Thursday bands - maximo park crush!

[westwardhoboy]

Thought that the Thursday bands was great idea this year, but a reasonable band like Maximo Park, at the Queens head? When nothing else on in whole site! Chaos!! I hope something is arranged better next year as, hopefully I will be doing the full 6 days, and Thursday bands are a great idea!

[scappaflow]

the atmosphere at East 17 was sooooperb, then confounded by the surreal news of MJ's death spreading at this time made it one of those moments I will never forget.

[Miss-T]

Beardy man rocked too!

[VCK]

I think at the time I was stood in the pissing rain, eating nachos with cheese staring in awe at the Pyramid Stage.

[Mark E. Spliff]

I was with a big group heading for Maximo Park on the Thursday (although I was just going along with the crowd - Maximo Park are the only boring artists on the Warp label.) We got within sight of the Queens Head, but by the time we got there, the crush was already happening and security were trying to barrier off the approaches. So instead we went into Chai Wallahs and sat and watched the bands in there whilst drinking Brandy Coffees etc. Brilliant. We saw two unheard-of acts there that were the highlight of my festival. (Some bloke with a loop machine, a guy with a saxophone and two rappers.)

That part of the site was particularly prone to overcrowding. We got sent to work down the Queens Head while they were showing the rugby and it took us half an hour to get through the crowd to the bar. They'll need to rethink the traffic routes or stop putting crowd-pullers on down there.

[Zacko]

Beardy man rocked too!

[MartinGooding]

Bloody loved it. That tent was f**king rammed. When La Roux dropped it just went off

[Zacko]

what, with the rush to get out? love Beardyman though just cant stand La Roux a La Rouxless world would be a far less irritating place

[504329lt]

It was much better the previous year(s) with The Leftfield. A full day of decent music on the Thursday. Hobo Jones in The Avalon Cafe was good this year.

Is The Leftfield back this year?

[ninja-style]

Maximo Park was horrible.

I mean i like a nice packed gig, but that was just not

really crushed, and it was a very hot day, was sweatin like a bi*ch

and it got delayed which made it worse

they should but 3-4 decent bands on the thursday, at bigger stages, maybe park or jazz world as well as queens head

[timespeedsup]

Hobo Jones in The Avalon Cafe was good this year.

[glastofun]

I managed to get inside the Queens Head for Maximo Park, and although I'm not really into them, it's one of my highlights of '09. The atmosphere was electric - people were so ready for a band, they would have loved anyone who came on. it was great.

[falkirk bairn]

We had decided to go up to croissant neuf tent on thurs night to see Yes Sir Boss after checking their sound out when we saw them advertised to play.

We weren't dissapointed as they put on a gr8 show and are worth checking out for bigger venue next year.

[5co77ie]

Is The Leftfield back this year?

[seertuck]

I'm totally against bands playing on thursday.The first 2 days should be for chillin' and catching up with mates.This is very difficult if everybody is running round watching bands.3 full days of entertainment sould be enough for anybody.

[cejx]

I'm totally against bands playing on thursday.The first 2 days should be for chillin' and catching up with mates.This is very difficult if everybody is running round watching bands.3 full days of entertainment sould be enough for anybody.

[xlxexaxnxnxex]

maximo park was well worth the 4 hours sat outside queens head to get in......sunburn and warm magners...woop!

the atmosphere was amazing espesh when it got to apply some pressure, got thrown around quite a bit.

Wasnt that bothered about seeing East 17 but had a wicked time and managed to meet brian harvey inbetween the time it was supposed to start and the time it actuaaly started.

i think a few good bands on the thurs was a really good idea, gets you in the swing of things, maybe a few more dj sets or somethin. i was a virgin this year, tried exploring on the wed and thurs but a lot of things we wanted to see werent open, etiher that or we didnt find what we were looking for.

[glastofun]

I'm totally against bands playing on thursday.The first 2 days should be for chillin' and catching up with mates.This is very difficult if everybody is running round watching bands.3 full days of entertainment sould be enough for anybody.

[amfy]

Theres a middle ground her though.

We headed towards Maximo Park on Thursday but could see from a fair way away that it was a nightmare and gave it a miss. No big deal. Thurday isn't a proper festival day. If we'd been desperate to see Maximo Park we could've caught them later in the weekend. We just wandered off and chilled somewhere else.

I don't have a problem with there being bands on, I just don't EXPECT to get to see them. It's not a proper festival day, people need to chill to the extent that they accept that they might not be seeing any bands on Thursday. Theres 3 massive days to go - it's the complaining I can't get my head round.

[drewsstrat]

Maximo parks set suffered with poor sound quality to the masses outside

We were sat by Joe bannana's silent disco (good fun) and it was horrible

[Dark Star]

I say ditch the idea of bands on the Thursday in Queens Head etc. There always used to be stuff on the smaller stages if you went out of your way to look for it, the first two days were all about exploring the site, meeting new people, now it seems the Thursday is going to gradually become a 4th day of music, great as it's added value for money but less so in that people will be less inclined to just wander about and see what's where, especially on their first time at Glasto. People should be able to make their own entertainment for 2/5 days surely!