2023 Festival

[Chad888]

Fatboy Slim was bigger and more popular in 2017 than Bicep have ever been.

 

I watched FBS over Kasabian the atmosphere was fantastic, and the crowd had enough room to come in and out, mosh, and be close enough to people to have a good experience as part of something.

This is, as Benj says, because FBS played against Kasabian, YMAS and Danny Brown.

 

This year, I wanted to watch Gorgon City in the Dance Tent. They were against Megan Thee Stallion and Fever 333. There was no real acts that can split the crowd and instead Gorgon City was dangerously full, not safe for my pregnant wife.

[gfa]

2 hours ago, Chad888 said:

Fatboy Slim was bigger and more popular in 2017 than Bicep have ever been.

Complete rubbish

FBS could barely sell out the SSE this year and thats at the height of his 'comeback' that seems to be happening at the moment whereas Bicep sold out 2 nights at ally pally instantly

[Chad888]

12 minutes ago, gfa said:

Complete rubbish

FBS could barely sell out the SSE this year and thats at the height of his 'comeback' that seems to be happening at the moment whereas Bicep sold out 2 nights at ally pally instantly

what?!

 

Fatboy Slim is quite possibly the biggest DJ / producer in the world, alongside David Guetta. He's been top of the game for about 30 years, including drawing crowds of a quarter million on Brighton beach, headlining Glastonbury twice, headlining Wireless, Sziget, V-Fest, Ultra Music, Bestival, Coachella. He's also performed for the House of Commons and United Nations.

 

Bicep headlined Field Day which has a capacity of 25,000, have 2 studio albums - the best was given "generally favourable" reviews, and spawned 2 singles which got silver/gold listening numbers.

 

FBS isn't that relevant TODAY because he's a 60 year old man that last released a song (eat sleep rave repeat) about 10 years ago.

Edited December 20, 2022 by Chad888

[thewayiam]

22 minutes ago, gfa said:

Complete rubbish

FBS could barely sell out the SSE this year and thats at the height of his 'comeback' that seems to be happening at the moment whereas Bicep sold out 2 nights at ally pally instantly

 

13 minutes ago, Chad888 said:

what?!

 

Fatboy Slim is quite possibly the biggest DJ / producer in the world, alongside David Guetta. He's been top of the game for about 30 years, including drawing crowds of a quarter million on Brighton beach, headlining Glastonbury twice, headlining Wireless, Sziget, V-Fest, Ultra Music, Bestival, Coachella. He's also performed for the House of Commons and United Nations.

 

Bicep headlined Field Day which has a capacity of 25,000, have 2 studio albums - the best was given "generally favourable" reviews, and spawned 2 singles which got silver/gold listening numbers.

 

FBS isn't that relevant TODAY because he's a 60 year old man that last released a song (eat sleep rave repeat) about 10 years ago.

No he isn't, he was a long time ago. His come back was pretty huge though. Bicep will sell quicker now but will never have Fatboy Slims icon status. He does perform multiple festival shows just at Glastonbury so he's not rare.

Also to add, the only reason he can still do those shows south of the country is because that's where he comes from.

[Benj]

3 hours ago, Chad888 said:

Fatboy Slim was bigger and more popular in 2017 than Bicep have ever been.

 

I watched FBS over Kasabian the atmosphere was fantastic, and the crowd had enough room to come in and out, mosh, and be close enough to people to have a good experience as part of something.

This is, as Benj says, because FBS played against Kasabian, YMAS and Danny Brown.

 

This year, I wanted to watch Gorgon City in the Dance Tent. They were against Megan Thee Stallion and Fever 333. There was no real acts that can split the crowd and instead Gorgon City was dangerously full, not safe for my pregnant wife.

Indeed. All these it would be dangerous shouts aren’t wrong

Its not due to the size of the acts, it’s due to the new format of the festival

Bicep bigger or smaller than FBS is an irrelevance. Killers on main, Central Cee in Tent, Bicep could safely play the dance stage.

(To be fair to them they could prob easily headline the big tent)

We’re destined to forever see the next big thing on for 50 minutes at 5pm in the arvo, then concluding our night at Kings of Leon because it’s what we all want…

Reading post pandemic - The mother of all anti-climaxes

[Benj]

Latest meaningless metric we can argue forever about 

Likes on the festival’s twitter posts

Embarrassingly low compared to last years. Looks like they were tweeting about only a few tickets this time last year too.

Not so much this year…

Perhaps the campsite horror stories and us regulars not going back are having a bigger impact than expected

 

[gfa]

1 hour ago, Benj said:

Indeed. All these it would be dangerous shouts aren’t wrong

Its not due to the size of the acts, it’s due to the new format of the festival

Bicep bigger or smaller than FBS is an irrelevance. Killers on main, Central Cee in Tent, Bicep could safely play the dance stage.

(To be fair to them they could prob easily headline the big tent)

We’re destined to forever see the next big thing on for 50 minutes at 5pm in the arvo, then concluding our night at Kings of Leon because it’s what we all want…

Reading post pandemic - The mother of all anti-climaxes

Pointless argument anyway because

1. bicep are on the main stage

2. their show wouldn't work in the dance tent regardless

1 hour ago, Chad888 said:

what?!

