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  1. Talking of which, BBC2 are have highlights of Blur at Glasto 09 tomorrow night, along with the recent Radio 2 set and two other shows

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  2. 12 minutes ago, Drums Please Fab said:

    Yep, and I wouldn’t vote for it if given a choice. I don’t live in the UK for what it’s worth.
     

    The bundesliga did it first and now to appease the tik tok generation the premier league are on the band wagon. 

    it’s transparent as f**k.

    Wow. Thankfully the UK is (largely)  a  nation that’s tolerant of other cultures and faiths etc. Just because other countries aren’t doesn’t mean we should follow their lead. Obviously you don’t agree, given the way you’ve nailed your colours to the mast 

  3. 3 hours ago, VCK said:

    I said it previously, give Pulp that Pyramid headline slot and they would absolutely knock it out of the park.

    They would. I'm sure they wouldn't get a huge crowd of hip young people, but it'd be respectable enough. Their current show though is tremendous and I would love to see it at Glasto. And forget about Other Stage nonsense, get 'em headlining the Pyramid.

  4. 4 hours ago, Hugh Jass II said:

    Queen and AL would absolutely slay a headline slot and it needs to happen.

    Only thing that puts me off is six months of “no Freddie no Queen” discourse.

    Not Fred again

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  5. 2 hours ago, Bobs said:

    Thanks for info @incident  @henry bear & @northernangel

     

    always good to know what they’re working with.

    I know the pull of Glastonbury isn’t always for everyone, but I always think when you see people like Stones, McCartney, Elton John, Diana Ross, you’d always want a piece of it. 
    Definitely boss on my behalf.

    There are acts that they've tried to get before (Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, no doubt many others) that won't do it for the 'low' fee that Glasto offer compared to other large festivals. Sometimes acts are just about the money and don't care about the exposure. 

  6. 17 minutes ago, Dronx said:

    And are hotel prices likely to get lower?

    The reverse I should think. It’s a wonder they haven’t introduced VIP rooms - same as ordinary ones but three times the price and with a collectible print of the hotel signed by the assistant manager. And a lanyard 

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  7. On 7/8/2023 at 11:53 AM, incident said:

    It was properly fantastic. Anything short of headliner is a criminal waste. He absolutely should insist on headline or nothing, and the festival should go all out to get him.

    When, after the resale, it was confirmed we wouldn’t be Glasto bound this year, we considered options. I wanted something that was going to be memorable. So a week in NYC booked, as is Billy Joel at MSG, Aerosmith at the UBS Arena in Elmont and Psychedelic Furs/Squeeze at Radio City Music Hall.

  8. I guess it was down to where you were stood. I was in a he first bank of seating, 10 rows up and everyone was up dancing and singing. 
    One thing about Wembley though; it’s not got the greatest acoustics. Where I was it sounded ok but I’ve been at gigs before where it’s been awful. Again, depends on where you were in the stadium.

  9. 1 hour ago, anditmakesmesmile said:

    So, were any questions asked on arrival? 

    Isn’t it Sunday’s gig that the freebie tickets were released for? I can’t imagine anyone will ask questions, I’m sure they’ll be glad to get bums on seats, indeed wouldn’t be surprised if the ‘leak’ of freebies not initially labelled as being for NHS workers wasn’t necessarily an error

  10. 2 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

    Just me, as a guy who has seen them a dozen times, who didn’t feel it at all then?

    Yeah, just you 

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  11. I’ve had some great nights at Wembley but was a bit sceptical as to how well Blur would step up to the plate. Needn’t have worried, band and crowd well up for it, even Country House was a right knees-up. 

  12. 11 minutes ago, Rose-Colored Boy said:

    This sounds like they won’t just pick which city you can try for but they’ll they’ll also pick which day of the sale for that city you can try on. Going to be a mess if they don’t make that clear when they send out the codes. 

    Life is so much simpler for Motley Crue fans

     

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  13. 33 minutes ago, Isaact said:

    Agreed - I'd like the festival to do more Stormzy-style headline bookings.

    Give at least one day to an up and coming British artist who's big but not Pyramid-big, and give them the chance to really use it as a platform to boost their standing.

    This year was too 'safe'.

    Personally I don't agree with this. There's a natural order to things, and I don't see why one artist should get an artificial boost while the rest of their peers don't. You can give up and coming acts a boost by letting them perform at Glastonbury and let them work their way up (or indeed down) the bill depending on their appeal.

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  14. I was so gutted not to be there for Reg this year, but at the end of the performance my FOMO had gone. The crowd looked like they were having the greatest time and I'd have loved to have been there, but objectively the performance wasn't a GOAT for me. I was underwhelmed by the guests and perplexed why Kiki Dee wasn't wheeled on for DGBMH. This was partly down to the hype (at least in part fed by Reg himself) leading up to it. It feels like the end of a Glasto era though; it's hard to think of anyone else of this generation that can feasibly headline (apart from getting the likes of Bruce on again)

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