announcement

[FloorFiller]

I think that's it for today now folks.

shoite. another couple of weeks until the running order then!

[kingcrawler]

Belle & Sebastian and Chemical Brothers confirmed for Sunday Other Stage then.

Do these recent trickles of info make you think a lineup/stage splits announcement is imminent Neil?

Ah that's strange, Belle & Sebastian were down as a Park headliner before weren't they?

[eFestivals]

Do these recent trickles of info make you think a lineup/stage splits announcement is imminent Neil?

at 7am I'd have said a bigger announcement was coming today. Now I think that's all we're getting this week.

[Gucci Piggy]

Belle & Sebastian and Chemical Brothers confirmed for Sunday Other Stage then.

Do these recent trickles of info make you think a lineup/stage splits announcement is imminent Neil?

Ooh where?

[Padgey]

Hopefully more announcements to come today as we all kind of knew this one this morning!

[Gucci Piggy]

at 7am I'd have said a bigger announcement was coming today. Now I think that's all we're getting this week.

Bloody nora.

[01seb]

Ooh where?

On the eFestivals lineup page.

[01seb]

at 7am I'd have said a bigger announcement was coming today. Now I think that's all we're getting this week.

Damn!

Well I'll have to maintain hope for next week then.

[FloorFiller]

interesting about Belle & Sebastian - they were the only Park headliner everybody was sure of!

[st dan]

It's all been a bit of a mess this year hasn't it?

[math125]

The Who/Weller news didn't trend on twitter!

edit: got there after radio1 retweeted

Edited May 6, 2015 by math125

[JoeyT]

We anticipate more acts and the stage splits for Glastonbury Festival to be announced shortly

Read more at http://www.efestivals.co.uk/news/15/150506a.shtml#6shLgYh6YAGo1agV.99

How shortly is your shortly Neil?!

[eFestivals]

How shortly is your shortly Neil?!

Unlikely to be this week we think.

[JoeyT]

Reluctantly have to agree with you.

You'd think they'd release it all in one go if anything.

[Matt42]

Makes sense. Get the Who/Weller stuff out of the way so the press get their answer as the final headliner probably will get the most press.

[Matt42]

Reluctantly have to agree with you.

You'd think they'd release it all in one go if anything.

Yeah if they were planning to announce more later in the day they would probably not officially confirm till later and we'd just 'know' it was the who being confirmed.

[kabillion]

The Who/Weller news didn't trend on twitter!

edit: got there after radio1 retweeted

It's showing as trend for me...

[Mezhyp1]

Unlikely to be this week we think.

Neil? Belles on the other stage, I take it that's some info that's very recently came your way

Il be made up if that's correct, a clash with them would have been a killer for me, they'll draw a good crowd at the other I would imagine

[Gucci Piggy]

Neil? Belles on the other stage, I take it that's some info that's very recently came your way

Il be made up if that's correct, a clash with them would have been a killer for me, they'll draw a good crowd at the other I would imagine

No one is headlining the other stages so that no one has to miss anything for The Who.

[mr gumby]

Neil? Belles on the other stage, I take it that's some info that's very recently came your way

Il be made up if that's correct, a clash with them would have been a killer for me, they'll draw a good crowd at the other I would imagine

I'll be chuffed with that too. Nice sunny afternoon with B&S on Other, brings back memories of Eels in 2011, should be great!

[Mouseboy11]

Bit shite if that's all we're getting today

[klipper]

I love this forum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival_line-ups#Pyramid_Stage

[klipper]

I love this forum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival_line-ups#Pyramid_Stage

The matt42/Zac Quinn clash is just fucking awful

[punkrawkjoe]

To be honest, the Who are a bit of a disappointment after all the speculation and their cancelled shows. I'd be much happier with Blur, after what I have heard. Generally not very impressed with Sunday night at the pyramid now. Though I suppose 2013 would be pretty hard to beat, being my first year, and Aldo nick cave and all.

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

This year's announcements have in general been a bit of a PR disaster for some reason. Far be it from me to tell them how to run their organisation though, they've done pretty well up to now.

Before I started going to Glastonbury I always thought of it as the festival that gets the names that no one else does. The likes of McCartney, Bowie, Wonder, U2, etc. Y'know, those amazing one-offs that if you weren't fortunate enough to be in attendance you watched it live on TV, wishing you were there, saying to yourself "I'm definitely going next year".

Have we considered that the festival might not be the draw for the marquee acts that it once was? It's always been about the money of course, but maybe the fact that the festival doesn't pay as much as the sponsor-driven festivals in the modern age with a saturated market is beginning to hamstring it a little?

Of course, those of us who have been before know it's much more than the headliner, but still, there's nothing fresh or inspiring in any of the headliners really this year. Firstly, Foo Fighters, a band that's played every festival and toured extensively over the past decade; Kanye West, a man who hugely divides opinion, relatively unpopular if initial general reaction is to be believed and finally The Who (albeit only two of the founding members), no doubt a fantastic band in their day but an apparent 11th hour booking that smacks of desperation. And of course there's the whole ethical argument over the cancellation.

I'm sure that GFL have learned lessons from this year, most notably it would probably be wise for Michael Eavis to refrain from discussing anything until the ink is dry on the contracts. Emily showed he relative inexperience in posting that message regarding Kanye on the website.

Not that any of the above really concerns me, I'll love that place until the day I die but I hate to think of the likes of Michael Eavis and GFL, who have done so much for the musical culture of this country to turn into a bit of a laughing stock. They deserve so much more than that.