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  1. Thursday Night

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    Highlight of the Thursday night is The Wheel Of Four Tunes at Cabaret. Absolute classic entertainment. 

    To sum up it’s a bunch of power rangers running a huge singalong while abusing the crowd. 

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  2. Crew tickets and campervan pass for Circus and Theatre area

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    18 minutes ago, lurkumlurkum said:

    Well, today has been a mixture of highs and lows splashed with a large dose of paranoia that I'm a mug wantonly offering myself up to be ripped off. 

    Having read all the posts in this thread (especially Freq Quimby's excellent post) I decided that it was worth a shot but I needed to make sure that everything was legit. Chatted to my collegue gently expressing my concerns. She said that if I got ripped off by her brother she would pay me back herself as it wasn't going to happen. I believe her, you would if you knew her.

    Phoned the brother. To cut a long story short I got the two tickets and the vehicle pass (I can also apply to tow a caravan in if I want!) for £1000. He was wanting more and said that he would be able to more ( I believe him) but was happy to let me have it as I was mates with his sister. He also mentioned that tipi hire was over a grand and having a comfortable motorhome in a better position with two tickets  included for the same price was pretty fair. Almost feeling guilty that I didn't offer him more as the sale will got to funding what he does at the festival. He said quite a few crew get little or no funding but get extra tickets so it balances everything out.

    He only wants £100 now as a deposit to make sure I'm serious. He wants the rest paid when I get the tickets etc in early June.

    Quite relieved as the chance of a CV ticket in the resales is low and that is essential for my partner.

    Thanks so much for everyones help.

    Lurkumlurkum

    Amazing. What a result. Great location to camp!

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  6. 2019 Headliners

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    3 minutes ago, Gucci Piggy said:

    Neil Young's one of those artists I've just never gone back and checked out, which is strange as everyone who likes similar music to me seems to love him.

    Before I actively checked out The Cure I knew Close to Me, Friday I'm in Love and Boys Don't Cry from either music TV channels or just hearing them in random places. When I listened to their Greatest Hits album after they were first rumoured for R&L in 2012 I found I recognised a few more of their songs, too.

    Maybe with Neil Young I'll recognise some of his songs that I didn't realise I knew, but I certainly didn't knowingly know any Neil Young songs before adding Rockin' in the Free World to my Pearl Jam playlist.

    But then maybe to people older than I am (I'm 23, btw) Neil Young is a bigger deal than The Cure are. The Cure seemed to be a huge influence on the current day indie bands when I was a teenager so that's probably why I'd hear their music in places where I'd also hear current music, and why they seem to have a lot of younger fans.

    Interesting! Well, put like that. I’m 40 and NY was a major influence on the bands I liked growing up, like Pearl Jam, so always delved into his stuff from that perspective. Then saw him at Reading 95, playing with most of PJ (except Vedder) because of the Mirrorball album. I always wrote off Cure as dull when younger and have only more recently come to enjoy them... 

  7. 2019 Headliners

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    29 minutes ago, Gucci Piggy said:

    Yeah I'm the same with Neil Young. I know Rockin' in the Free World now but I don't think I'd ever heard it before putting it in my Pearl Jam playlist for Mad Cool. I reckon they'd both draw in a similar crowd at the Pyramid but The Cure would have more songs that the crowd know in general.

    Seriously? So bizarre. I’d give my right arm to hear Young’s catalogue. I have to force myself quite hard to enjoy 2 or 3 Cure songs. I reckon Young would draw many more to Pyramid.

  9. 2019 Headliners

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    5 minutes ago, Username taken said:

    I'd be much more likely to go and watch the Spice Girls at Glastonbury* than something like  the 1975 or Catfish and the Diddymen tbf.   am old though.

     

    *this is not an endorsement of the Spice Girls at Glastonbury

    Me too. And gaga 

  10. 2019 Headliners

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    On 11/5/2018 at 3:32 PM, Keithy said:

    For reference, Avalon stage is about 1500-2000 capacity Busted crowd was 5000 tops (and hard to gauge when Avalon is a naturally busy field for hanging out in anyway). Stick that crowd on a main stage and it'd look embarrassing. Killers was a 'massive crowd' or a stupidly large crowd.

    I thought 3,000 can get in Avalon tent. And Busted filled the tent, the field, and more, to bursting. There were at least 3 million people there. Approx. Whatever it was very fun! :)

     

    On 11/5/2018 at 3:32 PM, Keithy said:

    For reference, Avalon stage is about 1500-2000 capacity Busted crowd was 5000 tops (and hard to gauge when Avalon is a naturally busy field for hanging out in anyway). Stick that crowd on a main stage and it'd look embarrassing. Killers was a 'massive crowd' or a stupidly large crowd.

     

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