2022 Headliners

[FuzzyDunlop]

53 minutes ago, fatyeti24 said:

A high watermark for efests batshittery. 

Emeli Sande, The Roses, Betting Slip Gate & phillipa's Van.... oh the memories!

Edited February 15, 2022 by FuzzyDunlop

[Somto Unigwe Raphael]

41 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:

Some guy turned up claiming that the Stone Roses were going to play and had ITK info to back it up.

He provided a picture of a betting slip showing a £50 bet on the Roses, which our sleuths worked out had been photoshopped and was fake. The guy claimed his info came from famous radio DJ ‘Bob Harrison’.

He was great.

He then flipped out and went mad at everyone, and if I remember correctly dropped a bunch of homophobia in there with it.

Was called Roses4Baggie or something.

[Somto Unigwe Raphael]

1 hour ago, Matt42 said:

2015 we honest lost the plot. But who would have guessed the Who would cancel a gig to headline? I can’t actually remember who we thought it was going to be before the Who news.

Chris Martin Supergroup.

[FuzzyDunlop]

Just now, Somto Unigwe Raphael said:

He then flipped out and went mad at everyone, and if I remember correctly dropped a bunch of homophobia in there with it.

Was called Roses4Baggie or something.

That's the one

[Hugh Jass]

5 minutes ago, Somto Unigwe Raphael said:

He then flipped out and went mad at everyone, and if I remember correctly dropped a bunch of homophobia in there with it.

Was called Roses4Baggie or something.

Sounds about right.

[the wonderwhy]

Forgot about the betting slip. Definitely one of the GOAT evenings on here. 

[whitehorses]

39 minutes ago, Mouseboy11 said:

Was 2007 worse weatherise than 2016? That was apocalyptic 

It was so cold… 

[FuzzyDunlop]

2016 - My favourite festival. 

[Matt42]

2016 was one of my favourites because the group I went with was spot on. Think I was still in the age bracket where 2/3 hours sleep a day was all I needed to get me through the whole weekend. 

Can’t do that now but those were the glory days. Great year.

[Hugh Jass]

1 minute ago, Matt42 said:

2016 was one of my favourites because the group I went with was spot on. Think I was still in the age bracket where 2/3 hours sleep a day was all I needed to get me through the whole weekend. 

Can’t do that now but those were the glory days. Great year.

You wait till you get into your 40’s son…

[the wonderwhy]

Been three times and 2016, musicaly, was easily the best. Even if they did book Muse! 

[FuzzyDunlop]

11 minutes ago, the wonderwhy said:

Been three times and 2016, musicaly, was easily the best. Even if they did book Muse! 

Underworld - The SE Corner all night - Cyndi Lauper. 

On paper, the "weakest" headliners as a 3 I've had... but fun times had by all.

[BlueDaze]

1 hour ago, incident said:

4 days - the Wednesday was actually pretty nice.

But yeah, overall it's not even close. The weather in 2016 wasn't even that bad during the festival, it was the flood a week before gates opened that screwed the ground and it never recovered.

This…

2007 was my first… trainers and sun cream on Wednesday.. on Sunday eve during The Who I was so wet and cold… but the festival had me hooked.

I missed 2008 as neither of my nephews wanted to return (and haven’t since) but bought my daughters in 2009 and this year is the first we have missed since…

in 2016 someone on site the week before took that video of the ground moving like a waterbed iirc…?

I found that year worse because it dried enough to become a boot grabbing sticky mess that you had to watch every step else you could be on your arse…

[Gnomicide]

3 minutes ago, BlueDaze said:

in 2016 someone on site the week before took that video of the ground moving like a waterbed iirc…?

 

 

I think it was Sawdusty's video?

Edited February 15, 2022 by Gnomicide

[the wonderwhy]

8 minutes ago, FuzzyDunlop said:

Underworld - The SE Corner all night - Cyndi Lauper. 

On paper, the "weakest" headliners as a 3 I've had... but fun times had by all.

