Twisterella - full line up announced

Was as usyal a excellent day, think i crammed in 13 acts, all for less than 30 quid.
Personal highlights were..
Saloon dion( great replacement), pom poko, fiona lee and brodie milner, a few clashes but that just reflects well on the quality on show and hopefully catch a few of the other acts next time.
Its one of the best days of the year in Middlesbrough so a big thanks to all involved 👏 especially Blaggamuffin, i got tired just reading how his day unfolds.
A great advert for the town too.
One minor point i disagree with the post above about the good choice of drinks in the venues, not the case for a beer drinker, was great the year play brew did a twistarella beer, but its probably not that practical and iam sure the organisers have enough to think about.
but that said it made no difference to how much we all enjoyed the 10th anniversary roll on the next 10 i say 👍
 
@Blaggamuffin
My job really restricts me from attending these sort of events but I was lucky this year to get holidays in to attend. Any idea how early the date will be given for next year's event so I can pencil in the date?
 
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Blaggamuffin said:
Cheers everyone. Much appreciate your comments and also your feedback.
In a few days time I'll post a Twisterella questionnaire and if people would be so kind as to respond to that it would be greatly appreciated.

So... to answer the question about what I thought then I think this answer might disappoint a little. I don't really get to see that many acts during the course of the day. Anything I get to see tends to be fleeting moments of sets. The day starts with a welcome to the conference guests over at the Town Hall before heading to the University for the rider delivery (from Sainsbury's) and putting all of the signage up. Once the rider is loaded in we have the stage managers briefing at 11.30am to discuss H&S and festival protocols, etc. During this year's meeting we heard from Slate that they'd broken down in Manchester but it was an hour or so later before they told us that they couldn't make it in time for their set. Then we had to get our replacement contacted and drafted in - thank you Faithful Johannes, btw!
We have a fab set of stage managers behind the scenes who, along with the sound engineers and venue teams do an incredible job in making the festival run smoothly and to time but as there are bands arriving and bands leaving so there's lots of meeting and greeting to be done throughout the day, particularly just to say thanks for coming to town to play for us. A number of the acts have played for us before so there are catching up conversations to be had and future plans to be briefly mentioned, etc. Then there's the WhatsApp group we have set up for the day involving the stage managers so that's continually pinging from late morning through till long after the festival has finished with messages about backline, rider, wristbands, and about how each stage is progressing, whatever... Then you bump in to people you haven't seen for ages or since last time so there's a few snatched conversations here and there.
Then my missus messages to say she's on here way into town (get the red carpet ready...). Then she messages to tell me it's raining. x3. Then she messages me to tell me it's still raining and she'll be with me when it stops raining.
Then Henry and I had an interview in the press room (by the wristband exchange) with The Line of Best Fit - looking forward to seeing how that turns out, btw.
It's kind of constant really and the only consistency to the day is that it's very stop and start with no real blocks of time where you don't get any disruption. That's not a complaint btw, it's just the nature of the thing. It's brilliant that everyone gets so much pleasure from the day and that makes it all worthwhile

So.. I saw a fleeting moments of a number of acts but the only acts where I saw reasonable amounts of their sets were The Howl & The Hum, Christian Music, The Joshua Hotel and Pom Poko plus around 15 minutes of The Chase in MTH.

It's difficult to fully illustrate and explain how it is but you just don't really get to spend enough/any time enjoying the acts that you've booked. That's an honest answer.

Great day though, but I think both Henry and I are a bit knacked now tbh!
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I did well to have a decent chat with you this year, although walking with you from the Uni to the Crypt helped 😁
 
Just heard on 6 music that Saloon Dion are calling it a day and are playing their final gig in Bristol on Saturday.
What a shame, they were outstanding at Twisterella and I was hoping they'd be playing up here again 😔
 
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