Terence Fletcher
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Will refine from posting anything I hear - not entirely sure why this person would lie about the announcement. They work with Ian Brown / Stone Roses and they gave me the option last comeback tour to get tickets before it was even announced. I wouldn't have posted if it was just something I heard from a friend who heard from a friend of a friend in the pub that they had an announcement.
I read that Justin Bieber has compared himself to Michael Jackson earlier, this prompt someone who I work with to say "Justin should headline Glastonbury, he would be brilliant, don't ya think?"
I think I have finished laughing at the statement......
(the person has tickets for the first time, to tick off their bucket list and is only bothered about headliners, has said if headliners are rubbish they will just not bother going and give up their ticket, figured it isn't worth debating given that they are a Justin Bieber fan)Jacko's rotting corpse has more talent than Bieber has, I would lose the will to live working alongside a colleague like yours.
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Last couple of years we have not had many big stadium gigs. I know Sunderland struggled with that lack of big acts around.
I do expect U2 to do some stadiums this year
Last time AC/DC toured (Black Ice) they did a gig at Stadium of Light and it never sold out, despite being just down the road from where Brian Johnson was bought up, Sunderland area does seem to be lacking a passion for music.
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Will never happen, Axl is a bigger jerk than Prince, even if they agreed to headline Axl will probably turn up 90 mins late, steer well clear.
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I'm with you on this. People either want to go or they don't, yes in reality it might help people a bit to be forced to chip away at the balance rather than pay it all off in April, but why on earth should the Festival have to mother people who don't have the discipline to save up £180 over 6 months?
How much difference would it make to the dynamic of the festival crowd to have a few extra people there who if they didn't have a payment plan option would have had to let their ticket go in the resale because they didn't have the money? Precisely none.
I pretty much agree with this.
If someone wants to go to Glasto they will make it happen if they are determined enough, £225 is 1 less pint of beer a week when saved up over a year, unless someone is so skint they are relying on a foodbank to survive then Glasto is affordable, and people who are using foodbanks should be worrying about eating not going to Glasto anyway.
If someone can't save up £225 over a year it is not unreasonable to question whether they are trying hard enough.
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They're not going to be able to catch-up on the work though. Not on their own. Not with just you.
To catch up on the work, they'll need extra help from the teacher. And yes, for a kid doing well, that might be ten minutes once a year and no big deal. But teachers don't just teach your kids. They teach all the kids. And if all the kids start doing it, that ten minutes is multiplied by 500, and for kids doing less well, it's more than ten minutes. And it quickly becomes unmanageable.
Yes, informally, if your kid is doing well a teacher might say they're fine with them having time off. But if ask them if they're okay with all the kids doing this, you'll get a very different response.
Teacher training days, school trips etc. are fine because all the kids take the same days off. That's why school holidays exist as a thing.
It could be fixed by hiring more teachers, thus allowing time for that extra tuition. If people are willing pay the extra tax needed to fund that. But given we've just elected a Tory government, that seems unlikely.
But what is the difference between a kid being off school with flu for a few days, and a kid missing a few days to stand at the Pyramid? kids get ill all the time and a kid that catches flu in winter does not by default have his education and career prospects ruined.
My sister missed loads of school with glandular fever and still passed O and A levels comfortably and went to uni and got a first.
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The Sun plucked The Who out of nowhere for 2015 and were spot on, they have a source very very high up the food chain so should be taken seriously.
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Wow it's almost as if it wasn't a serious post
Ha I am new here so everyone's humour/sarcasm is hard to detect as not familiar with anyone's posting style
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I don't know much about AC/DC but I've heard a few songs and they're rocky just like Biffy Clyro.
Perhaps AC/DC could sub to Biffy Clyro kind of like how Pharrell did with Kanye this year, that way you've got a modern day headliner and an older band with 1 or 2 good songs to keep the older generation happy?
I'm sorry if I've completely misjudged their size, maybe 3rd down would be a better position for them?
Mate their current Rock or Bust tour holds the world record for fastest number of ticket sales
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_or_Bust_World_Tour
AC/DC are massive, the biggest instrument playing group in the world right now, subbing or 3rd down is absolutely laughable.
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and for all those there's many acts in their 20s who played those stages too, or at least appeal to a young audience: James Bay, Florence, Rudimental, Mark Ronson, The Vaccines, Jungle, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Run the Jewels, George Ezra, Pharrel, Kayne, Ben Howard, Deadmau5, Clean Bandit, Elle Eyre, Hozier....
bit odd putting Ryan Adams in there too, he played The Park and he's not exactly old like the others you mentioned....
I confused him with BRYAN Adams of Summer of 69 fame -
Completeley agree, maybe a bit of david guetta or hardwell to bring the age down
Looking at 2015 - The Who, Motorhead, Paul Weller, Foo Fighters (although the pulled out), Patti Smith, George Clinton, Mavis Staples, Burt Bacharach, Roy Ayers, Ryan Adams to name a few, were all on the 3 main stages, some of them were before my time let alone the current generation, so I don't think the line up is really geared towards a young (14-21) audience.
So I don't know how Eavis can complain about too many older people at Glasto when he is filling the stages with retro acts
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When year on year the demographic is getting both older and more middle class it's not just pot luck. It's been maybe 4/5 years since ME raised concerns about the shift in the make up of those attending, and in the intervening years the process has continued. It's a trend, not some massive statistical anomaly that the audience is getting older.
