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23 minutes ago, greenlimetrees said:
Do we think this is going to be same for people camping ? Thinking I don’t want to carry a jumper or jacket round all day and much easier if I can just go back to my tent and grab one when needed ?
You’ll be ok to come and go. From the Connect app -
“Campers will be able to leave the main festival site to access the car parks, or local amenities via the Campsite Entrance. However, a search will be required on every re-entry.
Campers will be able to enter the Arena from the Campsite throughout the event but will be searched upon entering the Arena. “
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Boris seems to be floundering here even more than usual. He’s barely put together a coherent sentence.
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Edinburgh was great. Surprisingly good crowd. Everyone sitting down initially - a few people up dancing early on. One guy was thrown out for continuing to dance after security told him to sit down a few time. Thankfully they let him back in after a few minutes to cheers from the rest of the crowd. Next minute everyone was up dancing and remained that way for the rest of the set except for a few quieter songs. Sound was cracking. Set was a bit short though. Another 30mins would have been good.
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Closely followed by The Streets - 2003 I think
Portishead - 2013
Massive attack - 2014 ish
Orbital at arcadia in the old location - forgot the year.
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The Stones - 2013. A perfect day all round.
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Got the holding page up almost straight away on MacBook - didn’t get past that though. Didn’t even get holding page on windows laptop On hime WiFi or phone using 4g.
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Swoon
what a fuckin song
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Jon Hopkins looked amazing there.
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I had a great time at Madcool as well last weekend. We arrived in Madrid, late Thursday morning. Checked into our apartment and heading out for food and a few drinks. Left Malasana area mid afternoon to get the metro to the site. Fairly big queue of people were waiting just outside the station. We were moving after about 5 mins. The walk was fairly long, zigzagging around the site a bit. There was a brief search and then the walk continued. Saw people having water and food taken off them. I would guess it took about 45 mins to get into the site from leaving the metro. I thought this was pretty reasonable. Thankfully, we had our wristbands already as the queue in the left side for collecting them was huge.
Waited about 30mins for our first drinks at the bar to the left hand side. Toilets were good the first day - much cleaner than UK festivals - no one pissing on the ground. I can’t say that they were as good on the Saturday. Realised that the bar queues varied massively depending where you went. The queue at the other end of the same bar I went to initially was almost non existent. Don’t remember queuing more than 5 mins for the rest of the weekend. Drink prices were just about OK. The spirits contained generous measures.
As as a few others mentioned, the sound and visuals were great. Especially for Tame Impala, who were one of my highlights. Also saw Eels and Fleet Foxes from the back. It was good when the sun went down and the temperature cooled a bit. Watched a bit of Pearl Jam, who aren’t really my thing, but they sounded good. Highlight of the Thursday was Justice in the Loop stage. Wandered around the back of the crowd and up the right side of stage. Atmosphere and sound was top notch. Headed for the shuttle buses later into town followed by a taxi to our apartment.
The Friday didn’t go quite as planned. Went out for lunch and a few drinks around 2pm. This turned into a few more. In the end, we got distracted by the Madrid nightlife and missed the entire day. Had planned to head up to the site for Young Fathers and Massive Attack. Glad i never now. Spent the entire night in various bars and clubs - getting home at 6am.
Went out out for lunch, drinks, watching England v Belgium. Journey to the festival was quick on the Saturday. Saw QOTSA, Depeche Mode, Ritchie Hawtin and Underworld. Depeche mode the highlight of the day. Crowd was friendly throughout. Everyone having a good time. Trip back to town was via the metro and taxi. All pain free.
Id definitely go back. As has been said, it’s not really a festival in the Glastonbury sense. There’s nothing much there except the stages. As there are almost no gaps between bands, you don’t really need anything else I suppose. The site was good, especially the AstroTurf to sit on. They could do with expanding the area slightly by moving the stages a bit further away from each other - especially the Loop, Koko and the radio stage as there was a lot of soundbleed there unless you moved closer to the stage.
