Wishbone Ash are not playing.

I don't understand a word of Pissboy's post.

Aside from Orbital I mean. IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MUSIC, I'm told.

What's the glade stage like? Tayo and Freq Nasty and Stanton Warriors are playing there and Orbital DJ set on Friday. Did I miss Fatboy Slims name, I was sure he was playing,

Anyway we will all be covered in piss at Glasto and any moral high ground will be lost altogether.

Ah well, that's another £100 saved then.

Also the prospect of Rod Stewart is pretty frightening.

When I was 14 in France a few years ago the only tape in the car was Rod's greatest hits. Let me tell you I know them all.

no, any moral high ground will be caked to our faces/hair/clothes, just like all the rest of the ground, har har!

I would love to see Rod Stewart, Isaac Hayes and Belle and Sebastian all on the same day. It is my idea of paradise.

i heard that B&S and isaac hayes are on at the same time. this is bad news.

Big John Shaft vs Theme from Shaft at the same time! Kids explode...

I share your pain. however, for me a large part of the fun of B&S gigs is meeting internet B&S friends. I don't feel quite the same sense of fellowship with Isaac Hayes fans.

Mark S = OTM btw.

is the funnel and bottle combo necessary? are there secluded natural environments where a lady might modestly relieve herself? what is toilet etiquette at festivals?

also, will i be told off for throwing bottle o wee at bands wot displease me?

Never trust a hippy, as a wise young man once told me.

also, don't lock your tent or villains will think it is full of stuff they might want to nick, which will lead them to steal the whole tent. I know because I was that soldier.

does anyone know what Glasto is like for violent crime - you know, people being mugged or assaulted? I've never heard of it happening and have always found the atmosphere non-threatening, but some other festivals seem to get loads of it.

and I thought I liked you jel (apart from the Poison fixation)

apart from that tell them I quite like them

it's at the Brothers Bar in the Jazzworld Stage area, at 7.30pm.

this is a joint Sinister/Bowlie/ILx/internetmentalistsunited meetup, so be prepared for some fighting.

I don't know how we'll recognise each other. That's Carsmile's problem.

can't we just have calling signs like spies? If someone says to me:

"Do you have a light?"

I will reply "I'm sorry, I used up all mine when I finished my gitanes"

and you will say "Ah, gitanes, that reminds me of France. Lyons is lovely at this time of year".

and then we will know we are both from ILx.

I have the vague idea that the toilets are actually worse for boys than girls. I know we can piss standing up, but girls are more used to dealing with toilets you really don't want to sit on.

People arriving Friday - arrange another meetup for us.

Anna I cannot pitch a tent either and have to look pouty / stomp my foot / cry / shout until someone helps me.

Sarah it looks like either we will be sleeping a bit closer to the stars than I had intended or we will have to use our feminine wiles and pull a couple of crusties.

This sentence disturbed me to no end, but judicious editing can make it worse:

[...] we will have to use our feminine [...] crusties.

You do it to yourself, you do
And that's what really hurts...

(This is rather creepy, I am talking to Emma in the style of Emma.)

(I can hear demented cackling coming all over Oxford Street)

Ronan it's CEREAL not SERIAL.

[sneaks off to be quietly sick in the corner]

I'm going down (or up, is glastonbury up) on Wednesday so I'm trying to get stuff sorted out with a 9-5 working for the man next week.

FAP - I don't think I can make tonight or tomorrow really. What time are we setting off on Thursday again?

It better not be about the music.

And Coldplay deserve a why too. They're obviously too poor to attract anyone anymore.

Shall we say a few early evening snifters tomorrow then? Glasshouse Stores 6 O'Clock?

Very serious question: where in the hell can I buy an inexpensive tent in the centre of London?

(North London okay too, but I don't have the time to go anywhere else unless they stay open late)

I'm excited now.

Clothes in place of rollmats is a pish idea - your clothes will get all damp.

I am wearing DMs!!!! They feel silly with the rest of my outfit!!!

Bah.

b) DV, we'll definately meet up with you on Sunday at least because you must run our first Church of ILE Sunday Service. (Brothers Bar 7:30 Thursday).

c) How dare you say we need an excuse to go to the pub. Pah!

Tents are waterproof and often do not have adequate ventilation to remove the copious amounts of water vapour exhaled and sweated. Some of this will then collect on the coldest part of the tent - the groundsheet - hence causing small degrees of dampness. Not to mention creased and smelly clothes.

Still we were all grateful for his blackout curtains at the '41 Glastonbury.

Do you think I should buy a panama hat?

But yeah, Tom will be with us primarily.

Lemon Grog ahoy!!!

everyone else: I love you.

I'm not so sure I'm still keen on a meetup.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/36878000/jpg/_36878 074_glasto_150.jpg

Bring on the fields!

I haf set my digital box to BBC Choice already (though this is because I have lost the remote control and the buttons on the front only work once a week).

I just heard X-Press 2 are djing tomorrow night 12-2 radio 1 stage hooray! And Darren Emerson on Saturday. I've packed and stuff, it's a nice day too. I am now actually looking forward to the next few days massively! God yes I am. I may see some of you around, we're in the South East corner as far as I know, but there may be chance meetings etc. Feel the vibe.

