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8 minutes ago, incident said:
If we get 2016 levels of rain, then yes it could be like 2016.
But right now the ground is nowhere near as saturated - not even close.
Yeah, not even close. Can you remember the videos of the rivers that were running across the pyramid in the weeks leading up to the festival?? The ground was totally saturated for weeks or months before and it still probably would have been okay if not for the absolute deluge we got all morning on the Wednesday.
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15 minutes ago, Lucy92 said:
This was the thunderstorms closing the pyramid stage year wasn’t it?
Yes.
It was extremely heavy rain for a hour or so though. A couple of mates just had raincoats and no poncho, they were soaked through in minutes (or drawked) if from round my way.
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13 minutes ago, gratefulbread said:
It's funny, I totally don't remember 2014 being bad. I remember a couple of showers, but lots of sun as well. Maybe I was too battered the whole time to notice it being bad.
It had some absolutely torrential rain, some of the heaviest I’ve seen at Glasto in eight visits. They even took the bands off the Pyramid at one stage.
Tbf, it wasn’t like this every day though.
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4 minutes ago, Curlygirl said:
It’s beautifully sunny up in Seaham. I’d rather it bucketed down for the next week. I actually don’t mind the mud, it’s the wet stuff falling when I’m there that I don’t like.
Yeah, absolutely beautiful just up the road in Sunderland. Nice and Sunny and just the right kind of temperature that would be great for Glasto. I honestly couldn't take a full week like the Wednesday in 2017. I've never felt temperatures like that in this country before. It's never that hot in the north east?
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3 minutes ago, Skelts said:
Glad it's not just me! Went to go back to the Truth Stage line up and it's gone. Searched for Idles via the A-Z of bands and it only lists them as playing once (on the Park). Odd
It wasn't there for me but it was on my mates line up who I was talking to on the phone. Spent about ten minutes straight scrolling up and down thinking I'm losing the plot.
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Well, got to be honest not the best line up for me personally. Enough I'm happy to go along to see but no must see's.
Although, somehow they've managed to clash about half the acts I would like to see on the Saturday night!
Cat Empire on twice but are in the Saturday night clash central and then clashing first up on a Saturday against the proclaimers!??
Putting the streets on in the same slot they had a mare in last time seems a bit odd to me as well.
Anyway, can't bloody wait to get there and get out and about around the site and perhaps explore some of the areas that I always mean to visit but never get around to.
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On 4/25/2019 at 8:18 PM, Losing my hair said:
At The Moonlandingz gig in 2017, Lias was dressed like this and barefoot - he was pukking up throughout the gig and kept walking through it. He was very apologetic.
And yes, that is a cardboard box clingfilmed to his head - it came off about halfway through.
I was at that set and it was brilliant. Just absolute chaos from start to finish.
I thought it was a cardboard box as well, haha.
The girl playing the guitar on far side of the stage was proper pissed off at something for most of the set, it looked like her peddle wasn't working properly or something. It was amusing to me how much of a contrast she made to the rest of the band, especially the lead.
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9 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
Or when Kylie becomes the first act in history to bring on both Nick Cave and Jason Donovan.
Hopefully recreate the video for 15 feet of pure white snow.
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8 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
Found a picture of a band upset that they're lower down on the poster than a woman
2 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:
The natural disasters. What a tag team they were!
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1 minute ago, SomeoneListeningIn said:
Festival has gone to shit. Bring back the days when Jurassic 5 were on the top line of the poster, none of this Janet Jackson and Kylie Minogue shite.
?Fair enough mate.
That line up is miles better than this years mind.?
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7 minutes ago, Matt42 said:
On absolutely no authority you have heard they are booking them because they are female that is something that you have decided by seeing women on a lineup.
I hope you understand that what you are saying is indirectly sexist. You are equating females in high billed slots to being put there to fill a quota and not because of talent.
Regardless of today’s culture Janet, Kylie, Miley are three huge artists that can tour comfortably without glastonbury. Their slot is proportionate to what attention and crowd they would get.
