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[Stu H]

I expect they've just been kicking back for 6 months hoping that someone else is organising the biggest music festival in the WORLD.

You miss my point entirely. Each stage / area has a manager / team structure. You can't honestly tell me what their line-ups are only just being finalised with a month to go? Not a chance. The odd big name perhaps (a la Metallica), but not everything else. Logistically much of it is sorted months and months ago, to fit in with other dates / travel, yada yada.

[Matt42]

It's probably very well organised and i'm sure they have a plan for it.. but it doesn't come across that way it comes across as a mess.

Etither way

M.O , Skepta, George The Poet, Idris Elba, Jesus, Krept & Konan... might have to go to silver hayes this year

[Space Shanty]

Out of curiosity, what have you been to you've enjoyed as much or we'll say enjoyed as there's nothing really like it.

From my experience, nothing comes that close to Glasto in terms of overall experience or enjoyment.

Homelands 1999 in Ireland was one standout day that will live in the memory forever but it was just a one day event, and my first ever festival (see the picture) was incredible because I was young and had my eyes opened in a big way, plus the lineup was superb.

Glasto is just so much more diverse and huge in terms of scale.

As you might know, you could spend a week there, not go anywhere near the main stages and still see some of the best acts you've ever seen.

You could go and not even hear any music and have an amazing time.

To be honest it's hard to do it justice by explanation I think... people have to try it and give everything a go.

I still really enjoy Electric Picnic over here in Ireland.

It's maybe lost a bit of the boutique feel that made it brilliant about 7 or 8 years ago but it's still a top class weekend... great music and atmosphere.

No other festivals I've been to have come near Glasto.

Sziget was good and Budapest is amazing but the lineup is rarely that good.

Pukkelpop was shaping up to be very good until the hurricane came in 2011, which was the most surreal experience of them all.

I'd like to try a few other foreign festivals, definitely Exit and Burning Man... but there are plenty of smaller ones in the UK I'd love to try as well... Green Man, Festival No.6 and End of the Road for definite.. and I've yet to go to Body & Soul over here, which looks the part as well

Edited May 22, 2015 by Space Shanty

[stuartbert two hats]

Every year it feels like they don't know what they're doing. Every year it turns out they do. It doesn't even feel like organised chaos these days. Just organised.

[ghandi]

So with this drip feed of the smaller areas, why stop over the weekend and bank holiday? They never release line ups on a weekend. Now I understand that a BIG line up would clash and not have the impact because of a full football and sports calender etc, but smaller stages surely are only of interest to those looking out for them. And then after the Bank holiday release the full line up with times.

[Andy0808 v5]

Wish it was mø

[Glastonlocal]

Someone else is organising Sziget

Well it depends how you look at it. Sziget has 70,000 attending per day, so its capacity isn't bigger.

Edited May 22, 2015 by Glastonlocal

[matt2007]

From my experience, nothing comes that close to Glasto in terms of overall experience or enjoyment.

Homelands 1999 in Ireland was one standout day that will live in the memory forever but it was just a one day event, and my first ever festival (see the picture) was incredible because I was young and had my eyes opened in a big way, plus the lineup was superb.

Glasto is just so much more diverse and huge in terms of scale.

As you might know, you could spend a week there, not go anywhere near the main stages and still see some of the best acts you've ever seen.

You could go and not even hear any music and have an amazing time.

To be honest it's hard to do it justice by explanation I think... people have to try it and give everything a go.

I still really enjoy Electric Picnic over here in Ireland.

It's maybe lost a bit of the boutique feel that made it brilliant about 7 or 8 years ago but it's still a top class weekend... great music and atmosphere.

No other festivals I've been to have come near Glasto.

Sziget was good and Budapest is amazing but the lineup is rarely that good.

Pukkelpop was shaping up to be very good until the hurricane came in 2011, which was the most surreal experience of them all.