PYRAMID STAGE

Friday:

Styx, Rush, Loretta Lynn, Rolf Harris, Alan Parsons Project, Flaming Lips, Octopus, Alabama 3, The Fall

Saturday:

Roger Waters with special guest Syd Barrett, Coldplay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, James Brown, Jackie Mason, Steve Harley, Gary Numan, Echobelly

Sunday:

Dido, Russell "The Voice" Watson, Ronan Keating, Shirley Bassey, Freddie Starr, Eric Clapton with special guest Jools Holland, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band, Peshay, Drop Nineteens

DANCE TENT

Friday:

Disco Tex & his Sex-O-Lettes with special guest Suggs, Kid Creole & some Coconuts with special guest Lorraine Kelly, Grooverider, Fila Brazilia, Oakengilles Petersfold, Roni Size (acoustic)

Saturday:

Orbital, Pete Wylie and Wah! Acid, Human League with special guest David Van Day, Bomb the Bass, Deep Dish, Marine Girls (acoustic)

Sunday:

Tom Jones featuring Armand van Helden, Goldie with special guest Jim Davidson, Jack Officers, Starlight, Alec Empire (acoustic)

NEW BANDS TENT

Friday:

Oasis, Blur, Supergrass, Pulp, Foo Fighters, Prodigy, LL Cool J, Brassy

Saturday:

Tindersticks with special guest Megaman, De La Soul, Badfinger, Mariah Carey, Lieutenant Pigeon

Sunday:

Wonder Stuff with special guests Ant and Dec, James, Culture Club, ABC, Keble College Oxford Hadley (formerly members of Spandau Ballet), Susan "Twilight Cafe" Fassbinder, Strokes

MOMUS TENT

Friday:

Momus

Saturday:

Momus

Sunday:

Boredoms

and Momus

JAZZ TENT

Friday:

Courtney Pine with rappers

Saturday:

Courtney Pine without rappers, Jools Holland with special guest Des O'Connor, Holly Vallance

Sunday:

Courtney Pine solo (acoustic), Crowded House

WORLD MUSIC TENT

Come on, be honest...

Erm, Courtney Pine, mostly. And the Phil Collins Big Band with guest soloists Cecil Taylor, Peter Brotzmann and Keiji Haino (latter three names to be confirmed - may be replaced by Jools Holland, Sam Brown and Glenn Tilbrook).

HOLISTIC HEALING TENT

You live in Maidenhead. Or Barnes.

CINEMA TENT

No you can't sleep in here. Lots of your old favourites like Withnail and I, Lock Stock, Trainspotting zzzz.

BRASS BAND TENT

Glastonbury Town Band with special guests Richard Stilgoe and Peter Skellern.

TICKETS: £250 PER NIGHT - ECONOMY WEEKEND TICKET: £1000*

(*does not include admission to the event. Additional charges of £1000 per head and £500 per tent may be levied. Camping permitted at competitive market accommodation rates. Prices start from £400 per hour)

of all the small bitZoRs i ct on tv rod steward was the most tolerable!! aargh!! does anyone actually like faithless? JOHN PEEL MUST GO!!

Peel saying Faithless were the group of the festival - impossible to trust his judgement ever again. Fuck off back to Home Truths, grandad. Groove Armada (w/ that old fraud Richie Havens) and US3 looked even worse, tho'. I didn't catch Issac Hayes, but ppl told me he made the effort...

How was it then?

The Glade is the best stage I think, best atmosphere, lots of trees, nice and dusty. I'm not sure who the DJs were when I bumped into some ILxers there but they were very good. I had so much fun but now my feet are blistered, damn that bastard mr scruff for making me dance yesterday when I was too tired.

Air sounded like Pink Floyd, the bastards.

Of course, I want to know how B&S were.....

Was Dastoor spotted? Has he gone completely feral?

Had a great time, but I feel rather unwell now due to mistaken excess on the way home.

Did Badly Drawn Boy really do the whole set on the main stage, on his own, excrutiatingly slowly? God that looked painful.

Air, Mercury Rev and Doves were rub.

The Beta Band were Monkey Chews. (There you go Tim).

This Glastonbury was the Progest Glastonbury ever (if you've got a song make it last ten minutes long) and has to answer serious question re:racism of the man in the New Bands tent (chucking Blaktwang off halfway through their set) - but still much fun was had (especially the one size fits all perry fuelled karaoke marathon on Thursday night where ILE proved that every song has exactly the same beat and tempo).

I watched a minute of the White Stripes cock rock and then decided to go the Glade for Will White from Propellorheads who had dust rising and people jumping and screaming so it was worth it.

Anyone see Spiritualized? I was at Timo/Fatboy/Emerson turntable thingy.

Pretty good:Doves, White Stripes, Mis-teeq, Beta Band, Belle & Sebastian (many points for Monica Queen, many points off for the totty pitch invasion), Alfie

Rubbish:Stewart Lee doing a set that would've been pretty good if I hadn't seen him do the same set three years ago! The Coral are still the worst saviours of rock in ages.

Totally Brilliant: being home again. Not home here, home there. I wish I was there.

*blush*

I have to say I felt scared when I heard my name and I was looking around thinking what who and then I realised.

Glastonbury was a lot of fun. However, I was confused to learn that there are TWO different ILx Sarahs, both of whom were at Glastonbury.

I've been writing about the festival for a 20th century print medium outlet, and pondering that old band of the festival thing. I'm going for the Shibusa-shirazu Orchestra. Did anyone else see them?

Have Jay-Z, Neil Diamond and the Verve put everyone off this year?

hope so. i have just bought two tickets. £160 = fucking ouch painful.

maybe it will be as quiet as it was in 2002

The free site-wide wifi is the only thing I find exciting about this year's glastonbury.

My debit card screen kept timing out - but I can't go through the process again because of a 'registration number already used" message.

looks like a common problem:

http://eveningpostrobparsons.blogspot.com/2008/04/will-i-ever-get-my-hands-on-glastonbury.html

as hot as 2002 would be nice.

there's nothing i'm particularly excited about this year and if i had gone last year i probably wouldn't have bothered at all. but for once i can afford it so i might as well.

i wasn't getting anywhere close to a booking screen a few hours ago, and the phones were shite too, but after going out and coming back again i seemed to sail through. i should have asked here if anyone else wanted a ticket while i was having some luck. soz.

