If you could curate your own stage...

[Boosh]

Come on guys, bit of fun. A powertrip AND a wishlist all rolled into one. What’s not to like?

Basically what it says o the tin, if you could come up with a new stage for this year’s festival what would it be like? Would you theme it? Where would you put it? Would it replace any of the existing stages? What would you call it? And last but not least, who would you book to play it?

I’ve done this before on another forum for an entire small festival but it’s always interesting to see what other people would do...

Personally, I reckon there’s scope for a stage, identical in size and shape to the Avalon Stage, except place up near The Park/Stone Circle, so they overlook the rest of the festival and catch the low sunlight at dawn and dusk. I would call it the Effervestival Stage, and I’d assume all the big bands were taken up in the bigger stages, leaving me with some smaller bands that I could still squeeze on the stage without killing people in a crush, and hopefully with a different theme of music per day.

FRIDAY – Electronic/Ambient

Foals

Animal Collective

Yeasayer

The xx

Of Montreal

Grammatics

Gang Gang Dance

Errors

Neon Indian

Helios

SATURDAY – Indie/RocknRoll

The Hold Steady

Art Brut

Los Campesinos!

Future Of The Left

Dananananaykroyd

Cage The Elephant

Nine Black Alps

The Robocop Kraus

Times New Viking

The Spinto Band

SUNDAY – World/Folk

Bellowhead

Guillemots

Camille

Stars

Sambassadeur

-M-

Twisted Wheel

The Unthanks

Kill It Kid

Copy Haho

Be finished by midnight every night and I for one would find it very hard to drag myself away from that one...

Hopefully I’m not the only one who does this now, else I’ll look like an overly enthusiastic weirdo ha. Have fun with it. One of my friends reckons he’d replace the Pyramid Stage with Leonard Cohen playing improvisational songs about all the animals at the petting zoo that would be in its place. I mean, would be interesting at least...

[frodoisdead]

My stage would look something like this. I'd want it to be similar to The Park because I love that place, I think the slight hill makes it perfect for sitting and chilling while watching bands. I'd want lots of small quirky bars and cafes dotted around for added atmosphere... The stage would also be a big arc, so it'd be called The Arc or something lame like that...

The acts for one day would be as follows, I would do more but I really need to get some sleep.

The Avett Brothers

The Tallest Man on Earth

J.Tillman

The Cave Singers

Le Loup

Ha Ha Tonka

Gregory Alan Isakov

The Acorn

Basia Bulat

Beat Circus

[OneLittleFish]

I'd like a smallish stage, but an outdoor stage. Parkish. Not officially themed, but the sort of place people could sit all day and see bands they like and bands they'll soon like.

Friday

Gil Scott Heron

Fionn Regan

Karine Polwart

Willy Mason

Malcolm Middleton (acoustic)

Drever McCusker Woomble

Stornoway

Lau

Fyfe Dangerfield

Villagers

Saturday

Mogwai

Yeasayer

Brian Jonestown Massacre

Marmaduke Duke

Hot Club De Paris

The Strange Death of Liberal England

The Incredible Flight of Birdman

Eagleowl

Foxface

Swing Youth

Sunday

PJ Harvey

Teenage Fanclub

Ash

Melanie Safka

Art Brut

Secret Levellers set

22-20s

Broken Records

Chapel Club

Attic Lights

[Bort]

A tent similar to the Peel Tent...longer but not as wide. A bit off the beaten path...in a new area with great food and bars nearby.

Friday:

Thom Yorke

Jarvis Cocker

Feist

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings

Bat for Lashes

Panda Bear

Cat Power

St. Vincent

Owen Pallett

Emmy the Great

Bell

Saturday:

The Knife

Goldfrapp

Ladytron

IAMX

Fever Ray

Little Dragon

Gang Gang Dance

Glass Candy

Cold Cave

Sunday:

My Bloody Valentine

Cocteau Twins

The Jesus and Mary Chain

M83

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Deerhunter

Asobi Seksu

School of Seven Bells

Her Name Is Calla

Luminous Orange

A Place to Bury Strangers

Edited March 17, 2010 by Bort

[AbsolutelyNo]

A tent similar to the Peel Tent...wider but not as wide. A bit off the beaten path...in a new area with great food and bars nearby.

