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i have mixed feelings about these guys... it was either '97 or '98 i was going up to the stone circle and i stopped at their stall on the way and asked them if i could please have a bin bag (to sit on cos of all the mud). they said: sure man, of course you can - dance for it. and i did. i danced for a bin bag. it was a long time ago, but it makes me feel dirty every time i think about it, to have stooped to such a level, and my crew have never let me forget it. (in my, sort of, defense - i used to do a shitload of drugs back then and i was off my face at the time... but still...)

according to that chart, it takes 20mins to get from Worthy View to the Pyramid... the one time i was up at Worthy View it took me 20mins just to get down the feckin' hill 😀

but isn't this exactly the way it should be? its a festival run specifically by a band specifically for their fans? so why is that an issue? surely that's just what it is? the festival running its course in the next few years to me just seems like a perfectly natural end to an event that served a very specific purpose.

yeah fair enough - but Bruce (not just Bruce, all of them) DOES notice it, even if its only £10,000 my point is there is no way he is walking out onto that stage without getting paid. these people are all about the money - that's it. whether its £10m, £100k or £10k - they know all about it and they want to see it on the balance sheet. and again, let me stress this - i say this as a Bruce fan.

i'm sorry but i just don't believe it - there is no way Bruce is going to walk out on stage without a big pile of cash being involved (hell, i'm sure he even sends an invoice to the school in Freehold...) and i say this as a Bruce fan. but i don't want to drag this into a "Bruce..." discussion, i mean it in a general way. i just dont believe that anyone is going to do it for free.

i obviously have no way of knowing this either way - but i would say that Bruce did NOT do that appearance for free.

if someone has to bring out another musician to play another bands song in order to make their own set interesting then i think maybe they are doing something wrong.

yeah, sorry but i don't believe anyone does anything for free. unless you are an absolute nobody, in which case ok yeah maybe - but if thats the case then you are doing if for exposure so its not "free". when McCartney rang up Bruce to ask him to play - i am very sure that the very first thing Bruce thought of was "how much".

mate of ours was in some crew place and overheard someone talking about Bruce coming on with McCartney. knowing i am something of a fan having followed Bruce all over the world he told me what he'd heard... unfortunately my love of Bruce could not trump my dislike of McCartney and even the possibility of Bruce walking out onto that stage couldn't get me there. but just by pure chance i walked out of the Acoustic stage after Waterboys just as the opening notes of Glory Days rang out and you could hear it perfectly from the Acoustic field. one of my big regrets was in 2009 not putting 2 and 2 together and guessing that Bruce would, really very obviously, pop up with Gaslight Anthem... missed that one... doh!

not any help Re: the OP question, sorry... but does anyone no how much Yurtel is? just out of interest i clicked through the above link - and the idea of little garden shed with en-suite is oh so tempting! wonder if i can find enough ££££££££££££££££££££ down the back of the sofa to pay for it...

there are two separate queueues, but they merge at the gate - its not like they say "right, you were on a coach you go there..." at the point of getting to the gate you can go wherever you want so when Mr/Miss Eavis opens the gate those at the front will be a mix of whoever got there, not just coach people.

it always makes me laugh every year when, at about 9.30 or so, the calls start up for a lottery system for tickets... as if people think, for some unfathomably stupid reason, that lottery based allocation would somehow automatically mean they got tickets.

aaaaah yes... the first of many posters that list 99.9% that i never heard of!

New Model Army there's a lot to dig into - start with the classic that is Thunder & Consolation and work out from there. my personal fave album has always been Impurity. for more "guitar based" (as opposed to "folky") give High and also Today Is a Good Day a spin.

for some reason Kerry King thinks people will pay £50 to go and see him... can only assume he is banking on people going along hoping to hear a load of Slayer songs...