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Great new Phosphorescent song. He reckons it’s the best one he’s ever written. No tour dates yet to support the April album release. I guess more an EOTR artist but a return to The Park a decade on would be a very nice Sunday afternoon alternative to what sounds like might be on the Pyramid!

285 pounds for the Eagles Manchester gigs in presale. Think it’s going to be a tribute band or Greatest Hits on full volume in the car. That is next level pricing!!

That Don’t Impress Me Much (is that even her?)

Horses for courses. Cat Stevens was pretty much the first thing in my clashfinder last year. Shania will have me whittling a wooden spoon in the green fields if there’s nothing better to watch!

I know 😞 Clicking the link for the Manchester presale registration and working out how to explain the CC bill if I get lucky!

Dynamic it is not! This guys put up a fair few songs from 19th January, it’s not making me join the Q for Manchester tickets, but I would still like to see them once. It won’t let me paste the setlist link, but suffice to say it’s as expected, a great crowd pleasing set. Maybe Manchester…..

Never seen the Eagles and would love to. Prices for their gigs have always been astronomical. If they were in as Legends (it’s not a band slot) or Churnups, or newly identified “sunset for bands that are sunsetting” slot, then I would love it. I don’t even mind if they appear to be dialling it in “hello Wembley” because I just want to hear those timeless classics in the sunshine/pissing rain in Somerset.

We would have a last dance at the Joe Bananas silent disco in 2009, classy space, patch of empty land between the stall and the long drops 😅 I’ve got some short videos but must be on Mrs NS phone.

Same here. With Bruce I had the same feeling, but want it to be him because I really like him, but really there are a few of these great headliners from the last 20 years that are a “one and done” and Stevie was one of those in my opinion. The one that tried to do it twice was The Who and that second appearance should be a cautionary tale for the festival and the performers.

Blurnups would be great. Really hoping that is now a “slot” that we can look forward to each time. I am not a FF fan, but loved an hour of their big tunes.

I am actually going to have to check with Mrs NS now. I absolutely know I saw TLA that morning on Pyramid as it was hot and we were right at the front and it stank of piss because it had been wet a lot that weekend. it was all spongy and stank and although it was kind of baked almost dry there was no way I was sitting down!! I also know I saw Paul Simon because he was rubbish. I know he was ill, etc., but such a disappointment. I think it would have been John Grant in The Park, I think tiny crowd from very vague possibly not real memory, then TLA, then comedy then K&TG (sounds plausible and like it would have been a fun day (even with the Paul Simon stink patch in it)

Yes, friends that were at Beyoncé were smug, but we had fun. I think we went to The Low Anthem in Avalon, a bit of Comedy then most of Kool and the Gang. TBH it was 12.5 years ago, I had to look at the Clashfinder online to piece that together, for some reason it hasn’t got my actual in it for that year. I might have been using a printed version and a highlighter pen then 🙂

It’s always interesting to see how the same thing is experienced differently by us all. I know that’s obvious from the discussions in here. My memory of 2011 was that Coldplay were poor, they were preceded by the most amazing collective experience of Elbow in the fading sunshine (I think!), Guy downing pints, reverse Mexican waves, singalongs, etc., and then Coldplay blanded the evening to a disappointing conclusion. I’d walked away from U2 the night before due to the barracking from Bono (Brit Floyd were immense in Acoustic) and didn’t go to Beyoncé (Kool & The Gang on WH were great, but perhaps Beyoncé would have been a good one to have seen). Left that year thinking that the Pyramid headliners had been underwhelming. After that, I almost had to be dragged to Coldplay in 2016 which was the polar opposite of 2011. Absolutely incredible moving engaging 2 hour party. We were a long way back, but the atmosphere was stunning. Enjoyed 2016 so much I went to the current tour in Glasgow (feels like a decade ago, but was actually August 2022). Will be there again at WF if they are there this year.

and as mentioned further up, those landowners will be allowing GFL to use other parts of their land for parking, campervan fields, etc., so a few tickets costs the festival almost nothing compared to a commercial land rental for a fortnight on acres of parking space.

Where is the website issues page? I have looked, honest! I had to log back in on phone, iPad and computer today.

