What’s new for 2025?

[William Mann]

What changes can we expect in 2025? 2024 saw the introduction on the dragonfly and changes to campsites etc.

[Gnomicide]

I don't think there will be many changes next year, maybe save the big stuff for coming back after the fallow.

 

It will be interesting to see if they do anything with Steanbow Farm, which it's been reported they have bought. Indoor camping in the chicken shed, anyone?

[Skip997]

Heard that Shangri-La is going to get it’s long overdue revamp, but not sure how much the source actually knew 

[William Mann]

36 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

Heard that Shangri-La is going to get it’s long overdue revamp, but not sure how much the source actually knew 

Yes I’ve heard that too. Maybe icon will be replaced? 

[stuie]

Just now, William Mann said:

Yes I’ve heard that too. Maybe icon will be replaced? 

IICON is in Block 9 and isn’t going anywhere for the foreseeable! 

[Avalon_Fields]

47 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

I don't think there will be many changes next year, maybe save the big stuff for coming back after the fallow.

 

It will be interesting to see if they do anything with Steanbow Farm, which it's been reported they have bought. Indoor camping in the chicken shed, anyone?

Interesting. The farm must be just about fully used by the festival already? Nothing on their website, which for a farm looks pretty corporate: https://www.steanbowfarms.com/

[Skip997]

As Stuie correctly says IICON is Block 9, nothing to do with Shangri-La 

 

Hopefully the latter will be properly revamped, it’s horribly stale and poorly laid out. Block 9 and The Common are loads more fun 

[William Mann]

14 minutes ago, stuie said:

IICON is in Block 9 and isn’t going anywhere for the foreseeable! 

I’m going mad, of course it is. But what makes you think it’ll stay for a while? 

[William Mann]

“In September 2024, we took the very difficult decision to disperse our Steanbow Park Farm dairy herd. There were many factors which resulted in the difficult decision to disperse the herd, but ultimately the need to simplify a diverse mixed farming business couldn’t be ignored.” Sounds like part of the farm was sold rather than it all. They still seem to claim the chicken sheds under their own management. Perhaps it was land that was sold?

[incident]

5 minutes ago, William Mann said:

I’m going mad, of course it is. But what makes you think it’ll stay for a while? 

 

It's only existed for 4 festivals. Just the cost of replacing it with something (of that scale) brand new so soon is probably an inhibitor.

[Skip997]

2 minutes ago, incident said:

 

It's only existed for 4 festivals. Just the cost of replacing it with something (of that scale) brand new so soon is probably an inhibitor.

It’s also arguably the best looking stage on site. 

[clasher]

While I've never seen an act on IICON properly, the stage is absolutely impressive. Also it's a big field capable of handling a ton of people, which is very rare in the SE corner.

[CharlotteB]

I'd quite like to see a new one-off gimmick venue like that Spirit of 71 stage they had a while back.

[Talcroft]

No reactions left but getting rid of iicon would be a travesty. It's only 4 festivals old! 

[Rose-Colored Boy]

14 minutes ago, Talcroft said:

No reactions left but getting rid of iicon would be a travesty. It's only 4 festivals old! 

Definitely wouldn’t help with the overcrowding issues either. They surely need to spend their money on more stages with decent capacities that can run at night, not on revamping the ones that already do the job. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Rose-Colored Boy

[CantWaitForGlasto22]

I seem to remember last year there was talk of them continuing to add to venues around Williams Green for 2025. Terminal 1 was new last year but didn’t manage to visit. Did anyone make it there? 

[MilkyJoe]

13 hours ago, William Mann said:

What changes can we expect in 2025? 2024 saw the introduction on the dragonfly and changes to campsites etc.

 

I think most big changes to the site will be introduced after the fallow year to be honest but it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect more changes to Arcadia and the Dragonfly as they do try to evolve each festival.

 

 

13 hours ago, Gnomicide said:

I don't think there will be many changes next year, maybe save the big stuff for coming back after the fallow.

 

It will be interesting to see if they do anything with Steanbow Farm, which it's been reported they have bought. Indoor camping in the chicken shed, anyone?

 

Was it the land that was sold off or just all the machinery? There was a thread on here about it somewhere I think but I can't remember what the outcome was.

 

[MilkyJoe]

12 minutes ago, CantWaitForGlasto22 said:

I seem to remember last year there was talk of them continuing to add to venues around Williams Green for 2025. Terminal 1 was new last year but didn’t manage to visit. Did anyone make it there? 

 

They should put a big tent up somewhere round here and use it for music on the Thursday. They could call it Williams Green or something.

[Gnomicide]

40 minutes ago, MilkyJoe said:

Was it the land that was sold off or just all the machinery? There was a thread on here about it somewhere I think but I can't remember what the outcome was.

 

 

I read somewhere that they'd sold the whole thing to the Eavii but from @William Mann's post, it looks like that was dodgy info.

 

13 hours ago, William Mann said:

“In September 2024, we took the very difficult decision to disperse our Steanbow Park Farm dairy herd. There were many factors which resulted in the difficult decision to disperse the herd, but ultimately the need to simplify a diverse mixed farming business couldn’t be ignored.” Sounds like part of the farm was sold rather than it all. They still seem to claim the chicken sheds under their own management. Perhaps it was land that was sold?

 

[Ben7amin_]

13 hours ago, William Mann said:

Yes I’ve heard that too. Maybe icon will be replaced? 

 

No Way whats happening - sorry IICON is in the top tier of current stages 

[incident]

16 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

I read somewhere that they'd sold the whole thing to the Eavii but from @William Mann's post, it looks like that was dodgy info.

 

For what it's worth, the Land Registry don't have any sale transactions listed for any of that land since 2017. Though admittedly they can be slow updating so probably wouldn't have anything that took place in the 4-6 weeks or so.