Mike Oldfield

[sparkythetortoise]

Noel Harrison is, isn't he? But no Steve Hillage?

[scarletmist]

Steve Hillage is System7 - after Space Ritual, and incidentally my dream double bill to close the festival

[anoldhippie@60]

Mine too.

[Ricochet]

Steve Hillage is System7 - after Space Ritual, and incidentally my dream double bill to close the festival

[Pinhead]

Still convinced that he'll be there on guitar for someone . . .

[sparkythetortoise]

I was hoping for an early years Hawkwind reunion. I saw Space Ritual supporting Gong last year. They were OK. I will probably be there though.

Neil still hinting at SH playing with a guest line up so I'm on tenterhooks waiting to see who that will be.

[Ricochet]

And lets not forget the unforgettable Angel - lovely though Stacia was, I think Angel trumps with her dressing up box.

[sparkythetortoise]

Indeed she does

OK........how about a guest appearance from Michael Moorcock then?

I was an avid reader and collector of his books in my teens.

Oh......and Simon House

[Ricochet]

Simon House and Terry Ollis on double drum kit - liking that thought.

I did see Micheal Moorcock perform with them on the Elric tour. At one point Moorcock started throwing his paperbacks out into the audience. Unfortunately they were all thrown back!

Philistines

[sparkythetortoise]

That would be t'other Simon (King)? but yes that would be cool.

PS. Apologies to OP for hijacking your Oldfield thread.

[Ricochet]

I have only just spotted the Spirit of 71 line up includes Charles Hazelwood Allstars Tubular Bells Project on Friday night. There are clashes and then this

[sparkythetortoise]

I have only just spotted the Spirit of 71 line up includes Charles Hazelwood Allstars Tubular Bells Project on Friday night. There are clashes and then this

[Ricochet]

Hazlewood is a curate's egg is he not?

I thought he was excellent in 2008 when he did a version of that Terry Riley tune, but I struggled with them last time.

What clash did you have in mind - I got the impression that this was happening very late on - after the headliners? Is that not the case?

[sparkythetortoise]

Clash with U2. If they play after that i'll be well chuffed.

The All Stars playing In C was really good but didnt catch them last time. Im thinking about the possibility that MO may be in the All Stars line up.

[Ricochet]

Clashfinder has it at 2 in the morning, but I guess that is a guess at the moment.

[Pinhead]

Only just spotted that the arrangement was going to be Tubular Bells this year. Given its late start, I might actually be able to make this one as less likely to be on shift.

Didn't realise the guy was a local Somerset farm owner too and had appeared at Glasto before.

Hazelwood's Blog

"He played the first ever symphony concert on the famous Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain."

[Pinhead]

Did anyone make this gig? Ommadawn? Had other things to contend with at the time as the rain came down full force when this was on.

[ukmountie]

Did anyone make this gig? Ommadawn? Had other things to contend with at the time as the rain came down full force when this was on.

[Pinhead]

Nice one - cheers for that report mate. Gutted I missed after all that, but was very, very wet and drunk.

[Ommadawn]

Did anyone make this gig? Ommadawn? Had other things to contend with at the time as the rain came down full force when this was on.

[ukmountie]

I don't blame you for giving up. They would have been better off saying it would be an hour. Then people could have wandered off and come back later. As it was they lost what would have been a large audience.

Wonderful world of circular references. I just was googling to see if I could get confirmation and found Pinhead had reposted my review to Tubular.net :-)

Really wish I'd fished out my camera and taken a picture, but it was so wet I didn't want to get it out of my bag. If I don't hear anything otherwise I'll see if my friend can contact her old teacher and find out if it was him.

[gravejr]

rather dishevelled and frankly out-of-it gentleman

[ukmountie]

Ah! ha ha! That makes a lot of sense. I had thought if it was MO he had gone downhill since the last pictures I saw of him. Also odd that he would need the queues and a list to introduce the instruments.

I think part of the speculation it was MO was fuelled by the delay while they brought someone across the site.

I'll have to stop doing this. I'm really bad at it. I went half of Sunday thinking I'd seen the Pogues before I realised it was the Popes

Oh and no disrespect to Arthur Brown. He did a great job.

Edited July 1, 2011 by ukmountie

[Ricochet]

I waited for the performance but it was a bit dissapointing imo.

Sounded un-rehearsed but maybe I was just tired and wet.

[Martin Ashford]

I came across the Tubular Bells performnce purely by chance as I'd been bopping for a long time in the Glade Lounge to Tristan and Laughing Buddha. I decided to crash and happened upon the small crowd of people in front of Spirit Of 71. I'm so glad I stayed - for me this was THE highlight of the weekend! I hadn't listened to the full album for years so it all sounded really fresh. I was chuffed to tiny bits.