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Life Festival 2017

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  • 15-12-2016 7:12pm
    #1
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,591 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Life Festival has made their first announcement for 2017, Nina Kraviz will be curating a stage at next years festival.

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    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    MaroonAndGreen
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    Oh. My. God. Nina Kraviz. That is sensational from Life.


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    ghostdancer
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    it's not really that sensational, she's played before and regularly plays in Ireland...


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    MaroonAndGreen
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    ghostdancer wrote:
    it's not really that sensational, she's played before and regularly plays in Ireland...


    Let me be happy haha


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    ghostdancer
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    sorry :pac:

    it's a great booking though, off to a good start anyway!

    presume she'll have a few acts from Trip Recordings like Bjarki on her stage.


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    bodhrandude
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    I'm a bit slow here, I didn't realise two other names were added, Eats Everything and Recondite.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    MaroonAndGreen
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    Another announcement at 3pm.....


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    MaroonAndGreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,249 ✭✭✭MaroonAndGreen


    Waiting.....


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    #9
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,591 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Solardo from Manchester added.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    bodhrandude
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    DJ EZ added to the line up.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    MaroonAndGreen
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    I must say announcing acts one by one every week or so is very underwhelming. I think the event is being marketed poorly enough.

    Also had the situation where Life posted online that an announcement would be made yesterday, and no word of anything til today. I know it's only small things, but it's not reflecting well on them IMO.


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    MaroonAndGreen
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    Despite my Nina Kraviz excitement.... We Are festival in London on the same dates is tasty enough looking


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    bodhrandude
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    Maya Jane Coles just added.

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    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    Furious-Red
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    team_actimel
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    Line up is looking great so far. Anyone know if it ever sells out? Won't be able to buy tickets for another few months.


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    bigpink
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    This is all djs yes?


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    #17
    bodhrandude
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    bigpink wrote: »
    This is all djs yes?
    Affirmative mostly, there is the odd live stage with bands or there was.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #18
    MaroonAndGreen
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    Rudimental, Patrick Topping, Alan Fitzpatrick, Bjarki, Paula Temple, The Magician, Format B, Goldie, Jay Clarke, Veronica Vasicka, Monki, Cleric, Anetha, DeFeKT and Phil Kieran just announced. Great stuff.


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    Ferris_Bueller
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    I have probably lost a bit of interest in dance music over the past year or two but I feel as if Life is definitely aimed towards a younger crowd now. Rudimental, Patrick Topping, Alan Fitzpatrick, The Magician, Duke Dumont, Nina Kraviz, DJ EZ.. Feels like a young lads dream! Maybe it's just a sign I'm getting older really, that line up would not appeal to me at all. Am I alone or have Life changed their plan of attack and started booking acts more so aimed at a younger crowd? There seems to be plenty of interest in it on facebook so maybe it's working for them!


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    MaroonAndGreen
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    Ferris_Bueller wrote: »
    I have probably lost a bit of interest in dance music over the past year or two but I feel as if Life is definitely aimed towards a younger crowd now. Rudimental, Patrick Topping, Alan Fitzpatrick, The Magician, Duke Dumont, Nina Kraviz, DJ EZ.. Feels like a young lads dream! Maybe it's just a sign I'm getting older really, that line up would not appeal to me at all. Am I alone or have Life changed their plan of attack and started booking acts more so aimed at a younger crowd? There seems to be plenty of interest in it on facebook so maybe it's working for them!

    I'd be one of the younger lads ha. Acts I'm most excited about are Nina Kraviz, Topping, Eats Everything, Bjarki, Fitzpatrick. No interest in Duke Dumont even thought he had generated interest on Facebook it seems.


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    team_actimel
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    From any boardsies previous 'Life' experiences, is the majority of the crowd at it really young or is there a good mix?


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    ghostdancer
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    pretty young these days. majority would be late teens-mid 20s.


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    #23
    bodhrandude
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    A review I done of the one in 2015, just to give newcomers an idea of what the festival is like and the range of music on offer. I was part of the site crew so was down for most of the week.

    https://niallmcquaid.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/life-festival-2015-ireland-29th-31st-may-review/

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #24
    team_actimel
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    Life have said on Facebook that their third tier of tickets are flying and will be sold out by midnight tonight.
    Does that mean all tickets will be sold out or will they add another tier?


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    bodhrandude
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    Four additions to Life festival.

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    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #26
    MaroonAndGreen
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    Gorgon City is a decent pull for them


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    MaroonAndGreen
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    All in all though, I think I'd be fairly underwhelmed with the line-up if Nina Kraviz wasn't there.

    Personal opinion of course


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    #28
    bodhrandude
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    The Rootical Soundsystem stage is back, that's an improvement, jeez might go now.

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    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #29
    RonkoDeTonko
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    Ejeca's played a load recently, he's doing that Mass festival (whatever that is) and recently played Higher Vision. He played a mental heavy set as well, properly knocked the air out of my lungs when the bass came out of the speakers!


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    MaroonAndGreen
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    I'm connected to the LIFE whatsapp account too, and they tend to send a message every so often. For example they announced their acts on it. Got another one today and started counting... their last ten messages (over a space of almost 2 months) have all been solely pushing ticket sales by saying that the final tier are nearly sold out.

    I said it in an earlier post in this thread but the marketing of this event has been very poor IMO. They aren't doing much at all to generate excitement. IMO telling people for 2 months that "final tickets are nearly gone" is not going to entice them to go and buy a ticket. People need to be reminded of the acts there, and as I said they need to attempt to generate a buzz and a bit of excitement instead of basically saying the same message for the last 2 months: "hey lads tickets are going fast so buy one before there gone".

    I'm not saying it's not going to be a good festival, but I think the marketing and advertising has been very amateur from the beginning this year.


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    Ferris_Bueller
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    Announcing the line up bit by bit is an awful way of doing it. Look at EP & Longitude, they announce a batch of 25 acts or so and have a poster and lots of hype building up to the launch - they have both sold out instantly (just Sat for the latter). I am in a few group chats/whatsapps etc with people who would be very interested in going to festivals and almost every festival announcement was posted in these groups when the line ups came out, generating a bit of a buzz - this was not the case for Life however. I couldn't even tell you many acts that are on the line up this year or if the full line up is out.


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