#sell music festival tickets

[wheezytomato]

Anyone looking to buy tickets to the blue ridge rock festival? I have (2) 4 day VIP passes that I'm selling. Stuff came up in my personal life and I'm not going to be able to go. Message me if you're interested.

[ghostworldtour]

GHOST IS GOING ON TOUR IN APRIL 2025 👻

[emilyscastlevania]

Floor standing is £79.30?

[evermorre]

i’m supposed to see boygenius in two weeks but uh….maybe not…lmao

[aayakashii]

Wait, since we were robbed of having an episode about Samhain and seeing them in a festival, let's indulge in headcanonery (?) rn

Inspired by @rottenzombrainz 's slice of life headcanons, I'm giving a huge kiss to your brain rn

What each house would prepare for a school festival – headcanons

Frostheim

Hhhmm, maybe they'd be responsible for the play! Frostheimers are the ones that are super cultured and fancy since they're all rich lol I think they'd have all the resources needed to buy beautiful costumes and props. Maybe they'd do some Shakespeare play like Hamlet, but I wouldn't put it past them to do a musical too, like The Phantom of the Opera, complete with a huge chandelier falling down :0

Vagastrom

They would be the ones responsible for the games!! All of those festival games like card flipping (menko), shooting, throwing, ball scooping, fishing yoyo, garapon (lottery machine) and other puzzles. I think Vagastrom students would have a lot of fun challenging festival-goers even if it's not a physical challenge lol. The whole place would be filled with the sounds of people having fun! Btw, Sho would probably open a little booth with snacks ofc hehe

Jabberwock

A safari exhibition, obviously. What better moment to sell tickets for a tour around the dorm than during a festival? I'm pretty sure they would go all out, though. Maybe the tour could be done at night (if the anomalies agree lol) and everything could be lit by fairylights. The caves would have ambient music, there would be wind chimes everywhere, and bubbles would be flying around to reflect the lights (courtesy of Towa). It'd be like a true fantasy experience for anyone who decided to participate!

Sinostra

They would run a cafe for sure. Romeo would NOT pass up on the opportunity to make some money. Also, it's not like Sinostra would care that much about the festival, so it'd be best to participate by doing something they're already used to. Since a lot of people would flock to Darkwick due to the festival, including kids, they wouldn't be able to sell booze nor anything of the sort, but they'd have great food, including a little bit of Italian cuisine – pizza, carbonara, lasagne, candied fruits, gelato, torrone, espresso... people would leave with the belly full and wallets empty.

Hotarubi

They would do plenty of presentations!! Odori, taiko, koto, shamisen – everything that's related to japanese traditional culture, they'd give a huuuuge show. A lot of people would flock to Hotarubi to watch Subaru give a little snippet of his abilities as a kabuki actor too, and it'd probably be one of the most visited dorms in the whole campus! I think they'd also give a few mini workshops of tea ceremony, ikebana, puppet theatre, and origami.

Obscuary

A huge, beautiful and extremely creepy haunted mansion/labyrinth!! Obscuary is literally the perfect place for a haunted attraction. The Victorian-esque visuals of the dorm would attract a lot of people who want to test their courage, especially with all the rumors about a real werewolf and a real vampire living in that place. The mansion would be eerily silent, just the sound of creaking wood and the whoosh of "ghosts" flying around to have people on their toes, so the jumpscares would be even more efficient.

Mortkranken

They would 1000000% do an interactive medical exhibition. The students could guide the visitors throughout a day in the life of a scientist/doctor! Showing them which instruments they use for surgery (even teaching how to suture wounds); which meds are useful for certain diseases; how to measure blood pressure and auscultate heart and lung sounds and so on and so forth... a little LARPing as a doctor for an afternoon hehe

[theplantbish]

Helsingin Sanomat Käärijä article (11.10.) translated

Käärijä licks a carrot and makes OF content - It’s not just about clowning, the artist says

Käärijä’s CCC era comes to an end, when he releases a new album in November. On the album he sings about sex, among other things.

At the moment Käärijä is on an European tour. Between summer’s festival gigs and his fall tour he had time to take three weeks off.

Summary box:

Käärijä, Jere Pöyhönen, released a new song called Sex = Money, and makes OF content

OF-account has a couple of hundred of followers, subscription costs 40e per month

Pöyhönen is on an European tour, in Germany his gigs have been nearly sold out

New album People’s Champion comes out on Nov. 1st. It includes a personal song

“I started to sell sex because sex sells.”

Sings Käärijä, Jere Pöyhönen, on his new song Sex = Money. In the song’s promo video Pöyhönen licks a dirty carrot on a balcony. Fans know what the carrot is a reference to. On a video (plant note: it’s a pic HS get your facts right) posted on Käärijä’s OF account, a carrot sticks up from between Pöyhönen’s buttcheeks.

Yes, Käärijä makes OF content.

On the paid adult content site he has a couple of hundred followers. Subscription costs 40e per month.

When asked about his adult content career, he laughs.

