2025 R&L Festival

[northernangel]

1 hour 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.

I say fairplay but that's bonkers lol. I live 2.5 hours away mind and wouldn't consider it at that price.

Edited Thursday at 11:58 AM by northernangel

[Justcalledtosay]

1 hour ago, Benj said:

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

Boston, Massachusetts

[Justcalledtosay]

22 minutes ago, northernangel said:

I say fairplay but that's bonkers lol. I live 2.5 hours away mind and wouldn't consider it at that price.

I mean tickets for Hozier alone started at £133 this year soo..

[charlierc]

35 minutes ago, Justcalledtosay said:

I mean tickets for Hozier alone started at £133 this year soo..

[charlierc]

58 minutes ago, northernangel said:

I say fairplay but that's bonkers lol. I live 2.5 hours away mind and wouldn't consider it at that price.

I'm having this line of thought elsewhere tbf. I was up for a trip to see Muse, Korn, Biffy Clyro & Kaiser Chiefs at Pinkpop in the Netherlands, maybe as part of a big Dutch/German odyssey, but at 150 Euro+ for a day ticket and in an area of Holland with very little accommodation available on the cheap, not so much.

[Nice hymer]

3 hours 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.

Well, I'm travelling from Somerset to Reading just for this...

 

Our youngest is a huge Chappell Roan fan and since we've only managed to bag them a Sunday Glasto ticket and they will be home alone for the Glasto week, Friday at Reading is their compensation.

 

Should CR end up at Glasto on the Sunday, we might reconsider (the journey to/from Reading is a PITA)

 

Can't say that I'm thrilled at the prospect but YOLO and it's only money....

[northernangel]

3 hours ago, Justcalledtosay said:

I mean tickets for Hozier alone started at £133 this year soo..

The difference is of it's worth it for each person. I have to really have interest in acts for that cost.

[charlierc]

4 hours ago, northernangel said:

The difference is of it's worth it for each person. I have to really have interest in acts for that cost.

I guess we all have our ways of considering whether the tickets are worth the price or not.

 

The fact I spent several months waiting for a below face value spare to Muse at Milton Keynes Bowl even though they are my favourite band and as I live near MK, wouldn't have to spend cash on trains hints that for me, a £90-100 ticket price to that show was too much. Clearly, for a lot of people, that price was still worth the investment.

[northernangel]

1 hour ago, charlierc said:

I guess we all have our ways of considering whether the tickets are worth the price or not.

 

The fact I spent several months waiting for a below face value spare to Muse at Milton Keynes Bowl even though they are my favourite band and as I live near MK, wouldn't have to spend cash on trains hints that for me, a £90-100 ticket price to that show was too much. Clearly, for a lot of people, that price was still worth the investment.

Indeed. The thing if people will pay it there can be no surprise how much some acts stretch it and take the piss. I think 2011 was probably the last time I saw a Muse full show and I can't say they've really interested for a tour since. If they place like an intimate gig where it was like Brixton or something it might be different but their setlists especially have changed so much. I'm comfortably in the zone after they were zone after The Resistance. Been a bit of a dead band for me for 15 years now. An Absolution or BH&R show would get me there for sure mind.

[thatTFBguy]

On 12/15/2024 at 9:51 AM, OddRon said:

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.

 

Very much an academy band here. Cracking band though, been their last two shows and always a highlight of the gig-going year. 

[charlierc]

23 hours ago, northernangel said:

Indeed. The thing if people will pay it there can be no surprise how much some acts stretch it and take the piss. I think 2011 was probably the last time I saw a Muse full show and I can't say they've really interested for a tour since. If they place like an intimate gig where it was like Brixton or something it might be different but their setlists especially have changed so much. I'm comfortably in the zone after they were zone after The Resistance. Been a bit of a dead band for me for 15 years now. An Absolution or BH&R show would get me there for sure mind.

London O2 in October 2023 was over £100 for GA standing, so I decided that was the one too far.

 

I still would go again tbf as I enjoyed the Milton Keynes show but London O2 didn't feel special having done it multiple tours in a row and for an expensive price, and that's even if I'd been to the show that got a surprise Butterflies & Hurricanes appearance, having not had it in any Muse set. I think I'd rather make a holiday of it and see them at a European festival, but the problem is a bill that entices me to go along is yet to appear. But hey ho. It's a nice thing to seek rather than a "summer's f**king ruined" moodiness alert.

[northernangel]

4 hours ago, charlierc said:

London O2 in October 2023 was over £100 for GA standing, so I decided that was the one too far.

 

I still would go again tbf as I enjoyed the Milton Keynes show but London O2 didn't feel special having done it multiple tours in a row and for an expensive price, and that's even if I'd been to the show that got a surprise Butterflies & Hurricanes appearance, having not had it in any Muse set. I think I'd rather make a holiday of it and see them at a European festival, but the problem is a bill that entices me to go along is yet to appear. But hey ho. It's a nice thing to seek rather than a "summer's f**king ruined" moodiness alert.

I've had Butterflies and Hurricanes once I think. A better song than anything they've done for 15 years.