I think it is a far too big assumption that money is the reason young people are not attending though, simply cutting the price I do not believe would open the floodgates for a load of teenagers.
Glasto is on in mid June, people are still taking exams, at school and sixth form and college, so Glasto might be too much of a distraction when they are revising.
Also the acts are by and large not geared towards young people, you don't get Justin Bieber, One Direction, Olly Murs, Little Mix and that type of artist there, the acts looking at last year do seem very geared towards an older audience.
I think the reasons why Glasto seemingly attracts an older audience is not just down to money.
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Having listened to Elton last night for the first time in years, I agree he would be much better as the Sunday night headliner closing the show, Saturday Night's Alright, Bitch Is Back, I'm Still Standing etc would be perfect show closing material.
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In my opinion it's just as much of an ugly trait to judge those they perceive as being of a "higher status/class" as it is to look down on those they see as inferior. It's all bollocks. Who cares about class, man. Let's just all get along and party in the happiest festival on Earth.
Or something.
I agree with this, Twitter and Facebook are particularly bad for reverse snobbery
The other day Sajid Javid was trending on Twitter, and the bile that was directed at him was unreal "toff" "snob" and other similar terms, when the reality is his father was a bus driver, hardly upper class, but because he was a tory he was branded with the upper class and elitist stereotype by default.
I am not a tory, would describe myself as "New Labour", but I think it is appalling people are judged on their so called class.
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I have never been to Glasto but how do people know there are too many middle class/posh people there? genuine question.
I am sure most people who go will talk to 50-100 people when they go to Glasto, do you ask them what class they are or how much they earn? how can anyone tell who is working class or middle class or upper class?
If someone saw me at Glasto they would think I am a working class or traveller type, I have a hipster beard, tattoos, wear a bandana outside of work, when infact I got a 2:1 in computer science and am a senior manager for a FTSE 100 company.
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Ideal for legends slot, but I doubt his planet sized ego could accept anything other than headliner, so it won't happen.
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a quarter of a million middle aged people trying to break in! I'd pay to see that!
Oh on topic, The Durrannies, not for me.
When they did the o2 in 2007 there was over 2 million applications for tickets, probably more than the number of people who try for Glasto, desire to see them at Glasto would be off the scale
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Are AC/DC actually big enough to headline? I don't know a great deal about them but would a sub to The Foos be more suitable?
If they were to play on the same bill it would be Foo Fighters subbing AC/DC not the other way round
AC/DC are probably only marginally behind the Stones in terms of status, and would likely get a similar crowd at the Pyramid
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I can't speak for others, but when I was referring to safe and edgy I wasn't meaning that I wanted a more dangerous environment, just a less bland and boring one - or the audience anyway.
Good point about disposable income though. There will be quite a few who've taken on a mortgage since the crash who will have little to spare. The point remains though that the festival has become more middle aged and middle class, something that hasn't escaped the Eavii. What, if anything, can be done about it heaven knows, but something has to be done or it'll wither and die.
It's just pot luck who gets tickets, a lottery, fact more middle age and middle class are getting tickets on ticket day is just luck of the draw, I am sure hundreds of thousands of school and uni age people missed out on ticket day
Short of getting Olly Murs and One Direction to headline I don't see what more can be done to get more youth in, the festival line up in general does seem more geared towards Radio 2 listeners than Radio 1
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I still think that.
You would be very much the minority, If Led Zeppelin headlined it would be by far the biggest attendance on the pyramid field ever, infact it would be a serious safety hazard, not to mention another 250,000 on the outside trying to break down the fencing.
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Has Grace Jones done Glasto before?
Would be an awesome Sunday afternoon seeing her with her tits hanging out belting out her numbers.
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Love Duran Duran, one of the bands I grew up on
Ideal for headlining Other Stage
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if Foos are out of the picture then it certainly makes AC/DC seem a little more likely i guess (if only because it wouldn't mean two 'heavy' acts) - from the look of things the trio of headliners definitely needs a kick up the arse
It would be good to have some fresh blood as opposed to recycling the same old acts like Coldplay and Muse
I could not see AC/DC and Fleetwood Mac both headlining though, not because their music is similar but I just don't see 2 'vintage' acts headlining
AC/DC over Fleetwood Mac any day of the week
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Andy Copping favourited my tweet where I said 'Shame AC/DC aren't doing Download, they must be doing Glasto instead, can't wait for Download though'.
Of course he could be favouriting the last bit but equally it makes me feel more chance of AC/DC doing Glasto now.
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Copping said on Twitter that Blackmore/Rainbow will not be appearing
Can't stand Rammstein, will give that one a miss, so am tempted to buy day passes to see Sabbath and Maiden
Was hoping the 3rd headliner would be AC/DC, but as they are not doing Download it surely makes Glasto more likely now, can't see them doing R+L or T In The Park
Another price hike
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With instalments you have to go or you lose your money
What happens if someone gets a Glasto ticket on instalment plan and 4 or 5 months in they break their leg and can't go, or get made redundant, or see the line up and decide its shit, they dont get their money back at Download if they bail out, and wouldnt at Glasto
At least with a £50 deposit the door is open to bail out if you want
Instalments would be bad thing