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Good news! My wife Sarah was diagnosed with breast cancer last October. She has had operations and they have removed the lump and lymph nodes. She starts chemotherapy tomorrow and after discussion with her consultant they have planned her treatment and have confirmed she’ll be able to attend this year. After diagnosis and procuring tickets we have been worried about all sorts as you can imagine and she really was clinging onto being able to go it’s great news for her. Obviously in the great scheme of things going to Glastonbury is a minor thing but it’s lifted her massively. She is resisting my wig suggestions though.21 points
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Sorry to continue veering off topic but this is a very important point. For me as a non-British person living in Britain the NHS and the BBC are absolutely the best of Britain. Sadly the Tories started a culture war against them and is absolutely determined to destroy them and it is only when they are gone that people will realise their worth. Such a shame that so many people fall for the rubbish about them that gets spouted. Yes every large organisation will have examples of things you don't like and a certain percentage of waste but their output is remarkable. Fight for improvements to it by all means but fighting for it to disappear is actively fighting for poorer people in society to have reduced access to culture and the disparity between what the rich and the poor can afford is already at an all time high.19 points
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For anyone concerned about the future of Glastonbury, for me, bookings like Kendrick Lamar, Dua Lipa and SZA (potentially) headlining the Pyramid and Wizkid headlining the Other Stage go some distance to safeguard it. There comes a point in time where you have to accept that something is no longer predominantly aimed towards you. You can either embrace those changes and get on board with it, seek out the areas that you still get value from or do something new. I've said it before, but I really think we're on the cusp of the festival moving into a new phase of its evolution. And as someone who'd like to see it continue well into the next decade, whether I attend or not, I think it's exciting.14 points
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she talked about 1. How she got into running the festival, spoke about wanting to become a teacher and dropping out of Goldsmiths to care for her mother. 2. Having one female agent she looked up to as inspiration for another woman in a similar position. 3. Stepping into her fathers shoes and doing things her own way. 4. More provisions for females to feel safe at this years festival - such as female 'chill out' areas and how they're always looking for ways to improve things. 5. Spoke about sometimes not feeling safe late night on the tube as a lone female. 6. Spoke about going to Madonna recently (tied in with point 5) 7. Trying to get an equal gender balance with line-ups but it sometimes difficult as the pool to choose from is male dominated. 8. Confirmed two headliners are female but wouldn't reveal who. 9. Glastonbury 2024 line up will be out 'next week' 10. Championed Raye (a lot) 11. Spoke about Billie Eilish playing at the festival and how she was looking out for the welfare of female fans at the festival. Perhaps @Harmonic Prospectorcan remember more? It was about 1 1/2 hrs long, but there was an introduction from the organiser, opening talk from the vice-chancellor of the university, then three other panellists talking in equal measure so wasn't just all about EE and Glastonbury. It was my question that got asked about the line up it was: 'Given you wish to have an equal gender balance in the line up, will there be any female headliners this year, and when is the line-up due out?' Wanted to get a photo with her afterwards but I had to rush back to work and she was doing press stuff with the official photographer and other panellists.13 points
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"I can't give any names away, but we're dua line up drop soon"13 points
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Well, my son becomes a teenager tomorrow and I promised him last month that the line-up would "definitely, definitely, definitely" be out in time for his birthday. I'm slowly teaching him that life is full of disappointments 🤣12 points
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Was just offered a place from the wait list for Avalon bars. Applied and approved in minutes. Let's go!12 points
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OK, spoke to my boss...he's agreed I can go to the talk with Emily on Thurs at 2pm. 🙂 Will hopefully be allowed to keep my phone on to relay info. 🙂12 points
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I greatly admire the dedication of a man who uses the 1% of battery life he has to screenshot the West Holts lineup and post on here.11 points
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Team, I have just been made aware of some pretty solid intel indicating that in 2024... GENOSYS IS BACK 🙌🏼 Oh my days... Ben11 points
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I'm going to be careful how I phrase this. But I've figured out a little about the Glastonbury CMS, and can say with reasonable confidence - if the poster had been both: a. uploaded b. left publicly visible Then I would have found it. That's regardless of whether it had an obfuscated name or not, and regardless of whether it was linked from somewhere. So either it's not up yet, or it's been hidden/restricted. I'm leaning towards the latter being correct, but only with like 60% confidence. As somewhat proof of this - I will say that they uploaded this a couple days ago, which I like to think is a (not so) subtle message to people like me. I don't think you'll find that page linked from anything public.9 points
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Can you bored losers stop giving Neil shite over absolutely nothing. The man's a hero.9 points
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And I’m sure you’d much prefer a headliner chat than pages of unrelated crap . So can we get back to that please9 points
