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  1. Saw and enjoyed both his sets. I can't remember seeing The Other Stage so packed in the day and never felt the Temple shake as much as it did for his set. That said, his next album needs to be a massive hit and be ubiquitous / big mainstream appeal (like Fat of The Land, Surrender / Dig your Own Hole, Homework, Play) for him to even be in the conversation for future pyramid headliner. It's technically possible but his next album could just as easily be poorly received and find that his ceiling is The Other Stage / WH headliner. I think he'll most likely not play (live show at least) next year unless the hype train maintains its momentum
  2. Minor gripes - The dystopian style of Shangri-La feels dated since now more than ever does it feel like we are in a dystopia. We don't need reminding of it since we live it every day. At this point, leaning hard into a stylised utopia would be the more subversive direction. The congestion in Shangri-la is generally quite terrible. Not much that can be done due to space constraints but maybe, just maybe rethink having food stands facing the truth stage and find a way to route people heading to the toilet that doesn't involve them having to go across the truth stage. ICONN is an amazing stage and a sight to behold but I'm getting older and recognise the names playing less and less and struggle with the more esoteric techno/electronica more and more. There's a wealth of space on that field and if they had slightly more mainstream djs on there, it could help with reducing congestion across the rest of the SEC. While I appreciate what the block9 guys are doing regarding their programming, ICONN can handle a big draw / crowds, its just a bit of shame they aren't maximising it's potential. it's probably a budget thing more than anything though. The Unfairground could do with a refresh. I don't think it's changed much at all in nearly 10 years so feels quite stale.
  3. My worst fail of all time was missing Moderat and Justice because my crew wanted to stay for Ed Sheeran and I couldn't be bothered to trek to West Holts and then have to find everyone after on the sunday in 2019. This year though, I think I smashed it and don't have any major regrets apart from maybe taking it a little too easy on the saturday and arriving to Fred Again late and not getting into the crowd proper.
  4. Yeah I was happy with what I saw but having already seen them I didn't mind leaving as I wanted to get in to the The Temple that night. Though my friends who saw the Artics were mostly very disappointed. The first thing one of my mates said whe I caught up with them was "That was absolutely awful. I would have rather done a pinger at my Gran's funeral. It was like being stuck on a cruise ship being crooned at by a pensioner" My decision to watch Kelis felt very vindicated after that
  5. If you think that's misguided, a couple of my friends took some pills before Artic Monkeys. As bad decisions go, that was probably their worst of the weekend. I only watched GnR until Live and Let Die. Slash was great, Axl's voice was a bit woeful at times but hardly surprising. The performance felt quite impersonal and I didn't feel particularly engaged so went to West Holts and caught the end of Loyle Carner's quite wonderful set.
  6. Yep, been watching that low develop over the last few days and its making me nervous. Fortunately other models/ensembles aren't showing rain on sunday (yet) so I'm cautiously optimistic that we will avoid it.
  7. Coming up to the last 2 hours of work. Just got to clean my desk and drop off some equipment and then my out of office will be on. Did the majority of the packing last night so just got to do a few last minute things before setting off at 8pm. Can't.Bloody.Wait
  8. Thank you @pilton digger and @deebeedoobeefor the updates, they were joy to read every day and a huge part of my glasto build up. Have a cracking festival!
  9. Of all the options, that would be one of the more hilarious ones
  10. A firm contender for your finest work yet
  11. Always worth taking and leaving in the car but if you're going by coach / train, walking boots will be more than enough.
  12. Latest run is looking good. Possibility of light showers on Wednesday but apart from that, dry throughout. Temps remain pretty much the same. 21c and rising from thursday, hitting a high of 27c on sunday.
  13. I should have worded better. This was a downgrade but nothing to worry about. 21c most days and a couple of light showers over 5 days? I'd take that any day of the week Compared to some of the bad ones, this is a dream.
  14. You can't have a rollercoaster without a few dips. Guess we'll see in the next run if this was an outlier or if it continues down this path, though hardly surprising to have a bad run after 8 great ones in a row.
  15. looks like it'll drop massively to a baltic 19c around 3am before warming up again. If this comes to pass, monday is going to be hell
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