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The fees the bands are demanding these days are clearly getting too high for some of these festivals to handle.   Phonics won't come cheap. James probably on the more affordable end but also not the same excitement over that one I'm sure and the demand for Saturday tickets will be lower.   Judging by the social comments....Gerry Cinnamon was the most requested act and the fact he's not there must mean he's either too expensive or already booked. Can't say I'm overly bothered. He's okay but I'm not a huge fan like some are. 

This one does have a specific audience to be fair, and it's generally sold well when it sticks to it. They turned into an extended Pulp gig for a year, with a 6music day, and ended up having to take a year off.    There definitely needs to be something along the Blue Dot lines but I'm not sure turning this into it is the way 

Breakdown of last night from my perspective. Partner and I were trying on a laptop each (Wi-Fi connection) and then just my phone on a decent 4G signal (partner's phone has a very poor mobile data signal in our flat!) Joined the queue just before half past ish.   I made some tracks with my phone on the mobile data - got into the ticket buying page at 18:20 ish. Selected Wednesday (because why wouldn't you) only to be facing the very, very limited dregs of what was left. Refreshed my way through a few 'all tickets allocated' screens to no avail and, when I tried to move to the Thursday options, it wanted me to re-join the queue. Felt good to see the ticket buying page but it was horrible knowing that my chances of bagging tickets for a group of 6 were basically shot to pieces by the time I was there.

My thoughts exactly, it was one band that wanted to be there and one band that didn’t. Really hope FR take the plunge and book them at the top. Imagine closing the weekend with Throne, that would be worth the ticket money alone.

The North West is crying out for a medium sized alternative festival, especially now Blue Dot seems to have disappeared. I don't get the 'you can only book what's around' school of thought when there's a whole raft of bands knocking around Europe doing other festivals.