"Instant Fun" acts

[Yesiamaduck]

By the way, after adding Crystal Fighters to my lineup on the Glasto app I've noticed they're due to finish at exactly the same time as Foster the People are starting on the Other, can anybody tell me if this is doable? Is it easy to get from John Peel to the Other within literally no time at all?

[cidy]

Skinny Lister - Avalon. Lively, folky, amazing, a brilliant dance and they always pass the flagon of rum around.

[Perks]

totally agree ,caught em last yer up in the park ,really enjoyed it ,saw em again in bristol never had the flagon tho so took me hip flask out and she asked for a swig top girl !!! great singer and stage presence gonna catch dervish before em traditional irish music band to get the feet tapping

[drewsstrat]

Oh where to start. Biggles, hobo jones, john otway,ade edmundson and the bad sheppards, kasabian...

[Simpo]

this has made me put them in to my glastonbury app lineup clash finder thing, many thanks and kind regards xxxx

[monkey1989]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDXQfEecF6g

Crystal Fighters exist for dancing. 5pm Friday John Peel.

Get your cod Spanish accents ready!

[Memory Man]

instant fun will be jackmaster playing at the beat hotel, doing his "tweak a holic" set which is essentially a very well mixed wedding disco, but yet so much more

http://tweak-a-holic.com/

[Cooter]

I'm hoping the Dukes box is back again this year, they are absolutely hilarious but at the same time really good musicians. We stopped by there in 2010 and it was 30 degrees outside so hell knows what it must have been inside the Duke box!

won't let me post youtube clip for some reason

Edited June 13, 2014 by Cooter

[Staff_Sav]

did you catch them live? At aforementioned gig, the singer split the crowd in 2, got in amongst us, and got peeps to have a singing competition.

Real good fun band

[Staff_Sav]

And I would recommend Crystal Fighters to everyone. Managed to see them for the first time last year at Bestival and it was brilliant, but mostly I remember the time I got robbed in New Zealand, and then managed to track down the person who robbed me and nicked all my stuff back, and then walking through Auckland at 3am listening to the song 'I Love London' on my iPod, reminding me of my home country whilst feeling like a fucking super hero!

[Cooter]

While that would be very funny, there are quite a few videos of them and while none of the others are as well edited as that one, all are similarly frenzied. This one includes a dog getting in on the action:

[SparrowC]

Thanks for all the great suggestions guys!

As others have said, my clashfinder is now more chock full than previously based on these... good eclectic selection of acts suggested. Unfortunately I couldn't find "Your mum" suggested in post 4, but I'd imagine they'd be ace and probably provide biscuits and flask of tea to all revellers.

[robson_3788]

Cassette Boy

[sdicko]

Dub Pistols, Glade on Fri 1815

[Pinhead]

BIGGLES WARTIME BAND

last time at glasto this year too

[MrZigster]

Saw a bloke with a guitar by the name of Gaz Brockfield (I think) at Avalon last year. Great songs and banter. Pretty sure he's there this year as well.

I really hope Titan the Robot will be wandering the cabaret field.

[starsky51]

More of a sideshow act, but if you want a good laugh, I'd recommend Herbie Treehead. He does some slapstick mixed in with a bit of a singalong. Left me smiling the whole day when I saw him last year! He's doing the outside circus and gateway stages on fri, sat and sun.

[Skoo]

Not a live act as such but Wheel Of Four Tunes have been the highlight of my last 2 Glastonburys. 2 dudes dressed as Power Rangers with a wheel of music genres such as Rock, Cheese, Motown, ska, Disco, etc. They get someone from the crowd up to spin the wheel and whatever genre it lands on they play four songs from that genre. This continues for 2 hours!

It sounds fairly generic but it is absolutely brilliant and their song choices for each genre are absolutely perfect. Lots of maniac dancing and their banter with the crowd is fantastic. They play on the Sensation Seekers stage in the early hours and what is brilliant is seeing the crowd grow larger and larger throughout their set as more and more people who are trudging towards the South East Corner queuing system get drawn in by the party atmosphere they are generating. I have seen them start with a crowd of 20 which has grown to about 1500 people by the end of their set.

They are the definition of an "Instant Fun" act.

[ghandi]

I was thinking about the Mariarches, anyone seen them aside from the adverts

Edited June 19, 2014 by ghandi

[didyeaye]

the men who shall not be blamed for nothing on the hell stage 19-00-20.00 thursday evening

steampunk punk band who sing about things like isambard kingdom brunel and your doctor blaming your illness on to much self abuse haha

never seen them but definitly going to check em out after youtube videos.

[Heisenberg]

Leicester boys By The Rivers on Croissant Neuf at midnight Saturday night.

[APC]

Herbie Treehead

Pronghorn

Guns of Navarone.

Edited July 1, 2014 by APC

[Ruwise]

Thanks to those who suggested Crystal Fighters and the Lounge Kittens who were definitely 2 of my most fun acts of the festival. I really enjoyed both.

[ReynholmIndustries]

Not a live act as such but Wheel Of Four Tunes have been the highlight of my last 2 Glastonburys. 2 dudes dressed as Power Rangers with a wheel of music genres such as Rock, Cheese, Motown, ska, Disco, etc. They get someone from the crowd up to spin the wheel and whatever genre it lands on they play four songs from that genre. This continues for 2 hours!

It sounds fairly generic but it is absolutely brilliant and their song choices for each genre are absolutely perfect. Lots of maniac dancing and their banter with the crowd is fantastic. They play on the Sensation Seekers stage in the early hours and what is brilliant is seeing the crowd grow larger and larger throughout their set as more and more people who are trudging towards the South East Corner queuing system get drawn in by the party atmosphere they are generating. I have seen them start with a crowd of 20 which has grown to about 1500 people by the end of their set.

They are the definition of an "Instant Fun" act.

[Brave Sir Robin]

Not a live act as such but Wheel Of Four Tunes have been the highlight of my last 2 Glastonburys. 2 dudes dressed as Power Rangers with a wheel of music genres such as Rock, Cheese, Motown, ska, Disco, etc. They get someone from the crowd up to spin the wheel and whatever genre it lands on they play four songs from that genre. This continues for 2 hours!

It sounds fairly generic but it is absolutely brilliant and their song choices for each genre are absolutely perfect. Lots of maniac dancing and their banter with the crowd is fantastic. They play on the Sensation Seekers stage in the early hours and what is brilliant is seeing the crowd grow larger and larger throughout their set as more and more people who are trudging towards the South East Corner queuing system get drawn in by the party atmosphere they are generating. I have seen them start with a crowd of 20 which has grown to about 1500 people by the end of their set.

They are the definition of an "Instant Fun" act.