Other Opener 2023

[Drinky]

Bloc Party opening the Other when they headlined it 10 festivals ago would have a nice symmetry (if a bit indicative of their decline). Manics should get a higher slot given they were due to be headlining the Park in 2020 - and they’ve probably got too many hits. Other opener suits someone with two-three songs you know from the radio… also it doesn’t get any coverage from the BBC, which probably won’t be a factor but you never know.

[danbailey80]

1 hour ago, dreams_burn_down said:

In theory I'd agree, but I've already got all my headliners sorted and don't need any more horrendous clashes 😅

Obviously the unspoken rule of this slot is you play your old crowd-pleasing hits, and while Suede aren't above that, they are touring a successful new album which might not make them the best fit.

I wish James had known this rule before their opening slot! The oddest setlist I've heard them play. Dreadful.

[efcfanwirral]

1 minute ago, danbailey80 said:

I wish James had known this rule before their opening slot! The oddest setlist I've heard them play. Dreadful.

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/james/2018/lowther-deer-park-penrith-england-7beb2ea0.html this one was a bit of a tough one for the first 20 minutes or so!! Think they were pissed off they had to play before Catfish and the Bottlemen after headlining the festival 3 years earlier

[Superscally]

2 hours ago, Neil said:

search is working ok. 🙂 

Cool. I just put "Other" in as topic title and it gave me zero results, which I found surprising?

[Superscally]

Seems like there's no consensus...did we expect Libertines last time?

[Neil]

1 minute ago, Superscally said:

Cool. I just put "Other" in as topic title and it gave me zero results, which I found surprising?

it will have then given you an option "more search options" where you could have selected to search in just  the topic titles.

(i think some of the searching is throttled to avoid long processes onto the database)

[Neil]

2 minutes ago, Superscally said:

Seems like there's no consensus...did we expect Libertines last time?

yes - cos they blabbed.

 

[FloorFiller]

3 minutes ago, Superscally said:

Seems like there's no consensus...did we expect Libertines last time?

It’s quite a wide net of acts it could be so a hard one to nail down without any actual information. The Libertines spilled the beans themselves last year but I don’t recall us having any knowledge of The Vaccines or The Pretenders in the years prior to that. 

[Superscally]

3 minutes ago, Neil said:

yes - cos they blabbed.

 

 

Just now, FloorFiller said:

It’s quite a wide net of acts it could be so a hard one to nail down without any actual information. The Libertines spilled the beans themselves last year but I don’t recall us having any knowledge of The Vaccines or The Pretenders in the years prior to that. 

Fair play. Loved it, personally. My fave Other opener. Bloc Party shouts are ace... Maximo would get us going...

[FloorFiller]

I expected The Libertines to be ace given that they used to be such a huge band with such a devoted fanbase but it unfortunately fell pretty flat for me - huge difference from their 2015 set which I loved. 

[Andy0808 v5]

The only correct answers are Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand or Editors. 

[Ayrshire Chris]

27 minutes ago, danbailey80 said:

I wish James had known this rule before their opening slot! The oddest setlist I've heard them play. Dreadful.

Think they threw in several songs from what was their new album , girl at the end of the world. Not great. Then due to the delayed start caused by the mud at the front of the stage they dropped sit down and went straight into laid to finish the set. 

[Drinky]

Editors opening up to confusing the hell out of the Belgians in attendance who’ve never seen them play a festival slot below the top two slots of the main stage

[CaledonianGonzo]

22 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

I expected The Libertines to be ace given that they used to be such a huge band with such a devoted fanbase but it unfortunately fell pretty flat for me - huge difference from their 2015 set which I loved. 

It was woeful.

[Andy0808 v5]

27 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

I expected The Libertines to be ace given that they used to be such a huge band with such a devoted fanbase but it unfortunately fell pretty flat for me - huge difference from their 2015 set which I loved. 

Yeh, that felt like a pub tribute act. Was very weird, I don’t think my position in the field/wind helped the sound for me to be honest.

[Crazyfool01]

51 minutes ago, danbailey80 said:

I wish James had known this rule before their opening slot! The oddest setlist I've heard them play. Dreadful.

Great brexit speech though 🙂 

[4AssedMonkey]

47 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/james/2018/lowther-deer-park-penrith-england-7beb2ea0.html this one was a bit of a tough one for the first 20 minutes or so!! Think they were pissed off they had to play before Catfish and the Bottlemen after headlining the festival 3 years earlier

I was there for this.  It was fucking dreadful.  They did a lullaby arrangement of Sit Down with Tim staring into the audience like a mad sex rast, which managed to both ruin the song AND creep out half the audience.  We walked off at that point and were by no means alone.

[Ayrshire Chris]

21 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

Great brexit speech though 🙂 

Yes, short, accurate and to the point! Summed up all our feelings after waking up to the unbelievable news. 

[danbailey80]

3 hours ago, efcfanwirral said:

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/james/2018/lowther-deer-park-penrith-england-7beb2ea0.html this one was a bit of a tough one for the first 20 minutes or so!! Think they were pissed off they had to play before Catfish and the Bottlemen after headlining the festival 3 years earlier

Jesus that is not a great Festival set. What were they thinking?!

[Skip997]

5 hours ago, Franky said:

It's the KLF 

What!

That would make me get out of bed early

[Crazyfool01]

3 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

What!

That would make me get out of bed early

uh huh 

[Ayrshire Chris]

4 hours ago, danbailey80 said:

I wish James had known this rule before their opening slot! The oddest setlist I've heard them play. Dreadful.

[Gwish123]

Shed seven a possibility? 

[Wherethewildthingsare]

8 hours ago, 4AssedMonkey said:

If it's an act that hasn't been announced I'd be delighted with either Suede or Ash.  Never managed to see Ash live so they'd be ideal for me.

Love Ash! 

[DareToDibble]

5 hours ago, FloorFiller said:

It’s quite a wide net of acts it could be so a hard one to nail down without any actual information. The Libertines spilled the beans themselves last year but I don’t recall us having any knowledge of The Vaccines or The Pretenders in the years prior to that. 

I can't say with certainty but I'm confident we knew about The Vaccines in advance? I'm sure I remember discussing them on here. May be wrong though!