[plurker]

I’m seeing lots of rumours on Twitter, and other sources in the industry, that the Big Chill 2012 has been cancelled - though no official announcement has been made.

Can anyone at Festival Republic confirm, or indeed deny, this – hopefully the latter but you know what they say...no smoke without fire...

(NB - this is not designed as a thread for everyone to jump in and bang on about how good it used to be / what killed it etc - I'm just looking for Jodie or someone - ie an official FR a/c - to comment on this)

cheers

[shepdog]

I've also heard this from a seperate and rather reliable source...

Tickets still on sale though...surely not?

[joe rose]

Maybe another victim of an Olympics year eg Glasto

I hope not...

fingers crossed!

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[Mach V]

" Uh oh, it's gone quiet again..."

[a winters day by the sea]

[Sue Pine]

Someone say something! On topic preferably.

Is twitter the equivalent of overhearing the 'man down the pub' or is it reliable?

[plurker]

Sue Pine, on 17 January 2012 - 03:42 PM, said:

Is twitter the equivalent of overhearing the 'man down the pub' or is it reliable?

Depends who's posting it!
I've heard this from relaible sources in the industry, as well as twitter...

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[Mark Edwards]

The Facebook page has seen no posts from BCHQ for 2 days either

[shepdog]

A "major" UK festival was cancelled on friday - this is fact.

Since then, a number of agents (who are often the first people to find out outside of the organisation) have been offering artists previously booked over BC weekend to other parties.

It might be a case of putting 2 & 2 together, but considering the shockingly low ticket sales last year, I can't imagine they've shifted many early bird tickets for this year and may have had to just cancel some artists. It would be a real shame to cancel the whole festival as I really doubt it could bounce back a year later.

[Ed209]

100% defo cancelled

This is what happens when FR takes over. Soul ripped out, identity lost, festival dies.

If you work at FR, hang your head in shame. Your company is the antichrist to individualism and creativity.

[plurker]

shepdog, on 17 January 2012 - 08:25 PM, said:

It might be a case of putting 2 & 2 together

Didn't want to do that, hence starting this thread for some official line... *drums fingers on desk*

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[marky]

Ed209, on 18 January 2012 - 12:07 AM, said:

100% defo cancelled

This is what happens when FR takes over. Soul ripped out, identity lost, festival dies.

interesting. how many other festivals have they cancelled/shut down after taking them over?

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If you work at FR, hang your head in shame. Your company is the antichrist to individualism and creativity.

LOL tbh. extra points for use of religious hyperbole.

[Ed209]

[quote name='marky' date='18 January 2012 - 12:48 PM' timestamp='1326890911' post='2309095']
interesting. how many other festivals have they cancelled/shut down after taking them over?
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Well considering they have been living the highlife off the festival boom over the last few years, then none that I can recollect, although there might have been some. But it is well acknowledged in the industry that this is the year the bubble is really going to burst on the festival scene, and which is one of the first major ones to go? Yup, you've got it, a FR festival. A festival that used to carry an identity, used to have a sense of independence and individuality about it until FR got its grubby mits on it. You could tell last year that all the soul and character had been sucked out of the festival by these leeches. Turning it into just another festival. Well when it comes to a time when people start to get picky about what they spend their money on, its no surprise that the bland, generic, "festival-by-numbers" suffers.

But hey, you're a douche with 30000 posts so what do I know. Go ahead and defend FR if you want. I'm fairly sure though that if Big Chill still had the boutique vibe it had when it was independent (see SGP, Bearded Theory, Green Man etc...) then it is possible it wouldn't be where it is now.


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LOL tbh. extra points for use of religious hyperbole.
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Points from the great "Marky". Well aren't I fukking privaliged.

I wasn't looking for a critique you nobber.

[plurker]

twat.

plurker, on 16 January 2012 - 12:50 PM, said:

NB - this is not designed as a thread for everyone to jump in and bang on about how good it used to be / what killed it etc - I'm just looking for Jodie or someone - ie an official FR a/c - to comment on this)

And still we wait...

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[Ed209]

Jeez! Take that bug out your ar$e Captain Buzzkill. Another ... "its my thread and I don't want to discuss anything controversial, I just want it to be my thread or I'll cry..." whinger. I didn't realise you had the power to decide who can post and what could be posted on the internet.


ITS CANCELLED! THE REASON WHY? ITS @!#$!! Get over it


No wonder this festival has gone to the pisser. If the people on here are anything to go by then it really is a souless, joyless, bland pile of terd.

So long assholes! Enjoy your summer

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[MikeyBaby]

Ed209, on 18 January 2012 - 03:54 PM, said:

I'm fairly sure though that if Big Chill still had the boutique vibe it had when it was independent (see SGP, Bearded Theory, Green Man etc...) then it is possible it wouldn't be where it is now.

To be fair, no - it would have gone bust in about 2003.

[Mach V]

Ed209, on 18 January 2012 - 05:16 PM, said:

Enjoy your summer

thank you. You too.

[plurker]

Ed209, on 18 January 2012 - 05:16 PM, said:

I didn't realise you had the power to decide who can post and what could be posted on the internet.

Lol, only this forum, as it happens

[a winters day by the sea]

Ah, just like old days - comedy gold!

[johnny clash]

Ed209, on 18 January 2012 - 04:16 PM, said:

Jeez! Take that bug out your ar$e Captain Buzzkill. Another ... "its my thread and I don't want to discuss anything controversial, I just want it to be my thread or I'll cry..." whinger. I didn't realise you had the power to decide who can post and what could be posted on the internet.


ITS CANCELLED! THE REASON WHY? ITS @!#$!! Get over it


No wonder this festival has gone to the pisser. If the people on here are anything to go by then it really is a souless, joyless, bland pile of terd.

So long assholes! Enjoy your summer

poo bum wee wee.