“It’s more just a little fun for the fans,” he tells HS on the phone.

Pöyhönen is currently on an European tour. On the four gigs held in Germany the tickets have been nearly sold out, he says. The venues have been theaters and clubs that fit from 700 to 1,500 people.

On the stage Pöyhönen has been speaking rally-English and has been on his element. The audience has been a bit more grown up compared to Finland, he says.

Käärijä gathered a big audience in Hamburg on Oct. 8th

In Finland Käärijä is an Eurovision hero that also kids admire. At all ages gigs he can’t curse and make dirty jokes the same way he does at club gigs.

Pöyhönen hopes that kids won’t find his OF account. That’s why he hasn’t posted about it much on his social media.

The new song that tells about selling sex won’t be left out of all ages gigs. The lyrics of the song will be changed, though, Pöyhönen says.

“Maybe we’ll sing about selling Lego.”

Whether parents play the new song to their kids or not is out of his hands, according to him. As a child he listened to Petri Nygård’s songs.

“And I’m still sane.” x

Pöyhönen talks about OF as a branding tool, that mostly gives him just a bit of extra money.

He created the account with Häärijä last December. At first it worked as a paid advent calendar for the fans. Pöyhönen told in the Urheilucast podcast that they made 40K euros on the first month.

Pöyhönen won’t reveal what he makes with the OF account these days, but evidently he has made more during the year.

“If someone wants to pay for it, that’s nice. But I have completely different sources of income,” Pöyhönen says.

In the videos Käärijä and Häärijä do mildly naughty things to each other. It’s like a dirty Kummeli show. More like soft porn than actual porn, Pöyhönen describes. 

“We’ve filmed stuff for the account that has made us laugh.”

(there was a pic of the crowd but I don't feel comfortable posting it here. The text under the pic: According to Pöyhönen, the audience at his European gigs is mostly just adults.)

It’s not all just about clowning. OF account and Sex = Money song are an ironic statement on how the world runs around sex too much. As if it was easier to sell sex than music.

Even though Pöyhönen himself says that he objects to marketing music with sex, Käärijä the character does it blindly with everyone else.

“In a way I’m taking a stand without taking a stand.”

Käärijä’s CCC era comes to an official end, when his new album People’s Champion comes out on Nov. 1st.

On the new album we’ll hear the first song fully sung by Käärijä. The topic is personal, Pöyhönen reveals, but won’t comment on the new music more than that.

“There probably won’t be any radical changes,” Pöyhönen says.

Pöyhönen wants to hold onto his underage fans. He sees the all ages gigs as great opportunities to talk about bullying, for example.

“Even before ESC Käärijä character was obscene. I don’t want to change my musical style too much. I make art that looks like me, my own thing.”

[pinkiemachine]

Cute Little Town Designed by Some Creative People Right Here on the Internet :3

My shop is a bakery called “Heavenly Helpings” where I make the cutest cakes, and brownies, and macarons, and eclairs, and pies, and strudels, and everything always smells like freshly baked bread, frosting, and custard—and there’s an upstairs where I live above the bakery :)

At the top of that street is “Uncle Stubby’s Ammo, Liquor, and Tackle shop XD”

Next door, someone submitted “a bookstore called Good Buddy! A pet friendly store that you bring your pet (well trained of course) and where you can read the buy books of any genre! There is also a small coffee shop inside that sells both great drinks and treats for your pets!”

The shop below mine is, “A guinea pig cafe 🥰 tubes and little hideouts run a long the walls with a lower area where people can pick up, pet, and feed the guinea pigs. These guinea pigs are super friendly and love to get treats 12/7. The outside has windows so people can see some of the tubes inside. The back yard has a huge garden to provide all the vegetables and fruit for them. Up stairs is where the owner and his family live.”

And below that, “My shop would be a craft/coffee shop😋 Lots of windows and twinkly lights, and the shop’s colors would be sage green, coral pink, and cream! (Basically colorful but peaceful 😌) It would have all kinds of craft supplies (clay, paint, paper, and chargers for Apple Pencils), and the drinks served could be named after artists and famous paintings! I don’t have a lot of good ideas for a fun name, so I’ll go with Crafts n’ Coffee for now (but that can change)”

Finally, there’s the World’s Market, where you can buy all sorts of things from around the world!

On the other side of the street, we have a gas station for blimps called, “The Descent Diesel”

And below that, “NICKNACKS AND DOODADS!! An antique place where you can find nicknacks, doodads, and trinkets. Ranging from very very tiny things to very LARGE. Ancients, antiques, modern, magical, you name it! Items can be bought or traded. Run by a very organized cat :D bro is not very forgiving if you make the place crash and burn.”

And below that, “A little magical musical theatre. There is a legend that the theatre is haunted by the ghost of an opera singer who never finished her song in one play, so now she sings it every night when the theatre is empty. She's not scary at all though and some people say she helped them find their way back home on very foggy nights. By day, the theatre is a very warm place where everyone feels welcome. Outside it looks a bit like a miniature gothic castle, but its walls are covered with warm, happy posters. It's close to the river and the owner of the theatre is a great friend of the otters from the river that come to the theatre sometimes. There are a lot of flowers in the windows that are not covered with posters.”

