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  1. Flaming lips

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    That was one of the best live experiences ever.  First time seeing them live (although a long time enjoyer of their music).  Joyous.

     

    come on come on come on *waves hands around encouragingly*

  2. Leaving the site on Saturday

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    10 minutes ago, jparx said:

    Thanks for that! How much do you reckon it'd be to Castle Cary? And do the know the names of any reliable taxi firms around there? :D

    Your best bet is to run through the list of taxi companies in Castle Cary from the Yell page : https://www.yell.com/s/taxis+and+private+hire+vehicles-castle+cary.html ... I've not used many taxis round here but have found they all seem to have different ways of working, so some may not do that journey, or that time, or whatever.  You should be able to get a price out of them too as it is likely a journey they do more than a few times :)

  4. Glastonbury pays bands 'less than 10%' of what they'd earn elsewhere

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    Just now, Hugh Jass said:

    Like others on here I would be absolutely fascinated to see a breakdown of fees per act one year.

    Yeah but then you may be able to work out a ball park figure of how much Glastonbury festival makes.  Which may go some way to harming the image that this is all done for the people and isn't a huge commercial enterprise (like most festivals).  The 'business' of Glastonbury is part of the mystique of Glastonbury, as far as I can tell.

    Interestingly Melvin Benn of Reading and Leeds fame was a Director of Glastonbury Festival Limited until 2012 : https://companycheck.co.uk/company/04348175/GLASTONBURY-FESTIVAL-EVENTS-LIMITED/companies-house-data when Paul Latham for Live Nation took a Directorship.

    Maybe like laws and sausages we don't want to know how Glastonbury gets made :D

  5. Glastonbury pays bands 'less than 10%' of what they'd earn elsewhere

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    14 minutes ago, DeanoL said:

    I'd imagine in the middle - your non-TV broadcast middle of day on John Peel acts they pay close to the going rate. Which is easy because saving £500,000 on a headliner fee pays for 100 mid-tier bands.

    Definitely be interested to know this, the grime guys seemed to be grumbling about this stuff, but maybe the dance area is a bit overstretched (it seems to have so many acts on).

  7. Glastonbury pays bands 'less than 10%' of what they'd earn elsewhere

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    15 hours ago, Hugh Jass said:

    I would argue that it actually levels the playing field for Glastonbury against the likes of Reading who can drop a million pounds per set. There are still plenty of artists out there who will always take the coin over GF (Stone Roses, GnR, Fleetwood Mac...)

    133,000 capacity * £235 tickets = £31million ... + traders + EE sponsorship + TV rights (assuming they are paid for) + parking + merch ... - £2mil for charity.  I suspect Glastonbury brings in relatively as much for its size as Reading etc.

  14. 2017 New Music Thread

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    10 hours ago, ThomZorke said:

    I really like the athmosphere they create but overall the album lacks a few standouts. It's a very nice listen but I couldn't tell you the name of a single song because they all feel a bit too similar.

    I think that is a fair review to be honest... their first EP had this on it :

    Something stand out like that on the album would help it, but it feels they went more dream than pop on the album.

  16. 2017 New Music Thread

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    7 hours ago, eFestivals said:

    c'mon guys, you're slacking ... i came in here to find new tracks by new-ish acts (to nick your recommendations, of course), and there's been nothing new since yesterday. :P

     

    But you said they had to be playing Glastonbury... or likely to... :)

    Vök released their album of Icelandic dream pop goodness on Friday called Figure.  Well worth a check out.

     

  19. Napalm Death - Truth Stage?!?

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    53 minutes ago, bennyhana22 said:

    At gigs it is not acceptable to wear the main band's t-shirt. No, not even a really old one from when they were good and hadn't sold out to The Man and only you watched them and nobody knew about them.

    Question.  Is it acceptable to wear a band tshirt related to the band who are headlining.  Say for example wearing a The Mars Volta Tshirt to an At The Drive-in gig, or vice versa?

    Can I also add an amendment, it is only acceptable to wear a festival tshirt for the festival you are currently at if it is >10 years old. :)

  22. Napalm Death - Truth Stage?!?

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    1 hour ago, philipsteak said:

    Why do they do that?

    "Death metal, which tends to be darker and more morbid than thrash metal, features vocals that attempt to evoke chaos and misery by being "usually very deep, guttural, and unintelligible."

    Death metal tends to lower registers and black metal tends to use higher registers.

    The majority of metal is quite intelligible, these are subgenres that have a particular style.  It would be like judging all dance/electronic music by the random experimentation of Autecre.

    Metalcore bands like Killswitch Engage utilise both clean and gutteral vocals, usually with the same singer (if they are good enough)

     

     

    Yes there is a man wearing a cape... and that's okay.

  25. Napalm Death - Truth Stage?!?

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    1 minute ago, Wooderson said:

    Dunno bout you Nal, but Ive learned so much from metal over the years. Take Maiden's "Alexander the Great" for example.

    Holy shit, are you picking apart the meaning of metal lyrics and finding them a bit ridiculous... holy shit that is original, please do more. I've never seen its like before.  It is probably the only genre you could do this with too... amazing, just stunningly inventive of you.

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