2024 Festival

[Chad888]

17 hours ago, charlierc said:

Is Chevron that well known a brand in the UK?

I assumed it was just some kind of chevron aesthetic. At the very least you'd have thought they'd have it as a listed sponsor on the website with Pepsi and 3 as is the case on their site.

I likely have got it wrong if Chevron aren't sponsors, and it is a shape or something ... but these kind of things, stage names etc are always sponsored. We've had NME, Virgin, BBC, Bacardi. I can't see an American Megacorp like Live Nation missing an opportunity to sell naming rights to anybody willing to buy.

 

Hopefully Chevron is just a placeholder name for the V shaped tent, and we see it with a better and more sustainable partner than the Nazi funding Standard Oil (ESSO in the UK).

[Andre91]

27 minutes ago, Chad888 said:

and it is a shape or something ...

Are you just learning that a chevron is indeed a shape? 

[Chad888]

38 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Are you just learning that a chevron is indeed a shape? 

Quite clearly not, but "a shape or something" references shape of the stage, shape of the tent, formation of the lighting, the logo ...

[gfa]

1 hour ago, Chad888 said:

I likely have got it wrong if Chevron aren't sponsors, and it is a shape or something ... but these kind of things, stage names etc are always sponsored. We've had NME, Virgin, BBC, Bacardi. I can't see an American Megacorp like Live Nation missing an opportunity to sell naming rights to anybody willing to buy.

 

Hopefully Chevron is just a placeholder name for the V shaped tent, and we see it with a better and more sustainable partner than the Nazi funding Standard Oil (ESSO in the UK).

look at the post 1 before this load of waffle

you haven't likely got it wrong, you have got it wrong

[NorthernSoul52]

Given they're not on the Download poster, and despite having their London show billed as a one-off...

...have a hunch Fightstar might play somewhere small. If Busted can be at Download, could see them slipping on somewhere here.

[Gejonimo]

I think it'd be way more suited to Slam Dunk or Download, maybe even the show the day before Slam Dunk that usually happens on the festival site. Not sure R&L would be the best place for a secret set or late addition. 

[NorthernSoul52]

45 minutes ago, Gejonimo said:

I think it'd be way more suited to Slam Dunk or Download, maybe even the show the day before Slam Dunk that usually happens on the festival site. Not sure R&L would be the best place for a secret set or late addition. 

Yeah, maybe so. Think they could do a cracking forty-five minutes somewhere.

1 Sleep Well Tonight
2 Grand Unification, Part I
3 The English Way
4 Lost Like Tears in Rain
5 Deathcar
6 Animal
7 Build An Army
8 Mono
9 Paint Your Target

[Gejonimo]

I'm not a massive fan tbh, sort of missed the hype I think. Much more interested in Gunship

[Benj]

4 hours ago, Chad888 said:

I likely have got it wrong if Chevron aren't sponsors, and it is a shape or something ... but these kind of things, stage names etc are always sponsored. We've had NME, Virgin, BBC, Bacardi. I can't see an American Megacorp like Live Nation missing an opportunity to sell naming rights to anybody willing to buy.

 

Hopefully Chevron is just a placeholder name for the V shaped tent, and we see it with a better and more sustainable partner than the Nazi funding Standard Oil (ESSO in the UK).

Still not sure if you’re taking the piss with this or not 🤣

I think with just a modicum of common sense we can conclude that an oil company wouldn’t choose a brand that does not operate in the country to sponsor a music stage at a festival…

…esp when that same festival has been using the shape in question as part of their logo for 10 plus years…

…unless it’s always been an undercover psy-op and Chevron have been Guerrilla Marketing to their US customers through a UK music festival which is not marketed in the US at all 🤔

 

[charlierc]

18 minutes ago, Benj said:

Still not sure if you’re taking the piss with this or not 🤣

I think with just a modicum of common sense we can conclude that an oil company wouldn’t choose a brand that does not operate in the country to sponsor a music stage at a festival…

…esp when that same festival has been using the shape in question as part of their logo for 10 plus years…

…unless it’s always been an undercover psy-op and Chevron have been Guerrilla Marketing to their US customers through a UK music festival which is not marketed in the US at all 🤔

 

Would be quite the twist if that was the case ngl.

Or maybe we're all spending too much time on the Internet and think everything's a psy-op.

[charlierc]

18 hours ago, On The Blend said:

I for one can't wait for the Philip Morris Introducing Stage. 

Is it by the Cyberdyne Systems Dance Tent or the C Montgomery Burns Jazz Hut?

[Benj]

13 minutes ago, charlierc said:

Would be quite the twist if that was the case ngl.

Or maybe we're all spending too much time on the Internet and think everything's a psy-op.

Dunno, McVities are going deeeeep with this one to help promote the sale of their biscuits in  'European' section of US Supermarkets with this local festival tie-up https://www.facebook.com/hobnobfest/

[Stuielooie]

On 2/3/2024 at 9:43 PM, Chad888 said:

I put the lineup into the old style poster format (cba to change dates or stage names etc), guess we still have a LOT more acts to be announced. I wanted to see what we are still missing from what we used to have almost 10 years ago now.

