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The main thing that baffles me is people getting swayed on their choice of who to see based on them being ‘legends’ or a ‘secret set’ or my ultimate pet hate ‘I’m not a fan, I’m going to watch them just so I can say that I’ve seen them’.
if they are legends fair enough but why are you watching them based solely on that? My mate said that he wasn’t watching Fontaines with us because he wanted to see Diana Ross because ‘she’s a legend’. After a while he turned up to see Fontaines with us.
He said that he had a realisation when ‘Baby Love’ came on that he is not really a fan,has never consciously listened to that song, will never play it deliberately or add it to a playlist or anything. It’s not the type of music or artist he normally likes.Then realised that he’d been swayed by the hype of the legends slot.
Same for secret sets, if I don’t want to watch a band when they normally play at a festival then I don’t want to see them at a secret set.Yet people are looking to see who are playing a secret set then suddenly are going to watch a band that they wouldn’t even look up at when walking past if they were playing a normal set.
As for ‘just to say I’ve seen them’, how does that conversation go?
’I saw Paul McCartney at the weekend’
’Wow! Are you a fan’
’not really’
’why did you watch him then?’
’just to say I’ve seen him’
’who are you going to say that to?’
’um,people like you’
’……. Oh’
Yup, baffling.
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1 hour ago, fingers_mark said:
Welsh Oggie stall
Yup, my wife pointed out that I mentioned that it wasn’t there on the way in and on the way out so I must have missed it haha.
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2 minutes ago, adequate8 said:
I was told there are 50k Sunday day tickets, that right?! Seems a lot
Nowhere near.
50k would mean that half of the local twins entire population would be at the festival.
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On 6/24/2022 at 9:48 AM, hurdy said:
Can confirm the coated cauliflower bites from Mexican Seoul next to BBC Introducing are insanely good
I had these, they were absolutely amazing.
The only downside is that I’m sitting at home now hanging to shreds fancying another bowl of these, haha.
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2 hours ago, thewayiam said:
The crowds from some reports. Only by reading others attending. It was very busy even as an attendee from Friday onwards. Reports thats 210k tickets sold plus 80k for Sunday locals. If it was that is crazy. I know from being there that trying to get around the other stage by mid afternoon can be a nightmare and back in 2011, 13 and even 14 it wasn't that hard.
8k Sunday tickets perhaps, certainly not 80k
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7 hours ago, CaitNeeDee said:
The crowd situation at sets is nothing like I've seen before, I'm genuinely concerned for Sunday when numbers increase again.
Michael Eavis said in an interview a few years ago that the Sunday day ticketers are offset by the amount of people who go home early on Sunday.
Seems hard to believe but Im sure he knows better than me.
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On 6/11/2022 at 12:30 PM, e_p said:
Liam and Noel Gallagher should be banned. Not really sure which one is which so will need to be a blanket shitehawk ban
Ant and Dec, Lidl and Aldi, Liam and Noel, anyone who I get mixed up with need to be banned.
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2 hours ago, she bangs the drums said:
I'm with you, we have slim pickings as it is!
I don't got to Glastonbury to see this type of music, however when we do get it, we don't want it to clash!
I've seen Turnstile 4 times over the past 4 years and they are amazing, I cannot wait.
Haven’t seen them yet so nothing (realistically) will stop me on Sunday.
Had a good few weeks of ticking bands of my list that I’ve never seen before*.Descendents, grandson and Spiritbox at Download, Walter Trout last night in Frome and Turnstile on Sunday.
After gigging/festivalling for 30 odd years you don’t get to do that too often.
* I mean bands I’ve not seen before who I’m a fan of and I’ve been wanting to see, obviously there’ll be loads of bands I can see at Glastonbury that I haven’t seen before , I could tick about 25 a day haha.
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If it is Green Day, I’d it the Sunday TBA that’s the same time as Turnstile?
it’s slim pickings for me on Sunday as it is so I’d rather they didn’t clash two of the only rock bands of the day (they’re already clashing Amyl and Fontaines)
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Just got back from watching Walter Trout in Frome.He was amazingly mind blowingly good.
Shame he isn’t playing Glastonbury considering he’s literally playing 10 miles away on the eve of the festival.
Great pre festival gig.
Oh, and if you think I’m mad for going to a gig just before the festival, this is the fourth rearranged date, originally got the ticket with a Ticketmaster voucher from my aunt for Xmas
(merry Xmas 2019 Aunty)
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I quite often go to gigs straight from work so am often one of the only people at the venue. As you can imagine, Jeff is always there early and we have a chat.
His knowledge on music is absolutely incredible and he often watches more than one gig in a day.
I’ve known him watch a live early session in somewhere like Rough Trade then watch the support band in one venue and the headliner in another haha.Fair play to him, he’s a top bloke and is absolutely obsessed with music.
Get well Jeff.
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In short, slim pickings.
(that’s the state of heavier bands on the line up by the way, I’m not recommending a heavy band called Slim Pickings, haha)
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1 hour ago, Xeph1995 said:
Guys you know what, I know you all laugh at old bands but cmon you can't deny no contemporary rock band is commanding this crowd.
I was down the front for that and surprisingly there was more room than further back, haha.
Awesome day. Metallica,Motley Crue, Queensryche and Black Crowes too.