 

Fatboy Slim is quite possibly the biggest DJ / producer in the world, alongside David Guetta. He's been top of the game for about 30 years, including drawing crowds of a quarter million on Brighton beach, headlining Glastonbury twice, headlining Wireless, Sziget, V-Fest, Ultra Music, Bestival, Coachella. He's also performed for the House of Commons and United Nations.

 

Bicep headlined Field Day which has a capacity of 25,000, have 2 studio albums - the best was given "generally favourable" reviews, and spawned 2 singles which got silver/gold listening numbers.

 

FBS isn't that relevant TODAY because he's a 60 year old man that last released a song (eat sleep rave repeat) about 10 years ago.

Field Day is 45k

When did Fatboy Slim headline Glastonbury once let alone twice? 😂

He headlined wireless when it was at the o2?

Half of these statements are a stretch or completely false and the ones that are were about 20 years ago ffs

[WhoOdyssey]

I’ve heard from my KSI source that he did indeed pull out of headlining Reading & Leeds, and is instead doing a Hyde Park day next year. 

Edited December 20, 2022 by WhoOdyssey

[nathanh]

4 minutes ago, WhoOdyssey said:

I’ve heard from my KSI source that he did indeed pull out of headlining Reading & Leeds, and is instead doing a Hyde Park day next year. 

Surely not headlining Hyde Park? Over R&L? 

[VCK]

2 minutes ago, nathanh said:

Surely not headlining Hyde Park? Over R&L? 

Who can blame him? Festival is dead.

[BenG92]

11 hours ago, WhoOdyssey said:

I’ve heard from my KSI source that he did indeed pull out of headlining Reading & Leeds, and is instead doing a Hyde Park day next year. 

So using who he gave you and a little deductive reasoning, 2023 was supposed to be

Billie Eilish / Green Day / Sam Fender

Foals / KSI / Lewis Capaldi

Wouldn't have swayed me into going personally

[SleepingGiants]

27 minutes ago, BenG92 said:

So using who he gave you and a little deductive reasoning, 2023 was supposed to be

Billie Eilish / Green Day / Sam Fender

Foals / KSI / Lewis Capaldi

Wouldn't have swayed me into going personally

Think the eventual lineup is better than that

[gfa]

12 hours ago, WhoOdyssey said:

I’ve heard from my KSI source that he did indeed pull out of headlining Reading & Leeds, and is instead doing a Hyde Park day next year. 

Absolute bollocks

[jj200]

5 hours ago, BenG92 said:

So using who he gave you and a little deductive reasoning, 2023 was supposed to be

Billie Eilish / Green Day / Sam Fender

Foals / KSI / Lewis Capaldi

Wouldn't have swayed me into going personally

The killers and imagine dragons are replacements

[WhoOdyssey]

6 hours ago, gfa said:

Absolute bollocks

Just reporting what I've been told.

Tbh though it makes me wonder if he meant Finsbury/Victoria Park, they seem more realistic.

Edited December 21, 2022 by WhoOdyssey

[JackF94]

How would a Glastonbury style legends slot go down at Reading & Leeds? 

Instead of having acts like Tom Jones, Dolly Parton etc. They go for more 90s/early 2000s vibes. E.g Craig David, Busted, N Dubz, Lilly Allen, Avril Lavigne, Scissors Sisters, The Streets and Snoop Dogg

[Benj]

4 minutes ago, JackF94 said:

How would a Glastonbury style legends slot go down at Reading & Leeds? 

Instead of having acts like Tom Jones, Dolly Parton etc. They go for more 90s/early 2000s vibes. E.g Craig David, Busted, N Dubz, Lilly Allen, Avril Lavigne, Scissors Sisters, The Streets and Snoop Dogg

Fucking hell

[foolee]

I wonder why Green Day pulled out then 🤔

[TKOCF]

10 hours ago, JackF94 said:

How would a Glastonbury style legends slot go down at Reading & Leeds? 

Instead of having acts like Tom Jones, Dolly Parton etc. They go for more 90s/early 2000s vibes. E.g Craig David, Busted, N Dubz, Lilly Allen, Avril Lavigne, Scissors Sisters, The Streets and Snoop Dogg

If this festival ever had to resort to booking N Dubz, think that would be it really 

[BenG92]

2 hours ago, TKOCF said:

If this festival ever had to resort to booking N Dubz, think that would be it really 

Hate to break it to you but it's the other way around, N Dubz don't need RnL as they're selling out dozens of arenas countrywide, it's bananas. 

[gfa]

59 minutes ago, BenG92 said:

Hate to break it to you but it's the other way around, N Dubz don't need RnL as they're selling out dozens of arenas countrywide, it's bananas. 

N Dubz audience aren't really at R&L anyway, they are a few years older than the main R&L crowd

[sacred shape]

Rex OC

[TKOCF]

8 hours ago, BenG92 said:

Hate to break it to you but it's the other way around, N Dubz don't need RnL as they're selling out dozens of arenas countrywide, it's bananas. 

We live in a broken nation

[Matt42]

Some people have such awful takes I can’t quite believe it.

Edited December 22, 2022 by Matt42

[Matt42]

On 12/21/2022 at 9:10 PM, foolee said:

I wonder why Green Day pulled out then 🤔

Tbh they don’t look like they have any dates so maybe they backed out of a European tour… what a lot of US artists look to have done.

Line up some Europe dates and put some holds down… only to decide not to tour in the end.