End of The Road Festival

[devonmaid]

BSP confirmed!

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/news/14/140219c.shtml

[devonmaid]

video including BSP mug footage :)

http://vimeo.com/87006357

[Dero]

Hmm...

I've been to EOTR the past few years and it's a bit crap these days, too big for the site, long queues, the exchange of nice little tents where you can sit down for big things of chaos.

Annoying that the year I've decided to quit EOTR that BSP are announced!

[kevo]

Hmm...

I've been to EOTR the past few years and it's a bit crap these days, too big for the site, long queues, the exchange of nice little tents where you can sit down for big things of chaos.

Annoying that the year I've decided to quit EOTR that BSP are announced!

Sorry to hear that. I went the first three years of the festival (BSP and Brakes played all three of them!), and really enjoyed it. Haven't been back since.

[devonmaid]

Hmm...

I've been to EOTR the past few years and it's a bit crap these days, too big for the site, long queues, the exchange of nice little tents where you can sit down for big things of chaos.

Annoying that the year I've decided to quit EOTR that BSP are announced!

I went last year and there were some queues but nothing too major. I felt that it had a great vibe and so much choice of music - loved it.

[redc]

Hmm...

I've been to EOTR the past few years and it's a bit crap these days, too big for the site, long queues, the exchange of nice little tents where you can sit down for big things of chaos.

Annoying that the year I've decided to quit EOTR that BSP are announced!

Sorry to hear that. I went the first three years of the festival (BSP and Brakes played all three of them!), and really enjoyed it. Haven't been back since.

I'm not too sorry, makes it slightly less painful to be missing BSP, F'Lips, Yo La Tengo et al at my all time favourite festival site - becuase we're on holiday :-(

[Dero]

First it was the tipi-tent replaced with the big white thing, then it was the little red tent replaced with ... well actually that just disappeared and the garden stage was superseded by the new field-based stage. (Most of the acts on that were crap dad-rock by the way, so most people there for the music crammed into the tents)

On that note, these bigger tents see a huge cramming of people because while they've made them bigger to address capacity issues they've also doubled the ticket sales from 5000 to something like 10,000 and that has had a large impact on the feel of the festival which was generally a really friendly riot around the warm cider bus and now you can't really get food or cider unless you're there either at the start of the day or the very end of the day.

I was also there last year, and while it is still quite a friendly place/atmosphere and they've upped the number of beer tents so you can at least get a beer without too much queuing, it's a bit reminiscent of what happened to Kendal Calling oncge they moved up to their big field up in Penrith.

[kevo]

Hmm...

I've been to EOTR the past few years and it's a bit crap these days, too big for the site, long queues, the exchange of nice little tents where you can sit down for big things of chaos.

Annoying that the year I've decided to quit EOTR that BSP are announced!

Sorry to hear that. I went the first three years of the festival (BSP and Brakes played all three of them!), and really enjoyed it. Haven't been back since.

I'm not too sorry, makes it slightly less painful to be missing BSP, F'Lips, Yo La Tengo et al at my all time favourite festival site - becuase we're on holiday :-(

It's also a 'work' week!

[kevo]

the garden stage was superseded by the new field-based stage.

Hang on, they've god rid of the Garden Stage?! Big mistake. That was a beautiful setting to see any band.

I agree they do seem to specialise in Dad Rock/'Americana' (yaaawwwwwnnnnnn!), but the line-up seems a bit more interesting this year.

One of the best things about it was there was plenty of room to camp and get around the site. It doesn't sound like that's the case any longer, sadly.

[Dero]

It's still there, it's just not used for the same acts - it's where they put the folk that would have gone in the red tent I guess.

I can see why they did that, when you double the capacity that gate becomes a big bottleneck.

All I'm saying is that I didn't enjoy it anywhere near as much as I did the other years, and had decided not to go back this year - hoping to find something to replace it too!

[kevo]

hoping to find something to replace it too!

Green Man?

[Blackout]

I really wish they'd play some good festivals, so far unless I missed something it's all MOR (Solihull), family oriented (that Yorkshire one) or fucking hippie shit like this*. And they always seem to be ones in the middle of nowhere that don't do single day tickets, where those of us who have evolved beyond the sleeping in a sack and shitting in a trench stage are forced to subsidise the campsite facilities for the boy-scout brigade and still pay for our own hotels...

* I agree with Kevo the line-up is a bit less beardy strummy boring than usual, but the whole ethos of the thing is so knit-your-own-yoghurt, and to be honest all the Scientology business put me off as well (Google it) I know they have denied that they promote the shady pseudo-religious cabal through their festival but I'm still not happy actually giving money to people who will use it to buy their way up a ladder of ultra-conservative bellends that worship aliens and Tom Cruise or whatever it is they do.

Basically, so far as the UK is concerned, I wish they'd play.... Beacons. Truck's nice but I rather feel I'm getting too old for it, and they may be too; even the usually reliable 2000 Trees has gone right downhill this year. I liked No6 but there wouldn't be the novelty value second time round and my god the weather down there that time of year... I guess BSP would be considered too mainstream/indie for Arctangent (even though with a carefully chosen set they could give most post-rock bands a run for their money).... Are there any other good outdoorsy ones that aren't too far from plumbing-enhanced civilisation / don't waste too much of the budget on artsy crap?

[Skinku]

MOR is what I call it *snarf*.
Not bad line up for them this year.
Interesting to hear how it has changed Dero, really liked it the three (?) times I went.
It's bloody cold as well to camp.
The Flaming Lips, Wild Beasts, British Sea Power, Gruff Rhys, Hookworms, The Radiophonic Workshop, The Horrors, Three Trapped Tigers, Yo La Tengo.
Hmm, maybe.

[atombowl65]

I absolutely loved it last year. Efterklang headlining the garden stage was my favourite; most of the support acts from Krankenhaus played as well as Frightened Rabbit and RM Hubbert and I finally got to see Dinosaur Jnr and Eels. It has got bigger I know, but still plenty of little out of the way places and a lower than average knobhead count.

[gtw]

Bought my ticket. Killer line-up that ticks too many of my boxes to be ignored.