The free site-wide wifi is the only thing I find exciting about this year's glastonbury.

-- JimD, Sunday, April 6, 2008 12:45 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

jesus. this is is where i gotta draw the line.

or turn into tombot.

Apparently (from reading the efestivals forum) the ticket agency has confirmed that if you get a "registration number has already been used" message after you've tried to pay and got an error page, then the transaction has gone through.

I wonder if I should let that journo know.

There isn't even a Glastonbury tickets buying thread! Another honoured ILX tradition bites the dust.

I am not going.

Srlsy Alba that may have just influenced my decision a tad. I am still undecided but as far as I can tell it hasn't sold out? A friend of mine has an open 'order tickets' page and there's no way I could be arsed to book tickets.

The only people I know who are definitely going are a couple. I'm not sure this will be that much fun.

Oh, you haven't been invited to the Glastonbury 2008 secret board then? (x-post)

The Line-Up:

Friday
Saturday
Sunday

Not overly inspiring but not terrible.

No, that is shockingly terrible.

Other Stage, Sunday:

Groove Armada
The Zutons
Pigeon Detectives
Mark Ronson
Scouting for Girls
Jack Penate

This is the worst run on any Glastonbury stage I can remember.

okay, I was looking at it from the perspective of: "Is there enough there that I won't be fucking bored the whole weekend." Did not really pay attention to the two main stages.

Those Ethiopian jazzers are all playing Glastonbury on the saturday, the day after a London gig in the Barbican.

Spiritualized in not playing 'traditional Spiritualized headlining second stage on Sunday night' shocker. British Sea Power might be disappointed to be playing exactly the same slot as they played in 2002, and before the bleeding Courteeners.

Haven't been since 2003, and not going this year, but out of interest what/where is The Park stage?

Right down the bottom of the site, below the Stone Circle. It's a new field.

there are a hell of a lot of stages innit

The Guardian are media partners of Glastonbury and the BBC are pro-Glastonbury.

...so who in the media is going to twist the critical knife into Glastonbury and Emily Eavis after this shockingly awful line-up?

ONLY DJ MARTIAN CAN SAVE US NOW.

Perhaps get Boris Johnson to run next year's one with plenty of bracing Wagner and Patti Boulaye.

Who is Dogtanian?

people are paying to see this shit? Kings of Leon?

I've never understood it.

Right down the bottom of the site, below the Stone Circle. It's a new field.

but surely that is the top of the site?

Top = top of the hill, bottom = stone circle, surely?

I am so glad I'm not paying to go. Only sunshine and MDMA can save us now.

It's at the bottom of the map, which is how I'm working it out. I didn't go into that field at all last year because it was on a massive hill which turned into 1x mudslide and the idea of negotiating it just to see whichever folk singer they'd half-arsedly plonked in there didn't really appeal.

I was camping right next to it last year - saw Los Campesinos, Richard Swift, Kate Nash, Africa Express and Spiritualized there. Hmmm. So a mixed bag. Went to Silent Disco there twice, too, and they had some sort of Balearic night in the "pub".

Ok, I pretty much stayed there.

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/05/04/sounds-of-fury-91466-20847948/

Instead of strummed guitar chords floating gently on the breeze, it’ll be a deep growling bass and a thumping electronic drumbeat being driven out at the crowds at Glastonbury 2008 – a strange new mongrel of a music festival, the product of one old man’s whims. A butterfly that has turned back into a caterpillar. Instead of Radiohead, Paul McCartney or Oasis, the act headlining the iconic Pyramid Stage – perhaps the world’s most famous festival platform – is US hip hop kingpin and Mr Beyonce Knowles – Jay-Z.
...
it’s not surprising that good old Noel Gallagher recently described it as plain “wrong”
...
Likewise, few fans will be troubling themselves with Friday’s Pyramid Stage until The Fratellis and the brilliant Kings of Leon take to the stage at night.

If they do, they’ll only have to sleep through mouldy banality like The Editors, The Gossip, The Feeling, KT Tunstall, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, The Subways and Kate Nash – all perennial afternoon festival acts to be ignored from a safe distance.

On Saturday, Manu Chao is third from top on the Pyramid’s bill. Who is he?

loool

Wait, they have Shakin' Stevens on Saturday night? They have the Hilltop Hoods on the Other Stage on TWO nights??

No wonder they couldn't sell those tickets. You couldn't even have fucking given them away.

I see the effects of the Tory victories in Wales are already being felt.

Whoopee, racist Welsh website takes down that page!

...in 2009?
Tickets for sale in 3 months time.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7522221.stm

I'm sure this has been commented on before but wasn't Emily Eavis supposed to be taking over the whole thing? All I see these days is her dad talking about running it.

confusion surrounding the sale of this year's tickets.

surely the only confusion was that they didn't sell many tickets? this sounds like a right feckin' hassle to me.

I'm sure the longterm plan is for Emily Eavis to take over but at the moment she's just responsible for the line-up in the Park.

"everywhere I go people are kicking themselves because they didn't go, so there really will be a big demand."

what is this balloney? the fucking thing is on every year, it's not like you missed a one time only event. why will next year be in more demand than it was this year? twerp.

That sounds perfectly plausible to me. It's all about the weather really.

Although Jay-Z's controversial headline act proved to be a success, Mr Eavis said he does not have plans to book a similar act for next year.

"We'll probably be going for the more traditional headliner next year because they'll be white and the people who come to my festival are racist cunts but unfortunately they're also loaded."

There, fixed.

DJ Khaled For Glastonbury Headliner campaign starts here

WEEEEEE INNNNN AAAAA FFFFIIIELLLLLDDDDD

I GOT A QUESTION FOR THE GLASTO GHETTO

WHO HARDER THAN GORKY'S ZYCOTIC MYNKI????

