did i read that leonard cohen was playing this year?
tempting.
jesus i know...i almost did a sex wee when i read that.
Glastonbury 2008
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jesus i know...i almost did a sex wee when i read that.
vast
and , imo, counterproductive. I'd personally prefer the views of the anti's to take hold amongst the populace at large. I'd like it to be thought of as a seething mass of commercialisation, sold out long ago, with the filthiest toilets, the muddiest swamps and the drunkenest middleclass wannabe minority of minorities on the planet. Unfit, in other words, for anyone to aspire to go to, whether they be young and trendy, old and grouchy or of the been there, done that, washed the car with the tshirt variety. I want a mass movement to protest about the wastage of license-payers money in broadcasting hours of bands and vacuous dj's. I want people who understand this stuff to whinge mightily about how appalling the line-up is, and how no-one could possibly imagine being in the same field as any of the headliners. I want a tide of complaint, led by those whose criticisms are informed by personal experience and by those who know only what they read on teletext, about the corruption of the youth of the nation, both from the perspective of the Daily Mail (bring back National Service) and from Class War (tear down the fence). I want Eavis reviled as a self serving capitalist pig, his daughter laughed at in gossip columns and all the corporate organisations involved exposed for the arms dealers and exploiters they so obviously are. I want to see ever greater detail about the mass of Health & Safety Nazi regulations and patronising nannying. I'd like to see every organisational problem exposed as a symbol of absolute failure to live up to the dream. I want every weather forecast to show the end of June to be wet & miserable. Most of all I want everybody to chorus that it ain't like it used to be and there's no point in going.
with not a single voice, anywhere, to support the festival in any way at all.
then maybe they'll all bugger off and leave us to have our festival in peace.
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I’ve never been particularly interested in the Pyramid Stage headliners and haven’t seen a single one since the Chemical Brothers played in 2000. But nevertheless I’ve always supported the idea of not announcing the line up until after the tickets have been sold so that you don’t get a massive increase in numbers of people who are only interested in coming along to see one or two acts.
But seeing as the Eavis’s have broken with tradition by announcing all 3 headliners so early - and the cynical among us would say that this is a panic response to a 40%-50% reduction in registrations during the first week – does anybody actually think that any of the headliners will be a major draw to people who wouldn’t otherwise have considered coming to the festival in the same way as Radiohead, Oasis, Roger Waters etc have been in the recent past? I just can’t see the festival being flooded with hundreds of Jay Z fans & I think it’s far more likely that a lot of people will just view him as being a bit of a curiosity rather than the primary reason for attending.
There certainly hasn’t been any noticeable surge in registrations since the announcement. From a personal perspective the 3 acts that have been announced don’t float my boat any more or less than the majority that have gone before them but I just really can’t see this as being a particularly clever move as it could potentially alienate a lot more people who are line-up whores than it actually attracts. On the other hand if I was going this year I’d probably view this as a good thing because you’ll get a higher percentage of people wanting to be there despite the line up rather than because of it.
Damn it I might just end up going after all if that were the case…
But seeing as the Eavis’s have broken with tradition by announcing all 3 headliners so early - and the cynical among us would say that this is a panic response to a 40%-50% reduction in registrations during the first week – does anybody actually think that any of the headliners will be a major draw to people who wouldn’t otherwise have considered coming to the festival in the same way as Radiohead, Oasis, Roger Waters etc have been in the recent past? I just can’t see the festival being flooded with hundreds of Jay Z fans & I think it’s far more likely that a lot of people will just view him as being a bit of a curiosity rather than the primary reason for attending.
There certainly hasn’t been any noticeable surge in registrations since the announcement. From a personal perspective the 3 acts that have been announced don’t float my boat any more or less than the majority that have gone before them but I just really can’t see this as being a particularly clever move as it could potentially alienate a lot more people who are line-up whores than it actually attracts. On the other hand if I was going this year I’d probably view this as a good thing because you’ll get a higher percentage of people wanting to be there despite the line up rather than because of it.
Damn it I might just end up going after all if that were the case…
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
I know this has already been quoted enough but that is fairly close to the way i've felt about it for a while. Since it was on the telly really.
I think for me it's the media attitude to, and representation of the festival that grates most.
Doesn't stop me going.
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
oooh page 30.
hmmm
hmmm
I can't say I've ever gone to Pilton to watch a band.
Sinead and Tom Jones were the two best performances I ever saw on the main stage though and Misty in Roots on the second stage (in the old Sunday night, reggae slot)
Where's this years line up viewable anyway? Just out of curiosity.
I’ve never been particularly interested in the Pyramid Stage headliners and haven’t seen a single one since the Chemical Brothers played in 2000. But nevertheless I’ve always supported the idea of not announcing the line up until after the tickets have been sold so that you don’t get a massive increase in numbers of people who are only interested in coming along to see one or two acts.
But seeing as the Eavis’s have broken with tradition by announcing all 3 headliners so early - and the cynical among us would say that this is a panic response to a 40%-50% reduction in registrations during the first week – does anybody actually think that any of the headliners will be a major draw to people who wouldn’t otherwise have considered coming to the festival in the same way as Radiohead, Oasis, Roger Waters etc have been in the recent past? I just can’t see the festival being flooded with hundreds of Jay Z fans & I think it’s far more likely that a lot of people will just view him as being a bit of a curiosity rather than the primary reason for attending.
There certainly hasn’t been any noticeable surge in registrations since the announcement. From a personal perspective the 3 acts that have been announced don’t float my boat any more or less than the majority that have gone before them but I just really can’t see this as being a particularly clever move as it could potentially alienate a lot more people who are line-up whores than it actually attracts. On the other hand if I was going this year I’d probably view this as a good thing because you’ll get a higher percentage of people wanting to be there despite the line up rather than because of it.
