Who Blew You Away?

[The Dawg]

Babel in the Avalon Cafe on Thursday were superb.

[Storm_NL]

definately the wonderstuff -everyone seemed to know every word!what an atmosphere!

[No I'm not Chris Martin]

I agree with so much that has been said already. From dancing in the rain on friday morning to Abba songs to Neil Young and his performace of Rocking the Free world, Saturday morning with Rolf and then the Boss. Outlaw Pete sent shivers down my spine and haven't stopped singing it since.

And then we had sing-a-long day at the Pyramid on Sunday, started by Quo and then Tom J and Madness incredible. Topped by the best "come back" gig ever performed anywhere in the world by Blur - simply AWESOME !!

BUT i WOULD LIKE TO ADD SOME MORE :

Golden Silvers in The Queens Head on Thursday (during the thunderstorm)

White Lies

and Sharon Core in the Acoustic tent on Sunday evening - BRILLIANT @!!

What a week-end !! What a festival !!

Us Somerset buys sure know how to throw a party !!

[staggerlee]

Neil f**king Young was outstanding. Just rewatched 'Keep on Rockin' in the free world' and the gig was definitely one of the best times of my life.

[Mrs*E*]

Arcadia - friday night was very torn between there and trash City, Progidy were amazing, had the most amazing festival. peace xx

[Ian_w]

Ray Davies was fan bloody tastic. other highlights - Back to The Planet (took me back to 93 at Uni - and just as good), Tristan's DJ set at Glade Lounge on Sunday (at last some decent trancey stuff to dance to!), Arcadia\Shangri-La Saturday night - general crazy madness. Must admit Blur were very good to say I'm not a Blur fan. And Lazy Habits - the best are the ones you don't know who you stumble upon!

[ivan]

Magic Numbers !

They rocked !

[MEGABOWL]

But although Bon Iver was good on the other stage [sunday] the set to go to was him up at the Park on saturday. Great setting, great crowd, great Wolves singalong, even a great soundman's soundcheck ["mike's mic" hahaha]

[Yokel Again]

Blur, blur and blur. Amazing from start to the finish. 2 hours has never gone as quickly as that did.

Bon Iver on the Other Stage was amazing also.

[Straight Through]

Blur was insanely good, best decision I made all weekend choosing them over the Prodigy, had one of those glasto magic moments walking through the crowd before hand where a group of 5 of us managed to bump into the rest of a our group just before they started

The Specials was just special, don't think I've ever been so happy.

The Streets doing Billy Jean was pretty damn good, in fact so was his whole set, compared to the last time I saw him in the the old dance tent in '03 he has improved SO much live.

Doves - I could have cried, cedar room and spacefaces, I would have happily died after that set.

special mentions must go to:

Dub Pistols - Find of the weekend for me.

Tom Jones - Sexy Legend

Rolf - Even though we couldn't get anywhere near.

Dizzy Rascal - Bonkers was insane.

Spinal Tap - Never laughed so much.

The Destroyers - Insanely good fun.

Roots Manuva - Jazz World you are the best jazz world in the world

Edited June 30, 2009 by Straight Through

[grandadcollective]

I'd be surprised if Blur weren't voted best headliner ever. Quite simply that was the best set I have seen anywhere ever! We were going to try and catch the end of The Prodigy but, let's face it, nothing would have come close to that.

On another note the Pyramid was ace this year and for the first time I saw (at least some of) every headliner.

I also enjoyed -

Dizzee Rascal

The Specials

Sir Tom of Jones

Fleet Foxes

Spinal Tap

else where also enjoyed -

The Horrors

Animal Collective

Dead Mau5

Bon Ivor

Dead Weather

A few songs from Jarvis (and his stage invader!) during the 'I don't know any of these songs bit from Bruce (we went back for the last 40 mins of singalong at the end of his set)

Eat Static was shit hot on the Glade.

There was much more but I can't remember what just yet.

[Wanderlei]

The Specials. They were amazing and caught the mood perfectly. Their setlist was floorless too (not even Bruce/NY/Blur arranged their best songs as effectively as they could have done IMO). They ruled.

I think Sharon Corr deserves a mention too, considering the stage was running late and they had to rush to set their stuff up. She made a lot of eye contact too, which made it seem like she was singing to you personally. Ahhh...dreamy. lol

[4AssedMonkey]

Specials were spine tingling, La Roux were great, f**ked Up are god value and many of the other big stage performances were good too, but my top 3 were:

Two Door Cinema Club at BBC Introducing (never heard of them before and they are like a good Editors).

2/3rds of Supergrass doing an hour of cover versions at the Park - Mirror in the Bathroom and Love Cats particularly raised the hairs on my neck.

Stumbling out of Springsteen and walking into Dirty Boots to find MBHO doing a set to about 20 people. They were brilliant.

Mad weekend. Can't wait for next year.

[4AssedMonkey]

Lowlight - Fleet Foxes. Drivveling crap, no atmosphere, miserable bastards, didn't connect with the audience. IMO, of course.

[MikeyB37]

The Specials - Getting to see the likes of Nite Klub, Man at C&A and Friday night, Saturday Morning blasting out from the Pyramid 29 years after seeing them as my first gig was quite surreal and brought the first 'tear from the eye' moment.

Doves - two words... 'Space Face', not seen it performed live since Glasto 2005, another emotional moment.

Madness - another chance to revisit my youth... My Girl, The Prince, Night Boat To Cairo. What can i say, just perfect.

Blur - I didn't expect to be so blown away by this but the combination of a fantastic setlist and a crowd who appeared to be up for it from the front barrier to the back of the field made it a very special Glasto moment indeed.

My 4 favourite Glasto performances all in one year, i've been spoilt!

[fullfathom5]

I was pretty good in the Coyote Moon Cafe - ha ha!

[maninkilt]

Florence and the Machine. OMG. Bet I'm not the only one

[harper11]

Dead weather

probably the best thing i saw

a bit suprising because i think the raconteurs are a bit shit

dont like benson

but their set was great

[Storm_NL]

On a non-festy note...

I saw Does It Offend You, Yeah? last Thursday night in a cosy venue (Paradiso Up)...

I was absolutely stunned and impressed.

Fantastic gig. Great stage presence, and crowd awareness. Jammed during technical problems. Stage diving, crowd surfing..... the room was a wall-to-wall happy dance moshpit!

I've also never seen a mic stand crowdsurf all the way around the room, only to return to its starting point, diligently and carefully placed back upon the stage...