Beneath that is the cinema! “I only ever have the good stuff playing in my theater, the bad stuff can premiere in some other theater. Concessions offers popcorn and candy and pizza and hamburgers and spaghetti-- Because why not? And I sell plushies of the movies currently playing. I do annual film festivals to showcase the creations of local movie makers, their film gets to play for a couple of weeks (*and of course they recieve the profits from the ticket sales*).”

Ending with a VHS store :)

[bonkers-4-hatter]

Lotor X !Plus Sized Female Reader - Fall Traditions

"It's tradition Lotor! I know you don't want to be around people, but please, go for me?" I give him a pout, jutting out my bottom lip as I put on my 'puppy dog eyes' which always make him cave.

He let out a scoff, but sighed and deflated in defeat. "Okay Starlight, I'll go to this...corn maze as you say."

I hug him as he slides his arms around my plump form. "You know I'd do anything for you starlight." He pressed a kiss to the top of my head. Only alone would he show me this kind of affection, and I understand, with a smile I cherish the affection he shows that's only reserved for me.

I was giddy as we pulled up to the corn maze. Growing up, coming to these places during the fall were fun and filled with laughter and frights especially if we went through the maze at night.

Lotor takes my hand as we walk to the ticket booth. I smile as I see families with small children as they laugh and run around picking the perfect pumpkin. "You said this was a tradition starlight? Do all humans participate in it?" He gave my hand a light squeeze as we walk through the rows of pumpkins.

"Not all humans participate. It's a tradition for me and a lot of humans because we used to do this when we were younger. My mom always brought me and my siblings here every fall. We'd pick pumpkins, go on the hay ride and through the corn maze and have applie cider, it was so magical for me as a kid...and one of the rare happy memories I have...I know to you it's silly..but-."

My words were cut off as he gave me a soft, chaste kiss. My round cheeks flushed as he pulled back before I could fully process it. "It's not silly if it holds special memories for you (Y/N)...nothing that's special to you is silly my starlight, never forget that. Now let's go make more of those special memories."

We look through the pumpkin patch first, my soft, round face scruched in concentration as I tried to look for the perfect pumpkin. Lotor helped, picking the biggest pumpkin he could carry before putting it in our wagon. Picking a few other pumpkins and hay stacks we bring them to the car.

"I can't wait to carve the pumpkins! We'll put them on our porch for the trick or treaters!" I was excited as I spoke, my soft arms and hands waving in the air as I spoke with them. Lotor sported a soft smile as he watched me talk animately.

Getting hot apple cider, we enjoyed the cute hayride that showed us the farm and along the way it had cute cardboard cut outs of Halloween themed characters or scenes and even giant spider made out of black plastic pipes and hay bails. Lotor's arms wrapped around my pudgy waist, his fingers skimming my sweater clad skin.

"This drink...can we make it at home?" He was on his third cup of hot apple cider. I laughed and nodded. "I'll order some, not sure how good it'll be if I try to make it, I'm sure they sell some here too." His eyes lit up at the notion making me smile. He was enjoying himself...which would be a first for an Earth activity.

As the sun started to go down, I decided it was the perfect time to do the corn maze. Once inside, the cute decorations and cardboard cut outs were back, with festive lights scttered around. "So...you pay to be put in a maze? Starlight, what fun is that?" He asked looking down both sides of the fork in the cornstalks.

I pull him down one path enjoying the atmosphere. "Because it's fun! It's cute and it's getting dark so it'll be a bit spooky!" Hitting a dead end, I pout. "Fun you say?" He smirks before taking the lead and tugging me back the way we came.

A good chunk of time passed and we're still in the corn maze, the moon high in the sky. The sound of laughing children and soft music coming from the farm, but I was straddled on Lotor's lap as he sat on a haybail in the corner of another dead end of the corn maze.

Our lips were slated against one another in a dance. His hands gripped my soft round hips anchoring me down on his lap. Pulling back, our hot breaths lingered together. "You were right (Y/N), these corn mazes are fun." He nipped and sucked along the curve of my neck going down to my collarbone.

The sound of people nearby caused Lotor to stand with my plump, soft body in his arms before he gently sat me down. Giving me one last hungry kiss, he grabbed my hand and headed back to the maze to finally get out. "Let's find our way out, we'll have more fun at home my starlight."

Biting my lip, I flushed at his words as we both whispered and laughed together as we navigated the corn maze hand in hand.

[iii-official]

Happy Slaaneshmas!

It's that time of year again! While we're sure your local warbands and cults have plenty planned to celebrate the season, we have some larger events to announce:

Canticle City Slaaneshmas Market - Running for the next six days, come out and get all the gifts you could need and then some! In addition to the booths selling just about anything you can think of and beautiful decorations, we've expanded to THREE open-air stages for musical performances this year. Market runs daily from noon to midnight.