In 1989 my sister was there, she would have been 20. My mum made me promise to call to say I had found her. I found her somehow and then had to queue for what felt like hours for one of the pay phones up near the farm just to phone my mum to say my sister was OK (or was OK when I had seen her some hours earlier!). I had a mobile phone in 1990 but it barely worked anywhere (not just at Glastonbury, anywhere at all). It spent the festival in the car in the car park. Which reminds me of a 1990 car park story. For another day.

We have a few stories that will be nice in here. Will start with 1987, my first Glastonbury. We were a bunch of students in Cardiff. End of finals and somebody suggested we go to Glastonbury Festival. I can't actually remember who suggested it. I was into music, had been to loads of gigs, used to hitch hike into London to go the The Marquee regularly. Had done Reading twice and already done a couple of big outdoor gigs, but not many as they were ££++ even back then, for a student with a minimum wage weekend/evening job. We bought our tickets almost definitely at Spiller Records, or maybe even on the gate, but I think we had them up front. One friend had a vehicle and he took some of our group over on the Thursday evening I guess, and me and another friend went on his motorbike the following morning. By some minor miracle we found the others and we camped by the car/bike and in amongst a load of other vehicles and tents. It had rained in the run up to the festival so we were lucky to not fall off the bike in the mud and ruts. I think weather was why we delayed a day going on the motorbike. We got stopped and fully searched close to the site, wallets taken out and rifled through, the whole works. I feel like we were camped either where the family camping is now, or Big Ground or possibly a little bit towards Woodsies, in the field that has the Mandela bar in it nowadays. I remember coming in down a hill and past the tree where loads of people posted notes to try to meet up with people. There was a marketplace up at the top of Big Ground. All of this is from my head, totally happy to be corrected. It didn't feel too scary, but it was downright weird just seeing people in hoodies selling drugs everywhere. I don't remember bars at all, we had no money so all the food/beers had gone in with the car (which was tiny, but carried enough bread/cheese/beer to get us through a few days). I remember vans with sound systems, campfires, flares, chatting with strangers. I think I might be mashing up one of the Reading festivals, but there was a van that literally just played Comfortably Numb on a loop 24/7. Maybe it was at both festivals! Maybe there was more than one of those vans....... Can't remember much of the music really, it was a long time ago. I was already a Billy Bragg fan and I seem to remember the Acoustic Stage being in the same place but a smaller white tent with open sides, and not being able to get in as it was busy when he was on. Pretty sure we saw Elvis Costello, but I have better memories (and a bootleg) of him from 1989. Most of us left on Sunday as we had tickets for David Bowie in Cardiff on the Sunday night. Glass Spider, so not his finest, but the only time I saw him and I do remember the glass elevator thing that he came down onto the stage in. I looked up the setlist a while ago and it had a fair few great songs on it. Will reminisce on 89 & 90 at some point. Slightly better memory, and even a couple of dodgy photo's from one of them. Photo's which have a whole story attached to them. Cheers, NS

Watching that on TV was partly what got me motivated to try to get to Glastonbury again after a 14 year gap. Failed in 2005, but got there in 2007 and not missed one since. Mrs NS was studying for her Open University degree and I went and got her to come and see this amazing sound and spectacle from this band I had never really heard of. Seen Muse a lot of times since then!! Non Glastonbury highlights being Seaside Rendezvous in Teignmouth, Ashton Gate and Home Park. I love that they do the west country gigs each time, and bring the bonkers stadium shows to the smaller places.

Is that left over from fireworks night??

Whilst I agree, with all the grumbling about overcrowding perhaps some more day trippers would allow us room to move on the Wednesday and Thursday 🙂

That’s quite good, but not using an actual “like” on it this early in the day 🙂

I also blinked and missed how we got to “definitely not Bruce”. Got my front standing tickets for Cardiff, so not a problem, but how did we get to “definitely”? cheers, NS

Like everyone here, all was lined up. This Sunday we would have been in several locations on different connections. On 19th we’ll all be in deepest Kernow on the home connection, which has a v low success rate over the last 16 years. I think it’s got tickets twice. Hey ho……

Sorry for the reminiscence in the wrong thread, but just found these 2 photos from the Sunday that year (2009). We saw this sign outside a kind of tea tent place along the top by where Glastonbury on Sea is now. And the other picture is the people in the tent. We had to have some Magic Punch ourselves. And then we missed Tom Jones legend set for some reason 🙂 The punch was great!

22:15, 27th June 2009