MEGABOWL

Absolutely horrible news. Really feel for the guy.

Exactly. Plus there’ll be plenty there who don’t go every year. Repeat bookings are a big deal on here but not necessarily to everyone. I’ve been to 8 Glastonbury’s and seen Elbow once, a number unlikely to change as things stand. But then come June 26 if they are on after (for example) D Ross and it’s raining and I’m tired and I can’t be bothered moving to Holly Humberstone I’ll probably watch them and enjoy it.

I’m saying you need a bit of both and time has proven that including what you deride as ‘safe cookie cutter’ bookings has proven remarkably successful when it comes to running their business. You may be taking what you want and extrapolating it to ‘people’ when the festival has over 100k punters with different tastes and thousands more who’s love tickets who also have a variety of tastes.

You need a mix of everything. By the same token Glastonbury wouldn’t be Glastonbury if it was filling the high slots with each years latest hype. There’s acts that have history with the festival and have helped out, earned their corn doing secret slots and guest appearances and helping make the place special. Or have gone over very well with the Glastonbury crowd in the past. Those acts are always in with a good shout of getting a bigger slot at Glastonbury than other festivals and IMO rightly so. That history is part of what sets it aside from others. I’m a bit surprised by the vitriol that sometimes gets directed towards Elbow, Coldplay etc on here (I know, it’s the Internet) but Emily and co are very good at getting that mix right.

For a Glastonbury fan site, it’s quite impressive how much ire gets directed towards the ‘friends of the festival’ acts, especially if they’re (gasp) guitar bands (boooooo).

Elbows last two albums are excellent. Bit short of festival singalongs but all the better for it. Plus Little Fictions has Sad Captains on it which makes it all worthwhile.

As it stands Foals-Macca-PSB McCartney is the only absolute 100% definite, the other two I’m happy with but open to offers.

Yup. Just looked at the Setlist from the only time I’ve previously seen him and it’s pretty similar, despite the time difference.

Saturday in 2010 was a good one. Pyramid was Scissor Sisters>Muse, Other was Editors>Pet Shop Boys. Serious crowd changeover between sub and headliner. Pet Shop Boys was fairly quiet at the start.

Prune a couple of the less exciting solo tracks and that would do nicely indeed. Can’t really see him doing Rattling Rose or Dead in the Water (as lovely as it is). Nice Oasis run from Masterplan.

Agreed

Noel is setlist dependent for me. Would much prefer some of his recent solo stuff which has been good. But realistically if I want a decent spot for Sir Paul unless his entire setlist is cribbed from 1997-2009 Oasis that’ll do nicely. Another good singalong.

Fuh you is the only real travesty there. Listened to a bootleg of him at ACL 2018 yesterday and the setlist hasn’t changed much.

Thanks for that. One of the few things I remember through the booze, wind and rain.

Re.the screens. I wonder if it’s something to do with Macca. The tour rehearsal video of him posted on YouTube shows a La impressive screen set up. U2 had an extra pair didn’t they? Macca vid

Been reading Fab by Howard Sounes and going through his post-Beatles career in chronological order. A bit of Monkberry Moon Delight, Mrs.Vanderbilt, Bluebird or My Brave Face would be very welcome but not at the expense of Let me Roll It. Or Nineteen Hundred 85. I saw him in Manchester in 2003 and it was immense. Can’t believe I’ll get a second round and on the Pyramid of all stages. A legend in every way. I’ll probably spend the first ten minutes just staring in disbelief that it’s him.

Same here. Maybe he’s pyramid

They’d headline the Acoustic wouldn’t they? In which case I hope it isn’t that.

‘A tent of plenty?’

Oh yeah the football was off. That was annoying. That was the golden era of Liverpool-Newcastle games too.

Eh? I went to the cinema and the pub that afternoon

As long as Black Gold stays I'm happy. Only time I’ve ever seen them is Pyramid 2016 and I really enjoyed it.

I know you can say TRNSMT doesn’t tell us much about where Nutini will play but it’s his day (Friday) that is sold out-both Friday and Friday/Saturday tickets. Tickets are still available for Capaldi Sunday (and Strokes Saturday).

Don’t know. I’ve seen them in Glasgow a couple of times and they were brilliant but the JP one just fell completely flat. They didn’t seem into it at all and there was none of the charm and zip I’d seen on the other gigs. I think there was bit of homesickness/tour fatigue involved.