What I've never quite understood is this: apparently Glasto 2008 WAS a sellout, but not until a couple of days before it began. What does it matter when the tickets sold, as long as they sold? Surely 1,000,000 tickets (or whatever) sold slowly brings in the same money as 1,000,000 tickets sold in five minutes?

Interest on sold tickets?

How slowly did they sell this year? Did they have 1000's left over when it started?

I "heard" they were going for £50 in HMV on the Friday.

Less than 500, I believe. Which surely sold.

So the only way Eavis can recoup expenses is by playing the financial markets with punters' money? It's just bizarre enough to be true. It would also explain next year's ticket schedule.

"We actually did it (the 2008 festival) cheap - we couldn't cover the costs at that price. It wasn't a loss but it wasn't as good as it should've been," he said.

So he did cover his costs?

The shadow knows

ooh the sun was out this year so it *must* be out again next year. Seriously who are these idiots ?

troof bom

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7866886.stm

Festival sells out, in February, with Britain knee-deep in snow. Good work.

Most of those tickets went before Sunday though, when we were merely fuckin' freezing.

Kanye rumoured for the other stage.

got my ticket, not that i don't think it's way too expensive and kind of object to the fact the deadline for tickets happened before they'd even announced a lineup!

Maybe they just issued fewer tickets for this year?

Impressively cold-blooded response from EavisCorp to the economic crisis though.

doesn't feel that long ago that none of the acts were confirmed until you picked up your program when you entered the site.

always preferred it that way, meself.

deadline for tickets happened before they'd even announced a lineup!

Yeah that's been the case for most of the last ten years, except last year weirdly. And that time when Eavis went "hey everyone we've got Kylie!"

well i'll be. never bought a glasto ticket before oto be honest as the only other time i went was in '04 when i worked at the bar.

eh what? have tickets gone on sale or something?

Beer tent rammed with broken heroes on a last change power drive

Springsteen is "the dependable US rocker" according to the Beeb. High praise!

neil young AND bruce springsteen?

That surely can't happen, unless Eavis decides he hates kids after all.

Blur aren't exactly spring chickens either.

all-uncut reader fest sounds like bs to me but diff'rent strokes eh.

Springy, fresh from his "all CD's onsale at HMV for a fiver each, including his new one prob in 6 months..." um, promotion.

won't somebody let the kids rock

Who would be the obvious indie band to be elevated to Pyramid headliners for the first time? I am too out of touch to even know the obvious any more.

soulja boy?

Who would be the obvious indie band to be elevated to Pyramid headliners for the first time?

There isn't really one at the moment, although you might perhaps be able to make a case for Elbow. Also The Strokes have never played Glastonbury.

lol dad rock weekend

http://metcheck.com/v40/uk/free/event_forecast.asp?eventID=559

First long-range forecast. Possibly inaccurate.

phew its a scorcher, and a little windy

I believe some kind of hat may be in order.

wind speed 1302 mph

it was windier than that in 2002

113km of rainfall though.. are they predicting the melting of the entirety of polar icecap?

hang on, wait. when does the LHC get turned on again?

maybe they know something we don't?

http://www.topfoto.co.uk/gallery/Glastonbury/images/prevs/0912744.jpg

Oh man that picture brings back some memories.
I remember my friends saying i should take a crap tent as it’s not going to rain, i didn't.
Half of me felt sorry for them, half didn’t, I remember my mate picking his phone up and water pouring out of it.

DJ Khaled For Glastonbury Headliner campaign starts here

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:06 AM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

WEEEEEE INNNNN AAAAA FFFFIIIELLLLLDDDDD

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:06 AM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

he didnt live to see his dreams come true rip

neil young AND bruce springsteen?

― meme economist (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, February 23, 2009 12:34 PM (2 weeks ago)

That surely can't happen, unless Eavis decides he hates kids after all.

― Alba, Monday, February 23, 2009 12:41 PM (2 weeks ago)

Eavis hates kids, apparently.

he just hates kids who give a shit about headliners, and rightly so!

TBH I'd rather see Neil Young than Coldplay or any of the other rumoured alternatives but then I am old now.

Me too - I just can't keep up with his attitudes towards kids.

I want to go to Glastonbury this year but missed the early boat. I hope there are lots of tickets in April.

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/glastonbury/2009/lineup.shtml#

Lightning Seeds (TBC)

Oh NOW it's ON.

Coldplay appear to be on that list and not even top of the bill. THAT'S HOW BIG THE BOSS IS.

Handy little gif
http://metcheck.com/IMAGES/GENERIC/ICONS/ANIMATED/HR.gif

Young on friday and CSN on Saturday? Do you think Neil will hang aorund for a little sing song?

Fleetwood Mac (tbc)- ok if this happens I am there.

Bodger & Badger STRONGLY RUMOURED for Kidz Field

I hope there are lots of tickets in April.

Yah, doubtin' it. I'm banking on being able to source a ticket or two from the old biddies in Pilton who are given them as a payoff thank you.

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Still seem to be a few tickets on sale. Accidentally just bought one.

Haha that mentalist forecast is still up there.

Line-up announced

First thoughts:

- This is the most old-mannish Pyramid line-up I have ever seen but not necessarily bad
- Dizzee on the main stage at last
- No Orbital (!)
- Still I have never actually seen the Prodigy so that might be fun
- This year's 'ancient band headlining New Bands tent' comedy moment step forward Echo and the Bunnymen
- OMG SPINAL TAP

Yeah, no real complaints from me either, although the overall lineup for the Dance Village seems rather less inspiring than last year's, but I may be misremembering.

I am quite lol at Echo and the Bunny men (although in the interest of being a pedantic twat, it wasn't ever actually officially called or intended to be the New "Bands" Tent) but more so at the fact that Jason "who the fuck's that?/poor man's Jack Johnson" Mraz seems to be playing every stage.

