Am fairly sure it's deliberately timed to split the crowd. I suspect the deaths at Love Parade and Roskilde weigh heavily on their minds.
Glastonbury 2011
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Am fairly sure it's deliberately timed to split the crowd. I suspect the deaths at Love Parade and Roskilde weigh heavily on their minds.
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
This has been my experience also (in prev years) the slow pigeon step down the railway track was long enough to dissuade me from attemtping it again any time before 4am ish
Pigeon step? Is that like bro-step.......
yeah but that's when it gets busy... everyone heads down there after main stages shut. so if you get there before your sorted init
Yeah. Go early, or very late. I barely leave these days. A festival in itself.
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
....but coo-ler
She's personally booked both Jay-Z and fucking Beyonce to headline, as well as bringing in the VIP section, at 10k a head (including your own butler). Backstage access used to be based on merit, now if you've got enough dosh, you're in. These are her initiatives.
Just shit.
The first year I went Bowie was the headliner - who talked him into playing it? Michael Eavis.
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
It certainly seems easy to see EE as the person responsible for the fail direction the place seems to be heading in.
I remember that year they sold fuck all tickets (and the first year she took full charge of it iirc?) - Of all the epic fails a promoter/organiser could do, not selling out Glastonbury must be up there with the best of them!
I remember that year they sold fuck all tickets (and the first year she took full charge of it iirc?) - Of all the epic fails a promoter/organiser could do, not selling out Glastonbury must be up there with the best of them!
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
I'm sure they had tickets on the gate - Either way considering the frantic 3 hour long rush for tickets every on-sale day of years before and after, it's some achievement.
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
My point is though, would anyone else do much different these days?
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
I'm becoming a LLETSA miserabilist 
Eh? The VIP area where the Tory died was £10k a head and was most definitely onsite. It's just behind the pyramid stage.
smmudge
i know the smudge is true
Yeah the 7K 'Camp Kerala' is offsite and not run by Eavis, but there are other areas on the site that you can get in easy if you have lots of money to piss away. There's also that hospitality camping on the North East of the site now, near where the cinema used to be...isn't that another VIP area?
binka
!!!!!!!!!
just got back. had a pretty good time but the mud and then unbearable heat on sunday definitely spoiled it for me. got blisters all over both my feet from the wellies, im burnt all over my neck, face and hands despite putting suncream on constantly.
highlights for me were eels, bb king, arcadia show, a couple of the comedians in the cabaret tent, some good stuff on the sensation stage near the cabaret tent
lowlights for me were:
some dick from drop the debt not leaving me alone despite me very obviously looking for some shelter from the sun and telling him i wasnt at all interested.
having radiohead and pulp at the park. what the fuck is the point in that? i went to see radiohead and it seemed like everyone else had the same idea. it was massively overcrowded. dangerously overcrowded in fact, with it being on a muddy slope im surprised no on was crushed to death and im not exaggerating either. im 6 foot 5 and i felt very uncomfortable, couldn't see anything and left after 1 song. i didnt even bother trying to see pulp.
whose idea is it to have massive bands at the park? everyone knew well in advance who the special guests were so why not put them on a proper stage? that was probably the thing that annoyed me the most.
attila the stockbroker - was taking shelter from the sun and thought i may as well see him since he is always on the bill but ive never watched. he was absolutely dreadful. some bloke reciting 30 year old poems which probably werent very good even when they were relevent. i gather he's supposed to be about performance poetry tackling social injustice. he did one about the iraq war. why? why not write something new about libya or the current government. he came across to me as someone who apparently makes a living doing this but makes no effort to keep his material contemporary and relevant.
robin ince doing standup comedy. seen him on the telly before and wasn't impressed but thought i'd give him another go. he wasn't very good. i spent a lot of time in the cabaret tent seeking shelter and he was the only act i heard get heckled 'youre shit' and deservedly so. what his act is basically is lots of quick references to darwin and chomsky and schroedinger just to make sure the audience is aware he is a very clever man but unfortunately he faild to put anything funny in.
on the plus side it took me 5 hours to get home which is pretty good really
highlights for me were eels, bb king, arcadia show, a couple of the comedians in the cabaret tent, some good stuff on the sensation stage near the cabaret tent
lowlights for me were:
some dick from drop the debt not leaving me alone despite me very obviously looking for some shelter from the sun and telling him i wasnt at all interested.
having radiohead and pulp at the park. what the fuck is the point in that? i went to see radiohead and it seemed like everyone else had the same idea. it was massively overcrowded. dangerously overcrowded in fact, with it being on a muddy slope im surprised no on was crushed to death and im not exaggerating either. im 6 foot 5 and i felt very uncomfortable, couldn't see anything and left after 1 song. i didnt even bother trying to see pulp.
whose idea is it to have massive bands at the park? everyone knew well in advance who the special guests were so why not put them on a proper stage? that was probably the thing that annoyed me the most.
attila the stockbroker - was taking shelter from the sun and thought i may as well see him since he is always on the bill but ive never watched. he was absolutely dreadful. some bloke reciting 30 year old poems which probably werent very good even when they were relevent. i gather he's supposed to be about performance poetry tackling social injustice. he did one about the iraq war. why? why not write something new about libya or the current government. he came across to me as someone who apparently makes a living doing this but makes no effort to keep his material contemporary and relevant.
robin ince doing standup comedy. seen him on the telly before and wasn't impressed but thought i'd give him another go. he wasn't very good. i spent a lot of time in the cabaret tent seeking shelter and he was the only act i heard get heckled 'youre shit' and deservedly so. what his act is basically is lots of quick references to darwin and chomsky and schroedinger just to make sure the audience is aware he is a very clever man but unfortunately he faild to put anything funny in.
on the plus side it took me 5 hours to get home which is pretty good really
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
yes they did. iirc they dropped the price too on the friday, could be wrong though
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
That would be awesome...... arcadia is a sight to behold.
