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1 hour ago, DeanoL said:
Certainly it's relatively recent that stand-up in theatres has been sold with tiered seating. Even in arenas. I remember getting front row tickets at the Birmingham Tim Minchin Orchestra tour and it being a fixed price. I'm not sure if it was tiered seats on the Back tour but I don't think it was. Or if it was the prices weren't vastly different.
Just looking now, all tickets for Dara O'Briain at the Hippodrome are £26 (even the restricted view ones). It's not always been the case that allocated seating gigs have had tiering, especially not beyond restricted view ones being cheaper.
Theatres are different to Arenas mind. Your position would be miles away at somewhere like the O2.
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Just now, BenG92 said:
Is he on his phone? I've had false ban messages on mobile before related to IP address, was fine when I got home
Ah ok. I''ll get him to check.
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3 hours ago, JoeyT said:
Also, given they literally turned everything down on the Wednesday this year (case in point being having to watch beans on toast play using the smallest speaker I’ve ever seen on the bandstand)
Perhaps they could use some of these new spends to review the licence conditions.
Edit: can you tell my daughter had me up in the middle of the night 😂Joey just messaged me to say since this post he's now banned on the site. Any idea why? @eFestivals is it a mistake?
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On 8/20/2022 at 2:36 PM, DeanoL said:
I don't believe it because it doesn't make sense. Why post identifiable video of yourself literally committing a crime? Yeah you probably won't be arrested, but you'll probably get a lifetime ban from a festival you apparently love.
The one possibility is he contacted the festival beforehand and they agreed to it as a marketing thing.
On 8/18/2022 at 5:30 PM, Neil said:that's the givaway that its bull.
I know him and it isn't bull.
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50 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:
Are you going to tease us with this 🙂 ?
haha no it's not teasing. It is what someone said, but the Arcadia whispers were pretty nailed on from an impecable place.
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16 hours ago, panasonic2011 said:
I really hope so as they are a fantastic crowd pleaser. Looks like they are in the Czech Republic on the Saturday the 3rd so not sure how true it may be
For the record it's not as good a source as the Arcadia ones Joey had so...
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22 minutes ago, MB1234 said:
Thought the second half of his set was great - less keen on his solo/Wings material.
Shame he didn't do Hard Day's Night or Eleanor Rigby, which I believe he has performed sometimes on tours in the last few years. And Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (I guess this one was primarily Lennon's though)
There were several weak songs - My Valentine (with Depp appearing on the screen) and Fuh You could have been gladly replaced with Beatles tunes...
I think most headliners have lulls though. Even the Stones, who stormed it, had that bit where Jagger went off.
Whilst I agree Fuh You and another could have gone for Jet or another Beatles one (A Hard Days Night was my favourite as a kid), Macca was basically doing a career set and played 23 Beatles songs (more Stones songs than the Stones played) and the last 90 minutes was probably the best that stage has seen.
People around me who were ambivalent about him before and even (perhaps more so?) at half way had been losing their minds for a solid hour or so by the end. That’s why it is probably best I’ve seen, regardless of the relative flatness of the first half (which still included a few bangers). The last 90 was just nuts. The only time I’ve ever genuinely felt like my face may fall off.
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14 minutes ago, MaxPower said:
Bar Lorde was it mentioned by any non-US artists?
Thought all references were particularly powerful, particularly Olivia rodrigo’s
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The main crushes I saw/heard about were probably preventable with more-joined up:
- Before TLC (I was caught up leaving Sleaford Mods) and this could perhaps have been solved with some quicker stewarding
- Mel C - Daft to keep that Williams Green stuff going with few alternatives (and none on the same level). Thursday needs some work (possibly even Weds too as the queues for the fields for the fireworks weren't always pleasant)
- Diana Ross - There needs to be bigger clashes against the Legend slot. Fontaines DC/Amyl (an annoying clash for me) are great but not pulling the majority of casuals away from the Pyramid. Needs a huge Other Stage act against the Legend in my opinion. There are already more people on site, and less feeling motivated to move around, more camp chairs out etc. I got stuck for a bit in this trying to help someone who was finding it all very stressful - and to be honest it was terrible.
- McFly - Way too much of a draw to be playing afternoon Avalon slot with all the families about. Why didn't they clash with Diana for example?
I think some Secret Sets also need a rethink. Yeah it's been fun, but the pre-planned ones mostly leak well in advance and all that ultimately happens is you end up with angsty and disappointed punters unable to see and fighting for very limited positions. Fair play to Secret Glasto etc. for not publicising the Nutini at Rabbit Hole as they may well have saved some injuries.
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1 hour ago, KPSandwiches said:
Totally agree with this. Disappointing to see some of the attitudes here about people not deemed to be "the right sort", feels very elitist.
Yeah I agree. Most of it seems to be people blaming ‘others’ - old people blaming young people and their ‘drugs’, southerners like me blaming ‘scousers’ etc. when I saw enough old people or sober or southerners people behaving the same way.
