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Starry Wisdom
Yeh I saw the blaggers there, nice venue
Also saw Gertrude upstairs there, DK if anyone else remembers them
Coronavirus: music festivals, big gigs, sports events and big gatherings - going ahead and cancelled
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Also saw Gertrude upstairs there, DK if anyone else remembers them
SheilaNaGig
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Oh wow, look!
The garage has listings!
I saw this happening or have they just not taken it down ? It doesn’t say cancelled....
The Lovely Eggs are playing....
The garage has listings!
I saw this happening or have they just not taken it down ? It doesn’t say cancelled....
The Lovely Eggs are playing....
SheilaNaGig
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Although that gig isn’t listed on their own listings page, others are
Wha’gwan??
Are these live-streamed gigs?
Has lockdown been lifted and I didn’t know know??
Wha’gwan??
Are these live-streamed gigs?
Has lockdown been lifted and I didn’t know know??
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hiraethified
Those listings are auto-generated by Songkick who clearly haven't bothered to update them.
I see that they're more or less on the same circuit as us!
SheilaNaGig
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SheilaNaGig
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We are planning our annual 'party in the woods' this year (August bank holiday). We moved it up to Midsummer for the last 2 but have fingers crossed for late August. Since it only involves a decent rig and around 200 people, we are just staying optimistic. This year would have been our 9th year so means we will make an extra effort for next year. Obvs, we don't book bands or anything - it is all very DIY and a bit feral. As a bit of a recluse, I usually piss and moan about it but have missed it terribly the last year.
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I really want to do some sort of Bowie fundraising charity gig this year in lieu of the one I had to cancel in January.
I am hoping there is some allowance made for small, outdoor gigs and events by the later half of summer. Back in the day, I went to many little fairs and shambolic festivals - some of which had only a coupla hundred people. Thinking of the Albion Fairs, Barsham, Hood, Megan, Eye and the like. Done on tiny budgets, with local bands, workshops, puppet shows and such. Using this DIY, small scale, bottom-up method of organising (not unlike many squat parties), could be a template for a way out of another summer of isolation. For me, it would also be a welcome return to an earlier ethos of working together, sharing equipment, staying small and local...a reminder that festivals were first and foremost about us, dancing in a field, with kids, dogs, music, self-generated pleasures...and not some vast, mega-business involving huge amounts of money, security, transport, admin...and so on. Might just be me, being nostalgic for a remembered past...but I kinda welcome restrictions on numbers, ticket pricing, VIP hierarchies, heliports, and the whole infrastructure of the big-business model of festival going.
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campanula : Fully agreeing with your wish for small DIY-type events to happen later this year, and I'm not completely pessimistic for some minor stuff by about August/September (?)
We know Gail Something Else who (excellently!) organises very small (max 500) events with little bands and a beer/cider/tea
tent -- the biggest names ever seen bands-wise would be an outfit you might at a push see in a tiny fringe tent in the Green Fields at Glastonbury.
But mostly, the acts she books would be at or a little above touring-the-pubs level.
She's insisting she''s going to exert every effort to have these happening again in 2020. We'll see!
We know Gail Something Else who (excellently!) organises very small (max 500) events with little bands and a beer/cider/tea
tent -- the biggest names ever seen bands-wise would be an outfit you might at a push see in a tiny fringe tent in the Green Fields at Glastonbury. But mostly, the acts she books would be at or a little above touring-the-pubs level.
She's insisting she''s going to exert every effort to have these happening again in 2020. We'll see!
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
There’s just way too many “what ifs” yet. Anyone saying they have plans for this summer is very much making a bet.
However, I think Nozstock, which we and friends would love to go to, are being hugely overly optiomistic here 
..... July FFS!! 
The announcement in the above link came shortly after Glastonbury was officially cancelled I think.
Their event is about 5,000 people.
..... July FFS!! The announcement in the above link came shortly after Glastonbury was officially cancelled I think.
Their event is about 5,000 people.
She -- Gail -- did only say she'd be making her best efforts, and her events are ultra-tiny. I agree with your caution though, and yes, it is a gamble for sure..
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beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Even “tiny” events won’t be what people want though. Festivals and gigs are all about that closeness, the connections, the shared experience. Having to keep socially distanced from others loses the fundamental part of what makes a live show what it is. It just becomes a group of people standing in a field.
All we can do is manage expectations big-style, and give one or two small events a try, and see what happens.
IF they happen .....
IF they happen .....
Supine
Newt Member
I strongly suspect that social distancing won't be a big thing for vaccinated festival goers. Looking forward to it
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Social distancing isn’t going away any time soon, vaccine or not.I strongly suspect that social distancing won't be a big thing for vaccinated festival goers. Looking forward to it
Supine
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beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Which is why they shouldn’t happen.I bet you £50 it is at festivals outdoors. Legal or not
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
No the cat's mother then! "she" is superfluous, try using "they"
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
When this is all sufficiently over, can you put on a great big fuck off Offline, with urbanites as a priority, please? So we can all have a roaring twenties catch-up?
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100% definite.
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
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Well this is a glimmer of hope. The loons will wig out - so they can stay at home at look at YouTube videos from fake doctors - but I have absolutely no problem being tested yo gain access to a big event.
Primavera's non-socially distanced, rapid test event produces no COVID infections
The event took place in December and was carried out safely
mixmag.net
Petty. Unnecessary. Etc.
x 3(We know her really well and we absolutely respect everything she does. Do you even know about her achievements as a sound feminist and well-loved [small] festival organiser? )
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
Another typical poor wiwiam responsePetty. Unnecessary. Etc.
(We know her really well and we absolutely respect everything they do. Do you even know about their achievements as a sound feminist and well-loved [small] festival organiser? )
Do you what's unnecessary? you referring to them as "she"
aww you know them well done you, yes, yes I do so stick that in your whiney pipe
Will you just please!! stop derailing this thread with your utter pettiness? 
Your completely random and stupidly gratuitous jibe at my supposed! lack of feminist-awareness will almost certainly confuse others on his thread too I suspect.
And no, none of this 'exchange' is 'all' about me.
It's 100% or more about YOU -- just think about that a bit maybe
PS : also,, do you know anything about Gail and her festival stuff? I doubt it, not that that's important really ..... as isn't all this
Your completely random and stupidly gratuitous jibe at my supposed! lack of feminist-awareness will almost certainly confuse others on his thread too I suspect.
And no, none of this 'exchange' is 'all' about me.
It's 100% or more about YOU -- just think about that a bit maybe
PS : also,, do you know anything about Gail and her festival stuff? I doubt it, not that that's important really ..... as isn't all this
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Oh yes, congratulations!!!, you have pissed me off.
As you very clearly intended.
Well done -- it's you that's making it 'all about me', and as for ever on Urban, you've been brilliant with that on here. -- nice
As you very clearly intended
.Well done -- it's you that's making it 'all about me', and as for ever on Urban, you've been brilliant with that on here. -- nice
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I'm not in the slightest bit important btw, and neither are you.
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