Glastonbury 2013: the Rolling Stones, Mumford & Sons and Artic Monkeys

didn't people always take kids? those late 90s are supposedly very different to what it was before and after since the fence. Matt will know

the muggings-at-knifepoint-in-your-tent

as someone who went to only an early-00s one of these ever this seems ... weirdly hysterical and unlikely. but i don't know, i could have just been oblivious.

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am I seriously having an actual mugging mansplained away as hysterical

We've avoided that heavy American rock like Offspring

lmao

I don't think thomp realised you were talking about an actual mugging, kinder. Those stories go around all the time, it's one of those 'Scallies will steal your shoes' things that always happens to friends-of-friends or is written about moral panic style in right-wing papers ('hysterical' also being non-gendered when aimed at that form of story, regardless of its etymology).

The BBC iplayer seems to have loads of these live sets in full.

e.g.Portishead's set seems to run to 70 mins on there.

re muggings etc, late 90s/ early 00s pre-superfence era could be scary, 2000 was notoriously horrendous (quote from Eavis; "At one stage after the 2000 festival I thought I would never get a license again.. ") a proper amount of erberts knocking about, record crime etc. our kid had her phone nicked out of her hand that year, mate had his tent ransacked as he slept, people stamping through camping bits on the rob left right and centre, the dance tent bit in particular was just horrible. after the fence was built in the 2001 year off it was safe as houses, course you heard folk say it was 'sanitised' and had lost it's 'edge' but i knew which i preferred.

I was there most years from 1998 onwards for a while, and there was definitely a big change the first year the fence went up, mostly because it felt a lot emptier. I never found it scary before then, though, and I knew people who had babies with them and it never seemed to be a problem.

Portishead were amazing in 1998, first time I ever saw them and they blew me away.

We've avoided that heavy American rock like Offspring

lmao

― "If you like the Byrds, try Depeche Mode" (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, July 1, 2013 10:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

first pit I was ever in age 15 was Offspring at Glastonbury when 'Smash' was blowing up and it was pretty brutal tbrr

Kasabian??!?!?!? Are they really that popular?

― Chewshabadoo, Monday, July 1, 2013 9:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, July 1, 2013 9:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

when that bookie is talking about headliners does that not imply Saturday night headliners...? like I get that Kasabian are hueg in an ignorable/insidious kind of way but they're an arena sized band and it seems like the stakes have been raised so that Gloastonbury's flagship act for the year has to be a stadium kinda deal

the extra O in "Gloastonbury" is quite satisfying to say out loud fyi

Do people really mosh these days, outside punk or metal gigs? I know people would mosh to pretty much anything in the 90s but you barely see it at Glastonbury now. We walked past the Smashing Pumpkins playing Bullet With Butterfly Wings and there was barely anything going on. Plus there's an enclosure near the stage to protect people at the front in the event of a big crush.

I highly doubt Black Sabbath is the kind of thing Eavis was talking about when he made that statement at the height of the nu-metal era. He's prepared to book Zeppelin after all, but I'm not sure they'd have much interest in Sabbath either.

Any crush danger is more likely to come from putting massive draws in tents that can't cope with them (ie Disclosure) but I think security are pretty good at dealing with that now.

FWIW I think kids are an integral part of Glastonbury, they've been there as long asd I can remember, and there are two kids fields, one of which they don't let people into without a child. The Green kids field had a big pirate ship and kids on spacehoppers. It looked pretty idyllic to be honest. Plus the area around the circus and theatre fields are really kid-friendly.

You definitely see more babies these days, usually wearing big ear protectors. Can't say I'd consider taking one, but friends of ours brought a one-year old, although we didn't see them past Wednesday.

It was definitely crazier pre-fence, because pretty much anyone could get in, but I feel like the craziness has ramped up in the last few years, since the Shangri-La field became a big thing. But there's been a family camping field for years, which looks pretty sedate.

Is there a "field where people get a good nights sleep" yet?

(it's not for me...)

when that bookie is talking about headliners does that not imply Saturday night headliners...?

I assume it means on any of the three days. So Kasabian or Kings of Leon are quite likely to do Friday

as a non festival attender i guess the point is that they can have despicable shitbags like Kasabian headlining to draw in the drones and you're quite free to go and watch something musical instead

The BBC iplayer seems to have loads of these live sets in full.

they will vanish after 7 days though. http://www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury has approx. 1 hour highlights for each act that last for 30 days (UK only obv)

Will have to grab 'em while I can..

Didn't bother to watch any of this, but did have a look at the line-up over the three days and quickly found that there would have been only about 3 or 4 bands I would have wanted to have seen, anyway. Pretty taken aback at how much the line-up doesn't reflect what I'm actually listening to in 2013 for the most part, even on the smaller stages.

Yeah, but even when it did, I'd spend more time on the 'comedy' stages and the other places than the main / 2nd main stage..

Actually, I was dismissive about Glastonbury this year as I am every year but the line-up looks pretty great to me. I don't know what the West Holts stage is but looks like I could've just hung out there every day and had a reasonable amount of fun.

It's a good field to hang out in, in general, not usually too packed and also surrounded with good food and drink places.

just watched the portishead set on my big tv.
f*ck.
not that much of a fan, but that was brilliant.
intense.
love love love the way beth turns her back while the band get into it, and just soaks up the noise.
thought i would get bored.
but no ... mesmerising to the extreme.
lucky you matt.
(mate at work also said they were his fave of the weekend ... hence the double nudge)

they were amazing when i saw them at the barras in 97 or 98

Will have to save a bunch of these to DVD before they go..

taking orders? :)

Hmmmm. ()

I saw Portishead at the Tower Ballroom in Blackpool in '94. Place was full of idiots who wouldn't shut up. Final 20 minutes were glorious though.

Their headline set at the ATP they curated was probably the best gig I've seen. It SOUNDED incredible.

Not managed to find the full portishead set on BBC catchup or iplayer yet. So far my highlight is Bobby Womack. I love him anyway, but he was on fire.

^^^ amazing show

Their headline set at the ATP they curated was probably the best gig I've seen. It SOUNDED incredible.

― kraudive, Tuesday, July 2, 2013 9:15 PM (Yesterday)

Same here. Their first night at that was especially spine-tingling, I thought.

I went to Glastonbury in the early '90s when the crusties/ravers were climbing over the fence in their droves, but I don't remember it feeling particularly dangerous.

Dr X, it's here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ej58q9/acts/aqnv4f#p01c2ftd

pretty intense Savages show in a third-full John Peel tent

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01c3hyb/Glastonbury_2013_Savages_Glastonbury_2013/

I saw their Friday afternoon in the smaller William's Green tent and it was magnificent. Surprised they didn't get a better showing on Saturday.

Just watched Portishead now, brilliant. Beth seemed so nice at the end as well, really humble

yeah .. that was a real eye opener for me.
after the cold distance of the performance, the 'hope that was all right' outburst was totally unexpected.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ej58q9/performances/lg49mb

Really nice page with all the links!

You have until 30th July to fill your boots before it's all gone.

(Well, the performances, I mean. I daresay the pics will be there forever)

sorry, that date is the 29th July at 01:51, certainly as far as the Portishead foorage is concerned.

rokia traoré! oh wait it's not actually on there :-(

Thanks Tracerhand, I found Portishead footage, which was amazing, and am about halfway through Savages now