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1 hour ago, jump said:
R&L despite being a teen pop festival where the line up looks like they have thrown some kind of 20 sided D&D dice to book it are good at that. If there's someone new and being talked about then they chuck them early on the mainstage plus new bands don't have a robust catalogue so them playing for 30-45 mins actually works for them unlike giving Bury Tomorrow a 30min slot. But Download is just shit at it largely due to them not having their finger to the pulse of the UK rock scene in general.
There's definitely a need for a day fest somewhere in this country. There were so many big bands touring Europe but decided not to play the UK this year they could have chucked something on at the last minute. Something after the schools have closed in late Jul/Aug away from Download so they can pick up other bands touring Europe they wouldn't have and not compete with them. Maybe APE will start booking heavier acts as they have tried before with Bring Me, jumped on Turnstile and Idles who I would have pegged as R&L must haves this year (especially as they would have fit under Rage) and they almost got NIN until Trent had another kid.
Turnstile could yet headline the Pit (sorry the FR) as there’s one band TBA.
On the subject of Idles in R+L, it’s strange that they haven’t played since they became big. The last time I can remember them playing was low down on the FR tent.
They we’re booked to play the cancelled 2020 though
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I always had one of these but had forgotten about them until you just reminded me.
Now I’ve got a crazy feeling of feeling I’m missing out on something I wouldn’t even have remembered of you hadn’t posted this haha
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Wow! What a great weekend!
Totally broken now though. No idea how I’ll manage 4 days next year haha.
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Can recommend the alcohol free Guinness
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3 hours ago, devilman said:
Hope those going have a great time. I'll be there from when we arrive on Wed evening in the campervan field. A bit less pished than in normal times (if I do as I'm told). Looks like it might be windy which is the suckiest of weather outcomes. Fingers crossed we escape the worst.
I’m not even going to pretend that I’m going to be less pished than normal haha.
Got Wales Netherlands footy match in Cardiff on Wednesday so will be in Downlod Friday morning.
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21 minutes ago, Twiggy553 said:
I think somebody has said this already but i’m love/hate with the bins.
They look amazing and are truly a unique part of the festival. But they always seem to be overflowing, which offends my recycling sensibilities.
At least there are some bins to overflow. Glastonbury is way better than most festivals I’ve been to.
Reading festival is a nightmare. I genuinely believe that they’ve made a conscious decision that it’s cheaper and easier to let everyone drop litter on the floor and clean it all up after the festival finishes rather than empty the bins throughout the weekend.
When my wife first went to Glastonbury she was stunned how much litter there was on the main stage after everyone left. She was even more shocked when I told her that Glastonbury only has about 10% of the litter in Reading, and to a lesser extent, Download.
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40 minutes ago, jump said:
Just looking at my tour tracking apps and there’s so many UK based bands who are active/already rehearsed for festival season and free next weekend it’s proper odd they couldn’t find anyone to replace the pulls out. You count yourselves lucky they even bothered to replace The Distillers.
I don’t actually think that they did replace Distillers.
I reckon Frank Carter was always booked and was due to play third down main stage (as announced the previous year) but they put Skindred there once there was doubts about The Distillers.
Though I suppose you could say that indirectly Skindred have replaced Distillers.
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2 hours ago, Sparticus said:
Do you think they're trying out a soft launch of the double main stage idea? Gets people moving from stage to stage more and spending more at the bars...
I’m not sure it would mean more spend at the bars. I presume that the bands would start as soon as the other band finishes on the other stage so If everyone is moving back and forth then there won’t be much time to stop at a bar.
No idea if Reading’s two main stages last year resulted in increased bar takings or not.
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1 hour ago, bamber said:
Punk and Metal are pure Shite. Punk-wise Smash it up by the Dammed was OK and the Clash, but most of it was Total Shite.
Neither form of music deserves any recognition whatsoever really, Especially all Metal.
Total Shite:
Die Mother fu*kas die.
That is all.
Yeah, more artists like Megan Thee Stallion and Rosin Murphy we need.
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On 5/29/2022 at 7:01 AM, steviewevie said:
I like to think I get on with young people and am down with the kids, but I don't, and I'm not.
I have been "hanging" with my 16 year old kid a lot recently as her mum is away, and at best we tolerate each other. She doesn't understand that everything was better in my day and I should always have the final word. And she keeps calling me priviledged white male for some reason. And pretentious. Little shit.
And got me thinking back to when I was that age and whether the late teen me would get on the early 50s me, and we really wouldn't. I would find the younger me a self centred, lazy, good for nothing prick, and I guess he would think of me as my daughter does, pretentious, full of shit. I reckon I could drink him under the table though, but he might win on the drugs side.
Anyway, enough about me.
Yeah, sometimes people say things like ‘if you could go back in time, what advice would you give your 18 year old self?’
My answer is ‘none, because 18 year old me wouldn’t have listened’ haha.
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1 hour ago, justanothername said:
Turnstile did cancel some European dates earlier but they were basically just for the next week so it seemed more of a practicality thing more than anything then. Hellfest did cause me to be a little more alarmed but Outbreak announced a bunch of cancellations last week and Turnstile wasnt one of them. They also have a bunch of headline shows across mainland Europe that were rescheduled from their Feb tour that haven't been cancelled or rescheduled as of yet and that starts this month. If Turnstile were cancelling their entire European tour I feel like we would have known by now.
More positive posts like this I need
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Yeah, I thought Turnstile were absolutely amazing.
Had a few texts from people who said they’d spotted me on telly during their set too hha