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« Reply #100 on: November 27, 2011, 02:19:35 PM » |
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« Reply #101 on: November 27, 2011, 03:07:29 PM » |
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Could be presumptious on my part, but has a band....any band, ever been confirmed (or been allowed to squeal the news about Cropredy) this early on?
Being on tour with Fairport's consigliere probably helps in terms of knowing your plans for next year. Anyone want to indulge a small wager on Ahab making the cut too?  ah.....Understood, that makes sense. And yes Andy Richards confirmation hadnt escaped me, but as you said, thats a little different. |
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« Reply #102 on: November 27, 2011, 11:48:07 PM » |
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There is one key reason why Bellowhead have been booked for Cropredy 2012 and why they're allowed to talk about it on their current tour, and that is because they sell tickets.
This is not an opinion by the way, it is a fact, learned from many festivals over several years.
These are austere times, money is tight, but Bellowhead have just completed a sell-out tour, bigger than just about any other preceding folk act's efforts.
If I were putting on a festival this coming summer, I'd give my left leg to have Bellowhead on the line-up. They sell tickets, they put money in the coffers, they make a festival bankable. Simple as that.
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« Reply #103 on: November 28, 2011, 07:46:08 AM » |
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A good point well made (although slightly diminished by the fact they'll be at loads of other festivals too).
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« Reply #104 on: November 28, 2011, 07:54:13 AM » |
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There is one key reason why Bellowhead have been booked for Cropredy 2012 and why they're allowed to talk about it on their current tour, and that is because they sell tickets.
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« Reply #105 on: November 28, 2011, 08:10:39 AM » |
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I love this forum - so many different opinions! I don't care who's on. Me and my familt go for the craic, and I am gutted I can't get the time off in 2012- I will be dreopping andy and the girls off thursday morning then going back to work thursday night then back friday - I hope if I see any of you there you will share a drink and a hug with me and not be too pissed off that FC and Gareth et al didn't make it perfect for everybody. We wouldn't miss it for the world and that's teenagers included. They want to beat up thew colleague that has booked *my* leave  |
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« Reply #106 on: November 28, 2011, 08:40:14 AM » |
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A good point well made (although slightly diminished by the fact they'll be at loads of other festivals too).
Agree.. that's a good point by Nick Given that there seems to be a proliferation of Bellowheadcases that will go and see their favourite combo repeatedly when they tour, I think that the point still holds true.. |
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« Reply #107 on: November 28, 2011, 08:42:26 AM » |
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There is one key reason why Bellowhead have been booked for Cropredy 2012 and why they're allowed to talk about it on their current tour, and that is because they sell tickets.
Can we expect Westlife and Iron Maiden too? If you want a festival to survive at moment, possibly  Seriously, whatever your personal preference there has to be an element of them that 'put bums on seats' in festival line ups and never more so than in today's economic climate. Even the great Mt Eavis has had to acknowledge this. Otherwise you'll have no festival at all to complain about. |
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« Reply #108 on: November 28, 2011, 08:53:16 AM » |
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Absolutely agree - in t'same way that my festival going is regulated by ecomonic issues - ( the biggest one being that you lot are all on the wrong side of the Irish Sea ) - there has to be soome guarantee of maximum ticket sales , and if Cropredy needs a few "bankers" can live with that - the other comments posted on other threads about the problems experienced by the Cropredy pubs just emphasises that - all ecomonic enterprises need cash coming in these days.
And anyway, it's not about the music any more !!
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« Reply #109 on: November 28, 2011, 09:21:11 AM » |
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Can we expect Westlife and Iron Maiden too?
It seems unlikely. Westlife are splitting up in Spring 2012 after their farewell live dates and Iron Maiden, although in the country, will just have finished their own headlining tour at The 02 the weekend before and it seems unlikely that they'd add another festival date so soon afterwards. Hope this helps. |
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« Reply #110 on: November 28, 2011, 09:35:02 AM » |
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And anyway, it's not about the music any more !!
Firstly, I will take Greglin's comment as being a little tounge-in-cheek (as this is how I perceived it) But taking on this point, often on these pages we see 'who cares who plays?' comments in relation to Cropredy - and I know that for many this is very true. But equally there will be those who will have to think long and hard about where (or if) they spend their festival pocket-money. Having someone, such as Bellowhead, on the lineup has clearly commercial benefits, as described earlier... and no argument. The flip-side of the 'who cares?' coin is that this can make it very easy to have lineups that fail to excite because there is a strong reliance upon people gladly returning just for the craic. I am, from time to time, happy to see some of the old 'heroes' reliving their past glories but know that I would rather see emerging artists figuring prominently; that could give variety & energy to a lineup and probably be easier on the budget. Of course there has to be 'big names' to draw the crowds and if that has to be Bellowhead it could be worse, I suppose  |
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« Reply #111 on: November 28, 2011, 09:38:12 AM » |
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Having heard (& seen on thoutube) a couple of tracks from the new Corvus Corax CD (Sverker), & knowing that most of FC have played with CC on the Alan Simon projects, I'd love to see them at Cropredy next summer. The new CD is more Celtic in flavour than previous albums, which might make them slightly more "acessible"...
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« Reply #112 on: November 28, 2011, 10:03:50 AM » |
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And anyway, it's not about the music any more !!
Firstly, I will take Greglin's comment as being a little tounge-in-cheek (as this is how I perceived it) And so , of course, was mine. But wouldnt you just love to see a Westlife audience confronted with, say, The Muffin Men. |
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But wouldnt you just love to see a Westlife audience confronted with, say, The Muffin Men. Indeed |
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« Reply #114 on: November 28, 2011, 10:37:00 AM » |
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Absolutely agree - in t'same way that my festival going is regulated by ecomonic issues - ( the biggest one being that you lot are all on the wrong side of the Irish Sea ) - there has to be soome guarantee of maximum ticket sales , and if Cropredy needs a few "bankers" can live with that - the other comments posted on other threads about the problems experienced by the Cropredy pubs just emphasises that - all ecomonic enterprises need cash coming in these days.
And anyway, it's not about the music any more !!
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« Reply #115 on: November 28, 2011, 11:35:36 AM » |
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Can we expect Westlife and Iron Maiden too?
It seems unlikely. Westlife are splitting up in Spring 2012 after their farewell live dates and Iron Maiden, although in the country, will just have finished their own headlining tour at The 02 the weekend before and it seems unlikely that they'd add another festival date so soon afterwards. Hope this helps. Shame. (About Iron Maiden obviously, I don't really give two hoots about Westlife.) Paul |
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« Reply #116 on: November 28, 2011, 12:12:04 PM » |
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Any votes for Arcade Fire ?
My son got me into them a few years back. I love their music and apparently, they are really great at festivals
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« Reply #117 on: November 28, 2011, 12:57:42 PM » |
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Well I wouldn't pay a red cent to see arcade fire when there are plenty of miles better indie bands around, however I have sEen westlife and I think they are a wonderful live band, given that they are MOR- I couldn't fault 'em and they'd be just as great as 10cc or similar (better actually).
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« Reply #118 on: November 28, 2011, 01:10:31 PM » |
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ah.....Understood, that makes sense. And yes Andy Richards confirmation hadnt escaped me, but as you said, thats a little different.
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« Reply #119 on: November 28, 2011, 01:48:00 PM » |
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the decemberists would go down a treat and i'd love to see the mighty arcade fire
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