The Non-Headlining Acts 2013

[ghandi]

mmm i'm not likely to agree about the Pyramid on that one, yes the Other and JP are mainly Indie landfill but in 2011 on the Sunday we had, Laura Marling, Paul Simon, Bouncie, Plan B, hadly Indie landfil? Looking at previous years there has been a vast amount of variety for that stage at least.

[eFestivals]

A quick run through suggests to me

eight out of the twenty four acts on pyramid would be indie landfill (u2, Morrissey, Biffy, Two Door, Metronomy, Coldplay, Elbow, Paolo Nutini)

then you've got a very different definition to me.

[willutalk]

I hope Glastonbury gets some classic rock next year. Spinal Tap and Slash were exciting bookings. Mid afternoon on the pyramid. It'll reduce the landfill. Black Stone Cherry would be an interesting act?

[eFestivals]

I hope Glastonbury gets some classic rock next year. Spinal Tap and Slash were exciting bookings. Mid afternoon on the pyramid. It'll reduce the landfill. Black Stone Cherry would be an interesting act?

eh?

It's just variety on landfill, for those people who've got thoroughly bored with landfill but who don't have the imagination to find some decent music.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

I hope Glastonbury gets some classic rock next year. Spinal Tap and Slash were exciting bookings. Mid afternoon on the pyramid. It'll reduce the landfill. Black Stone Cherry would be an interesting act?

Edited January 29, 2013 by thesecretingredientiscrime

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

then you've got a very different definition to me.

[Andy0808 v3.0]

Would quite like HAIM to play, but not a clue where they'd play.

[eFestivals]

I'm really confused as to which acts I've missed from the pyramid would be considered indie landfill?

there was the unjoyful and not very formidable for a start.

Doh. Band confusion.

I mean the very very very low anthems, so low they're not anthems but instead sleep inducing.

Edited January 29, 2013 by eFestivals

[TheSeventhOne]

I suppose you'd prefer to watch The Levellers.

[eFestivals]

I suppose you'd prefer to watch The Levellers.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

there was the unjoyful and not very formidable for a start.

Doh. Band confusion.

I mean the very very very low anthems, so low they're not anthems but instead sleep inducing.

[eFestivals]

I don't think Glastonbury specifically sets out to book acts of a certain genre, and rightly so.

Oh, I wouldn't say it does. I'd say it happens by default, as it does for most festivals. The bookers know certain music more than they know others. They book what they know.

The fact of that gets proven by just how slow the bookers for so many fests have been in moving on with music fashions. They're stuck in that indie rut, because that's what they know.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

it's overwhelmingly indie landfill on those three stages - which is why I spend no time at any of them.

[eFestivals]

Neil, genuine question. Where do you spend most time at the festival and what particular acts do you look out for? Who did you see and enjoy in 2011 for instance?

I spend most of my time around Jazzworld West Holts - tho not necessarily watching bands, tho most of the bands I see are on that stage.

I don't get to go solely by my personal tastes tho, cos efests gets to mean that I feel an obligation to put myself in many places just to get a feel of what's going on.

[ghandi]

Do you think then that Little Dragon deserve a chance to play on one of the Pyramid for instance , certainly not indie landfill, though they probably won't because record sales and lack of promotion would determine that they were " not big enough", or are you thinking in terms of more roots stuff going by some of your earlier posts. I'm thinking purely Pyramid here.

Edited January 29, 2013 by ghandi

[chriseede]

A quick run through suggests to me

eight out of the twenty four acts on pyramid would be indie landfill (u2, Morrissey, Biffy, Two Door, Metronomy, Coldplay, Elbow, Paolo Nutini)

nine out of twenty seven on other. (Mumford, Wombats, Vaccines, Naked And Famous, Brother, White Lies, Friendly Fires, Kaiser Chiefs, Bombay)

Where as I'd class twenty two out of the twenty four Pyramid mainstream, and twenty four out of twenty seven on other mainstream.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Going by this definition, all indie is "landfill indie" which it isn't. I view landfill indie as something that describes the uninspiring laddish indie of the mid-00s, e.g. The Enemy, Kooks, Razorlight, Pigeon Detectives, though it has seen somewhat of a recent resurgence with Wombats, TDCC and a few others.

[pyramidsong]

Do you think then that Little Dragon deserve a chance to play on one of the Pyramid for instance , certainly not indie landfill, though they probably won't because record sales and lack of promotion would determine that they were " not big enough", or are you thinking in terms of more roots stuff going by some of your earlier posts. I'm thinking purely Pyramid here.

[chriseede]

Not at all. Something like Richard Hawley etc.

Indie landfill is quite similar to the use of the term pop, it doesn't have to be derogatory.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree there then because I've always used it as a negative description (landfill indie that is, not pop).

[Guitargeek]

The "landfill" part is most certainly derogatory.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

The "landfill" part is most certainly derogatory.

[sisco]

Going by this definition, all indie is "landfill indie" which it isn't. I view landfill indie as something that describes the uninspiring laddish indie of the mid-00s, e.g. The Enemy, Kooks, Razorlight, Pigeon Detectives, though it has seen somewhat of a recent resurgence with Wombats, TDCC and a few others.

Edited January 29, 2013 by sisco

[FloorFiller]

i've always seen indie landfill as just standard, shit indie (all of those bands mentioned by chriseede are definitely in that category). just simple songs, that usually fit the standard 3 minute 30 second time frame, verse chorus verse, nothing much to them, and usually shit. The Vaccines and Two Door Cinema Club are the two that are currently reeking havoc that fit that description. maybe one or two songs that get stuck in your head for one reason or another, but all around, terrible

[sisco]

i've always seen indie landfill as just standard, shit indie (all of those bands mentioned by chriseede are definitely in that category). just simple songs, that usually fit the standard 3 minute 30 second time frame, verse chorus verse, nothing much to them, and usually shit. The Vaccines and Two Door Cinema Club are the two that are currently reeking havoc that fit that description. maybe one or two songs that get stuck in your head for one reason or another, but all around, terrible