In your opinion maybe. Most people I've spoken to and on this forum don't think JJ should be on the top few lines of the poster. She's not a big name these days in the UK and is too high up the poster. If she was lower down near Sheryl Crow etc nothing would have been mentioned about this imo.
No ones complaining about Kylie apart from saying she's the first legend to get on the top line. Dolly Parton didn't even get on the top line.
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11 minutes ago, FakeEmpire said:
When Janet was rumoured, I said that I wouldn't be surprised if she played but was advertised as if she was an "almost" headliner. It doesn't surprise me at all that she's on the top line of the poster - it's exactly what I expected her team to try and do.
I think it's the same with Kylie - the legend slot has felt like a "4th headliner" for a while now but this is the first time I think we've had someone in that slot who genuinely could (should?) be headlining and so it makes sense to put her up there.
The gender balance thing is probably just an additional incentive.
As mentioned earlier in this thread, Dolly Parton. That's the best comparison you are going to get.
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4 minutes ago, FakeEmpire said:
Are people seriously suggesting that artists like Janet Jackson and Kylie Minogue have been booked just because they're women? You might not like their stuff but they each have 4 decades worth of experience at a high level in the music industry and more hit singles than The Cure or The Killers or basically anyone else on the lineup will ever have.
They're both entirely worthy bookings regardless of their gender.
Separately, it is absolutely a good thing for festivals like Glastonbury to push for a more gender-balanced lineup. It's not a fair argument to say they shouldn't because there aren't enough women out there. The more women that get booked for high profile events like this, the more women get booked for other festivals, the more women get signed to record labels, the more women think about entering the music industry. This can have a trickle down effect that will ultimately mean there will be a wider pool of non-male fronted acts to choose from.
Dismissing Glastonbury's efforts as tokenism is really missing the point.
Nothing wrong with the booking of Kylie and JJ. Imo and others they don't belong on the top line (especially JJ) at a big UK festival. It looks to me and others that they've tried to balance most lines on the poster evenly with male and female artists.
JJ wouldn't have had that much of a mention imo if she was listed a few rows down with Sheryl Crow etc.
5 minutes ago, FakeEmpire said:Literally within the last hour, someone posted "They aint gonna be able to do a 50/50 gender line up anytime soon without watering the festival down because theres just more male led musicians than females and going back its more male dominated so try to wipe out gender bias overnight was always gonna result badly. "
But surely with there being more male acts at the moment it's pretty obvious that it's going to be difficult to get anything like a 50/50 split straight away? A 50/50 split is where we want to end up, yes but it has to be done organically and not forced imo. I'm not saying this has happened but if it has been forced then surely that is tokenism?
The main problem here though is that unless you are a big fan of modern RnB or pop it's not a good line up. That's male or female.
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2 minutes ago, Sasperella said:
I do sort of get the feeling though that a certain Ms Jackson might have had some influence over where her name was on the poster....no? She's such a diva extraordinaire that she photoshopped her name to appear first on her own announcement on her twitter page!
I think she's already made it clear where she would be on the poster if she had a say in the matter.?
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2 minutes ago, Sasperella said:
Fucks sake, this thread is already making me nervous about T-Day, and I'm not even done with getting excited for 2018 yet!
"2019?
Still can't stop saying 'last year' for the 2017 festival myself. In fact I say it everytime ffs.?
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4 minutes ago, Apone said:
I know there are Glasto uber-fans desperately trying to convince themselves and others this is a good line-up but sorry it is terrible.No imagination, very safe, very dull and very Wirelessy. I'm just so grateful I never did the lottery back in October and stuck with Green Man, tho if you did and lucked-out, I feel there will be plenty of tickets available if you fancy this shit
I've complained plenty about the line up so far but I wouldn't for a second think about not going. It's one of the greatest places on earth and imo the Wednesday and Thursday are probably the best days to be about the farm and I for one can't fuckin wait.?