Muse - New Order - LCD for me, although not seeing Underworld is definitely by biggest Glastonbury regret. 

[BlueDaze]

3 minutes ago, Gnomicide said:

 

I think it was Sawdusty's video?

Excellent work…..

that video made me feel sick…. And gives me the shivers now.!

they delayed opening the CV fields and the traffic was horrendous..

[Gnomicide]

3 minutes ago, BlueDaze said:

Excellent work…..

that video made me feel sick…. And gives me the shivers now.!

they delayed opening the CV fields and the traffic was horrendous..

Oh yeah. Took us 4 hours to do the first 218 miles and 9 hours to do the remaining 15.

[Smeble]

2 hours ago, Mouseboy11 said:

Was 2007 worse weatherise than 2016? That was apocalyptic 

Yes, although 10 hours to get into the campervan fields on Tuesday in 2016 was not fun. 
 

2007 was my first Glastonbury, loved it but the unrelenting rain made it a slog, my soon to be wife actually got the early stages of frost bite, took over a week to get feeling back in her toes. it definitely had an impact on our  decision not to go in 2008, that and we were going on a big group holiday and doing wedding prep.

Edited February 16, 2022 by Smeble

[dentalplan]

8 hours ago, Matt42 said:

It’s quite telling that Glasto had two vacant headline slots (when Prince went) and when Foos went and Blur weren’t drafted in at all.

The band must have let the festival know that they weren’t interested in doing it that year.

They were also at IOW as well as BST, where they weren’t announced until late-April. It seemed like a contractual thing more than a late booking there. So chances are they couldn’t play Glastonbury because of obligations anyway.

[Superscally]

6 hours ago, Smeble said:

Yes, although 10 hours to get into the campervan fields on Tuesday in 2016 was not fun. 
 

2007 was my first Glastonbury, loved it but the unrelenting rain made it a slog, my soon to be wife actually got the early stages of frost bite, took over a week to get feeling back in her toes. it definitely had an impact on our  decision not to go in 2008, that and we were going on a big group holiday and doing wedding prep.

That would have killed my van stone dead. I went night before and though I had a few bad smells from the engine, it wasn't that long and I made it.

[whitehorses]

Cv fields were so funny. We all got towed in by a tractor 

[SighMo]

14 hours ago, Smeble said:

To be fair to KK he was in the midst of undiagnosed Lime disease. At the time my wife and I thought who has allowed this old man with dementia on stage? Now we know what the issue was.

I think PM is in a much healthier state than KK was.

Ok, that's pretty awful. 

[Matt42]

Really think we aren’t far off either Macca or Kendrick turning from TBC to C. Has anyone else been following Macca’s socials? He has been posting daily at the moment.

[mufcok]

Can't speak for 2007, as 2011 was my first year, but 2016 was brutal.

We came down in minibus and it had to be towed out of the mud by people working on site on the way IN to the festival. Great memories now but at the time - head in hands.

Edited February 16, 2022 by mufcok

[BlueDaze]

15 minutes ago, whitehorses said:

Cv fields were so funny. We all got towed in by a tractor 

They were doing tractor shuttle runs in CV19 from early morning on the Wednesday… it was pretty impressive to watch (we had got in under our own steam on Tuesday eve) but must have been nervy..

on leaving Monday one of the metal roadway tracks lifted up as I drove over it and whacked the motor mover on my caravan back a couple of inches… this proceeded to rip thru the tyres as we got onto the A37 and punctured both tyres..

a police motor cyclist told me I couldn’t ‘park’ on the A37 (😂) and escorted me (flat tyres and all) to an old pub at the bottom of the hill at Wraxhall(?)….

we were there 5 hours getting the tyres replaced and the motor mover taken off… actually got sunburn waiting outside that old pub, it was so hot…!

I believe that they used Bath & West as an emergency site that year… and have since made it official of course… you can’t bring the mega motor homes into the CV fields anymore…