MamaJojo
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Arcadia Friday gotta be Skrillex or fat boy slim but wondering who's in line for Friday am other stage
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Queuing system so much better this year
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Yeah my pics, we're in the first stretch of the queue_ nice atmosphere, bloody freezing....and everyone's asking where Dan is haha
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Surely one more to be added each day for pyramid sat/sun? And Bimble Inn has special guest headliner Thursday night- given this is 'EmilysArea' higher profile artist and easier crowd control than the park stage special guests?
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Spectacular rapport with the crowd...) thought it was gonna be ODLT THAT 'killed' me... But 'Open Arms' was fucking spectacular.
2011 - 'every Teardrop' Coldplay. We'd hung around after Elbow for Coldplay as had a decent enough spot, were coming up nicely and frankly didn't really give a shit what we were listening too. But that song for me was sensory overload and at the time just blew my frigging mind.
2011 - 'No-one knows' QOTSA. Absolutely off our faces at the other stage, where we'd spent most off the day lying in the sun feeling tired (and weirdly incredibly horny haha), right at the back of the field with four mates that we'd only met that weekend but are now some of our best mates ever, loads of space around us, laser show going mental, caning the last of the weekend stash of brothers amongst other things, just remember the six of us bouncing around like nutters and then my mate just turns to me with the hugest grin ever, like the happiest freaking bloke on earth, and we're all there, the six of us, just bouncing around and grinning at each other like mentalists. Absolute quality :0)
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2004, spearhead did a song which MF dedicated to soldiers returning home from the 'pointless war in Iraq', this huge monologue about the pointless waste of life and the void left in the lives of those who'd lost people.... Cannot for the life of me remember the name of the song but fuck me it was beautiful - blew me away at the time.
2004 - mcCartney, 'Blackbird'. Adore this song anyway but bawled the entire way through it.
2004- muse 'Newborn'. Had never really listened to Muse before this set. Just that intro leading into the madness of the rest of the song blew my head off
2009- dead Weather 'treat me like your mother' - agog at the extreme bendiness of Alison Mosshart left me spending the entire frigging set thinking equally as perverted thoughts as the other arf ;0)
2010 - 'Karma Police' Radiohalf. Dragged up the the park by the other half to watch Radiohalf as a mate working behind the scenes told us it was gonna happen. Up to that point as
far as I was concerned Radiohead had always been music to commit suicide by. Opening bars of Karma Police and I've never seen so many grown men in tears in my life. Right down at the front as the thousands inhabiting the park sung the 'I lost myself' bit over and over and the emotion was a tangible substance in the air... Rising into a great crescendo as Thomas came back on stage. Fucking incredible. Prompted
me to listen to the back catalogue and I'm now a convert.
2010 - Was desperate to see Muse. Had built the entire set up as this huge thing in my mind. After the euphoria of Radiohalf was expecting huge things from it and was right down at the front centre stage and it was fucking horrific. Been in some pits in my life but the crush was scary as fuck, spent most of the set with an eyeliner if security guards and getting kicked in the head by every fucker that got pulled out. Left the set feeling a little dejected and tbh feeling cheated (this was later resolved by seeing them Leeds 2011 but that's another story). Woke up Sunday morning feeling really crappy and fucked off. In the afternoon, strolling through the green peace field on the way to the Footie and bumped into Mr Eavis himself... This day is perking up I thought.... The chat we had with him meant we lost the rest if our group and couldn't find anywhere half decent to watch the Footie. Strolling past the Avalon tent bumped into a couple of friends who were waiting to watch Keane & thought 'why not'? I know they're a bit Marmite, I've never really had much of an opinion on them one way or the other, but bugger me sideways the sound that the three of them created in that tent was frigging beautiful. After a weekend of 'over-indulgence' (ahem) we were slightly tired and emotional and I just remember listening to 'somewhere only we know' with silent tears streaming down my face, completely lost in a world of my own. At the end of the song looked at me bloke who was a mirror image. Turned out we'd both (independently and unaware of the others thoughts) spent the entire song thinking of my other half's brother who had died ten years before. A little piece of Glastonbury magic and one of the reasons Glasto saves my soul year in year out.
2011 - Elbow (pretty much the entire set but especially grounds for divorce, ODLT, the reverse wave, garveys
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Follow 'twickets' on twitter they often rt people selling tix at face value
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Think may resale lasted 12 minutes and was literally under a thousand tickets, assuming they were tickets that hadn't been picked up by corporate/hospitality/bands etc and a few failed payments?
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Or the fact that sold out was 1hr 40 was that maybe only half of the first allocation went on sale?
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So it is tomorrow by my watch, what do you know?
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But it's still another chance for some. May resale went in 12 minutes last time. For those who get through, those few minutes mean a helluva lot
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For me personally, there's no strength in depth. However, I acce
pt that the festival isn't aimed at my age group and if that's what the youngun's want then.... we'll see.
I'm going to be optimistic and wait for the full line up. And even then, it still looks underwhelming then I'm going to relax and potter from stage to stage hopefully enjoying stuff I never would have gone to watch, and not having
to panic about getting from band A to band B in 5 mins.
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For me personally, there's no strength in depth. However, I accept that the festival isn't aimed at my age group and if that's what the youngun's want then.... we'll see.
I'm going to be optimistic and wait for the full line up. And even then, if it still looks underwhelming then I'm going to relax and potter from stage to stage hopefully enjoying stuff I never would have gone to watch, and not having
to panic about getting from band A to band B in 5 mins.
