2025 R&L Festival

[gfa]

19 minutes ago, OwenG133 said:

Is there any rumour of when the first headliner announcement will be?

Expect them all to drop in one go this side of xmas. Next few weeks

[Chad888]

25 minutes ago, OwenG133 said:

Is there any rumour of when the first headliner announcement will be?

 

2024: 23rd November 2023

2023: December 9th 2022

2022: 8 Dec 2021

2021: 31st Aug 2020

2020: 11 Feb 20

2019: 21 November 2018

2018: 13/02/2018

[OwenG133]

2 minutes ago, Chad888 said:

 

2024: 23rd November 2023

2023: December 9th 2022

2022: 8 Dec 2021

2021: 31st Aug 2020

2020: 11 Feb 20

2019: 21 November 2018

2018: 13/02/2018

So basically: Any time from literally now until February. Ngl I'm more looking the line-up to see who Electric Picnic back in Ireland could have hahaha...

[gfa]

7 minutes ago, OwenG133 said:

So basically: Any time from literally now until February. Ngl I'm more looking the line-up to see who Electric Picnic back in Ireland could have hahaha...

All festival announcements have got a lot earlier since covid - its very unlikely to be announced next year as they will lose out on lots of sales.

[OwenG133]

1 minute ago, gfa said:

All festival announcements have got a lot earlier since covid - its very unlikely to be announced next year as they will lose out on lots of sales.

Electric Picnic over here sells out fast, like Glastonbury style fast... Think it sold out in only a couple hours when tickets went on sale this year with a small batch released at like 5pm later on that day... This year they waited until April to announce headliners even though most of them could've been predicted before hand as they were either doing big solo shows or doing the festival circuit anyway...

[Benj]

19 minutes ago, OwenG133 said:

Electric Picnic over here sells out fast, like Glastonbury style fast... Think it sold out in only a couple hours when tickets went on sale this year with a small batch released at like 5pm later on that day... This year they waited until April to announce headliners even though most of them could've been predicted before hand as they were either doing big solo shows or doing the festival circuit anyway...

How do other festivals sell?  IS there the same competition there as in the UK?

[Chad888]

19 minutes ago, gfa said:

All festival announcements have got a lot earlier since covid - its very unlikely to be announced next year as they will lose out on lots of sales.

 

It's not a covid thing.

 

Its a simple case of knowing you have a killer booking and want to get news out there first, so people buy your tickets over others (I.e. the changing format, 2 main stages with 6 headliners came out in August).

 

Alternatively the later they leave it, the worse you know the lineup is going to be, because they are reliant on hype to build and blind buying Christmas presents to sell tickets, rather than giving a half arsed lineup and hoping people pick you over the other 50 festivals over the summer (I.e. Fallout Boy, Kings of Leon, Panic at the Disco being your headliners, so you wait till Feb when most of your tickets have sold and the ones holding out have ran out of options).

[NorthernSoul52]

Yeah, I'd expect R+L to drop soon-ish.

 

As for how fast they'll go, depends how it is structured. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Fred Again / Lana del Rey day went far faster at both sites than anything else.

[OwenG133]

1 minute ago, Benj said:

How do other festivals sell?  IS there the same competition there as in the UK?

Electric Picnic is probably the only big Irish festival... There used to be Oxegen but we're talking 10 years ago now... There's also All Together Now however that's over 21s and is intentionally aimed at an different audience. In conclusion, there's not much competition out here at all

[NorthernSoul52]

Oxegen! Good lord, that takes me back. 

[OwenG133]

Just now, NorthernSoul52 said:

Oxegen! Good lord, that takes me back. 

Their line-ups in 2010 and 2011 easily beat any festival line-up now by a mile in my opinion.

[NorthernSoul52]

Just unhinged, those bills. And for a reasonable price in the day, too.

[OwenG133]

There won't be a festival bill like that again for years, or ever, for Ireland...

[NorthernSoul52]

Won't be many like that for the rest of the world either.