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I'd make the effort to see Shakespeare's Sister if they played...they made one of the few pop albums in my youth that I still listen to occassionally.
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It seems strange that when the issues last year were down to too much traffic, they apply to have an extra 5,400 cars on site. That and being able to start your festival early if you go by car (even if it is just carpark access, we all know people will see it as an extra night of drinking and festivalling) hardly encourage the use of public transport. Although if extra car parks with extra entrances mean cars can get on site quicker, I can see its uses.
I'm also wondering what the long term effects of increasing parking and camping will be? Probably like most festivals...increase the geographical size of the festival one year in the interests of the safety of the people already going, and then in following years apply for an increase in capacity of attendees as you have more space on site.
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After years of being frustrated by accomodating others wishes or not finding people who wanted to go, I gave in a started going by myself, and it's the best festival decision I've ever made. As everyone says, having complete freedon to see and do what you want at Glastonbury is a fairly unbeatable weekend.
With regards setting up tent, that is probably the hardest bit. Not that it's difficult to set up a tent, but you feel like a bit of a freak, and not everyone at Glastonbury is as instantly welcoming to a weirdo with no mates as the people on here. Not that they're rude or anything, but if you don't talk to them they'll probably spend the whole weekend weighing up whether or not you're a thief, and when you're packing up on the last day and people realise all their stuff is in tact, you'll finally get a proper firendly conversation out of your neighbours, by which point it's a bit late!
It probably helps that I'm a bit older, I can't imagine solo festivalling in my teens/early 20's as I would have been too self-conscious. And with regards your neighbours, I think you have to make an effort to make the first move if being friends with them matters to you.
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There were no seperate areas requiring seperate wristbands. There was a 'second barrier', as seen at pretty much all major festivals now like Reading, Download and Glastonbury. Rather annoyingly, there was another barrier seperating the front of the crowd in two, from the middle of the front barrier back to the second barrier. I wasn't down the front for many bands on the mainstage anyway, but it looked like it killed the atmosphere a bit.
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I saw Antiproduct supporting the Wildhearts over Christmas....quite aside from the fact they're the perfect band image wise, they finished their set with a cover of The Timewarp, so it would be good to get them on.
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I'm a huge fan but there's no way they could headline. They weren't big enough when they were around, and they haven't exactly become more popular when they were away. The Pixies and Smashing Pumpkins were always bigger, and yet when they reformed and headlined Reading their crowds were pretty small compared with other headliners....I don't think Festival Republic would make that mistake again. NME headliner would suit me.
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I'm suprised by all the negativity, I've seen them well over ten times and they've always been good, I've never witnessed a problem. I've known him to say things about people throwing stuff at the stage, but I'd agree with him there.
Their schedule from end May to early July is getting full with festival dates, with only one weekend completely free...Glastonbury weekend, and no other English appearances yet announced, it looks quite promising. Although I'd rather see them at Sonisphere or Reading, as whenever a band I love plays Glastonbury the crowd always seem fairly unexcited and I get frustrated that people are standing around seemingly uninterested. Watch the BBC footage of Raconteurs last year...everyone says it was a great gig, and yet the crowd are just stood still looking miserable. When I saw Placebo at Glastonbury in 1998 it was ruined by people around me right down the front drunkenly talking/shouting through the quiet songs, having dumb converations with their friends waiting for the next hit, which ruined the mood.
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It seems strange to make two announcements so close together. It looks like all today's new bands are ones who would have been personally chosen by Metallica, so perhaps these will all play Metallica's day and Wednesday's announcement will be more Linkin Park related bands. Which as a non-Linkin Park fan I'm strangely more excited about...I'm hoping for NIN like everyone else, and Chris Cornell has a new album out soon, and supported them last year in the US, so he must be under consideration.
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Backspacer is hardly my favourite Pearl Jam album, but I like it and think it sounds fresher than some of their other albums from the last ten years. Although obviously it is fresher at the moment. For me they sound like they're enjoying themselves more than they have before, just playing straight simple rock songs, and I can hear more of the influences that they always go on about, the so called 'classic' bands like The Ramones, The Doors, The Who etc, all of which I'm sure would be appreciated by the average Glastonbury crowd.