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I think it basically comes down to what you want from the festival experience. Lineup has never really been a huge issue for me, it's more about the craic.... 4 or 5 days camping with a bunch of great mates and listening to a few bands we like the sound of or already enjoy. happy to pay £200 for that, if I was off on a last minute jolly abroad that's what I'd probably fork out and tbh get the same laughs doing that as going to a fest. On the Friday last year at Glasto we didn't even leave the camp until we went to 'The Park' for Radiohead, since we were having such a laugh anyway. There's probably about 10 bands announced already that I want to see (foos and black keys (f'kin awesome double) being the top 2), break that down and that's £20 a band which is fine by me. Admittedly, the after hours stuff at Reading doesn't even come close to Glasto etc but there is still enough outside of the music on the stages for me to see it as worth it.
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Friday at Leeds was a mudbath, not as bad as Glasto gets but 11hours of solid rain meant some areas got pretty dodgy- problem is that I don't think they have the infrastructure (or maybe the inclination) to deal with it in the same way - there was no tracking to be seen virtually anywhere and loads of potholes which equalled some pretty minging areas, particularly when trying to walk uphill. Though the 'signage' was pretty poor too, walking from arena at two am back to brown car park, in the dark and pissed, was basically just a guessing game as to which direction to take. I've done Glasto in some pretty horrific years and there was no way that the mud was anywhere near as bad there -but there are ways that they could so it 'better'
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Friday at Leeds was a mudbath, not as bad as Glasto gets but 11hours of solid rain meant some areas got pretty dodgy- problem is that I don't think they have the infrastructure (or maybe the inclination) to deal with it in the same way - there was no tracking to be seen virtually anywhere and loads of potholes which equalled some pretty minging areas, particularly when trying to walk uphill. Though the 'signage' was pretty poor too, walking from arena at two am back to brown car park, in the dark and pissed, was basically just a guessing game as to which direction to take. I've done Glasto in some pretty horrific years and there was no way that the mud was anywhere near as bad there -but there are ways that they could so it 'better'
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there was no separate car park at Leeds for day ticket holders, we left the arena about two, walked back to the car, kipped until about 11 and then drove out with no problems. Would have been easy enough to stay in one of the camps as well as there were no checks being made as you passed from one campsite to another, in fact it would be embarrassingly easy to go up on a friday with a day ticket at Leeds and then stay in the camps with all the music/rides etc for. the craic if that's what you wanted to do. Checks on the main gates into the arena for booze etc were minimal at best, non-existent in some cases.
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elbow 'grounds for divorce' and muse 'newborn'
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Found on Twitter after JLS cancelled... Photo of the day:
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As I've already said, I didn't see Jessie at Glastonbury; my only experience of it has been on the local TV news....
noise that the crowd made in those clips was HUGELY nearer the girlie/young kids screams that I experienced at Atomic Kitten and Daniel Beddingfield than the more-normal adult roar that's heard at festivals.
with the sound coming mainly from the cam.mics at the pit? probably from that perspective might have been the overwhelming noise.... but as someone who WAS there I can honestly say that that wasn't indicative of the crowd response for the majority of the gig.
As to her writing credits and history- a long record of writing songs for others both before and during her 'rise to fame' (for want of a better expression), not some manufactured pop act cobbled together from an advert on 'the stage' and she's put the slog in to get where she is- to suggest her popularity is down to looks rather than talent is laughable. I guess the 'people' spoke though because the crowd for her slot was immense.
I'm still interested to know though how you can be so disparaging and question her credibility when you won't indicate what your definition of a 'credible' artist is.
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It was definitley a 'screamy screamy, scream at every f**king movement Jessie J does in the highest pitched ever' type crowd.
Gotta disagree, crowd reaction was no different to say muse/U2/QOTSA in terms of 'pitch' - just regular cheering etc
I hate to think what it was like in front of the stage.Pretty good actually. We were about 4 rows back, in the centre, as I wanted to see Jessie and the other 'arf wanted to be in prime position for (the ever-bendy
)Alison Mosshart.This sounded pretty bloody good - OPENER
She must be doing something right - one of the biggest crowds I've ever seen at a mid-afternoon other stage slot:
and this is a pretty fair asseement of the crowd(ie pretty fair mix between 0-60!!) - dont see this as over dominated by tweenies!!:
Writing credit on every track on her album, not too above herself to interact with the crowd (a la Guy Garvey who held the pyramid in the palm of his hand on the saturday), recipient of several notable music awards - great voice....just what exactly does it take for her to be perceived as a 'credible' artist. Just because she makes 'popular' (whatevr that is) music I dont think that that should diminish obvious talent.
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and there's her popularity summed up in a nutshell.
I just love credible musical appreciation of credible artists.
ok - so what is your definition of a 'credible artist' then?
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oh come on nobody kid yourselves, she's dross. do it like a dude is a lame attempt at being somehow subversive, and, even without the unbearable pretension, is a shite song. price tag is little more than a rip off of where is the love by black eyed peas. she really is the pits.
so basing opinion on the two songs that have been commercially successful and 'popular'.
Was very interesting to see the amount of thirty plus in that field who to all intents and purposes were just there as nowhere else to be at that moment, and watch the surprise on their faces as she opened with 'mamma knows' and absolutely belted it out. Field was also RAMMED and as someone who was there I can tell you the audience was
NOT predominantly kids, teens and tweenies.
Rather than all this 'she's shit, end of' bollocks I'd respect people far more if they could be a little more constructive and say what exactly their issue/problem with her music.... and beyond that I think the 'navel-gazing, oooh I'm so intense and serious music snobbery' thats often directed to (quite frequently) 'popular' artists that gies on is a steaming pile of w*nk
Any guesses on who the special guests are opening other on Friday?
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Ah, just seen other threaf