Mad Cool Festival 2020

[Red Day]

15 minutes ago, DarthSaul said:

the past five or so announcements have been lacking a bit for my personal tastes 

Overall there's some good stuff and some pretty disappointing.  I'm certainly not excited about it. 

[PintoMcGuinness]

6 minutes ago, Red Day said:

Overall there's some good stuff and some pretty disappointing.  I'm certainly not excited about it. 

Yep, the announcements are all over the show in terms of genres at the moment. I really want to see Foals, Paul Weller and The Pixies but I need others to back these up. Hopefully in the next few days.

[Red Day]

3 minutes ago, PintoMcGuinness said:

Yep, the announcements are all over the show in terms of genres at the moment. I really want to see Foals, Paul Weller and The Pixies but I need others to back these up. Hopefully in the next few days.

That's my take as well.  Seem to by trying to cover every genre prior to ticket sales day.  Risky strategy in that some might find there's just not enough of what they like to justify going.  I'd really like to give this one a try but there needs to be more rock orientated stuff before I do.

[DarthSaul]

I guess this is the negative side to drip feeding one band a day, it can make for some underwhelming days rather than one hit of excitement (or disappointment still) 

[Red Day]

That's true.  In one way I quite like it, but it can lead to disappointment. I suppose releasing a batch of names gives you a quick feel of whether or not it's worth going.  

[clasher]

2 minutes ago, Red Day said:

That's my take as well.  Seem to by trying to cover every genre prior to ticket sales day.  Risky strategy in that some might find there's just not enough of what they like to justify going.  I'd really like to give this one a try but there needs to be more rock orientated stuff before I do.

I'm pretty sure that Tay, Billie and TOP are enough for the pop public to buy most of the first batch of the tickets.

Will be interesting to see when they'll release day splits. Taylor on the first day and TOP/Tove Lo on the last for example would certainly screw a pop fan with a 3-day ticket. We only know Billie will do the 9th atm...

[Luke Routledge]

I really enjoy the way they release names. Certainly keeps my interest in the festival fresh with daily clues and announcements. Previous years I have kept a look out without any intention of going to the festival! 

[Yelo, the Parmiggiana]

18 minutes ago, Red Day said:

That's true.  In one way I quite like it, but it can lead to disappointment. I suppose releasing a batch of names gives you a quick feel of whether or not it's worth going.  

I guess that MC should better use a diverse strategy. I.e., one headliner + batch of small names against one average name a day.

Nobody benefits from a day announcement of Tones & I, imo.

[The Martini Police]

2 minutes ago, Yelo, the Parmiggiana said:

I guess that MC should better use a diverse strategy. I.e., one headliner + batch of small names against one average name a day.

Nobody benefits from a day announcement of Tones & I, imo.

I was surprised, but Tones and I is actually huge. She has 34m monthly Spotify listeners and is the 27th most streamed artist in the world. So I'm sure quite a few people do benefit.

[Rico_Pliskin]

 

The kills 

Edited November 12, 2019 by Rico_Pliskin

[Red Day]

Just now, Rico_Pliskin said:

The kills 

That was my first thought as well

[visdave34]

Blood Red Shoes

[DarthSaul]

1 hour ago, The Martini Police said:

I was surprised, but Tones and I is actually huge. She has 34m monthly Spotify listeners and is the 27th most streamed artist in the world. So I'm sure quite a few people do benefit.

Purely because one song has blown up though, time will tell if she's more than a one hit wonder

[Rico_Pliskin]

2 minutes ago, Red Day said:

That was my first thought as well

I like some songs, have never seen live though. 

[alan_ts]

25 minutes ago, Rico_Pliskin said:

 

The kills 

I'd bet on them as well, but I'm always wrong so NO The Kills 100% 

[Fabrizzo]

Kills,Best Coast, Beach House

[Andrej]

amazing stage presence, can only be the kills i guess.

[alan_ts]

11 minutes ago, Andrej said:

amazing stage presence, can only be the kills i guess.

Victoria Legrand of Beach House is incredible on stage.

[pryce]

Subways still a thing? 

[Red Day]

52 minutes ago, Rico_Pliskin said:

I like some songs, have never seen live though. 

I've seen the Kills in 500 capacity venues and really enjoyed them.  Saw them at RW couple of years back and they were ok. 

[frankburns]

26 minutes ago, alan_ts said:

Victoria Legrand of Beach House is incredible on stage.

But Beach House is not a "power rock duo"...

[CJTM]

Deap Vally? but yeah, probably The Kills

[young_contra]

It absolutely isn't Beach House but even if it were, I wouldn't consider Victoria's presence that remarkable. It's more of her aura than herself

[alan_ts]

16 minutes ago, frankburns said:

But Beach House is not a "power rock duo"...

Right, I focalized only on amazing stage presence

[alan_ts]

2 minutes ago, young_contra said:

It absolutely isn't Beach House but even if it were, I wouldn't consider Victoria's presence that remarkable. It's more of her aura than herself

Really? When I saw them I found Victoria an amazing performer but yes, you're right, she didn't smash any guitar or something like that haha