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Beauty is in the ear of the beholder as they say. I love their 'anthemic' tunes of One Day Like This and Open Arms. Both will really be highlights of Glasto this year no doubt. There is so much more to their albums than to pick on the big hitters which have propelled them to the ear drums of the masses. I know I am one of the few which feel SSK id their best work, but without One day like This the album would not have been 'out there' half as much as the album deserved to be. Without that song Elbow would still be hardly heard of in the mainstream. Thanks to that song (and Open Arms in BARB) other people have got into them and appreciated what I like about them - songs like Mirrowball, Starlings, Weather to Fly, Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver and Some Riot from SSK and numerous songs from their earlier work. Also they are a band who seem to genuinely enjoy what they do, they never seem up their own arses and always seem humble for the success they have achieved . Garvey is one of the great front men of the decade, they will never disappoint live in my opinion and they will be one of the highlights this year, no doubt
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Kraftwerk
... and play just one song. The ORIGINAL FULL album version of Autobahn. I would die happy!
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Seems a bit odd to me, the original article seemed pretty specific and reliable, only to be contradicted very shortly after by the MO website
Mike oldfield would be an awesome addition to the line up
Shame
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I did this with a pedometer on my mobile phone in 2008. I was staggered to learn I walked around 60 miles, or 15 miles each day whilst at Glasto
Unfortunately I ate a load of shit whilst there and drank bucket loads of beer so I lost no weight whilst there. But I felt good!
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Looking at your user name I am not surprised you will be looking forward to Mike Oldfield!!
Ommadawn is it my top 5 albums of all time!
Mike Oldfield, I was not expecting that at all. Great addition. I have never see him live, does he still play stuff like Ommadawn and Tubular Bells?
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Who gives a shit if if is eels or the eels, they will be there and that's bloody good news! Never seen them/him/whatever so can't wait for June...
Line up looking really good imo
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This is the problem with a band which so consistnetly produces quality songs. I think you could take any of their 4 albums and pick out at least 5 or 6 songs (10 from SSK in my opinion!) which would be brilliant live. That makes over 20-25 songs which isn't going to fit into an Arena set, let alone a Glasto set
I posted this on another thread. I think the set list is still brilliant with only SSK and BARB songs in (and Station Approach of course)
What I am praying for is that they do what they did in 2008 and played two sets. The Other Stage set was mainly SSK stuff - still brliiant - but then the following day they played an intimate set in the Queens Head tent, where they played a lot of older stuff, including Newborn. That set still goes down as my favourite gig of all time. Awe inspiring. Fingers crossed they do that this year, but I doubt it
..."I think the set list on the arena tour is brilliant, every song on there is a gem. They now have too many quality songs, its a shame they do now play any earlier stuff. The question now is, what will they drop from the set to fit into a Glasto set. The current tour is about two hours long, a Glasto set is 1 hour (1 and a quarter hours tops). I reckin as follows:
The Birds -In
The Bones of You -Out
Lippy Kids -In
Mirrorball -In
With Love -In
Neat Little Rows -Out
The Night Will Always Win -In
Great Expectations -Out
Grounds for Divorce -In
The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver -In
Puncture Repair -Out
Some Riot -Out
Weather To Fly (Partial) -Out
Weather To Fly (Full) -Out
Open Arms -In
Starlings -In
Station Approach -In
One Day Like This -In
They will want to keep most of the new stuff in I would have thought. Only Station Approch from pre SSK I reckcon"...
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Two places for me
1. Maldives at sunset
2. Wells-next-the-sea (North Norfolk coast) on the beach during the rising tide looking west at the sun sets
... and Glasto!
Paradise
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Yep I make you right. Very sad to see their older stuff ditched but it was ever thus when a band gets popular from a later album.
Only thing I'd change from your glast set list guess is that I'd swap 2 songs:
Neat Little Rows - In
The Night Will Always Win - Out.
Was listening to the album again this morning. Some more of the songs have grown on my but there are more songs on this album I dont like than on any other of their albums. Maybe I just need more time with it.
I dont like Open Arms at all though. But I wasnt overly keen on One Day Like This either.
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I think the set list on the arena tour is brilliant, every song on there is a gem. They now have too many quality songs, its a shame they do now play any earlier stuff. The question now is, what will they drop from the set to fit into a Glasto set. The current tour is about two hours long, a Glasto set is 1 hour (1 and a quarter hours tops). I reckin as follows:
The Birds -In
The Bones of You -Out
Lippy Kids -In
Mirrorball -In
With Love -In
Neat Little Rows -Out
The Night Will Always Win -In
Great Expectations -Out
Grounds for Divorce -In
The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver -In
Puncture Repair -Out
Some Riot -Out
Weather To Fly (Partial) -Out
Weather To Fly (Full) -Out
Open Arms -In
Starlings -In
Station Approach -In
One Day Like This -In
They will want to keep most of the new stuff in I would have thought. Only Station Approch from pre SSK I reckcon
Any views?!
