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Interesting stuff really in this thread. Some stuff will never change: people talking during bands, noise at campsites, general loutish behaviour... but other aspects might see changes in the future. If they had to open up the emergency camping fields it's likely there will be a real push to prevent people taking up so much space next year.
Likewise, the flags seemed to cause issues for the BBC, so this might also get looked at. Litter... well... it's not nice but it's mostly harmless paper cups and it's probably easier and cheaper to hire more litter pickers than put in more bins
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Lots of stuff seemed to have moved. Did anyone find the garlic kitchen?
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Plenty of camping space around Pedestrian Gate D all weekend. Sure, it's a fair way out and you might struggle to be able to camp right together if you have more than one tent, but certainly space.
The Acoustic Tent had the best compromise regarding chairs: a designated area for them (basically the back quarter of the tent). Not much acoustic music on there though. That was odd.
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Its funny how he fails to see how his act is even more selfish than what the flag people do...
"Go on, get up there love, have a great view, and f**k everyone behind you"
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I did think it dipped in the middle as I didn't know the songs, but at least the 'more obscure' tracks he did were fairly dancey upbeat numbers that you could get in to. Think he pegged it just right for a festival crowd.
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The times for the Theatre tent haven't been announced yet so don't know when the Stephen Frost improv guys are on. There's usually two shows, Fri/Sat or Sat/Sun and at sometime around 7-8pm, lasts an hour.
Bill Bailey is in Dublin on Fri/Sat, but is free on the Sunday. The Cabaret tent highlights also had a big gap around Sunday afternoon. Pure speculation though.
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Nicer looking version here: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/loved/entry/gla...y_caberet_tent/
Wanted to write this once the full line-up was out, but it's Monday night and we still only have the 'highlights' from the Guardian Guide, so I'm going to have to write it off of that. Full listings will be in the programme but do drop by the tent every morning and check the chalk-boards outside for up-to-date times and any changes, as it tends to be pretty fluid.
Friday:
Early Edition - Marcus Brigstocke, Andre Vincent, Phill Jupitus and Carrie Quinlan. They generally talk about current affairs, but with this being Glastonbury there's a good chance they'll be talking about the festival instead, given most of us are cut-off from newspapers and TV for five days. Could be a lot of fun, definitely recommend this.
Attila the Stockbroker - Lefty poet and singer/songwriter. He's good but can be a bit heavy on the rhetoric and full of himself sometimes. Still worth checking out though. Don't be put off by the word 'poet' - he's genuinely funny with it.
Steve Gribbin - Ace musical comic. Also quite left wing but in a sillier way.
Robert Llewellyn - Yeah, Kryton off of Red Dwarf. Haven't seen his stand-up though.
Ed Byrne - Funny Irish man. You've probably seen him on TV at some point. Very funny guy, straight-forward stand-up.
Rhythm Wave - Dancers. Not funny at all but very impressive.
Simon Munnery - Avant-garde comic, very random and clever stuff. If you're already drunk at this point you probably won't get the jokes, but if you're still with it he will make you feel very clever.
Jeff Green - Again, a very funny, straight-forward joke teller.
Andre Vincent - Crazy stories and such. Not seen him much recently but he's generally worth a punt.
Andrew Lawrence - A personal favourite. Dark, disturbing stories and songs.
Tom Stade - Funny Canadian man - again, haven't seen him in a few years now.
Full Mooners - Andrew Maxwell presenting a bunch of comics while wearing a cape and howling at the moon. The idea of Full Mooners is that anything goes, it's meant to be shocking and crazy and such. Well worth seeing.
Saturday
Aisle 16 - A 'Poetry Boy Band'. If you think you don't like poetry, check these guys out. They might change your mind.
Kevin Eldon - Character comedy from the actor Kevin Eldon. You might remember him from the old Lee and Herring shows (or even the recent Stewart Lee show, or Bill Bailey's last DVD)
Jeremy Hardy - Clever comedy from a Radio 4 stalwart.
Mitch Benn - The king of musical comedy, a Glasto institution, he's been doing this so long he practically has a set of stories just about Glastonbury to go with the very funny songs.
4 Poofs and a Piano - Jonathan Ross's house band, they're actually very good and very funny and worth seeing.
Arthur Smith - A true legend of comedy. Last year he came on and just did Leonard Cohen songs in between telling jokes.