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And over the last 3 T Days, at least, I think many/most/all of us have had that terrifying feeling. Live every moment, team. This ain't for forever, for any of us. Ben x8 points
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I mean this in the nicest of ways. Some of you need a year or two off Glasto. Like every festival there's repeat bookings sure, but it doesn't mean it isnt a strong line up!8 points
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This is like one of our Q&As in work. Put your questions in the chat. Any hope of a pay rise? Not that one.8 points
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Host: Thanks Emily for that fascinating talk on women in the music industry. Now, do we have any questions from the audience? A dozen middle-aged men in efest t shirts: When's the lineup out? Why did Stevie fall through? Are Kings of Leon playing the churnups slot? Why don't you get Nick Cave to headline the pyramid?... 😂8 points
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Remember it's a Friday so she'll be on an end of the week wine sesh with some of the other parents for at least 2 hours. Then she'll remember (while eating cheese straight from the fridge) that she was meant to push the button on the website. Queue lineup being dropped and a tweet about how much she loves us all. Ok... So this might be more about my end of week behaviors.8 points
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Caught Chase & Status' live show in Cardiff last night. Been following them since 2009 and No More Idols. They've always quite nicely traversed the line between pop and the roots of jungle/drum & bass (sometimes really good, other times not so), but last night was a really interesting show. Immediately upon arrival, I was amazed by how young the crowd was. As opposed to the likes of the Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, Orbital, Underworld, etc, they've obviously managed to stay relevant to a predominantly younger audience, probably because of the crossover with grime and pop...not to mention a recent resurgence thanks to that fecking Baddadan tune. There's a part of me that wants to get snobby and complain about how commercial it's become but then when I thought about it, it can only be a good thing. Last night there were large groups of teens having the best time. I spoke with a woman who'd brought her 13/14 year olds to their first ever gig (in fairness they spent the entire gig filming it on their phone, but they'll learn) and I realised that making electronic music accessible to the kids is so important. My first exposure to it came in 1993, 7 days after my 16th birthday, pretending to be 18, getting into a club to see Easygroove, Ellis Dee, Donovan "Bad Boy" Smith and MC Ribbz. That's all there was. Getting turned away initially, walking to the back of the queue and successfully trying again in twenty minutes with the same bouncer. So, after a some initial weirdness, feeling a touch out of place at a gig for the first time since NASS in 2019, I remembered this was me 31 years ago. This is my tribe, just 31 years later. But I think that's it for me for certain "electronic" shows now though. At least I hand over the baton to a generation of enthusiastic ravers all as wide-eyed (ok, maybe not exactly that wide-eyed) and excited to feel part of something. Back to the show itself, they've upped the production value and the stage setup was impressive. Sound on-point. Big tunes, all the hits. I'm not sure if they're set for Glastonbury this year, difficult to know what stage to place the live show on these days. In fairness, they could do a lot worse than put them in a similar slot to Pendulum in 2011. Come on, you know you want to hear it on the Pyramid..."baddadan, baddadan, baddadan..."8 points
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Came out of my kitchen to find my 3 year old had built this ‘interesting’ version of what I can only assume is Carhenge. I’m taking it as a sign. Announcement incoming?! 👀8 points
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Ever stopped to think why they were not there? Listen to female artists when they talk about how they are treated. This is still happening in 2024. You can't just pretend that in the whole of the UK women just didn't want to make bands or didn't make them. Times haven't "changed". What has changed is our awareness of the historical mistreatment that UK female acts have endured and still endure. Listen to UK female acts talking about this. There is plenty of content on the internet about this. You talk about "merit" but what is merit worth on its own when you have the industry mistreating female artists just for being female? You simply can't expect equal outcomes when half of the artists are being targeted just for being women. Glasto are trying to do their bit in balancing this by giving more opportunities to voices that have been underrepresented. You seem to be under the impression that both male and female acts have always walked down the same path in the industry world, faced similar issues and had similar opportunities. That is not correct. Please, listen to female acts talking about this, we can all help if we listen. An open mind is all it takes7 points
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Nice one Emily on the majority female headliners edit for clarity in case people feel offended by nice one Emily . I’m happy Emily is working towards her objective and will be seeing Dua lipa and really looking forward to the party7 points
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Tbh as much as the BBC can be irritating - services like 6music and BBC Introducing do more for the British music scene than our Government would.7 points