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Top 5 Gigs
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Elbow - Queens Head Glasto 2008
Elbow - Cambridge Junction March 2010
Elbow - UEA, Norwich 2005
Elbow - Other Stage 2008
Holy f**k - John Peel, glasto 2008
Sigur Ros - latitude 2008
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I have done previously. Arriving late Thursday/early Friday is wonderfully stress free IF you are in a couple and can squeeze a small tent in anywhere.
I'll be with a vast crew this year which judging by last year is a colossal pain in the arse involving driving through the night, putting up other peoples tents and suffering bad camping spots chosen by numpties (NEVER camp near the Bimble Inn if you value more than 10 minutes sleep a night!).
Plus my favoured late arrival place was Wicket/Lime Kiln which seems to have be donated to the bloody kids which I'm very pissed off about!
As other posters have mentioned if you travel small and light you'll have no issues finding a spot.
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My sympathies. A lot of my friends are teachers and had to stop coming to Glastonbury becuase the Friday night to Sunday night is just too soul-crushing.
My advice would be to travel light, with a small tent and wander about (especially if you have a desired camping spot), you will be surprised how many people are prepared to shift their tents to make a bit of room for you to squeeze in.
Failing that, there is always space on fringes in Lime Kiln Ground, Wicket Ground & Dairy ground.
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The second Avalanches album
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hahaha, right, confession time. As a callow and daft youth, I bunked off school on the day 'Rattle & Hum' was released so I could go down to Our Price and be the first kid in school to get it.
f**king hell, got caught by the school and got a bollocking. Plus the album was a huge letdown. Is it any wonder I can't stand U2 now? Grrrrrr.
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Picking up from the Elbow thread someone wrote the following about Elbow:
"There's none of that dashing home from the shops clutching the new album, desperate to listen to it"
That was actually me yesterday when I picked up my copy of the new album! What albums / bands have you got that childish excitement about buying and listening to for the first time. For me it has albums by any of :
Elbow
Doves
Goldfrapp
Holy F&ck
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Great feeling that, isn't it? Love it. Nice one.
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There's none of that dashing home from the shops clutching the new album, desperate to listen to it.
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Loving the birds too
The opened with it in Cambridge, I wasnt too sure for the first couple of minutes but it kept building up and building up into an epic. Sounded really good live
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My thoughts are that the person who wrote it is a bell end.....
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I know I'm not alone in thinking that 2005 was one of the best performances on the Pyramid in years. Horses for courses and all that but I loved every minute of it.
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Has anyone questioned whether they are up to it? Saw them in 2005 on the Pyramid and it was an utter shambles. He was so off his head he had to be escorted off after insulting everybody and the set finished. Will this happen again?........
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Complete cock if you ask me. This is an article which is too easy to write. U2 and Coldplay, unquestionably two of the biggest bands in the world. Beyonce, not my cup of tea,but similar to Jay-Z a couple of years back, someying a bit different. No other festival in the World could get U2 to play
The thing which frustrates be about these articles is all they know about is the headliners, and they only seem to judge the festival on the three Pyramid headliners. If they only looked beyond that they will see the diversity they crave, I expect the headliners of the other stage will be Primal Scream, The Chems and maybe the Libertines. John Peel will have some bloody decent stuff as will the Park. And that's without commenting on the other 80 odd stages.
I have never been as excited by the line-up as this year. I cant wait to see U2 and Coldlpay headline, with Elbow underneath U2, it will be awesome - ans thats with only 5% of the lineup confirmed. But then I also spend 90%+ of my time in other places listening to bands I haver never heard of before - where else can you listen to the Egg at 4am in the morning for F*&ks sake!
To sum up the point, they mention Radiohead, I bet they do not even realise that Thom and Johnny played the Psrk Stage Friday evening last year. I bet they haven't even heard of the Park Stage!
Journalism about Glastonbury always seems lazy to me, as if they just hear who the headliners are and then write an article about it
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I think Guy is gonna be swingin' for the bleachers at Glasto mate. If "Powder Blue" wasnt played at the recent show with 800 stiffs it ain't gonna be played in front of Fri night revellers at Glasters.
Who are you most wanting to be announced for line up?
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Following on from Kraftwerk...
'The' Gary Numan
Polyphonic Spree
OMD
Talk Talk
The Floyd (!)
Vangelis