Bradders

He was awful at All Points East last year. He’ll need to do better than that to get anywhere close to a Pyramid sub.

Concur with the others saying his last set on Other was brilliant. I thought I’d gone off that era of indie and just went along with a mate, he absolutely smashed it.

D*b down your beds

Hard to believe nowhere at the festival could fit them in. Real shame that.

There was definitely a lot of lightning in 2010. 2 people on massive plinths firing it at each other.

Nah the comedy’s an afterthought really. It’s usually the same people every year that fancied doing it for a few free tickets as far as I can tell.

Bonobo>Tet=Prime position for SE Corner is my current Friday night plan

I thought Bonobo-Four Tet on West Holts Friday, with Simz headlining Saturday, was already established? Definitely the scenario I’ve planned for anyway.

I’d assume this means just 4 stages in Silver Hayes, so BBC Intro elsewhere and the other 3 gone. I could see Lonely Hearts Club taking up most of the West side of SH as an outdoor stage, where Blues was, and Firmly Rooted as a tent further towards WOW. That’d work better for me anyway, never felt like there needed to be that many stages in there.

I think the thinking is that other festivals have to announce their line ups early to sell tickets, but Glastonbury doesn’t. Why would the artists then want it public that they’re playing Glastonbury when they hope you’ll buy tickets to their gig instead. It’s probably only a small perk for artists, but when the fees are small for Glastonbury, why not save it until later?

Nope. It’ll be the same as it has been the past few years, just like all the evidence suggests (except the admin from the Common omitting the word “our” from the start of their sentence). (Also there aren’t any Common headliners on that poster)

Avalon was announced on a Tuesday.

Had a similar relationship with Jagwar Ma. They played live in Stonebridge at about 2am that year in a period where I basically thought they were the best band in the world. Loved it.

I’ve been going since 2009 which only had a massive storm Sunday night I think? 2016 was a pain in the arse for mud but it wasn’t a miserable rainy one. 2011 was muddy but pretty much fine every day except arriving on Wednesday and headline time Friday. 2014 I completely forgot about the storm closing stuff down, was that Saturday evening? I remember the rain on that Saturday afternoon getting me down but overall the festival was muddy too but again not miserable. If 97, 98 and 07 were as bad as people say, I think we’ve been pretty lucky since.

I withdraw my controversy.

As much as people like to trot out the full name, Glastonbury is a music festival*, not a Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts. If they want it to be the latter they’d have to put a lot more effort into all the other aspects of performing arts. *+ some mates of mates doing a bit of comedy and circus acts.

I’d actually say this year is a bit calmer in peoples’ need for an announcement. Sure, everyone’s excited and eager, but most years you get at least a few people in a genuine rage that they haven’t yet got what they feel they’re entitled to.

Kicking off multiple pages of worrying that the festival will be cancelled, by randomly speculating that the queen’s about to die, is Matt42’s finest hour of rumourmongering.

We camp in Oxlyers, next to the toilets and next to the path, it’s a perfect spot and I don’t understand what people have against it.

Chaise Longue for the little snippet. Hey Jude for the final highlights thing.

I think it was the first year of the queuing system, when it could take like an hour to get into the SE corner, that the old shortcut from the Craft Fields into Strummerville was still there. Waltzed in and out of Shangri-La all weekend.

It feels like a lot of what people enjoyed about it (alleys, little random experiences) just can no longer happen because it’s too busy. It’s mostly a late night DJ spot now. What they’d need to do is either make Silver Hayes better for late night music and reduce the musical offering to take the crowds back away from SE, or start a whole new area with less music and more of the little curiosities. I don’t think the two can coexist in the same place anymore.

I make playlists for pubs and stuff and he calls our company every now and then trying to flog his tunes. Was a very weird meeting of two worlds when I first answered the office phone to Lekkido Lord of the Lobsters on a gray February afternoon.

If they’re playing the next day I can’t see them doing a super late slot anywhere like SE Corner or Rabbit Hole, they don’t have enough of a political leaning for Leftfield, not Heavenly associated so unlikely for Crow’s Nest, not crusty enough for Strummerville. Could maybe “headline” William’s Green Friday in that final slot before the main stages have their headliners, but I can’t see many other possibilities.

I fell asleep stood up during this set, so I really wouldn’t say you missed much.