Dot to Dot 2025

[NorthernSoul52]

[manxboba]

Has anyone been to this festival?
How does it work?

Are the same bands on both days in different cities and play twice or do they play once spread across the weekend?
TIA

[craigsmith1985]

It’s the same bands playing Nottingham and Bristol on consecutive days. It’s a really good day and I’ve done it a few times. Even for my stag do 10 years ago. Really nice to spend the day going to multiple different gig venues watching lots of up and coming bands. The ticket price is superb to be fair. Gutted to find out I can’t make it next year

[internetjef]

I’ve been to Bristol one multiple times and echo it’s a cracking day

 

mentioned on Glasto chat this act drop looks a fair bit stronger than some previous years . Perhaps it’s 20th anniversary factor

 

top value at £34. Bought tickets with some mates yesterday 

 

if you are a greedy sort like me lots of venues are in shooting range of some great food markets (st nicks / whapping wharf etc) so you can get a good feed between acts 

 

one wristband covers the whole day in Bristol 

 

sometimes it’s worth turning up an act early if someone you really want to see as venues can get busy / turn people away , esp if it’s an act that have gathered a bit of momentum since booking 

 

[AtomsForPizza]

Fat Dog are going to be busy that weekend - playing both Bristol D2D and Live at Leeds on the Saturday, then Nottingham D2D on the Sunday.

 

Leeds and Bristol are hardly close either - they must be on very early doors for one of them

 

[internetjef]

5 minutes ago, AtomsForPizza said:

 

Fat Dog are going to be busy that weekend - playing both Bristol D2D and Live at Leeds on the Saturday, then Nottingham D2D on the Sunday.

 

Leeds and Bristol are hardly close either - they must be on very early doors for one of them

 

 

Good spot

 

You would imagine you would start early in Bristol , then go to Leeds late, if playing in Notts next day 

 

however they are kind of billed as more of a headliner at D2D, less so in Leeds, so maybe they are doing Leeds - Bristol - Notts in that order 

 

 

[Mcbatesman]

What's that likelihood of being able to see big special, horrors, sprints and fat dog?

[internetjef]

11 hours ago, Mcbatesman said:

What's that likelihood of being able to see big special, horrors, sprints and fat dog?

slim to f all I reckon 

 

should def be able to see 2 for sure, maybe 3 if the scheduler is very kind , but all 4 seems highly unlikely 

 

decent chance 2 of them will be back to back last two at the academy

 

quite likely the other two will headline a different venue at same time I imagine 

[Mcbatesman]

1 hour ago, internetjef said:

slim to f all I reckon 

 

should def be able to see 2 for sure, maybe 3 if the scheduler is very kind , but all 4 seems highly unlikely 

 

decent chance 2 of them will be back to back last two at the academy

 

quite likely the other two will headline a different venue at same time I imagine 

That's my thinking, though the horrors are being stated as special guests not headliner so hoping they are on earlier I. The day 

[rwoo]

Lineup for this looks very good. Listened to Nimino’s essential mix the other day, exceptional. Tempted to go for that alone. But plenty else to see and great value. Will the likes of The Horrors, Fat Dog & Lapsley all clash? 

[JRhys29]

On 1/18/2025 at 12:21 PM, rwoo said:

Lineup for this looks very good. Listened to Nimino’s essential mix the other day, exceptional. Tempted to go for that alone. But plenty else to see and great value. Will the likes of The Horrors, Fat Dog & Lapsley all clash? 

Yeah as internetjef said above, there'll probably be some clashes between the bigger names. The Horrors will most likely headline the O2; then it's a case of where everyone else plays. SWX will have a bigger name headline. Thekla bottom deck tends to have a few big names towards the end of the night as well - although I'm sure it goes until 2ish so you could probably catch someone towards the end of the night. Thekla gets rammed though so sometimes a bit of a nightmare to get in.