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  1. France on Fri/Sat after that, the Deftones at Glastonbury dream is dead for another year: https://www.instagram.com/p/C3FRaVKiaqt/?hl=en
  2. No. There's a rumour of Stevie Wonder on Friday. Which like every year, might turn out to be true, or like the vast majority of rumours that efests whips itself into believing is "nailed on", may turn out to be bollocks.
  3. 4 days between Manchester and London does seem a little much. Doing a few consecutive nights elsewhere, so Friday night headliner is a remote possibility.
  4. Shania is more campy frivilous fun, so more likely for the Legends slot. Could see Nicks on after her (or 3rd down another day). Doubt she'd be Pyramid sub.
  5. A bit of a long shot, but The XX could be in with a chance for a (2025) Friday headline, if their next album does well. Already done Other headline and Pyramid sub, so with Jamie's new album supposedly in the can, and their own one being recorded at the moment, they might get a couple of big singles and get a push up. Probably more likely to do Other headline/Pyramid sub again though (or headlining other smaller festivals in 2025), but you never know.
  6. UK stadiums in less than 4 months, and still not announced yet? Good f**king luck.
  7. A month before, and in the US, but the following are active:
  8. Sure: Here's the tl;dr of the above (with lots of screenshots and links omitted for C&P purposes): Claire has been actively engaging with a lot of racist individuals and movements recently. These aren’t the type of people who’s racism can be debated. These are card carrying, out and proud racists who are known mainly for their racism and who’s life’s work, or entire personas revolve around racism. That and several racist twitter accounts— accounts that no one could claim to follow accidentally or misinterpret. Spergler Acolyte She was following the extremely racist nazi spergler from her main account, but unfollowed after these posts came out (even further evidence she reads r/grimezs) https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/12nb35r/grimes_likes_total_nier_death_genocide_meme/ She is now following him again as of 12/31/23 , after all of this. So she absolutely knows what shes doing and what it means. This is no whoopsie moment. His account is full of rancid misogynistic, pedophilic, and racist tweets. BorealBaron will be lumped in with spergler, since spergler retweets him a lot. Another vile account. Note the swastika on the pro-grimes post. Nice. It would be bad enough to follow these accounts from her friends only account — but shes following them on her main account. Razib Khan she is friends with racist acedemic razib khan, known for his racism. It’s one thing to be friends with someone, but to post a public photo of it is a whole extra layer of support. She follows him on multiple accounts. Razib Khan was **personally hired by *Richard Spencer*** (a very famous nazi) and wrote for his publication. Khan also questioned if bonobo apes should be considered as humans, as *he found them more human-like than black people.* Curtis Yarvin: Curtis Yarvin expresses the belief that white people are genetically endowed with higher IQs than black people. He has suggested race may determine whether individuals are better suited for slavery, and his writing has been interpreted as supportive of the institution of slavery. He promotes the idea that the Earth and eventually Mars should be governed by ai with a “god/ceo” at the helm, his personal pick being Elon Musk. Deeply involved with the dark enlightenment https://www.inc.com/tess-townsend/why-it-matters-that-an-obscure-programming-conference-is-hosting-mencius-moldbug.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment some more context behind her song “We Appreciate Power” which Grimes claimed is “propaganda” which we all interpretted as being ficiticious. When this threadreader post came out, most would write it off as being a coiincidence or far fetched. But in 2023, she attended and DJ’d his birthday party. Even drawing him a custom happy birthday message. