Tramlines Festival

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  1. x11barnsley

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    Serge and Sig … might make a good duet
     
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    YES!!! He can duet Bad Life with her that she sings with Bring Me The Horizon. Lovely song especially the acoustic version.
     
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    I echo this, nothing at all to do with my band (Civic Green) playing on the Saturday
     
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    The other thing that has gone down very badly locally is the the no re-entry policy. When Tramlines first went to Hillsborough you were allowed to go off site and back on. The idea was to boost the local businesses. Covid has been used as an excuse for this to be refused. The end result is that the festival charges what it wants for food and drink - a monopoly. Not allowed to take anything on site.
    End result - kids taking pills/ drugs with them as easier to hide.
    This is my first time - but if the rules are nit likely to change I won’t be going again. Not paying £10 + for crappy food and £6.50 + for Red Stripe.
     
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    Lad saw Yard Act in Manchester recently and said they were very good

    Be interested to know how Inhaler go live (Don't let Bono's son as singer put anyone off)

    Working Mens Club pretty good.

    James and Shed Seven always good live
     
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    Don’t miss Elvana on Sunday. They started out as a comedy act but has now got quite a large fan base. Basically, they do Elvis songs in the style of Nirvana, or vice versa, well worth a watch. And while you are away from the main stage, even if they make you turn the radio off, Scouting For Girls are brilliant live. They somehow manage to sound much more ‘punk’ and upbeat when on stage.
    And, regardless of your age, you already know that Madness know how to get the crowd bouncing.
     
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    Elvana are already the top of my list mate. Annoyingly they clash with Reverend and the Makers, but I've wanted to see them for years (and I've seen rev before).
     
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    Aye, the headliners this year are Kasabian, Sam Fender and Madness.
     
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    I’ll get the hang of googling one year !
    Sorry
     
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    I saw this - really annoying as I had planned to flit between Hillsboro park and Kelham island for decent snap / beers

    seems no reason for it
     
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    Barrieoke on Sunday, was crazy last year
     
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    Scouting for Girls were brilliant.
    Madness - good but performance wise some band members seem to be going thru the motions.
    Kasabian - looked like they were going to be fantastic when I limped out with my day 1 hangover finally kicking in!
    Sam Ryder - fantastic. What a’voice.
    Sam Fender - apologies - I went for a take away!
     
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    We looked at the set list for both Madness and Becky Hill. Becky Hill did all of the songs she's featured on pretty much first, so then we went to see madness as they were doing Baggy Trousers, House of fun etc just before the encore.

    We wished we hadn't bothered. We got there just before the cover of 'Don't you want me baby', which they managed to get wrong even though they were reading the words from a piece of paper. Suggs could barely get his words out or stand up straight. He then gave a girl a lecture for not getting a university education. I thought they were very poor. We decided to leave to try and get the bus back up the hill before the rush, just before they began to sing 'it must be love'.

    I thought it was very disrespectful to the thousands of people who'd paid their hard earned money to be there. Is it too much to ask f him to be at least slightly sober? The atmosphere for their set was non-existent. Especially when we'd just seen Becky Hill, who had flawlessly nailed 14 songs, with full dance routines, without stopping for a break.

    Otherwise, it was a great weekend. My personal highlight was Elvana, who were everything you'd expect from a Geordie Elvis impersonator singing Nirvana songs. I thought Kasabian benefitted from Serge being the front man. And hairs stood up on the back of my neck when Sam Ryder did his eurovision song.
     
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    Geordie Elvis impersonator singing Nirvana songs !!!!!!
    Good grief
     
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    By his own admission, he sounds more like Nicholas Cage than Elvis. But the energy, and pelvic thrusting is there for all to see ;)
     
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    the decision to watch Madness over Becky Hill was based on a "Who'll be around longer". Looking at the state of Suggs, I think we might be right - he did look very drunk. No idea what that Don't you want me Baby" thing was about. Baffling.

    As for Tramlines, I won't do a full weekender again. It's just a total rip off from start to finish. Wouldn't mind if they were selling nice drinks, but Red stripe and inches are barely drinkable, and the wine was so bad, I didn't bother. The travel was a disaster. We're lucky to live 2 miles up the road, so knew we'd get home one way or another. Some people had some real ordeals getting home.
     
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    Visions of “Put the bunny back in the box” with a southern drawl
     
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    Sam Fender is Instagram Jimmy Nail. Absolute bag o' mashings.
     
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    Fear not, I went for a take away instead. Left 'em to it.
     
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    Aye, we caught the end of Madness because we felt it'd probably be our last chance. Had we not, I'd have probably regretted it.

    I like Inch's cider, but they'd ran out by 3pm on Saturday. They'd then only got Strongbow and Strongbow Dark Fruits in terms of cider. I can't stand original strongbow, so dark fruits it was. I tried a pint of the Thornbridge beer they had on the last day, but that didn't go down well from a paper cup.

    The pricing was completely extortionate. We tried to have a big breakfast before we went, and snuck alcohol in the first 2 days, and still managed to spend over £200 between us just on food and drink. Two small portions of chicken and chips, with two cans of pop cost £25!!

    We've both announced our retirement from 3 day festivals today. It's actually only the 2nd one I've done.

    We live up in Crookes, so had opted to walk there and back Friday and Saturday, but decided to get the bus on the Sunday because we were feeling the effects of 3 full days on our feet.
     
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