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5 hours ago, ian the worm said:

So we’d have Pyramid, Other, and Other Pyramid. 

 

3 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

And another other 

Right lads, what's the quickest route to get through the crowd to the Other Stage?

The Other or the Other Other?

No, the Pyramid Other.

Hang on, let me check the new 4D map

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2 hours ago, Gwladboy said:

You need gaps. Gaps are for food, booze and travel.  Gaps are good.  

You also need gaps for smooth crowd changeover - otherwise you could have 5000 people watching a band in John Peel, then with 2 songs remaining 5000 new people come along ready for the next act, & come the end of the set you have 5000 people who can’t get out, & 5000 people who can’t get in. 

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42 minutes ago, ChemicalBrother said:

You also need gaps for smooth crowd changeover - otherwise you could have 5000 people watching a band in John Peel, then with 2 songs remaining 5000 new people come along ready for the next act, & come the end of the set you have 5000 people who can’t get out, & 5000 people who can’t get in. 

Yes.

There is a reason why we've gone from having 10 acts a day in 2007 to 7 acts a day in 2019, and it's not time.

They could, feasibly, drop all the changeovers down to 20-30 minutes and fit more acts in that (much more workable) way but that's not happening either.

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6 minutes ago, wro_lap said:

There’s no need for a second Pyramid lmao. What makes it so brilliant is its individuality.

We already have the Other Stage, which almost acts as a second Pyramid. I reckon the consistent calibre of acts on Other is better than any other U.K. festival’s main stage.

Completely agree, apart from some headliners the Other Stage can most of the time be matched with Readings main stage. For instance, with what was meant to be last years Sunday line up of Billie Eilish > Dave > Courteeners > Prodigy, would not look out of place as a Reading line up. 

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Just now, chazwwe said:

Completely agree, apart from some headliners the Other Stage can most of the time be matched with Readings main stage. 

Yep. Other Stage is much stronger than Reading’s main stage tbh. For example the Wombats playing around 3pm on Other but 3rd down at Reading.

as you say, Reading pulls out some headliners that would be too big to headline other, but generally OS is a much stronger stage. Other headliners are typically the size of a huge reading sub or a smaller headliner/co headliner. 

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6 hours ago, Suprefan said:

You dont need 2 Pyramid  Stages built, you  just need to build a rotating stage so the changeovers are 5 minutes in between acts if you wanted to keep the music from not stopping. Its a prominent thing in the u.s. for radio festivals so they can keep the event going non stop.

Friday night, 9pm.


Kendrick: “What’s up Glastonbury? I hear it’s your 50th?”

”50, that’s numberwang! Let’s rotate the stage.”

Chris Martin: “Hellooooo...”

 

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2 acts both headlining the pyramid at the same time. Crowd wear headphones and decide which one to listen to like a silent disco.

Alternatively all acts headline all the main stages in 15 minute slots. Probably will need a couple more acts than stages to allow for transport time between.

Every in the crowd has a key pad and once a certain percentage hit the skip button, the artist moves on to the next track 

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1 hour ago, Suprefan said:


Just saying. Even one of the most iconic venues In the states has that ability. The Hollywood Bowl built it into the stage when they installed the new band shell back in 2004. 

*Insert Jeff Goldblum could do it / should do it gif here*

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4 hours ago, august1 said:

2 acts both headlining the pyramid at the same time. Crowd wear headphones and decide which one to listen to like a silent disco.

Alternatively all acts headline all the main stages in 15 minute slots. Probably will need a couple more acts than stages to allow for transport time between.

Every in the crowd has a key pad and once a certain percentage hit the skip button, the artist moves on to the next track 

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OK it’s  silly but in keeping with the concept of the thread and the desperation we are all feeling waiting for some proper festival info! 

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19 hours ago, chazwwe said:

Completely agree, apart from some headliners the Other Stage can most of the time be matched with Readings main stage. For instance, with what was meant to be last years Sunday line up of Billie Eilish > Dave > Courteeners > Prodigy, would not look out of place as a Reading line up. 

Nah Christine was originally subbing Prodigy and was bumped up.

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