BLOC festival

Coppola · Post by **Coppola** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:46 pm

jameshk wrote:guys, this is at the london 'pleasure gardens'. stay away from this venue at all costs. Went there at the weekend and its surely a joke. There isn't even any grass, just a dusty concrete industrial wasteland. There's broken glass and nails everywhere. Everything is horrificly expensive and no good.

Save yourself some money and avoid.

out of interest, what did you see when you went there?

jameshk · Post by **jameshk** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:50 pm

Saw dreadzone and some other bands. Its the venue thats horrendous though, they're months behind schedule. It's dangerous.

arktrix45hz · Post by **arktrix45hz** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:02 pm

jameshk wrote:Saw dreadzone and some other bands. Its the venue thats horrendous though, they're months behind schedule. It's dangerous.

If it was dangerous as you make it out to be, H&S wouldn't have even let them get past the planning stage of the festival and they would've been refused PL insurance...

jameshk · Post by **jameshk** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:33 pm

I kid you not, there was broken glass and nails all over the ground. which in instelf was concrete, big rocks and dust. hopefully they will have sorted more stuff out by the time BLOC is on, if not you'll see for yourselves.

jameshk · Post by **jameshk** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:35 pm

go read some of the first reviews here: http://www.timeout.com/london/museums-a ... ments-form

Im sure the newest ones are from the event organisers / related people.

edit: more here http://www.timeout.com/london/around-to ... s-festival

Coppola · Post by **Coppola** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:44 pm

well seems to be some very good reviews, some bad ones. i dont care anyway, going to spend most of the time on the boat and im sure that bloc have spent a lot of time organising the site and making sure its up to scratch.

murky21 · Post by **murky21** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:46 pm

i'll be wearing two pairs of socks, just in case

jameshk · Post by **jameshk** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:54 pm

Take some goggles!

magma · Post by **magma** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:56 pm

murky21 wrote:i'll be wearing two pairs of socks, just in case

My housemate went to the Dreadzone thing at the weekend and didn't mention the venue being horrible; let's face it, it can't be as bad as Hemsby Pontins.

Johnlenham · Post by **Johnlenham** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:03 pm

I thought the whole point of it was to be industrial and sketchy looking?

skimpi · Post by **skimpi** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:03 pm

jameshk wrote:I kid you not, there was broken glass and nails all over the ground. which in instelf was concrete, big rocks and dust. hopefully they will have sorted more stuff out by the time BLOC is on, if not you'll see for yourselves.

Well, it is in the docklands, and is like an old warehouse/factory whatever, what did you expect, lush meadows and a fine sandy beach?

jameshk · Post by **jameshk** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:04 pm

skimpi wrote:
jameshk wrote:I kid you not, there was broken glass and nails all over the ground. which in instelf was concrete, big rocks and dust. hopefully they will have sorted more stuff out by the time BLOC is on, if not you'll see for yourselves.
Well, it is in the docklands, and is like an old warehouse/factory whatever, what did you expect, lush meadows and a fine sandy beach?

Not at all, but was definitely suprised at the large ammount of broken glass and nails.

wolf89 · Post by **wolf89** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:12 pm

Meh I'm not bothered. I can get that experience wandering around the wrong parts of Plymouth anyway so I've still bought a ticket. Line up is good enough that I don't care where it is.

kay · Post by **kay** » Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:28 pm

Coppola wrote:
kay wrote:I'd quite like to see Richie Hawtin.
hes playing at the boiler room secret showcase on the boat i think?

Oo! I could stay on the boat most of that night in that case! Although it could mean missing Shackleton

Having said that, I'm not sure I would really want a whole night of Bodikka/Joy O/etc.

Might end up being:
- Ceephax
- Deadboy
- Pinch
- Redinho
- Nicolas Jaar
- Digital Mystikz (or Appleblim?)
- Shackleton
- ??? (Mosca? Food?)
- Snoop Dogg
- ???
- Richie Hawtin
- Hudmo
- Addison Groove

the wiggle baron · Post by **the wiggle baron** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 1:02 am

If anyone misses Nicolas Jaar I will cry. So, so...so...SO gutted im not going to see him.

But again a quick shout for my mate, still very much looking to sell his weekend ticket! Theyre all sold out now, so again, for a few quid cheaper you can be there still! And yeah, no hassle with tickets with names or anything. Just print out his e-ticket and your in!

statecraft · Post by **statecraft** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 4:35 pm

the wiggle baron wrote:If anyone misses Nicolas Jaar I will cry. So, so...so...SO gutted im not going to see him.

But again a quick shout for my mate, still very much looking to sell his weekend ticket! Theyre all sold out now, so again, for a few quid cheaper you can be there still! And yeah, no hassle with tickets with names or anything. Just print out his e-ticket and your in!

Big up for posting that up wiggle baron, and yeah, if anyones looking for a weekend ticket it's still available and i'm only looking for £90 O.N.O (enough to buy me a friday ticket and a few beers when I'm in).

Absolutely gutted I can't go both days!

badger · Post by **badger** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 4:39 pm

was just about to text you wiggles to sort out buying the ticket, but statecraft is your mate yeah? PM me your details and we can do business

really regretting arranging an interview for 10am friday morning but should be able to get to london in reasonable time

the wiggle baron · Post by **the wiggle baron** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 6:32 pm

yeah hes the feller! New to the dsf though, i can hook you two up via phone devices if thats probably easier? I feel like cupid...

magma · Post by **magma** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:29 am

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This is tomorrow by the way.

murky21 · Post by **murky21** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:38 am

If excitement was a physical manifestation of some kind - i'd be balls deep in it right now

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