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Don't worry I have another 5 many posts already pre written in anticipation.

When I was thinking Pulp were likely, Stevie Nicks had a good chance and Stevie f**king wonder was headlining it was easy to look past the Coldplays and nationals of the world. That lineup has so much beige the apathy is dripping out of me.

My missus loved the Glastonbury gig but then saw her a few short weeks later in Ireland (@ oxygen I think) and was out off by her doing a lot of the same spiel verbatim on stage when talking to the crowd

Couldn't agree more on Blur. Still the best gig I've seen by a country mile. I enjoyed Beyonce but agree it wasn't amazing.

For me Blur are on a list on their own. Coldplay 16 was most notable for the story I read on here of the wiped out guy at a camp fire communicating with Chris martin through his flashing wrist band.

Just any white dude with any guitar? All of the Facebook contingent? There's a Facebook contingent?

Now that would be f**king brilliant. Still hoping she makes an appearance tbh. Stevie Nicks too.

Perv

Gammonbury 2024 Chas & Dave, The Who, Eric Clapton

I imagined her as a WH headliner when I started this thread last year. Had no idea how big she was then

Emily must have been busy

I don't even know what to think any more

The only argument I have had at Glastonbury with someone outside my own group was one of the picnic blanket weirdos. It was near the front of the pyramid field I think prior to whoever was subbing and there were masses of people trying to to get in and out of the field. This woman had a HUGE blanket laid out with the corners weighted down. There was a row of chairs behind it with people in them and a row in front so it was almost a dead end and it was causing a bottle neck of people very courteously trying their best to make their way around this woman's little land-grab island. This weirdo was standing in the middle of the 40 sqft blanket by herself patrolling to make sure nobody stepped on it. Despite my best (very tipsy) efforts to avoid doing so I did in fact stand on the corner of her blanket and she then started very publicly berating me for doing so. I gave her an awful volley of verbal abuse and very generously found enough decency within myself to spare her life. Just don't understand that mentality.

I'm not sure I'd do it again. Heard all the songs I wanted to hear. I imagine there will be fewer of those 8 years later. If my feet were working I'd have walked somewhere else in all likelihood

I don't like anything they've done (that I've heard) for many many years. In fact I hate a fair amount of it. But similarly I like a few of their older tunes and had a passably decent time at their headline slot on Sunday 2016. I was only there because I was so incredibly knackered after 5 days of trudging through mud and my legs and in particular my feet were absolutely destroyed by my cheap wellies.

This was my initial attempt to leak the info given to me by my good friend Vera via her famous nephew. I thought it was dead obvious that I was acting all soft with the "oh is she that big?" etc. You can lead a horse to water.

Looks like it's on

I've just messaged his aunt who plays bingo with my granny to find out. Will send on screen shots when she replies.

Sorry to be a prick but super busy in work- is there strong info that SZA is a headliner now?

This is my feeling as well. Be interested to see how that number was arrived at. (Whether by surveys or based on registration data, whether it includes kids who come without tickets etc).

Of course it's not young. My point was that alone it doesn't suggest an ageing demographic Perhaps there is data to show a direction of travel in the average age, for example to show that the average age was 35 years old five years ago or 33 years old ten years ago. On your assertion that the event "need to encourage the next generation of tickets buyers" - is there evidence that they need more encouragement or are disinterested? I'm not claiming otherwise, I'm genuinely interested. Part of what makes Glastonbury special for me and different to a lot of festivals is the attendance of people of all ages through from babies to pensioners. So for me I don't see it as unfortunate that the average age is 38. Incidentally my fiancée is 38 and SZA is her favourite artist at this moment in time.

Apologies, I had spotted the typo and corrected but evidently not in time.

Saying that the average of a Glastonbury goer is 38 doesn't suggest an ageing demographic

I really don't get the relevance of top line billing other than from the perspective of the the artists themselves or their teams.