This year was his first appearance at Glastonbury since 2004
Glastonbury 2011
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This year was his first appearance at Glastonbury since 2004
hammerntongues
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I enjoyed ruckus at Babylon Uprising playing some silly and fun dubstep, Shpongle DJ set ... and just being there
that little tent was excellent , hard to walk by without stopping for an hour .
andy2002
To the Bat-poles!
laughing at you now. So now its 'years and years' not 20 years
So you think its only 3?
Get yourself googling and try again.
Six in 20 years (out of 60 acts) - but I think my point more than stands up, especially as there weren't any black headliners at all between Skunk Anansie (who had two black members) in 1999 and Jay-Z in 2008.
Utopia
"Jackanackanory"
Great pics, just as I was getting bored about the headliners 'debate', this is more like the stuff that makes Glasonbury like nothing else in the world!
mr steev
magic thought wizard
So what? It's supposed to be about the music, not the colour of the performer. I'd say the Jazz stage has had a lot more non-white performers than white over the years... is that a problem?
Jay-Z and Beyonce both play a certain style of music which many people think doesn't fit the Glastonbury vibe. It's nothing to do with their colour. If they started putting on loads of metal acts there would be the same complaints... about the music not the colour of peoples skin
Have you ever been to Glastonbury btw?
Utopia
"Jackanackanory"
SO Andy, which 'black' artist/s would YOU have had headlining Glastonbury since 1991 just out of interest????
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Once more: No one expects .... the Urban Offenderati!!1!
chemn
shmemn
Yeah - Ruckus kicked the arse of all the dubstep DJ's on the big stages, though I realised after an hour and a half that I was in front of one of the stacks and my hearing was beginning to suffer - and I was going to be needing that for my shift which was due to start in 6 hours!
fakeplasticgirl
Keirleader
wish i'd been there 
xes
F.O.A.D
To be fair, all of the destinys child stuff she "played" was kareokee style. It was to a backing track, with the singing of DC in the background with her singing over it. That's shit for a live act. She did rock it, from what I saw,(on the beeb) but at least some of it was to a backing track.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
I think it's the future for BBC Glastonbury - the pyramid stage will have to headline three distinct demographics on the three nights (in various shades of 'light entertainment'), and (most) of the rest of the site can carry on as per usual.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Give me a break - I've just provisionally accepted light entertainment on the main stage is prob an inevitable concession. Thoughts evolve, etc.
Utopia
"Jackanackanory"
My memory may be slightly rose tinted but the BBC coverage did used to be lot edgier didn't it? Phil Jupitus, Keith Allen, John Peel would all be quite critical of the under performing band and a lot of the time they would focus on the more obscure areas of the festival, the headline acts always seemed to have less of the focus....whereas lately it seems that the big acts are ALL they care about on the telly!
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
Aye, and this is really what I was trying to say to gabi earlier.
I just think its regretably part of the times - capitalism and commercialism has invaded everything really - the type of festival go-er and what they expect out of a festival has changed over the years. The music industry and especially how/what young people consume musically has changed too.
As someone who's Glasto going was the early 90s, it seems all very glossy and insipid at times nowadays, but it's still clearly got a lot to offer across all its stages.
That change isn't new though. Whilst I loved the early 90s Glasto, my mate used to go to Glasto in the late 80s and he stopped going because he felt that it had started heading down a direction in the 90s he didn't like (amongst other things - commercialisation of music/the whole Britpop thing, travellers finding themselves not welcome, etc).
I just think its regretably part of the times - capitalism and commercialism has invaded everything really - the type of festival go-er and what they expect out of a festival has changed over the years. The music industry and especially how/what young people consume musically has changed too.
As someone who's Glasto going was the early 90s, it seems all very glossy and insipid at times nowadays, but it's still clearly got a lot to offer across all its stages.
That change isn't new though. Whilst I loved the early 90s Glasto, my mate used to go to Glasto in the late 80s and he stopped going because he felt that it had started heading down a direction in the 90s he didn't like (amongst other things - commercialisation of music/the whole Britpop thing, travellers finding themselves not welcome, etc).
Utopia
"Jackanackanory"
I'll upload more later, but here's one for starters.
You can buy this one as a print from www.witnessimages.com (Ed, hope it's ok to mention that just this once).
You can buy this one as a print from www.witnessimages.com (Ed, hope it's ok to mention that just this once).
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
he's a prize penis.
ska invita
back on the other side
didnt Shirley Bassey and Rod Stewart headline in recent years? or have i dreamt that?
This.
