Mark E. Spliff

Whenever I hear Michael Eavis referred to as 'Michael'. I get the same feeling as Kenny Everett's 'Cupid Stunt' character referring to Michael Parkinson as 'Michael.' Admittedly, that example is a trip back to the 1980s. but it's still relevant in that name-dropping is really jarring unless you're actually that person's mum/dad/daughter/etc.

Thanks - not a huge amount going on in the current imagery, but it's still interesting and nostalgic to see any festival build going on. The current imagery is from the 29th April last year btw, so the build was just about to start ramping up.

Fingers crossed, because Wikipedia tells me this year's tour will be playing the first album in its entirety, which I'd love to see. I haven't seen any info on whether they're planning to visit Europe next year, which would probably be the deciding factor on whether all three of them, plus an orchestra, would be prepared to take a low-fee Glastonbury booking. (I did see Del as part of Hieroglyphics in a smallish venue in Falmouth in 2024, so I get the impression he'd be up for it.) I think they're still quite niche, so would probably be low down on the lineup again if they got put on a main stage. That would suit me fine: 2014 was nuts seeing a quality act like that so early in the day when you could easily just walk right up to the stage.

In the spirit of forum quibbling, I'd like to haughtily point out that Deltron were actually on West Holts. But fully agree with the sentiment: that was a real 'which of my children do I kill?' moment. I'm pretty happy with the choice I made - Deltron is up there with the greatest performances I've seen at Glastonbury or anywhere else, despite playing mid afternoon in broad daylight. I'd already seen De La Soul in a much smaller, better venue (which in my opinion includes any venue other than the Pyramid) so I didn't feel too much FOMO about missing that set.

The internet is awash with the things. It's tricky to determine the stats authoritatively, but I've seen quite a few analyses saying that more than 50% of social media/YouTube/etc comments are from bots. The purpose they're serving isn't obvious - that's the point: they don't want to be noticed. But one possibility is that this one is just part of an automated programme setting up 'sleeper' accounts on multiple forums which can be used in future, having cleared all these forums' criteria for full user functionality, e.g. the ability to send DMs to other members. To get this full functionality, most forums require you to have had a certain number of posts or been on the forum for a certain length of time. Once you've got a bunch of forum accounts set up, you can monetise them, e.g. by offering to use them to manipulate the order a website appears in Google search results, or for sneaky political campaigning. Or just good old fashioned spamming or spreading malware. Whenever you see a post from a new user on a forum, it's worth asking 'would someone really join up to post that?'

Yeah - I think you're right. I was just being too scepticell.

Earlier today, I logged in for the first time in ages to point out that this was clearly a bot or one of the other flavours of forum bad actors, but then decided this was unnecessary as it was so obvious. Clearly wrong on that front....

If you mean "can it be too much" then yes it can. For example, Henning Wehn was doing a set in the Cabaret Tent when one of the small adjacent outdoor stages fired up and drowned him out to the extent that he had to make his excuses and end early. It's a tricky one to manage at a temporary event like a music festival, because there are so many variables (wind speed/direction, loudness of the acts and their audience, type of PA etc) that by the time you've sussed out where the clashes are, it's too late to do anything about it.

He's still showing on my app - midnight on Saturday. (I've checked and my app has had the most recent update.)

There's always a tension within each year's weather thread between "we're just having a laugh being edgy" and "I genuinely hate anyone that doesn't have the same weather preferences as me." This came to a peak with the NFR NFC group, whereby a genuinely witty/original throwaway phrase, coined in the heat of a particularly knife-edge festival run-up (2008 I believe?), got hijacked by a dreary forum cult which struggled to maintain a pretence that it was being ironic, when it really wasn't - e.g. I had to give one of my 'old-man telling-offs' to a dimwit on there who, without irony, used the c-word to refer to the 'science types' (their pejorative term for anyone discussing forecasts in the weather thread.) My proposal to turn this annual tension into fun would be to apply a scoring system based on how many times each forum member has responded with hostility to someone else expressing their weather preference. I don't think this would magically get us to the forum nirvana of 'I like X and you like Y, and that's fine,' but a 'weather twat of the year' award could be a fun part of the annual dramatics.

The internet tells me Joy Anonymous are an EDM double-act, who been around since 2019 and specialise in immersive 'events' e.g. taking over a whole street for an all-day rave.

As above, 8 - 9pm (Friday, Luna) and this is showing on my app. Have you updated yours yet - the lineup got fixed about 4 days ago

Yes and no. Your card from last year could work. However, cards from years prior to that won't work, as I found to my cost last year. (The reason given was that people had been photocopying them, so it might mean they're issuing a new one each year now, in which case, like me, you're buggered.)

Have finally taken the plunge and started to go through the artist list again, and have discovered there have been a hell of a lot of acts added - including all the 'other' attractions, such as the Camera Obscura. So if anyone else is in the same boat as me, ie they selected all their artists when the app first came out, it's worth going through that pain again with the updated app.

I was working a bar in 2019 and we had to help a fair few punters who were in a really bad way - not drinkers: just passers-by who were collapsing with heat-stroke and needed taking into the shade and given water. On one particularly hot shift I looked at the sea of faces waiting to get served and it seemed like all of them just looked miserable and suffering. I'm a rational adult, so I don't take issue with anyone for having a different preference for weather/music/alcohol/whatever to me - even if Tornados and fire-storms are your favourite weather, it doesn't affect the chance of that happening so doesn't bother me. However, I can't help but suspect that the steadfast refusal to acknowledge any upper limit to comfortable temperature that you often see on here is just a modern form of macho bollocks, like rugger-buggers in the 1980s trying to impress each other by ordering the hottest 'sh*t curry made solely for the English piss-heads' rather than just having something nice.