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Slope line up is looking good! Announcement very soon.

Not my picture and not much point other than just to say, it's gonna be so good having this behemoth back again this year

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/

A Fred-Skrillex co-head and Stormzy w/ Jorja Smith sounds great ngl

Also.... Cymande - Dove is a f**kING VIBE

Funny seeing references to my clashfinder on social media as being some sort of inadvertent leak 😂

Fiona Stewart’s son, Ben Coleman is the booker and creative director for Glasto and Green Man. Not sure exactly which stages but Glasto must have a considerable size team.

At least one member of the GM team is involved in the “Park” and “Other” stages. I’m not sure of the extent to which they are involved though as presumably the booking team for those Glastonbury stages is made up of more than one person. The Park link is more obvious as the Park and GM line ups are often quite similar, whereas the Other stage is often pretty different.

This is exactly what everyone said last year Really hope they do, they'd be my top act on the lineup probably

Went to C&S at Drumsheds on Friday night and was pretty underwhelmed by the whole experience - and having looked on social media that looked like the general feeling too. The majority of it was caused by the venue itself. Doors opened at 6 with the curfew supposedly at 10.30. We turned up at about 7.10 after getting away from work. By the time we were past the various queues / security lines, it was 8.15 when we were actually in. Not a great start when it was already a short night - and then it looked like we were barely getting 2 hours of music. The queues obviously weren't helped by everyone turning up in a tight time period, but surely they could have different / more entrances. Some of the funnels were ridiculously narrow when you're expecting thousands of people to pass through within 90 - 120 minutes. I thought maybe we had just timed it badly but I've seen comments from people getting to the venue at 6 and basically missing all of Lens' (warm up DJ) set anyway - I don't think she finished until 8. By the time we got to the main room it was about 8.30. We saw 15 mins of Flowdan which was pretty flat - think everyone would have just preferred some drum & bass. He finished at 8.45. There was then 30 mins of set up / emptiness before C&S came on, with no music and spells of boos/whistling from the crowd as everyone frankly got bored. C&S come on at 9.20 and we're then thinking 'are we only getting an hour?!' The set itself was decent and they couldn't have done much better pulling out some old classics and getting guests like Becky Hill, Tom Grennan, Ardee on. The new front man/MC isn't a patch on Rage though. We stood about 3/4 back in the centre for the first 30 minutes and the sound was pretty terrible - I'm not sure if it was a mixing issue but we all noticed how tinny it was and the tracks weren't coming through properly. We then moved a bit forward into one of the side channels which was a lot better, but still not as good as Printworks. I was at Wembley Arena last Saturday for a gig and even the sound there was levels above Drumsheds. C&S ended up playing past the supposed curfew, up until about 10.50. Getting out of the venue and back to Meridian Water station then took over an hour, moving at a snails pace before repeatedly getting held in the last alleyway to 'regulate' train and taxi queues. When we finally got to the station we just missed a Liverpool Street train that barely had anyone on it. On the train home we then realised we had spent as much time queuing to get in/out of the venue as we had being in there. There were a few others on the train who had the same experience and loads more on social media by the looks of it. Not to say those nights aren't a lot more difficult to manage than all-dayers but I think Friday night will have put a fair few thousand off from ever going back...

To be fair I did give you a couple of lines lol

Isn't this Elon Musk's kid's name?

Yeah my friend's brother is playing in the live band. He says they're subbing Other on the Saturday 🙂. I think that could be great.

The playlist leak, correct or not (and I'm certain it is), proves the insanity of tye "don't announce anything until you get there" brigade. I've now got 2 unmissable acts thar I'd never heard of before and have even ordered an album by one of them.

