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That's the one.
There is a Spotlight Bar somewhere though, right?
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27 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
Assume the Spotlight Bar or whatever it's called won't be going anywhere...
The Boulevard Bar?
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Avril vs. Janelle Monae feels more likely, although it does also suck.
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4 minutes ago, Dukeicon said:
Calling it The Brewery implies a better selection of beers - but no mention of that in the actual blurb.
Assume the Spotlight Bar or whatever it's called won't be going anywhere...
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People arguing against big surprise special guests happening every year have presumably also only celebrated Christmas once.
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7 hours ago, clarkete said:
Yes, he played a bunch of his dad's tunes as it was the 50th anniversary of his dad touring the UK,was very sound.
Aye - so Julian doing his own stuff not really a d@b up.
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39 minutes ago, Superscally said:
I'd love this. Been done before though, right?
Ziggy Marley in 2022
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Though they have just announced for Italy:
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TBH I'd completely forgotten that they'd been booked yet again. I wonder what sort of kompromat they have on Emily?
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4 hours ago, glimmers_of_hope said:
There is usually a reason behind unannounced slots - either the act is tied into contracts with other festivals/gigs or they want to get some promotion from the press exposure to promote something.
A bigger factor is usually a pre-existing relationship with the festival. Most secret sets tend to come from people with quite a lot of history with the farm.
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I believe it was closed for the accommodation sale a couple of weeks later.
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https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/2024-ticket-resale-faq/
A very limited number of tickets for which the balance was not paid, will be made available via ticket resales, which will take place at 6pm (BST) on Thursday, 18th April (Ticket + Coach travel options) and 9am (BST) on Sunday, 21st April (General Admission tickets).
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Fair enough I'm not in regular touch with lots of young folk on the issue - so maybe my sense that they'd prefer to see the likes of Tyla or Tate McRae rather than Paul Heaton or Cyndi Lauper is misplaced.
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2 minutes ago, 4AssedMonkey said:
Could be a demographic shift. There area couple of teens/twentysomethings in our group who are buzzing for SZA for instance. Everyone over 30 couldn't give a toss. Maybe we're all just dinosaurs on the way out!
I'm not so sure. SZA aside, the line-up seems light on hipper young acts - at the expense of reheated leftovers from about 10 years back
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Ah - that makes sense.
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I'd do something which you can *only* do at Glastonbury - catch a huge, iconic performance on El Pointo.
Issue with the 2024 line up is that there aren't many obvious contenders. Dua, Shania maybe the best bets. Coldplay are too frequent a proposition to really qualify.
Throwing a pot, eating a halloumi cone, grooving to Mik Artistik, checking out the comedy stylings of the Steve Frost Impro Allstars - you can do elsewhere.
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Recall folk on here getting on their high horses - maybe even going so far as to complain to the festival - about the tomato fight as it was food waste whilst people were starving in Africa.
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26 minutes ago, 4AssedMonkey said:
I'll be honest, that really surprised me. I expected Worthy Farm to at least cover most of the main festival site (i.e. incl Other/Markets/Arcadia/Park) but judging by that it's probably barely half of it. Including the car parking etc, it's maybe only 25%. May be a contributory factor to increased cost pressure as I'm sure the landowners absolutely rinse them every year.
I thought they definitely owned areas like Pennards, The Park and the Arcadia field. Otherwise there are permanent building works associated with the festival - e.g. longdrops - on other people's land.
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18 minutes ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:
Maybe there are 20,000 tickets to go for in the resale and she's drumming up some interest.
Seems counterintuitive to put people off the resale if there's a fat stack of tickets to shift.
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8 minutes ago, FloopFiller said:
Elton John was the most popular headliner the festival has ever had, Glastonbury is more popular and more of a FOMO thing than ever due to social media etc, and to people not terminally online and/or music snobs like a lot of us on here Coldplay and Dua are two massive headliners (Coldplay especially given Glastonbury is the only festival they ever do these days and the association they have with it). Really shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that most people who managed to bag a golden ticket aren’t keen to hand it back over this year. Glastonbury’s reputation is bigger than any potentially weaker lineup.
All true for this year, but weaker line-ups for a few years in a row could certainly see it become less of a hot ticket.
I don't think anyone should take it for granted forever - and we know the farm themselves don't.
Plus there's the weather curve-ball.
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Might be. Not really a bar as much as a row of pint-slingers. Same goes for the Dreamtime and the Chameleon (?) over by the Other Stage.