The festival is only 132 days away – and more importantly – it’s not like we haven’t organised a festival before, so you’d think we could easily share all the Left of the Dial 2025 venues with you by now.
But we can’t.
As it stands, there will be a total of 25 stages – that’s three more than last year. We’ve swapped some of the smaller venues for larger capacity rooms, which will hopefully lead to less queueing.
We specifically wanted to find more venues that are more accessible for our friends who use wheelchairs – and it’s quite embarrassing to say, but that turned out to be far more difficult than we initially expected. Apparently, being accessible AND having a licence for live music is a rare combination in Rotterdam.
We’ll update the venue overview on our website as soon as we can, but here are the first changes:
Last year, we used two rooms in TR8, but one of them was way too small. So we’re moving to Theatre Rotterdam, where we’ll be using the small room – though despite the name, it’s considerably larger than TR8. And it’s also fully accessible for wheelchair users.
We won’t be using Sahara (with the extremely steep steps) either. Instead, we’re moving next door to Annabel, where we’ll be using two rooms – though unfortunately only one will be wheelchair accessible.
Finally, we’re still waiting for confirmation on three other brand-new venues, but we don’t want to jinx anything by revealing them prematurely. So more on that later.
We know some of you are perfectly capable of walking, but simply hate strolling more than ten minutes – and believe us:
If we could find 25 venues on the same street, with great sound, ample space, full accessibility and cheap beer, we absolutely would. But since we don’t live in a perfect world, we’ve got to make do with what we’re given. (And what we’re given is still pretty cool, we think!)
Big love,
The comfy shoes wearers of Left of the Dial
