Glast-home-bury 2025

[Alcatraz]

Being at home and keeping across the live streams, it feels like a massive gap to headliners on ALL stages.

 

Assuming this is for some kind of crowd movement concerns?

 

Like an hour - 15 to set up for Doechii feels excessive on West Holts

Edited June 28, 2025 by Alcatraz

[NorthernSoul52]

Just now, Spindles said:

Many thanks. Doesn't look as bad as expected by commentary? 

[Spindles]

Yeah, it's filling out now.  Look at that crowd for Charli though, looks like no one left after Skepta to me.

[noisenoiseandmorenoise]

I don't really understand why crowd levels are considered a sign of anything. Everyone says there is so much beyond the main stage and then proceed to judge the main acts by the turnout at the main stage . By that benchmark they may as well have Coldplay every year.

[verrymerry]

24 minutes ago, Spindles said:

I'm guessing no, which is a real bummer.  I managed to find an audio grab of the whole set on reddit though, so not a total loss.

 

Legend get this uploaded everywhere! 

 

7 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

I'm sorry, I meant to laugh & hit the sad face 🙈

[Suprefan]

17 minutes ago, ICESTONE said:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/police-assessing-videos-kneecap-bob-195025535.html

 

might be the reason the sets are missing, BBC are shitting themselves that the plod are going to be hunting the festival for those responsible.

 

theyll pur resources into this but they will not bother anyone with a nitrous canister doing balloons and also selling them. I love the priorities here. Drugs are essentially legal for 5 days in somerset.

[Sku]

8 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Many thanks. Doesn't look as bad as expected by commentary? 

It's pretty tiny, surely the smallest in modern history.

 

If you go back on the webcam time machine, you can see SZA had about 2-3x the crowd size last year. Using a "like for like" comparison, 10 minutes before hitting the stage. People said SZA was the smallest ever, so if that's true as a benchmark, this is the new worst attended headline set.

 

https://www.tievolu.co.uk/glasto/GlastoWebcamTool

 

Will be interesting to see if Neil holds the crowd better, because I know a lot of people left SZA early. So he could still have a bigger crowd by the end of the set I guess.

[NorthernSoul52]

I'll rely on you all to keep me in the loop. 

[Suprefan]

11 minutes ago, Alcatraz said:

Being at home and keeping across the live streams, it feels like a massive gap to headliners on ALL stages.

 

Assuming this is for some kind of crowd movement concerns?

 

Like an hour - 15 to set up for Doechii feels excessive on West Holts

 Its because the set got  cut to 45 minutes and they have it start at a time where it will end at the same time as everyone else. Instead of maybe having her start sooner, play 45 mins and then everyone could go to SE corner or try for Charli. Theres still some crowd control stuff happening but its sorta bullshitty on a night like tonight where you now have 2 for sure rammed sets in Scissor Sisters and Charli.

[st dan]

8 minutes ago, noisenoiseandmorenoise said:

I don't really understand why crowd levels are considered a sign of anything. Everyone says there is so much beyond the main stage and then proceed to judge the main acts by the turnout at the main stage . By that benchmark they may as well have Coldplay every year.

I get you, but to most of the world outside of this forum, the Pyramid is Glastonbury.

I don’t mean this to sound too harsh, but this set is going to get panned from the masses at home because he’s an 80+ year old man with not many/any big hits, playing to a very small crowd, on the Saturday night in the biggest and best festival in the world. Whilst Charli will be a party on the Other - like her music or not it will look great on TV. I would say it’s not a very progressive look (although they don’t really need to care I guess!)

[NorthernSoul52]

I'll be honest, with no disrespect to her talent, it's bizarre she's headlining with forty-five minutes. Should have had her sub Charli. 

[WillyVWade]

14 minutes ago, noisenoiseandmorenoise said:

I don't really understand why crowd levels are considered a sign of anything. Everyone says there is so much beyond the main stage and then proceed to judge the main acts by the turnout at the main stage . By that benchmark they may as well have Coldplay every year.

It’s an indicator that the festival are booking the right acts for the times and putting them on the right stages.

[NorthernSoul52]

Young running live yet? 

[Andre91]

Just now, NorthernSoul52 said:

Young running live yet? 

It’s sh*t. 

[Punksnotdead]

I couldn't give a f**k how many people are there - if people want to miss the greatest live artist on the planet that's up to them - I'm going to be in f**king ecstasy for the next couple of hours!

[Calluna]

1 minute ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Young running live yet? 

Yes first song solo, now with band.

[Suprefan]

7 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

I'll be honest, with no disrespect to her talent, it's bizarre she's headlining with forty-five minutes. Should have had her sub Charli. 

 

i just wonder what occured when they put  the schedule out and had her with the longer set time which seemed perfectly fine. Then it gets cut in half. If it was an hour I wouldnt have thought it was the worst thing. 45 is pretty glaring onnthe clashfinder in comparison to everyone else

[Kempleton]

Unexpectedly in front of the TV this evening.

 

I’m thinking 30 minutes of Charli XCX, followed by Caribou, but there may be some stage-hopping, if I feel like I’m missing something amazing.

[brendan84]

Cinnamon girl into f**king up

This is now starting to get decent

[The60ftOctopus]

Caught Raye on the live stream but was it a cut set? Is everything also running on a delay this year?

[scaryclaireyfairy]

Woodsies stream borked for anyone else?

[SighMo]

1 minute ago, scaryclaireyfairy said:

Woodsies stream borked for anyone else?

Yea

[Handshake]

1 minute ago, scaryclaireyfairy said:

Woodsies stream borked for anyone else?

Came to say the same thing👎

[chazwwe]

Charli about to come on 

[BagpussSeesAllThings]

3 minutes ago, scaryclaireyfairy said:

Woodsies stream borked for anyone else?

It is. Sad times indeed.