Metropolis Festival 2016

Mince Pie

Dammit. Dj shadow would have been amazing but on holiday that weekend. Oh well.

ghostdancer

ongarite wrote: »

So is DJ Shadow only on Thursday night as opening night special or will he play the main gig days too.
Bit of a bummer if you need to buy the whole 3 day ticket if you want to see him.

just doing the Thursday. it's basically just a separate gig that POD/Hidden Agenda have timed so they can use it in the marketing for the festival.

can buy a Thursday only ticket for €40 to see him specifically.
it's only a DJ set from him according to the Metropolis website, so certainly not worth it IMO.

cruhoortwunk

Anyone know where early birds can be got? TM site only seems to have full price (€145 +booking)
http://www.ticketmaster.ie/metropolis-festival-2016-weekend-ticket-dublin/event/18004F89E6328DBE?artistid=1535061&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1

cruhoortwunk

Booka Shade Movements 10 must denote a 10th anniversary show for Movements

cruhoortwunk

cruhoortwunk wrote: »

Anyone know where early birds can be got? TM site only seems to have full price (€145 +booking)
http://www.ticketmaster.ie/metropolis-festival-2016-weekend-ticket-dublin/event/18004F89E6328DBE?artistid=1535061&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1

They are on the standard TM site for €129 +booking

SteelyDanJalapeno

Why oh why oh why the Irish promoters jack up the price so much year on year for every event here, it kills me.

99 euro for a great line up was excellent, 140 for a first round line up like this is poor.

lc180

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Why oh why oh why the Irish promoters jack up the price so much year on year for every event here, it kills me.

Last year wasn't even a complete sell out was it? Crazy price for a 2 day mid sized festival. They'd need to add another headliner with big appeal or I can see this being half empty.

ghostdancer

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Why oh why oh why the Irish promoters jack up the price so much year on year for every event here, it kills me.

99 euro for a great line up was excellent, 140 for a first round line up like this is poor.

not sure why you're singling out Irish promoters, it happens right across the world.

byrneg28

ghostdancer wrote: »

not sure why you're singling out Irish promoters, it happens right across the world.

Can you give some examples please ?

Lotus Flower

byrneg28 wrote: »

Can you give some examples please ?

Primavera Barcelona upped their 2017 prices by 20%

Lotus Flower

I agree though that the Metropolis price jump is huge and just greedy

byrneg28

Primavera a 5 day festival with top top top quality acts
180 euro to 200 euro (thereabouts)
Nothing wrong with that in my eyes.

Hidden Agenda are greedy ****s anyway, forever overselling gigs! Book good acts but wreck the vibe, always feel like Sardines going to one of their sold out gigs (Kiasmos - District 8, Run the Jewels - Opium Rooms, Jackmaster & Fatima Yamaha - District 8)

I understand promoters oversell but I was at D8 gigs that were sold out run by Archetype and they weren't as busy at all.

Lotus Flower

byrneg28 wrote: »

Primavera a 5 day festival with top top top quality acts
180 euro to 200 euro (thereabouts)
Nothing wrong with that in my eyes.

Hidden Agenda are greedy ****s anyway, forever overselling gigs! Book good acts but wreck the vibe, always feel like Sardines going to one of their sold out gigs (Kiasmos - District 8, Run the Jewels - Opium Rooms, Jackmaster & Fatima Yamaha - District 8)

I understand promoters oversell but I was at D8 gigs that were sold out run by Archetype and they weren't as busy at all.

Agree about Primavera, it's still a very reasonable price

SteelyDanJalapeno

ghostdancer wrote: »

not sure why you're singling out Irish promoters, it happens right across the world.

Not really, and not by 30 - 40% in its 2nd year.

ghostdancer

byrneg28 wrote: »

Can you give some examples please ?

Primavera as mentioned, Glastonbury, Sonar, Berlin Festival, Isle of Wight, Coachella have all done it, off the top of my head.
I'm sure there are countless other examples of festivals doing it once they start to get popular if you're bothered to look.

byrneg28 wrote: »

Primavera a 5 day festival with top top top quality acts
180 euro to 200 euro (thereabouts)
Nothing wrong with that in my eyes.

so basically it's ok to increase prices if it's longer than 2 days? or the acts are to your tastes?
Primavera is essentially a 3-day festival too. otherwise we might as well say that Metropolis is a 3-dayer because there's a few acts playing the night before and are technically counted as part of the festival.

ghostdancer

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Not really, and not by 30 - 40% in its 2nd year.

yes really.

and Metropolis hasn't gone up 30-40%.
the full price tickets are the same as last year: €145.

the only difference is all early bird tickets are €130 this year, rather than having 3 different tiers last year, starting at €99, then going to €119, and then to €129.

the €99 tickets were gone within the first 10mins of going onsale too, with the €119 ones gone within 40mins. so the vast majority of people are paying the exact same price as last year - €130 for early birds, €145 for full price.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Primavera costs 11m to organize.......

ghostdancer

cool, that's a nice irrelevant fact.

byrneg28

ghostdancer wrote: »

Primavera as mentioned, Glastonbury, Sonar, Berlin Festival, Isle of Wight, Coachella have all done it, off the top of my head.
I'm sure there are countless other examples of festivals doing it once they start to get popular if you're bothered to look.


so basically it's ok to increase prices if it's longer than 2 days? or the acts are to your tastes?
Primavera is essentially a 3-day festival too. otherwise we might as well say that Metropolis is a 3-dayer because there's a few acts playing the night before and are technically counted as part of the festival.

