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fatyeti24

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  1. Sports behind paywalls have seen a drop off in casual interest, but have also seen huge revenues from those who really have to see them. If you can and want to pay, they'll squeeze you and squeeze you. It's how Murdoch got really rich. But they know as soon as those rights go elsewhere, so does the audience. The streaming companies operate differently. They pay for a product to hook viewers into a subscription, but they gamble (correctly so far) that the low cost of that sub means you're much less likely to drop it if your favourite show (or sport or whatever) leaves. It's why Amazon paid big money for, say, Clarkson and his Top Gear replacement, then let it fade away, cos it was expensive to make and everybody who was going to sign up for it already had done so. It didn't matter if it was still popular as it's new subs they want most. I dare say Glastonbury could benefit financially from going that way, at least in the short term, but they could benefit financially from all sorts of things, yet they choose not to.
  2. I was also at Phoenix in 96, but my memories are slightly different. I definitely remember the queues to get in - my car over heated in the sun and we had to push it into the car park. We saw the Prodigy, one of the best gigs of the many of theirs I've seen, and I don't remember a small crowd for them (see vid). We didn't watch Bowie because we (then teenagers) just weren't interested in him, and there was quite a strong bill in the dance tent, which was much more our scene. Also Bowie in the 90s.. well why see some 50 year old try his hand at drum n bass when Goldie was on over the way? He also wasn't a rarity on the live circuit either if I recall. I don't know why he had such an apparently small crowd, but it can't just be down to the traffic. Maybe there were more people like us who just weren't there for it. Also, until I read it on these pages a few years ago, I'd totally forgotten he was actually on the line up. Good festival, though.
  3. The worst thing about that Taylor Swift thread s that I actually wrote a hashtag. I'm sorry, everyone.
  4. He left his house at 52 Festive Road, London, headed to the fancy dress shop, put on his cut-off jeans and here we are.
  5. The last time they played was a bit of a laugh. Not sure Keanu would be up for that again though.
  6. Sounds legit. What better way to distract from the alleged behaviours of her progeny than by awarding a knighthood to a guy who stopped being the prime minister 15 years ago. It's moves like that that have kept Her Maj in the top job for all these years
  7. Love that. Almost as much as wee Jimmy K loves herself.
  8. Geidt was apparently considering his position a week or two ago. I know he was appointed as a yes man, but I wonder what's made him change his mind.
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    RIP Janice Long

    Very sad. She was a good egg.
  10. Calls himself Kunt. Releases a tune calling the prime minister a fucking c**t (twice). Goes up against a charity song for Xmas number one. And still legitimately holds the moral high ground. Truly the artist of our times.
  11. It's the nightmare before Christmas.
  12. He's so close there, Ladbaby, isn't he? So close he can almost taste it. Give a man a sausage roll and you can feed him at Christmas, show him why the sausage roll is needed and you end up with Kunt.
  13. "It's for charity" isn't enough for me to not want LadBaby to fuck off forever. Close your gaping maw, you onesie clad cretins.
  14. He's a dead man walking isn't he? At some level the decision has been made, it's just down to the timing now. For the time being he's going to have to be a bullet sponge, soaking up Omicron, Brexit, inflation and the seemingly endless revelations about his conduct, professional and otherwise. Gone by summer, new person in place by September and conference. And I'll take that, and will enjoy enormously watching the fucker squirm and suffer.
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    Foals

    I'd forgotten that Foals were an actual band and not just an efests meme.
  16. It's autumn now. Easy street 👌
  17. I finished work by 11.30 this morning, sat down had a cup of tea and a mince pie and scrolled through the last couple of pages in this thread. Honestly don't think middle age gets any better.
  18. I loved that Tony Bennet performance. After several days in the mud and shit (I did spend quite a bit of that weekend in the Dance Tent) it was a wonderful tonic. It gave me, as a then 20 year old, a fondness for crooners that I still have today. The juxtaposition between the world he represented - all spotless shiny suits and Vegas standards, against the hordes of the mud caked, 5 days deep Glasto crowd was something that's not often, if ever, really been repeated on the farm.
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