Excited about Nick Cave but I reeeally can't be bothered with Blur so im hoping i can find someone else who is equally unfussed.

Back To The Planet i see...

That Sunday in the Glade is hilarious, nice to see there's one corner where it's still always 1993. No Ozric Tentacles though.

Would like to see the crowd movement in both directions when Dizzee Rascal is followed by Crosby, Stills & Nash.

Been hoping to see the current Bad Seeds line-up and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in It's Blitz! mode on a festival stage so very happy with that.

The idea of plonking Nick Cave in between Madness and Blur is pretty funny as well.

is haggis and charlie going to be there?

I'm going to Glastonbury - looks like a pretty awesome lineup all in all.

err... is haggis coming with you

haggis? who the f**k is haggis.

http://juggling.tv/vaults/view_video.php?viewkey=be6ec9b852b0a542e2f3

why does this pc keep logging me into different accounts now eh?

because you keep juggling between them?

Does anyone know where I can find a definitive list of all Pyramid Stage headliners? At least since 1990 or therabouts.

I need this for the purposes of a Worst Act To Headline Glastonbury poll scientific research.

Saturday
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Kasabian
Crosby, Stills & Nash

alright this is fucked up

i got a question no trolling:

glasto (and the big euro) festivals always seem like such an unnecessary hassle to me. like can you even physically see any of the bands playing? won't you always be too far back? does that not even matter? i guess it's just fun to get majorly fucked up in a huge field w/ a bunch of ppl but yeah

reading this lineup for the "other stage" is hilarious. i've long since grown out of the phase of my teenage years where i'd go to nme.com every day and so i'm shocked to find out that the maccabees and enter shikari and paolo nutini are still getting booked to play shows. even in the uk at a festival with every living guitar band.

It is actually pretty easy to get relatively close to the bands even when they are headlining the Pyramid Stage. The crowd spaces out quite a lot when you get past the mixing desk because there's so much room. The crowds for the headliners can go back miles but often that's people standing or sitting at the top of the hill drinking and chilling.

The exception is when they book someone in a smaller tent who suddenly becomes ridiculously popular, as might happen with Little Boots or someone this year.

Also a lot of the stages are smaller and draw a relatively small crowd.

On the bigger stages, I'd say even for a band of the stature of, say, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs won't draw an enormous crowd relative to the size of the field, so there can be quite a bit of space to dance and stuff.

Also you tend to approach most of the stages from the side, not the back, because of the way the site is laid out. I was about 10 rows from the front for Jay-Z just because I picked my way through from the side.

BTWS are playing TWICE but I'm still not going to pop my Glasto cherry for that. Bah. I just think it would be so rubbish to go to Glasto for the first time NOW when it's so rub.

thanks matt, makes sense

the phase of my teenage years where i'd go to nme.com every day

!

you would definitely have to pay me to go to glastonbury ever - and i mean more than commissioned feature money. i think i've missed the boat on sonar this year but i just don't get why you'd choose this over one of the european festivals with better music, better weather, hotter people and A PROPER BED.

lol lex you must know that i was way into the whole bloc party/futureheads wave when i was 16/17

I actually like sleeping in a tent. Although it's true that I don't do it in my bedroom.

hope the weather's good obv but waking up hungover in ur tent at noon when it's sunny outside thus steamless sauna inside is always horrendous

sleeping in a tent makes me feel as though humanity's evolution is going backwards. even if it's good weather you wake up feeling gross

jordan i think it was the idea of even americans going to nme.com :(

Matt DC, I've got a list of headliners since 1994 - compiled them for something I was writing ages ago - so shout me if you want them.

sleeping in a tent makes me feel as though humanity's evolution is going backwards

sez the guy who falls asleep under pub tables

i grew up ten minutes from the site (not quite close enough for a free ticket) and have been going since it was perfectly easy for locals to just stroll in. the first year i camped, in 1999, i was with a bunch of friends who were all just loaded into a van and driven in by a steward. apart from after 2000 when it was fucking horrible, i've never really considered the idea of not going and have never been put off by lousy line-ups, nor encouraged by decent ones.

i've never been able to successfully justify glastonbury to anti-glastonbury-ers because i can perfectly easily see that, on paper, it sounds horrendous. and on tv it doesn't look a whole lot better.

that being said, people i know who have been opposed to the idea but have found themselves suitably intrigued have been pretty much converted on the spot.

2000 was mostly dry iirc despite a bad start

Insanely crowded though - a lot of people I know got caught in a crush, especially during the Chemical Brothers. Hence the fence next time.

Well, hey, I'll do it anyway:

1990 - Happy Mondays (?), The Cure, ?
1992 - Carter USM, Shakespear's Sister (?), Youssou N'Dour (?)
1993 - The Black Crowes, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Christy Moore
1994 - The Levellers, Elvis Costello (?), Peter Gabriel (?)
1995 - Oasis, Pulp, The Cure
1997 - The Prodigy, Radiohead, Ash
1998 - Primal Scream, Blur, Pulp
1999 - REM, Manic Street Preachers, Skunk Anansie
2000 - The Chemical Brothers, Travis, David Bowie
2002 - Coldplay, Stereophonics, Rod Stewart
2003 - REM, Radiohead, Moby
2004 - Oasis, Paul McCartney, Muse
2005 - The White Stripes, Coldplay, Basement Jaxx
2007 - Arctic Monkeys, The Killers, The Who
2008 - Kings of Leon, Jay-Z, The Verve

Some rum ones in there.

Wikipedia claims that Shakespeare's Sister played above Lou Reed on the bill which just seems insane.

The third headliner in 1990 appears to be Sinead O'Connor.