Mapped
London town
Arcadia was absolutely amazing. I was down there till the bitter end this morning dancing to d'n'b at the base of the spider. I think I might have spotted Paolo999 snapping all the crew dancing on the spider at the end.
I lost my camera in the stone circle
I think I had some good pics on that as well as it being a £350 job. I need lots and lots of sleep now
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
That's the interstage area, so if you've bought a hospitality pass then you'll be able to get into it, but 99% of the people there are either working or on free hospitality tickets. There's no way on earth that's just an area for 'VIPs'. They let me into it after all
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
Nah, he was found in one of the posh toilets by the press tent in interstage.
madamv
Oi! With the poodle already
Well, despite the mud we had a fab time. Last one for me though. I took our 8 yr old and we didnt see even a quarter of that we usually do because in the mud the sheer expanse of the site made it too much for her to be traipsing all over. So I missed loads, but we always used to miss loads.....
I loved The Low Anthem. I didnt think Don Mclean was ever going to stop singing American Pie chorus, The Pulp 'secret' gig was great to listen to.. I didnt bother trying to see... But I agree that its bloody ridiculous to have the biggest acts as a 'special guest' when they could have played a bigger stage.
Did catch some fun Bhangra band, BB King, Metronomy, Jessie J (for my girli), Plan B, Pendulum and Bouncy... The crowds really put me off though.
The mud was nothing like 05 or 07, but still disabled the site enough to prevent play for me. I have some fond memories though
Sorry I didnt find you mysterygirl, totally forgot after Thursday!!! And Adam was ace thanks Strumpet!!!!
I loved The Low Anthem. I didnt think Don Mclean was ever going to stop singing American Pie chorus,
The Pulp 'secret' gig was great to listen to.. I didnt bother trying to see... But I agree that its bloody ridiculous to have the biggest acts as a 'special guest' when they could have played a bigger stage. Did catch some fun Bhangra band, BB King, Metronomy, Jessie J (for my girli), Plan B, Pendulum and Bouncy... The crowds really put me off though.
The mud was nothing like 05 or 07, but still disabled the site enough to prevent play for me. I have some fond memories though
Sorry I didnt find you mysterygirl, totally forgot after Thursday!!! And Adam was ace thanks Strumpet!!!!
Gromit
International Man of Misery
I got there 3/4 of an hour early and weaved my way into the centre. It was rammed.
You couldn't move and despite being tall i couldn't see the stage. Can't see, Can't dance. Might as well just play the album at home I thought.
So we turned around and headed to Badly Drawn Boy instead (Who was in good form). Against the flow of what seemed to be the whole of Glasto heading to the secret star gig cause they knew who it was. So god knows how rammed it was when they started.
So I agree. Complete and utter stupidity having them in the park.
strung out
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had an ace time, but absolutely shattered now. the mud coupled with the work i was doing knackered me out quite a bit, particularly as my joints are fucked enough already.
highlight was dr meaker in arcadia on the friday night. brilliant stuff
highlight was dr meaker in arcadia on the friday night. brilliant stuff
Mapped
London town
I quite enjoyed having radiohead in the park, but that was 100% selfish as I was doing a shift on top of the ribbon tower at the time. We had to shut the tower due to crowding, so it was just me and a mate up there for the gig. The guys at the bottom did let one couple up for the encore so he could propose to her, that was very sweet when she said yes.
That shift on fri was brill, radiohead followed by caribou cancelled out the wind and rain up there.
That shift on fri was brill, radiohead followed by caribou cancelled out the wind and rain up there.
andy2002
To the Bat-poles!
How terrible that two black headline acts in the last umpteen years have interfered with Glasto's diet of tedious white dad rock.
Mapped
London town
Did anyone go to QOTSA last night? They were absolutely rocking and the crowd were very up for it. I was up the front and i've never heard the other stage sound so good or as loud.
I thought the sound guys did a great job overall this year. The only place I can remember dodgy sound was the John Peel stage for Battles when I could only hear drums for most of it.
I thought the sound guys did a great job overall this year. The only place I can remember dodgy sound was the John Peel stage for Battles when I could only hear drums for most of it.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
I think people also need to consider the creeping influence of the BBC.
Atm, Glastonbury is heading towards being the biggest peaktime 'light entertainment' show in the world, and the BBC love it tis way - not least as it provides the annual beano for hundreds and hundreds of staff.
Couple more years it'll be a middle class 'national treasure'. Like Wimbledon, the BBC will have a roof on the place the minute it looks like interfering with their schedule < slightly in jest.
Atm, Glastonbury is heading towards being the biggest peaktime 'light entertainment' show in the world, and the BBC love it tis way - not least as it provides the annual beano for hundreds and hundreds of staff.
Couple more years it'll be a middle class 'national treasure'. Like Wimbledon, the BBC will have a roof on the place the minute it looks like interfering with their schedule < slightly in jest.
