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Thanks so much for this recommendation, I don't know many of the bands being mentioned but hearing these guys chat is fascinating and the topics are universal.

The problem with Bloc Party is that the drop off in quality following Silent Alarm is imo severe. Am sure I was shocked by how bland the second album stuff was. Then things like "Flux" seemed irritating at the time, but actually I quite like it now - it may have been a much better direction to go in. I think "Flux" was actually rushed out because the 2nd album had flopped.. they did a silent alarm set at a Glasgow summer gig a few years ago. As other shave said I would expect a Glastonbury set to be fairly Silent Alarm heavy in any event.

Hello all, I've never been to Latitude. I would like to see Orbital at some point this summer. Unfortunately can't attend their date in Glasgow. I thought about getting a day ticket for the Saturday of Latitude but the rest of the days line up is a shocker, imo. Am I approaching this wrong? Is there plenty going on away from the 2 main live stages? Is a day ticket practical enough or would I have to leave the site/miss out on some good DJs later on? Any advice appreciated. Years ago my pal was at Latitude along with The Twilight Sad and bumped into folk like Nick Cave etc. However the Latitude booking approach appears to have changed a good deal since then.

Hello, what's this podcast called please? Would you recommend it? Now I find myself enjoying logisitcal stuff these days almost as much as the music 🙂 Line ups this summer aren't great. I would like to see Orbital at some point this summer but am frankly amazed at what I would need to sit through at Latitude on the Saturday (for example). It's like they're running Springtime for Hitler 🙂

I went to flow in 2015. Was very lucky with the weather. Warm and sunny each day. I had a great time. It's in an urban/concrete site not unlike primavera sound in Barcelona. The booze is of course a bit expensive and you were only allowed to drink craft beer in a special wee area, which was funny. The line up was light during the day but from early evening there was plenty to see and there aren't also the fairly late stage times of fests in Spain, Greece etc. Helsinki itself is OK, not as nice as the major Swedish cities imo. You can get a ferry across to Riga which is a nice twist of you want to make a longer holiday of it.

I don't understand why blur were booked for coachella. According to a short interview they did with KROQ, their management was called one night at 11pm and they were given 5 minutes to decide. I wonder if it's the Coachella organisers sticking 2 fingers up at their influencer punters, or otherwise trying to demonstrate they are still rock fans by getting a big "heritage" esque rock band, any heritage esque rock band...

I'm a wedding and parties DJ and I literally don't understand how Grimes was able to make so many mistakes. I use traktor so maybe she was using something more complex/glamorous. I also don't understand why blur were booked for coachella. According to a short interview they did with KROQ, their management was called one night at 11pm and they were given 5 minutes to decide. I wonder if it's the Coachella organisers sticking 2 fingers up at their influencer punters, or otherwise trying to demonstrate they are still rock fans.

Nobody has really straightforwardly answered whether they think Justice are a bit of fun or a properly credible act. I can't help thinking it's the former. For what it's worth, I saw Moderat at West Holts before them and I would agree the sound was terrific and the sunset lovely. I departed to see Metronomy. Ed sheeran was on the pyramid (I had to navigate a terrifying crush on the path to John Peel Tent - Eds crowd was massive) and I can't remember who was on the Other and Park. It may actually have been Boy Better Know and Kano, respectively, which - given the demographic of Glastonbury, goes a long way to explaining how Justice attracted such a crowd and the set attained such status...

I think the singles have been of surprising quality. Produced by rick rubin. They *do* sound like the sort of intricate productions that are possibly going to be butchered live. Re sza and Burna boy, I thought Burna boy has played Wembley? Did imagine that. Was he supporting someone else? That 2008 Friday at the Pyramid beggars belief...

In 2017 I went to Metronomy at Woodsies instead of Justice at WH. Metronomy filled the tent, just. They were just OK. (London Grammar subbed them and seemed to have had a bigger crowd. But that was 2017 - London Grammar will struggle at the Park.) I'm generally unclear on what sort of regard Justice are held in. Are they seen as a poor man's Daft Punk? I last saw them in 2013 and had a great laugh but I wasn't sure if it was just silly fun with monstrous lights. There was that photo that did the rounds of them "DJing" without the decks properly plugged in... What sort of crowd did Calvin Harris end up pulling, out of interest. Dua will justify her top billing.

This is absolutely horrid. But may sell in the same "ballpark" as Connect, but be significantly cheaper to stage. Thanks for the info above @Handshake. The Indian summer line ups do look almost remarkable now. Were they booked prior to a few of those acts having their wee purple patch? It's hard to remember now. PCL haven't repeated the trick since.