Chemosian Memorials - Honouring those who could never see the season. Candlelight vigils will be held on the evening of the fifth day of Slaaneshmas. Contact your local warband or cult for more information on their events.

Festival of Illumination - A three-day music festival to close out the Slaaneshmas season! Hosted on Knaus Lambda, camping spots and cabins are sold out, but single-day tickets are still available at the entrance! End your Slaaneshmas with a bang!

And of course, keep an eye out for pop-up events and local happenings!

[milqueandsugar]

Can we get a part two of rival!reader x Adam? Was eating up that one so hard I loved it smm

Like maybe the reader reaches out to his band to do a collab of some sort, or they're preforming on the same stage or stadium for an large event of some kind (maybe something like Coachella)

Maybe reader talks to Adam and his band for the first time and it's something of high praise, like "you guys were awesome out there" or even something like "It's an honor to play on the same stage as you guys"

-🥐

🌼☕` Your Tea Is Ready `☕���

Gen / Fluff

Includes / Adam

A/N - you disappeared from my blog for a while!! So happy to see you back with this banger, 🥐, lol

| Adam x Rival!Reader pt 2 |

Lute had successfully restrained him from backstage passes, or anymore tickets, she was, however, unsuccessful in the merch department

"I say this with all due respect sir, but I have to ask if this is necessary, sir."

"They're up and coming danger tits, a few years and I'll make more money selling these shirts then they would on tour."

"Whatever you say.. sir."

He's already fucking hype about playing at this music festival, so when the artist list is released and YOUR BAND IS RIGHT BEFORE HIS??? foaming at the mouth

Not only can he go to one of your shows without the side eye from Lute but he gets to MEET YOU and WORK WITH YOU?? he's got his band working to the bone cause they are not going to fuck up in front of you of all angels

Despite his best efforts with the chaos of the event he didn't get the chance to catch your eye, let alone talk to you or introduce himself

He's practically vibrating during your performance of your new album, it wasn't even on Angelfi and he gets to see it live??

From his angle he can even see the sweat gathering on your perfect skin and he does not want to process what that does for him

Taking lots of sneaky photos and videos, just for him, you're crazy if you think these clips are going to see anyone's eyes but his

By time you finish his voice is hoarse from screaming, whatever, it'll sound sexier when he's singing anyways

When you jog off stage and nearly trip when you see him he figures you caught him being a total fan girl and he doesn't want to even IMAGINE the damage it's doing to his aura-

"Hey! Oh hey! Your Adam right?"

holyshitholyshitholyshitholyshit

"Good luck out there! I can't wait to see your set, you're doing the lost garden album right?"

He says something- he thinks he's not entirely certain before you continue past him, ushered on by your band mates

The energy he's bringing to his performance after that?? The edits are going crazy

He finally, after getting laid and piss drunk at the after party has the confidence to follow you on his main

The hangover is killer but seeing you followed him back?? Brought him straight back to life

[pastelstarmie]

TOUR!!

AAAAAHHH We are actually starting our next tour on Monday, how did it get here so so fast???? I am so excited to meet so many cool people and travel across the UK again, and to new cities I've never been too!! Like Edinburgh, Newcastle and Bristol!!! Where we get to end it with a massive Folk Punk Festival! If you want to come you should definitely get tickets and as they are selling out for some venues, and it would be so amazing to see y'all there!! Working with different musicians and meeting the people who have supported us and made all of this possible is honestly the best part of touring, and y'all make it so special and such a memorable time! We are so honoured for all the reblogs and reposts on Tumblr and people sharing our stuff, it means the world every time we see it as we get closer to making full time music a reality, you are all the loveliest kindest people and we appreciate everything you've done for us to make this all happen! I really can't wait to hit the road (on a 6 hour coach ride at 1am) to get all of this started!! We'll hopefully see you there!! Massive massive love for all of you!

Tickets

[sunstone-smiles]

No Need to Be Embarrassed

Original request (from @magma-queen): "My friend, I must come here and request #8 with Archie and Maxie <3 please!"

Author’s note: We’re officially one week into Tickletober! Here’s Day 8: “Nuzzles,” “Festival or Fair,” and “Exposed Body Part” from August’s Prompt List, Crow’s Prompt List, and Nim’s Prompt List! I hope you enjoy!

Series: Pokemon 

Characters: Archie and Maxie

Word count: 1,242

Summary: Maxie is feeling a little embarrassed about being at a crowded festival, especially in the costume he’s dressed in. Archie knows just how to cheer him up.

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The festival is loud, rowdy, and upbeat as people celebrate. Booths are lines up at the edges of the walkway selling candies, toys, tickets for games, and more. There’s music playing, decorations of the spooky variety, people chatting and laughing, and they’re all dressed in attire inspired by pokemon.

One would expect that it’s impossible to feel anything other than elation at a festival such as this one, but Maxie on the other hand…He has other feelings.

