Latest Versus Podcast Episodes
Clashfinder Confessions
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - April 25, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourThe ArcTanGent stage times are out and everyone has been colour coding their digital day plans and having a social media rant about the decisions they've been forced to make. But what does the man responsible for the clashes, which can make or break your weekend, have to say for himself? How d...
Headliners of The Future
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - April 18, 2024 05:00 - 1 hourGreen Lung, Creeper, Brutus, Malevolence, Zeal & Ardor, Bob Vylan, Dinosaur Pile Up, Bleed From Within, Boston Manor... all names we hope to see headline our festivals in the future. But what does it take to get there and why does the path to the top of the bill seem so clear at 2000trees, yet ...
Cancelled Festivals & The Near-Death of Damnation
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - April 11, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour21 UK festivals have been cancelled or postponed so far this year with up to 100 at risk without Government support, according to the The Association of Independent Festivals. It's grim reading, so how are ArcTanGent, Damnation and 2000trees coping in this brutal landscape and what can be done ...
Cancelled Festivals And The Near-Death of Damnation
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - April 11, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour21 UK festivals have been cancelled or postponed so far this year with up to 100 at risk without Government support, according to the The Association of Independent Festivals. It's grim reading, so how are ArcTanGent, Damnation and 2000trees coping in this brutal landscape and what can be done ...
Breaking Bands
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - April 04, 2024 05:00 - 48 minutesBob Vylan to Din of Celestial Birds, Idles to Amenra... have our festivals helped "break" bands to a larger audience in their scenes and if so, is that important to us or a byproduct of the job? Gav and James get in about it. We go again, every Thursday morning.
Do We Help "Break" Bands?
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - April 04, 2024 05:00 - 48 minutesBob Vylan to Din of Celestial Birds, Idles to Amenra... have our festivals helped "break" bands to a larger audience in their scenes and if so, is that important to us or a byproduct of the job? Gav and James get in about it. We go again, next Thursday morning. Be there.
The Agent Strikes Back
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - March 28, 2024 07:00 - 1 hourAfter a month or so of agent bashing, it was only a matter of time before someone stepped up to put us back in our place. And that someone is the brilliant Mr Tom Taaffe, the man behind the bookings of the likes of Every Time I Die, Pallbearer, Spanish Love Songs, Deafheaven, While She Sleeps, ...
An Agent Strikes Back
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - March 28, 2024 07:00 - 1 hourAfter a month or so of agent bashing, it was only a matter of time before someone stepped up to put us back in our place. And that someone is the brilliant Mr Tom Taaffe, the man behind the bookings of the likes of Every Time I Die, Pallbearer, Spanish Love Songs, Deafheaven, While She Sleeps, ...
Q&A #1
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - March 28, 2024 06:00 - 52 minutesThe mailbox is full and the questions keep coming in, so here's an episode dedicated to all your curiosities. Do festival promoters talk to each other about band fees? Have we ever got into a bidding war over a band we wanted? What other festival would we like to book? What are the marketing...
Q&A #1: "Do Promoters Discuss Band Fees?"
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - March 28, 2024 06:00 - 52 minutesThe mailbox is full and the questions keep coming in, so here's an episode dedicated to all your curiosities. Do festival promoters talk to each other about band fees? Have we ever got into a bidding war over a band we wanted? What other festival would we like to book? What are the marketing...
Q&A#1: "Do Promoters Discuss Band Fees?"
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - March 28, 2024 06:00 - 52 minutesThe mailbox is full and the questions keep coming in, so here's an episode dedicated to all your curiosities. Do festival promoters talk to each other about band fees? Have we ever got into a bidding war over a band we wanted? What other festival would we like to book? What are the marketing...
Episode 182: Free Ports (Teeside), Singapore-on-Thames and Entrepots ...
Versus History Podcast - March 28, 2024 00:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsIn this episode of the Versus History Podcast, the Editors tackle the subject of free trade, Brexit and the Teeside 'Free Port' initiative, making (sometimes errant!) comparisons and contrasts to the British acquisitions of yesteryear, including Singapore in 1819 and Hong Kong / Shangha...
Episode 181: History Teaching, Versus History & Scholarship ... Elliott tells all!
Versus History Podcast - March 22, 2024 00:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsIn this unique episode of the Versus History Podcast, we take something of a detour from the usual substantive history fest to indulge in some history teaching tales ...Co-Editior Elliott recounts tips, tales and home truths from over twenty years of teaching history worldwide. For te...
Mogwai, Baby!
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - March 21, 2024 06:00 - 37 minutesTen years of increased offers, multiple snubs, endless fan demands and with almost all hope lost... Mogwai finally agreed to play the final night of the 10th anniversary of ATG. It had to be part of the masterplan, right? Or a chance phone call, "going big" with an offer over text and the dile...
Mogwai, Baby! ... and Bolt Thrower
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - March 21, 2024 06:00 - 37 minutesTen years of increased offers, multiple snubs, endless fan demands and with almost all hope lost... Mogwai finally agreed to play the final night of the 10th anniversary of ATG. It had to be part of the masterplan, right? Or a chance phone call, "going big" with an offer over text and the dile...
