Visions 2023 22/7/23

[axel75]

Visions has always really being about new and unknown bands, apart from Spiritualized the rest of the bill pretty much fits that description.

Just wanted to highlight what amazing value for money the early bird tickets for this, Wide Awake and the new Rally festivals are. Always worth a punt despite who plays.

[retromoz]

OK.

So.....after looking forward to this, turns out I can't go. Gutting.

So....I have a ticket available. I bought it on Dice. I paid £25 for an early bird ticket. You can have it for £20. 

Dm me if interested. £20 for Just Mustard and Spiritualized AND Scalping? And more?!? Blimey. What a deal. 

etc.

[retromoz]

19 hours ago, retromoz said:

OK.

So.....after looking forward to this, turns out I can't go. Gutting.

So....I have a ticket available. I bought it on Dice. I paid £25 for an early bird ticket. You can have it for £20. 

Dm me if interested. £20 for Just Mustard and Spiritualized AND Scalping? And more?!? Blimey. What a deal. 

etc.

This has now gone. 

[xxialac]

Final names in.

The worst lineup in their history. Clear that they’ve spent almost all their budget on Spiritualised at the expense of lots of great second line names.

[lessthanwill1]

18 minutes ago, xxialac said:

Final names in.

The worst lineup in their history. Clear that they’ve spent almost all their budget on Spiritualised at the expense of lots of great second line names.

Totally agree.  Very disappointing!  Modern Woman, Tapir, Mui Zyu and Just Mustard the only decent undercard names imo. 

[noisenoiseandmorenoise]

Hard to deny the value for money but yeah not sure how they ended up with this line up. Last year was perfectly balanced from top to bottom

[xxialac]

On 6/7/2023 at 11:01 PM, noisenoiseandmorenoise said:

Hard to deny the value for money but yeah not sure how they ended up with this line up. Last year was perfectly balanced from top to bottom

Used to be even better, a huge fall from grace.

 

Edited June 8, 2023 by xxialac

[Fish Bulb]

Surely by it's very nature it always looks better in retrospect, as a lot of the bands playing it having made it big yet?

[lessthanwill1]

It feels to me that they have a new booking team or at least a totally different booking strategy.  Spiritualised are a notably bigger band than any of their past headliners.  The gulf between headliner and undercard is much more distinct this year.  In previous years, the headliner has been pretty comparable to the much of the top line.  Somewhat subjective I know…but it feels like the budget went on the headliner to the detriment of the undercard when historically it seems that they wouldn’t have had to spend way more on the headliner and in comparison to the other big names.

Also, the genre of music seems to have shifted as well.  Quite a lot of pop/R&B on the line up this year (although that was also the case last year to some extent I guess) and definitely less of the cool stuff they used to book (Jenny Hval, Moor Mother, SOPHIE, Jockstrap, Kero Kero Bonito, Lightning Bolt, Show Me The Body, Keely Forsyth, Aya, Hinako Omori, Iglooghost, Gazelle Twin etc.) 

[zahidf]

Ill see the stage splits to judge. The price is cheaper than Spiritualized charge to play themselves anyway, so anything past that is fine for me 

[xxialac]

6 hours ago, Fish Bulb said:

Surely by it's very nature it always looks better in retrospect, as a lot of the bands playing it having made it big yet?

Obviously.

But many of those acts were breaking through at the time.

And I can spot 10 at least who are established now.

This year’s lineup doesnt begin to compare. I’ve tried to get excited about the bands but only 1 or 2 at most will breakthrough. The quality isn’t there.

[1986]

Hi all, found out we can’t go now and have 2 tix to sell. Happy to let them go for £50.

Let me know if interested x

[axel75]

Visions has always been about new acts, after having a good listen to the lineup, i can recommend the following (so long as you are not just wanting to listen to same old guitar stuff):

Scalping
Pale Blue Eyes
Dos Monos
Floodlights
Hex Girlfriend
Miniki
Halina

[zahidf]

Tbh that church line up is value for money

[Rhys60]

So the recently added GG = goat girl?

[collectivisedfarming]

I last went to visions in 2014 and am going this year. I know this could be an impossible question to answer but based on more recent years what are numbers of ticket holders like in terms of capacities? Will I have to be in an act before the one I want to see, particularly later in the day?

[xxialac]

Very surprised to see Gary Glitter on the lineup.

[zahidf]

1 hour ago, collectivisedfarming said:

I last went to visions in 2014 and am going this year. I know this could be an impossible question to answer but based on more recent years what are numbers of ticket holders like in terms of capacities? Will I have to be in an act before the one I want to see, particularly later in the day?

Id probably say the Church will be fine. The others will fill up if a big band, so id get it early ( esp Paper Dress)

[collectivisedfarming]

17 minutes ago, zahidf said:

Id probably say the Church will be fine. The others will fill up if a big band, so id get it early ( esp Paper Dress)

Thanks. I'd like to see Sophie Jamieson and Floodlights there so will plan accordingly. 

[xxialac]

Which is the venue that gets insanely hot?

[zahidf]

41 minutes ago, xxialac said:

Which is the venue that gets insanely hot?

All of them last year!

[noisenoiseandmorenoise]

We gave up on Paper Dress last year. It seemed like they had space for 20 people. Queues every time we passed.

Oslo's was packed and sweat running off the ceilings level of hot especially for Deathcrash. Though they didn't have people controlling the capacity so you could always get in.

The other venues seemed fine. It appeared lots choose to hang around the main church all day (which would explain the high number of disinterested talkers).

[xxialac]

1 hour ago, noisenoiseandmorenoise said:

We gave up on Paper Dress last year. It seemed like they had space for 20 people. Queues every time we passed.

Oslo's was packed and sweat running off the ceilings level of hot especially for Deathcrash. Though they didn't have people controlling the capacity so you could always get in.

The other venues seemed fine. It appeared lots choose to hang around the main church all day (which would explain the high number of disinterested talkers).

Super useful, thanks.

[xxialac]

Annoyingly they seem to have moved Picture Parlour so they now clash with Scalping,

And have given up on Goat Girl.

[lessthanwill1]

Think I’ll do: Porchlight > Dog Race > Just Mustard > Eden Samara > Dos Monos > Mamarlarky > Spirtualized.

The splits weren't kind to me as wanted to see Mui Zyu and Modern Woman but they clash with Just Mustard and Spz.