“There’s a lot of people here…” Maxie tenses as Archie and him enter the festival. Archie thought it would be cute for them to dress as the primal forms of Kyogre and Groudon as a couples costume. Archie wears a sleeveless blue shirt with white patches and light blue stripes to match with his fingerless gloves of the same color. Thick blue ribbons hang from behind his belt to mimic the tail of the legendary pokemon. 

To pair with Archie, Maxie wears a black sweater under a red tail coat that’s designed with similar black stripes and white spikes as Groudon. For extra attention to detail, Maxie’s black sweater has small, rib-shapped openings that reveal a bit of his skin down the sides of the upper-half of his torso in order to mimic the lava filled cracks of Groudon’s primal form.

“Of course there is!” Archie enthusaticlly responds to Maxie. “There’s a festival going on! I would be surprised if people weren’t here.”

“I don’t know about this anymore,” Maxie looks around at the crowd like a scared mouse. He stays close to Archie. Archie can feel the nervousness from his form.

“Hey,” Archie gently puts a hand on his shoulder to stop him. He pulls Maxie and himself to the side of the walkway—a nice open area to move away from the crowd of people coming and going. 

“You don’t need to be embarrassed. Everyone is here to have fun.” Archie rubs Maxie’s shoulder.

Maxie glances to the floor. He places his arms across his chest to bundle himself up. “But look at what I’m wearing…”

“Maxie,” Archie’s voice is soft with concern. He turns Maxie around towards the waves of people celebrating and holds his shoulders. “Look at everyone. They’re all wearing costumes too, some more extravagant than ours. It would be ‘strange’ if someone wasn’t wearing a costume. No one is going to give you a dirty look. And if they do, you better be sure that I’ll be there to defend you like no other,” Archie gives a reassuring shake to Maxie, then places his head on his partner’s shoulder.

The red-haired man shows a small smile for the first time since entering the festival. However, his smile quickly fades as his eyes dig deeper into the ground and his conflicting thoughts weigh on his mind. His silence says everything.

“Come on, Maxie,” Archie says. “Show me that smile again.” Archie nuzzles his beard into the side of Maxie’s neck. Maxie lets out a soft huff of laughter and scrunches his shoulders to his neck.

“Archiehehe,” Maxie softly giggles. “Stop it!” Maxie says a bit more stern, afraid that they may be drawing attention to themselves. A little squeak releases when Archie nuzzles into the back of his neck.

“I’m not stopping until you start relaxing,” Archie switches to Maxie’s second shoulder to nuzzle into the other side of his neck. 

“Ahaharchie, cut it out,” Maxie giggles and tries to shove at Archie’s chest. Archie then moves his hands down to Maxie’s ribs and wiggles his fingers precisely where the small exposed openings of his costume are. Maxie gasps and grabs Archie’s wrists.

He looks over his shoulder and glares at the taller man, “Don’t you even think about it.”

“Okay, I won’t think about it.” Archie grins. “I’ll do it instead.” The taller man digs his fingers into Maxie’s ribs. Maxie lets out a quiet yelp and begins to giggle again. 

“Archie!” Maxie attempts to scold before he’s overridden with more giggles. He leans forward as far as he can and slaps a hand to his mouth to quiet himself, but the giggles continue to pour and his hand returns to trying to tug Archie away. He wiggles around like a fish caught in a line and twists completely around, now facing in the opposite direction, with Archie twisting with him. Archie wraps an arm around Maxie like a hug and pulls him in closer when Maxie almost finds leeway to escape; Archie gives a good-natured chuckle at the attempt.

Maxie squirms about in Archie’s hold and shoves at his partner’s chest again.

“Yohohohou are in sohoho much trouble when we-hehehe get home!” Maxie attempts to scold him once more, although the intent of the scolding, even without the presence of his giggles, is meant to be lighthearted. He ends his sentence with a small squeak when Archie wiggles his fingers into his belly.

“Eh, I doubt it,” Archie grins over Maxie’s giggling shoulders. “I bet that you’ll thank me later.”

“Ohohohoh? Is thahahat what you think?” A smug tone appears to grow from Maxie’s laughter. “Well how’s thihihis for ‘thank you!’” Maxie whips around, finding an opening, and digs his hands into Archie’s exposed underarms. Archie lets out a bark of laughter and immediately releases Maxie to clamp his arms down to his sides.

“Mahahaxiehehehe!” Archie giggles, quite loudly, and tries to twist away like Maxie had previously. 

As Archie laughs, a few festival goers have smiles on their faces as they witness and walk past the scene. Maxie sees that he’s drawing attention to himself and immediately pulls his hands away from Archie. He clears his throat and straightens out his costume and his glasses, attempting to forget that he allowed himself a brief moment of play in a public setting.

A few leftover giggles trickle from Archie before he stands himself up straight. He walks closer behind Maxie and plops a hand on his shoulder. Maxie crosses his arms.