I'd like to try a few other foreign festivals, definitely Exit and Burning Man... but there are plenty of smaller ones in the UK I'd love to try as well... Green Man, Festival No.6 and End of the Road for definite.. and I've yet to go to Body & Soul over here, which looks the part as well

That was one hell of a line up, reminds me of some of the Pheonix festival in the 90's

[Glastonlocal]

You miss my point entirely. Each stage / area has a manager / team structure. You can't honestly tell me what their line-ups are only just being finalised with a month to go? Not a chance. The odd big name perhaps (a la Metallica), but not everything else. Logistically much of it is sorted months and months ago, to fit in with other dates / travel, yada yada.

nah i'm all over your point like a rash and then some.

[Mardy]

That was one hell of a line up, reminds me of some of the Pheonix festival in the 90's

Until you said that, i'd completely forgotten i went to phoenix one year. 93? Julian cope, disposable heroes, cypress hill, cornershop.

*Off to the furthest reaches of the internet *

[Space Shanty]

That was one hell of a line up, reminds me of some of the Pheonix festival in the 90's

I remember walking into the dance tent on the Saturday night not quite sure who Underworld were.

I'll never forget that set.

Things changed after that!

[kalifire]

it comes across as a mess.

Nah, it only seems that way to you because you come into it with expectations based on what you want and what happened last time.

[Glastosmile15]

Up here muffins have choc chips and blueberries in, they are like oversized cupcakes.

Yes!

[Slugworth]

What does he play?

From what i've seen he plays house. On a laptop so not sure how skilled he is.

I've always looked at him as a bit of a gimmick act.

[JBarbour]

To say Glastonbury is a mess or un-organised is ridiculous. They do things their own way. Always have and always will. There are major festival that are seriously struggling this year and resorting to the likes of groupon and amazon to help sell tickets. Whereas Glastonbury sold out in Oct with no acts announced

There is no festival on earth that comes close - "you can never one up Glastonbury".

Anyway... A few things found since Silver Hayes line up announcement. Someone might have already shared on forum

-Lovebullets will be hitting up Glastonbury’s shimmering ephemeral city, Shangri La for its 7th year with bohemian night club concept, ‘The Heavenly Kingdom’.

Wow stage Saturday acts and times

[Mash011]

Skepta to make an appearance in Kanye's set then, like the brit awards?

[T-Mouse]

Skepta to make an appearance in Kanye's set then, like the brit awards?

Does a bear crap in the woods? And does the pope crap on the hopes and dreams of 200 deaf boys?

[Rosscoe]

I'm loving this drip feed of individual areas. And that each poster has it's own identity. I'm spending a few days listening to bands from one poster, then another gets dropped, so I listen to a different set of bands! Just wish they'd started it earlier.

[FloorFiller]

I'm loving this drip feed of individual areas. And that each poster has it's own identity. I'm spending a few days listening to bands from one poster, then another gets dropped, so I listen to a different set of bands! Just wish they'd started it earlier.

yeah it's nice being able to absorb the acts from each stage rather than it all being thrown at you meaning you miss out on tons of it, but agree it would've been great if it had started earlier and lasted longer - leading right up to the main stages (Pyramid being announced last)

[Rosscoe]

would've been great if it had started earlier and lasted longer - leading right up to the main stages (Pyramid being announced last)

I like that, start with the smaller stages, then release the bigger stages, then they pyramid last (holding back the headliners until late as possible).

[andyhh]

Do't know if this was picked up yesterday, perhaps a Bandstand lineup poster this weekend?

https://twitter.com/GlastoBandstand/status/601825407957135360

[Mash011]

SURELY the full line up's coming this next week. They can't delay it any longer, cant they?

[T-Mouse]

SURELY the full line up's coming this next week. They can't delay it any longer, cant they?

Hmm I don't know. It all seems hugely different this year. I can see them doing another week of individual area/stage announcements before the biggy on the week of June 1st.

[thewayiam]

Do't know if this was picked up yesterday, perhaps a Bandstand lineup poster this weekend?

https://twitter.com/GlastoBandstand/status/601825407957135360

I personally don't see them doing a Bandstand lineup on it's own. It's a very small thing really.

[Wanderlei]

Is there any benefit to staggering the line-up announcement? The tickets are all sold already. Personally I'd like the full line-up sooner rather than later so I can check new bands out before i get to Glasto.

Or do you think some stages are still incomplete, and that's the reason they're stalling?