Good way to blow the budget probably, but End Of The Road is relatively bijou at 3000 attendees. Possible....? No chance? Worth even a single thought!!?
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judging by the amount of
utter FAILs for small festivals this year, no they couldn't. not yet.
Why bother?
Huge amount of organisation/money etc required and just about every "DiS band" is already playing at least one UK festival this summer. There's no gap in the market so to speak.
The cream always rises to the top
so, dunno if the 'no market gap' argument is totally watertight really.
Maybe curating an ATP would be a good start
Hint hint.
Aye
that sounds like a decent shout...
Truck always used to fill that role!
It's entirely possible, they've got the industry connections and wouldn't have any trouble getting some like minded sponsors.
I imagine an all dayer would be more feasible, but they already co-sponsor Field Day and a raft of other events.
The DiS forums stage all dayers (Cheers bamos!) so I don't doubt that the full might of DiS could stage something cool.