NILE RODGERS WINS KENDAL CALLING

Nile Rodgers and CHIC were the highlight of Kendal Calling, according to new research from Ibis Hotels.

NILE RODGERS WINS KENDAL CALLING

The hotel chain analysed Twitter conversation throughout the weekend, and found that 95.6% of tweets shared about Nile Rodgers were positive, making him the most popular headliner of the weekend.

Here are the top 5 most popular performances of the weekend:

1) Nile Rodgers and CHIC – 95.6% positive

2) Doves – 92.7% positive

3) Courteeners – 91.6% positive

4) Manic Street Preachers – 89% positive

5) Idles – 81.4% positive

TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB WINS Y NOT

As well as Kendal Calling, Ibis looked at Y Not Festival, which also took place over this weekend, with Two Door Cinema Club coming out on top as Twitter’s favourite performance of the weekend, with 96.6% positive tweets.

Here are the top 5 most popular performances from Y Not Festival:

1) Two Door Cinema Club – 96.6% positive

2) Franz Ferdinand – 96% positive

3) Elbow – 94.3% positive

4) Wolf Alice – 78.6% positive

5) You Me At Six – 75% positive

In the run-up to the festival, Ibis Hotels looked at 20 of the UK’s most popular festivals, analysing conversation surrounding their line-ups over the past 10 years, to find out the UK’s favourite festivals. You can see the full set of research over on the Ibis website – https://ibis.accorhotels.com/gb/editorial/article/the-uks-most-talked-about-music-festival-line-ups-3-v2352.shtml 

We’ve named Bluedot festival as quite possibly the Festival of the Year 2019 – but do you agree? With extensive coverage of the event live from the festival site at Jodrell Bank, celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing and an out-of-this-world line-up, it will be hard pushed to be knocked from the top spot! But like our like the list above – what would make a top 5 for things to see? Maybe if we extend that to include the million things going on over the long weekend, a top 10? Click here to read more: https://thejournalix.com/tag/bluedot/