''If I bothered to look it up''

It was you who had mentioned the tiers going up, I wanted to know what festivals you were talking about in order to clarify.

Primavera ain't really my thing or the acts mr.dancer, you just assumed that. I didn't even bring it up, someone mentioned it as an increase.

Metropolis is more to my taste funnily enough, but the acts that are being booked and the layout of the festival is still really expensive compared to other festivals of the same tier internationally.

Even the DJ Shadow gig is taking the absolute p*** in terms of price. Look at any Warehouse Project night in the UK over the next season, you'd get 12 quality DJs at the same price.

ghostdancer

byrneg28 wrote: »

''If I bothered to look it up''

It was you who had mentioned the tiers going up, I wanted to know what festivals you were talking about in order to clarify.

Primavera ain't really my thing or the acts mr.dancer, you just assumed that. I didn't even bring it up, someone mentioned it as an increase.

Metropolis is more to my taste funnily enough, but the acts that are being booked and the layout of the festival is still really expensive compared to other festivals of the same tier internationally.

Even the DJ Shadow gig is taking the absolute p*** in terms of price. Look at any Warehouse Project night in the UK over the next season, you'd get 12 quality DJs at the same price.

it was you who mentioned promoters increasing prices
i didn't assume Primavera was "your thing" either.

I stated that festivals increasing their prices isn't limited to Irish promoters, it happens everywhere, which is completely true.

not that it makes a difference in this case, as arguably Metropolis hasn't increased prices at all....

I agree that the DJ Shadow gig is a complete rip-off but not really to do with the point i was making.
as for WHP, yes it's good value for money, although the venue is vastly oversold and uncomfortably rammed. the price has also gone up 50% in a few years too in the same venue with the same calibre of acts, again an example of jacking up prices not being limited to Irish promoters...

SteelyDanJalapeno

No idea why your defending their prices, but from attending Primavera the past few years their 1st their tickets in 2014 were 99 and maybe 109 in 2015, line up and organizational is not comparable thou so hence why I didn't go into detail....

byrneg28

ghostdancer wrote: »

it was you who mentioned promoters increasing prices
i didn't assume Primavera was "your thing" either.

I stated that festivals increasing their prices isn't limited to Irish promoters, it happens everywhere, which is completely true.

not that it makes a difference in this case, as arguably Metropolis hasn't increased prices at all....

I agree that the DJ Shadow gig is a complete rip-off but not really to do with the point i was making. as for WHP, it's good value for money, although the venue is vastly oversold and uncomfortably rammed. the price has also gone up 50% in a few years too in the same venue with the same calibre of acts...

Right sorry mate, think wires were crossed there, taking you up wrong. I also have a scathing dislike for Hidden Agenda which is probably directing my anger in the wrong way

I get where you're coming from!

I think cause I bought my ticket for 99 last year on the first release that when I seen 145 or whatever it is I was a bit shocked!

Yeah really not getting the DJ Shadow addition at all for that price, wonder how many people will go!?

ghostdancer

byrneg28 wrote: »

Right sorry mate, think wires were crossed there, taking you up wrong. I also have a scathing dislike for Hidden Agenda which is probably directing my anger in the wrong way

I get where you're coming from!

I think cause I bought my ticket for 99 last year on the first release that when I seen 145 or whatever it is I was a bit shocked!

Yeah really not getting the DJ Shadow addition at all for that price, wonder how many people will go!?

don't worry, I also dislike Hidden Agenda (and have little love for POD) so not really sure why I'm sticking up for them. :pac:

lc180

Early Birds all sold out. Full priced tickets now on sale.

ghostdancer

day breakdowns for the acts announced so far:

lc180

Day tickets for Friday/Saturday €79.50 excluding fees. On sale this Thursday 9am.

Todd Terje

New acts added. From the Metropolis Facebook page:

"We are delighted to add Groove Armada, Floating Points, Shura, Klangkarussell, Novelist, Clams Casino & Mall Grab to this year's Metropolis Festival 2016 and still much more to be announced... "

lc180

It must be at least a fortnight since Groove Armada played a festival in Ireland.....

Todd Terje

lc180 wrote: »

It must be at least a fortnight since Groove Armada played a festival in Ireland.....

Ha, I think Forbidden Fruit was the last performance? Fairly recent alright.
Floating points 3hr set will be interesting.

Also, saw Shura at Longitude this year and would definitely recommend going to see her!

ghostdancer

good to see them get Floating Points back after having to cancel last year. him and Clams Casino are great additions.