Does anyone know if Thursday’s festivities will start at 10am or 11am? Last year, I believe Chris & Bela started at 11am (gates at 10am). This year, we have 8 artists on day one versus 7 last year. I’m trying to figure out when to schedule a bathroom break. Thus far, my math skills can’t wrangle all the artists into an 11am-11pm day.
Historically, gates have opened at 10:00 with the first act at 11:00 on Thursday. The next 3 days, the gates open at 9:00 with the first act starting at 10:00. At least that’s the way I remember it. We get to ease into it a bit on Thursday and then all hell breaks loose.
OK, even though I started this thread, I’ll take a stab at it…and for full disclosure, I have no idea what will really happen. That’s why I started the thread.
In my experience (this will be my 4th festival), the Planet is usually pretty reliable with set times (i.e., if they say 10 a.m. is start time, Chris will probably start pretty close to 10) and the opening set is about 45 minutes. But, like oddfired suggested, it’s probably best to avoid such specific speculation for the sake of the people who won’t read very closely.
However, my guess is that programs are going to print very shortly, if they haven’t already … which means the schedule will have been written in stone.
(Just curious if cheese will be allocated any more time vs. the standard 1:15)
I would imagine Cheese will get 1hr30, but that’s just speculation. However, The Masters and Dispatch are also likely candidates for 1hr30 sets, so that might make things a bit more difficult.
Great question F.O.M. I would agree that SCI should get “headliner” time allocation (2ish hours), over say Dispatch. However, it looks like I’m not supposed to speculate on this board…so I’m not going to even remotely begin to guess on that.