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Aphex gave this fest lifetime validation. They won’t ever have a problem getting big name electro acts with one of the best and most elusive already on the resume.
I very much agree with Acruse that niche festivals like the euro model CAN work here. Patience, however, is key. I’ve only seen good things from this fest so far. It wasn’t exactly packed but imo it was packed enough for a weird fest of this sort in Texas. Anything after year one is a success in my book.
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If you're for real then I have to thank you. Thank you times ten. This post depressed me a lot, especially since other cancelled festivals made this report seem uncomfortably plausible.
If your fest has to put in an all-EDM stage, or raise prices, or cut down to only one day, or sell out to Live Nation or something, personally I'd understand. You have to turn a profit somehow. For what it's worth though, as long you keep booking such unique, challenging, rare, captivating live shows and supplementing them with incredible visual art, I will be at your festival every year and will keep refusing to shut up about how great it is. For what it's worth.
That is litteraly the complete oposite of what this festival should do. Keep it obscure and underground, it'll find it's audience just like niche festivals here in Europe found theirs.
That's a good way to not grow. As much as I would love festivals to be weird and obscure all the time, that puts a cap on how much they can make and who they reach. If you continue to appeal to the same crowd they will eventually tire of you and you will go out of business. Especially with something like a festival where you can conflict artists of different genre with minor backlash is good. That way it appeals to more audiences, the fest makes more money, and the fest can now book more expensive and more rare artists because it's getting harder and harder to book a rare artist, especially with rising booking fees.
I don't think every festival has to grow. There are ways to stay as a niche festival and stay in business - although it's harder. I know it is a different market, but there are many "niche" festivals with 10+ editions in Europe.
Post by wufinancial on Jun 6, 2018 17:08:29 GMT -5
This festival just needs for people who love it like us to promote it a little more through word of mouth and another year of good publicity from the music blogs to take off to where they want it. Which probably is only a couple thousand more people, just no discounted tickets like last year.
I'd wager the problem is getting locals to go tbh. The outside the city word of mouth stuff has been killing it, and clearly aphex was pulling people from everywhere. But crowds here are pretty hit or miss.
Post by piggy pablo on Jun 6, 2018 19:54:18 GMT -5
I mean, NY and LA couldn't support Panorama and FYF. A festival with good music succeeding isn't a unique problem to Houston (if it even is a problem at all).
Post by piggy pablo on Jun 6, 2018 20:01:34 GMT -5
Sure but someone has to buy it first so as far as DFN is concerned, it's the same thing. Or they can do Groupon if they really need to. There's just not much incentive to do a blind presale anymore.
Amazing festival, but every time I mention it to friends who I think would dig the lineup, the conversation ends as soon as "December in Houston" comes out my mouth.
I think one of the major factors holding back people from traveling to this has to do with the holiday season as well. Many are tied up with family and work.
The timing of this fest is brutal to me. I really want to go but it would have to be a KILLER lineup for me to literally travel three straight weekends (D4N / home for Christmas / back from home for NYE), plus having disposable cash before the onslaught of end of year expenses is never super easy.
Dunno why they haven't moved this to November some time.
The timing of this fest is brutal to me. I really want to go but it would have to be a KILLER lineup for me to literally travel three straight weekends (D4N / home for Christmas / back from home for NYE), plus having disposable cash before the onslaught of end of year expenses is never super easy.
Dunno why they haven't moved this to November some time.
It’s been pretty unreal, particularly some musical moments from last year that rose above ordinary life. Parts of Lanois/Venetian Snares, Tim Hecker, Thom Yorke, Mount Kimbie live band, parts of Forest Swords and GY!BE. Fuck, I hope that was Omar Afra, and hey Omar, I’ll personally pay like triple the price of a ticket if you have Sigur Ros and Peter Gabriel this year (unless they’re already booked).
I need this shit to fill up the rest of the year with odd and eclectic. I’m going for an ADHD second half of 2018. Between Float, ACL, Voodoo and who knows what, it’s Tame Impala, Lil Wayne, Snoop, Bun B, RTJ, Bassnectar, Paul McCartney, Metallica, Deftones, Childish maybe twice, Manson, APC, etc. Day for Night wraps shit up like a Christmas bow I couldn’t have possibly tied. Put those fn tickets on sale. And shout out to Rothric wherever you’re getting shit done.
Post by Nathan Fieldcяab on Jun 6, 2018 22:43:30 GMT -5
I wanna back up a page and assert that I'd be an avid listener of an Inforoo podcast. It could primarily focus on new music and festival news but also touch on the latest inside jokes and exploits from memphroo, the headliner thread, etc.
Looking back at their FB I don’t really know why you guys were even concerned re: social media. They have basically posted something once a week so they’re obviously active.
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