Friday:

Thom Yorke

Jarvis Cocker

Feist

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings

Bat for Lashes

Panda Bear

Cat Power

St. Vincent

Owen Pallett

Emmy the Great

Bell

Saturday:

The Knife

Goldfrapp

Ladytron

IAMX

Fever Ray

Little Dragon

Gang Gang Dance

Glass Candy

Cold Cave

Sunday:

My Bloody Valentine

Cocteau Twins

The Jesus and Mary Chain

M83

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Deerhunter

Asobi Seksu

School of Seven Bells

Her Name Is Calla

Luminous Orange

A Place to Bury Strangers

[Boosh]

i'm not sure i'd be able to cope with jarvis cocker followed by thom yorke ha

[eFestivals]

I reckon just about any of us could curate a stage with a crackin' line-up for one year.

But I also reckon that many of us would be somewhat stumped for something different to do for the next year, having used our best ideas that first year.

[Michael W]

Second Chance Stage

Bands who have split up, reforming for one last gig. No huge names, no cash-ins. One day only, because I can't think of enough bands right now...

Cooper Temple Clause

Do Me Bad Things

Hope of the States

The Long Blondes

Vincent Vincent and the Villains

The Stands

Test Icicles

Morning Runner

[ethereal]

I'd up the capacity of the Park Stage and go for broke

Friday

Sonic Youth performing 'Sonic Nurse'

Special Guest (My Bloody Valentine)

Pavement

Yo La Tengo

Melvins

Black Mountain

Blood Red Shoes

Brakes

A Place To Bury Strangers

Saturday

Pixies performing 'Surfer Rosa'

Throwing Muses

Shellac

Yo La Tengo

British Sea Power

Blonde Redhead

Scout Niblett

Autolux

The Low Anthem

Sunday

PJ Harvey acoustic

Special Guest (Portishead)

Broken Social Scene

Bon Iver

Bat For Lashes

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Deerhoof

Laura Marling

Gemma Hayes

I'd be stumped if I had to do it again though

[TheSeventhOne]

This is what I'd have. Music from Wednesday to Friday with mild genre themes running throughout eachday, about the size of the Jazz World stage;

WEDNESDAY

Post-headliner, 2am show; Yellow Magic Orchestra perform 'Solid State Survivor'

Daft Punk

Kraftwerk

Aphex Twin

Justice

Empire of the Sun

M.I.A

Soulwax/2 Many DJ's

Simian Mobile Disco

Fever Ray

Ladyhawke

Cut Copy

Boards of Canada

Four Tet

Battles

THURSDAY

Post-headliner, 2am show; My Bloody Valentine perform 'Loveless'

Björk

Sigur Ros

Massive Attack

Bat for Lashes

Phoenix

Grizzly Bear

M83

Mono

Beach House

St. Vincent

School of Seven Bells

Hammock

Alcest

Amesoeurs

FRIDAY

Post-headliner 2am show; Sunn O))) & Boris perform 'Altar'

Faith No More

Slayer

Deftones

Alice in Chains

Opeth

Mastodon

Boris

Sunn O)))

Dir En Grey

Ulver

Isis

Cynic

Baroness

Invasion

Edited March 17, 2010 by TheSeventhOne

[st00ka]

I reckon just about any of us could curate a stage with a crackin' line-up for one year.

But I also reckon that many of us would be somewhat stumped for something different to do for the next year, having used our best ideas that first year.

[Craig_G]

See the soul & funk tent thread for my ideas.

[drewsstrat]

Great post...

Need some time to think of bands but...

But I would probably have a 'Rock and Blues' Stage (along the lines of the Bath festival of 1970, but with some new faces)

[jimmyt]

I'd like to curate an "Inspired By" stage:

Friday: Beatles Day

Paul McCartney

Oasis

Boo Radleys

Cornelius

Saturday: Smiths Saturday

Suede

Gene

James

Muse (yeah, below the above!!!)

The Courteeners

Geneva

Sunday: Ecstasy Sunday

New Order

Happy Mondays

Altern-8

The Charlatans

A Guy Called Gerald

Inspiral Carpets

Obviously there are loads of acts that could play on the different days - any suggestions for obvious people missed off?

[Wanderlei]

If i had to sort book a stage i'd go balls-out to get The Offspring to headline one of the days. I think they'd go down really well at Glasto. I'd get Tom Waits and Patti Smith to headline the other days. Billy Bragg would be on there somewhere too :-)

[drewsstrat]

Here we go then;

Rock and blues stage - About same size as Jazzworld stage and outdoors

Friday Blues, and AOR rock

BB King

Journey

John Fogerty

Andy Fairweather low and the Low riders

Joe Bonamassa

Danny bryant

Saturday - Prog / classic rock

AC/DC

Marillion

Australian Pink Floyd Show

ELP

Asia

Larry Miller

Sunday - Rock

Aerosmith

Deep Purple

Southside Johnny and the Ashbury Jukes

The Alarm

Deborah Bonham

Monophonics

[drewsstrat]

I'd like to curate an "Inspired By" stage:

Friday: Beatles Day

Paul McCartney

Oasis

[Diamond Solitaire]

Mine would takeover the Park because I love that place

Friday

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

Late of the Pier

Los Campesinos!

