Primavera Sound 2025

[bluenova]

18 hours ago, FKA SOSOTWS said:

 

Not really, since New Order got added months later for 2023.

 

 

 

I didn't go last year, so wasn't following, but did anyone know why New Order were added late? Poor ticket sales, a provisional booking that they couldn't confirm, or something else?

[frankburns]

37 minutes ago, bluenova said:

 

I didn't go last year, so wasn't following, but did anyone know why New Order were added late? Poor ticket sales, a provisional booking that they couldn't confirm, or something else?

New Order were confirmed on March 7, 2023 (the 40th anniversary of Blue Monday).

 

https://www.primaverasound.com/en/news/we-feel-so-extraordinary--new-order-se-suman-al-cartel-de-primavera-sound-barcelona-y-madrid-2023

Edited October 31 by frankburns

[Kenji Endo]

2 hours ago, scatteredscreens said:

pure phase in full outside on a big stage would be horrible. people would just be talking.

 

Auditori is absolutely perfect for them, I hope they play it.

Agree About people chatting,

but i hope they won’t do Auditori because i can imagine a certain clash with another “must see“ gig. Hope they put them on former rayban stage at 3:00am, lol

[scatteredscreens]

15 minutes ago, Kenji Endo said:

Agree About people chatting,

but i hope they won’t do Auditori because i can imagine a certain clash with another “must see“ gig. Hope they put them on former rayban stage at 3:00am, lol

There'll always be a clash with someone. 

 

Given there's not too many other obvious Auditori acts i can only assume they'll be in there

[bluenova]

28 minutes ago, frankburns said:

New Order were confirmed on March 7, 2023 (the 40th anniversary of Blue Monday).

 

https://www.primaverasound.com/en/news/we-feel-so-extraordinary--new-order-se-suman-al-cartel-de-primavera-sound-barcelona-y-madrid-2023

 

March 13, 2025, is the 30th anniversary of The Bends 😉 

[bluenova]

3 hours ago, scatteredscreens said:

pure phase in full outside on a big stage would be horrible. people would just be talking.

 

Auditori is absolutely perfect for them, I hope they play it.

 

I don't disagree about people talking, but there's a lot of noise on that album, and even the "delicate" songs don't have to be theatre quiet.

 

There's plenty of 'noise' going on under those quiet songs, that would be able to fill the air with sound, and you'd hope that after a forty year career, they'd know how to project their sound.

 

I saw Massive Attack for the first time this year. I know they've got a reputation for wanting perfect sound, but I was surprised at just how loud it was. Even on songs that rely on "quiet passages" for their impact, they dominated any crowd noise.

 

 

[Ohjesus]

saw spiritualized earlier this year and can confirm the loud bits were exceptionally loud 

[FKA SOSOTWS]

Problem is that the outdoor stages that don't face the sea have sound ordinances. 

[bluenova]

47 minutes ago, FKA SOSOTWS said:

Problem is that the outdoor stages that don't face the sea have sound ordinances. 

 

With Spiritualized, I don't think the issue would be about making the noisier songs noisy - it's just whether the quieter ones are loud enough to avoid people being able to have an easy conversation.

[FKA SOSOTWS]

4 minutes ago, bluenova said:

 

With Spiritualized, I don't think the issue would be about making the noisier songs noisy - it's just whether the quieter ones are loud enough to avoid people being able to have an easy conversation.

 

Right, and with the reduced volume at some of the stages, yappers will be an even bigger nuisance for all the quieter songs.

 

 

Edited October 31 by FKA SOSOTWS

[Justiceforcedave]

Oh dear... is it a yappy festival?

[FKA SOSOTWS]

Spanish people + lots of cocaine = yes.

 

But on the bright side, the crowd does go lit for high energy shows. I personally prefer to stand in the back with ample open space anyway, so I can easily move if needed and conserve energy.

