I dont think Beachdown is attractive to students. The line-up and the fancy food and drink stuff inside make me believe this. It brings me back to my points about the lack of focus as to their target punter/audience.
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I dont think Beachdown is attractive to students. The line-up and the fancy food and drink stuff inside make me believe this. It brings me back to my points about the lack of focus as to their target punter/audience.
This is my question...who was their target audience? ]
Mendoza
NSC's Most Stalked
I dont think they knew, there were no cheaper tickets for under 21s or students, yet they had facilities for kids their too.
Notting Hill Carnival it is for me now I think
Horton's halftime iceberg
Blooming Marvellous
If one feels gutted about the tickey money;
It has a seven-year contract with the landowner making Beachdown a regular annual event in the festival goer’s diary!
I wonder if he took an advance payment for that...
Beachdown Festival | Features
It has a seven-year contract with the landowner making Beachdown a regular annual event in the festival goer’s diary!
I wonder if he took an advance payment for that...
Beachdown Festival | Features
Mr Banana
Tedious chump
That's SO true! Well done you!
Bluejuice
Lazy as a rug on Valium
Unfortunately despite rave reviews last year in the press the fact was that it wasn't all that good and the people who paid last time probably won't have bothered again and so they had to attract a new crowd with a very mediocre line-up to entice them.
The site was too spread out, it's bloody windy up there, the licensing left people wandering about bored gone midnight with nothign to do. I had some mates who just got a taxi back into Brighton and went clubbing instead.
Combined with a less than exotic summer I'm not surprised people weren't flocking to go.
I do think it's a shame as I was so geared up for it last year but it just didn't work out too well.
ALSO the number of fence jumpers probably left plenty of people this year deciding not to bother with tickets at all seeing as the perimiter is so hard to police at such a huge site. I know I was annoyed having forked out for my ticket only to find other people popping in and out as they pleased without tickets because it really was that simple to do.
The festival calendar is far too congested these days anyway.
The site was too spread out, it's bloody windy up there, the licensing left people wandering about bored gone midnight with nothign to do. I had some mates who just got a taxi back into Brighton and went clubbing instead.
Combined with a less than exotic summer I'm not surprised people weren't flocking to go.
I do think it's a shame as I was so geared up for it last year but it just didn't work out too well.
ALSO the number of fence jumpers probably left plenty of people this year deciding not to bother with tickets at all seeing as the perimiter is so hard to police at such a huge site. I know I was annoyed having forked out for my ticket only to find other people popping in and out as they pleased without tickets because it really was that simple to do.
The festival calendar is far too congested these days anyway.
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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If that's true then the recently offered 'day tickets' was a bit of a ****ish act by the organizers to put it mildly!
cheersio!
Anyone of here got experience of running fezzies? We could take over the lease.
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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It is a bit sus that the new edition of free mag Latest Homes/Latest 7 out yesterday and usually containing all the music/event happenings locally has absolutely no mention of Beachdown in it.....hmm....
I fancy myself at curating a tent.
desprateseagull
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i beleive momma cheri was meant to one of the caterers.. they're all DOOOMED!
I have just been to the Levellers Beautiful Days festival. £100 for 3 days including camping. 10,000 tickets available and for the 7th year running sold out.
Its based near Otter St Mary (Devon) and all beer provided was from the local brewery and sold at pub prices hence it was £2.60 for a pint of the festival beer, going up to £3 for other drinks - lager/cider etc.
The food stalls all reasonably priced - £5/£6 for main meals and you got decent food and large portions. There are no big corporate companies allowed so lots of small independant stalls, the variety was superb. They also had a large "shop" run by the local village shop.
There were 4 different stages, plus lots of cafes,bars, other tents. Main stage finsihed at midnight and other tents at 3am.
Brilliantly organised, toilets kept clean, excellent (but limited) shower facilities and the stewarding was spot on.
All in all my favourite festival compared to V, Reading, Guilfest & Glastonbury.
Not much help for those going to Beachdown, but IMHO the beautiful days team now how to put on a festival!
Its based near Otter St Mary (Devon) and all beer provided was from the local brewery and sold at pub prices hence it was £2.60 for a pint of the festival beer, going up to £3 for other drinks - lager/cider etc.
The food stalls all reasonably priced - £5/£6 for main meals and you got decent food and large portions. There are no big corporate companies allowed so lots of small independant stalls, the variety was superb. They also had a large "shop" run by the local village shop.
There were 4 different stages, plus lots of cafes,bars, other tents. Main stage finsihed at midnight and other tents at 3am.
Brilliantly organised, toilets kept clean, excellent (but limited) shower facilities and the stewarding was spot on.
All in all my favourite festival compared to V, Reading, Guilfest & Glastonbury.
Not much help for those going to Beachdown, but IMHO the beautiful days team now how to put on a festival!
Lush
Mods' Pet
Time for a bit of old skool chanting? Altogether now ..
"We want our money back, we want our money back..."
"We want our money back, we want our money back..."
Mr Banana
Tedious chump
Beautiful Days is well good, glad it's continued to grow.
desprateseagull
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will this end up just like that new forest xmas park scandal..?
jordanseagull
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- Feb 11, 2009
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I heard they were thinking of starting a similiar event for people who had travelled - called 'Beachfrown' 
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I just think the line up was too diverse, and the tickets too expensive. There were a couple of interesting people but not enough to pay the huge ticket price, even though I'd've normally been really interested. Not looking good for refunds, as has been pointed out...