Tiesto13

24 hour party people (the book) is good, if you can take Tony Wilson bigging himself up with a pinch of salt. Although I guess there isn’t much in there that isn’t in the film.

Completely agree with everything in here. I came across them through cocoa sugar, and tbh, was a bit puzzled. As there were some incredible songs that really spoke to me, but also several songs that did absolutely nothing. Kept on going back to it and their earlier albums though, and the rest of their stuff grew on me as well, but I think I still felt it was a bit all over the place in terms of style (which I know is part of the point). Then Heavy Heavy came out this year for me at least they’d finally pulled everything together into one incredible coherent piece, whilst still showing so many different influences. And then at Glastonbury, just unbelievable stuff, a real intensity to everything, and pretty uncompromising (two bits of crowd interaction I think?). And everyone in the crowd getting completely into it. Forced my wife to listen to heavy heavy a bit in the lead up and despite not really being her thing, she thought it was one of the best things she saw all weekend, and one friend came along with us having never heard them before and was pretty amazed as well by the whole thing.

Only flag that I did get see asked to be taken down was one saying “flags are for twats” before young fathers so reckon big flag has got a stranglehold on the festival.

also decent tunes and a good airflow system keeping it cool, one of the best tents at the festival

1 - young fathers. What I was most looking forward to before the festival, having really gotten into Heavy Heavy in recent months and hearing from friends that they are an incredible live band. Didn’t disappoint in the slightest, their intensity throughout is on another level to most acts I saw, and the crowd was incredibly in to it. 2 - comet is coming. Couldn’t convince anyone else that jazz rave music was what they wanted to see on Friday afternoon, but so glad I went on my own to this one. Again, just another level of intensity to most of the other things I saw. 3 - Elton. Have never classed myself as an Elton fan, and really like phoenix, QOTSA, alt-J and Rudimental so was wondering about sacking him off. Decided not too and so glad I did, realised that actually his songs are so ubiquitous that I knew all his songs, as did everyone in the crowd. Can’t think of anyone else that can play a set of hit after hit like that that so many people in such a big crowd will know so well. The Beatles probably. Also realised from the multiple WhatsApp groups watching the set that it was so much more than just those at the festival. honorable mentions to Cat Burns, Richard Thompson, Badly Drawn Boy, Lizzo, the lightning seeds and the hives, who were all excellent. Friday was a pretty goat day for me, and really I should have listened to my instincts and gone and seen hot chip rather than the arctic monkeys, not that the arctic monkeys were poor I thought, more that as I mentioned for Elton, there aren’t many people who can keep a crowds intensity for a big headline slot like those and you end up with quite a few songs that most people there don’t really know. then not sure what to say about Lana Del Rey, apart from the fact that had she pulled it off it would have been incredible. As it was, I don’t see how it can justify the five star reviews I saw in some places for it given a huge amount of people had gone before it started, and then it missed out some of her best songs. What was there was brilliant though.

Heh, forgot the original reason why I quoted that post around the additional sound compensation was my guess was that they’re probably limited in how loud the sound from the field can be and therefore their license doesn’t allow them to add anything else.

Yeah, we were originally stood down near the small tree to the right of the stage. A couple of our group started to get a bit worried about the crowd size and we started moving up which was a mistake in itself as the path along the side was horrible and you’d spend minutes at a time moving nowhere. And just inside of it in the field huge amounts of people sat down on camping chairs just metres away from something that could very easily have turned into a crush ignoring stewards shouting at them to stand up. Eventually made our way up to the row mead section of the field and it was pretty spacious there, and a lot of people remained seated, even after it got going. Only problem was that the sound bleed from San Remo, hum from the electricity pylons and distance from the speaker stacks all combined to make it pretty terrible. So we moved forwards again to just above the path, where it was pretty busy but a good combo of everyone in the group feeling comfortable and also being able to hear what was going on. Was trying to work out what crowd size it might be and it’s always going to be impossible but think 120,000 is underestimating it maybe? 138,000 paying tickets but less a decent number that will leave before the final set (10,000 maybe) but with an additional 5,000 Sunday tickets. Let’s say 125,000 paying tickets? Then is it 67,000 working tickets etc? Not sure what a reasonable estimate for how of those would have been people seeing something at that time but 60% maybe after people who are on shifts or have gone home? So 40,000 there. Gives you 165,000 people who were theoretically available to be seeing something at that time. Based on the pictures from all the other stages, not sure you get close to 45,000 even accounting for those who went too hard on Saturday and are still in their tents.

Pre mix yourself some negronis

Can’t speak for the ones recommended and can’t find the one we got from Amazon last year, but get yourself a coolbag/drybag thingy. Basically it’s a dry bag with cool bag insulation around it. Meaning you fill it with beers/ice in the morning, and it cools your beers to a cold temp to drink all day, then when everything starts to finally melt you pour all the water out and it weighs almost nothing to carry back to your tent. If you’re smart you can find a backpack one. needs someone to go and buy a bag of ice each day

Haha, its a rather old nickname now, given to me by some kiwi's who were struggling to pronounce my surname (which also begins with a T but isn't that close to Tiesto) 😆 Do also enjoy a bit of DJ tiesto from time to time though! As for my second year, I think the major thing I want to change is actually staying at the festival for the full time! Last year, I had friends getting married on the Friday, so had to leave the festival very early on Friday morning and got back to it Saturday morning. And as our coach only arrived at about 8/9pm on the Thursday, it meant I never got to do any exploring and the whole time I was there was either listening to acts I really wanted to see or partying. Still had an insanely good time though and the scale of it blew my mind. This year, its definitely all about exploring at a much slower pace on Friday/Saturday/Sunday mornings (again, unfortunately we're on a Thursday afternoon coach).

Have been lurking on here for a few weeks now as going to Glastonbury this year for the second time (2022 was my first), but found myself drawn in to posting in the crap beer thread. Hi all.

The problem is that it seems like whoever is responsible for sorting the Glastonbury beer contract seems to take this view, despite it being completely out of kilter with how the craft beer scene has developed over the past 10 years. The view at Glastonbury seems to be as long as we have a beer for the masses (carlsberg) and then a few different real ales in a few places around the festival we've done what we need to do in terms of giving people a choice, completely ignoring the fact that the most successful independent breweries over the past 10 years have been Brewdog, Beavertown and Camden Town (unfortunately all have been victims of their own success to some extent, resulting in Beavertown and Camden Town selling out to major breweries, and Brewdog disappearing up its founders arse somewhat). Eitherway, though the proliferation across the UK of this overhopped american cold lagery stuff has been a pretty huge development in the past 10-15 years, and by partnering with one of the major breweries who have no decent option in this space and pointing to the fact they have some local real ales on, its reminscent of the old men in CAMRA who chose to ignore one of the most exciting periods of innovation in the brewing industry in years, because it doesn't meet their definition of real ale.