“Well, looks like you had some fun at the festival after all, huh?” he shows Maxie a grin and shakes his shoulder. Maxie scoffs and glances to the side.

Archie leans forward to get a better view of Maxie’s face. His tone shifts to one of compassion, “But seriously, Maxie, if you don’t want to stay, we can go.”

“No,” Maxie turns to look Archie in the eye, “I…I want to try and stay.”

“Are you sure? I don’t want to force you into something you’re not comfortable with.”

Maxie places a hand to Archie’s cheek. “I know. And I appreciate that,” Maxie shows a soft smile. He gives Archie a kiss. “But, you’re right. I shouldn’t be embarrassed. Granted, I am still a little weary and I’m not completely over that feeling of embarrassment, but it would be a shame to miss out on the festivities, and to miss out on spending time with you because of it.”

Archie smiles back at his husband. He basks for a moment in the picture of Maxie’s smile backlit by the warm glow of the festival lights.

“Then what are we waiting for?” Archie responds, “The festival awaits.”

The two walk side by side and join the crowd for the celebration. Although Maxie stays close to Archie for most of the time, it’s comforting for him to know that his legendary partner, the water to his fire, is with him during every tough battle to lend him a helping hand. 

[statementlou]

Hi it’s the Aussie exchange anon thanks for taking time to respond!! (Also no pressure to post this if you’re done with the conversation now!) So after thinking about it a bit more and like the other anon said with lots of our music festivals being cancelled lately I do think it’d be unlikely for 2025 since I assume he’d also want it during Summer, which is now, but maybe next Summer so jan-feb 2026 could be an option depending on financial feasibility? And although many festivals have been cancelled, I think it’s good to note that few have still sold really well when they have a good international lineup (which is another contributing factor for festival cancellations when the given lineup can’t justify the cost of a ticket). For example Laneway has sold out with artists like Charlie XCX, Clairo, Olivia Dean, etc. and recently Summersalt which is a more family friendly festival had Hozier as the headliner and completely sold out too which I think would not usually happen with Summersalt. So I would be curious to see how well AFHF would sell here since his tour did pretty well in each state he performed in (I think Sydney would have had at least 10k?) and I think a lot of people would fly to whatever state he’d choose to perform in, plus the people who would even travel overseas to see him here … I think he could end up having quite good ticket sales and that’s without consideration of other artists like DMAs that seem plausible he could have in the lineup or if he brought over another British act.

So I think my prediction and what I’ll be manifesting for is Europe for 2025 during the Northern Hemisphere Summer and then Summer in Australia 2026 🤞🤞🤞

a counterpoint to this!! well I have definitely seen speculation that he would have in *Australian* summer if it was there, so IF it was, end of 2025 rather than the middle would make sense, which could work nicely with album release too, or US or somewhere else this year and Aus end of 2026... tbh I wouldn't be surprised if THEY are still juggling these options around just like we are at this point, but whenever they figure it out they still won't tell us for ages, sighhh

[zot3-flopped]

hi eastern european here. i remember reading some time ago article about eras' european leg and they interviewed some polish swifties, who themselves were surprised that tickets are selling well, because swiftie polish community is so small they feel like it's only bunch of them.

they of course failed to consider the fact that swift hasn't played in that part of europe before, so that among sold tickets there is gonna be huge chunk of people from poland and countries near it, who are not swifties, but are interested simply because it's her first appearance there, you know in a very something new, circus came to town, gimmicky way. an event good for local celebs and influencers to go and take bunch of video, photos etc to post as a content.

what also plays into ticket sales is the fact that a lot of swifties travel to many eras concerts and from western european and american perspective poland is cheap. krakow is literally one of favourite locations for brits to have bachelor parties and act like assholes in public, pissing to fountains and such. also that original price of ticket $498 is hilarious when you know that polish minimum pay after taxes is about $818. most of swift's fans are zoomers, so unless parents are giving them money, i don't really see a lot of poor students going on such gig for just one artist, way better to attend some music festival with a lot of musicians.

there is also always this overestimation on how american artists will do in europe, because music business on european countires favours heavily their own artists, while american stars are exactly that gimmicky thing that shows up only once in a while, so why even bother too much with them. but americans just don't get that and try over and over to win non-english native europe not knowing why it isn't working.

but it's funny to read that prices in poland went down do much, because it means that those initial reports about sales going well were just pr bullshit.

Thanks for sharing this.

[fangirlfrom-hell]

Music Fest || Jay and Will Halstead x Halstead Sister

Warnings (that are not really warnings): language and dirty lyrics of a song, but nothing really bad. *I translated the song from one in Spanish 🤫

"No!", both Jay and Will said unison looking down to their little sister.

"But, like, why not?"

"You're still too young...those music festivals are always full of drunk people", Will said without even raising his head to look at her.

"...and I don't want to be all night stuck to the radio listening to every incident that happens in said event. You have no idea how wild they get", the detective completed.

Becca just rolled her eyes, her brothers were exaggerating everything, as usual.

