If you could curate your own stage...

[Kowalski]

Friday - DFA Records

LCD Soundsystem

Hot Chip

The Juan MacLean

Hercules & Love Affair

Special Disco Version with James Murphy and Pat Mahoney

Holy Ghost

Shit Robot

Saturday - Something Alternative

Primal Scream

MC5

My Bloody Valentine

The Jesus and Mary Chain

Spiritualized

13th Floor Elevators

The Aliens

Sunday - For One Night Only

The KLF

New Order

Orbital

Leftfield

The Shamen

The Orb

808 State

Edited March 17, 2010 by Kowalski

[abu hamster]

Friday

KLF

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)

Rage against the Machine

Sonic Youth

Senser

Jarvis Cocker

Lamb

The Lemonheads

The Dead Kids

[jimmyt]

Friday - DFA Records

LCD Soundsystem

Hot Chip

The Juan MacLean

Hercules & Love Affair

Special Disco Version with James Murphy and Pat Mahoney

Holy Ghost

Shit Robot

Saturday - Something Alternative

Primal Scream

MC5

My Bloody Valentine

The Jesus and Mary Chain

Spiritualized

13th Floor Elevators

The Aliens

Sunday - For One Night Only

The KLF

New Order

Orbital

Leftfield

The Shamen

The Orb

808 State

[grumpyhack]

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

[st00ka]

Friday

Sigur Ros

Air

DJ Shadow

Ozomatli

Aim

Syl Kogai

The Freefall Collective

d Kids

[robith]

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...

[robith]

Also - a lot of the line ups on this thread can actually be found at ATP

[future_shock]

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.

[st00ka]

That is why I'd go ATP style and do it myself the first year then get bands to do it the following years .

You do raise a good point as to what a hard/awesome job the organisers do each year.

[tevaburger]

it's only page 2 of the thread and some great ideas already. so great, that i'm stumped...and can only come up with a completely inappropriate, not-in-the-true-Glasto-spirit themed stage that features the sexiest female rock musicians of their time mostly for their looks, (hence no Duffy, Ting Tings) but also a bit for their music (again, hence no ting tings)

my apologies again for tarnishing the high standards of E-Fest's with this sexist rubbish ("what's wrong with being sexy then?")...but here's my stage lineup...a stage name? well, we have the John Peel Stage, so we'll honor this stage by calling it the Chan Marshall Stage

Friday

The Pretenders

Dean & Britta

Kristen Hersh & 50 Foot Wave

Tonya Donnelly solo set

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Sharon Corr

Juliana Hatfield

Priscilla Ahn

Saturday

Stevie Nicks solo set (we promise to put her on the treadmill for 2 months straight after we book her!)

Sheryl Crow

Tori Amos

Throwing Muses reunion!!!

Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions

Fiona Apple

The Duke Spirit (surely she’s Deborah Harry’s daughter???)

Zutons (short set…playing just the songs with loads of saxophone bits in them)

Sunday

PJ Harvey

Beth Orton

Cat Power (playing 2 hour set)

The Bangles (yes, they still play...ahh, i remember watching them dodge bottles at Milton Keynes in june '86 ... poor lil' things)

Carly Simon (Sunday oldies slot #2)

Joan Baez (Sunday oldies slot)

Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johanssen performing the ‘Break Up’ album in full

Ivy

[popcornmaster]

Friday

Post Headliner DJ - DJ Shadow

The Cure

Elbow

The Pixies

Phoenix

Grizzly Bear

The Envy Corps

Saturday

Post Headliner DJ - Aphex Twin

Tool

Soundgarden

Deftones

Kyuss

Billy Corgan doing a Smashing Pumpkins Acoustic set

Biffy Clyro

Sunday

Post Headliner DJ - Bonobo

Portishead

Sigur Ros

Thom Yorke

Bat For Lashes

The Cinematic Orchestra

Don't really know what I was aiming for here, just went a bit mad

Edited March 18, 2010 by popcornmaster