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2 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
If they'd booked Elton in the legend slot this year then I'm pretty sure he'd also have made the top line.
Yeah but he'd be by far the biggest act on the poster so it would make perfect sense for him to be there.
Same with Madonna.
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2 minutes ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
We may wind up not agreeing in this as I guess mileage may vary as to the strength of the headliners. Stepping back from doing individual announcements for each headliner also hints that they're trying to bury bad news.
The headliners are unimaginative or weak depending on your view but that doesn't change the fact that they are the headliners and that JJ shouldn't be near the top of a big UK festival line up, never mind the top line.
It's obvious they've tried to balance the top line with male and female artists as they've done with most of the poster and JJ doesn't belong there.
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6 minutes ago, chatty said:
Mad Cool has a far better line up in the same month and its only in Spain. I think most festivals have done better this year tbh, its nowt to do with touring acts, 50th anniversary, acts unaffordable. Theyve just dropped the ball, trying to play to coy with the PC stuff and started booking irrelevant acts like Janet Jackson that people forgot about and dont really care for so they can appear to have a gender balance.
Tbf mate, Janet Jackson doesn't interest me in the slightest and I feel it's lets say a strange decision to have her on this year of all years. That said I don't mind her being on there but on the top line with the headliners for a big UK festival! No way imo.
Just now, henry bear said:Are the likes of Johnny Marr, The Cure and Wu-Tang any more ‘relevant’ than JJ?
Marr and Wu Tang aren't on the top line though. If she was down next to Sheryl Crow or Johnny Marr it would be a decent booking if not to my taste.
Also without the Cure and Johnny Marr on there the poster would be even more unbalanced than it already is. Basically, no rock heavier acts on there.
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44 minutes ago, Chinaski_ said:
Looking at it now, a lot of stuff I'd watch Arcade Fire, Jack White, B B King, Jurassic 5, De La Soul, Pixies, Mogwai, Bryan Ferry, Dolly, Parquet Courts. Can't remember the original release though, so they probably weren't all on it.
Edit must be half asleep as I thought I saw BB King on 2014. ?
2011 looks pretty mediocre to me. Although it does have BB King and Duane Eddy!
It's easily better than this year though, although I haven't seen the original poster either.
Just look at the headliners for starters, even if you don't like them it's obvious they're miles better than this years.
Pyramid U2 Coldplay Beyoncé.
Other Primal Scream The chemical brothers QOTSA
West Holts Cee lo green Big boi Kool and the gang.
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1 hour ago, 42hamlet said:
Wall to wall maybes for me here
Snap. Pretty much this for me as well.
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Nick Cave and Doves plus a few more hopefully.
Also one or two biggish metal or at least heavier type bands, not sure who it could be though. Hopefully Iggy pop.
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If you are into your mainstream pop type acts and modernish RnB then I imagine it's pretty good. For me it's poor tbh. Not one act I really wanted to see there. Quite a few acts who I like and will go to see but I've seen most of them before, most of them at Glasto as well.
So, yes, for me personally it's easily the worst first poster I've seen since I started going in 2008.
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4 hours ago, sadimmock said:
Yup. This is why I’m so surprised that the comeback is being mooted as such a big deal. I am trying to remember what year Mr.Skinner last did Glastonbury (2013?) but it was to a half empty JP Tent. Neither band nor audience really wanted to be there....
2011. I'm not a massive fan but my mates were so I went along. Wish I hadn't as Mike Skinner was totally off his face and it was a terrible set. He was stood on a box or something shouting to the crowd "I can see you, can you see me" for about five minutes.?
The Weather Thread 2019
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From what I remember most of the problems were with people queuing to get in, my sister was in the queue at the time and she said it was bad. Surely it would make no sense at all to eventually get everyone in and then immediately ask them to get in line and drag all their heavy gear out in the scorching sun.
That sounds like a recipe for disaster to me, not a solution.