"You don't have to, I'll go with my group of friends, won't be alone"

"Oh! you mean the same friends that leaved you alone that night in the middle of the street and you had to call me scared and crying to pick you up?" Will raised his brows, still mad at the memory.

"That was once and no, I'm not going with them. I'm going with my friends from acting class"

"Oh, well, that changes...nothing", he joked.

"In fact...", Jay intervened while pouring some coffee in his mug, "that only makes it worse"

"Oh, come on! I'll buy the ticket with my savings! You don't even have to give me money!"

Jay took one hand to rub his face, the same conversation had been repeated countless times during the week and he was getting tired of it "Stop wasting your energies! The answer will always be the same..."

"No!", both of her brother repeated with a stern but tired tone. She didn’t have a chance to win.

"Ugh! You never let me do anything fun!" The youngest Halstead said while slamming the door of her room, which put an end to the conversation.

Undazed, Will and Jay remained in the kitchen as if nothing had happened, they were already used to Becca’s teenage outbursts.

A few days passed and the girl was still mad at her brothers, she was already a grown up and was able to take care of herself, why wouldn’t they let her go? Life was unfair.

Becca was on her bed when a knock on the door interrupted her toughts, and knowing it was Jay, she laid her head down pretending to be asleep. She was upset and playing to be offended.

"I know you're awake", he said coming into the room.

"What?" The girl slowly raised her head, pretending she didn't know what he was talking about.

Her brother laughed, "Am I wasting my money in your classes? Because you are a terrible actress"

She rolled her eyes and sat on the bed, "What do you want, Jay Jay?”

He sighed before speaking up, hands on his hips “Do you still have the money for the ticket?”

Becca opened her big eyes wide and turned to face him, answering even before he could finish the question, “Yes! Why?”

“Ok. Here’s the deal, you can go, bu—” in an instance, she was hanging from his neck, “But I’m not giving you any money…”

She suddenly became suspicious, “Wait! Is this a trap?”

Jay strangely smirked, “No, is just…you were very excited…”

Becca was shouting out of happiness, jumping on her bed “Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!”

“I gotta work that day, so Will’s taking you there and picking you up at 10, not later!"

“Fine”

“No alcohol!” Jay pointed towards her with each pronounced word. “If I find out you drink a drop of alcohol, you’ll be grounded and locked inside the house for the rest of your life, you hear me?”

“I’ll get an underage ticket, they won’t even sell me anything even if I wanted to”

“Hmm”, he crossed his arms incredulous trying to read if his sister was just acting innocent or she was really naive. Whichever the answer was, didn’t help for the fact that he didn’t really wanted her to go.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, Jay Jay!" She hugged him one more time and he smiled.

Time passed by really slow since she got her ticket, excitment filled her body as the day approached. This was an important date, her very first music festival! She wanted it to be perfect in all ways. She wanted to look good, aesthetic and pretty. The chosen outfit was a skirt with red squares to her waist and fishnet tights with a translucid blouse; for her feet, her favorite platform black boots. She felt pretty that way, until she went out of her room and Will’s expresion lowered her bliss

“NO!” He said as soon as he saw her sideways, “Go change, you are not leaving the house like that!”

“Why not?”

“Are you really asking?”, her eldest brother crossed his arms. “Skirt’s too short and I can see through your blouse”

“Yea, and I have a bralett under, no big deal”

Her brother’s face started to match his red hair.

“I’ve used these clothes before right in front of you and you’ve never had any problem with it!”

“Yea, because you’re always out with us, your big brothers, one of them an ex-soldier and current cop who could kill with his sight, which means you are safe! But now you are going all alone to a freakin’ festival full of drunk and drugged people”

Becca couldn’t do anything but pull a face.

“Go find something else!”

“Fine!” She shouted with watery eyes.

“No one is going to ruin my day”, she muttered to herself while changing her clothes. “I can still look good and cool on jeans”

But Will only approved after she changed five different times.

“Much better”, he clapped when she finally came out with mom jeans and a oversized band t-shirt, which still made her look pretty, but not the type of pretty she expected.

“Let’s get out of here, please! I’m already running late”, she hurried with a gesture of annoyance.

Will leaved her where her friends were waiting, “10 PM I’ll be right here. One minute late and you’ll have to deal with Jay”, he threatened one last time before parting.

“Wow, you weren’t joking about your brothers”, a girl said as they all walked to the entrance.

“Yea, they have seen some shit at work, that’s why they are the way they are”, Becca aknowledged and felt a bit bad for the way she had reacted to all this festival matter, after all, they were only trying to take care of her.

When their tickets were checked, they crossed to line up to the filter, before they could actually get in.

“But, hey! There are no more brothers here! No parents either”, noticing Becca’s seriousness, a girl crossed her arm around her neck “We’ll have fun and they don’t even have to know about it, right?”

They all laughed, but a familiar gentile voice made Becca’s blood run cold, “Please, open your bag, young ladie”. Slowly and not wanting to, she raised her head to meet Burgess’ gaze. The police officer was smiling, mocking her for the surprised expression she made when she saw her.

