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  1. S80

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    @Close

    The flyer is actually pretty close to the way it should be. I'd switch Rabia Sorda and Funker Vogt where Faith and the Muse is. It's just another typical Gothfest. Industrial/EBM headliners with crappy goth bands thrown in the mix.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  2. epytoneC

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    Damn man! Congrats on the show! Sick lime-up.

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  3. Sumez

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    Pretty nice lineup. Fucking hell, why is EVERY EUROPEAN FESTIVAL apart from WGT getting SP this year? I'm pissed.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  4. darkasylum

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    Meow Meow Meow all so catty about such a small scene!

    Good luck guys- I can't see having a bad time at the festival even if you only like HALF the bands there.

    I know I'd be pleased as punch to share the bill with ASF and SP. Hell I don't like VNV but I'd brag about it ;)

    Posted 2 years ago #

  5. Cult of the Bleeding Toe

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    What S80 said.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  6. Sumez

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    @closetohuman
    I'm kind of curious how else one would set the order of bands at a festival other than based on popularity.

    I don't have any numbers, but I think Skinny Puppy sold a lot more records than VNV.

    Target groups are a funny thing. I was at a festival where Front 242 had the smallest typeset in the lineup out of five different sizes or so. Much smaller than crappy Danish one-hit-wonder indiepop bands.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  7. Sumez

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    Also, did S80 just call ASF a crappy goth band? :|

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  8. closetohuman

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    @ Sumez: Do you think festival promoters would go by total record sales over a bands career, or their current popularity over the last couple years? Popularity is a fickle thing, and Skinny Puppy's numbers seem to be waning in the US. In Europe they're even less popular... I am not surprised by that running order at all. But that's because I'm capitalist swine.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  9. Sumez

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    Me neither, that's why I wrote the part about target groups. And yeah, I know you are. :)

    Posted 2 years ago #

  10. Sheva

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    Probably a lot of SP fans from the 80s/early 90s are now happily settled down with kids and families and don't even go to shows or festivals anymore.

    As regards sales figures, SP at their height (Rabies sold about 150k from figures i've seen, and i presume a couple of their other albums went through the 100k mark), would certainly outdo VNV (Empires just about hit 100k).

    Maybe if this were a festival in the US, SP would be considered bigger, but in Germany and the low countries, VNV will be the big name (in my humble opinion).

    Posted 2 years ago #

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