[bluenova]

42 minutes ago, FKA SOSOTWS said:

 

Right, and with the reduced volume at some of the stages, yappers will be an even bigger nuisance for all the quieter songs.

 

 

 

I was thinking more that the quieter songs aren't actually that quiet. There is always a lot going on with Spiritualized songs - tracks like All Of My Tears and even Let it Flow could fill a large space with the right production.

[ConfidenceMan]

18 minutes ago, Justiceforcedave said:

Oh dear... is it a yappy festival?

Sadly, isn't every festival a yappy festival these days? 

 

There's a discussion ongoing in the All Points East thread about talkers and the clientele and, honestly, you could apply it to any festival in any country anywhere these days I think. 

 

For me, it's good to know that going in to a gig; accepting that festival sets may not be perfect (could be sound, could be short, etc) and that I'll need to move around at times, or go off on my own at times - that's good enough for me. I can make it work because the balance has certainly worsened in recent years from one person holding up their phone to whole crowds of people just chatting, or entire crowds camping all day at stages for certain acts and disrupting the people on beforehand. 

 

You get it everywhere. It ain't festival specific, or act specific in my experience. 

[Etaish]

I've been going to gigs for well over 30 years and the absolute silence of the audience when Radiohead played at PS in 2016 is something I have never ever experienced till then or since. 

[broccoli]

15 minutes ago, Etaish said:

I've been going to gigs for well over 30 years and the absolute silence of the audience when Radiohead played at PS in 2016 is something I have never ever experienced till then or since. 

I’m insanely jealous, we were in the first ⅓ of that crowd and it was just all chatting. Someone was facetiming their dad

[Etaish]

8 minutes ago, broccoli said:

I’m insanely jealous, we were in the first ⅓ of that crowd and it was just all chatting. Someone was facetiming their dad

we were also in the first third but slightly to the right of the stage. i guess this just emphasises that if you have someone yapping next to you, just reposition yourself. you're never going to get closed auditorium style conditions in an open air pop/rock show.

[FKA SOSOTWS]

Repositioning in a thick crowd is super tough though. Also blows to have to give up a space you camped out for.

[Etaish]

9 minutes ago, FKA SOSOTWS said:

Repositioning in a thick crowd is super tough though. Also blows to have to give up a space you camped out for.

 

still beats watching the show on a screen at home

[FKA SOSOTWS]

37 minutes ago, Etaish said:

 

still beats watching the show on a screen at home

 

To an extent, there's a point where I'd much rather not be there and not have a memory of seeing a favorite band being stained due to the crowd. But yes, better to move than to be stuck surrounded by c**ts.

[InscutableJRT]

2 hours ago, broccoli said:

I’m insanely jealous, we were in the first ⅓ of that crowd and it was just all chatting. Someone was facetiming their dad

The Facetiming of a show blows me away. It's irritating to the people around you, and there's just no way it's doing anything for whomever you're sending it to unless you're on the rail. 

[Whos3000_]

Are there more club acts than last year? Maybe the 3rd club stage is back? That would be amazing news, so that the real heads can go to warehouse without waiting for a cue of noobs who don’t know who is playing 

[FKA SOSOTWS]

No idea, I just hope it won't rain again so that the Warehouse doesn't fill up with people just seeking shelter.

[clasher]

13 hours ago, Etaish said:

I've been going to gigs for well over 30 years and the absolute silence of the audience when Radiohead played at PS in 2016 is something I have never ever experienced till then or since. 

 

Oh yes this, saw them a year later at BKS and the silence when they started Exit (music for a film) was incredible.

[DDave]

17 hours ago, Etaish said:

I've been going to gigs for well over 30 years and the absolute silence of the audience when Radiohead played at PS in 2016 is something I have never ever experienced till then or since. 

 

Same here, probably a third of the way back to the left, facing the stage. You could hear a pin drop. Girl in front of me dropped a lit cigarette into her handbag and I had to whisper to her to tell her as any louder would have been really noticeable.