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  1. 2022 Headliners

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    2 hours ago, Gnomicide said:

    That's an interesting question and I wonder if the festival would consider it. Would there be a risk that interest in future festivals lessens if it's not shown on the BBC? It's not just the sets that they show, there's the radio coverage, news items, The One Show etc.

    From what I understand, a number of sports that have gone to subscription only have seen a big drop off in interest in them (I think cricket may have been impacted?).

    I could definitely see Amazon going for it.

    Sports behind paywalls have seen a drop off in casual interest, but have also seen huge revenues from those who really have to see them.  If you can and want to pay, they'll squeeze you and squeeze you.  It's how Murdoch got really rich.  But they know as soon as those rights go elsewhere, so does the audience.

    The streaming companies operate differently.  They pay for a product to hook viewers into a subscription, but they gamble (correctly so far) that the low cost of that sub means you're much less likely to drop it if your favourite show (or sport or whatever) leaves.

    It's why Amazon paid big money for, say, Clarkson and his Top Gear replacement, then let it fade away, cos it was expensive to make and everybody who was going to sign up for it already had done so.  It didn't matter if it was still popular as it's new subs they want most.

    I dare say Glastonbury could benefit financially from going that way, at least in the short term, but they could benefit financially from all sorts of things, yet they choose not to.

     

  2. Bowie at Glasto

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    On 1/9/2022 at 10:41 AM, henry bear said:

    We were lucky, some locals told us of an alternative route/entry and we by-passed the carnage and drove straight in. I saw Bowie a number of times and this was one of my favourites, mainly because it wasn’t just the usual hits. Subbed by The Prodigy and we managed to catch most of what was to be the last Cocteau Twins gig, in the tented second stage, in between.

    I was also at Phoenix in 96, but my memories are slightly different.  I definitely remember the queues to get in - my car over heated in the sun and we had to push it into the car park.

    We saw the Prodigy, one of the best gigs of the many of theirs I've seen, and I don't remember a small crowd for them (see vid).  We didn't watch Bowie because we (then teenagers) just weren't interested in him, and there was quite a strong bill in the dance tent, which was much more our scene.  Also Bowie in the 90s.. well why see some 50 year old try his hand at drum n bass when Goldie was on over the way?  He also wasn't a rarity on the live circuit either if I recall.  I don't know why he had such an apparently small crowd, but it can't just be down to the traffic.  Maybe there were more people like us who just weren't there for it.

    Also, until I read it on these pages a few years ago, I'd totally forgotten he was actually on the line up.

    Good festival, though.

     

  3. 2022 Headliners

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    20 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

    Ok. Page 1 of the Taylor thread

    Also some lovely comments on page 1 about Florence when it looked like she was in the frame for 2015.

    Do you want me to point to specific posts in these threads?

    The worst thing about that Taylor Swift thread s that I actually wrote a hashtag.

     

    I'm sorry, everyone.

  7. news & politics:discussion

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    11 minutes ago, maelzoid said:

    And the Queen has no interest in changing the news cycle at the moment….? Amiright?

    Sounds legit. What better way to distract from the alleged behaviours of her progeny than by awarding a knighthood to a guy who stopped being the prime minister 15 years ago. 

    It's moves like that that have kept Her Maj in the top job for all these years 

  8. news & politics:discussion

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    2 hours ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

    Tonight’s new year tv in Scotland has been taken over by the snp so I will be hunkered down illicitly watching Jools.  Meanwhile here is Fuhrer Sturgeons tv listings 

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    Love that.  Almost as much as wee Jimmy K loves herself.

  17. Give Kunt A Nudge For Christmas

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    7 hours ago, Leyrulion said:

    Lad baby's criticised the song which makes this quote particularly ironic

    "Every year we say this will be the last time, but we keep coming back because the situation keeps getting worse. 7,000 food parcels are handed out every day this Christmas – that shouldn’t be happening in the UK.”

     

    I wonder what could possibly be causing the situation to get worse every year? Maybe if there was some sort of government intervention food bank use might not be rising? 

     

    Last year it got to #5 and sadly all they said was "at Number 5 a song about Boris Johnson that's so rude we can't play it on the radio, at number 4..."

    He's so close there, Ladbaby, isn't he? So close he can almost taste it.

    Give a man a sausage roll and you can feed him at Christmas, show him why the sausage roll is needed and you end up with Kunt.

  19. news & politics:discussion

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    17 hours ago, steviewevie said:

    Boris Johnson still PM by next spring?

    BET NOW!

    He's a dead man walking isn't he?  At some level the decision has been made, it's just down to the timing now.  For the time being he's going to have to be a bullet sponge, soaking up Omicron, Brexit, inflation and the seemingly endless revelations about his conduct, professional and otherwise.

    Gone by summer, new person in place by September and conference.

    And I'll take that, and will enjoy enormously watching the fucker squirm and suffer.

  22. 2022 Headliners

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    I finished work by 11.30 this morning, sat down had a cup of tea and a mince pie and scrolled through the last couple of pages in this thread.

    Honestly don't think middle age gets any better.

  24. Your most controversial music opinions

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    I loved that Tony Bennet performance.  After several days in the mud and shit (I did spend quite a bit of that weekend in the Dance Tent) it was a wonderful tonic.  It gave me, as a then 20 year old, a fondness for crooners that I still have today.  The juxtaposition between the world he represented - all spotless shiny suits and Vegas standards, against the hordes of the mud caked, 5 days deep Glasto crowd was something that's not often, if ever, really been repeated on the farm.

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