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The reason why headliners and overall lineups this year seem underwhelming? Because the public are suckers for being TOLD what is good. Lineups are picked on the basis of who the industry tell you that you are supposed to like, when in fact, a lot of these artists are f**king shite with 8 or 9/10 reviews from reviewers who are self satisfied gurners pretending their finger is on the pulse. If the industry wants an act to succeed it gets the airplay and you hear it over and over again until you think it ACTUALLY is good. So, the top end of lineups appear poor, because they're diluted by crap. People moaning about LCD and PJ Harvey being poor picks to be high up? Mental. THEY'RE not the problem. The undercards are actually good too, you just have to do your research as they're not getting pushed. Before you moan about lineups, actually listen to stuff outside what's getting pushed on you. The lineup for Glasto, as ever, will be boss, you might just have to look beyond the Pyramid for it.7 points
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It's not going to be an intentional IWD announcement... But that's not going to be because some men would be upset that they're suddenly less important to Emily. BUT it IS important that we keep talking about the fact that women still don't have an equal share. ALL representation matters and yes we should be digging out and celebrating diversity and elevating it!7 points
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You're digging yourself deeper... so by (hypothetically) celebrating the fact that women finally have an equal or more share of a (hypothetical) lineup at glastonbury after all those years of men absolutely DOMINATING the industry.... Men would be upset because they're less important Crikey poor fellas7 points
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The owners are a private equity firm out of the US, Providence Equity, they bought Sziget in 2017. They probably thought they could pick up some booming EU festival and milk it for cash, like the Glazer Family does with Manchester United. Then COVID hit and now they actually need to invest to keep it a good brand. Looks like they were unprepared for this. Hey, Providence, sell Sziget to Live Nation. If we are all going to get fleeced with high fees, at least do it right. Whatever anyone thinks about Live Nation (and I do not love them), they at least know how to do festivals and touring right. They would never let such a good brand suffer. Sziget was on par with anything in the world short of Coachella and Glastonbury, they were right under that, and that is HUGE. Now it is becoming an also-ran because Providence has no strategy here.7 points
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https://www.captiongenerator.com/v/2298351/hitler-reacts-to-glastonbury-2024-lineup Apologies I do not have the knowhow to inbed it into this post. If anyone else wishes to, please feel free 🙂 Enjoy.6 points
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May have mentioned before that I work within the University, and we just got this mailshot to say EE will be in Oxford giving a talk on 7th March, free entry and might be of interest to some people! (Although its not specifically about the festival) https://oxfordculturalprogramme.org.uk/event/women-leading-the-way/6 points
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Real ones will know that you judge the lineup on the Monday after the festival6 points
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Idles headlining other is embarrassing. I think SZA is objectively weak too, they must have really struggled - no way that was plan A B or C6 points
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We need to lure the game in... How many out of 12? @Sziget2024_Leaks Keane Snow Patrol Two Door Cinema Club The Strokes Nothing but Thieves Catfish & Bottlemen Wombats Charli XCX Last Dinner Party Rise Against Inhaler Solomun6 points
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Been offered an Avalon place from waitlist - accepted and deposit paid, will be pulling pints with my sister! 🥳🍻🍹 Means one more Oxfam spot is definitely going back - good luck to those of you still on the hunt 🤞6 points
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*face palm* 🤦🏼♀️ Over the last 10 years only 6% of festival lineups have been female. Last year, at Glastonbury, male acts were almost double. And as for 'Let it happen'.... what?! A well documented history of inequality, misogyny and abuse in the industry needs ACTIVE work to correct the imbalance...same as all inequalities. Not just 'letting it happen.' And you're feeling like men are becoming 'less important' 😭 - that sounds like a you problem to me! Might be off topic but this nonsense needs a response6 points
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REG: Yeah. All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have the Eavises ever given us in return?! XERXES: The water points? REG: What? XERXES: The water points. REG: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah. COMMANDO #3: And the compost toilets. LORETTA: Oh, yeah, the compost toilets, Reg. Remember what the portaloos used to be like? REG: Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the water points and the compost loos are two things that the Eavises have done. MATTHIAS: And the trackways. REG: Well, yeah. Obviously the trackways. I mean, the trackways go without saying, don't they? But apart from the water points, the compost loos, and the trackways-- COMMANDO: Better drainage on site. XERXES: Festival Medial Services. COMMANDOS: Huh? Heh? Huh... COMMANDO #2: Better late licencing for after midnight areas. COMMANDOS: Ohh... REG: Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough. COMMANDO #1: And the bars. COMMANDOS: Oh, yes. Yeah... FRANCIS: Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left. Huh. COMMANDO: Glamping. LORETTA: And it's safe to walk the old railway path at night now, Reg. FRANCIS: Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it. They're the only ones who could in a place like this. COMMANDOS: Hehh, heh. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh. REG: All right, but apart from the water points, festival medical services, better late licencing for after midnight areas , the bars, public order, better drainage on site, trackways, compost toilets, and less mudbaths, what have the Romans ever done for us? XERXES: Booked Coldplay. REG: Oh. Coldplay? Shut up!6 points