Future of the Left

No Age

Danananaykroyd

Johnny Foreigner

Sky Larkin

Saturday

MONSTERS OF FOLK (would be an epic 3 hour long set where they'd all perform solo stuff as well)

Joanna Newsom

Girls

White Denim

Beach House

The Joy Formidable

Sunday

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM

The xx

Liars

Panda Bear

These New Puritans

Titus Andronicus

Pulled Apart By Horses

Lovvers

The bad thing would be that I wouldn't get to see anything else at the festival as I'd have to watch everything on my stage

[abu hamster]

Friday

Sigur Ros

Air

DJ Shadow

Ozomatli

Aim

Syl Kogai

The Freefall Collective

Saturday

Iggy and the Stooges doing early stuff only

Carter

The Levellers

Dinosaur jr

Animal Collective

Grizzly Bear

Santogold

The Low Anthem

Mpho

Sunday

Orbital (into the early hours)

Raga against the Machine

Sonic Youth

Senser

Jarvis Cocker

Lamb

The Lemonheads

The Dead Kids

Edited March 17, 2010 by abu hamster

[popcornmaster]

This is what I'd have. Music from Wednesday to Friday with mild genre themes running throughout eachday, about the size of the Jazz World stage;

WEDNESDAY

Post-headliner, 2am show; Yellow Magic Orchestra perform 'Solid State Survivor'

Daft Punk

Kraftwerk

Aphex Twin

Justice

Empire of the Sun

M.I.A

Soulwax/2 Many DJ's

Simian Mobile Disco

Fever Ray

Ladyhawke

Cut Copy

Boards of Canada

Four Tet

Battles

THURSDAY

Post-headliner, 2am show; My Bloody Valentine perform 'Loveless'

Björk

Sigur Ros

Massive Attack

Bat for Lashes

Phoenix

Grizzly Bear

M83

Mono

Beach House

St. Vincent

School of Seven Bells

Hammock

Alcest

Amesoeurs

FRIDAY

Post-headliner 2am show; Sunn O))) & Boris perform 'Altar'

Faith No More

Slayer

Deftones

Alice in Chains

Opeth

Mastodon

Boris

Sunn O)))

Dir En Grey

Ulver

Isis

Cynic

Baroness

Invasion

[jimmyt]

Quite funny that one

Why not add bootleg beatles to complete the trio

Noel can do octopus's garden with all 3!

[Boosh]

I reckon just about any of us could curate a stage with a crackin' line-up for one year.

But I also reckon that many of us would be somewhat stumped for something different to do for the next year, having used our best ideas that first year.

[Dark Star]

I'd resurrect the Lost Stage where it was before as there was a slight hill in front of it, and was a really nice chilled place to watch bands. I'd then book loads of bands that play on the American jamband scene and give them all a good 2 hours each (or 2.5 if they wanted a set break). The following would be on the bill:

Phish

Widespread Panic

Tea Leaf Green

Steve Kimock Band (whatever he's doing at the time, he's a genius guitar player)

Furthur

moe.

String Cheese Incident

North Mississippi Allstars

DJ Logic

Sublime (I hear they're reforming with a new singer and would probably be worth a look).

Spearhead

plus a one off reformation of Blue Floyd

[Wooderson]

I'd up the capacity of the Park Stage and go for broke

Friday

Sonic Youth performing 'Sonic Nurse'

Special Guest (My Bloody Valentine)

Pavement

Yo La Tengo

Melvins

Black Mountain

Blood Red Shoes

Brakes

A Place To Bury Strangers

Saturday

Pixies performing 'Surfer Rosa'

Throwing Muses

Shellac

Yo La Tengo

British Sea Power

Blonde Redhead

Scout Niblett

Autolux

The Low Anthem

Sunday

PJ Harvey acoustic

Special Guest (Portishead)

Broken Social Scene

Bon Iver

Bat For Lashes

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Deerhoof

Laura Marling

Gemma Hayes

I'd be stumped if I had to do it again though

[Wooderson]

I reckon just about any of us could curate a stage with a crackin' line-up for one year.

But I also reckon that many of us would be somewhat stumped for something different to do for the next year, having used our best ideas that first year.