 

5 more for Main Stage,

25 for R1 stage,

8 for Dance (Chevron)

16 for FR

plus probably another 90 across the other unannounced stages (1xtra, pit, alternative, introducing..)

This image is incorrect

[On The Blend]

1 hour ago, charlierc said:

the C Montgomery Burns Jazz Hut?

The only venue in Yorkshire that can block out the sun

[Chad888]

4 hours ago, gfa said:

look at the post 1 before this load of waffle

you haven't likely got it wrong, you have got it wrong

Well the fact it has to be clarified on Twitter too proves its a complete oversight on the companies behalf, and even if they didn't mean to, they have named the new stage after a warmongering company that funded the Nazis and were key in lobbying for the Middle East destabalisation campaign that has left hundreds of thousands of civillians and military personnel dead.

 

F it, lets call the new Radio 1 stage the "Al Queda stage" but "what a load of waffle, its nothing to do with the terrorist group, its probably named after 3 guys Alan, Quentin, and Dave".

[Chad888]

46 minutes ago, Stuielooie said:

This image is incorrect

lol what?

 

It is literally all of the acts from the 2024 poster placed into the 2017 poster to judge what is missing in comparison...

[Stuielooie]

23 minutes ago, Chad888 said:

lol what?

 

It is literally all of the acts from the 2024 poster placed into the 2017 poster to judge what is missing in comparison...

spirit box and neckdeep are playing on the blink 182 day, not the Fred day

Oh you are looking for empty spaces

Edited February 6 by Stuielooie

[Benj]

54 minutes ago, Chad888 said:

Well the fact it has to be clarified on Twitter too proves its a complete oversight on the companies behalf, and even if they didn't mean to, they have named the new stage after a warmongering company that funded the Nazis and were key in lobbying for the Middle East destabalisation campaign that has left hundreds of thousands of civillians and military personnel dead.

 

F it, lets call the new Radio 1 stage the "Al Queda stage" but "what a load of waffle, its nothing to do with the terrorist group, its probably named after 3 guys Alan, Quentin, and Dave".

🤣 internet over reaction rage in a beautifully contained nutshell 

[Andre91]

1 hour ago, Chad888 said:

Well the fact it has to be clarified on Twitter too proves its a complete oversight on the companies behalf, and even if they didn't mean to, they have named the new stage after a warmongering company that funded the Nazis and were key in lobbying for the Middle East destabalisation campaign that has left hundreds of thousands of civillians and military personnel dead.

 

F it, lets call the new Radio 1 stage the "Al Queda stage" but "what a load of waffle, its nothing to do with the terrorist group, its probably named after 3 guys Alan, Quentin, and Dave".

Yeah but they haven’t and you know that. It’s named after a shape and you know that. That shape has been part of their branding for over a decade and you know that. This is you trying to sound smart but you have never, ever sounded more silly (and you’ve sounded silly a lot). 

[gfa]

1 hour ago, Chad888 said:

Well the fact it has to be clarified on Twitter too proves its a complete oversight on the companies behalf, and even if they didn't mean to, they have named the new stage after a warmongering company that funded the Nazis and were key in lobbying for the Middle East destabalisation campaign that has left hundreds of thousands of civillians and military personnel dead.

 

F it, lets call the new Radio 1 stage the "Al Queda stage" but "what a load of waffle, its nothing to do with the terrorist group, its probably named after 3 guys Alan, Quentin, and Dave".

Embarrassing even for you this one

Admit your wrong and get over it

[Guest]

He's gonna start typing with caps lock on if you're not all careful.

[charlierc]

3 hours ago, On The Blend said:

The only venue in Yorkshire that can block out the sun

At least acts can't be bottled off because they'd release the hounds.

[charlierc]

4 hours ago, Benj said:

Dunno, McVities are going deeeeep with this one to help promote the sale of their biscuits in  'European' section of US Supermarkets with this local festival tie-up https://www.facebook.com/hobnobfest/

[charlierc]

3 hours ago, Chad888 said:

Well the fact it has to be clarified on Twitter too proves its a complete oversight on the companies behalf, and even if they didn't mean to, they have named the new stage after a warmongering company that funded the Nazis and were key in lobbying for the Middle East destabalisation campaign that has left hundreds of thousands of civillians and military personnel dead.

 

F it, lets call the new Radio 1 stage the "Al Queda stage" but "what a load of waffle, its nothing to do with the terrorist group, its probably named after 3 guys Alan, Quentin, and Dave".

I think it's time to move on.

[NorthernSoul52]

And moving on indeed, I've had a crack at what we can expect from Lana Del Rey.

1 Norman f**king Rockwell
2 Born to Die
3 The Grants
4 Bartender
5 Cherry
6 Honeymoon
7 Blue Jeans
8 Chemtrails Over the Country Club
9 Arcadia
10 Pretty When You Cry
11 Love
12 Summertime Sadness
13 Ultraviolence
14 Say Yes to Heaven
15 Video Games
16 Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd

All fairly feasible with the exception of Honeymoon and Love, given they barely get much airtime these days. (The latter being permanently exiled just gives me one more reason to think she's a diva, but that's purely personal taste.)

You'll probably get a Lasso track in there too, in place of that.