2025 R&L Festival

[FeverDream]

I will be going to the BMTH day at Leeds but I haven’t got a ticket yet. I simply can’t justify £125 right before Christmas. Especially considering I’ve just bought Deftones at Halifax tickets for £65, which came completely out of the blue but I knew it’d sell out so had no choice but to buy now. Still debating whether or not to pick up a Biffy TRNSMT ticket this side of Xmas or bank on it being safe to leave until after Xmas.
 

TLDR: getting a BMTH ticket is bottom of the gig priority for me right now at £125 and I am banking on them still being available at the end of January.

[Andre91]

31 minutes ago, gfa said:

I don't think you realise how expensive Ibiza is. No 18 year olds go there anymore

 

 

It costs around 5x as much as a greek party island / magaluf

My mate and his missus went to Ibiza in June for his 30th and it cost almost a couple of grand for 5 days. That’s without spends. 

[charlierc]

1 hour ago, Andre91 said:

My mate and his missus went to Ibiza in June for his 30th and it cost almost a couple of grand for 5 days. That’s without spends. 

Well no wonder it would become off-putting to the u18s given the economic situation isn't exactly ideal for them to begin with.

[CanWeRest]

20 hours ago, Chad888 said:

 

I can't explain how it works as I don't understand the logistics, my wife's a marketing affiliates manager (I don't know what that means either).

 

One of her clients is a big supermarket that looked at introducing a mobile phone network to rival Tesco Mobile and she showed me before that you can look at the entire online marketing space and see how much different companies are spending on certain marketing campaigns, for reaching a certain audience, and how much ROI they are making in those campaigns.

 

I.e. I'm still interested in a festival but the lineup is meh, so asked her to do her magic and see how sales are going, whether they would introduce marketing campaigns to shift more tickets.

 

 

Bit of a jumbled sentence, I really don't know how it works.

 

Basically in the online space, whatever you advertise and market isn't private how much you spend, how much money you make - people like my wife analyse the data and develop marketing campaigns and advise clients to outbid on key words or avoid key words that other companies use.

 

That sounds right 😹

[Benj]

7 hours ago, FeverDream said:

I will be going to the BMTH day at Leeds but I haven’t got a ticket yet. I simply can’t justify £125 right before Christmas. Especially considering I’ve just bought Deftones at Halifax tickets for £65, which came completely out of the blue but I knew it’d sell out so had no choice but to buy now. Still debating whether or not to pick up a Biffy TRNSMT ticket this side of Xmas or bank on it being safe to leave until after Xmas.
 

TLDR: getting a BMTH ticket is bottom of the gig priority for me right now at £125 and I am banking on them still being available at the end of January.

Given sales this year and what looks like a weaker lineup next,Is suspect they’ll very likely still be available in August…

 

indeed I suspect you may be able to get one on the cheap

[Benj]

On 12/12/2024 at 11:27 AM, Chad888 said:

 

I can't explain how it works as I don't understand the logistics, my wife's a marketing affiliates manager (I don't know what that means either).

 

One of her clients is a big supermarket that looked at introducing a mobile phone network to rival Tesco Mobile and she showed me before that you can look at the entire online marketing space and see how much different companies are spending on certain marketing campaigns, for reaching a certain audience, and how much ROI they are making in those campaigns.

 

I.e. I'm still interested in a festival but the lineup is meh, so asked her to do her magic and see how sales are going, whether they would introduce marketing campaigns to shift more tickets.

 

 

Bit of a jumbled sentence, I really don't know how it works.

 

Basically in the online space, whatever you advertise and market isn't private how much you spend, how much money you make - people like my wife analyse the data and develop marketing campaigns and advise clients to outbid on key words or avoid key words that other companies use.

I work in digital marketing and there is no way whatsoever how you can see how much money people make from ad campaigns that you do not have visibility of/ control over.

 

If she was running Readings marketing campaign, then she’d have a good idea as to how many people had clicked her ads and bought but (depending on agency role and access etc) would be unlikely to know how many had bought direct, unless she had her own tracking on Ticketmaster…

 

She may have some kind of visibility of how what advertising Reading has out there, which you could interpret to mean one thing or the other, there is no chance at all though (unless her company works for FR) that she knows how tickets are going based on standard affiliate marketing platform access 

 

 

[nathanh]

Just realised Tyla was announced for APE as London Exclusive which is a weird clause to get. Could we be seeing her? Maybe Travis Scott day?

[charlierc]

14 hours ago, Benj said:

I work in digital marketing and there is no way whatsoever how you can see how much money people make from ad campaigns that you do not have visibility of/ control over.

 

If she was running Readings marketing campaign, then she’d have a good idea as to how many people had clicked her ads and bought but (depending on agency role and access etc) would be unlikely to know how many had bought direct, unless she had her own tracking on Ticketmaster…

 

She may have some kind of visibility of how what advertising Reading has out there, which you could interpret to mean one thing or the other, there is no chance at all though (unless her company works for FR) that she knows how tickets are going based on standard affiliate marketing platform access 

 

 

Surely the only people who know how well this R&L has sold so far for definite are the people who actually work for Festival Republic and Ticketmaster themselves. You can have an idea if you're in a marketing agency how much your campaigns have helped sell tickets or at least encouraged people to click on the ticketing sites, but that's only going to be part of the story for the overall festival's bottom line analysis isn't it?