I got caught in that crush in 2000, there were a fuckload of people coming out of Travis and Leftfield at once and we were stuck for about half an hour off to the bottom right hand side of the Pyramid. I was not really in the right state of mind to be trapped in a crush, especially when I looked down and saw a girl in a wheelchair crying.

Then I got into the main field and ran across it like I'd been released from prison or something.

these posts are really selling it to me

the only headliner i've seen out of 4 glastos were the Chems in 2000. feels weird that it's 10 years since my first but now 5 years since my last.

I've seen 10 of the headliners over nine festivals. Although I'm cheating a bit by including the 2002 Coldplay performance where I fell asleep under the tree at the top of the hill.

"a girl in a wheelchair crying" - how could you want to miss that, Lex?

With the headliners prior to my first Glastonbury (1994), I tried to double-check with old posters and adverts rather than rely on Wikipedia - I just find the idea of Shakespear's Sister as Saturday night headliners too mind-boggling. Don't remember Costello and Gabriel from 94 either - for years I assumed I'd seen Blur, Spiritualized and Orbital on the main stage but apparently not.

Turns out I've seen 15 headliners over 11 festivals. Would have been more if not for the lure of big beat in the dance tent in the late 90s.

Re: headliners I've only seen REM, David Bowie & Coldplay.

Shockingly 2002 is the last one I went to.

Peter Gabriel headlining seems very likely though. Weird how the early 90s festivals get remembered for raves and early Britpop performances and Orbital headlining and all that but seemingly none of it made it onto the Pyramid Stage until 95.

I just find the idea of Shakespear's Sister as Saturday night headliners too mind-boggling.

Haha more mindboggling than CARTER USM?! Surely not. At least Shakespeare's Sister had had a massive #1 hit by then.

'97 featured Skunk Anansie headlining rather than Ash iirc, and the former is even more wtf than the latter 12 years on.

Nah Skunk Anansie were 99. Ash were bumped up to headliners at last minute to replace Steve Winwood (which seems almost as WTF when you think about it). Skunk Anansie were actually booked to headline, and they were huge at the time IIRC.

Carter were probably the biggest band in Britain at that point in 1992 - they'd just had a #1 album.

xp Right gotcha, and yes all 3 acts are baffling with the benefit of hindsight.

they were quite literally "unstoppable"

hullo there!

Gabriel deffo headlined in '94, on the same day that Oasis, Pulp, Radiohead and Blur played the NME stage (call it by its name).

it would appear that i've seen FOUR headliners out of a possible 33 (Radiohead 97, Pulp 98, MSP 99 and bowie 00), i'm guessing that watching Jay-Z on the telly last year doesn't count?

1994 - The Levellers, Elvis Costello (?), Peter Gabriel (?)

^^ i don't believe this!

The only one that's slightly doubtful there is Elvis Costello. I'd kind of assumed every single person who went to Glasto in the early 90s was a Levellers fan.

First one I saw was Primal Scream in 98. It was pissing down. People were drowning in mud. Primal Scream came on and the first half hour of their set was largely comprised of the most downtempo and paranoid material on Vanishing Point. The crowd didn't even stretch back as far as the mixing desk, it was possibly the biggest flop ever. Even worse than when they got booed off stage in 2005.

Costello was definitely at Glasto in '94, promoting the Brutal Youth album.

so is "Jazz World Stage" a euphemism

First one I saw was Primal Scream in 98. It was pissing down. People were drowning in mud. Primal Scream came on and the first half hour of their set was largely comprised of the most downtempo and paranoid material on Vanishing Point. The crowd didn't even stretch back as far as the mixing desk, it was possibly the biggest flop ever. Even worse than when they got booed off stage in 2005.

― Tits Bramble (Matt DC), Friday, May 29, 2009 5:53 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol WERE YOU EVEN AT THE SAME GIG???!!! i saw it and it was AWESOME!

the 1998 one i mean.

I saw about 5 bands in '98, Primals was one of them. I've got a cassette bootleg purchased on the Sunday afternoon somewhere. I remember Bobby going on about the football, and saying England would get fucked over by Argentina, so someone threw a can at the stage, and he just picked up a full one and lobbed one straight back out at the crowd. Tosser. I thought they were great at the time though (I also watched them in the Dance Tent in '97 when everyone else in the world was watching Radiohead.

Ash headlined in '97 'cos every other band had either gone home or refused to show up, I think.

NRQ - I actually enjoyed it quite a lot but it appears most of the rest of the crowd voted with their feet. I'm sure the rain didn't help though.

98 was the same year that people discovered there was a time and place to explore the more tuneless corners of Tricky's troubled psyche and a muddy Glastonbury wasn't it. I know someone who still hasn't forgiven him for it. I love Tricky but I'm sure he wasn't quite the ticket when you're knee-deep in muck.

Didn't they put him on between Robbie Williams and Blur as well? I love it when they do batshit things like that.

new orleans' Hot 8 Brass Band is playing at the "jazz world stage". if you are british, i would check them out.

looks like they're right before Lamb on Friday, so thx, I will. :)

Weather... concerned...

Friday: http://www.metcheck.com/IMAGES/GENERIC/ICONS/ANIMATED/PC.gif
Saturday: http://www.metcheck.com/IMAGES/GENERIC/ICONS/ANIMATED/SH.gif
Sunday: http://www.metcheck.com/IMAGES/GENERIC/ICONS/ANIMATED/CL.gif

Can live with that.

Metcheck has been consistently positive for the last week or so and has only just started forecasting rain. Think we're probably looking at a mostly dry festival with one big shower on Saturday. I can work with that.

And yes, I am checking the weather forecast every five minutes.

I'm there from tomorrow, so I should catch the best of it. Yeh, a little rain on Saturday (raining on Bruce!) I can stand.

tomorrow? ain't that a little bit early?

I'm working, so lots of setting up to do before the marks punters arrive.

