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Suggesting it's more about the music than the event is declaring open war on some of the regulars here.
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If you're considering giving Glasto the skip because Outkast aren't playing and you're not going to get to hear Hey Ya on the Pyramid Stage you may want to consider checking yourself into an insane asylum and rubbing your excrement all over your padded walls. And maybe on your face. In a sort of Rambo style.
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If you feel the festival is "slipping through your fingers" then get a ticket for another fest. You won't be missed.
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You're right you know, it's going to be awful this year. Best save your money and chuck those tickets back in the resale pot - do it today! (If that's even possible).
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The 9 or 10 acts confirmed so far represent the merest tippy-top of the iceberg.
There's a good chance that when the full line-up is announced you still won't have heard of two thirds of them.
If you're cool with dismissing dozens and dozens of bands that you've never heard purely because you've never heard of them then fine, but it doesn't strike me as the action of someone who's all about the music.
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Hmmm....
There are those who go to Glastonbury for the experience (where perhaps bands are secondary)
And those (like myself) who the line up/bands are the most important feature (although I love/appreciate the rest Glastonbury has to offer)
Anyway, I have tickets for this year and paying close attention to who is likely to be there this year.
I got to say that it seems like (for me, as these things are personal/subjective) that a lot of bands that would interest me (for various reasons) won't be there....
So far there are far more bands who very likely won't be there that I would want to see, leaving an ever diminishing pool of other artists that don't/won't excite me. Now I'm not talking about some of the smaller stages, or those lower down the bill at the major stages...just the "bigger" names...
So it looks like there will not be any...
Prince
New Order
Suede
Depeche Mode
Outkast
ACDC (although a long shot)
Metallica
The Cure
Or due to playing last year, some smaller established artists like
PIL
Smashing Pumpkins
Sinead O'Connor
The Proclaimers
Elvis Costello
Public Enemy
So ruling out these "bigger" names we have so far (at least strongly rumoured with some confirmations)
Arcade Fire (who I really love/happy with)
Kasabian
Eagles
Dolly Parton
Suzanne Vega
Lilly Allen
Massive Attack
I know more bands will be announced, but so far what's coming through is uninspiring (for me)
I do love exploring the smaller stages, and bands lower down the bill but for me I can see most of these bands cheaper at the many other boutique festivals. Glastonbury is the opportunity to see some of the bigger bands (and I don't mean anomalies like the last few years with The Stones/U2 etc) just that (unless I'm wrong) we are at the point where for me, whatever is announced is going to disappoint due to the reasons/omissions above...
It also seems that other festivals are beating Glastonbury to the punch for various headline artists (some of which I don't like)
On the positive side, there will be two more tix in the resale as I give up mine....
and I have tickets for Suede/Cure at The Albert Hall thus creating a gig weekend of it in London :-)
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Been going to Glastonbury on and off over the last 20 odd years and watched it on the tv the years I have not been I have to say this years coverage for the first time left me a bit cold. It just did not seem right and I can't put my finger on it, of course this is subjective and I know that I was not there but it did not translate well for me this year. Maybe I have tired of all the fawning by Wiley et al, and saw some very average performances, the crowd as well at times looked subdued(Primal Scream/QOTSA excluded) and the inclusion of more T4 on the beach/Radio 1 Big Weekend pop/rnb acts that have done it?
Or maybe those on site had an amazing weekend and this was another vintage Glastonbury??
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Well seeing as the festival is keen to bring in more urban pop acts I would expect to see Jesse J, Dizzee and in keeping with T4 on the beach, V and Radio 1's Big Weekend it will be the first reunion gig of Girls Aloud.
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I'm a professional glasto goer because:
I spoke to (insert number) of randoms/strangers
I cried at the beauty of it all or got emotional during (insert bands) song. In other words nobody could have possibly enjoyed the set as much as me; or is as open,sensitive or "get it "
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When I go to Glastonbury I tend to seek out the other side of the festival and avoid the pyramid, other stage, avalon, dance tent, park, jazz stage, arcadia, pilton farm, glastonbury and somerset!!
That to me is the true festival experience, unspolit, untouched, uncommercial........I would never dream of actually seeing bands, DJ's, performances, artists and the like...that would be silly
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Prodigy 09, maxim needs to wrap up and stop banging on!!!!! I thought it was really embarrassing to be honest
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Paul Simon?
Glastonbury Slipping Through My Fingers...
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