We Are Klang! - I love these guys. The best sketch comedy out there, bar-none. They will have you pissing yourself and singing about a council estate. And they clash with the Boss. Damn.
Phil Kay - A total nutter. Go see him and you'll get one of two things: an utter shambles that just falls apart, or the best thing you'll see all weekend.
Phil Nichol - "I'm the only gay eskimo....". He also does jokes and stories. Very very good.
Brendon Burns - You probably heard the story. Years ago he gave out free magic mushrooms to the whole tent to get a thousand people high in order to prove the existance of god and forgive his ex-girlfriend. These days he tends to mostly stick to doing stand-up instead, and is bloody good at it.
Sunday
Murray Lachlan Young - A very funny poet. Again, you might think you won't like it. But you will.
John Otway - f**k yeah! We thought he wasn't going to be on, and it looks like just one show this year (instead of the usual 6 or so, unless he's doing the outdoor circus stage too). Rock and Roll's most successful failure, a two-hit wonder that refuses to get old. Watch it. Serious. Watch it.
Robin Ince - Terrific clever stand-up from one of the best acts on the circuit. Shouldn't be missed.
Get Up Stand Up - I believe they have political activist and comic Mark Thomas (who should not be missed) and Ivan Brakenbury, who'll be bringing his hospital radio show to Glastonbury. He is also awesome and great for music lovers.
Josie Long - Funny, witty, oddball - and the sweetest act you'll see all festival. You'll laugh, then you'll want to be her friend.
Ian Cognito - The polar opposite - Rude, offensive, shocking but equally brilliant.
Glenn Wool - Brilliant canadian story-teller.
Spymonkey - Apparently they're some physical theatre group. I don't know them, but wanted to moan that the Cabaret Tent isn't being closed by either Woody Bop Muddy or Phil Nichol by the looks of this. I want to throw rice at someone at the end of Glastonbury or at least sing about gay eskimos...
Also look out for:
Ben Goldacre @ Speakers Forum. He writes the Bad Science column for The Guardian and is amusing as he is enlightening.
Steve Frost Improv Allstars @ Theatre Tent - Phil Jupitus and others make up funny sketches from scenarios suggested by the audience. You'll be amazed by the speed of their wit.
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Also depends where you're camped and how full the field is.
It's one thing asking someone (or indicating via fencing or what-not) to pitch up a few metres over so there's room for their mate's tents. It's another if that space that's cordoned off is the only space left in that field so you'd be asking someone to go camp in another part of the festival.
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The clashfinder has the 'highlights' from the Guardian Guide, which is about 70% of what's on, a comprehensive lists of acts should be in the main programme you get on site, though hopefully it'll be online by Monday.
Secret Bill Bailey gig on the Sunday (well there's a big gap in the highlights line-up and he has that day off on his tour schedule...).
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we use just a standard 70cl bottle of vodka & have one of the large grab-bag type things of werthers (more to go through then than a packet just in case). Just keep adding them til your happy with the taste - depends how harsh you want it. Prob between 2-3 packets worth, but would def recommend having a grab bag in case you want more/less
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I found cherry drops didn't give much flavour at all. Not everything needs filtering. Glacier Mints and Werthers don't. Skittles do. I think it's the ones coated with some sort of hard case like skittles that will need filtering.
You can also wash the sweets first, which will reduce the need for filtering.
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if only that was actually true.
without doubt, the best thing is girls in wellies with mud-splashed bare calves. normally i'd worry about saying this but i know for a FACT i'm not alone here...even think there was a thread about this one year?
simply wonderful stuff.
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Thing is, it's different from flags, or green chairs, or talking or whatever. Lots of people put up with that despite really not liking it. There's a debate to be had there: would the majority of the crowd prefer not to have them if given the choice.
But crowd surfing requires the co-operation of the majority of the crowd. Cause without it you fall flat on your face. It needs people to hold you up. If you don't like it then cover your head and let them fall. If the majority of the crowd does that, no-one gets anywhere, no-one crowd surfs, QED.
I don't like it much, honestly if someone could be sure to a reasonable level that no-one would get hurt doing it then I wouldn't mind. But as someone pointed out earlier, it's pretty hard to be sure when tumbling over a bunch of people that you won't kick one in the head. It's more likely to happen than not. As such, I really don't see why any normal person would do it. In any other situation if I walked around kicking people in the head 'cause it was a laugh I'd get arrested. But as I say, the majority won't mind.
