Wide Awake festival 2024

[Fleetwood_Mac_And_Cheese]

Next year will be starting to be announced soon right, who's everyone thinking? After King Gizz it'll be interesting to see if they can match with a similar star power headliner

[brendan84]

Announced wide awake 2025 moved to Friday 23rd may 2025 (was sat 24th) Field day taking the date now. 

That's a bit rubbish will need to take a day's holiday to go.n

[GmasterWomble]

 

1 hour ago, brendan84 said:

Announced wide awake 2025 moved to Friday 23rd may 2025 (was sat 24th) Field day taking the date now. 

That's a bit rubbish will need to take a day's holiday to go.n

 

The lineup is going to have to be very strong for me to justify booking a Friday off work. Hopefully the money Field Day have paid to have the weekend somehow trickles down to Wide Awake and they can have an even better lineup this year.

[modefan]

I can’t see this going well and it’s a shame. The lineup was strong all day last year and the place filled up early and had a great atmosphere probably helped largely by the cheaper tickets requiring entry before 2 or 3pm. Either it’ll be a later start which gives worse value for money, or it’ll be empty until 6pm which reduces the buzz, or they’ll have to give away loads of freebies to get you in which harms viability. 2024 was great, I can’t see 2025 living up to it. 

[gfa]

14 hours ago, GmasterWomble said:

 

 

The lineup is going to have to be very strong for me to justify booking a Friday off work. Hopefully the money Field Day have paid to have the weekend somehow trickles down to Wide Awake and they can have an even better lineup this year.

Almost certain it doesn't work like that, although the friday will be cheaper to hire

[Justiceforcedave]

I think the Friday may have been booked to line up with the headliner's availability 🤫

[zahidf]

Looking at the primavera line up, hoping for FKA twigs or LCD soundsystem

[internetjef]

4 hours ago, zahidf said:

Looking at the primavera line up, hoping for FKA twigs or LCD soundsystem

LCD played a few day festivals last year , including APE in London. Might be surprised to see them come back so soon to do similar setup at wide awake 

[DarthSaul]

LCD have announced a 2025 album though mind

[sheffinghell]

Wonder if this will be going over to Superstruct too, along with other Brockwell events?

[Tigane]

Just was checking the website of the festival   and found it odd to see these 2 bands on the «Line Up», despite most of the bands there being on the 2024 line up.  However these 2  weren't on the card (Wine Lips even was touring in the US during Wide Awake 2024).     Can this be a 'leak'?    Besides, they teased today on their social media that they would announce the first names very soon.  So it is a possiblity hat the website is being updated (and possible that some info that was supposed to be hidden, came to the eyes of the public.    Well let's wait and see 

[Tigane]

10 minutes ago, Tigane said:

Just was checking the website of the festival   and found it odd to see these 2 bands on the «Line Up», despite most of the bands there being on the 2024 line up.  However these 2  weren't on the card (Wine Lips even was touring in the US during Wide Awake 2024).     Can this be a 'leak'?    Besides, they teased today on their social media that they would announce the first names very soon.  So it is a possiblity hat the website is being updated (and possible that some info that was supposed to be hidden, came to the eyes of the public.    Well let's wait and see 

edit:  Found Sprints and Psychedelic Porn Crumpets also on the list    (These bands appear,  when after i choose the line up,  and press the «load more» button  at the bottom.   

[sheffinghell]

[suttttttt]

If Wine Lips, WITCH and PPC are in the line up that’s worth the entry alone- anything else is a bonus. Think PPC have got to be nailed on as they’re doing Live at Leeds on the Saturday 

[Tigane]

3 hours ago, suttttttt said:

If Wine Lips, WITCH and PPC are in the line up that’s worth the entry alone- anything else is a bonus. Think PPC have got to be nailed on as they’re doing Live at Leeds on the Saturday 

Yeap

THey are working on the website and the names are public .  And if you hover the new names,  their link don't have the specific tag with the name, and today there are more names, that weren't last night  (and the name from We Intend to Create Havoc  was changed to W.I.T.C.H.)

So  the names without specific tag on the link are:

Wine Lips
WITCH
Ugly
SPRINTS
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
PUZZLE
Patriarchy
Optimo (Espacio)

[Justiceforcedave]

On 10/24/2024 at 11:56 AM, zahidf said:

Looking at the primavera line up, hoping for FKA twigs or LCD soundsystem

Don't think headliner is on the Prima lineup. I reckon it'll be a surprise.

[suttttttt]

Reckon we can expect first names after the refund deadline which is the 6th. Super hopeful that these names being floated around are on the bill.

[pedrogooch]

[Charles h]

Kneecap... dreadful line up. 

 

From Gizz & Slowdive to Kneecap and CMAT

 

 

[SDMan99]

Utterly dire, can’t stand Kneecap.
 

Went the last two years and felt confident enough to buy an early bird ticket this year, between the day change and this letdown of a line-up I feel like I’ve been had now. 

[pedrogooch]

12 minutes ago, Charles h said:

Kneecap... dreadful line up. 

 

From Gizz & Slowdive to Kneecap and CMAT

 

 

 

They do seem to constantly subtly chop and change the style/genre of the festival each year, even if the overarching theme is "alternative", it doesn't seem interested in catering for exactly the same audience each year. I think that's quite nice, even if this is a bit of a miss for me. I like CMAT though!

 

It'll do OK I expect.

Edited November 5 by pedrogooch

[brendan84]

Very bbc 6 music festival vibes

However I like kneecap sprints and English teacher so fine with this line up (not got a ticket yet)

[Tigane]

Don't care about the headliners (besides English Teacher)  

However the undercard is very good for my tastes.  I will be there for the 2nd time

[zahidf]

Looks fun as always. Feels like a cheap tickets near the time deal though

[homesick]

Looks like the first time I won’t be attending. Shocking
 

Would advise anyone considering attending to not buy tickets any time soon - they’ll be dirt cheap on resale sites in the week before the event