Isle of Wight festival 2022

[atomised]

Back in June next year. Lewis Capaldi has already confirmed so figured starting the thread would be acceptable

[galbani]

Tradition has it that the new thread can't start until the previous festival has been held....

I'm going to have to report this to Admin

Only kidding

Just hope the festival keeps going and the lineup improves!

[maelzoid]

Lionel has announced a show in Oxfordshire in June 2022. That’s got to put him in the frame for IOW surely.

[gfa]

will be interesting to see with the events that have moved to august/september whether they stick with it or move back to may/june/july. i reckon IOW will move back but at least APE will be staying in august it looks like

hopefully a better lineup

[incident]

1 minute ago, gfa said:

will be interesting to see with the events that have moved to august/september whether they stick with it or move back to may/june/july. i reckon IOW will move back but at least APE will be staying in august it looks like

hopefully a better lineup

Yeah - looks like both of those will be the case.

I think it was previously suggested last year sometime that the APE was moving to August, and so that change was probably happening regardless of COVID. IOW is definitely (currently) scheduled for June next year, as the date was confirmed by Lewis Capaldi announcing his plans for 2022.

[dentalplan]

4 hours ago, incident said:

I think it was previously suggested last year sometime that the APE was moving to August, and so that change was probably happening regardless of COVID.

I know it's not the thread but it was suggested later last year, presumably with the intention of avoiding restrictions or more time to prepare to adhere to restrictions. It worked, but they shouldn't have to try it again.

I'll be surprised if any festival moves permanently to late summer. The best period for touring acts is end of May to mid-July. I guess that doesn't matter much to IOW as they don't book very many international artists nowadays but generally speaking, it should see everything go back to normal.

[galbani]

Any sign of dates for 2022 yet?

[incident]

28 minutes ago, galbani said:

Any sign of dates for 2022 yet?

Not officially announced, and I doubt will be until after the festival takes place in September, but this gave the game away:

 

[galbani]

Thanks. Bit of a clue in there...!

 

[Havors]

On 5/27/2021 at 1:56 PM, incident said:

Not officially announced, and I doubt will be until after the festival takes place in September, but this gave the game away:

 

A little more good news.... he is busy for glasto weekend next year..... 😄