I'm going down tomorrow as well - staying in a B&B in Glastonbury itself on Tuesday night and checking out the town, the Tor etc. Then over on Wednesday morning to stand by the Brothers Bar waiting for it to open get the best camping spot.

I remember arriving late on the Tuesday evening in 2005 to work from 8am on the Wednesday. Was too late to erect my tent so slept in someone else's spare one that leaked like a sieve. Sheer hell.

Good luck (usa) though.

Where are you working btw?

Thursday: http://www.metcheck.com/IMAGES/GENERIC/ICONS/ANIMATED/FA.gif
Friday: http://www.metcheck.com/IMAGES/GENERIC/ICONS/ANIMATED/SH.gif
Saturday: http://www.metcheck.com/IMAGES/GENERIC/ICONS/ANIMATED/SH.gif
Sunday: http://www.metcheck.com/IMAGES/GENERIC/ICONS/ANIMATED/SU.gif

Fuck fri and sat with a stick. Trip to Blacks in store.

I've managed to avoid rainy boggy festivals for 12 yearsworth of going to various ones and I'm very annoyed about the rain forecast.

i thought the forecast looks pretty good?? just a spell on friday and occasional drizzle on sat?

esp when the last 4 years had been pretty much horrendous each time?

last year was pretty grim on the Friday but mostly just surface slurry and never really enough to churn up the ground itself. I'd be quite happy if this year was the same. Hmm, should prob source a tent from somewhere.

2004 was only half-muddy
2005 was the worst ever
2007 wasn't too bad
2008 I wasn't there, but as N1ck says, I don't think it was horrendous

yeah last year had mostly great weather iirc but july was so gloomy that this skews memory perhaps

This year looks like it could be worse than three out of four of those years:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jun/24/glastonbury-festival-weather-update

I don't think I'm quite as well prepared as I should be.

mmm maybe i should put a bet on a washout then at 16/1?

wait though 2007 was horrible the water was knee deep at other stage???

I wasn't there in 2007 but friends who I've gone with for a decade say it was the most miserable since 1998.

this picture just gave me flashbacks
http://www.virtualcrewroom.co.uk/uploaded_images/Glastonbury_07-770619.jpg

There is no way in hell 2007 was worse than 2005. 2005 was like something out of a disaster zone. Actually, it was a disaster zone - hundreds had to sleep in the dance tent after their tents were washed away and their field was condemned by health and safety officials (portaloos being upended by the flash flooding. 1998 was miserable, but 2005 was apocalyptic. 2007 was a bit of fun mud by comparison.

Some of my photos from 2005. The horror.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/albaalba/ilx/8.jpg
The condemned field.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/albaalba/ilx/6.jpg
Poor Portaloos.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/albaalba/ilx/7.jpg
Me making the best of it.

2007 a mixed bag judging by
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=glastonbury%202007&w=all

daft argument Still maintain that 2005 was really fucking awful for an unfortunate few while others (moi) barely noticed it. got hammered dawn til, umm, dawn, on the friday, after which it dried out quite nicely. 2007 suffered not from torrential rain but a consistent pouring from friday onwards with no let-up.

So true. There's a big difference between initial rain and subsequent mud (1997, 2005) and endless, soul-destroying downpours (1998, 2007).

why, in these days of the super ability to cover everything live, can i not watch this on the bbc right now? the first rounds of wimbledon are always rubbish and i'm too hungover to read.

There's a big difference between initial rain and subsequent mud (1997, 2005) and endless, soul-destroying downpours (1998, 2007).

otm, i get this with fishing too. i can handle rain no worries, but when it's relentless and heavy, slowly the realisation starts to set in that it's spoiling your fun.

I agree in principle, but the mud/flooding in 2005 was so bad that you could barely do anything after Thursday. Ach, I dunno. Maybe I just had a miserable year and blamed the weather. But it really did scare me, that year.

after which it dried out quite nicely.

This is so not true!

it was the grippy mud that really killed me in 2007, i was in so much pain i almost broke down in tears trying to get from lost vagueness back to my tent near the pyramid.

i probably could have had some better fitting wellies, to be fair.

and i think the fact that they supposedly had spent £750000 or something that year fixing the drainage or whatsit that also skewed my perspective. and the whole preregistration passport photo shit, like if you put people through all that to go to your festival, at least you can lay some proper paths that people can walk over?

and that they stopped selling brothers in 2L bottles

These photos are incredible. I've never seen it look this good.

woah the lightning one. how bad was the rain anyway?

The second one makes it look like a Klan meeting.

The rain wasn't that bad at all, we were in a beer tent for the Thursday thunderstorm and there was a bit of light rain Friday morning. The real downpour took place in the early hours of Monday morning but we'd had several days of blistering sunshine by then so it didn't really matter.

I am quite sad I didn't get to go AGAIN. My friends all had a great time this year.

STFU @ the comments under the photos though.

Incidentally the idea of a hot and sunny festival is brilliant until you realise that it's 9am, you've had three hours sleep, you have a massive hangover and your tent is an oven.

Yeah, I most definitely wouldn't have wanted less rain than this year. Little bit o' mud followed by blistering sunshine also brings out the girls in short shorts and wellies, which is a truly delightful look.

Cosign. With flowers in hair this year.

it's 9am, you've had three hours sleep, you have a massive hangover and your tent is an oven.

I don't seem to mind this too much - it gets you up so you don't miss stuff, and I don't know if it's because it makes me sweat out the booze but I don't tend to get too bad hangovers - nothing a coffee and a quick hair of the dog won't sort out anyway

tickets on sale a week on sunday!