The Dark Arts of Band Booking
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - March 14, 2024 06:00 - 1 hourBooking bands is the Wild West of music promotion, where cash, gamesmanship, ego and relationships clash in the process of sealing a deal. But it isn't as simple a just working out a fee. There's hotels, flights, catering, drum kits, video walls, billing and exclusivity to haggle over... and do...
The Dark Arts of Booking Bands
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - March 14, 2024 06:00 - 1 hourBooking bands is the Wild West of music promotion, where cash, gamesmanship, ego and relationships clash in the process of sealing a deal. But it isn't as simple a just working out a fee. There's hotels, flights, catering, drum kits, video walls, billing and exclusivity to haggle over... and do...
Darth Vader v Shoto Todoroki | ft. PhiltheFilipino & Andrew
Super Bracket Bros - March 11, 2024 01:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsEpisode #4! Movies versus Anime! Can Darth Vader quell the burning spirit of one of the Top 3 UA students? Or will Todoroki be able to take down one of the greatest super villains of all time? Additional thanks to Aaron from SuperPod Saga for picking the location for today's battle on our Disc...
(The Dummies Guide) To Starting Festivals
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - March 09, 2024 13:00 - 47 minutes2,000 Trees, Damnation and ArcTanGent have carved themselves out solid reputations on the UK festival scene but not without almost two decades of graft, good fortune and the odd costly mistake, or twenty, along the way. Thankfully we fell into those traps so you don't have to. We go again, eve...
How We Started Our Festivals (The Dummies Guide)
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - March 09, 2024 13:00 - 47 minutes2,000 Trees, Damnation and ArcTanGent have carved themselves out solid reputations on the UK festival scene but not without almost two decades of graft, good fortune and the odd costly mistake, or twenty, along the way. Thankfully we fell into those traps so you don't have to. We go again, nex...
Hunting for Headliners
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - March 07, 2024 06:00 - 41 minutesThe right headliner can make or break your year, whether the rest of the line-up is excellent or not. But it's not as easy as just throwing heaps of cash at your favourite band to land the booking you need. With more events to choose from, competitive festival exclusive deals, fees going throu...
The Hunt for Headliners
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - March 07, 2024 06:00 - 41 minutesThe right headliner can make or break your year, whether the rest of the line-up is excellent or not. But it's not as easy as just throwing heaps of cash at your favourite band to land the booking you need. With more events to choose from, competitive festival exclusive deals, fees going throu...
The Slayer Marketing Plan
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - February 29, 2024 07:00 - 28 minutesIn a short space of time, Slayer transformed themselves from dependable festival fodder, who filled academies on tour to an arena outfit who have returned to share top billing alongside the likes of Slipknot and Motley Crue with one simple trick: the fake farewell. Should fans be delighted with...
Ballache of Billing a Festival
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - February 29, 2024 07:00 - 44 minutesWho goes one line up on the poster? Whose logo needs to be bigger? Who goes left or right when two bands are virtually identical in stature? And who decides? The art of billing the line-up poster is a messy and confusing one, which often leads to heated rows, fall outs and promoters being left ...
Slayer's Marketing Stunt
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - February 29, 2024 07:00 - 28 minutesIn a short space of time, Slayer transformed themselves from dependable festival fodder, who filled academies on tour to an arena outfit who have returned to share top billing alongside the likes of Slipknot and Motley Crue with one simple trick: the fake farewell. Should fans be delighted with...
The Ballache of Billing a Festival
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - February 29, 2024 07:00 - 44 minutesWho goes one line up on the poster? Whose logo needs to be bigger? Who goes left or right when two bands are virtually identical in stature? And who decides? The art of billing the line-up poster is a messy and confusing one, which often leads to heated rows, fall outs and promoters being left ...
Slayer's Marketing Plan
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - February 29, 2024 07:00 - 28 minutesIn a short space of time, Slayer transformed themselves from dependable festival fodder, who filled academies on tour to an arena outfit who have returned to share top billing alongside the likes of Slipknot and Motley Crue with one simple trick: the fake farewell. Should fans be delighted with...
The Dillinger Escape Gamble
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - February 29, 2024 05:00 - 27 minutesDillinger are back and everyone is buzzing, so why aren't they playing any of the UK festivals? Is Calculating Infinity worth the gamble? Is there anything to learn from the At The Drive In, Refused or Botch reunions? Will we see Dimitri and co. play London in 2024 instead? Damnation and ArcTa...
Dillinger Escape Gamble
2 Promoters, 1 Pod - February 29, 2024 05:00 - 27 minutesDillinger are back and everyone is buzzing, so why aren't they playing any of the UK festivals? Is Calculating Infinity worth the gamble? Is there anything to learn from the At The Drive In, Refused or Botch reunions? Will we see Dimitri and co. play London in 2024 instead? Damnation and ArcTa...
Episode 180: Box Office Bombs - Flunking Films!
Versus History Podcast - February 28, 2024 00:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratingsIn this episode of the Versus History Editors discuss a range of films that have flunked at the Box Office through time. Which films have flunked and why? From Heaven's Gate to Mario to Mr Nanny and many more besides... Find out in this episode! For terms of use, please visit www.versu...
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