Probably best to play it by ear. They are one of those bands who could absolutely ignite a ninety-minute show by sticking close to the obvious ones. 1 Feeling a Moment 2 Comfort in Sound 3 Lost & Found 4 Shatter 5 Renegades 6 Silent Cry 7 Pushing the Senses 8 Figure You Out 9 Come Back Around 10 Tender 11 We Can't Rewind 12 Borders 13 Eskimo 14 Just the Way I'm Feeling 15 Insomnia 16 Yesterday Went Too Soon 17 Seven Days in the Sun 18 High 19 Buck Rogers 20 Just a Day

and that's not just BT sadly. I so hope this site recovers from the hate fest it became and the new owner brings back it's former usefulness

Line-up announcements since 2000 have come on... Sun: 6 Mon: 28 Tue: 61 Wed: 48 Thu: 25 Fri: 60 Sat: 5

JOE

I found some grainy pics of genosys on my PC, this is from 2017 I think.

I have it on good authority that Mdou Moctar will be playing

He would make a cracking Avalon headliner!

Yep! Even with what they've announced till now, there are more bands that get me truly excited here than the entire RW lineup (which is quite shocking for me). This festival was a serious contender for us this year (as was Øya in Oslo - you may look there for some future add-ons to WoW) but we couldn't be in Sweden or Norway on those dates unfortunately. For my taste, festivals in Scandinavia and France seem to have the best lineups this year.

My final prediction for headliners is Jesus and Mary Chain, Big Thief, Pixies and PJ Harvey. They might not be able to afford pixies and pj harvey but I can't think of anyone else who is the right size, free that weekend and doesn't charge a fortune to perform. A surprise headliner that is nowhere else is the dream though.

Line up announcement 10am 1st March confirmed

Shifts are Sunday , Monday and Tuesday. My friends had them last year. They had to arrive on Saturday. Before 5 I think but can’t 100% remember the time but it was definitely the Saturday

One of the acts that would make my festival if they were to play. Would love to see Kraftwerk

This playground insult stuff is a bit tedious. Thought we had moved on from that.

As well as the one @Yoghurt on a Stick links to, which is widely used and advertised, there's an open source Google alternative https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7047426?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform=Desktop

Primavera are advertising them as a European exclusive.

They've been pretty open about who they can afford in the past, I feel like Vampire Weekend would be one of those acts but you never know, it was a shock when End of the Road booked them but I know there were certain circumstances there.

Whatthreewords is an app which allows you to home in on a specific coordination; https://what3words.com

In other news, Black Pumas, who I'd never heard of are now a must see and making a very strong case for being my new favourite band.

Saw them last night. 100mph hour stuff.

new names this week, probably the punk band on Friday 😉

Don't put a flag in front of a camera you wally. Otherwise they're fine. I've said this once or twice but people having massive piles of bags and stuff is a lot worse.

don't remember this at all , but so it was https://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/the-result-of-the-flag-poll/

I think it was done via the website so I guess anyone could vote in it.

They’re one of those bands who could fit on any of the main stages tbh so could easily see them early Pyramid, mid Other, or high Woodsies (did Park last time so don’t think they’ll be back there).

If he is playing he is keeping it under his hat

Don't worry about the line up. It will be good and the festival vibe is great. All the best bits of Glasto without the hassle.

Liam can't even remember his own windup!

Partok is soooo good! From the very brief mention of Genosys by Gideon on NTYS, my impression is that they've managed to, essentially, refurbish and rebuild it. So, I think we're going to see it in all its previous glory. Just the thought of seeing the fantastic, mind-melting video-mapping on the top of the structure (I particularly love the rotating air conditioner fans...) when spangled is giving me goosebumps. Ben

Nadine Shah early contender for album of the year, I reckon...

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.

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..."

Absolutely not a microvenue, but this place in 2010 will always hold my favourite Glastonbury memories. Sunrise in there was special.

wtf does influence how people vote then? If we are just dismissing everything we don't want to hear. I mean obviously with some people it comes down to what leader they fancy more... but thats not the majority.

Imagine dropping nearly £1k on the festival and I did last year to be able to see f'all of the big bands because of selfish people