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  10. What Glasto artists have you met in real life?

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    1 hour ago, gigpusher said:

    This is very true and important to remember. I hate when people meet celebrities of any kind have an interaction of less than 5 minutes and feel able to assess their character based on it. I've met or spoke to quite a few celebrities and with the exception of one whom I suspect revealed quite a lot of his character over our nearly 30 minute conversation I couldn't tell you what any of them were like. Some seemed quiet, some were friendlier but most of them were just trying to live their lives.

    I had the experience of being sat in an airport lounge less than 6 feet away from Roy Keane for about an hour once. It gave me an insight into how weird a thing fame must be and how impossible it must be to behave normally. It consisted of just hearing people walking by going it's Roy Keane, it's Roy Keane and I was close enough to him that if I could hear it then so could he. I'd hate to live my life like that. I suppose if you are a more minor celebrity or one who can be happily not recognised by lots of people but occasionally meet people who do recognise you it might be easier but you never know what they have going on.  Maybe just before you met them someone in their family told them they were ill or maybe they were in a hurry and you are the 20th person who stopped them.

    One million percent this. Have seen this first hand. As you say, unfair to judge an entire person's personality based on a 5 minute meeting.

    We all have days when we are tired or bored or in a shit mood or arguing with our partner etc etc. Have also seen that - whilst some parts of touring/musical success is no doubt a lot of fun - elements of it are genuinely tough mentally.

  11. What Glasto artists have you met in real life?

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    Lucky enough to be backstage at a few festivals/gigs over the last 5-7 years due to a couple of mates who formed a band that rose pretty quickly around 2014-16;

    Josh Homme - met a number of times. Really funny, smart and friendly. Very charming. Tall.

    Dave Grohl - thinner than you'd think. High energy.

    The Pixies - friendly enough, but pretty quiet and sensible/studious from my experience. Ate lunch with them backstage.

    Arcade Fire - Win & Regine's toddler offered me a half-eaten wotsit. I declined, politely. Hard to say what they were like as they were about to go onstage and headline a festival, so probably in quite an intense mood at the time.

    Jack Bevan (Foals drummer) - really friendly and funny.

    Chris Wolstenholme (Muse bassist) - really lovely guy. Very chatty especially when we got onto football - I ended up being the one making excuses to go off as I felt bad that he was spending so much time talking to me(!) Talked to him about the time he broke his arm playing football backstage with The Cooper Temple Clause at V Fest.

    Jimmy Page - met him years ago outside HMV, he was buying loads of Zeppelin albums (said he needed them for some charity thing he was doing, and it was much easier and quicker than asking the record label to send some!) He was happy to chat to my dad and me for a while, when asked to sign a copy of the book Hammer of the Gods (includes some of the more sensationalist stories about them - red snapper, anyone?) he said I’ll sign something but I won’t sign THAT, so obviously not a fan of that particular book.

    Interpol - Paul the singer was charming, Daniel the guitarist was pretty aloof and absolutely stick thin, bassist (not Carlos D but the live player they have now) was drunk and overbearing.

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  13. When will this shit end?

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    1 hour ago, JoeyT said:

    Talking of tests I got myself 2 boxes of the lateral flow ones at the weekend.

    No questions as to if I had children etc just sent through and collected them.

    Worth doing for anyone who maybe worried as to meeting up with friends / family going forwards.

    Thanks for the heads up - just ordered, based on my Son being in Nursery and neither myself or my Wife being of the age to get jabbed yet. Useful.

  18. When will this shit end?

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    4 minutes ago, JoeyT said:

     

    If we follow Israel's pattern we may see a slight rise in cases for a few weeks (maybe even a month or two) before a final, sustained drop again as vaccines continue to crush down the R rate.

  21. When will this shit end?

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    5 minutes ago, Fuzzy Afro said:

    It’s not full proof. It’s not even designed to be full proof. 
     

     

    The idea is to reduce the risk not to eliminate it entirely. Will you get a few arseholes who fudge it and go out anyway? Sure, but remember that covid rates are so low that probably 199 in every 200 people at any one time do not have the virus, so you wouldn’t expect these LFT’s to be screening out loads of cases. They’re just there as an extra line of security. 

    I believe it's now meant to be something like only 1 in every 650 people has it. 👍

  22. Music Festivals given go ahead from late May...

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    Just now, zero000 said:

    I think we’ll see gigs in the U.K. and Wales this year. I just can’t see social distancing continuing until the end of the year with the vaccine roll out. Compliance will plummet and if we’re out of step with England who are back to normal, heads will roll. 
     

     

    Israel looks like it's hitting herd immunity right around now. I just can't see it. Perhaps he meant some very small level of SD, like limits in shops or something. I don't know - I'm trying to help him out here.

    Nah, don't see it.

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