Annoucements Wed

[LusciousLucy]

Um.... they do?

[-pogo-]

You will get a darn fine party whatever happens and who plays though so quit ya whinging!

[In transit]

I bought into it for years without knowing who was playing until I arrived after a pretty gruelling 10 - 12 hour car journey. As you say there are many, many other festivals who do cater for this kind of thing

[Block of Mud]

Hopefully Emily reads this and they announce scouting for girls for a mid afternoon slot on the other stage therfore annoying pogo further and making Neil wrong

[-pogo-]

You weren't promised any info yet, so you've lost nothing.

[nesta6245]

Which was when?

You aren't serioualy suggesting that Glastonbury shouldn't announce at least some tiny little bits of the line up before the actual event are you?

[eFestivals]

But they don't realy have any excuse at being so lazy with announcements. Glastonbury isn't exempt from criticism.

Neither is it exempt from stupidity.

Just because it's not doing exactly what you demand when you demand it doesn't mean that everything else that follows from your mouth is reasonable.

There's very good reasons why things happen when they do, and Glastonbury is the better for them.

Funnily enough, there's also good reasons why things elsewhere happen when they do - including that Glastonbury is better than them.

[Block of Mud]

I actually think that would be great fun, walk through the gates and get given the programme. Although it is always nice to get into the back catalogues of bands you find out are playing. I might try it one year, although I'd have to find something to do with all the time I spend on here.

[eFestivals]

By being too lazy to announce some of the bands they've booked.

I do love the simple view.

As do the Labour Party you're a member of.

[nesta6245]

I actually think that would be great fun, walk through the gates and get given the programme. Although it is always nice to get into the back catalogues of bands you find out are playing. I might try it one year, although I'd have to find something to do with all the time I spend on here.

[Langdale Wolf]

Yeah I know that. I'm going to Glastonbury as I've been to loads of festivals before and have had it reccomended a few times by others and it looks pretty decent.

But they don't realy have any excuse at being so lazy with announcements. Glastonbury isn't exempt from criticism.

[-pogo-]

I do love the simple view.

As do the Labour Party you're a member of.

[FunkyDenz]

I actually think that would be great fun, walk through the gates and get given the programme. Although it is always nice to get into the back catalogues of bands you find out are playing. I might try it one year, although I'd have to find something to do with all the time I spend on here.

[-pogo-]

Yeah - the reason they haven't announced any acts is down to laziness. Lazy bastards.

They do it differently, Poges. That doesn't mean it's laziness!! They also let you take beer from your tent to the front of the stages. Why do you think that is? Because they're too lazy to create an 'arena' and put people on the gates to police it properly?!

[noodle24]

its only an extra 24 hours..

[Langdale Wolf]

Why does one negative comment get drawn in to an attack against Glastonbury. Well done to them on that. It'd good. You do realise I'm going don't you, and that I'm going for other things than the line up.

It is okay to say some negative things, and there will be a lot of negative things about Glastonbury, along with the positive.

It's also healthy to point out negative things that smaller and less well off festivals seem to manage that Glastonbury don't seem to be able to.

[Red_Eye_Jedi]

[eFestivals]

You don't think they've booked one single band done and dusted they could actualy say "yeah here they are" after all this time.

For christ sake Neil, some people do geniunely buy tickets on near sure rumour of decent line up and want to know something, anything.

It realy is as simple as that to be fair.

No, what's simple here is your view of how it all works.

[bobobaggins]

Did anyone else find this topic title really confusing (didn't realise it was posted yesterday)

Took a worrying ammount of time for the Penny to drop.

Just me?

I'll get my coat.

Ps.struggling to contain my excitement, will be useless at work tomorrow until the announcement is made.

[ampersand]

Yeah - the reason they haven't announced any acts is down to laziness. Lazy bastards.

[-pogo-]

No, what's simple here is your view of how it all works.

[4AssedMonkey]

Did anyone else find this topic title really confusing (didn't realise it was posted yesterday)

Took a worrying ammount of time for the Penny to drop.

Just me?

I'll get my coat.

Ps.struggling to contain my excrement, will be useless at work tomorrow until the announcement is made.

[fatyeti24]

It's worth a try or do what I do these days. Spend hours pouring over who's playing when, where etc and get all worked up about a couple of bands clashing. Walk in the gates, get my lanyard thing and within 5 minutes have flung it, totally forgotten by the Friday which day it is anyway so absolutely no use. Occasionally borrow one to find out who I'm supposed to be seeing to get sidetracked by something else on the way. If I try to go by the timetable and programme I send myself mental, it's just not worth it. Choose a band a day you really, really must see and then if you see the rest great, if not you can rest assured you will discovered something new.

[nesta6245]

In days of yore as someone already said, the NME would have a poster that listed all the acts and it would be released some time around early June. The full line up is out in early June...how else can Halvin produce his clashfinder?

[nesta6245]

i couldn't agree more with all of that. all that pre-festival glastobating and planning that goes on here is straight out of the window within minutes of the tent being set up and the first beer being drunk. i love it!