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1108493440382169089.html Palladium Magazine In December 2022, Grimes attended a holiday fundraising party for the San Francisco political think tank and magazine Palladium, which was founded by the Neo Nazi activist Jonah Bennett. Palladium receives much of its capital investment from Peter Thiel, whose Hereticon “free speech” conservative conference (a haven for hate speech) Grimes had also previously done a private DJ set for, in January 2022. Grimes publicly tweeted about her participation in both Hereticon and the Palladium party. Also, there were many pictures of her at the Palladium party shared by the editors of Palladium and then retweeted by Grimes. These pictures show Grimes together with her own friends who also attended, and some show the magazine’s current editors (not Bennett, but close associates of him, most notably Wolf Tivy) who she frequently interacted with on twitter in the weeks after the party (they were also mutuals). Jonah Bennett himself also appears to have attended the party, despite not being pictured together with Grimes, as he retweeted one of the other Palladium editors’ tweet celebrating the importance of Grimes attending the party and showing how far Palladium has come to gain such a prominent artist’s support. Since the last paragraph was written, she has appeared on the cover of Palladium adding more support to this racist technophilic publication. For more context on Jonah Bennet and his racism here is an entire twitter account dedicated to exposing it: https://twitter.com/jbennettquotes “Technophilic Pronatalism” (Eugenic White Supremacist Breeding Cult) https://cne.news/article/2163-three-women-ten-children-how-elon-musk-tries-to-save-the-world Grimes has also been exploring eugenics. The celebrity eugenics couple from Connecticut, the Collinses, had an extensive interview with Business Insider last year. The piece painted an incredibly disturbing picture of what the Collinses are all about, but it stuck to facts and didn't editorialize, earning the praise of the Collinses themselves, who called the article very accurate. This is relevant to Grimes because she receives a mention in the article-the Collinses tell the journalist that Grimes reached out to their group seeking to get involved in the cause of eugenics. Grimes nor the Collinses did not ever deny that this occurred. It also fits with some of her own public statements supporting "the Mission." The Mission is a cult created by Elon Musk with a mission of breeding a superior race of humans on Mars. Grimes, although no longer involved romantically with Musk, recently said promoting the Mission is now her main purpose in life, describing music as a mere "side quest." Dogwhistles and far right talking points: “If i could be anyone from the past, i would be hitler or stalin” saying “men and females” vs “men and women” is a 4chan meme and a known far right dog whistle, she is dog whistling in a way that it goes over 99% of the fans heads, but anyone who is a racist, sexist edgelord (or anyone simply aware of their lexicon) will pick up on it immediately. she knows exactly what she is doing. It’s so known there is an entire subreddit dedicated to calling it out. https://www.reddit.com/r/MenAndFemales/comments/12oq8k6/grimes/ "Lebensraum" https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimes/comments/10n4esi/on_international_holocaust_remembrance_day/ "Retvrn" what "retvrn" means to people who know: It comes from the white supremacist phrase “retvrn to evropa” (lines up with her lyrics too hmm) In Summary, her actual views on race and gender seemingly align perfectly with people in the far right who think women aren't as smart as men, POC aren't as smart as white people, and asian women are superior and sexiest. spergler acolyte being a prime example of the type of people who share these views. Any of these situations on their own is questionable enough, but when combined together squander any reasonable doubt that she is a racist, a bigot, or the modern definition of a “nazi” which in 2024 is just the common slur for anyone who is a white supremacist like Richard Spencer. This is not a list of all of her controversies, just the racist stuff for this specific post. other racists she follows as of 1/2/24 (feel free to add more to the list in comments and i will do my best to update) u/the_hellenist a racist, fascist account who claire follows and has liked several tweets of. talks about roman empire collapsing because of the jews. https://www.reddit.com/r/grimezs/comments/zegxqr/grimes_really_does_follow_interesting_people/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1&rdt=43826 bronze age pervert - known racist, entire persona based around racism “i believe in fascism or something