“You are all good, Beccs”, she handed her pertenences back, “You can go in”.

But the girl was in a zombie mode, for another peculiar voice was heard at her back. She quickly turned to witness how Adam was checking her male friends’ pockets, “You can’t bring opened boxes of cigarretts in. Wait! You can’t even smoke, you’re underage. Give me that!”

In a moment, Ruzek’s eyes met the Halstead sister and he waved his hand to her, “Oh! Hey, Becky Beccs”

“Oh, fuck!” Becca couldn’t help to say outloud.

“This was the reason why they had let me come out of the sudden”, she was so into her toughts. “The place is full of Intelligece cops that would not take their eyes off of me. They must’ve been lacking personal and Sergeant Platt asked them to do extra hours, that had happened before. I should had known better, that’s why Jay said he would be working today”

Wait.

“Jay said he would be working that day meant that he is here, right here at the festival”

As they walked in, Becca couldn’t stop looking around to see if she spotted her brother. She was now feeling anxious, couldn’t even pay attention to the conversations her friends were having. Even when she couldn’t see Jay, she was sure he knew where she was.

Whenever she tried to forget about it and do something fun, she found another familiar faces: first it was Kevin, who approached her to fist bump and tell her where he would be all night if she happened to need something, “You’re the safest girl in this place”, he winked. Then, she witnessed how he pointed at her while talking to her fellow cops, as giving instructions; later, she ran into Sergeant Platt, or better said Trudy yelled her name loudly, and decided to take a picture with the girl; the only detective that gave her space was Hailey, who smiled at her from the distance when they saw each other, altough maybe it was only because she was busy scolding a drunk girl to the ambulance.

It was already night and Becca had barely enjoyed her time at the festival. She regretted that. When you wait for something with such anticipation and excitement, it is very easy to get dissapponted when something doesn’t go as planned, even if it’s a small thing. She was feeling a bit sad, but at the same time she was invaded by a feeling of freedom when she saw her friends dancing and singing loud under the moon. One of them stretched her hand inviting her to dance…

You’ve got such a good view when you put me on all fours

And Becca decided she could enjoyed the rest of the night by pretending she wasn’t the sister of her brother, ignoring the cops around.

If my dad finds out about this he’ll kill you

As she started to have fun, the music sounded louder in her ears…

Check out my trick, be careful

And she forgot about everything and everyone around her, it was just her an her friends. Soon, she was among them dancing and singing her lungs out.

An amazing bitch, curvy and eloquent

Her eyes were closed as she was guided by the beat.

Magnificently colossal

And when she finally was having fun, she opened her eyes.

Extravagant and animal

And Jay was right next to the crowd staring at her with eyes like saucers. He was visibly mad by the way she was moving and the election of song. He was slightly saying no with his head, his lips as tight as his crossed arms. She freezed, couldn’t even blink, but anyway raised her hand to say hello in an akward way. She noticed how Hailey was draggin him by the arm trying to take him out of there. Needless to say she couldn’t keep dancing.

Becca was outside before 10:00 PM, what she wanted the most was to get out of there before Jay would reach her. That scene was on the top 3 of her most embarrassing moments of her life.

Will arrived punctually, “How was it?” He asked, laughing while starting the car, of course he already knew the answer.

“Oh, it was so much fun”, she said from the back seat, frowning to the window.

[underneathitalldeepdives]

“The TIWTTFL tour had problems with promotion, badly selected cities etc. I believe that if they took different approach this time, Bouquet minitour would be a success.” I agree about the Truth tour. There were strange cities/venues and dates selected. I remember there being some gross Perez Hilton tweets or stories about her not having a full show but it was a midweek Tuesday or Wednesday show in some random amphitheater venue. They may have been limited on locations and dates by her deciding to tour that album without a lot of notice. That album came together quickly and there was just generally a lot going on in her personal and professional life at that time so not sure when they were actually able to book dates and venues.

I do think she would be fine doing a well promoted tour of major cities now. But I don’t really have faith at this point that it would be properly planned or supported. Even when SE showed some life at radio, there was no additional promotion or acknowledgement of it. She seems to not expect much of a response and is almost apologetic about releasing new music. Not sure how much of that is a reflection of the label’s support (or lack of it). It seems like everyone involved is satisfied with her just mostly doing festivals or corporate shows with guaranteed big paychecks. It sucks as a fan who thinks Bouquet is worth hearing and knows she’s still a great live performer, but I have to remind myself to lower expectations just based on where she is in life and what her priorities are.

A lot of artists have had trouble selling well for tours in the last couple years. Much of that seems to be due to high ticket prices, and some artists have had to cancel or downsize the venue spaces. So I think picking the right markets and the size of the venues would be the first key, as well as having decent ticket pricing, but I don't know where the line is for affordability versus making a profit, and I agree that I don't really trust she has a team behind her who would even know how to make it work or have the motivation to try.