Mad Cool 2025.

[charlierc]

16 minutes ago, Rico_Pliskin said:

Potential artist in the area during summer 2025.

 

Prob announce her stand alone shows and sell them out before mentioning fest dates

I thought she'd done Mad Cool before tbf. But apparently not. 

[49Lawson]

Just seen on their Instagram that tickets are going on sale Friday. Wonder if a surprise line up drops before then…?

 

EDIT: Apologies, I misread it. It’s for a concert they’re doing for the Bloody Beetroots. The wait goes on…

Edited November 25 by 49Lawson
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[birchtree29]

I think Lana Del Rey will be a lock if she is in UK at the end of July.

[49Lawson]

I don’t even think there’s a forum for Benicassim anymore but there’s a list of names we can probably rule out.

 

I know festivals struggle sometimes but it blows my mind how much Benicassim fell off. That has to be the worst line up of the summer possibly.

[thetime]

5 minutes ago, 49Lawson said:

I don’t even think there’s a forum for Benicassim anymore but there’s a list of names we can probably rule out.

 

I know festivals struggle sometimes but it blows my mind how much Benicassim fell off. That has to be the worst line up of the summer possibly.

 

A few big festivals went downhill post covid. Especially those who package it more than just the festival. 

 

 

[Rico_Pliskin]

24 minutes ago, 49Lawson said:

I don’t even think there’s a forum for Benicassim anymore but there’s a list of names we can probably rule out.

 

I know festivals struggle sometimes but it blows my mind how much Benicassim fell off. That has to be the worst line up of the summer possibly.

Love Bloc Party.

 

That's a big miss, recent tour was best I've been to in years

[Mondo-kun]

29 minutes ago, 49Lawson said:

I don’t even think there’s a forum for Benicassim anymore but there’s a list of names we can probably rule out.

They shared some names at least in 2023 (I specifically remember The Offspring)
 

29 minutes ago, 49Lawson said:

I know festivals struggle sometimes but it blows my mind how much Benicassim fell off. That has to be the worst line up of the summer possibly.

With €45 for three days it's still good enough. Times when for €100 we could get RHCP, The Weeknd, Kasabian, Foals and many more are long gone.

[Nicklord]

I think Benicassim went downhill even before Covid. They just started doing "just enough" to get British tourists to buy a ticket while on vacation

[49Lawson]

17 minutes ago, Mondo-kun said:

They shared some names at least in 2023 (I specifically remember The Offspring)
 

With €45 for three days it's still good enough. Times when for €100 we could get RHCP, The Weeknd, Kasabian, Foals and many more are long gone.

Yeah, doesn't look like Beni has exclusive clout these days. I remember when I first started going to festivals it was held in regard as a proper jewel in the festival season crown. 

 

My friend and I almost went the year you're referring to (2017) and the closest I ever actually came was having tickets in 2020. Got them early so for about £45 they had Liam Gallagher, Vampire Weekend, Foals, Khalid, The Libertines, Two Door Cinema Club, The Lumineers and The Hives. Could not believe they had all that for basically the price of a gig ticket.

[Dazrigby88]

I went to Beni in 2012 nd saw Stone Roses, Bob Dylan, Noel Gallagher, Ed Sheeran, Chase & Status and much more... The vibe on tht campsite was second to none, too...

 

It's sad to see it go so downhill 😞

[Giovanni]

Well, Beni was always supposed to be a sunny festival for the Brits, eh? La playa + live music. Even with much weaker line-ups, its promise lives on. And with obviously fewer Brits to come, they try to make the locals go with Spanish artists making up most of the line-up nowadays.

 

I doubt there's really place in the market for another big festival in Spain with Primavera and Mad Cool being as big as they currently are. BBK Live seems to have found their niche, Beni is trying to find another.

[Tom Connolly]

do we have an estimate as to when mad cool is actually gonna be? also do they offer it as a package holiday anywhere or is it very much self organised?

[Rico_Pliskin]

14 minutes ago, Tom Connolly said:

do we have an estimate as to when mad cool is actually gonna be? also do they offer it as a package holiday anywhere or is it very much self organised?

They have offered hotel packages in the past although these are separate from tickets.

[KJP98]

15 minutes ago, Tom Connolly said:

do we have an estimate as to when mad cool is actually gonna be? also do they offer it as a package holiday anywhere or is it very much self organised?

Should be 9th-12th of July if it's four day or 10th-12th if it's three day.

 

They've had deals on with Iberia for flights from London in the past, but never bothered to look into that. 

[charlierc]

5 hours ago, Mondo-kun said:

With €45 for three days it's still good enough. Times when for €100 we could get RHCP, The Weeknd, Kasabian, Foals and many more are long gone.

Some of these acts are now in excess of 100 Euro just to see by themselves.

[charlierc]

Does this one share names with Bilbao BBK over the same weekend?

 

[49Lawson]

2 hours ago, charlierc said:

Does this one share names with Bilbao BBK over the same weekend?

 

It’s not common but it has been known. In 2022, I believe The Killers and Placebo played them both 

[charlierc]

10 hours ago, 49Lawson said:

It’s not common but it has been known. In 2022, I believe The Killers and Placebo played them both 

I do seem to recall Killers playing both.

 

Guess we'll find out when Mad Cool is about 5% more active.

[matrainertje]

Will there be an edition of Mad Cool at all next year?

[Karlos12345]

36 minutes ago, matrainertje said:

Will there be an edition of Mad Cool at all next year?

I‘d say no if we don‘t see an announcement in the next two weeks.

[Rico_Pliskin]

Just now, Karlos12345 said:

I‘d say no if we don‘t see an announcement in the next two weeks.

It's coming, why would they put so much effort into Mad cool talent competition.

 

It's been similar previous years. Have faith 

[Karlos12345]

Just now, Rico_Pliskin said:

It's coming, why would they put so much effort into Mad cool talent competition.

 

It's been similar previous years. Have faith 

Did you just use common sense on anything that Mad Cool does? They always had the most unpredictable social media communication strategy. To put it nicely.

[Daniel Ferreira]

I find Mad Cool silence strange.

[Big Kahuna]

Must be the new normal inFestival,s CM

 

Silence is Golden

[matrainertje]

9 minutes ago, Daniel Ferreira said:

I find Mad Cool silence strange.

Last week for this year to announce something?

 

If they only start announcing half januari, they will have a hard time selling those tickets...