But to be honest most people there behaved as they normally do. There were just a few more people on site and some brain dead stewarding (or lack of it) exasperated some issues caused by the booking choices/lack of activities on at another time. That’s what made it unsafe at times.
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13 minutes ago, DTichborne said:
I put this also in the "controversial opinions" thread but why is this even a controversial opinion? If you went to see Paul McCartney then this is what you saw... and even the big screens didn't help that much for any of the shots not taken from the stage.
Exactly this. Said for a while you could have a few, tall, permanent flag poles to help people find their mates etc - with entered designs on.
Loads of flags were indefensible even if you like flags - way to short, large or contained multiple flags.
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17 minutes ago, stereodista said:
The TBC up here is at 10.
I thought it said that earlier when I was up having a coffee but on the app it has Dub Wu-Lu?
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3 hours ago, 14er said:
I was speaking to staff at strummerville last night and they said their TBCs are big artists. And that they can't say because when florence and the machine did a set in recent years it got to crazy. I don't remember florence ever doing a set there and can't find anything on Google about it. So she may be hinting that it's florence. Take it as you will.
There’s a gap in the tonight at 6
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On 6/20/2022 at 10:25 AM, zahidf said:
The Damned have cancelled a few gigs this week cos of a covid positive. No word on glasto yet. Sensible is a massive ant vaxxer apparently
Their Bath show (Thurs) has now been cancelled. And it's not Captain Sensible anyway who's tested positive and it shouldn't make a blind bit of difference if it was - I think most people have come to realise that, whatever some were saying in 2020, you can test positive with or without the vaccine.
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Have LCD Soundsystem been ruled out? They're in Brixton from the Monday?
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32 minutes ago, Pinhead said:
Yes hopefully the MF relationship is not behind this. Certainly the way Bearded was set up this year bore some relationship to having gone in with Rock City on the running of the fest.
I know a couple of people locally who seem to have been sidelined/their nose out of joint. Don’t know the ins and out of it but they were cussing Benn/MF
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6 hours ago, The Nal said:
Yes and yes. Euro tickets usually easier to get aswell. Rome still available for example.
2 hours ago, charlierc said:Yeah I've got accounts with Ticketmaster France and Italy after buying gigs over there before.
Great stuff. Thanks
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Looking at going to a foreign Springsteen date (maybe Hamburg or Munich).
Just want to check a couple of things. They’re not showing on British ticketmaster but are on the German - so Is it just as simple as setting up an account for the German version and buying from that Ticketmaster?
Also Saw delivery quoted delivery prices was only to EU location but assume you can get etickets?
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4 hours ago, Junglist1981 said:
What’s the biggest full line up surprise to date? I know there’s been a couple but I can’t remember.
Think QOTSA was a pleasant surprise at the time
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3 hours ago, FloorFiller said:
Yeah been talked about a bit elsewhere. Tbh I don’t think they’re gonna play three times and it’s much more likely that they’ve just listed all days because the festival hasn’t revealed days/times etc yet, but we shall see. They do love the place so certainly a band I could see being up for multiple sets, although they already did that in ‘19 so unsure if they’d repeat it this time.
Wouldn't they just put 'June 24-26'? Three sets seems unusual but actually less unusual than listing it three times.
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I was stood near his brother - Jo Johnson -at the West Holts stage a few years back. Waiting for Toots in 2017, when there was the no show.
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On 3/14/2022 at 1:28 PM, gfa said:
I meant for when your in the middle of the pyramid/other crowd during busy acts. Bar entrances usually do for me when it comes to finding people outside the crowd or whatever
That's what I meant though. The festival could put some high flags throughout the Pyramid field that you could use to navigate to find people in the main stage crowds. They would solve that without leading to a sea at the front obstructing everyone's view. Also they won't suddenly wander off if they get bored mid-set.
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15 minutes ago, gfa said:
Too many times at other festivals its near impossible to find people unless you leave the crowd, definitely something important to consider before wanting to bin them off.
Although at the same time, some of the best nights i've had at festivals i've been completely separated from all/most of the group. I think we can all agree (not been yet but i'm pretty certain of it) you can have a great time at Glastonbury on your own
The solution to this is surely some carefully placed 'permanent' flags by the festival around the field.
People can still use these to navigate and find people but you can watch the gig without a sea of 'I love Sausages' or Wolverhampton Wanderers getting in the way to show their friends where they were stood on TV.
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13 minutes ago, eFestivals said:
I remember the story from the time about that Monday night thing. I also know the who were lined up before that Monday night. So the story doesn't hang together.
For the record I am now not backing up the Friday/Monday night thing as I don't know when that was. It's a separate story.
I'm just saying what Michael was saying at a small event in March/April that year about a third headliner being imminent but being notoriously difficult to confirm. Then nothing happened and there was clearly a scramble as The Who ended up cancelling stuff to play.
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They’d be great Other Stage headliners I think.