Damn it I might just end up going after all if that were the case…
I could understand and in part agree with all these arguments, if the premise of them was correct, that the Eavises had deliberately announced them early because of fear of poor ticket registrations and sales. There's likely to be a fair bit in that, Michael has every year since heaven knows when 1970?
been ultra panicky and paranoid about ticket sales.But there's also a chance that you're ignoring another major factor -- the possibility that the highly early announcements just might be because the names were leaked. Or were just about to be.
You know how it is, these big acts have such a load of management, entourage, off message press officers, 'sources close to the band', 'friends of the band', their own members blabbermouthing, etc etc etc .... but then again, Worthy Farm has always been a leak factory in itself ....
So who knows .... either possibility or a combination, is surely worth a thought anyway.
Who the fucks Jay z?
fred z's brother
Who the fucks Jay z?
I was wondering that ...
The I 'checked out the tunes' and got 'with it' about him ....
lies through teeth ...
Thank the Lord!!!
Headliners are sub relevant anyway. To the whole 'Glasto' thing about 'vibe', man ...
Headliners are sub relevant anyway. To the whole 'Glasto' thing about 'vibe', man ...
Hollis
bloody furious
This looks more fun:
Porthcawl Elvis Festival 2008
Following the success of the last four years, and claiming to be Europe's biggest gathering of Elvis artistes and their fans, this event offers 3 days of fun and music all over the normally sleepy seaside town of Porthcawl, roughly halfway between Cardiff and Newport.
The programme is likely to include an official Festival Launch on Friday with a champagne reception and the chance to meet the artists and celebrities, plus an Elvis Disco Party until around 1am.
Saturday is expected to include the Best Festival Elvis Competition and an award show for Elvis Tribute Artists followed by an Elvis Disco Party into the early hours. On Sunday, the Chat Show, Up Close and Personal, with Elvis celebrities, might be repeated. Other events take place across the afternoon and into the evening culminating in an Elvis-themed party.
A VIP ticket package (around £95) is available with admission to all official shows, reserved, prime floorshow seats, T-Shirt, entry to the Pavilion VIP Bar and invitations to aftershow parties on all three nights.
Porthcawl Elvis Festival 2008
Following the success of the last four years, and claiming to be Europe's biggest gathering of Elvis artistes and their fans, this event offers 3 days of fun and music all over the normally sleepy seaside town of Porthcawl, roughly halfway between Cardiff and Newport.
The programme is likely to include an official Festival Launch on Friday with a champagne reception and the chance to meet the artists and celebrities, plus an Elvis Disco Party until around 1am.
Saturday is expected to include the Best Festival Elvis Competition and an award show for Elvis Tribute Artists followed by an Elvis Disco Party into the early hours. On Sunday, the Chat Show, Up Close and Personal, with Elvis celebrities, might be repeated. Other events take place across the afternoon and into the evening culminating in an Elvis-themed party.
A VIP ticket package (around £95) is available with admission to all official shows, reserved, prime floorshow seats, T-Shirt, entry to the Pavilion VIP Bar and invitations to aftershow parties on all three nights.
This looks more fun:
Porthcawl Elvis Festival 2008
Following the success of the last four years, and claiming to be Europe's biggest gathering of Elvis artistes and their fans, this event offers 3 days of fun and music all over the normally sleepy seaside town of Porthcawl, roughly halfway between Cardiff and Newport.
The programme is likely to include an official Festival Launch on Friday with a champagne reception and the chance to meet the artists and celebrities, plus an Elvis Disco Party until around 1am.
Saturday is expected to include the Best Festival Elvis Competition and an award show for Elvis Tribute Artists followed by an Elvis Disco Party into the early hours. On Sunday, the Chat Show, Up Close and Personal, with Elvis celebrities, might be repeated. Other events take place across the afternoon and into the evening culminating in an Elvis-themed party.
A VIP ticket package (around £95) is available with admission to all official shows, reserved, prime floorshow seats, T-Shirt, entry to the Pavilion VIP Bar and invitations to aftershow parties on all three nights.
It's not as good as it used to be.
Not exactly Macca is it..
To be fair he is a massive name in the Hip hop / rnb scene. His Blueprint album reguarly appears on lists of greatest ever hip hop albums etc.
He's certainly not your normal glasto act but I suspect he will put on a great show. That being said I wouldent traipse across a mile and half of Worthy Farm quickmud to see him.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Is that bet on?It will be sooooo muddy you won't get on site.
Two pints are at stake!!!
david dissadent
New Member
Every time I wobble I think of how the crowds were for the big gigs. Amoungst the flattest Ive ever seen. Then I wonder just how many are going to go who will be at the small little stages and figure...... I can use the time off in other ways.
I'm wobbling! I even told the bloke whose stag weekend I'm supposed to be going on that I probably won't make it as it clashes with Glastonbury.
You'll be happy whichever side of the decision you fall ....
... but just maybe, if you end up missing a classic, you'll end up all discombobulated ...
David Dissadent, you're not going then? Way to miss a non-mudbath that!!!
Not my neck of the woods as such but Deb's well into rock and roll, so you never know actually
but Deb's well into rock and roll, so you never know actually
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Massive Attack seem very likely to be headlining the Other Stage on the Saturday .... Emily Eavis has more or less confirmed it -- YAY.
>Massive Attack seem very likely to be headlining the Other Stage on the Saturday .... Emily Eavis has more or less confirmed it -- YAY.
