickets-de-autobus-para-mad-cool-2018

[Ian Gunpowder]

Is there much to do at the festival? I was at NOS alive a couple of years ago and it was really boring between bands. 

[elias]

14 hours ago, mrchnry said:

Is there much to do at the festival? I was at NOS alive a couple of years ago and it was really boring between bands. 

I don't think you'll have a problem at Mad Cool. The two main stages alternate with 5 or 10 minutes from the end of one to the start of the other. The other stages are also running at the same time. Barely ever a moment without music somewhere on the site.

If you mean is there anything else to do apart from the music - not really, although they had a big wheel last year.

[birchtree29]

15 hours ago, mrchnry said:

Is there much to do at the festival? I was at NOS alive a couple of years ago and it was really boring between bands. 

The schedule looks quite busy with 7 stages but besides that there will be several boots of sponsors and a ferris wheel. You can check last year's map here with all the booths. https://ibb.co/itzgRH Also the 3rd place play-off game for the world cup game is on saturday 4 pm. You can watch the second half of it as well.

[birchtree29]

I am quite surprised how July 14th which is the day with most headliner-level bands will be the last day that will get sold out.

[AndrewSmith]

I have 4 bus tickets that are no use for me as we are not staying near the town centre (as mentioned earlier, I'd misread the comms and hoped it was a shuttle service).

Anyone after these? We're in Madird from the Wednesday.

[AndrewSmith]

On another note, I saw NIN at Southbank on Friday and they were incredible, so much better live than recorded.

Trent swung his guitar at the microphone stand quite near the beginning and the microphone smacked Atticus in the face. He hardly reacted!

Ilan is such an incredible drummer - hoping for a similar show at NIN but I can imagine the intimacy of Friday's gig will be the big difference.

 

[evilduck]

I was at both the royal festival hall and the rah, amazing gigs! The new stuff sounds incredible, so much energy. I think the festival sets will be a bit more ‘hit’ orientated, but I’m happy with anything tbh

[JSmurphy]

I'm so painfully jealous, these guys are my most anticipated act of the festival and they're closing it (pretty much) too! It's gonna be nuts. 

[The Placid Casual]

4 hours ago, JSmurphy said:

and they're closing it (pretty much) too!

Nah, Underworld are gonna step it up again.

[the wonderwhy]

9 hours ago, birchtree29 said:

I am quite surprised how July 14th which is the day with most headliner-level bands will be the last day that will get sold out.

Dunno, none of them have the pulling power of Arctics or Pearl Jam 

[neacaisa]

i still have two 3 day tickets to sell, pm if interested

Edited June 25, 2018 by neacaisa

[Quacky Mouse]

so i bought 2 ticket packs off the fnac website and only one of the wristband codes seems to work. freaking out a little bit here! has anyone else experienced this? glad i checked this with 2 weeks in advance!

[birchtree29]

On 6/24/2018 at 8:50 PM, mrchnry said:

Is there much to do at the festival? I was at NOS alive a couple of years ago and it was really boring between bands. 

They just announced today that there will be a Performing Arts space 

"Mad Cool Festival is pleased to announce the Pedro Aunión Space for Performing Arts honouring and remembering our colleague Pedro Aunión. The space will be dedicated to contemporary dance, fashion and audio-visual creation.

Among the shows that will take place during the three days of the festival, there will be a stunning daily performance between shows by two internationally-renowned performing arts companies, Adrien Mondot & Claire Bardainne (France) and Toom Pak (Madrid). For the second consecutive year, fashion will be part of the festival thanks to Mad Cool Walk, a Fashion Week of sorts, featuring a total of 13 streetwear brands."

https://madcoolfestival.es/en/news/mad-cool-presenta-el-espacio-de-artes-escenicas-pedro-aunion

[birchtree29]

16 hours ago, hhunting said:

so i bought 2 ticket packs off the fnac website and only one of the wristband codes seems to work. freaking out a little bit here! has anyone else experienced this? glad i checked this with 2 weeks in advance!

You can send an e-mail to pulseras@madcool.es

[layasway]

On 6/15/2018 at 10:59 AM, Walshy24 said:

Ye I'm waiting on ours. I emailed festiticket and they said they are working closely to get them sent and I will get an email

 

On 6/16/2018 at 7:16 PM, Maggiemgill said:

Same. I ordered through Ticketmaster and still haven't had the VIP wristbands through. I emailed Golden ticket who said to check with the courier and I've emailed back asking how I can do that as we travel in a few weeks from the UK! I paid for shipping through ticketmaster so it's a bit annoying we are still waiting! 

 

On 6/21/2018 at 2:18 PM, Ibbel said:

Is there anyone with VIP tickets, who have recieved there wristband? I have still nothing

Well we finally received an email yesterday saying that our tickets have been sent via DHL. No idea when they will arrive as it doesn't give us an expected date - so will need to keep checking the tracking details. Have you guys had an email about yours yet? Just hope they arrive before we have to fly out there now (luckily we are close to the East Mids DHL depot!)?

[SonicSleuth]

So to clarify... the bus is just for getting back to the city center after 2:30 am so people don't get stranded with no transport, right? It only runs towards the end of the show (late night/early morning), there is to shuttle TO the festival. Right?

[Isco]

37 minutes ago, SonicSleuth said:

So to clarify... the bus is just for getting back to the city center after 2:30 am so people don't get stranded with no transport, right? It only runs towards the end of the show (late night/early morning), there is to shuttle TO the festival. Right?

No. There are trains for that. Metro to Feria De Madrid (pink line) or Cercanias from Atocha or Principe Pio to Valdebebas (Line C1 or C10).

 

[elias]

3 hours ago, layasway said:

 

 

Well we finally received an email yesterday saying that our tickets have been sent via DHL. No idea when they will arrive as it doesn't give us an expected date - so will need to keep checking the tracking details. Have you guys had an email about yours yet? Just hope they arrive before we have to fly out there now (luckily we are close to the East Mids DHL depot!)?

Didn't get an e-mail, but our VIP packs turned up today with the wristbands. Very happy we can just turn up and enter without having to queue up.

[big__phil]

15 hours ago, elias said:

Didn't get an e-mail, but our VIP packs turned up today with the wristbands. Very happy we can just turn up and enter without having to queue up.

That pack looks really cool, you've got a couple of different things to the FNAC pack I've got. Is the thing in the box just a keyring? Nice of them to throw in some Tesco vouchers as well.

[arcuse]

So we're sure tram 8 is going all night right? Because they said in an article a few months ago that they'd do that but I think last week they said in another article that they're still working on that with the city?? So I'm pretty confused rn.

Edited June 27, 2018 by arcuse

[e2p2]

36 minutes ago, arcuse said:

So we're sure tram 8 is going all night right? Because they said in an article a few months ago that they'd do that but I think last week they said in another article that they're still working on that with the city?? So I'm pretty confused rn.

Sadly no. It seems that the former announcement was premature. 

[AndrewSmith]

2 weeks and I will have landed in Madrid, can't come soon enough!

 

I still have 4 x 3 day bus tickets available if anyone would like them?

[elias]

2 hours ago, big__phil said:

That pack looks really cool, you've got a couple of different things to the FNAC pack I've got. Is the thing in the box just a keyring? Nice of them to throw in some Tesco vouchers as well.

If by 'the thing in the box' you mean the bit of plastic that look like a cassette - it's a lanyard.

The Tesco vouchers didn't come with pack. They don't give those things away for free you know. Oh, wait a minute .......     ?

[Float]

Any idea when the sitemap was released last year?