Wild Life Festival

Geestar · Feb 9, 2016

First year they did my little hometown proud and deserved the best new festival award. A real opportunity to build on that has gone missing. Same headliners, fair few similar acts, quite a few new acts that can be seen at any/every UK festival. Uninspiring and disappointing in my opinion.

Your thoughts?

The Wookiee · Feb 9, 2016

Think they should of left it this year, will be hard to beat in terms of success, think this year will be a totally different crowd unfortunately

deletebeepbeepbeep · Feb 9, 2016

Why do they keep getting past it hip hop acts, Busta Rhymes would have been great about 20 years ago but now?

Notters · Feb 9, 2016

Why can't they have a festival with decent bands in the Brighton area rather than s club direction and iced snoopy or whatever the **** they're called?

The Wookiee · Feb 9, 2016

Notters said:
Why can't they have a festival with decent bands in the Brighton area rather than s club direction and iced snoopy or whatever the **** they're called?

I agree, last year was a novelty, lots of locals going seeing what's it all about, think this year will see more people from outside of Sussex decend on Shoreham, which imo will see more problems.

Will be interesting to see what the take up of tickets from locals in the first day of sale compares to last year

knocky1 · Feb 9, 2016

Maybe the Honey Badger will turn up.

mothy · Feb 9, 2016

I went last year & have tickets again for this.

Should be ace..

DFL JCL · Feb 9, 2016

Cut and paste of last year's line up, plus a find and replace of nas/wutang for ice cube and busta rhymes

CheeseRolls · Feb 9, 2016

I thought last year was a dry run, prove the concept and double the numbers attending. I assumed wrongly it seems that an improvement in the line up was part of that equation.

Geestar · Feb 9, 2016

DFL JCL said:
Cut and paste of last year's line up, plus a find and replace of nas/wutang for ice cube and busta rhymes

Spot on....even the poster is the same but in green!

Cheggers · Feb 9, 2016

Ice Cube. Founding member of NWA. There's no pleasing some.

Springal · Feb 9, 2016

Geestar said:
First year they did my little hometown proud and deserved the best new festival award. A real opportunity to build on that has gone missing. Same headliners, fair few similar acts, quite a few new acts that can be seen at any/every UK festival. Uninspiring and disappointing in my opinion.

Your thoughts?

Not surprised re line up. The promoters run Warehouse Project in Manchester and basically sign these acts on multi year deals and exclusivity / golden handcuffs. Check out Parklife the equivalent in Manchester but bigger, same core line up. Given most are DJs who will play latest stuff it doesn't really matter does it.

It's like saying Creamfields or similar is uninspiring as same DJs year in year out

Springal · Feb 9, 2016

Notters said:
Why can't they have a festival with decent bands in the Brighton area rather than s club direction and iced snoopy or whatever the **** they're called?

Great Escape ?

spring hall convert · Feb 10, 2016

Springal said:
Great Escape ?

I think he means decent bands that he won't have to put any legwork into finding out about himself.

I do kind of agree with his principle though (if you remove the rockism from it) I'd love the see a Bestial type festival nearer Brighton, I reckon it would do well.

It is such a saturated marketplace though, you've got to be very brave to try and break into it.

Hotchilidog · Feb 10, 2016

I have to say Wildlife is not my thing at all, and as such will not be attending. That said there isn't really a large scale event here that caters for the people who do like this music and I think it's great that something like this exists. If people enjoy it long may it continue. I just hope they sort out the logistics a lot better this time I know people who spent longer waiting for a bus than they did at the festival.

Geestar · Feb 10, 2016

Cheggers said:
Ice Cube. Founding member of NWA. There's no pleasing some.

45 minutes of a pensioner....we should all go!

Notters · Feb 10, 2016

Springal said:
Great Escape ?

spring hall convert said:
I think he means decent bands that he won't have to put any legwork into finding out about himself.

I do kind of agree with his principle though (if you remove the rockism from it) I'd love the see a Bestial type festival nearer Brighton, I reckon it would do well.

It is such a saturated marketplace though, you've got to be very brave to try and break into it.

Harsh. I love great escape, but it is a festival in name only. I would like something more like Victorious festival in Portsmouth with a bit more in the way of variety.

Cheggers · Feb 10, 2016

Geestar said:
45 minutes of a pensioner....we should all go!

You spend 60 minutes watching Zamora every week. He's past his best, but still turns up and sh#its on the opposition every week. Silly rabbit...Wrong band!

spring hall convert · Feb 10, 2016

Notters said:
Harsh. I love great escape, but it is a festival in name only. I would like something more like Victorious festival in Portsmouth with a bit more in the way of variety.

It was a bit. Sorry.

I actually think TGE's gone south in the last few years since MAMA got involved so I don't really know what I was getting my knickers in a twist about tbf.

Hotchilidog · Feb 10, 2016

Notters said:
Harsh. I love great escape, but it is a festival in name only. I would like something more like Victorious festival in Portsmouth with a bit more in the way of variety.

Tomorrow the People is trying to become that sort of event I think.

This years was ok, but I do think it has potential if they can book a stronger line-up. Victorious proves it can be done.

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