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« Reply #240 on: April 28, 2025, 04:42:26 PM » |
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After much dithering, I’ve just booked the glamping… two left when I booked…
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« Reply #241 on: May 03, 2025, 11:41:24 AM » |
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Campsite stickers and information arrived today in the post.
One notable thing: the leaflet says that fields 4 and 5 may not be used and to keep an eye on the website for updates.
Note that the letter was not Recorded Delivery or Signed-For, unlike previous years. So it's well worth ensuring you have received these in good time. If you don't get yours, then I'd guess AXS are the first port of call.
Also, I noticed the Roger Dean t-shirts have been reduced to £15 in the website shop. I rather like the colour Cropredy design on the dark t-shirt.
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« Reply #242 on: May 06, 2025, 12:51:58 PM » |
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SOLD OUT!!
just announced on fb.
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« Reply #243 on: May 06, 2025, 01:13:36 PM » |
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So no extra tranche of tickets, which is understandable given that it took longer to sell 6,500 tickets than last year.
See you on the field.
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« Reply #244 on: May 06, 2025, 01:56:04 PM » |
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as im not going this year looking forwards to hearing back how the smaller festival panned out.....
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« Reply #245 on: May 06, 2025, 02:19:00 PM » |
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Great that it’s now sold out, happy for them all.
See you there ❤️
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« Reply #246 on: May 06, 2025, 02:57:31 PM » |
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So no extra tranche of tickets, which is understandable given that it took longer to sell 6,500 tickets than last year.
Only a little, but yes... Fwiw, I'm very pleased the festival has sold out, and equally pleased they haven't added further tickets. I really hope this scenario prolongs the long history of the festival for another couple of years when they can bow out in style in 2027 (just my opinion, of course). |
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« Reply #247 on: May 06, 2025, 04:07:17 PM » |
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I hope they don’t bow out in 2027!
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« Reply #248 on: May 06, 2025, 04:11:43 PM » |
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I hope they don’t bow out in 2027!
I'd view my odds of getting to the end of 2027 at about 50/50...and these guys have a couple of decades or more on me  Going out on the 60th anniversary has to be an option, I'd have thought, but what do I know? One year at a time...I really hope 2025 is a success in whatever terms they need. |
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« Reply #249 on: May 06, 2025, 04:16:10 PM » |
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I guess they either wither away slowly or have to plan a final "Farewell Farewell" tour and Cropredy to wrap things up. We have the 50th anniversary of the first Cropredy in either 2026 or 2029 depending on what counts as the first, and 2027 is the 60th anniversary of Fairport themselves. Else Cropredy 2047 will be Sandy Denny's fridge on stage with the band's cryonically preserved brains bubbling away in jars inside and plugged into the stage gear via MIDI....  |
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« Reply #250 on: May 06, 2025, 04:51:50 PM » |
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The fringe and the fest could be of similar size……the fringe pulling similar numbers over 3/4 days……and a string fringe line up…
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« Reply #251 on: May 06, 2025, 05:14:57 PM » |
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The fringe and the fest could be of similar size……the fringe pulling similar numbers over 3/4 days……and a string fringe line up…
Lots more space in the field so I know where I'd rather be... |
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« Reply #252 on: May 08, 2025, 08:55:00 AM » |
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The fringe and the fest could be of similar size……the fringe pulling similar numbers over 3/4 days……and a string fringe line up…
Lots more space in the field so I know where I'd rather be... Hi David, it’s impossible to judge crowds from memory. I went to a couple of Cropredies very early 80s and then regularly from 1995 to 2018 . We all have rose tinted specs so those days of the 2 day fest in the 90s were special times . I know I did a fest with 20,000 people , 97? when it was v dif to get down the front etc but 6.500 is going to feel a v different fest. It will feel like going backwards . It may be intimate and lovely with Fairport fans . For many years we went to see Fairports and that changed with a different audience. So I hope it’s lovely, that it evokes the past for people. I am of an age where my musical icons and my memories are dying……I hope the band love it , the audience love it…. All things must pass…sadly ….. |
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« Reply #253 on: May 08, 2025, 10:33:39 AM » |
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The fringe and the fest could be of similar size……the fringe pulling similar numbers over 3/4 days……and a string fringe line up…
Lots more space in the field so I know where I'd rather be... Hi David, it’s impossible to judge crowds from memory. I went to a couple of Cropredies very early 80s and then regularly from 1995 to 2018 . We all have rose tinted specs so those days of the 2 day fest in the 90s were special times . I know I did a fest with 20,000 people , 97? when it was v dif to get down the front etc but 6.500 is going to feel a v different fest. It will feel like going backwards . It may be intimate and lovely with Fairport fans . For many years we went to see Fairports and that changed with a different audience. So I hope it’s lovely, that it evokes the past for people. I am of an age where my musical icons and my memories are dying……I hope the band love it , the audience love it…. All things must pass…sadly ….. The honest truth is the 6500 people in '25 will take up the same space that 20000 people took up in '97 Got to be honest, I enjoyed the pub scene in Cropredy when I used to go but I think 'the fringe' is somewhat parasitic to the festival proper, and isn't a good thing (to the extent that it has been monetised and expanded). |
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« Reply #254 on: May 13, 2025, 04:45:51 PM » |
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My Festival Car Parking Pass arrived today. Now it feels real
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« Reply #255 on: May 13, 2025, 06:02:18 PM » |
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My Festival Car Parking Pass arrived today. Now it feels real
Excellent. |
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« Reply #256 on: May 13, 2025, 11:30:24 PM » |
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Hope ours will arrive soon too.
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« Reply #257 on: May 16, 2025, 01:30:58 AM » |
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So no extra tranche of tickets
Not yet, but I imagine they're keeping their options open. The obvious thing would be to offer extra tickets in the last week if the weather is looking good, but I suppose the only way to make that work properly would be to allow day tickets, which were specifically ruled out previously. Would that potentially run the risk of causing bad feeling among any of those who have already bought 3-day tickets, or would they see it as a positive thing that would help the festival? |
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« Reply #258 on: May 16, 2025, 09:39:18 AM » |
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So no extra tranche of tickets
Not yet, but I imagine they're keeping their options open. The obvious thing would be to offer extra tickets in the last week if the weather is looking good, but I suppose the only way to make that work properly would be to allow day tickets, which were specifically ruled out previously. Would that potentially run the risk of causing bad feeling among any of those who have already bought 3-day tickets, or would they see it as a positive thing that would help the festival? There was a hint at one point that they might issue more tickets, but I think that the sluggish response to there only being 6,500 tickets available may prove fatal to that idea. The walk-in Saturday idea sounds good, but the cost of setting up a totally separate sales operation might outweigh any financial benefits. AXS' contract may or may not be exclusive, I have no way of knowing. Also, you're going to need extra car parking, stewards, security etc etc. I have mixed feelings about all this. |
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« Reply #259 on: May 16, 2025, 03:29:10 PM » |
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If I had spent £200 plus for three day ticket plus camping as maybe a last chance to see FC at Cropredy and then found out I just need to rock up on the Saturday on the bus for say £75 I would not be happy,
No additional tickets should mean just that otherwise it is a p'take.
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