[Benj]

2 hours ago, charlierc said:

Surely the only people who know how well this R&L has sold so far for definite are the people who actually work for Festival Republic and Ticketmaster themselves. You can have an idea if you're in a marketing agency how much your campaigns have helped sell tickets or at least encouraged people to click on the ticketing sites, but that's only going to be part of the story for the overall festival's bottom line analysis isn't it?

A marketer could technically know, if they have their tracking on Ticketmasters sales page...

IME though and assuming ticket master allowed it, it would only be that agency who would have access to the data, it certainly would not be accessible to any old punter with access to Google Adwords!

[CanWeRest]

Dunno, there are some clever folk around who have their ways.

[Benj]

2 hours ago, CanWeRest said:

Dunno, there are some clever folk around who have their ways.

 

Unless these clever folk are hackig Ticket Master, there is not

[Andre91]

Had a go at filling out the Main Stage: 

 

Hozier / Chappell Roan / Bloc Party / Soft Play / Wallows / Alessi Rose / High Vis / Mannequin Pussy / Red Rum Club

 

Bring Me The Horizon / Enter Shikari / Papa Roach / I Prevail / Conan Gray / Bilmuri / Lambrini Girls / EKKSTACY / Bambie Thug

 

Travis Scott / Central Cee (special guest) / Trippie Redd / Suki Waterhouse / Doechii / Sea Girls / Lancey Foux / The Dare / Luvcat

[charlierc]

5 hours ago, CanWeRest said:

Dunno, there are some clever folk around who have their ways.

 

2 hours ago, Benj said:

 

Unless these clever folk are hackig Ticket Master, there is not

Dubious if the activity required to do that is worth it as a prize tbh.

[tomarchbold]

54 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Had a go at filling out the Main Stage: 

 

Hozier / Chappell Roan / Bloc Party / Soft Play / Wallows / Alessi Rose / High Vis / Mannequin Pussy / Red Rum Club

 

Bring Me The Horizon / Enter Shikari / Papa Roach / I Prevail / Conan Gray / Bilmuri / Lambrini Girls / EKKSTACY / Bambie Thug

 

Travis Scott / Central Cee (special guest) / Trippie Redd / Suki Waterhouse / Doechii / Sea Girls / Lancey Foux / The Dare / Luvcat

surely wallows is after soft play considering thats the order they were listed on the poster?

[Andre91]

25 minutes ago, tomarchbold said:

surely wallows is after soft play considering thats the order they were listed on the poster?

I just thinking of the size of the tour SP have done recently. But yeah, would make sense, like. 

Edited December 14 by Andre91

[OddRon]

Do Wallows have much success in the UK? I know it does not count for much but they look massive based on spotify plays alone but it feels like it’s only in the U.S that they are bit. A bit like Bleachers this year.

[callum97]

17 hours ago, Andre91 said:

Had a go at filling out the Main Stage: 

 

Hozier / Chappell Roan / Bloc Party / Soft Play / Wallows / Alessi Rose / High Vis / Mannequin Pussy / Red Rum Club

 

Bring Me The Horizon / Enter Shikari / Papa Roach / I Prevail / Conan Gray / Bilmuri / Lambrini Girls / EKKSTACY / Bambie Thug

 

Travis Scott / Central Cee (special guest) / Trippie Redd / Suki Waterhouse / Doechii / Sea Girls / Lancey Foux / The Dare / Luvcat

I think papa roach have said their tour dates are the only uk dates this year, no festivals etc 

[NorthernSoul52]

Wouldn't be the first to pull a fast one there, but yes, imagine it's probably not them.

[D666N]

When will we get the next announcement, does anyone know?

[gfa]

2 hours ago, D666N said:

When will we get the next announcement, does anyone know?

end of jan earliest

[nathanh]

3 hours ago, D666N said:

When will we get the next announcement, does anyone know?

Based on last year I would say middle of February especially as we already have considerably more acts now than we knew this time last year.

[andyrhodes24]

4 minutes ago, nathanh said:

Based on last year I would say middle of February especially as we already have considerably more acts now than we knew this time last year.

Last year was weird all round, headliners and not much else, then the full drop, then set times in June was it? All very odd.

[tomarchbold]

58 minutes ago, andyrhodes24 said:

then set times in June was it?

then kept constantly changing and altering them slightly after the prodigy/blink clash response haha

[Justcalledtosay]

The way i look at it, i live close by to Leeds Festival. It's a short taxi ride. Would i pay £125 for Hozier, Chappell Roan and Bloc Party alone? Absolutely. Didn't get Glasto tickets so it's a no brainer.

[Benj]

29 minutes ago, Justcalledtosay said:

The way i look at it, i live close by to Leeds Festival. It's a short taxi ride. Would i pay £125 for Hozier, Chappell Roan and Bloc Party alone? Absolutely. Didn't get Glasto tickets so it's a no brainer.

At what distance would you have thought?- “nah fook it, can’t be arsed with that”