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Is there a limit to how many sweets one thing you can put into it, does it eventuly just give you diabetes/taste horrible?
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See your point fella but the flaw in your argument is that you selling a spare ticket no matter what you get for it is not the same as companies deliberately buying up all the tickets immediately thus forcing the price up to a stupidly high level.
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Yes but when touts operate and buy up all the tickets artificially inflating the prices then it's basically a Cartel. An illegal one at that. Free market principles don't apply when you restrict access to commodities in the first place. NO TO TOUTS!
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I'm split on this. I've been annoyed by touts, I've used them, and occasionally I've been one. Not on purpose, but if a friend cancels on me and I have a spare ticket that has a market value on Ebay of 5x the price I paid then I'm not cheating myself out of that money out of some moral sense.
Because if the market value on Ebay is half of what I paid for it the ticketing company sure aren't going to make up the difference or give me a refund. Glasto do offer refunds up to a limited point, so I'm willing to cut them a lot more slack than others. But if I've got a concert ticket that's non-refundable it bloody well better be transferable. And if that's the case you just got to sell at the fair market value.
That's capitalism, it's how the world works. It don't work that well, as we can see right now, and it's fundamentally unfair and crap, but unless we all stick to the rules we screw ourselves. I'll campaign for change but I sure can't afford to be so philanthropic in real terms. If you can then more power to you.
It's not a directly analogous situation, but imagine if Ford suddenly decided that cars would be locked to their initial owner, and that you couldn't sell on your second-hand car. Or if you weren't allowed to sell on old books or DVDs on Ebay. It might sound ridiculous but video-games manufacturers are already starting to come up with systems to license out games instead of selling them so they can't be sold on. And the fifty quid or so worth of albums I have on iTunes can't be sold on to anyone else. We're moving in a dangerous direction, and abandoning the ability for people to sell on tickets at a fair market value is a another step that way. A fairly benign and helpful one, but still a worrying one.
The real problem we have here is that the selling of tickets to start with is not a fair system. If you logged in, got put in a queue by the time you logged in, and got sold up to two tickets, then after an hour or the queue was clear, you could join again and buy more, then touting would be fine. Everyone gets an equal shot at tickets, then the touts can sell on the secondary market to people that were too lazy or un-decided to get in the queue. If everyone gets a fair and equal chance to buy then it's fine. The problem is when events sell out before the queue is even cleared the first time around as demand is so high. The touts got lucky or had a faster net connection and everyone else loses out.
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Have to say, the reasons given about underage drinking are a joke. The mess issue I can understand (and it's not like there were empty bins to put the bottles in) but the underage thing is crazy on so many levels:
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1) How many of these drinkers, upon not being able to get cider said "Sod it, lets go to bed instead then" rather than "Okay I'll have something else".
2) If Brothers weren't IDing people, that's one thing. But as has been said, young looking people will get ID'd every time they go up to the bar as they'll get served by different people. If you sell in large bottles the benefits are two-fold: first you serve faster, clearing the queue quicker and hence allowing more time to ID borderline cases without risking the crowd at the bar getting large enough to be unsafe. Secondly, once you ID that person and serve them a bottle, it'll be four times as long until they come back and have to be ID'd again.
Surely selling in larger quantities eases the problem.
3) Why can't we just buy bottles if we present ID? Compulsory for all ages. It'll take 5 seconds extra for someone to check the ID, granted. But that's off-set against the time spent serving the same person up to four separate times, with a separate transaction each time.
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Comedy mainly, nothing wierd though...just good old comedy. Stand up male commedians. Don't get me wrong though i have nothing against women, but fine female commedians mostly very poor.
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Jim Bob has done the Leftfield late night on Saturday the past few years. Obviously no Leftfield this year so that's up in the air but there's still a chance he'll be on one of the other stages.
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No sign - loss of the Leftfield was one thing, but the loss of all the regular Leftfield acts is awful.
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Any word if John Otway's on this year? If not that's two festivals in a row without him - he seems to have gigs scheduled the Friday and Saturday night so it'd doubtful he'd do all three days as normal but Sunday is free and he's in the right part of the country at least.
The cabaret tent isn't the same without him.
And can we have Woody back too please?
Time to ban flags from the stages?
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