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Amazing performance from a TV point of view.
Would have liked a few more MSP songs too. Loved it though
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Wish I was there to see them but unfortunately couldn't get to Glastonbury this year.
Looked great on TV but I see that the screens wouldn't be great for the live crowd.
Not sure what people expect from Radiohead The set tonight was pretty varied. They're not exactly a band of big hits. Glad to hear a set with a lot of In Rainbows. Looking forward to seeing them in Glasgow in 2 weeks
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Maybe Psy is headlining with all this Korean shite.
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2 hours ago, mungo57 said:
hmmmm not sure what to make of them not being exclusives.
On the other hand TDCC are an exclusive which is annoying, was hoping to see them at the farm again, enjoyed them last time!
TDCC were announced yesterday for Belladrum so that is another very dubious "uk exclusive"
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Glasgow standing was sold out by 9.03. Had tickets chosen at 9.00 but sold out before payment made.
They're still available on O2 priority though if anyone has access to that.
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Chemical Brothers
The Libertines
PSB
Lamb
Gaz Coombes
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I think that ireland were even luckier to have 11 men on the field at the end!
A game of very average quality overall but one of the most enjoyable football matches I've seen for a while. Both teams going for it for the full 90mins.
Good to see the only moment of real quality winning the match.
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Booked just before 9.15 - no email but money showing on online banking as requested so not worried.
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I had no luck using Firefox, chrome and IE on PC using Virgin 100mb connection. Just a white screen and taking a long time to refresh. Tried on iPhone at about 9.10 which got onto seetickets busy page instantly and refreshed instantly. About 2-3 minutes of refreshing on the phone and I was through. No hold ups after I saw the enter registrations screen. Phone was also connected through wifi to broadband - not 3G.
The lack of any progress initially is frustrating compared to the old "queue" page but over all the system seemed much better. There seems to be a smoother transition through the purchase process once you reach the first stage compared to previous years.
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Everywhere east of Norwich. Gone!
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Inheritance is the greatest source of economic and social inequality though
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all of radioheads albums have gone to number one. So they are all "commercial" arent they?
what part of radioheads music is "commercial"? and what is not?
what does "commercial" mean anyway?
Fair enough. It's pretty hard to define commercial I suppose. To me OK computer was when then appeared most mainstream. That might be due to the age I was / being a student when it was released.
They obviously have a huge following and would be a great headliner. I'm just not sure how great their appeal would be to all the youger casual festival goers.
The non commercial thing is a positive. It's far better when a band can make the music they want rather than the music that their record company wants them to make - in order for them to maximise profits.
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Is this a joke? In rainbows was an amazing album.
Radiohead will also be a headlining band
In Rainbows is probably my favorite Radiohead album - the previous comment did specify "commercial" though. So I would agree to an extent.
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I went in the Friday and Saturday.
The Friday was fairly quiet although Primal Scream had a decent crowd. They were on good form - Bobby Gillespie was unusually chatty. The gospel choir really added to the screamadelica set.
We arrived about 2 o’clock on the Saturday. Zero queue to get in so was a bit concerned that it was going to be badly attended. Thankfully it was much busier in the Saturday. I’d guess that there were twice as many people there. Think it was busier than the Saturday last year. Friendly crowd of all ages. Decent food and drink options. Had vip bands which meant the queues there were much smaller. The food queues later on in the main area were ridiculous. Kelly Lee Owens had a small crowd but was great. Roisin Murphy had a decent crowd despite her recent online comments. Young Fathers were immense. I haven’t seen them for years and they’re a quality live act now. Fred again put on a great show. Seemed to have a big crowd who were all living it. I saw his Glastonbury set on tv so difficult to compare but think his set works even better in the dark. He’d make an ideal Other stage headliner.
Hoping it makes a comeback next year and keeps growing. The half day Friday is a bit odd. They’ll need to reduce ticket prices on the Friday or get more acts on.