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news/tickets-on-sale-from-4th-october

who's in for 2010 then?

ffs, it's too early. and I probably can't go anyway.

well it's only a £50 deposit now (i assume auslanders get to do the deposit scheme as well?), pay the rest by end of feb, or get £40 back...

i enjoyed last year, but i did find a lot of moments slightly frustrating, mostly due to how crowded it can get. call me a crumby old cumfermumffle, but if it had been excessively rainy/muddy as well, i would have been very grumpy indeed. the other thing we noticed is that when you're on a serious hangover/comedown at 3pm on a blazing hot saturday, there is no shade whatsoever in the whole of glastonbury.

it's a great fest, but british festivals are becoming so expensive, glasto included. sure you're paying to see some quality acts and there's no other festival like it, but for the price of a ticket I can almost afford a flight to barcelona and pay for accomodation and most of a ticket to primavera festival, which guarantees sunshine, less crowds, decent bands etc etc...

BOOKED!

Right, so I've paid a deposit using the registration number I received in 2007 for the 2008 fest - it recognised me (showed me my old address etc) and apparently went through fine.

I'm worried but I can't find anything on any of the Glasto site that says I can't use an old registration number...

Eek!

no, it's cool, the ones from 2008 and 2009 are still valid. i checked mine a couple of weeks ago.

Carsmile, as official Glastonbury Oracle I somehow trust you completely. Ergo, WOOP WOOP!

Jeepers Steve, are we the only ones going?

I want to go! But my 2007 registration number doesn't seem to be valid. So, I'll have to reregister tomorrow.

I'm going. As ever.

Wait I just got back from holiday and the festival appears to be sold out. Already?!

I was just going to say the same thing (not about the holiday). Insane.

Bah! Presumably there are far more people paying the deposit than will actually follow through with buying the ticket. So there'll be another sale in March.

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/_assets/images/holding-page.png

I suppose people are expecting something big for the 40th. Bigger I should say.

My reasoning was that if I didn't buy a ticket, Prince would play a 150-minute greatest hits set (including all of Sign o' The Times in order) on the Saturday night, and if I did buy one, Stereophonics would headline.

So I'm afraid it's my fault the latter will now happen.

I wanted to buy, but was out dancing when they went on sale, and got home when they'd sold out. Other Sydney friends had a friend-of-a-friend in London get theirs :(

^ actually I did come home and get changed four hours after they went on sale, but didn't think to get on t'internet

I think it's just a matter of knowing when the next batch go on sale and getting on the internet asap. Please post any info up here when you know it.

I was able to buy my ticket for this year months after they'd supposedly sold out in May. I wouldn't worry about that stupid alarming site notice.

Bono is going to Glasto

U2 confirmed for Glastonbury 2010.
http://twitter.com/TimesMusic/status/5973471177

Headliners apparently confirmed - U2, Muse, Stevie Wonder

ugh

After firmly deciding that I wouldn't go this year, I caved in at the last minute and bought a ticket. Anyone else going?

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/news/the-2010-line-up-is-revealed

Snoop. Awesome.

Just made a big-ass Spotify playlist for Friday's line-up: http://open.spotify.com/user/starsandheroes/playlist/2CmHjqr2cVGlNuL9lDQdg0

Sat and Sun to come anon, along with various (less ungainly) mini-lists distilled from the original megalists. WOOP!

Saturday playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/starsandheroes/playlist/3UIZ7SS6T6DtWBwLKGmjwv

Sunday playlist, nearly finished: http://open.spotify.com/user/starsandheroes/playlist/2mToaYbaIgFQm1ZbeNWGWU

So, um, who's going then?

I'll be there, as will CarsmileSteve and Braveclub formerly of this parish.

Google jumps on the Glasto bandwagon

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/22/google-glastonbury-ad

http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/line-up/line-up-2017/?stage

um......

That lineup - Isn't that pretty much everyone that's going to the festival? Like, more people on stage / whatever than exists in the known hemisphere?

It's been a long time since I last went, but.

I only just now got to the bottom of the list!

(Basil Brush!)

Last night I felt: It's a pity that poster Marcello Carlin isn't around to write a long, involved, painful parody of BBC Glastonbury coverage.

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2d68ddec090ba497fe76f25b25be2fa78efaa3d2/88_476_2062_2041/master/2062.jpg?width=465&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=feb41647db215f9dbdb82595692ba72e

Peter Blake spent 5 years of his life making this utterly plain and crap Eavis portrait. DALL·E mini could have whipped up something better in a minute.

Why the fuck is Glastonbury a national news event nowadays

Because Sky and BT have all the major sporting events.

time for a compulsory purchase of the whole farm and turn it into a fracking site, that'd show 'em!

Imago, it seems to me like your kind of scene.

Ouch

lmao

D:

a one shot kill from a poster - who can be in his own polite manner - one of ilx's deadliest snipers!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWGmoozUAAESPkB?format=jpg&name=small

I saw this earlier, maybe Macca is not so bad after all.

McCartney should have invited every single act at the festival on stage with him except Noel

a one shot kill from a poster - who can be in his own polite manner - one of ilx's deadliest snipers!

The sight of Old Noel's strained singing face would be enough to give small children nightmares.

Also, 5 string basses? Why?

Very rare that I'll publicly beef a colleague, but I think the programming at Glastonbury means that it's pretty unique as a means of introducing older people to newer music that they wouldn't have come across. That means booking the artists that'll draw them in! https://t.co/qN2BFFfgCh

— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) June 27, 2022

My first one since 2009, or whenever it was that Blur and Prodigy headlined at the same time.

Excited, a bit nervous. I've been to lots of festivals in more recent times but not the big G. Also low key worried I've caught a cold or something, but I'm trying to put it out of mind.

I'm also playing a little DJ set at the Ridge & Furrow stage in Bella's Field on Thursday night at 11pm in case anyone wants to drop by and have a bop.

going! but not there on thursday night. very happy now that the weather is looking ok for it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e35wxj/acts/a6nwbp

Yes! Bang up for Otoboke Beaver