Gregcharlie

Hallelujah to this. There was so much crusting across so many stages / acts this year due to people just stopping way too early when there was still a tonne of space in front of them (and yes that unfortunately include having to potentially weave around people who have decided to sit down) I don’t think everyone is quite tuned into the problem that this creates when all the crowding is in places that weren’t designed for the pressure to build there - pathways, outside edges of tents etc.

Strange as is showing on mine

Nooooooo

FullSizeRender.MOV If anyone wants a laugh, here’s Carly Rae Jepsen pieing me off in my 90s Kaiserslautern shirt and my mate in his 2006 Brazil Ronaldinho shirt during Call Me Maybe

Similarly not particularly funny but walking out of Example at the Glade and a posh girl said to her friend whilst looking at her phone ‘Oh my god, they’ve found wreckage of the submarine’ to which the friend replied: ‘What? Sorry I don’t know anything about that’

It wasn’t even THAT busy in the tent itself - the crusts at the edges are a real thing and maybe the biggest danger going crowd wise.

Would again respectfully disagree with that with regards to Arctic Monkeys, especially considering this is the UK’s biggest music festival.

Exactly. Why would you deliberately book one less good act than you can afford to? Lizzo has agreed to play that slot and the festival’s lineup is a lot stronger for it. Everyone benefits.

2015 set was god tier. That triple run of Run The Jewels -> Caribou -> Hot Chip on the West Holts will take something massive to ever topple for me.

Sparks Lana Del Rey Lizzo Arctic Monkeys Carly Rae Jepsen

Music for lads in bucket hats made by lads who listened to lads in bands who wore bucket hats innit ♾️

Would’ve actually loved Lana subbing Arctic Monkeys - all the strings. Anyone who wasn’t into that could’ve effed off elsewhere but headlining Other against GNR is perfect.

Obviously. What I meant is, there is now clearly a demographic of young people who discover, let’s call it ‘music of the recent past’, through TikTok, as well as the all the artists who are choosing to post their music directly on that platform.

Arctic Monkeys very popular with the TikTokers and those 30 year old (or just shy of) bastards like me.

With all the fees a standing ticket was £53.80 on Ticketmaster

If these all sell well then you’ll want to get some of the core Salopian range on - Lemon Dream for me is one of the best easy drinking golden ales out there and you can never go wrong with an Oracle

in no particular order..(but Pulp no. 1) Flaming Lips, Other Stage 2010 Stevie Wonder, Pyramid 2010 Pulp, The Park 2011 Beyonce, Pyramid 2011 Arctic Monkeys, Pyramid 2013 Disclosure, West Holts 2014 Run The Jewels -> Caribou -> Hot Chip, West Holts 2015 Moderat, West Holts 2017 Honourable mentions, Wild Beasts, The Park 2011 Goat, West Holts 2013 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Pyramid 2013 Phoenix, John Peel 2013 Idlewild, Avalon 2015 Solange, West Holts 2017 The Killers, John Peel 2017

Hahaha no worries, very much agree! just waiting for someone to start a football clubs as Glasto lineup topic now

What a queue currently looks like.. Think this would be agony, sat for an hour or so to be basically told whether you’re going or not based off quick maths

They’re such a strange one now to place slot wise though. There’s realistically only 2 they could play considering their headliner status on the continent but aren’t really as big in the UK. Would maybe subbing Taylor Swift as headliner in the future be the solution?

As they return to play LCCC next summer, just going to post this review of Suck It And See from 2011, whilst quoting the bit most related to this discussion. In short, this is nothing new. Some people have misinterpreted this band from the get-go, a band whose first album title ended up being a bit of a clue in that regard. https://drownedinsound.com/releases/16262/reviews/4142790 ‘No, the real defining moments in the seachange enacted by Arctic Monkeys can be illustrated precisely by two separate events. Rewind the clock back to Saturday 28th July 2007, and take a trip to Manchester's Old Trafford cricket ground you'll find a band delighted yet somewhat ashamed by the adulation surrounding them. Though cementing their position as the UK's biggest musical success story in a decade, the sight of aggressive lads fuelled by cheap lager and girls caught short, dropping their pants and crouching brazenly in the middle of the audience must have horrified a band who seemed to have attracted a fanbase who'd misinterpreted the irony of songs like 'Mardy Bum' and 'A Certain Romance' as semi-autobiographical statements instead. Hurriedly returning to the time machine, the second destination would be the Leeds festival, Friday 28th August 2009. Four days earlier they'd released Humbug, their third and most diverse long player to date, and rather than play the greatest hits set expected of a major festival headliner, they chose to play the record pretty much in its entirety bar the odd single and obligatory Nick Cave cover. Reviews at the time were lukewarm (except here). They'd grown beards and bought plaid shirts, yet this performance undoubtedly marked the 'coming of age', the point where those fans reared on stories of riot vans and looking good on dancefloors either stagnated in their own Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not vomit, or embraced the changing tide Alex Turner and co. had spent two years formulating.’