2024 Festival

[Guest]

49 minutes ago, Logan1996 said:

I know its a bit of a sketchy metric to use , but 50M+ monthly listeners on spotify is huge when you look in comparison to the other headliners 

Yep, and it's his first ever UK festival appearance.

They've done really well this year. I wonder if there was a conscious decision to switch up bookings or if an unusual amount of good opportunities came to them this year. It might be a mix of the two.

[Benj]

1 hour ago, SomeoneListeningIn said:

Yep, and it's his first ever UK festival appearance.

They've done really well this year. I wonder if there was a conscious decision to switch up bookings or if an unusual amount of good opportunities came to them this year. It might be a mix of the two.

He’s the one who won’t turn up at whichever date is first isn’t he…

Edited November 30, 2023 by Benj

[Lawsie]

1 hour ago, SomeoneListeningIn said:

Yep, and it's his first ever UK festival appearance.

They've done really well this year. I wonder if there was a conscious decision to switch up bookings or if an unusual amount of good opportunities came to them this year. It might be a mix of the two.

I don't think it'll be his first UK festival appearance. It said 'first UK festival announcement' when R&L confirmed him. He'll most definitely be at Wireless, probably as a headliner too. 

[Benj]

Just now, Lawsie said:

I don't think it'll be his first UK festival appearance. It said 'first UK festival announcement' when R&L confirmed him. He'll most definitely be at Wireless, probably as a headliner too. 

Interesting strategy if they announce him subbing Reading and then headlining another festival 30 mins away. 

Must be confident Wireless will have no worries selling

[Lawsie]

3 minutes ago, Benj said:

Interesting strategy if they announce him subbing Reading and then headlining another festival 30 mins away. 

Must be confident Wireless will have no worries selling

It's obviously only a guess but it's the first year he's been allowed out of the US to perform so with Wireless' demographic I'd assume they would've jumped at the chance to book him. 

[nathanh]

The word announcement was something that stuck out majorly to me too. Can't see a world where Wireless haven't booked 21 and R&L have. Seems strange to have him sub here and headline Wireless but I think the Wireless audience would accept it as a headline because he is HUGE. To be honest can only see him subbing Wireless to, if anyone, Drake. 

[Hart Attack]

3 hours ago, nathanh said:

Are you asking what it is or where the rumour is?

If your asking what it is, its a dance stage famously used at Glastonbury. Its most famous stage, and the one im assuming would come to Reading is a Spider and has pyros and things in, creates a really impressive show.

If your question is what is the rumour, someone came in here last week stating they had heard that the stage was coming to Reading this year, we dont know much else other than this though.

Yeah I meant the stage itself - that does look really cool actually!

[Guest]

21 minutes ago, Benj said:

He’s the one who won’t turn up at whichever date is first isn’t he…

Doubt it. Doesn't seem the kind to do something like that.

20 minutes ago, Lawsie said:

I don't think it'll be his first UK festival appearance. It said 'first UK festival announcement' when R&L confirmed him. He'll most definitely be at Wireless, probably as a headliner too. 

Fair, still shows how big a booking it is if he's headlining Wireless but playing lower at R+L.

[nathanh]

2 minutes ago, SomeoneListeningIn said:

Fair, still shows how big a booking it is if he's headlining Wireless but playing lower at R+L.

100% if 2 of our 3 names announced yesterday are headlining other big festivals, Isle of Wight and Wireless, it just goes to prove how well R&L have seemingly done this year.

[Guest]

Just now, nathanh said:

100% if 2 of our 3 names announced yesterday are headlining other big festivals, Isle of Wight and Wireless, it just goes to prove how well R&L have seemingly done this year.

Honestly wouldn't have been crazy to see 21 Savage, The Prodigy and Jorja Smith headlining MSW.

[Logan1996]

It'll be interesting to see how strong the smaller stages will be with this many big acts being announced. Comparing to 2023 , Prodigy , 21 Savage , Skrillex seem much larger than the likes of Steve Lacy , Bicep etc 

[nathanh]

1 minute ago, SomeoneListeningIn said:

Honestly wouldn't have been crazy to see 21 Savage, The Prodigy and Jorja Smith headlining MSW.

Said this to a mate yesterday, all 3 could of been acceptable MSW names and names I had seen thrown around in predictions

[nathanh]

Truly believe they knew they had to do something drastic next year after last year which will have made a dent in their profits. Think they had one opportunity to prove to general public that they had booking power because the undercard of 2023 was particularly week. Intrigued to see whats still to come.

[Page116]

Goddamn it missed my own page name 😖

[On The Blend]

41 minutes ago, Page116 said:

Goddamn it missed my own page name 😖

Can you give us the headliners anyway? 

[Tom Connolly]

bought a ticket this morning for the full weekend + early entry. very very much looking forward to it, think they’ve smashed the lineup personally (outside of gerry cinnamon) 

[nathanh]

When do we think it will sell out?

[Page116]

3 hours ago, On The Blend said:

Can you give us the headliners anyway? 

Soft play secret set 🥹

[Andrinald]

Bought a day ticket for Blink... Not been since 2011.

 

Quite fancy the whole weekend but not got any pals at the moment ha.

[p0sterb0y]

My prediction at what extra names we could get

 

[nathanh]

3 minutes ago, p0sterb0y said:

My prediction at what extra names we could get

 

I really want to make one, which font did you use?

 

Good prediction btw think some of those names are pretty likely

[stanh]

[nathanh]

1 minute ago, stanh said:

Interesting... Was it only Denzel in the post?

[stanh]

1 minute ago, nathanh said:

Interesting... Was it only Denzel in the post?

yeah

[p0sterb0y]

4 minutes ago, nathanh said:

I really want to make one, which font did you use?

I used WhatTheFont and put in an image of the font they used and gave me a few decent matches. The one I used was House Sans Condensed Heavy