worse” https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/bronze-age-pervert-costin-alamariu/ Andrew Tate - a sex trafficker and famous misogynist piece of sh*t. You all already know. Yes, she follows him. Aella - controversial misogynist who organizes orgies for the elite tech scene in austin where women have to sign their right to consent away to participate. Anyone who practices kink or BDSM knows that consent is the foundation of sex that isn’t assault. Claire is good friends and engages via her private account often. Aella also posts a lot of insanely creepy polls about children and sex that many consider to be pedophilic in nature. Alex Leaud - a fascist, racist, stalker doxxed a woman from the grimezs sub on his grimezshate twitter account, tried to hack into user accounts, was allowed to follow her friends only account, harassed many members of r/grimezs, got banned from reddit for harassment and doxxing, used (claires fans/ex-fans) sexual assault experiences against them. He has been openly racist, sexist transphobic, https://www.reddit.com/r/grimezs/s/LV1VJXTLEH a lot of her other friends like Lan Dao, Aella, Liv Boeree post a lot of red-pilled content such as opposing feminism, LGBTQ rights, black struggles, endorsing patriarchy, a total inversion of what Grimes used to stand for. This also explains tweets like this Further Reading for those interested: An incomplete list of Claires track record as a compulsive liar: https://www.reddit.com/r/grimezs/s/OXtizOruHs
  9. She follows, likes and re-tweets several right-wing nazi sympathisers and accounts that post coded neo-nazi propaganda and memes. She sometimes posts/retweets the barely coded neo-nazi memes herself, then quickly deletes them. There's plenty of screenshots on reddit threads. Seems more like an alt-right troll doing it for kicks than someone who's going to get a swastika tattooed on her, but still....
  10. Sad to see neo-nazi supporter and far-right cheerleader Grimes still getting big bookings. Although I suppose if any major festival would be booking her, given it's background this is the one...
  11. Do we? Or are we just assuming because someone on the internet said so?
  12. People in the music industry largely know absolutely f**k all about Glastonbury lineups, as have been proven dozens, if not hundreds of times on here. Pretty much all of them are full of sh*t.
  13. TBA BST show apparently "Apparently". So absolutely zero to suggest that he's active, and hasn't been for 5 years? If he's coming out of semi-retirement, I'd imagine it'll be US dates, not for two days in fields in the UK. I feel this is a rhetorical question, but any sign of him being rumoured for other European tour dates/festivals?
  14. Has Stevie Wonder any 2024 gigs confirmed? As far as I can see, the last time he played a proper concert was 2019? His official website linked from twitter doesn't exist anymore, and the only other official-looking one I can find was last updated in 2015.....
  15. If you can't take the Tuesday off, there's a 19:30 sailing from Rosslare, gets you into Fishguard at 23:00. Could check in somewhere then for the night and then have a 3hr drive the next morning. Also slightly later ones to Pembroke/Holyhead, but they get in after midnight, so you'd have to have somewhere that is OK with you checking in at that time (lots of B&Bs in those places, so might be OK). Depending on what time you need to finish work at though, 19:30 sailing (ie be checked in at Rosslare before 19:00) might be too tight. If WFH is an option that day, there's a whole load of workarounds that you could probably do, from driving down half the way in the morning before work and then sitting in a coffee shop/pub for the morning working, then continuing on to Wexford at lunch and doing the same for the afternoon (as a friend of mine once did for All Together Now!), to getting the train all the way to Rosslare during the afternoon and working on that, while others drove down. If you want to fly, there's a 19:30 Tuesday flight from Dublin to Bristol, you could get that, rent a car at the airport, and then check in somewhere outside Bristol for the night. Next morning get breakfast, do supermarket shop, and be on-site by midday. As said above, splitting the group with some driving and some flying would be an option too, with some sailing/driving and being able to take tents and pick up booze, and others that can't go over on Tuesday daytime getting a flight instead (either Tues night, or Wed morning).
