Oh, and...

[mrph]

Anyone feel like a goth Easter?

The Beyond The Veil II lineup seems to be finalised. Details are here:
http://slashgoth.org/stories.php?story=04/01/15/2471568

To be honest, I'd go just for Bella Morte and Last Days of Jesus. But the rest of the bill looks pretty good too - I've heard nothing but good things about ASP and Drowning Season, I like Escape With Romeo and I've not seen the Last Dance for years.

So, anyone else interested?

Comments

[davefish.livejournal.com]

It depends, the is that, there is Dark City, and then there is the fact that I am very very broke at the minute...

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Dark City has VNV and the Mission... I gather VNV are planning some sort of UK tour in Spring, and the Mission are headling Whitby a couple of weeks after Dark City. So neither of them is much of a draw for me. NFD, Seize and The Last Cry are all fun... but all of them play London/etc on a semi-regular basis, so...

Also, to be honest, it's more expensive (transport, extra nights accommodation, Edinburgh B&B prices, an extra few quid on the ticket) and an unknown quantity - I went to the last BTV, I liked it a lot, I know what I'm getting for my money in terms of venue and organisation. Plus it's got lots of US bands who've never played the UK before.

I guess there's also the scale of it - BTV is 250 people (iirc), in a pleasant hotel. Last time the bands, organisers and 'ordinary punters' all mixed and chatted before and after the event itself. That had a really nice atmosphere to it. Whereas DC talks about the "first 1300 tickets only". That's... ambitious. It sort-of reminds me of Morecambe and Jo Hampshire's Blackpool summer special...

*sigh* I'd really like to see both events flourish. But I can't go to both, so it'll be BTV, for purely selfish reasons - I think I'll have more fun there.

[davefish.livejournal.com]

1300 does sound a bit on the hopeful side. Speakign of festivals, I suppose that I should think about sorting the Leipzig thing some time soon.