Festivals

Elbow have been confirmed for this summer's T in the Park festival and it's irish sister festival, Oxegen.

Anyone going?

Whoop, whoop, whoop!!!
The Oxegen Festival is about 10 mins down the road from me! Yay!!!

... and Germany's Rock Werchter festival on July 3rd.

They play Oxegen on July 11th and T on the 12th.

THEY'RE PLAYING T IN THE PARK AND I'M NOT GOING!!!!!!!!

bah i'm stll waiting for them to announce Glasto...

Grant wrote:

THEY'RE PLAYING T IN THE PARK AND I'M NOT GOING!!!!!!!!

Pourquoi, mon ami???

I have no money, and even if i did, parents are tyrants my big brother would smuggle me out, though

You could always start going around with sponsorship cards, harhar!

hehe yeah! and buy one off of ebay for about 10x actual value

Does anyone have setlists from Fests they did last summer? would be interested to see what kind of stuff they play

Same as tours only shorter

http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/2008/artists/elbow/

Latitude was the same as Glastonbury set, only 'Puncture Repair' instead of 'The Fix'

Starlings
The Bones Of You
Leaders Of The Free World
MirrorBall
Great Expectations
Grounds For Divorce
The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver
Newborn
Station Approach
Puncture Repair
One Day Like This

Hydro Connect, as above but was shorter by a song or two as it was raining and mud.
Lowlands was the same, maybe different order.

i only got one setlist from a festival last year. and it was not e lbow.

Elbow have this evening been confirmed for V Festival. They will play on the Main Stage before 'co-headliners' Oasis and Snow Patrol. They play the Staffordshire leg of the festival on Saturday 22nd August and in Chelmsford on Sunday 23rd.

did they play reading last year? can't remember, let's just hope they play that one to, otherwise i'll have to do 3 festivals this summer so i can see them

Stockhaus wrote:

did they play reading last year? can't remember, let's just hope they play that one to, otherwise i'll have to do 3 festivals this summer so i can see them

They didn't do Reading last year and they won't this year either. Sorry!

why wont they do reading this year then?

Guy confirmed onstage in Sheffield on Tuesday that they wouldn't be playing Glastonbury this year ("but we will be going...just to enjoy it, like").

Wish they would play Reading/Leeds - it's the only festival I go to!

no glastonbury? :'( CRAP.
and no reading.
double crap.

I'll have to do 3 festivals then it seems!

Stockhaus wrote:

why wont they do reading this year then?

As Reading and V are so close together they often compete for the same audience. As a result almost all of the bands that play those festivals have a clause in their contract saying that they can't play the other.

By all accounts they aren't playing Glastonbury this year to secure themselves a better slot next year. Didn't Eavis say he'd booked a headliner for 2010 at while he was at the NME Awards? Hmm...

Absolutly gutted that they arent palying Glasto this year. Really had my hopes up of them headlining The Other Stage, especially after last years amazing performance.

And am not going to V this year as cant afford, so will have to make the most of tomorrow night in Blackpool as it may be my only Elbow Fix of the year.

Bought my tickets to V! Have never been to a festival before - think I'm having a mid life crisis!!

Last night in Newcastle when asked from the audience about Glastonbury, Guy said "we're doing Glastonbury this year....but we're not playing Glastonbury this year"

Emma G wrote:

Bought my tickets to V! Have never been to a festival before - think I'm having a mid life crisis!!

Don't be daft!!!
I have been going to festivals for nearly twenty years and I don't ever intend to stop!
You will love it!

Misspelt Yoof wrote:

Stockhaus wrote:

why wont they do reading this year then?

As Reading and V are so close together they often compete for the same audience. As a result almost all of the bands that play those festivals have a clause in their contract saying that they can't play the other.

By all accounts they aren't playing Glastonbury this year to secure themselves a better slot next year. Didn't Eavis say he'd booked a headliner for 2010 at while he was at the NME Awards? Hmm...

never knew that. you learn something new everyday

im not to surprised that they won't play glasto this year, even though i'd really love if they did especially if it could be anything like last year that was awesome.