It would be interesting to know the numbers. It feels like there is limited appetite in Scotland (or at least the east coast) for a quality event of this nature. And I'm not sure why. i do know there's something about an outdoor fest on this date at that site that feels pretty unappealing. I couldn't be bothered drumming up pals to attend it. I wonder if it would have done considerably better in May or June, nearer Glasgow. I had no hesitation in for example getting a ticket for Mogwai in Queens Park (Glasgow) at end of June.

Do you think this is possible? The line ups are fairly low-key/modest so far. I could see New Order in Cardiff on the Thursday date but can't make the Manchester Saturday one.

Given the prime slot Gorillaz got at Coachella 2023, and Damon being onstage with Billie Eilish at Coachella in 2022..I think it's a pretty important relationship to his continuing US career. I don't think there's much for them to be gained playing Glastonbury in 2024. Think of when they played The Brits in 2012ish and there was various social media whingeing about the vocals blah blah, mostly by people totally unaccustomed to what live rock music singing typically sounds like.

Huh? What happens? Is it a "KLF soundystem"...

STEREOFUNK 2024...are you wanting to go 🙂

I was going to launch a slightly bizarre defence of Robbie Williams, I had it in my head that between 1998 and 2003 he had a string of sturdy pop singles comparable in their own little way to stevie wonder or david bowies strings of magnificent 70s albums. but I've checked and errr that's not right. These are probably the ones that rightly or wrongly you could at least argue are great pop songs (released amongst some other real muck). Let me entertain you Angels Strong No regrets Millennium She's the one Rock DJ

Have had a soft spot for Dua Lipa since I saw her on the Friday afternoon in 2017 in John Peel (is that now being called a different name?) while waiting for The Lemon Twigs! Houdini isn't very good but I think working with Kevin parker and his pal Tobias is maybe a risk if you're looking for a nailed on hit. Dance the Night is a monstrously huge song however, deservedly so imo, and another impressive writing credit for Mark Robson - I had assumed his days of big songs were behind him. @northernangelwho are the acts you think would shift more UK tickets than Dua Lipa at the moment? Am interested.

The "KLF" are on the bill of some festival with Vengaboys as headliner. Is that a typo or a joke? Can't see Drummond or Cauty turning up somehow ...

any more details about what actually unfolded? I've thought for a while that most gig staging is remarkably unimaginative. A big screen showing music videos. So what? Just going on personal experience, one of the best "musical" things I've ever seen onstage as Cirque de Soleil's Beatles "LOVE" in Las Vegas. 15 years old now and I don't actually know if was considered a success or not. Not live music as such, because it was a pre recorded soundtrack. But still mesmerizing.

2022 was horribly over sold and was a completely different experience from the other 6 editions I attended 2011 - 2016. The "vibe" was stone dead. There's a "Thursday was horrible but Friday and Saturday in 2022 were mostly OK" myth - I memorably watched each of Beck and Parquet Courts from absolutely miles away from their respective stages on the Friday, and on the Saturday I waited almost an hour for a drink at the Ray Ban when Wet Leg were on, and the crowd crush during the changeover between Nick Cave and Gorillaz was outright dangerous. Just examples that immediately come to mind when I think of situations that were unpleasant. Do we know (broadly) what sales were like in 2023? Possibly tricky to make a direct comparison as the site was smaller?

Line-up looks fine to me. There were certainly a few years over the last decade where the line up wasn't stunning/compelling, 2014, 2015 and 2017 spring to mind immediately. So a kind of middling year is OK. The National look and feel really over booked now. I'm not sure who Vampire Weekend's audience is in 2024, but I like them.

I assume anyone into music enough be on the efests forums doesn't think this line up is, on an artistic level, anything other than a travesty. On the other hand, you can certainly admire the clarity of the vision - as many white guys playing bland music as possible. Embarrassingly, I actually engaged KT Tunstall on Twitter a few years ago and had a debate in which I defended the booking policy of this fest, on the grounds that DF was a commercial enterprise. A line up like this is however indefensible. I feel like the lady that gets bitten in Al Wilson's The Snake: "I saved you", cried that woman"And you've bit me even, why?You know your bite is poisonous and now I'm going to die""Oh shut up, silly woman", said the reptile with a grin"You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in"

Tbf, I didn't know this. Relatively recently? The live act seems to have gone up a gear in popularity in the last decade or so (as more and more Beatles songs were added to the set!). I just assumed he was beyond fests except Glasto type special occasions. Same for Madonna. Just too popular and could earn more and control production more on her own tour.

Why the run at the o2 though? Just to save her travelling round the UK? The setlist looks brilliant. Won't say unless you are avoiding spoilers. Includes a few surprising things I Would LOVE to hear.