bobsacamano

It's £200 for the cheapest Manchester tickets. I love the woman however she can get to f**k at those prices. I saw her as part of the full Fleetwood Mac lineup not that many years ago in Birmingham and the ticket prices were absolutely fine, must have been about £50 I reckon. What the hell has happened?? Gotta hope she comes to the festival now, im going to feel so smug if she does.

Genius!

Yeah you could have a mix of stuff, maybe some Cirque de Soleil type performances as well. A big mad variety type show going on from 6pm to midnight.

Yeah looks like someone jumped the gun. Glad as I could have been roped into working that madness. Rumours abound it's actually going to be Pyramid. Years ago they had the footy on the main stage on the Wednesday, they must have got special clearance for that, maybe the powers at be have knocked there heads together and come up with the sensible idea of having a "lesser" headliner on the Pyramid to soak up the crowds. From a H&S perspective it's the most logical solution to the Thursday crushes issue, and they have become a H&S issue.

Oooh these are nice. I'm having this.

That better not be true, Barry and Sofia K are 2 of only a handful I'm arsed about seeing. Honestly this line up just gets worse by the minute.

It's f**king awful, no wonder South Koreans have stopped having kids if that's what they're turning out like.

If I wasn't working it I'd consider sacking it off. As it is I'll wander and have a different type of festival, probably end up having a belter.

Worst lineup I've ever seen. By a distance.

I've actually given it a listen and it's not bad, still struggle to see it as a headliner but I'll just be somewhere else, or on shift.

Everything was perfect, all weekend. Then Faithless knocking it out of the park with that lovely early evening heat still on us and a spectacular sunset. Then Stevie delivers that performance. Watched it from the hill with some of my very best, oldest mates. Just so sweet. Hey ho, I'll stop moaning about the young ones now. Their turn.

Maybe I'm just peeved it doesn't look like Stevie is playing again. The double header Faithless followed by Mr Wonder is possibly my all time Pyramid high. Utter bliss.

Like I said it's about balance, that example would obviously be too far the other way. Portishead, who headlined the other, were close to pure art and however utterly sublime that set was it wouldn't have worked the same on the Pyramid as headliner. Imagine the history of Glastonbury if they stuck on whoever was at the top of the charts as headliner rather than factoring in artistic quality. Glastonbury wouldn't be what it is today if they did. For Glastonbury headliners, artistic quality shouldn't be optional, it should be the central question.

Music is both Art and Entertainment; they are not mutually exclusive. It's about the balance. The best festival headliners have stacks of both, not just one.

f**king hell that's a depressing list. It's all essentially just entertainment rather than music. It has it's place but I wish it wasn't Glastonbury. The greatest festival in the world should strive to be better than that.