  16. Where are the majority based (ie mostly Dublin, or concentrated somewhere else, or all over?), and is going over on the Tuesday afternooon an option? If you're going to fly, get a taxi from the airport and pickup booze/supplies at a supermarket seems to be the way most people do it. I suppose with 4 people in 2 taxis/all in a minibus, booked in advance, it isn't that much hassle. Factor in extra/oversize baggage charges. That said, I find it too much hassle with dicking around on the morning after you land for several hours, limits on what you can bring on the plane/to the festival, cost of buying WAY more food/booze at the festival, and the sheer hassle of having to carry everything in one go. We prefer to get the drive and get the ferry, as there's more flexibility, not as stressful, much easier to take supplies and optional extras like camping stoves or proper pillows, can leave a few days worth of food/booze/clothes in the car and get them Friday morning... I've done from both Dublin and Rosslare. For our first few times, we got the Tuesday afternoon sailing from Dublin-Holyhead, then drove down for about 5hrs, did a supermarket shop, and checked into a hotel about 45mins from the site on the Tues night, then were on the road after breakfast the next morning. The return drive is a bit of a pain though, 6hr drive on a Monday after a festival isn't nice, but the later ferries from Holyhead aren't until after 8pm, so should have plenty of time to make it up. There's an earlier, quicker one around 6pm I think, but not worth putting yourself under pressure to get that. The alternative (and preferable IMO) is to get the afternoon return ferry to Rosslare, which lands back before 7pm. For Rosslare, we stayed in a hotel about 30mins from Rosslare on the Tuesday night. The ferry was at 6:30am I think, but the Wednesday morning ferries go at 8:15/8:45 now, so you could probably just leave home that morning for the sailing, and not bother with staying nearby the night before. Once we got over there, it was about a 3hr:30m drive from what I remember. Advantage is you don't need to take Tuesday off, but disadvantage with this is you don't get to site until like 4pm on Wednesday, that said, you probably won't be far off arriving to site at that time if you're flying, and having to get taxis sorted and stops for supplies. If it's your first time, I'd recommend going over on the Tuesday and staying in a hotel/hostel, and getting on the road early Wednesday to be on-site before midday. If it was me in your shoes, I'd drive 2 cars, get a Tuesday afternoon sailing, stay overnight somewhere, and drive to the site Wednesday morning. Then get the 14:45 ferry back to Rosslare on Monday. It's a bit of a pain that both Irish Ferries and Stena Line have sailings around the same times of each other on both routes. I'm sure there's some logic to it for the port workers, but it limits the choice for people sailing....
  17. ooof, might fly over to Manc purely for the Nothing and Thursday sets alone.
  18. Anyone have The XX's set from 2013?
  19. The Weeknd already had crazy hype behind him even a year before that, when he played Coachella 2012 to a huge crowd when he only had his mixtapes out, so I'd guess the Glastonbury booking had been made a long time before the 2013 lineup came out, and his agents knew that he was already headed for much bigger things. e: while we're posting old lineups:
  20. What he brings to the table is being one of the biggest acts in the UK/world. Most people don't give a f**k if he only has a guitar and pedal on stage. Glastonbury would bite his hand off if he's available again and wants to do it.
  21. Neo-nazi and right-wing troll sympathiser Grimes still getting bookings eh
  22. Spice Girls are not reforming to be playing a pissy little 75min afternoon slot at Glastonbury in the middle of a stadium tour. If they're playing (unlikely), they'll be headlining. e: should have refreshed the page before replying. Carry on.
  23. Quiet a few recommended already that I enjoyed. A few more I've loved or have great reviews and are on my list: Jeff Chang - Can't Stop Won't Stop (history of hiphop) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cant-Stop-Wont-History-Generation/dp/0312425791 Fredric Dannen - Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money (History/expose of the music business/record labels) https://www.amazon.com/Hit-Men-Brokers-Inside-Business/dp/0679730613 Luke Haines - Bad Vibes: Britpop and my part in its downfall (Memoir from the 90s by the singer of The Auteurs) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Vibes-Britpop-part-downfall/dp/0099522268 Jacob Slichter - So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star (Memoir by the drummer in Semisonic) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wanna-Rock-Roll-Star-Machine-Gunned/dp/0767914716 Walter Yetnikoff - Howling At The Moon (Memoir/biography of the head of CBS Records throughout the 70s/80s) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Howling-At-Moon-Story-Genius/dp/0349118906
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